From Jefferson Airplane to Homeless Schizophrenic: The Story of Skip Spence

This is probably the most amazing story I’ve covered on my channel so far. There have been many casualties in the history of rock. Shannon Moon, Janis Joplin, GG allen to name a few. These are musicians who we actually lost to dr@gs who are probably in heaven playing harps. But what about the musicians, such as Syd Barrett, who stayed with us mere mortals, lived to an older age and whose minds were too fractured to continue making good music? Today, instead of diving deep into a song we’ll be diving deep into the life of an underrated musician most of you have probably never heard of named Alexander Skip Spencer. He was in “Jefferson Airplane” for a hot minute. He played with the underrated psychedelic Rock pioneers Moby Grape. He developed a serious dr@g addiction and was so strung out on the funky stuff that he aksed his fellow bandmate’s hotel room door down until he was whisked off to prison, then the mental hospital. After all of this he spent three days in Nashville in his pygamas making his one and