Listen My Friends!: The Best Of [Remaster]

Performer: Moby Grape
Producer: David Rubinson; Bob Johnston; Bob Irwin (Reissue)
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Audio Remasterer: Bob Irwin. This often overlooked mid-1960s San Francisco band blended country, blues, boogie, and rock with pristine harmonies in a compelling and, at the time, unparalleled mix. The seeds of Moby Grape's premature demise were sown by their comparative music-business inexperience and the incompetence of their record label. Yet the well-assembled best-of, LISTEN MY FRIENDS! displays the band's remarkable assurance and breadth of musical imagination, from early cuts such as the country boogie of "Hey Grandma" and the vintage West Coast psychedelia of "Omaha," to the searing baroque boogie of "Can't Be So Bad" and the carefree harmonies of "Ooh Mama Ooh."

Uncut (p.109) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] combustible triple-threat guitars, rich, beatific harmonies, and strong songwriting..."

The myth surrounding San Francisco psych legends Moby Grape is largely based on their magnificent debut album and the cult status of their mercurial songwriter Skip Spence. Despite major label support, the bands early singles failed to cause a stir, yet those 10 well-crafted, deeply soulful songs were compiled for the band's brilliant self-titled debut album. The follow-up, WOW, charted but marked the departure of the enigmatic Spence; his ethereal composition "Seeing" was one of the highlights of the patchy MOBY GRAPE '69. Despite legal struggles over name rights, the band continued to record and tour in various lackluster reunion formations (though never with Spence) and under hybridized names into the 1980s. Spence died of lung cancer in 1999.

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