Moby Grape
"Dark Magic"
Live 1966-1969
Various Venues

Issued in 1997 on Haight Street Records
Reissued on Scorpio Records

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Disc 1:

101-Monterey Pop Festival Intro (Tom Smothers)
102-Indifference
103-Mr. Blues
104-Sitting by The Window
105-Omaha

106-Miller's Blues

107-Hey Grandma
108-Sitting by The Window
109-Omaha

110-Going Nowhere
111-Sweet Little Angel
112-I Am Not Willing
113-Honky Tonk Blues
114-Bitter Wind
115-Murder In My Heart For The Judge

116-Dark Magic


Tracks 101-105 Monterey Pop Festival Monterey,CA 1967-06-17
Led off the Saturday evening lineup
Track 106 Avalon Ballroom SF,CA 1968
Tracks 107-109 Steve Paul's The Scene NYC 1968-12-31 (tv source?)
played with the Blues Project & Chambers Bros.
Tracks 110-115 Unknown Venue 1967 (setlist suggests more like 1969)
Track 116 Winterland SF,CA 1967



Disc 2:

201-$20 Blues
202-Hey Grandma Blues

203-Changes
204-Dark Magic Part 1
205-Dark Magic Part 2

206-Looper
207-8:05

208-If You Can't Learn From Your Mistakes
209-Can't Be So Bad
210-Sitting by The Window
211-Fall On You
212-It's A Beautiful Day Today

213-Big Boss Man

214-Seeing
215-Bitter Wind

216-Letter from Skip



Tracks 201-202 Fillmore West SF,CA 1968-07-23
Tracks 203-205 Avalon Ballroom SF,CA 1966-12-31
Tracks 206-207 Winterland SF,CA March 1967
Tracks 208-212 Stony Brook University Stony Brook,NY 1969
Track 213 Peter & The Wolves 45, PW#500 LA,CA 1965
featuring Peter Lewis????????
Tracks 214-215 Unknown venue & date(late 1990's? - probably from DAT)
Track 216 Letter from Skip to the band (Steve Paul's The Scene NYC 1968-12-31?)



Band Members:

Jerry Miller guitar,vocals
Don Stevenson drums,vocals
Peter Lewis guitar,vocals
Bob Mosley bass,vocals
Skip Spence guitar,vocals





ljs_54 edit notes: both discs needed re-tracking and some edits (gaps, pops, etc.). I decided not to mess with the volume and I inserted 2 secs. of silence between each separate set of songs and at the beginning and end of each disc.

This text file was originally derived from the artwork. The artwork is from the first version of this boot from Haight Street Records. The first disc matched the track listing but the second disc did not. After much research, I found out there's a few versions of this floating around as it was re-issued by Scorpio Records (best known for their multiple Bob Dylan "Genuine Bootleg Series" bootlegs)and then it has been individually edited beyond that. My understanding is that the Scorpio Records artwork merely said "remastered with bonus tracks" but it was the exact same track listing as Haight Street. I think Scorpio titled their silvers "Scorpio 1 - Pork Magic" for d1 and "Scorpio 2 - Grape James" for d2.

The confusion on disc 2 starts with the Haight Street artwork saying that tracks 14 & 15 are from Peter & The Wolves, a garage band that Peter Lewis was in. It turns out that they are clearly not. The artwork also states that Big Boss Man is from the Stony Brook 1969 show. It sure doesn't sound like the rest of the 1969 Stony Brook show and maybe it's a version from Peter & The Wolves. Sounds like it might be a 1965 garage band and it sounds pretty awful. So here's what I did:

-Separated track 213 from the Stony Brook tracks and made it stand alone. I'll call it the Peter & The Wolves track but I'm not sure.

-Tracks 214 and 215 are as listed. The speculation is that they are from the late 1990's. I think these were substituted by Scorpio Records when they found out that the Peter & The Wolves tracks were not really Peter & The Wolves. That's why I'm not sure about Big Boss Man. These tracks are probably from a DAT source.

-I separated a very short Track 216 which is a letter from Skip to the group. I don't know the time frame but they were obviously in NYC. I'm thinking this might have been when Skip was in the Bellevue Hospital mental ward after the axe incident. The Grape played the Au Go Go in October 1968 after Skip had left the band. They also played Steve Paul's The Scene I believe on New Year's Eve in 1968 and the "emcee" does say this is the "last" band he's presenting, so it could be from there.


The quality of the material varies and is fairly good, although it doesn't match the overall quality of the "Long Gone" boot. Exact sources for the material are not given anywhere. I have read where tracks 110-115 from the Unknown Venue 1967 on disc 1 ran too fast but they sound ok to me. I think they might have been individually speed corrected by someone. The quality on tracks 206-207 is not so hot although the bulk of the problem is with very distant vocals. Track 213 is just noise to me.

I believe the source of tracks 107-109 might have been a local NYC tv broadcast from Steve Paul's The Scene featuring the Blues Project, Chambers Bros. & The Grape.

I did everything I could to eliminate gaps, dropouts, pops, etc., but even with that, some of the track transitions are a bit abrupt. I can't believe that this still sells for $70 on the net and that "Long Gone" sells for $30! Enjoy.

ljs_54
Seeded to BT Easytree 2005-03-20