Moby Grape

Moby Grape was a rock band that was formed in San Francisco, California in the 1960s.Last.fm: Moby Grape Biography

The band made their debut in 1967, with the self-titled Moby Grape. The released a second album in 1968. Later in the year, Skip Spence was hospitalized for mental illness. In 1969, another member left the band to join the Marines. The band then broke up, reuniting occasionally for recording sessions.AOL Music: Moby Grape Biography In 1989, four out of the five members got back together to release one more album. Skip Spence died in 2000.Dig Music: Moby Grape

The band fired Matthew Katz, their manager, in 1967. He then began an almost 40 year legal battle, claiming that he owned the rights to the name Moby Grape. This was finally settled in 2005 with the remaining band members winning the right to use the Moby Grape name. In 2007, they re-released three albums on the Sundazed label. They then found themselves back in court when Katz challenged their right to the album artwork.NPR: Moby Grape

• Jerry Miller - Guitar
• Don Stevenson - Drummer
• Peter Lewis - Guitar
• Bob Mosley - Bassist
• Skip Spence - Guitar

• 1994: Live Grape
• 1994: 20 Granite Creek
• 2003: Legendary Grape
• 2007: Grape Jam
• 2007: Truly Fine Citizen

""It's one of the few rock 'n' roll albums of any era that you can say, 'That is a perfect debut album.' The songwriting on it is memorable — you take those songs with you wherever you go. The triple-guitar orchestration....it's not just power chords. Everyone is playing melodies and counter-melodies and rhythms. Very funky, also very country, very punk, very surf. And they were all singers."NPR: Moby Grape

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