Mark Tate wrote:
>The joke is that Moby Grape's first album was great, but their 
>follow up Wow was horrible. That's my interpretation.

As a poor sap who bought Wow/Grape Jam - a two lp set each with 
it's own jacket - on it's release date some years previous, 
horrible might be too harsh, but close. I liked the leadoff cut
"Murder In The Heart For the Judge", and "He" (I think?) which
contained outstanding guitar work, but the downhill slope was 
more like a cliff. Worst was the awful 78-rpm cut with the evil 
Arthur Godfry, where you have to move the needle over and 
switch the speed to play (thankfully ;>). This could have only
been a Skip Spence deal, right? And Grape Jam was garbage, even
worse that the Super Session drivel of Stills/Kooper/Bloomfield - 
gosh, I forgot how much I hated that blues jam drudge.

Wow *did" have an awesome cover, tho Bo Diddley once cautioned 
about judging covers. 

 - mc