Skip Spence, from the great Moby Grape, has had a pretty big hand in psychedelic music. Not only was he one of the founding members of Moby Grape, he was in one of the early lineups of Quicksilver Messenger Service, and he played drums on the first Jefferson Airplane record. Along with those he released a wonderful psych folk record, "Oar" 1969.
This album is a pretty good companion to "the Madcap Laughs". Spence recorded it after a long stint in the Bellevue Hospital for chopping down a hotel room door with an axe. Like Syd Barrett, Spence's work is primarily singer- song writer stuff with a strange spin. At times he uses unusual chord progressions, the production is dreamy, and he's lyrics seem to have a lot of double meaning.
Anyway, I really dig it. Hope you cats do to.
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