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"Mosley came up with the name, which served as the punchline to a popular absurdist joke, "What's purple and swims in the ocean?" The grim resonances of Moby Dick, Herman Melville's novel about an obsessed sea captain's pursuit of the white whale that eventually sinks his ship, would not make themselves apparent until later. The quintet set up in a Sausalito, California, club called the Ark and began rehearsing on a regular work-week schedule. After a while, Fricke wrote, Moby Grape "went from being an extraordinary collision of strangers to the tightest, most talked-about band in San Francisco.""

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