(TV) Moby Grape's Underage Girls

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

> find a copy of "Vintage Grape," a 2
>disc compilation that came out a few years ago

How difficult is this to find?  The Allmusic web site's discography lists it
as from May 1993, and a guy on e-bay want 59.99 plus $6 shipping!


"Columbia Records, though, damaged the band's credibility with over-hype,
releasing no less than five singles from the LP simultaneously. Worse, three
members of the group were caught consorting with underage girls. Though
charges were eventually dropped, the legal hassles, combined with an
increasingly strained relationship with manager Katz, sapped the band's
drive."

"..... Spence departed while the album was being recorded in New York in
1968, as a result of a famous incident in which he entered the studio with a
fire axe, apparently intending to use it on Stevenson. Committed to New
York's Bellevue Hospital, he did re-emerge to record a wonderful acid folk
solo album at the end of 1968, but that would be his only notable post-Grape
project; he struggled with mental illness until he died in 1998."

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:7e811vajzzha~T1


-----Original Message-----
From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On Behalf Of Mike
Ehritz
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 10:25 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV)OT Moby Grape 

Since there seems to be some interest in Moby Grape on this list, may I
suggest to anyone who is interested to find a copy of "Vintage Grape," a 2
disc compilation that came out a few years ago. Includes just about anything
they ever did off the first four albums as well as some live stuff and
unreleased material (like the amazing "Skip's Song"). The great liner notes
allude to their difficulty in letting well enough alone. After recording the
gorgeous and minimalist "Bitter Wind," some of the band decided to add this
wild over the top psychedelic weirdness to the end of the track. It seems
that all the Grapes early tracks have moments of brilliance overshadowed by
too much production. Then, finally, on Grape 69, they stripped the music
down to create some wonderful music in the vein of the Working Man's Dead
but their moment had passed.

Mike
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