Artist Lounge: Moby Grape
enlarge
Get the Latest Moby Grape News
Download Moby Grape MP3s
Moggers' favorites by Moby Grape
Subscribe to feed
-
Posted by:
This is a blues chestnut written by Joe Medwick and Don Robey. Moby Grape has gone in, as a group and in solo fits and starts, for close to 40 years after their spectacular pop/rock debut of '67. While nothing has met the standards of that first LP (probably due to Skip Spence's mental problems and diminished role within the group), there are nuggets out there that I love. Long-time fans of this band have suffered almost as much as the band itself but still seek out the ... MORE
-
Posted by:
(Note the killer live track included above) Moby Grape CDs have been out of print for a long, long time. They have been pretty much unable to perform under their own name for decades due to the interference of their ex-manager professional-asswipe Matthew Katz. In 2007, that supposedly changed and some kind of agreement was reached. First a compilation of their material came out, then all of their albums were re-issued, remastered with bonus tracks, by the excellent l... MORE
-
Posted by:
According to Moby Grape member Peter Lewis, "Seeing" is not only Skip Spence's finest songwriting effort, but also Moby Grape's most realized recording. He probably didn't mean the early take, but it's worth hearing. 2 other versions are currently in & out of print on various releases.Meanwhile, allow me to digress from the complications involving their back catalog. I double-dated two nice gals with Skip Spence about 13 years ago.One of the women was Skip's girlf... MORE
-
Posted by:
Ok, I have bitched in a separate post, and several comments, about the withdrawal of the remastered and expanded version of the 1967 debut album of Moby Grape, due to a suit by their ex-manager and professional nemesis (and asswipe) Matthew Katz. I finally bit the bullet a bought a copy on eBay when the price was a bit less than astronomical. And I want to share. This is one of (and the best of) the unreleased bonus tracks. It's an early version of "Indifference" from thei... MORE
-
Posted by:
Vintage '67
(36)
The 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love is bringing an army of old hippies out of the woodwork, or maybe I’m just seeing too much archival footage and hearing too many tracks from the vaults. In any case, it seems like everyone who lived through that heady time – or researched it – is checking in with a take on the cultural wave that still sends ripples through 21st-century society. The epicenter for the Summer of Love is usually considered to have been San Francisco,... MORE
-
Posted by:
One of the greatest albums of the 60s was the debut of Moby Grape. The combination: great songwriting, great vocals and harmonies, and the blistering lead guitar of Jerry Miller. I still love this album and, as is my wont, have assembled a near-complete collection of all Grape releases and the subsequent solo records of the individual members. But while there's a lot of worthwhile music in the later stuff, NOTHING has come close to matching the magic of that first record... MORE
