Moby Grape - Hey Grandma

[TheSunbau]

This is really something. A great band and a killer bass player. They must have been one "of the best" at that time. I´m a big fan of rock music from the 60s and the 70s. My hobby is to rediscover all the great bands that did´nt "break through". And it´s a fantastic music treasure. Listen, for example, to THE ZETTLERS and their versions of "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah". Irresistible f.....g good and with a bloody driving beat. The recordings were made 1965 - unbelievable!!!!!!

[DownSouthSkate]

robitussin make me feel so fine

[TheBorjamz]

such anamazing  base player a player not like bruce not like others of the time qwas way above anddifferent kikked arse and i tryed to play stole some of his st

[MrRoostyr]

I met Jerry miller. Nice guy. Has lots of stories of the old days with Jimi Hendrix and such. I was in a band with his son who unfortunatly was a rich boy prick who stole his dads music and Moby grapes and thought nothing of it..

[Stacela]

@rjonnnz Yeah really that's what I was thinking.



[SoalaJohn54]

Well the hell is the dude in the beginning say? Moby Grape is blues-influenced psychedelic rock

[socrates1818]

No offense to anyone but Skip Spence has more juice than Jagger on stage, from the inside out , if you know what i mean. Real Power

[derekjg1976]

You broke my Moby Grape records!!!!!!!!!

[ChaLeeShen]

Mick Ronson covered this

[TrashcanBoogie]

@68beano: what?? no, serious, what? somebody help me here, what?oooh, now i get it, omaha. wow, sorry 'bout your luck, dude. hey, you could run away to lacrosse wis. and get help, they get lots of iowa overflow.

[rockHollie]

My favourite band of all time.

[Sandbagger300]

@rockHollie Yeah me too, I have every single one of their albums.

[68beano]

just put on this album up to mr. blues house is empty for the moment time to open up the windows take a hit of that sweet air and crack up this onkyo and see what it's got!! omaha's sounding so killer right now my buddy who sold me the onkyo was right great equipment,talking about equipment those instrument's are works of art their playing!! you lucky people who lived in n.y. to ca. thru this wonderful space in time.

[joebeppo]

I can still see Skip fronting the band with his tie. Always with his tie. RIP Skip. The Grape was a killer band.

[sevenonpaper1]

Yeah, thanks for talking over the music, you ego fucking attention whore. Why don't you go fuck yourself and put it on fucking youtube.

[deaddoc]

For those who don't know, they're talking about the "granny dress" that many hippy chicks were wearing at the time. And those square rimmed sunglasses, etc.

[whee71]

The Move did an awesome cover of this song that equals the original in intensity.

[tbzeee]

holy crap, footage of skip! what a great band.

[phildirt3]

miller still lives in seattle area

[SeattleLA]

@phildirt3 I did not know that. Do you know others who live here, besides Heart, Roger Fisher. Alan White and Steve Miller?

[WizardGlik]

Is that Skippy on the vox?

[mebcoder]

Great song with the energy of the MC5...

Wot a bunch of great musicians.

[IYAMNI]

First heard these guys waaaay back, while rummaging through a friends album collection. Omaha was the cut that really caught my attention, but all of it grew on me and now it remains one of my favorite albums. What a sad story though. Sort of like Del Shannon.

Anyway... amazing the things you can find on YouTube! Never actually seen them before. Thanx for posting. :-)

[IYAMNI]

First heard these guys waaaay back, while rummaging through a friends album collection. Omaha was the cut that really caught my attention, but all of it grew on me and now it remains one of my favorite albums. What a sad story though. Sort of like Del Shannon.

Anyway... amazing the things you can find on YouTube! Never actually seen them before. Thanx for posting. :-)

[mrjonrickly]

thanks for the post...these guys rocked..

top of their style for a couple years.

great guitar for a frisco band of that era!

[okeyeye]

goddammm! great! [perfection]

[RodCow]

Go on Skip!

[JDen1952]

To everyone complaining about the introduction, the man speaking is Steve Paul, and this clip is from his 1967 NYC area TV Special, "The Steve Paul Scene," a true rarity. I would love to have Steve's special released on DVD, or at least replayed on TV (VH-1 Classics perhaps?). Sadly, Steve doesn't own the rights to the special any longer (it's owned by Metromedia). It would bring about a rush of new Moby Grape fans if it ever aired again.

[written12]

@JDen1952 Thanks for the info. Yeah, that show would make great viewing.

I can just imagine what an eye opener that show must have been for people who had yet to really hear the great West Coast bands.

By the way, wasn't The Steve Paul Scene a music club in New York in the late sixties?

[ratherfam]

shut that idio up!!!

[ratherfam]

Who is this jerk talking...should've seen old Skip comin' down 8th street with a hatchet in 68! Look out! Poor guy-New York will do it for you..

[written12]

@ratherfam

Hey, you guys, I know the Grape at their manic best here don't need to spoken intro- which, as a few of you note, is pretentious, silly, and inaccurate. But the guy actually doesn't have an bad voice at all.

Anyway, on to the important thing here. Isn't Skip Spence really possessed here. At about 2:20 he's got a look on his face that makes that hatchet carrying trip down 8th. street very easy to imagine. Didn't he land himself in Bellevue during the band's first trip to New York?

[dMonz201]

so this is why they call him skip

[foreveralien]

in trully lovin memory of the genius Alexander "skippy" Spance RIP friend.

[rjonnz]

i wish that asshole at the beginning would've kept his trap shut.

[drsloan]

@rjonnz - Yeah, he sounds like a cross between a high school student reading his hoped-for A essay in English class, and HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

[Doobeydoobeydont]

@rjonnz

I just know that I'm alone on this but... I think there is a lineage from here to the La's. They were big fans of 60's music and direct, guitar driven pop they produced reminds me of this... just my view!

[spacepatrolman]

@rjonnz That was steve paul this is from his tv special live  from the steve paul scene with the blues project and the rascals [ he also managed johnny and edgar winter ] .

[qsergyuko]

@rjonnz hahahahaha i reckon shut the fuck up and let the grape play :D

[scalabration]

@rjonnz

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[AllfatherWuotan]

American.

[tamlin10]

they are eclectic rock, a bit of everything, all done well... thanks for posting!!!!

[maida1982a]

they were a 5 piece force to be reckoned with; they all wrote, they all sang and they all had a lot of talent.

[jowabro]

At least Skip is from Ontario (Canada) and didn't move to California until he was about 12.

[Archiebell68]

NOT country rock. And Jeff Starship "bilked this city" of rock and roll.

[michael07307]

by time stareship did that song it wasn,t what it started as listen to the first starship lp

[Archiebell68]

In no way are they "country rock."

[13loomisst]

Really sounds good. Skippy's kickin' it. Thanks very much.

[astronorm111]

F'ing AWESOME - 1966 all over again.

[jazsper123]

good tune man

[WittyMcNugget]

Whoa....someone feels strongly about this.....:P

[SvekkeL]

You must be tonedeaf... Go listen to the first album... songs like Omaha aren't generic... They are brilliant

[Casar1973]

why don´t somebody shove a baseball bat up your ass, without grease, there is already enough of it there.

[tomlynch42]

Your opinion means nothing . Skip died broke. So what? Dashiell Hammett, Elvis Presley, Jim Thompson, St. Francis, Bela Lugosi-all died broke. All left an impact. I think you suck balls, Mister. Ordinarily, ball sucking is good, unless YOU, FOXdevelopementSUX, are doing the ball sucking. Go put on "We Buil This City" by Starship and prctice your ball sucking, OK?

[fanzappa]

@FOXdevelopmentSux a bad opinion you do not agree with is not spam...

[unclemeat2u]

I saw them play this live at the 40th summer of love festival at Speedway Meadows in San Francisco.

They were one of the better acts there, in my opinion.

=)

[cristi0]

love to see his legs moving haha

[foreveraien]

one of the best band of all the times

[fa4452]

Thank you for posting! Does anybody have a copy of "Fall On You" - i haven't been able to find it any where. I remember that song from the first record and its stuck in my head all these years. Great band -

[ArgusTasmania]

almost a better version, nice to see skipy live

[anglicanbeachparty]

Love the song; one of my favourites from the Grape. And I love the ENERGY of this live performance!!!

[jjpeterson1]

My favourite album is Moby Grape (debut), and I have the whole Rolling Stone 500 Album collection!

[mturbevi]

Bob Mosely was a killer bass player , especially for the time. Never be another Moby Grape. Maybe short lived but huge impact that sounds good today.

[written12]

@mturbevi "Never be another Moby Grape".

I concur, Mturbevi. There a good number of great- and very good- bands from San Francisco, but these guys played with a special intensity. And they had such a great variety of songs.

[bigmarty56]

I agree with you, BB87, MG was a very fine band, particularly in the studio (although there are those that will say they were great/all time, live) The truth is that their first album---with this song, Omaha, and four or five others, was as good or better than any other San Fran Rock Group of the time ever did. Too bad they fizzled out. A shame that the lead died homeless on the streets.

[burnsybaby1987]

No one commented on this yet? Suprising. Not heard anything by Moby Grape until about a month ago, when I was recommended the debut album. May I just say what an absolutely genius piece of work the album and band were/are. I thought I'd already heard the best recorded music of the 60's until I heard Moby Grape's debut.