A Vine Way to Escape
Project Grape Escape
Initial release : 1997
Taxim Records TX 2025

Tom Constanten plays on seven tracks of this celebration of the music of Moby Grape.


Tracks

Pollution (Lashley/Juan/Mahoney)
Get Your Ass Up (Lashley/Miller)
Bitter Wind In Tanganika (Mosley)
Not the Marrying Kind (Lashley)
Everybody Knows (Lashley)
Tear And A Smile (Lashley)
Blow Wind (Lashley)
If I Were President (Lashley)
Castro Street Blues (Lashley)
I Am A Dreamer (Mosley)
Attitude (Lashley/Juan)
Grape Escape Boogie (Lashley)
Goin' Home (Lashley)
Musicians

Project Grape Escape;


Mark Lashley - guitar, keyboards, percussion, vocals
Craig Juan - bass, background vocals
Don Graham - drums
Pat Mahoney - keyboards
Extra special guests;

Tom Constanten - keyboards (Bitter Wind In Tanganika, Blow Wind, If I Were President, Castro Street Blues, I Am A Dreamer, Attitude, Grape Escape Boogie)
Peter Lewis - guitar (Tear And A Smile)
Jerry Miller - guitar (Get Your Ass Up, Tear And A Smile, Castro Street Blues, Grape Escape Boogie), backing vocals (Castro Street Blues, I Am A Dreamer, Attitude, Grape Escape Boogie)
Bob Mosley - guitar, backing vocals (Bitter Wind In Tanganika, I Am A Dreamer, Attitude)
Don Stevenson - narration (I Am A Dreamer), backing vocals (Attitude)
Specials guests;

Dan Abernethy - guitar (Tear And A Smile, Castro Street Blues, Grape Escape Boogie)
Matt Brewer - trombone (Get Your Ass Up)
Grant Ewald - keyboards (Get Your Ass Up)
Hilton Farris - guitar (If I Were President)
Lynn Giles - drums (Goin' Home)
Guitar Gypsy - guitar (Pollution, Evrybody Knows, Attitude)
John Murphy III - steel guitar (I Am A Dreamer)
Miguel Ramirez - drums (Bitter Wind In Tanganika, Blow Wind, If I Were President)
The Remarks - background vocals (Not The Marrying Kind, Tear And A Smile, Blow Wind, Goin' Home)
George Rivas - keyboards (Bitter Wind In Tanganika)
Dave Sommers - saxophone (If I Were President)
Kenny Wickham - drums (Get Your Ass Up)
Gary Zimmerman - saxophone (Get Your Ass Up, Tear And A Smile), guitar (Not The Marrying Kind, Goin' Home)
Credits

Producer - Mark Lashley, Craig Juan
Engineer - George Rivas
Mixing - george Rivas, Mark Lashley
Digital editing, mastering - Ralf Lindner
Project coordinator - Mike Somavilla
Front cover artwork - Kevin Haapala, Lisa Zimmer
Album title - Lisa Zimmer
Cover artwork, design - Illa Schutte, Holthus Graphics, Asendorf
Liner notes - Mike Somavilla, Craig Juan, Monica Gilbert
All photos courtesy Grape Escape Archive except...
Photo of Tom Constanten - Laura Lakeway

Recorded between December 1989 and December 1994 at B Street Studios, San Mateo, CA
Mastered B Street Studios, San Mateo, CA

The credits in the CD booklet include a list of 'thanks to' which includes Tom Constanten.


Project Grape Escape is dedicated in loving memory to - John and Patricia Juan, Hilton Farris, Jerry Garcia, John Cipollina, Mike Bloomfield, Frank Zappa, Jan Spencer, Rich Montgomery, Red Thorne, John Parker and David Bradford