Like this a lot - Omaha not so much, a note for note recreation of the original, I can always just listen to that. But Arwen brings a different flavor to Come in the Morning with her vocal and the backing vocal arrangement and the slightly slower tempo. The songs from the first album are so strong I’m amazed they haven’t been covered by more artists. Even with radically different arrangements the songwriting would shine through.
Nope, there are at least 2 of us. I think Wow is great and not a "sophomore slump" at all. I consider Grape Jam part of the album, and I love those long jams, especially the one that reveals Mike Bloomfield as a not half bad blues piano player.
WOW! is definitely a great effort and I also love Grape Jam...yes, it is different, but what a tasty JAM!
I like Wow but the outtakes reveal some very bad choices on the part of Rubinson, who could have put together a much stronger album with the material he had. Grape Jam - don’t get me started on how wrong that album went. On a jam album, wouldn’t you expect Jerry to cut loose on lead guitar? Yet he lays back and never takes off on the Al Kooper piano jam (and Al is NOT good on piano, very repetitious and boring) and only in brief bursts on the Bloomfield track. The best of the bunch is Boysenberry Jam with Skip on piano where Jerry brings it. I prefer Grape Jam #2 to the rest of the official album, again with Skip on piano, because the soloing is better. Marmalade should have been edited down to about 7 minutes to just the best stuff. And Bag’s groove has an incredible jazz guitar solo by Jerry that ranks with his best. Again, Rubinson’s head was not in the right place when he put together these two albums.
Speaking of Hey Grandma, here’s a BBC recording of the song by the Move - it was also recorded for their first album.
Yes Cheap Trick are big fans of the Move and there’s a YouTube video of Roy Wood performing with them.
So what happened to the song "Someday" between the time the Frantics released it and when Moby Grape released it to earn Skip Spence a songwriting credit?
Arwen, by Arwen Lewis Named after Tolkien's character (the dark haired Elf, beautiful Arwen), Arwen's talent stands on her own tho' her decision to cover all of the Grape's debut album is a brave one with a stunning result. Enjoy! Arwen Lewis is a performance and recording musician, singer & songwriter from California. Her debut album "Arwen" is a collection of psychedelia-tinged Rock and Roll, Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Country Rock, and Jazz Rock, and a collection of classic songs written by the 1960's San Francisco band Moby Grape. "Arwen" was released in the Autumn of 2015. Arwen Lewis
track 1) Omaha Great opening tribute to her pop and the Grape. Righteous. Please note: All tracks below are shared by Arwen, on youtube. Notes from Bandcamp: This is the leading track from the album "Arwen" . A collection of songs recorded by Arwen Lewis that were originally written and recorded by the band Moby Grape (Skip Spence Peter Lewis Bob Mosley Jerry Miller and Don Stevenson). United in San Francisco, the result was a musical chemistry that created the material for this album and much more.. This song is written by Skip Spence and its title is taken from, as Skip explained, The meditation "OMMM....., and the discovery, AHA!!!!!
track 2) Come In The Morning Arwen's personal style & talent shines here...fantastic. Dad Peter on the opening. A happy, live in the moment song written by Bob Mosely, the great vocalist and bass player from the band Moby Grape recorded by Arwen Lewis For the album"Arwen"
track 3) Sittin' By The Window A favorite Grape song that Arwen interprets perfectly. Love her! Beautiful song originally recorded by Moby Grape. Here Arwen adds her wonderfully honest take on this gorgeous song written by Peter Lewis. -Bandcamp Sittin' By The Window, by Arwen Lewis
Arwen’s is the only album that I bought (great vinyl pressing) and received a note from the artist thanking me.
"Someday" Miller, Stevenson, Spence We can only assume that he contributed enough to the creative reinterpretation on the Grape debut that Miller & Stevenson decided to give Skip co-songwriting credit.
