{"id":20080,"date":"2013-09-20T15:20:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T19:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20080"},"modified":"2013-09-20T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T19:37:35","slug":"had-the-band-stuck-together-longer-could-moby-grape-actually-have-been-worse-or-better-than-jefferson-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/had-the-band-stuck-together-longer-could-moby-grape-actually-have-been-worse-or-better-than-jefferson-airplane\/","title":{"rendered":"Had the Band Stuck Together Longer, Could Moby Grape Actually Have Been Worse (or Better) Than Jefferson Airplane?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-r6eGG6Y-zs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>I know the first Moby Grape album and like it enough, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever heard a lick of their next album. (Or a third album, if one exists.) I&#8217;ve never even seen a second Moby Grape album in anyone&#8217;s collection.<\/p>\n<p>The Jefferson Airplane comparison is appropriate, right? The bands had a connection through Skip Spence, who I believe started at the Airplane&#8217;s drummer. They probably drank from the same Electric Kool-Aid and traded underwear and ponchos, as part of that San Francisco scene. Is someone&#8217;s mic turned off on this performance of &#8220;Omaha,&#8221; or is the band not bothering to sing the lead vocal that responds to the &#8220;Listen my friends&#8221; chant? Their version of the next song (the title is a numeric time of day, right?) is fine, but it may have been a good thing that Moby Grape didn&#8217;t have the staying power of Jefferson Airplane. Or maybe you think it&#8217;s a shame they didn&#8217;t reach the heights of Airplane performances, like the following:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D3JvyvgPtN4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<div id=\"polls-350\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_350\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/blogs\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_350_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"8b66d2be15\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If Moby Grape had stuck together longer would they have been better or worse than Jefferson Airplane?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-350-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1372\" name=\"poll_350\" value=\"1372\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1372\">Better, but not as good as \"Miracles\"-era Jefferson Starship.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1370\" name=\"poll_350\" value=\"1370\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1370\">Better.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1373\" name=\"poll_350\" value=\"1373\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1373\">Worse, but not as bad as Starship.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1371\" name=\"poll_350\" value=\"1371\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1371\">Worse.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(350);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(350); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-350-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know the first Moby Grape album and like it enough, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever heard a lick of their next album. (Or a third album, if one exists.) I&#8217;ve never even seen a second Moby Grape album in anyone&#8217;s collection. The Jefferson Airplane comparison is appropriate, right? The bands had a connection <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/had-the-band-stuck-together-longer-could-moby-grape-actually-have-been-worse-or-better-than-jefferson-airplane\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[39,858],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}