Tuesday, 30 March 2010

MOBY GRAPE/SKIP SPENCE (+ A CHANGE IN FORMAT)

If there's anyone out there still reading, sorry i've neglected to post for a few weeks. The impetus has kind of dissipated, as you may have been able to tell from more recent posts. Sure, those 2008 articles were a bit excessive and cloying, but there was significantly more drive behind the writing. The turning point in my head was the 10,000 word 'lost post' on The Beach Boys/Brian Wilson. The entire time i was sat writing it, a good half of my brain was asking "what the hell are you doing?" The pointlessness of the venture just became a bit too much.

So, rather than regurgitate vague recollections from biographies etc., i'm just going to post daily YouTube clips (sort of a log of listening habits) and leave any extrapolations or further explorations up to you. Some will be all too familiar i'm sure, others less so and hopefully enlightening to someone.

All the best,
Sinbad.



MOBY GRAPE - Omaha (from 'Moby Grape', 1967)



MOBY GRAPE - He (from 'Wow', 1968)



MOBY GRAPE - Skip's Song (demo from 'Vintage' comp, final version - 'Seeing' - on 'Moby Grape '69', 1969)



SKIP SPENCE - Little Hands (from 'Oar', 1969)



SKIP SPENCE - War In Peace (from 'Oar', 1969)

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