{"id":1313,"date":"2011-08-01T19:36:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T19:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:45:59","slug":"it-crawled-from-the-vault-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/it-crawled-from-the-vault-42\/","title":{"rendered":"It Crawled From the Vault #42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest bands to ever come out of San Francisco, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moby_Grape\">Moby Grape<\/a> (complete with all sorts of links)<\/p>\n<p>This is a rare show from 1998, and one of their last as a group. They did play in Golden Gate Park in 2007 (short set), and some of the members are still around and playing. A few sporadic performances happened in Santa Cruz a couple years ago with Omar Spence, Skip Spence&#8217; son filling in, so basically this is one of their last shows<\/p>\n<p>This show took place at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, California, New Years Eve, 1998. They opened for the Sons of Champlin, who headlined. There are two sets, one acoustic, and one electric. The acoustic set actually took place in the lobby, which is why there is more audience chatter than normal, because hundreds of people were just milling around the lobby. Not like a regular performance. The electric set took place inside on the main stage and sounds much better. This is also possibly the only known Moby Grape acoustic recording in existence, and this is the very first time this recording has been made public in it&#8217;s entirety<\/p>\n<p>The concert was originally recorded on a D6 cassette, and the master tapes were used to transfer in real time at 24 bit\/96khz and then to MP3. This is one of my all time cherished recordings. Nobody else recorded it, and the Sons didn&#8217;t allow taping that night. Only the Grape allowed it<\/p>\n<p>Moby Grape, 12.31.1998, New years Eve, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California<\/p>\n<p>acoustic set in the lobby, appr 52 minutes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rapidgator.net\/file\/d6f3a885bb93b722ea5b1d557d0c3f16\/mg_12_31_98_acoustic.zip.html\">https:\/\/rapidgator.net\/file\/d6f3a885bb93b722ea5b1d557d0c3f16\/mg_12_31_98_acoustic.zip.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>electric set on main stage, appr 32 minutes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rapidgator.net\/file\/5b453bc0fe8708d94f9236249567f71f\/mg_12_31_98_electric.zip.html\">https:\/\/rapidgator.net\/file\/5b453bc0fe8708d94f9236249567f71f\/mg_12_31_98_electric.zip.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r7_qOxc9TLs?si=-4XAj-6egDioklZU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>Sam Andrew of Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin) filled in for Skip Spence that night. James Preston of the Sons of Champlin played drums for the electric set, and John Pappenfort also on guitar for the acoustic set<\/p>\n<p>these photos are from the acoustic set in the lobby. from left to right, Peter Lewis, John Pappenfort, Jerry Miller, Sam Andrew, Bob Mosely<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.b by auweia, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/5997597029\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6127\/5997597029_3ee5f01f13_z.jpg\" alt=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.b\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.f by auweia, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/5998150336\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6139\/5998150336_70700cb079_z.jpg\" alt=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.f\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.a by auweia, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/5997596731\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6150\/5997596731_342b7186f9_z.jpg\" alt=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.a\" width=\"640\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was also privileged to have a back stage pass that night :)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.c by auweia, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/5998149076\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6002\/5998149076_14bc740d74_z.jpg\" alt=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.c\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peter Lewis and Bob Mosely<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.d by auweia, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/5998149482\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6010\/5998149482_0af895885c_z.jpg\" alt=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.d\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.e by auweia, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/5998149888\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6146\/5998149888_38d12c7030_z.jpg\" alt=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.e\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jerry Miller&#8217;s guitar, &#8220;beulah&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.g by auweia, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/5998150396\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6007\/5998150396_6f58242272_z.jpg\" alt=\"moby.grape.12.31.98.g\" width=\"443\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>this album was the only time in music history to have 5 singles from it released at the same time (in 1967). Not even the Beatles managed to do that. It is one of the all time San Francisco classic records<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"moby grape slipcase front by auweia, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/4266354506\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4036\/4266354506_fa3b77dd93_z.jpg?zz=1\" alt=\"moby grape slipcase front\" width=\"640\" height=\"609\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest bands to ever come out of San Francisco, Moby Grape (complete with all sorts of links) This is a rare show &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16-It-Crawled-From-The-Vault","tag-it-crawled-from-the-vault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}