with Steve Fruitman
#149
November 21, 2016
Skip, Jerry, Bob, Peter & Don
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Moby Grape
Guest: Don Stevenson
Hour One: Hear this show now
Hour Two: Hear this show now
Hour One – Moby Grape with Don Stevenson1. Moby Grape: Hey Grandma (Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson) 1967
2. Moby Grape: Ain’t No Use (Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson) 1967
3. Moby Grape: Changes (Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson) 1967
4. Moby Grape: Indifference (Skip Spence) 1967
5. Moby Grape: Someday (Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson) 1967
6. Moby Grape: 8:05 (Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson) 1967
7. Moby Grape: Hi There
8. Moby Grape: Black Current Jam (Al Cooper / Bob Mosley / Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson) 1968
9. Don Stevenson: Regret (Don Stevenson) 2016 * Live in Studio
10. Moby Grape: Murder In My Heart For The Judge (Don Stevenson) 1968
11. Moby Grape: Motorcycle Irene (Skip Spence) 1968
12. Moby Grape: He (Peter Lewis) 1968
13. Moby Grape: Can’t Be So Bad (Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson) 1968
14. Moby Grape: Chinese Song (Skip Spence) 1971
15. Don Stevenson: Almost Feels Good To Feel Bad (Don Stevenson) 2016 * Live in Studio
16. Moby Grape: Naked, If I Want To (Jerry Miller) 1967CanCon = 13%
Hour Two
1. Mock Duck: Ground Hog – 1968 *
2. Mother Tucker’s Yellow Duck: Blue Dye (McDougal / Law / Caldwell) 1969 *
3. Buffalo Springfield: Burned (Neil Young) 1966
4. New Riders of the Purple Sage: I Don’t Need No Doctor (Nick Ashford/Valerie Simpson/Jo Armstead) 1972
5. Doug & The Slugs: To Be Laughing (Doug Bennett) 1980 *
6. Plastic Cloud: Shadows of Your Mind (Don Brewer) 1968 *
7. The Paupers: Think I Care (Adam Mitchell / Skip Prokop) 1967 *
8. Mahogany Rush: Man At The Back Door (Frank Marino) 1976 *
9. Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder) 1973
10. Don Norman & the Other Four: Your Place In My Heart – 1967 *
11. Madrigal: Picture Frame (Peter Boynton) 1970 *
12. David Celia: Double Mind (David Celia) 2015 *
13. Moby Grape: About Time (Don Stevenson) 1971
14. Leonard Cohen: Les Vieux (Leonard Cohen) 1957 *
15. Leroy Pullen: The Interstate’s Coming Through My Outhouse (Johe Blankinship) 1966CanCon = 67%
Total CanCon = 39%
And Now for The Particulars:
Hour One – Moby Grape with drummer, Don Stevenson
1. Moby Grape: Hey Grandma (Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson)
2. Moby Grape: Ain’t No Use (Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson)
3. Moby Grape: Changes (Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson)
4. Moby Grape: Indifference (Skip Spence)
5. Moby Grape: Someday (Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson)
6. Moby Grape: 8:05 (Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson)
Moby Grape: Columbia Records – CL 2698
San Francisco CA
Peter Lewis – rhythm guitar, vocals
Jerry Miller – lead guitar, vocals
Bob Mosley – bass, vocals
Skip Spence – rhythm guitar, vocals
Don Stevenson – drums, vocals
Produced by David Rubinson – 1967
Recorded at CBS Studios, Hollywood, CA; March 11 – April 25, 19677. Moby Grape: Hi There
Wow: Columbia Records – XSM 135372'Hi There' isn’t really a song, or a track: it’s producer David Rubinson reminding everyone to turn their turntables to 78 rpms for the next track: "Just Like Gene Autry: A Foxtrot". This track includes a guest appearance by Arthur Godfrey, who reads the introduction and plays banjo and ukulele. Orchestral arrangement by Joey Scott. I chose not to play the foxtrot since we have no 78 record player.
8. Moby Grape: Black Current Jam (Al Cooper / Bob Mosley / Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson)
Grape Jam: Columbia Records – CSX 3
San Francisco CA
Al Kooper: piano
Jerry Miller: guitar
Don Stevenson: drums
Bob Mosley: bass
Produced by David Rubinson – 1968
Recorded by Don Puluse and Glen Kolotkin - January 16 - February 13, 19689. Don Stevenson: Regret (Don Stevenson)
Live in Studio
10. Moby Grape: Murder In My Heart For The Judge (Don Stevenson)
11. Moby Grape: Motorcycle Irene (Skip Spence)
12. Moby Grape: He (Peter Lewis)
13. Moby Grape: Can’t Be So Bad (Jerry Miller / Don Stevenson)
Wow: Columbia Records – XSM 135372
San Francisco CA
Peter Lewis - rhythm guitar, vocals
Jerry Miller - lead guitar, vocals
Bob Mosley - bass, vocals
Skip Spence - rhythm guitar, vocals
Don Stevenson - drums, vocals
Produced by David Rubinson – 1968
Recorded by Don Puluse and Glen Kolotkin - August 30, 1967 - February 5, 1968
14. Moby Grape: Chinese Song (Skip Spence)
20 Granite Creek: Reprise Records – K-44152 (UK version)
San Francisco CA
Peter Lewis - rhythm guitar, vocals
Jerry Miller - lead guitar, vocals
James R Mosley - bass, vocals
Alex ‘Skip’ Spence - rhythm guitar, koto, vocals
Don Stevenson - drums, guitar, vocals
Andy Narell: steel drums
David Rubinson: electric piano, congas
Produced by David Rubinson & Moby Grape Productions - 1971
Recorded at Moby Grape’s House by Quadra-Centric Sound Systems by Ed Bannon; Pacific Recording Studios, San Mateo by Ed Bannon, David Rubinson and Jerry Zatkin
Mixed at Pacific Recording Studios by David Rubinson15. Don Stevenson: Almost Feels Good To Feel Bad (Don Stevenson)
Live in Studio16. Moby Grape: Naked, If I Want To (Jerry Miller) 1967
Moby Grape: Columbia Records – CL 2698Grape Notes
The Members:
Don Stevenson (born October 15, 1942, Seattle, Washington)
first obtained local recognition as a member of The Frantics, a band based in Seattle and including fellow Washingtonian Jerry Miller (from Tacoma) on guitar. The band relocated to San Francisco in 1966 and formed the nucleus of what became Moby Grape.Jerry Miller (born July 10, 1943 in Tacoma, Washington)
Jerry Miller's professional career began in the late 1950s, playing and recording with popular Northwest dance-rock bands including The Elegants. He was apparently a member of The Kingsmen (of Louie Louie fame) at one time, with promotional photos that exist as evidence of that. He contributed guitar work to an early version of the hit record I Fought the Law by The Bobby Fuller Four, and toured with Bobby Fuller in his predecessor group to The Bobby Fuller FourAlexander Lee "Skip" Spence (April 18, 1946 – April 16, 1999 b. Windsor ON)
drummed on Jefferson Airplane's debut album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, and was dismissed by the band after taking an unannounced vacation to Mexico. He briefly considered joining Buffalo Springfield as a drummer before returning to the guitar to co-found Moby Grape. Spence died of lung cancer two days before his 53rd birthday.Peter Lewis (born July 15, 1945)
is the younger of two sons by actress Loretta Young (1913-2000) and writer-producer Tom Lewis (d. 1988), and is apparently a cousin of guitarist David Lindley.Bob Mosley (born The bobmeister Mosley; December 4, 1942, in Paradise Valley, California)
"In 1996, Peter Lewis picked me up along the side of a San Diego freeway where I was living, to tell me a ruling by San Francisco Judge Garcia gave Moby Grape their name back. I was ready to go to work again."The group was formed in late 1966 in San Francisco by Skip Spence, former drummer of Jefferson Airplane.
Jerry Miller and Don Stevenson had moved with The Frantics from Seattle to San Francisco after a 1965 meeting with Jerry Garcia.
Their name came from the punch line of the joke "What's big and purple and lives in the ocean?
The band had three guitar players: Spence on rhythm; Peter Lewis fingerpicking; Jerry Miller, lead. Bob Mosley played bass and Don Stevenson, drums.All MG members wrote songs and sung lead vocals
Released 5 singles simultaneously - probably the only recording artists to ever do that. It actually worked against them!
Recorded 2 different renditions of “Naked, If I Want To” released on their 1st & 2nd albums
Balked at being filmed at Monterey Pop Fest:
The group appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival on Saturday, June 17, 1967. Due to legal and managerial disputes, the group was not included in the D.A. Pennebaker-produced film of the event, Monterey Pop. Moby Grape's Monterey recordings and film remain unreleased, allegedly because Matthew Katz demanded one million dollars for the rights.The flag behind Skip Spence on the cover of the first album is actually a United States flag that Columbia Records decided to obscure through airbrushing, presumably due to the political climate of the times. Because Don Stevenson thought that the photographer was an asshole he 'flipped the bird' at him, hoping he wouldn't get to do the album cover; it was used anyway. After the first pressing of 250,000 albums, the finger was airbrushed off subsequent covers.
The band’s second album “Wow” included the track "Just Like Gene Autry, a Foxtrot", a tribute to the ballroom music big band era which was tracked to only be played back properly at the speed of 78 RPM and featured Arthur Godfrey on banjo and ukulele.
Early copies of 'Wow' omit the band's name from the record label, for unknown reasons. It was released as a 2 album set with Grape Jam for the price of a regular LP.
Grape Jam: a jam session that included Al Kooper and Michael Bloomfield, was the inspiration for a number of other studio "jam" albums during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Later examples of this included Al Kooper's Super Session and the 3rd LP of George Harrison's All Things Must Pass.
Moby Grape's success was significantly impeded by decades-long legal disputes with their former manager, Matthew Katz. Legal difficulties originated shortly after the group's formation, when Matthew Katz insisted that an additional provision be added to his management contract, giving him ownership of the group name. The dispute with Katz became more acute after the group members' rights to their songs, as well as their own name, were signed away in 1973, in a settlement made without their knowledge between Katz and Moby Grape's then manager (and former producer), David Rubinson.
Rubinson produced such diverse acts as Moby Grape, Herbie Hancock, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, the Pointer Sisters, Santana, The Chambers Brothers and Taj Mahal. Rubinson also founded The Automatt Recording Studios and was the music producer for the film Apocalypse Now
In 1969 Moby Grape released two more LPs: Moby Grape '69 and Truly Fine Citizen. ’69 was the last LP before the group started fragmenting. Truly Fine Citizen features only Peter Lewis, Don Stevenson and Jerry Miller.
Covers:
The Move covered "Hey Grandma" (a Miller-Stevenson composition) on their first album. It was also included in the soundtrack to the 2005 Sean Penn-Nicole Kidman film, The Interpreter, as well as being covered in 2009 by the Black Crowes, on Warpaint Live. "8:05" became a country rock standard covered by Robert Plant. "Murder in My Heart for the Judge" is a blues rock tune written by Don Stevenson that was later recorded by Lee Michaels, Three Dog Night and Chrissie Hynde.The band did re-union gigs but were not allowed to be called Moby Grape since Katz sent out fake Moby Grape bands to do gigs. That has since been resolved. Skip Spence's son, Omar, has performed with Grape re-union gigs with the other original members.
Hour Two 1. Mock Duck: Ground Hog
45 Single b/w Hurt On Me: Baroka Q 7457M
Vancouver BC
Ross Barret: Saxophone, Keyboards
Rick Enns: Bass
Glen Hendrickson: Drums
Joe Mock: Guitar
Lee Stephens: Bass
Produced by Mock Duck – 19681967 – 71 – Their first recording was a Test Record that was actually an acetate. To the best of everyone's knowledge, only 14 copies were ever pressed, making it perhaps one of the rarest records in Canadian music history. A CD of the songs on Test Pressing is now available. They opened for groups such as Fleetwood Mac, B.B. King, Country Joe & The Fish, and Steve Miller. Joe Mock later played with Pied Pumkin and Pied Pair and is currently living in France
2. Mother Tucker’s Yellow Duck: Homegrown Stuff LP
Duck Records / Capitol Records - ST-6304
Vancouver BC
Pat Caldwell, vocal, harmonica
Charlie Faulkner, bass
Roger Law, guitar
Hugh Lockhead, drums
Don McDougall, guitar
Produced 19693. Buffalo Springfield: Burned (Neil Young)
Buffalo Springfield: Atco Records Mono 33-200-A
Los Angeles CA / Ontario
Neil Young, guitar, lead vocal
Steve Stills, guitar
Richie Furay, guitar,
Dewey Martin, drums
Bruce Palmer, bass
Produced by Charles Greene, Brian Stone 1966
Recorded July - September 1966 by Tom May, Doc Siegel, James Hilton, Stan Ross
Mixing: Buffalo Springfield, Charles Greene, Brian Stone4. New Riders of the Purple Sage: I Don’t Need No Doctor (Nick Ashford/Valerie Simpson/Jo Armstead)
Powerglide: Columbia KC 31284
East Palo Alto, CA
John Dawson, guitars
David Nelson, lead guitar, vocal
Dave Torbert, bass
Buddy Cage, pedal steel
Spencer Dryden, drums
Nicky Hopkins, piano
Produced by Steve Barncard and New Riders - 1972
Recorded by John Fiore and George Beauregard at Wally Heiders, San Francisco
Mastered by Bob McCloud at Artisan Sound, Hollywood5. Doug & The Slugs: To Be Laughing (Doug Bennett)*
Cognac And Bologna: Ritdong / RCA KKL1-0375
Vancouver BC
Doug Bennett: vocals
Rick Baker: guitar
John Burton: guitar
Simon Kendall: keys
Steve Bosley: bass
John "Wally" Watson: drums
Produced by Doug & the Slugs 1980
Recorded by Mike Jones at Metal Works Studio, Mississauga ONFormed in 1977
Douglas Craig "Doug" Bennett (b. Toronto October 31, 1951 d. Calgary October 16, 2004) died of cirrhosis
Recorded 7 LPs from 1980-946. Plastic Cloud: Shadows of Your Mind (Don Brewer)
45 rpm Single: Allied Records 6357
Bay Ridge ON
Don Brewer (guitar, vocals)
Brian Madill (bass)
Michael Cadieux (guitar)
Randy Umphrey (drums)
Produced by Bill Bessy and Jack Boswell - 1968Apparently, only 500 copies of their album were released. Bay Ridge is a part of Pickering, Ontario, located near the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Bill Bessy worked with executive producer Jack Boswell with Allied and Marathon Records, producing country music. This is one of their only forays into pop rock.
7. The Paupers: Think I Care (Adam Mitchell / Skip Prokop)
Magic People: Verve Forecast - FTS 3026
Toronto, ON
Adam Mitchell, guitar, vocals
Skip Prokop, drums, vocals
Dennis Gerrard, bass
Chuck Beal. guitar
Produced by Rick Shorter – 19678. Mahogany Rush: Man at The Back Door (Frank Marino)*
Mahogany Rush IV: Columbia Records WPC 34190
Montreal QC
Frank Marino: guitar, vocal
Jim Ayoub: drums
Paul Harwood, bass
Produced by Frank Marino 1976
Recorded by Billy Szawlowski and Ian Terry at Tempo Studios, Montreal9. Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder)
Innvervisions: Motown T 326L
Saginaw MI
Stevie Wonder all instruments
Produced by Stevie Wonder 1973
Recorded by Dan Barbiero and Austin Godsey at The Record Plant, Los Angeles CA and Media Sound Inc. NYC
Mastered by George Marino at The Cutting Room, NYCborn May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins
Wonder has won 22 Grammy Awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 199610. Don Norman & The Other Four: Your Place In My Heart
Sir John A Records 45: RG 1019
Ottawa ON
Don Norman (vocals, guitar)
Gary Comeau (guitar, vocals)
Ron Greene (guitar, keyboard, vocals)
Bill Helman (bass, vocals)
Brian Dewhurst (drums)
Produced 196711. Madrigal: Picture Frame (Peter Boynton)
Sunshine and Baked Beans: Tuesday Records GHL 1002
North York, Ontario
John Swainson (guitar, bass, vocals)
Rick Henderson (guitar, vocals)
Peter Boynton (piano, organ, bass, keys, vocals)
Don Simpson (drums, vocals)
Produced by Greg Hambleton 197012. David Celia: Double Mind (David Celia)
Double Mind: Seedling Music 088907212580
Toronto
David Celia: guitars, bass, vocals, various sounds
Jay Swinnerton: keys
Brenan Hanley: drums
David Headon,: bass
Tim Jackson: bg vocals
Produced by David Celia 2015
Recorded by samuel Bates at The Ladder Factory and intro at Cameron House,Toronto
Mastered by Andy Magoffin at The House of Miracles15. Moby Grape: About Time (Don Stevenson)
20 Granite Creek: Reprise Records – K-44152 (UK version)13. Leonard Cohen: Poem: Les Vieux (L Cohen)
Folklore de Montreal Folklore: Analekta - AN 2 9221-2
Montreal QC
Compilation produced by Samuel Gesser and Renée Maheu - 199?
(Originally released on Six Montreal Poets, Folkways FL9805 - 1957)14. Leroy Pullen: The Interstate's Coming Through My Outhouse (Johe Blankinship)
Funny Bones & Hearts: Kapp Records KS-3557
USA
Produced – 1966
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