Spence, an original member of the Bay Area rock groups Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape, died in 1999 at 52, after struggling with schizophrenia and alcoholism. Born Alexander Lee “Skip ...

Jefferson Airplane performing at the Central Park ... Written by the tragic Skip Spence, the Airplane’s drummer who jumped ship to form the fabled but doomed Moby Grape, “My Best Friend ...

“Skip was a complex person,” reckons guitarist and ex-Jefferson Airplane colleague Jorma Kaukonen, who’d visited Spence in Bellevue. “Whatever unresolved emotional issues he had, he was ...

Spencer Dryden, the drummer for the Jefferson Airplane who once ... drummer Earl Palmer recommended him to the Airplane's manager. He replaced Skip Spence, who went on to start another Fillmore ...

we had Grace and [drummer] Skip [Spence]. ... We had a lot more going for us, and I think it showed." How Jefferson Airplane Fizzled Out With ‘Long John Silver’ How Jefferson Airplane Fizzled ...

Paul Kantner, Spence Dryden, and Bill Thompson are in ... Jorma Kaukonen is adding another track onto a tune for the next Jefferson Airplane album. Marty Balin and Grace Slick are there to watch ...

They met up with Kaukonen, Casady, drummer Skip Spence and singer Signe Toly Anderson, and cut their 1966 debut LP, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off. They developed a strong following around the ...

In the mid-1970s, when the Airplane regrouped as the more mainstream Jefferson Starship ... bassist Jack Cassidy and drummer Skip Spence, a novice given the job by Balin because he supposedly ...