Oar

The Canadian-born Alexander 'Skip' Spence was the 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 had spent six months in a mental institution following a delusion- driven  attempt to attack his Moby Grape band mates with a fre axe, after having ingested  LSD. As the urban myth goes, on the day of his release he drove a motorcycle, dressed  in only his pajamas, directly to Nashville to record his only solo album. Fact is that he  recorded this album in seven days, playing all the instruments himself and that the  end result is now considered to be a classic psychedelic folk album. After this album  Spence largely withdrew from the music industry