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Moby Grape is an American rock band founded in 1966. Part of San Francisco's psychedelic music scene, the band merged elements of rock and roll, folk music, pop, blues, and country. They were one of the few groups of which all members were lead vocalists and songwriters.
Moby Grape is the 1967 debut album by rock band Moby Grape. Coming from the San Francisco scene, their reputation quickly grew to immense proportions, leading to a bidding war and a contract with Columbia Records. The album peaked at #24 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in September 1967.
Jun 6, 2022 · April 1968, somewhere in New York City. Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence, mercurial genius of San Francisco five-piece Moby Grape, has flipped. Sweating like a madman, his hair is tufted at wild angles, his once-trim beard looks for all the world like it’s just been savaged by a hatchet.
14 hours ago · Moby Grape’s self-titled 1967 debut album is regarded as a classic of its era. The album, included on Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, was “San Francisco rock at ...
1 day ago · Jerry Miller, co-founder and guitarist of 1960s San Francisco rock band Moby Grape, died on Saturday, July 20, in Tacoma, Washington. He was 81. A Moby Grape Facebook fan page broke the news ...
1 day ago · Moby Grape broke up and reunited multiple times since they first started performing together in the Bay Area. Eventually, Miller pursued a solo career before moving back to the Pacific Northwest ...
Jun 6, 2022 · 55 Years Later: Revisiting Moby Grape’s Commanding Self Titled Debut Album. Moby Grape’s career is “Murphy’s Law’ in action, so much so it transcends other archetypal stories of fledgling rock and roll bands for whom ‘what could go wrong will go wrong.”. The bungling all began even before its eponymous debut album was released ...
Apr 16, 2024 · The resulting album, simply titled Moby Grape, was a flashing distillation of West Coast pop. Searing R&B rubbed up against pithy balladry, and huffy garage-rock jostled for space with echoey weirdness and killer harmonies.
Oct 18, 2007 · Unloosed on the world with famously failed five-singles-at-once hoopla in May 1967, Moby Grape comprises thirteen songs lasting an astonishing thirty-one minutes — just like the Ramones, only...
Moby Grape’s career was fraught with missteps, some but not all of which were of their own making. But the various faux pas, dating back to the overblown hype afforded their first long-player on Columbia Records, unfortunately, undermined the credibility of both the group at large and its work.
