BOB AND WILLIE EP

A five song Ep released by Bob in 1986 and released in a limited number of 500 copies. The set was recorded at home.

ALTERNATIVE GRAPE

As is well known a lot of Moby Grape's performances were done in alternative names mostly because of the legal issues the band had with Katz. Here is a later show but I really have very little on the line up for the night however we know it's Grape

BAD BOYS( Moby Grape) – DRIFT ON INN - SEATTLE – 1998  

Cold Cold Feelings

Bitter Wind in Tanganika

Hideaway

Olds 98

Mojo Man

Taco Time

Now I See

Murder in My Heart

Great Balls of Fire

I Don’t Want Much

Flame

Unchain My Heart

Sick & Tired

Never

ALEXANDER'S GRAPE APPLE PIE

There is nothing new about the music on this post. I pulled it from You Tube a while back/ It is a revisit of Grape songs  by Alexander Mosley. I am making an assumption here that Alexander is related in some way to Bob Mosley. He does a great job of rearranging the music to give us a fresh listen, I added the Spence bonus tracks as a compliment to the music, So Listen My Friends!

1. Place & The Time (Miller-Stevenson)

2. Murder In My Heart For The Judge (Miller-Stevenson) Lead    vocals: Mosley

3. Bitter Wind #1 (Mosley)

4. Dark Magic #0 (Spence)

5. Grape Jam 2 #1/Place & the Time #2 (Moby Grape/Miller-   Stevenson)

6. Bitter Wind #2/Grape Jam 2 #3 (Mosley/Moby Grape)

7. Stop (Lewis)

8. You Can Do Anything (Spence)

1.  He (Lewis)

2.  Looper (Lewis)

3.  Dark Magic #1 (Spence)

4.  Boysenberry Jam #1 (Moby Grape)

5.  Three-Four (Mosley)

6.  Boysenberry Jam #2 (Moby Grape)

7.  Funky-Tunk (Miller-Spence)

8.  Boysenberry Jam #3 (Moby Grape)

9.   The Lake (Moby Grape-M. Hayworth) Vocals Mosley

10. Boysenberry Jam #4 (Moby Grape)

11. Instrumental Rounder (Spence) 

12. Boysenberry Jam #5 (Moby Grape)

13. Miller's Blues (Mosley-Miller) Vocals Mosley

1. Naked, If I Want To (Miller) vocals Mosley

2. Sweet Ride (Never Again) (Moby Grape) vocals on verses    Mosley

3. Motorcycle Irene (Spence)

4. Black Currant Jam #1 (Moby Grape)

5. Loosely Remembered (Mosley)

6. Black Currant Jam #2 (Moby Grape)

7. Never (Mosley)

8. Black Currant Jam #3 (Moby Grape)

9. Skip's Song (Spence)

1. Rounder (Spence)

2. Bitter Wind #3 (Mosley)

3. Marmalade Jam #1 (Moby Grape)

4. Can't Be So Bad (Miller-Stevenson) vocals Stevenson

5. Rose Colored Eyes (Mosley)

6. What's To Choose (Lewis)

7. Seeing (Spence)

1. Dark Magic #2 (Spence)

2. Just Like Gene Autry: A Foxtrot (Spence)

Bonus tracks

Alexander Spence  

After Gene Autry

Motorcycle Irene

Columbia Demos 1968

COCONUT GRAPE

 

MOBY GRAPE
HOLLYWOOD,CA:COCONUT TEASZER
1990-05-24


01. -intro-
02. Talking About Love
03. Bitter Wind In Tanganika
04. -technical-
05. 8:05
06. Further On Up The Road
07. You'll Never Know
08. Murder In My Heart For The Judge
09. Hey Grandma
10. You Can Depend On Me
11. I'd Rather Be Blind
12. Sittin' By The Window
13. Changing
14. Stormy Monday
15. Gypsy Wedding
16. All My Life
17. They Took It All Away
18. Lady Of The Nite
19. Fall On You
20. Now I See
21. Naked If I Want To (cuts)


Bob Mosley, Jerry Miller, Peter Lewis, Don Stevenson
Dan Abernethy, with David Laflamme

GRAPE TRAIN

 

MOBY GRAPE

San Francisco 1974 Live at the The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA; April 16, 1974.     An interesting set from the Grape that included Johnny Craviotto and Jeff Blackburn who would join Neil Young And Bob Mosley to play as the Ducks

 This is a decent quality soundboard recording though the mix is a bit unbalanced.

Disc 1 (first set - 37:18)
Track 101. Get On Up [low levels for the first 18 seconds] (5.8MB)
Track 102. Silver Wings (8.6MB)
Track 103. Love Your Daddy (6.9MB)
Track 104. Show No Mercy Hill (5.0MB)
Track 105. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? (7.1MB)
Track 106. Jesse James (6.4MB)
Track 107. Ain’t No Secret (9.2MB)
Track 108. Perfect (4.1MB)
Track 109. City Lights (5.5MB)
Track 110. Gone Dead Train (3.9MB)
Track 111. thanks and applause before set break (200k)

Disc 2 (second set - 63:42)
Track 201. [cuts in] Thank All You People (7.2MB)
Track 202. I Am A Dreamer (7.5MB)
Track 203. What About Love? (4.2MB)
Track 204. I’m Ready (7.6MB)
Track 205. Pan American To New Orleans [with Wayne Goodwin - fiddle] (7.6MB)
Track 206. Window Into My Soul (9.7MB)
Track 207. Fall On You [false start] (1.4MB)
Track 208. Fall On You (4.8MB)
Track 209. A Deeper Mystery (6.4MB)
Track 210. Truckin’ Man (4.0MB)
Track 211. Miller’s Blues (9.3MB)
Track 212. [cuts in] Goodbye My Lady (4.7MB)
Track 213. Bottle Of Reds [with Wayne Goodwin - fiddle] (8.0MB)
Track 214. Can’t Be So Bad (9.9MB)
Track 215. Gypsy Wedding (4.8MB)
Track 216. thanks and applause before encore (3.1MB)
Track 217. Going Down (6.9MB)

Lineup:
Jerry Miller - guitar, vocals
Peter Lewis - guitar, vocals
Bob Mosley - bass, vocals
Jeff Blackburn - guitar, vocals
Johnny Craviotto (aka “Johnny C”) - drums, vocals
and special guest Wayne Goodwin - fiddle (where noted)

A TIME AND A PLACE

A 24 song compilation of songs that are deserving of more attention and are not as frequently  heard as some of their other mainstays.

01  Rounder (Intrumental outtake)
      Possibly from the first Lp
02  Stop Previously
      unreleased Lewis tune playe in early days
03  Three-Four
04  He
05  Rose Colored Eyes
      #3-5 from the WOW Lp
06  Never
      From the Grape Jam EP
07  If You Can't Learn From My Mistakes
08  Captain Nemo
09  Seeing
10  Hoochie
11  Ain't That A Shame
12  I Am Not Willing
     #7-12 From MG69
13  Looper
14  Beautiful Is Beautiful
15  Right Before My Eyes
16  Love Song
17  Changes, Circles Spinning
     #12-17 From Truly Fine Citizen
18  Soul Stew
       Unreleased Song
19  Apocalypse
20  About Time
     #19 -20 from 20 Granite Creek
21  Sitting And Watching
22  Hard Road To Follow
     #21-22 from Heart LP
24 Loving You
      from Legendary Grape

Thanks again for tuning into the Moby Grape review

DESERT RAIN

 

 Quite literally where Moby Grape meets Kaleidoscope, The Darrow Mosley Band was a short-lived ensemble in which the family trees of those two extraordinary bands interlocked for a few short months in 1973.

VINTAGE SOLO

 

A comp of solo efforts by the band members over the years

    
 01  Walking In The Fire - Don Stevenson 
       From the solo release by Don in 2010.
02  Plastic Saddle - Jerry Miller
       From his solo LP " Life Is Like That" in 1995
03  Never Dreamed - Bob Mosley
       From the LP of the same name in 1999
04  That Lost Horizon (Instrumental) - Peter Lewis - Bob Mosley
       Taken from the Third World Studio sessions of1981
05  All My Life ( I Love You) - Skip Spence
      45rpm release 1996
06  Black Moon - Peter Lewis
       Studio Release
07  Cold Beer - Mosley Grape
       Live At Indigo Ranch
08   If You Still Got Love - Jerry Miller
       Solo LP Track
09  Forbidden Love In Paradise - Don Stevenson
       From Solo LP 2010
10  Little Hands - Skip Spence
       From Skip's Solo LP "Oar"
11 Gettin' Used To Bein' Treated So Bad - Don Stevenson
      Solo LP Track
12  Lazy Me - Bob Mosley
       From "True Blue" Solo LP 2005
13  Never - Jerry Miller
      Solo LP track
14  Weighted Down - Skip Spence
      "Oar" LP track
15  Sittin' By The Window - Peter Lewis
       Live At Bremen LP track
16  This Time - Mosley Grape
      Indigo Ranch Track
17  I Got The Night - Peter Lewis
      Solo LP track
18  Eight O Five - Fine Wine
      LP track by Fine Wine
19  Cornbread,Peas, And Black Molasses - Don Stevenso
      Solo LP track
20  Took It All Away - Mosley Grape
       LP Outtake
21  Broken Heart - Skip Spence
       Solo LP track
22  Beautiful Day - Darrow-Mosley Band
       From EP "Desert Rain"
23  Can't Keep A Good Man Down - Bob Mosley
       Solo LP Track
24  Changing( reprise)- Peter Lewis
       Solo Lp track


 

THE AXE AND THE OAR

 

 Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (April 18, 1946 – April 16, 1999) was a Canadian-born American musician and singer-songwriter. He was co-founder of Moby Grape, and played guitar with them until 1969. He released one solo album, 1969's Oar, and then largely withdrew from the music industry. He had started his career as a guitarist in an early line-up of Quicksilver Messenger Service, and was the drummer on Jefferson Airplane's debut album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off. He has been described on the Allmusic website as "one of psychedelic rock's brightest lights"; however, his career was plagued by drug addictions coupled with mental health problems, and he has been described by a biographer as a man who "neither died young nor had a chance to find his way out."

  

During the recording session of Moby Grape's second album, Wow, in 1968, Spence attempted to break down a bandmate's hotel room door with a fire axe, while under the influence of LSD. Spence's deterioration in New York and the "fire axe incident" are described by bandmate Jerry Miller as follows: "Skippy changed radically when we were in New York. There were some people there that were into harder drugs and a harder lifestyle, and some very weird shit. And so he kind of flew off with those people. Skippy kind of disappeared for a little while. Next time we saw him, he had cut off his beard, and was wearing a black leather jacket, with his chest hanging out, with some chains and just sweating like a son of a gun. I don't know what the hell he got a hold of, man, but it just whacked him. And the next thing I know, he axed my door down in the Albert Hotel.They said at the reception area that this crazy guy had held an axe to the doorman's head."

As described by bandmate Peter Lewis, it appears that both Jerry Miller and bandmate Don Stevenson were targets of Spence: "We had to do (the album) in New York because the producer (David Rubinson) wanted to be with his family. So we had to leave our families and spend months at a time in hotel rooms in New York City. Finally I just quit and went back to California. I got a phone call after a couple of days. They'd played a Fillmore East gig without me, and Skippy took off with some black witch afterward who fed him full of acid. It was like that scene in The Doors movie. He thought he was the anti-Christ. He tried to chop down the hotel room door with a fire axe to kill Don (Stevenson) to save him from himself. He went up to the 52nd floor of the CBS building where they had to wrestle him to the ground. And Rubinson pressed charges against him. They took him to The Tombs (and then to Bellevue) and that's where he wrote Oar. When he got out of there, he cut that album in Nashville. And that was the end of his career. They shot him full of Thorazine for six months. They just take you out of the game."

During his six months in Bellevue, Spence was diagnosed with schizophrenia. On the day of his release, he drove a motorcycle, and as the urban myth goes (and not true according to his wife), dressed in only his pajamas, directly to Nashville to record his only solo album, with no other musicians appearing on it, the now-classic psychedelic/folk album Oar (1969, Columbia Records).

Skip Spence Memorial Tribute
April 30, 1999
Brookdale Lodge, Brookdale, California

-This show was a tribute to Skip Spence put on shortly after he died in Santa Cruz, California on April 16, 1999. It featured Moby Grape members Jerry Miller, Peter Lewis, Bob Mosley & Don Stevenson, David LaFlamme of It's A Beautiful Day, Skip's children Adam, Heather & Omar , Skip's friend Chris, his sister Sherrie , and possibly others....

This sounds like a soundboard but one source states it is from a television broadcast in the area,

. It does sound real good either way. There are probably some errors in the set list, so any corrections or more info/ details about this show are welcome. Three separate files for a three set show.

Disc #1:

acoustic:
1. -Skip's son talking
Bob Mosley 2-16
2. Hard Road
3. Queen Of The Crow
4. You Can Depend On Me
5. Ain't It Love
6. King Neptune
7. Sailor Man
8. Come In The Morning
9. My My My
10. Better Day
11. Spider And Tack
12. -talking
13. City Lights
14. I Picked A Rose
15. -talking/Three Hours
16. -talking/Choppin' Wood Blues
17. -"Chris", friend of Skip, talking
Chris-acoustic:
18. San Francisco Bay Blues
__________________
Disc #2
Moby Grape:
1. -talking
2. Murder In My Heart For The Judge
3. Must Be Going Now
4. -talking
5. Someday
6. All My Life
7. -Skip's half brother talking
8. Song For Skippy
9. -talking/Spence family takes the stage/Sherrie Spence talking
10. Amazing Grace
11. -talking/tuning
12. Dark Magic
____________________
Disc #3
Moby Grape with David LaFlamme:
1. -talking/tuning
2. 8:05
3. Hey Grandma
4. -talking/tuning
5. Truckin' Man
6. -talking
7. Miller's Blues
8. -talking/tuning
9. Sitting By The Window
10. -talking
11. Naked If I Want To
12. -talking/"thanks you's"/Skip's son talking

GRAPE NYC 97

 Another show from the Wetlands in 97. This post is a little different in the fact that I do not have the show songs broken down into individual tracks. You will listen to the whole show all at one setting by discs. I could not break down the tracks because of very tight sound files and opted to put the show up in two files by sets. Sound quality is not as good as I would like to have had but again it is Grape history and overall it is a great show none the less! If any one has this show in better quality I would be appreciative in being able to obtain it


 Moby Grape
Wetlands, NYC, 8/6/97

disc one
1. intro
2. murder in my heart
3. omaha
4. seeing
5. that lost horizon
6. if you can't learn from my mistakes
7. sick and tired
8. got to be a change
9. hey grandma
10. mr. blues
11. changes
12. sitting by the window
13. indifference

disc two
1. 8:05
2. come in the morning
3. someday
4. ain't no use
5. bitter wind
6. fall on you
7. naked if i want to
8. dark magic
9. changing
10. gypsy wedding
11. truckin man

UNKNOWN TITLE

An interesting show from '79 with the band performing a lot of tunes that were new or different than the usual. If anyone has titles or the band lineup it would be great to get that information.

01  Fall On You
02  Instrumental
03  Baby Don't Leave Me
04  When The Music Was over
05  I Love You More Everyday
06  Something You Got
07  She Stood Before Me
08  Eight O Five
09  Hey Grandma
10  Honky Tonk
11  That Lost Horizon
12  Taco Time
13  Satisfied With You
14  Here I sit> Can't Be So Bad

Thanks Bob for your title updates!!

The Grape
Ad Lib tavern
Kent, WA
4-5-79
Peter, Jerry, Daniel Spencer on drums, probably Christian Powell on Bass (but it isn't announced). "Bob" on keyboards. Don Stevenson joins them on vocals for 8:05.

Thanks Drogos for feedback on the band members and tracks

                                                                               

SD GRAPE

Moby Grape
Winston's San Diego November 7 1990

1. rodeo
2. silver wheel
3. summertime
4. take a chance on me
5. naked if i want to
6. hey grandma
7. farther on down the road
8. got to be a change
9. blind, crippled and crazy
10. lady of the night
11. changing
12. ditto
13. murder in my heart for the judge
14. 8:05
15. fall on you
16. all the time
17. all my life
18. sittin by the window
19. she's fine

Jerry Miller. Don Stevenson,Dan Abernathy, Bob Mosley

GRAPE AND THE FAMILY DOG

Original artwork by Volpert




Hey Grandma
Fall On You
Mr. Blues
Changes
Sitting By The Window
Indifference
8:05
Come In The Morning
Lazy Me
Someday

MOUNTAIN GRAPES

During the 90's Moby Grape made several attempts at reforming and played quite a few shows in various incarnations Here is an audience recording of one of those moments. Once again sound may not be the best but it is still a part of some great Grape history

1. Fall on You
2. Ain't No Use
3. 8:05
4. Hey Grandma
5. Indifference
6. Mr. Blues
7. Sitting By the Window
8. Changes
9. Seeing
10. Got to Be a Change
11. Never
12. Murder in My Heart for the Judge
13. Changing
14. You Must Believe in Love
15. Omaha

Personnel:
Bob Mosley, Bass, Vocals
Jerry Miller, Guitar, Vocals
Peter Lewis, Guitar, Vocals
Randy Gordon, Drums
Sam Andrews, Guitar, Vocals
John DiNicola, Organ on track 9

HAPPY V-DAY

The 1984 "Heart" LP with cover artwork by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley

" Better Day" Written By Bob Moseley and Skip Spence

My hopes and dreams will soon begin to fade
When thoughts of men and dreams have all been weighed
Dark shadows hide my destined fate
They cannot wait
For I shall see a better day, uh huh
With new sons living form newborn
The world begins to shine a bright new morn
As time runs out with blinding speed
Please heed
For I shall see a better day, uh huh
My hopes and dreams will soon begin to fade
When thoughts of men and dreams have all been weighed
Dark shadows hide my destined fate
They cannot wait
For I shall see a better day, uh huh

STONE GRAPE

moby grape - live at the keystone, palo alto, ca., 1.26.78

next time you see me
murder in my heart for the judge
my heart's desire
baby don't leave me
hey grandma
cuttin' in
gypsy wedding
pretty bird
lucille
my, my, my

Bob Mosley: bass & vocals
Jerry Miller: guitar & vocals
Cornellus Bumpus: keyboards, sax & vocals
Willie Kellogg: drums
Skip Spence: guitar & vocals

STONY GRAPE

 Moby Grape - Stonybrook University, Stonybrook, NY, October 22, 1968

Mr. Blues
8:05
Truckin' Man
If You Can't Learn From Your Mistakes
Can't Be So Bad
Sittin' By the Window
Murder in My Heart
Fall On You
After All
Hey Grandma
It's A Beautiful Day Today (false start)
It's A Beautiful Day Today
Miller's Blues > Stormy Monday (spliced)
Omaha

GRAPE SURFACING

Moby Grape
Palookaville, Santa Cruz, CA; 8/9/96


Disc 1:
1. Hey Grandma
2. Fall On You
3. Mr. Blues
4. Changes
5. Sitting By the Window
6. Indifference
7. 8:05
8. Come in the Morning
9. Lazy Me
10. Someday
11. Ain't No Use
12. Murder in My Heart for the Judge

Disc 2:
1. Omaha
2. Mosley's Blues
3. Talking About You
4. All My Life
5. Sailing

Jerry Miller guitar, vocals
Peter Lewis guitar, vocals
Bob Mosley vocals
Tiran Porter bass
Barry Finnerty guitar
James Preston drums
Skip Spence vocals (disc 2: tracks 3-5)

SF GRAPE 74

Moby Grape
Great American Music Hall, SF, CA., 10/4/74


1. Can't Be So Bad
2. I'm Ready
3. How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
4. Trucking Man
5. 8:05
6. Hey Grandma
7. Omaha
8. Eyes Wide Open
9. Going Down

MABY GROPE

 Moby Grape
Backstage, Seattle, WA
Jan. 7 1989

01. Changing> Gypsy Wedding ( Very Abrupt Start)
02  8:05
03. Your Love
04. Fall On You
05. She Must Have Come In Lit
06. Naked If I Want To
07. Mr. Blues
08. Bitter Wind In Tanganika
09. Now I See
10. Walking Thru The Fire
11. Hey Grandma
12. There's A Flame
13. Summertime