Canadian-born Alexander ›Skip‹ Spence was a co-founder of Moby Grape and played guitar with them until 1969. In the same year, he released his only solo album: »Oar«. The album was recorded after Spence spent six months in a psychiatric institution after he tried to attack his Moby Grape bandmates with a fire axe after taking LSD in a delusion. The myth has it that on the day of his release, dressed only in his pajamas, he rode a motorcycle directly to Nashville to record his only solo album. The fact is that he recorded this album in seven days, playing all the instruments himself, and that the end result is now considered a classic psychedelic folk album. After this album, Spence largely withdrew from the music industry. »Oar« is available in a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on crystal clear vinyl.