Moby Grape

[J-Man]

While reading the paper this morning, i happened upon the comic strip "Zits" the strip about a 16 year old boy and his parents. the father was working in the flower garden, and he got up and turned around and low and behold he is wearing a Moby Grape t-shirt. for thos of you that have never heard of them,
Moby Grape is an American rock group from the 1960s, known for having all five members contribute to singing and songwriting and that collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, country, and jazz together with rock and psychedelic music. Due to the strength of their debut album, several critics consider Moby Grape to be the best rock band to emerge from the San Francisco music scene in the late sixties. The group continues to perform occasionally. As described by Jeff Tamarkin, "The Grape's saga is one of squandered potential, absurdly misguided decisions, bad-luck, blunders and excruciating heartbreak, all set to the tune of some of the greatest rock and roll ever to emerge from San Francisco. Moby Grape could have had it all, but they ended up with nothing, and less."

I just this was cool as shit.


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[BABS]

Wanna know what's funny? I'm the baby of my family (oldest sibling is 56) I was just cleaning out around the house and found a bunch of albums from that time period and Moby Grape was in there!

Too bad I don't have a turntable anymore...

 

[BenMech]

the Moby Grape s/t is fantastic

 

[Exploding Ned]

Great band, unfortunately not managed well, but none the less excellent music. And yeah I guess I would agree, possibly the best to emerge from the SF scene late 60s.