MOBY GRAPE: Same RARE UK A1/B1 1st FINGER PSYCH LP

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MOBY GRAPE: Same RARE UK A1/B1 1st FINGER PSYCH LP
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MOBY GRAPE  UK

Moby Grape

Label:  COLUMBIA  63090  A1 / B1
Grade: EX+ / EX(+)
Notes: MEGA RARE UK pressing with original inner sleeve

Moby Grape is the rock band Moby Grape's eponymous  1967 debut album. Coming from the San Francisco scene, their reputation quickly grew to immense proportions, leading to a bidding war and a contract with Columbia Records. Skip Spence, ex-drummer of Jefferson Airplane, traded his drum kit for guitar and, among the five band members, thirteen songs emerged.
Columbia chose to release ten of the thirteen songs on five singles: "Fall on You"/"Changes", "Sitting By the Window"/"Indifference" (2:46 edit), "8:05"/"Mister Blues", "Omaha"/"Someday" and "Hey Grandma"/Come in the Morning". The only single to chart was "Omaha".

Nevertheless, as Gene Sculatti and Davin Seay write in their book San Francisco Nights (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985; out of print), Moby Grape "remains one of the very few psychedelic masterpieces ever recorded." Justin Farrar considered that "it's no understatement to hail the group's 1967 debut as the ancestral link between psychedelia, country rock, glam, power pop and punk." In addition, the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide said their "debut LP is as fresh and exhilarating today as it was when it exploded out of San Francisco during 1967's summer of love." In 2003, the album was ranked number 121 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time., ahead of Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow (146), The Byrds' Greatest Hits (178), Buffalo Springfield Again (188), Grateful Dead's Live Dead (244), Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills (338), and The Doors' albums L.A. Woman (362) and Strange Days (407).

Noted rock critic Robert Christgau listed it as one of The 40 Essential Albums of 1967. As reviewed by Mark Deming, "Moby Grape is as refreshing today as it was upon first release, and if fate prevented the group from making a follow-up that was as consistently strong, for one brief shining moment Moby Grape proved to the world they were one of America's great bands. While history remembers the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane as being more important, the truth is neither group ever made an album quite this good."

In 2008, Skip Spence's song "Omaha" was listed as number 95 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". The song was described as follows: "On their best single, Jerry Miller, Peter Lewis and Skip Spence compete in a three-way guitar battle for two and a quarter red-hot minutes, each of them charging at Spence's song from different angles, no one yielding to anyone else."

On the front cover of the original release, Don Stevenson is "flipping the bird" (making an obscene gesture) on the washboard. It was airbrushed out on subsequent pressings, but the UK re-issue on Edsel/Demon restored the photo to its original state.
 
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SS Still Sealed
M The record itself is in mint condition with no surface marks or deterioration in sound quality. The cover and any extra items such as the lyric sheet, booklet or poster are in perfect condition.
M- Cover is nice and new looking with no ring wear. Near mint
EX+ Clean covers without ringwear or seamwear nice but not new. Vinyl will play perfect without skip
EX The cover might have slight wear and/or creasing. The record shows some signs of having been played, but there is very little lessening in sound quality
EX- Normal wear and tear on the cover or extra items, without any major defects, is acceptable.Cover may have medium overall wear or some ring wear. Vinyl has light visual marks. There may be light surface sound but displays no major deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and the occasional light scratch
VG+ The cover and contents suffer from folding, scuffing of edges, spine splits, discolouration, seam splits , ringwear, cover wear. The record has been played so much that the sound quality has noticeably deteriorated, perhaps with some distortion and mild scratches - still plays well
VG Cover is well worn, usually with considerable ring wear. Overall wear.LPs should be able to play without skipping or repeating, more noisy sound during quiet passages.

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