Live Grape [Import]

Moby Grape | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 18, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Akarma Italy
• ASIN: B000TKTJJ4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #443,768 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 Musictracks , CD produced by COMET / AKARMA Records ( AK 381 ) re-issue

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It's not the same when all five aren't present, October 17, 2007

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Chris Frohring "Bed Whistle" (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live Grape (Audio CD)

"Live Grape" is a welcome addition to any Moby Grape fan's collection because of its historical importance, being the 1978 reunion album. Truth be told, the contents are slight because of the absence of original drummer Don Stevenson and original bassist Bob Moseley. Skip Spence apparently makes a cameo or two ("Must Be Goin' Now Dear"). With substitutions Cornelius Bumpus (later in the Doobie Brothers) and John Oxendine, the playing is very well executed and the energy level is high. However, the creative songwriting impetus that carried them through their first five albums seems to be lost. There are some highlights, including the Peter Lewis compositions "That Lost Horizon" and "Up In The Air". Overall, one gets the impression that Moby Grape were, at this stage, a great bar band (the Cornelius Bumpus tune "Set Me Down Easy" is a great example). Unfortunately, without the full quintet of principals, the writing isn't as varied. One misses the the throaty soulfulness of Moseley, the other half of the Miller/Stevenson writing duo and the mercurial fire of a fully-participative Skip Spence.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Skip Spence returns and the Grape regains 3 guitar attack, October 2, 2001

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AudioObscurica (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Grape (Audio CD)

This is a great album! Issued in 1978 without any mention of "Moby Grape" anywhere (no pictures either) it was a record that fell into the bins because it was released by a small label that didn't promote. But hey, any album that is released on a small indie label gets that treatment. This features all the original Grape guitarists together again for "Must Be Goin' Now,Dear", a new Spence track. Recorded some 10 years after he left the band (discounting the reunion in 1971)after his last performances. Also featuring Cornelius Bumpus (Doobies,Steely Dan,etc.) and John Oxendine on drums. The record sounds part studio, part warm-up, some live. Out of print, but worth finding.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good solid Grape blues with jazzy overtones, June 20, 2000

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Robert German "vonwegen" (Bornheim, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live Grape (Audio CD)

Despite the title "Live Grape" is only partly live--about half sound like they were recorded without an audience, like at soundcheck. Good playing throughout, but it doesn't have that essential Moby Grape "wild electron energy" that the first 3 lp's did--until Skip Spence shows up and sings "Must Be Goin' Now, Dear". Then the 3 guitar energy powers up again, revealing for once and for all that Spence really wanted to be the Grape's lead guitarist, but Jerry Miller already had that spot nailed down before Spence joined. The result? Lots of competing lead guitar fills and a lot of charisma. Too bad this was to be his last recorded appearence with the band. As for the rest of the tunes, they are solid musically, and Jerry Miller is his usual great "have guitar, can play anything" self, but this CD is for current fans, rather than for people new to the band.