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Moby Grape — 8:05
Album: Moby Grape
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6.7

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Released: 1968
Length: 2:16
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Eight-oh-five.
It's useless to try
I guess you're leaving soon

I can't go on without you
To keep you would be so wonderful
To love you is so good
Here is my heart that I give

It's all that I have
Do you think you could try?
Please change your mind
Before my sunshine is gone
Do you think you could try?

Before my sunshine is gone


Please change your mind
Do you think you could try?
Do you think you could try?

Do you think you could try?
Do you think you could try?
See it through
You know your tears
Would only bring pain in my heart
Until I can prove it to you
Don't fill my world with rain

Eight-oh-five.
I guess you're leaving, goodbye...
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Oh the memories....  was living up in Whitehorse in the Yukon and had just obtained a car, which I proceeded to install one of the then new 8-track players. My first tape was this album. Nobody else I knew at the time had  heard of "The Grape" I wore that tape out. I still have the vinyl version of this.
Posted 5 months ago by kenmo    [ Reply ]
 kingart wrote:

I studied that album photo, and if we're to judge hand gestures, apparently the washboard player didn't like it so much. 


LOL!  
Posted 11 months ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
I studied that album photo, and if we're to judge hand gestures, apparently the washboard player didn't like it so much. 
Posted 2 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Compared to some of the names groups give themselves today Moby Grape is pretty tame.
Posted 2 years ago by cosmicjoe54    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

It was 1968: incongruous, psychedelic band names were the rage: Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Electric Prunes, Lothar & The Hand People, etc...


My all time fav...The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band...Most psychedelic
track...Anniversary of WWIII...A blank track...

Tony in NJ
W.A.S.T.E.
 

Posted 4 years ago by tonyinnj    [ Reply ]
Truly Godlike. A 10 all the way.

Of course I lived in Berkley during their heyday so a bit biased.  
Posted 4 years ago by DW4554    [ Reply ]
Kind of "Box of Rainy" or vice-versa
Posted 4 years ago by inmanart    [ Reply ]
Back in 1967, my first surfboard in Hawaii was named "Moby Grape."
Posted 5 years ago by stalfnzo    [ Reply ]
Don't harsh on PJ too much.  Also was not a fan and finally started to appreciate them more.  Was late getting Nirvana also...
Posted 5 years ago by maxjboxer    [ Reply ]
Dated
Posted 5 years ago by zurcronium    [ Reply ]
 I actually still have the Lothar album on vinyl. They were one not too big hit wonders with "Machine". I think the theremin was their hook.


Proclivities wrote:

It was 1968: incongruous, psychedelic band names were the rage: Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Electric Prunes, Lothar & The Hand People, etc...

 

Posted 5 years ago by bh1    [ Reply ]
Great harmony and playing from one of psychedelic San Francisco's best 60s groups, along with Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, Santana and Country Joe and the Fish.  
Posted 6 years ago by kevinwrede    [ Reply ]
This song is one of those perennial songs from the sixties that keeps coming up in my memory.  It represents a very sweet time in my life and takes me right back. Nice to hear and know other people remember it well.
Posted 6 years ago by JuliaH    [ Reply ]
 kingart wrote:
Very '60s. But timeless. 

 
I agree!!
Posted 7 years ago by pilapus6    [ Reply ]
Very '60s. But timeless. 
Posted 7 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Awesome! Saw them open for Pinback at The Fox here in Boulder a few years ago. Amazing legacy; seems they still rock; it's all good!
Posted 7 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 bkrontz wrote:
"And here's something from Moby"... huh, what? lol...

 
It was 1968: incongruous, psychedelic band names were the rage: Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Electric Prunes, Lothar & The Hand People, etc...
Posted 8 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
{#Music} still have my copy of this vynl nice stuff / hey grand ma
Posted 8 years ago by primm    [ Reply ]
Had a copy.  This album was brilliant, if poorly recorded.  This group's story is tragic.

DaveInVA wrote:


The original unretouched artwork from first pressing

Just love it. On the original record cover he is giving the finger on the washboard in the pic and after the first release it was airbrushed out.
 


Posted 8 years ago by joelbb    [ Reply ]
Never heard their music before, but I climbed a beautiful rock route in New Hampshire named after them: https://www.mountainproject.com/v/moby-grape/105884815
Posted 8 years ago by shakylegs    [ Reply ]
'do you think you can try'not sounding like the grateful dead.
Posted 8 years ago by Pezz9    [ Reply ]
cool tune man  (bleh photo 'cept for that sneaky flip of the bird)
Posted 8 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]


The original unretouched artwork from first pressing

Just love it. On the original record cover he is giving the finger on the washboard in the pic and after the first release it was airbrushed out.

Posted 14 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]
 handyrae wrote:
I always chuckle when I think that a group of men named their band Moby Grape.
 
It was the punch line to a stoner riddle, "What's purple and lies at the bottom of the ocean?"

Posted 14 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
I always chuckle when I think that a group of men named their band Moby Grape.
Posted 14 years ago by handyrae    [ Reply ]
Too Groovy!{#Daisy}
Posted 14 years ago by spindrift    [ Reply ]
This takes me back! 
Posted 14 years ago by JuliaH    [ Reply ]
It has been a looong time since I have heard this. Thanks Bill and company

Posted 14 years ago by chrysalis94952    [ Reply ]
This is so, so bad. They can't sing, the song is slow as molasses. Utter fail.
Posted 14 years ago by miahfost    [ Reply ]
Holy crap!  Haven't heard this for  a very long time.  Also haven't heard the album it's off of in years, but have a vague memory of it being solid.

Posted 14 years ago by tonypf    [ Reply ]
"And here's something from Moby"... huh, what? lol...
Posted 15 years ago by bkrontz    [ Reply ]
The cover shot of the band is in front of the "little store" on Bolinas Ave in Fairfax,Ca.
I would buy a RC cola and salami sandwich for 26 cents.
Van Morrison lives up the street.
Posted 15 years ago by johnsc1055    [ Reply ]

Now you're talking!  Fallen off the radar, have they?  They're still excellent.  Remember the controversy about the middle finger being used on the washboard in the album cover?  The finger was changed in later issues.


Posted 15 years ago by PeteyGreens    [ Reply ]
I just got back from 6 weeks of project work in Brockton!  I didn't see them. 
 
 
 andersja wrote:
They played in Brockton,MA in the late 60's.
 

Posted 15 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]
They played in Brockton,MA in the late 60's.
Posted 16 years ago by andersja    [ Reply ]
One of the seminal bands of the 60's, gone from view now but for the likes of RP. Good on ya, BillG!
Posted 16 years ago by jadewahoo    [ Reply ]
Well, here's another one I uploaded a few years ago that got the boot. Now it's playing on the main. Dang. I hate when that happens. I just wish Rebecca would accept all my uploads so my ratio wouldn't look so bad.
Posted 16 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
Quintessential perfection from a troubled bunch of misfits. The Grape stand next to Airplane, Spirit and Big Brother as standard bearers from the late 60's San Fran scene. Thanks Bill.
Posted 16 years ago by E_A_D_G    [ Reply ]
flyboy wrote:
Like the bird on the cover.
Yeah, it's pretty funny. I like to believe that the shutter fell fast enough to catch it before it ceremoniously flipped.
Posted 16 years ago by redeyespy    [ Reply ]
flyboy wrote:
Like the bird on the cover.
He hates that washboard!
Posted 16 years ago by nate917    [ Reply ]
i can't hear this over my dog howling. the more i turn it up, the louder she howls. i wonder if there's a connection.
Posted 16 years ago by daveesh    [ Reply ]
Like the bird on the cover.
Posted 16 years ago by flyboy    [ Reply ]
first
Posted 16 years ago by whtahtefcuk    [ Reply ]