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In Reply to: Paul Kantner "he wasn't the preeminent guitar player" and an article about the band after Spence left...... posted by dave c on December 31, 2006 at 12:39:40:
at the Ark in Marin County. Saw them maybe 50 times in various places during the year and half before they imploded....Here is an objective and brief overview. I just listened to most of this and sure enough, their stuff is still magic and way above the norm of the era.....
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Originally issued in 2003; Sony's Moby Grape 2CD in the US (Vintage is no longer in print, so this European "best of" is your best option (outside of the vaguely distributed San Francisco Sound albums). This CD features 23 tracks, roughly broken up between the first 4 albums. "The five members of Moby Grape were not cut from the same cloth. Jerry Miller, Bob Mosley, Peter Lewis, Skip Spence and Don Stevenson came together in San Francisco in the summer of 1966 from fairly different walks of life... But the five of them had one very important thing in common: all of them could write, sing and play superbly. And thus the beauty of Moby Grape: good stuff, only more than usual. A three-pronged guitar attack via Miller, Spence and Lewis, vocals from all corners, most memorably from the scarily soulful Mosley and the earnestly sweet-voiced Lewis, and with all those singers -- harmonies few bands have ever matched... Moby Grape were there, they made records like no one else, and in the annals of American rock n' roll, there will never ever be any band like them again." --Dave DiMartino, from linernotes
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Song credits are for most everyone , only 4 or so for Skip. Peter Lewis is an underrated guitar player, his stuff just leaps out at me.
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Follow Ups
- I started enjoying them live in late 1966 - LWR 12:52:53 12/31/06 (10)
- Re: I started enjoying them live in late 1966 - tinear1 14:42:21 12/31/06 (2)
- He is a bitter man - LWR 16:04:26 12/31/06 (1)
- Re: He is a bitter man - tinear1 20:49:53 12/31/06 (0)
- The only MG I have is... - dave c 13:17:21 12/31/06 (5)
- A used copy of the VINTAGE set is available and is very good. - LWR 13:24:25 12/31/06 (4)
- And you do have the 1st album - LWR 13:27:16 12/31/06 (3)
- its there on my CD - dave c 13:46:44 12/31/06 (2)
- I was listening to the out of print - LWR 12:59:46 12/31/06 (0)
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