Moby Grape - Moby Grape Live
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Artist: Moby GrapeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-04-20
Music Label: Sundazed Music
Product features:
- Rock
- Ain't No Use (Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 1967)
- Rounder (Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 1967)
- Looper (Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 1967)
- Bitter Wind (Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 1967)
- Changes (Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 1967)
- Indifference (Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 1967)
- Someday (Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 1967)
- Introduction (Monterey International Pop Festival, 1967)
- Indifference (Monterey International Pop Festival, 1967)
- Mr. Blues (Monterey International Pop Festival, 1967)
- Sitting by the Window (Monterey International Pop Festival, 1967)
- Omaha (Monterey International Pop Festival, 1967)
- Sweet Little Angel (San Francisco, 1967)
- Murder in My Heart for the Judge (RAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1969)
- I Am Not Willing (RAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1969)
- Trucking Man (RAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1969)
- Fall on You (RAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1969)
- Omaha (RAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1969)
- Dark Magic (Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 1966)
Free Music Notes for Moby Grape Live
Free Music Review: San Fran band in the perfect setting, LIVE
Hit: 5 Stars
First off, let me say I am a huge Moby Grape fan, but I was leery of a cd full of previously unreleased, at least legitimately, material. However, just minutes into the cd I was reminded just great these guys were live, and how unfortunately the promise of their first, classic, lp was nullified by the ensuing mayhem well documented elsewhere. However, what we have here, thanks to the meticulous mastering job by Bob Irwin at Sundazed Records. The source tapes are not of ideal quality, but is consistently better than any live Grape previously available on bootleg. On the menu here are pieces from 5 separate Grape live recordings, 1 in 1966 (the stunning 17 minute closer "Dark Magic" which shows the newly formed band jamming a la Quicksilver Messenger Service. The bands 1967 appearance at the Monterey Pop Fest is found here featuring 4 songs from the then recently released self-titled debut album, all performed effortlessly as the triple guitar attack of the band is in tune, while the bottom end is held down effortlessly yet quite effectively by bassist Bob Mosley and drummer Don Stevenson. Two versions of the band's classic Skip Spence tune "Omaha" are included. The band's cover of B. B. King's "Sweet Little Angel" shows the group's versatility as they deliciously unveil the blues band within the rock band within the psych band within....The word that keeps coming to mind throughout the discs 74 minute run time is "effortless." No three guitar players should be able to play so seamlessly, never play over each other, and always be willing to sit back and let a mate take the break. The tragic train wreck which was the Grape's career is certainly not discernible on "Live." Yes, the source tapes may not always be ideal, but the stereo recordings from the Avalon Ballroom in 1967 are of exceptional quality and none of the tracks are undeserving. Are there more Grape live recordings of sufficient quality and available at an honest price for further Sundazed Grape live releases? Only the remaining band members and Bob Irwin would be able to answer that question, but I for one give Irwin and his Sundazed label 5 full stars for finally getting the band at its best released legitimately. Moby Grape was original. Three guitarist, five songwriting vocalists and the world at its feet for a moment in 1967. "Live" goes a long way in explaining why the band was so coveted and did manage to release one nearly perfect studio album before self destructing. If you're a fan of the Grape, 60s psych, San Fran sound, or just plain good singing, songwriting, and playing then this cd is a must. If not, what's wrong with you? Since the debut album is in and out of print on a moment's notice due to legalities, the ideal taking off point is the long deleted in the US but still in print abroad double-disc set "Vintage" which contains all 13 tracks from the debut album and a great overview of the band's 5 lp run at Columbia. Then snag a copy of "Live" and you'll be wondering why you haven't been listening to these guys for year.
Moby Grape Live Poster
The first official collection of concert recordings by the legendary San Francisco band at its blazing late-Sixties peak!Sundazed Music is proud to present a genuine psychedelic landmark: Live by Moby Grape, the first official collection of concert recordings by the legendary San Francisco band at its blazing late-Sixties peak. At that time, in rock's hippest city, there was no other band like the original Grape: Jerry Miller, Skip Spence, Bob Mosley, Peter Lewis and Don Stevenson. Their Columbia debut LP, Moby Grape, issued in June 1967, is still acclaimed as one of the greatest rock albums ever--a thrilling union of blues, soul, country, surf twang and day-glo garage rock, packed into original killer-pop songwriting. Even as extreme Columbia hype, devastating business hassles and Spence's tragic mental collapse threatened to blow up the band, the Grape continued to make immortal albums, including 1968's Wow and the magnificent Moby Grape '69.
But the records told only half of the tale. Moby Grape, in their prime, were also one of the Bay Area's--and America's--best stage bands, like the Beatles and Rolling Stones in one, with a breathtaking triple-guitar attack and stunning vocal harmonies.
Live is the long-awaited proof. It features more than an hour of dynamite performances from soundboard and broadcast tapes, including tracks from the Avalon Ballroom in 1967 and the band's complete long-lost set at the Monterey Pop Festival, just a week after Moby Grape came out. There are live versions of the great rare Grape songs "Rounder" and "Looper" and five tracks from a famous Dutch radio show featuring the hard-charging '69 lineup of Miller, Mosley, Lewis and Stevenson.
And Live climaxes with the historic first-ever release of Spence's acid-guitar masterpiece "Dark Magic"--never recorded in the studio by the original band but presented here in an epic 17-minute performance at the Avalon, on New Year's Eve 1966. Moby Grape were the hottest band in town that night, with the whole rock & roll world ahead of them. And they sound like it. These four-decade-old recordings have been spectacularly mastered, in you-are-there fidelity, and this album comes with sumptuous packaging and rare photos, in true Sundazed style, plus liner notes by Rolling Stone writer and Moby Grape authority David Fricke. Live presents, at last, the untold part of Moby Grape's incredible story. It is San Francisco psychedelia at its zenith and the best historical rock release of the year.
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