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HERE is a legend about Skip Spence. Moby Grape biographer Cam Cobb alludes to it towards the end of , citing an article from the that depicted Spence’s life as “a cautionary tale of the 1960s”. As the story goes, Skip hooked up with a woman “known to be a witch” who gave him bad acid, prompting a serious deterioration in his behaviour. Faced with a choice between prison or Bellevue psychiatric hospital, he chose the latter. On release, Skip then asked his record label for