MOBY GRAPE

Friday, 20 November 1998

Wetlands Preserve
161 Hudson Street
New York, New York 10013
USA


FLAC master, 20 November 2017, by elegymart:
Digital audience recording (stereo): unknown mics > DAT recorder > DAT master > analog audio cassette > two 1997-2001 US TDK SA 90 (Type II CrO2) analog audio cassettes {via trade, c. 1998-2003} > Sony TC-WE435 (azimuth adjustment) > Roland R05 (24/96) > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (audio cleanup, convert to 16/44) > CD Wave (track splits) > TLH (WAV > FLAC8).
Created this text file.


Total running time [2:14:11]
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-- Set I --
01 introduction [0:28]
02 Hey Grandma [3:22]
03 Mister Blues [2:12]
04 Changes [6:23]
05 Sitting by the Window [3:38]
06 Ain't No Use [1:54]
07 Murder in My Heart for the Judge [5:16]
08 Omaha [8:03]
09 Naked, If I Want To [2:31]
10 8:05 [3:30]
11 Fall on You [3:13]
-- Set II --
12 If You Can't Learn from My Mistakes [2:47]
13 Can't Be So Bad [5:54]
14 Sitting and Watching [4:53]
15 It's a Beautiful Day Today [3:57]
16 Silver Wheels [4:44]
17 Lost Horizon [9:28]
18 Never [7:03]
19 Got to Be a Change [9:04]
20 You Must Believe in Love [6:20]
21 It's Cool [6:10]
-- Set III --
22 Trucking Man [4:38]
23 Gypsy Wedding [8:40]
24 Dark Magic [10:46]
25 Hoochie [9:03]


Band line-up:
Peter Lewis - guitar, vocals
Jerry Miller - lead guitar, vocals
Bob Mosley - bass, vocals
Sam Andrew - guitar, vocals
Jim Preston - drums


Notes:

Here's Moby Grape's triumphant return to the Big Apple at the same venue they played in the year before, after a 30-year absence. This was the second of two nights, and it was preceded by a set from Rick Danko for this night only.

This show has been up on dime before, about a decade ago. Don't have that version to compare to this one, but that one had CDRs in its lineage, and this does not. This one is pretty crisp and up front, with the occasional crowd enthusiasm peeking through.

Having attended the show from the prior night, I can attest this band was firing on all cylinders. Mosley's voice may have been shot over the years when he was as lost as Danny Kirwan, but it was great to see three-fifths of the original Grape really shine when they stretched out during the instrumental passages, particularly Jerry Miller. This was also not Jim Preston's first outing with the band -- he had taken time off from playing in Sons of Champlin to play live with the Grape many times before. And then they have Sam Andrew throw in for good measure.

Previously "It's Cool" was listed incorrectly -- that is a latter Big Brother tune which was on the Lisa Battle-era "Do What You Love" album that came out in February of that year. It's probably the biggest throwaway tune here, however.

There is a mid-cut in "Hoochie." If anyone has the version of this show that was posted in 2007, or the Rick Danko set, please share.

Over the years on dime, EZT, the Archival Group, and through all the various and assorted other trading groups online preceding that, and the CDR, DAT, and analog cassette traders which came before, I've gathered a moderate collection of items to share. I've helped with transfers (the Cactus and related uploads from over a decade ago here, and currently a bite out of the massive Stonecutter Archives), contributed setlists and corrections to many a torrent -- all the sort of things that don't raise one's share ratio. I've shared some of my masters back in the old snail mail days, but it's high time to give back more here from where I've received so much. I had meant to do a roll-out with something grand and possibly a series (Elegymart #1, #2, etc.), but that's been done countless times before.

At this point not only have we've all aged along with dime's existence, but our media and the equipment that can play it back has as well. So rather than any fanfare or concern over share ratio, consider this upload another step in a more diligent attempt to beat the time and to circulate the collection.

Enjoy,
elegymart