| Jefferson Airplane – My Best Friend Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I don't think it's accurate to say that Skip Spence was "fired" from the band for excessive drug use." He was considered unreliable, having left on a trip to Mexico, at a time when the band was getting its act together. His use of LSD contributed to his unreliability. But at the same time, he was never all that comfortable as drummer, since he saw himself as a guitarist and songwriter first and foremost. He was taken on as drummer because the band needed a drummer and Marty Balin felt he "looked the part." Spence actually agreed to leave the band and in fact stayed on to help teach the songs to the new drummer, Spencer Dryden. But he had every intention of forming another band as guitarist. That band was Moby Grape, and it was one of the great bands of the period. Also, there was no band called Oar. _Oar_ is the album Skip Spence made more or less alone, in Nashville, playing all the instruments himself. |
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