toterola wrote: 
Power!

Ouch.

That album cover is a class picture of the Citibank Board of Directors!

Good ol' hippy sh*t! Those were the days! Peace!

"In days of old,
when pot was gold,
and we'd never heard of disco,
we shook our behinds,
and blew our minds,
and trucked on out to Frisco!"

 E_A_D_G wrote: 
8:05 is the best!

man that song did really suck

Jesus. That sure sucked.

Kind of has a Tim Buckley ring to it?

I had this in the car CD player last week. Incredible album—tho' this is one of its odder cuts, uncharacteristically hippie-dippie. Contrast with, for instance, "Hey, Grandma!", "Omaha", and "805." Great album.

Edit re Bill's post-track commentary. This wasn't a San Francisco band per se. Skip Spence was the only indigenous musician, having been Jefferson Airplane's original drummer. The rest were highly talented ringers from Seattle and Southern California brought in by entrepreneur/hustler Matthew Katz for the expressed purpose of making a killer, money-making album, which they did.

Two ancillary points. First, no, not all the "San Francisco" bands of that era (ca. 1966-70) were indigenous. The Steve Miller Band and Sir Douglas Quintet were from Texas; The Youngbloods from New York; and the Butterfield Blues Band from Chicago. Second, regardless of their manufactured pedigree and subsequent crash-and-burn, Moby Grape produced one hellacious album. Only the truly xenophobic—yes, even hippies acted very strangely at times (an understatement, no?)—objected to the Grape's origins. The music was simply too good.

e-you! icky.

jadewahoo wrote:
esotericderek wrote:


You are right... we are not. Mine is an extension of my own values and history, preferences and perspectives.
Yours is, well, yours. I like mine better

Wow! a blast from the past. Nice! I used to listen to Captain Nemo from a different album-need to find it and dust it off.

esotericderek wrote:

Very good.

It has been at least 40 years since I've heard anything by Moby Grape on anything besides my own record player.

jadewahoo wrote:
I'm not sure you and I are experienceing the same reality.

Sublime seminal SF vibe. Xlnt!

A seminal song of my youth. So good to hear, and to hear how it has held its ground as an enjoyable listen.

driver8 wrote:
Um....Barnie's brother, Barnacle?

driver8 wrote:

I dunno, what?

what's big and purple and lives inthe ocean?

'Bout time for some Grape!. 8:05 gotta be next.