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 bandmates with a fire 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. The fact is that he recorded this album in seven days, playing all the instruments himself, and the end result is now considered to be a classic psychedelic folk album. After this album, Spence largely withdrew from the music industry.