RE: (TV) Moby Grape

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@greenmarketplace.com>]

Ah, thanks for the info on the Grape. I'm not familiar with the 
material on _Wow!_ but I have heard the stories.  (I've been 
listening to _Oar_, too, which is like proto-Jandek.)

Yeah, I've got to agree about success--I tend toward searching out 
the nonobvious and obscure.  It's not a "I'm more obscure than you, 
nyah nyah" thing, but more like finding buried treasure--something 
that speaks deeply to you from a previously unknown place.  OTOH, 
it's a sad thing when someone who's scaled serious artistic heights, 
or opens your eyes and ears, is left to languish on the margins, or 
worse.

-Maurice

At 11:34 AM -0800 1/7/00, Eric Gregory wrote:
> jerry miller played most of the verlaineish "lead" lines...peter lewis did
> alotta the picking & skip spence the bulk of the "rhythm" guitar.
> yr right...their debut is a massive record.
> another good reason they didn't "make" it was cos they kinda fucked things
> up for themselves...spence broke down, fame went to all their heads & the
> material for their 2nd record just wasn't up to the heights of the 1st.
> there are great songs peppered thruout their entire "career" tho.
>
> i suppose the fact that most of my "heroes" are commercial failures doesn't
> really bother me.
> you can argue why so & so didn't make it, but i've always found the shit
> that spoke the harshest, most sublime truths was the shit most of the world
> didn't wanna hear.
> no doubt it's a great thing to make a living off yr "art", but it ain't the
> important thing.
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