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Spencer Charles Dryden (April 7, 1938 – January 11, 2005) was an American musician best known as the drummer for Jefferson Airplane and New Riders of the Purple Sage. He also played with Dinosaurs, and the Ashes (later known as the Peanut Butter Conspiracy). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Jefferson ...
Jul 25, 2023 · Drummer Spencer Dryden, who died of colon cancer in 2005, played a role in fifties rock, then joined Jefferson Airplane and performed with the group on all of its key albums and at Monterey Pop, Woodstock, and Altamont. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Airplane in 1996.
1966: "Takes Off" is released early in the year, with Spence subsequently quitting; he is rapidly replaced by Spencer Dryden. Anderson would similarly resign by October, instigating Grace Slick's entrance into the Airplane as a frontwoman/vocalist and songwriter and finalizing the band's most famous lineup (Balin, Kantner, Kaukonen, Casady, Dryden and Slick).
Nov 10, 2010 · Dryden died in 2005 following a battle with colon cancer. He was sixty-six. “Spencer had a flow,” said Mickey Hart of the Dead. “He had a way of going, an impulse power that was irresistible and unique. He was capable of creating a churning, loving rhythm machine for ecstatic dancing.”. Advertisement. Spencer Dryden: Jefferson Airplane ...
Oct 30, 2017 · Drummer Spencer Dryden quit in 1970, still shattered by Altamont. Marty Balin made a more protracted exit before deciding he’d had enough of “playing that messed-up cocaine music”. Kaukonen and Casady stuck around but poured their energies into their emerging other band, Hot Tuna, effectively leaving the Airplane in Kantner and Slick’s care.
Sep 29, 2021 · Spencer Dryden was also feeling the pace and was replaced by young hotshot drummer Joey Covington (Dryden died of lung cancer at the beginning of 2005). Balin was not replaced as such. Instead the band brought in Papa John Creach, a tall, thin, black, white-haired (what there was of it) 53-year-old jazz and blues fiddle player.
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Jan 14, 2005 · Grace Slick Remembers Spencer Dryden. When Spencer Dryden succumbed to cancer Tuesday, San Francisco rock legends Jefferson Airplane lost the drummer who kept time for them during their pinnacle ...
