probably the single best album to ever come out of San Francisco, and you still can’t get it. It’s out of print once again because of lawsuit threats. This album was basically part of the longest running lawsuit in rock and roll history, 35 years and counting. It actually caused changes in California employment law and entertainment law and is now the subject of classes at various universities
Don Stevensons (drummer) middle finger on the skiffle board was later airbrushed out by Columbia records. This is the original
On October 9, 2007, Sundazed Records released a remastered CD version of the album’s stereo mix containing bonus tracks, some of which were previously unreleased. In addition, Sundazed also released the album’s mono mix on LP, but with no bonus tracks. Both the CD and LP versions were taken out of print, along with Wow and Grape Jam, on November 3, 2007, for reasons not officially stated. It has been widely circulated among the Moby Grape mailing list that former manager Matthew Katz, with whom the band has been in legal battles since the late 1960s, threatened to file a lawsuit against Sundazed claiming ownership of the album artwork.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 121 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Moby Grape on Sundazed (what IS available)
from Avaxhome, where you can download it
This is a photo of Moby Grape in San Francisco Superior Court in 2005. Peter Lewis is standing on the right. Bob Mosely with pony tail. Skip Spences son, Omar in checkered shirt, and Glendon Miskel, attorney for the Jefferson Airplane, standing in blue shirt
