"MOBY GRAPE TAPPED INTO A UNIQUE BLEND OF ALCHEMY AND EXHUBERANCE THAT NO ONE ELSE HAD."
"With Moby Grape, it could've been more, and it could've been less." Don Stevenson,drummer, Moby Grape. "Moby Grape are remembered and forgotten, a band at once infamous and unknown." "And Skippy...he was from a whole other world." This book for me floats somewhere between three and four "stars". An added half "star" for someone actually writing about the band in depth. Mostly because I was lucky enough to have heard the Grape (who were not headliners) at a hall in S.F. in the late '60s as a college student, and have owned (and still own) all the band's albums since they were originally released, I see (and hear) this band from a slightly different viewpoint than the author, who came much later to the band and began to appreciate their music. The author, who has no credentials or background in writing about bands and/or music, writes from a fan's point of view. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, I wanted a slightly tighter, chronological, look at the band members and their music. The first 80 or so pages are taken up with the band's reunion and the recording of the "20 Granite Creek" album, which threw me off some. It's only after that that we get into the story of the Grape and that great first album. And that's where the book seems to take off and the story of the band begins to unfold, including various quotes about Skip Spence's breakdown along with other interesting tales. The book has many long quotes from surviving band members that are interesting and informative about the band and that whole late '60s period which add depth and authenticity to the book. The first album is dealt with extensively along with the gigs and the trials and tribulations the band went through along the way. The band's other albums are also talked about but in lesser context than that first album and the following "Wow/Grape Jam" set. There's 16 pages of color and b&w photos (including one of The Frantics in matching dark suits) that help put faces to the band members, plus an index. Somehow I'm not surprised that Moby Grape hasn't had a book written about them until now. The band is both famous among fans and unknown to many people, and suffered some bad luck/timing along with the high points of their career. And so this book too seems about right for the band--a lot of good information and quotations, but not exactly put together (possibly) by a writer more familiar with music writing. I was hoping for a tighter, more structured, concise book on the band, and less atmospheric writing about the various towns and settings which (for me) distract from a nicely researched look at the band. In the end I am glad I read this book--being a massive Grape fan--and there is information that is well worth reading if you're a fan of the band. If you're not, you may come away wondering what all the hoopla was (is) about.
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