...and this is, in fact, the best news I've heard all year.
5 CLASSIC MOBY GRAPE ALBUMS REISSUED ON OCTOBER 9
Moby Grape, the three-guitar/five-man vocal-harmony rock 'n' roll juggernaut
who epitomized the "Summer of Love" San Francisco scene, will have its
classic Columbia Records catalog restored to print by Sundazed Music on
October 9. The critically-lauded five albums that Bob Mosley, Skip Spence,
Jerry Miller, Peter Lewis and Don Stevenson cut for Columbia from 1967-69
will get the deluxe treatment from Sundazed. Moby Grape's self-titled debut, Wow, Grape Jam, Moby Grape '69 and Truly Fine Citizen will be made available as remastered, first-time-ever compact disc reissues, complete with bonus tracks, rare photos and informative liner notes. Sundazed will also release exact replicas of the original 12-inch vinyl versions of Moby Grape, Wow, Grape Jam and Moby Grape '69.
Seriously, folks, three of those albums are quintessential American music, and just about as good as pop/rock gets. Plus if they're on Sundazed, I guarantee the reissues will be done right. Get over to the Sundazed website and have a look while we're waiting.
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Hey, Steverino, you realize yesterday was the 36th anniversary of the formation of one of the all-time great power pop bands?
Yes, I'm talking about... Wings!
i think this is great, but...
if you listen to the production on the (original vinyl) first Moby Grape album--which contains btw some of the best rock songs ever e.g. Omaha, Hey Grandma, in fact every single one of them--it's extremely tinny, presence-free and dimensionless. In all fairness, it was recorded before Sgt. Pepper was released to the public, and so reflects cheesier production values... the mono 45s are actually a little better, but not much.
so it would be even better if they'd remix and digitally remaster the vinyl versions too, since that's all i listen to...
Sundaxed vinyl is usually really good. I wonder if they tweaked these releases? Anyone know?
Trey
I was actually lucky enough to be invited to a mastering session for the Moby Grape stuff in its initial release in the early 90s -- a very interesting story, which I will post on when this stuff comes out.
Lemme just say that Bob Irwin, who did the mastering then and now runs Sundazed (and has done pretty much every major Sony reissue in the last fifteen years -- all the Byrds albums, Spirit, Sly and the Family Stone, and on and on) -- is the best. If he did it, it's not getting any better.
And I've got some stories....
Can't wait to hear them. I have some of their Byrds records, and a few more, and I enjoy them a lot.
When I win the lottery, I shall buy their catalogue.
Trey
Here's
Some of that "mash-up" stuff so popular with the kids these days...
Kinda fucked up the set-up, but the link's intact, so what the hell...
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