ALEXANDER SKIP SPENCE OAR Orig LP and Mix 1A
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ALEXANDER SPENCE - OAR - USA COLUMBIA CS 9831 - Original Red and White "360 SOUND STEREO" Columbia Label - LP IN NEAR MINT CONDITION
The LP Sleeve is hard card, and shows some slight wear on edges and has a cutout hole in one corner. a few marks, but is basically intact, see larger pics below!
The inner sleeve is near mint!
<The Matrix Numbers will be either put here, or added below the pics>
From a review of one of the reissues:
You might already own the 1991 Sony reissue, but don't think that you're off the hook; you haven't really heard this record until you've heard it with the original mix (the Sony version presented Spence as a singer-songwriter by sanding down the oddities that Spence had wisely foregrounded). And if you think that you don't need to hear this record, you're wrong; like all great art, it's a monument to the multi-faceted human and creative spirit that burned for a while in one man.
This is that original version and mix.
Solo performer: Alexander Skip Spence (vocals, various instruments).
Engineers: Charlie Bradley, Mike Figlio, Don Meehan.
Recorded at Columbia Studios, Nashville, Tennessee in December 1968.
The late Alexander Spence, also known as Skip Spence, was in two of the best American West Coast bands of the '60s, Moby Grape and Jefferson Airplane. Oh, and later on, he originated the Doobie Brothers.
After a bout with mental illness, Spence recorded OAR for Columbia Records. The album is a wonderfully quirky journey that only a product of the American '60s could have produced.
Spence played all the instruments on this album and drew freely from the root genres that made up the foundations of mid-'60s rock--blues, folk, gospel, ethnic--in order to weave a tapestry that sounds like Lightnin' Hopkins crossed with Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett (his British counterpart). OAR is an eerie, fractured, and harrowing work that's driven by its own inner logic. The album also has quite a following. In 1999, Robert Plant, Beck, Tom Waits and Flying Saucer Attack contributed their versions of its songs to a tribute album, MORE OAR.
Side 1:
1. Little Hands
2. Cripple Creek
3. Diana
4. Margaret/Tiger Rug
5. Weighted Down (The Prison Song)
6. War in Peace
Side 2:
1. Broken Heart
2. All Come to Meet Her
3. Books of Moses
4. Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin For Yang)
5. Lawrence of Euphoria
6. Grey/Afro
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