Moby Grape - 1974-04-16 - San Francisco, CA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

The Great American Music Hall

lineage:
low gen. reel (master or 1st gen. copy) from a former Moby Grape roadie > PCM Beta tape (recorded on Sony SL-HF900 with Sony PCM601ESD digital adaptor).

Transfer:
Sony SL-HF900 with Sony PCM601ESD (digital output) > Macintosh with Digidesign Audiomedia III card > Pro Tools (minor "nip and tuck" edits, normalization and tracking - no equalization or digital noise reduction) > AIFF > xACT (FLAC level 8 files with sector boundaries verified).

Jerry Miller - guitar, vocals
Peter Lewis - guitar, vocals
Bob Mosley - bass, vocals
Jeff Blackburn - guitar, vocals
Johnny Craviotto (aka "Johnny C") - drums, vocals
and special guest Wayne Goodwin - fiddle (where noted)

CD1 - first set - 37:18
01 [3:27] Get On Up [low levels for the first 18 seconds]
02 [5:07] Silver Wings
03 [4:08] Love Your Daddy
04 [3:00] Show No Mercy Hill
05 [4:15] How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
06 [3:47] Jesse James
07 [5:27] Ain't No Secret
08 [2:25] Perfect
09 [3:15] City Lights
10 [2:20] Gone Dead Train
11 [0:07] thanks and applause before set break

CD2 - second set - 63:42
01 [4:18] [cuts in] Thank All You People
02 [4:28] I Am A Dreamer
03 [2:30] What About Love?
04 [4:30] I'm Ready
05 [4:33] Pan American To New Orleans [with Wayne Goodwin - fiddle]
06 [5:45] Window Into My Soul
07 [0:51] Fall On You [false start]
08 [2:50] Fall On You
09 [3:47] A Deeper Mystery
10 [2:21] Truckin' Man
11 [5:33] Miller's Blues
12 [2:46] [cuts in] Goodbye My Lady
13 [4:47] Bottle Of Reds [with Wayne Goodwin - fiddle]
14 [5:53] Can't Be So Bad
15 [2:53] Gypsy Wedding
16 [1:49] thanks and applause before encore
17 [4:08] Going Down

This version of Moby Grape was the missing link between Moby Grape and The Ducks (Neil Young's short lived summer of 1977 Santa Cruz band that featured Young, Mosley, Blackburn and Johnny C). This is a decent quality soundboard recording though the mix is a bit unbalanced.