The CBS producer was there to collect Skip Spence, one of his more unpredictable charges. Spence had spent the past five-and-a-half months in the psychiatric wing of the Manhattan hospital, ...

When Omar Spence first met his father, Alexander “Skip” Spence, in the early 1990s, Skip was an alcoholic living in a halfway house. Omar knew that his dad was more than that; he knew t… ...

After splitting from Moby Grape in late 1968, Spence began a brief solo career, the sole result of which was 1969's unsettling masterpiece Oar.On Sept. 28, almost 50 years after Oar's release ...

War In Peace by Alexander "Skip" Spence - Topic on YouTube. Filled with songs written during his stay at Bellevue, Oar is an unsettling and frequently beautiful portrait of a songwriter coming ...

Skip Spence, 52, an original member of the rock band Jefferson Airplane, died of lung cancer Friday at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, Calif., where he had been fighting a number of ailments.