| Flip and Spike | |
| Type: | studio |
| Longtype: | / Live album |
| Artist: | Joe Morris |
| Cover: | Flip_and_spike_cover.jpeg |
| Released: | 1992 |
| Studio: | The Outpost, Stoughton, MA (4, 10) Middle East, Cambridge, MA |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 68:55 |
| Label: | Riti |
| Producer: | Joe Morris & Anne Marcotty Morris |
| Chronology: | Joe Morris |
| Prev Title: | Sweatshop |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Symbolic Gesture |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Flip and Spike is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris released in 1992 on his own Riti label. It features a trio with Jerome Deupree, who was the original drummer in the rock band Morphine, and bassist Sebastian Steinberg.
In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "Flip & Spike is the first of Morris' recordings that articulate his signature investigations of the guitar as an instrument of sonic density and dexterity, not just as a solo vehicle. As such, and as a work of striking emotional commitment, it is quite remarkable."
In his book Honesty Is Explosive!: Selected Music Journalism, music writer Ben Watson claims about the album "Beneath the surface cool you sense a delirious funk. It creates a tension similar to the tumble-down-chaos-that-rocks in Beefheart."[1]
All compositions by Joe Morris.