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• Artist: Moby Grape
• Album: The Very Best Of Moby Grape: Vintage
• Label: Columbia
• Year of Release: 1993
• ME Rating: Indie Classic
• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-03-31

I know many people will stop me in my tracks and slap me for not recommending Moby Grape’s self-titled 1967 debut album but let me explain my decision here. That album is included in it’s entirety on Vintage. That’s exactly how disc one starts out, from the rolling “Hey Grandma� all the way through “Indifference�, it’s all here. On top of that, you get highlights from all of their other albums. While no one album ever topped the self-titled one, there were worthy highlights on each and that what this best of tries to hit on. The second disc in this collection is their later material which deserves a going through. Moby Grape needs to be remembered for it’s trippy but very rousing music. While they never attained the popularity of other bands in the psychelic era like Jefferson Airplane they play an important roll in the future of the city's, if not the country’s music scene. Skip Spence, one of the band’s primary songwriter, left after their second disc, Wow, came out. He later passed away from mental illness in 1998. The band was pretty much done by the end of 1969 except for the odd reincarnation. This collection also comes complete with some very inspired liner notes, written by Rolling Stone Magazine’s David Fricke.

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