Artist: Bob Mosley (Moby Grape) Title Of Album: Bob Mosley Release Date: 1972 (CD 2005) Location: December 4, 1942, San Diego, California, U.S. Label: Wounded Bird Records (U.S.), WOU 2068 Genre:Hard Rock, Rock, Pop Quality: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz Length: 37:13 Tracks: 11 Total Size: 213 Mb WebSite:AllMusic
Bob Mosley с середины 90-х Без Определённого Места Жительства... James Robert Mosley вокалист, бас-гитарист, автор песен (в том числе и в группе Moby Grape) родился 4 декабря 1942 года в Paradise Valley, Клифорния. Подростком поиграл в нескольких малоизвестных "гаражных" группах The Misfits, The Strangers, и The Frantics. The Frantics в конечном итоге превратилась в Moby Grape, и в составе Bob Mosley, Peter Lewis, Skip Spence, Don Stevenson, и Jerry Miller группа записала блестящий альбом "Moby Grape", выпущенный Columbia в 1967 году. Благодаря бездарному менеджменту, плохой рекламе группа так и не нашла постоянной массовой аудитории. Так же плохо сказалось на состоянии группы психическое расстройсво двух её участников Skip Spence и Bob Mosley. Тем не менее группе удалось записать в оригинальном составе три альбома. После чего Spence и Mosley покинули группу. Mosley вступил в ряды Морской Пехоты, где у него диагностировали параноидальную шизофрению, после чего он был успешно комиссован из рядов вооружённых сил. В 1971 году он вернулся в Moby Grape, но лишь для того чтобы записать единственный альбом "20 Granite Creek". После выхода альбома Grape распались, а Bob Mosley выпустил свой первый сольник, вышедший в 1972 году на лейбле Reprise Records, и скромно озаглавленный - "Bob Mosley". В 1973 году ему присвоили статус "Ward Of The State of California". Насколько я понимаю - это связано с его болезнью и означает "Под Опекой Штата". В конце 70-х Mosley примкнул к группе The Ducks, аккомпанировавшей Neil Young. В 1989 году вышел "концертник" "Mosley Grape Live at Indigo Ranch". После чего он вместе с бывшими участниками группы Moby Grape - Miller, Stevenson, и Lewis - собирают группу The Melvilles (на тот момент они не имели права использовать название Moby Grape) и записывают альбом "Legendary Grape". Выпущен он был только на кассете в том же году, и считается бутлегом. В конце концов альбом был переиздан на CD с восемью бонус-треками в 2003 году на DIG Music. Начиная с 1989 года Moby Grape не раз воссоединялись и распадались. С середины 90-х Mosley оказался бездомным и спит под автострадой. Друзья переодически пытаются ему помочь, и он время от времени появляется в каком-либо их шоу, но похоже ему это не очень приходится по душе. И он предпочитает автостраду концертной площадке. Такой у него характер, да и болезнь, видимо, сказывается. Музыка, записанная в 70-х с участниками группы Buddy Holly "Crickets", была выпущена на CD под названием "Never Dreamed" в 1999 году немецким лейблом Taxim Records. (перевод мой и translate.google.com с сайта "allmusic.com; Artist Biography by Steve Leggett")
TrackList:
01. The Joker (03:41) 02. Gypsy Wedding (03:41) 03. 1245 Kearny (03:15) 04. Squaw Valley Nils (Hocked Soul) (03:10) 05. Let the Music Play (03:36) 06. Thanks (03:17) 07. Where Do the Birds Go (03:37) 08. Hand In Hand (03:03) 09. Gone Fishin' (03:22) 10. Nothing to Do (02:22) 11. So Many Troubles (04:04)
Singer/songwriter and bassist James Robert Mosley was born December 4, 1942, in Paradise Valley, CA, and spent his teens playing in a number of garage combos, including the Misfits, the Strangers, and the Frantics. The Frantics eventually morphed into Moby Grape, and with a lineup of Bob Mosley, Peter Lewis, Skip Spence, Don Stevenson, and Jerry Miller, the band recorded the brilliant but ill-fated Moby Grape album, released by Columbia in 1967. If ever a band was snake-bitten, it was Moby Grape, and thanks to backfiring publicity stunts, poor management, and record company snafus, the band never found a steady mass audience. It didn't help, either, that at least two of the members -- Spence and Mosley -- begin to show sings of mental disorder. Moby Grape managed to record two more albums with its original configuration participating before Spence and then Mosley left the band. In 1969 Mosley joined the U.S. Marines, making it through basic training, only to be diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic (a mental condition that also afflicted Skip Spence) and was discharged from the Marines nine months later. He rejoined Grape for 1971's 20 Granite Creek album, but the group splintered after the album was completed. Mosley next signed with Reprise Records and his solo album, Bob Mosley, was released in 1972. By 1973 Mosley was listed as a ward of the State of California. He resurfaced in the late '70s as a member of the Ducks, who backed Neil Young on a series of impromptu bar gigs around Santa Cruz in 1977. In 1989 the odd Live at Indigo Ranch by Mosley Grape was released, and Mosley joined former Grape members Miller, Stevenson, and Lewis as the Melvilles (they weren't legally allowed to use the name Moby Grape at this point) to record Legendary Grape, which was released on cassette that same year, and has floated around as a bootleg ever since. Eventually the album was reissued on CD with eight bonus tracks in 2003 by DIG Music. Moby Grape has reunited in different configurations (and under a variety of names) several times for shows and other projects over the years, sometimes with Mosley and sometimes without him. A soulful singer whose songs deftly bridged the gap between country and blues, Mosley contributed "Mr. Blues," "Bitter Wind," "Rose Colored Eyes," "Trucking Man," "Hoochie," "Lazy Me," "Come in the Morning," and other solid songs to the Grape canon in the early years. By the mid-'90s he was homeless, sleeping under a freeway overpass in San Diego. Other members of Moby Grape have attempted at various times to help Mosley, and he still occasionally surfaces to play a show, but he appears to prefer life on the street, either by design or as a result of his illness. An album he recorded in the 1970s with members of Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets, was released as Never Dreamed in 1999 by the German label Taxim Records. (allmusic.com; Artist Biography by Steve Leggett)
Bob Mosley I started on acoustic guitar at fourteen years of age and was playing electric guitar by the time I was sixteen. My first band, called the Misfits, I formed myself in 1964 . We opened for the Rolling Stones that same year in San Diego, California where I was living. In 1965 I joined with Joel Scott HIll and Johnny Barbata to play the San Francisco bay area clubs where I also played some dates with the Vejtables. In 1966 Moby Grape was formed and we have been working on and off together thru the years. In 1996 Peter Lewis picked me up along the side of a San Diego freeway where I was living, to tell me a ruling by San Francisco Judge Garcia gave Moby Grape their name back. I was ready to go to work again. I started this project recording acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass and vocals up in Marin County close to where I had recently moved. Taxim was interested in my project and since the first tracks were laid, I got in touch with J.P. Whitecloud, producer of "Never Dreamed", a recording which was done with James Burton and the Crickets released in 1999 on Taxim. Prairie Sun Studio is where this was finished by adding Dale Ockermon from the Doobie Brothers on keyboards and slide guitar. I called old friend James Preston of the Sons of Champlin to add the drums. Thank you Hans and JP and especially to my family for your support and love. (Bob Mosley 2005)
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