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Moby Grape — Sitting By The Window
Album: Moby Grape
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Released: 1968
Length: 2:41
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I was sitting by the window
Watchin' for the rain
The reflection of your picture
Against my window pane

But just the same
I'm playin' my game
And I guess you're playin' it too
Go ahead and play it on through

The times we had together
It was sunny every day
Now it's cloudy every morning
And it stays that way all day

But just the same
I'm playin' my game
And I guess you're playin' it too
Go ahead and play it on through

I was sitting by the window
Watchin' for the rain
I thought you were beside me
Just like before the rain

But just the same
I'm playin' my game
And I guess you're playin' it too
Go ahead and play it on through
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My brother bought the LP in '68 when it first came out.  I remember him  and his buddies all stoked as they figured out the record company had edited the picture.  They had painted out the guys middle finger on the washboard.  
Thanks for the memory RP.  Hadn't thought of that in, oh, maybe 54 years.
 WonderLizard wrote:

I had this in the car CD player last week. Incredible album—tho' this is one of its odder cuts, uncharacteristically hippie-dippie. Contrast with, for instance, "Hey, Grandma!", "Omaha", and "805." Great album.

Edit re Bill's post-track commentary. This wasn't a San Francisco band per se. Skip Spence was the only indigenous musician, having been Jefferson Airplane's original drummer. The rest were highly talented ringers from Seattle and Southern California brought in by entrepreneur/hustler Matthew Katz for the expressed purpose of making a killer, money-making album, which they did.

Two ancillary points. First, no, not all the "San Francisco" bands of that era (ca. 1966-70) were indigenous. The Steve Miller Band and Sir Douglas Quintet were from Texas; The Youngbloods from New York; and the Butterfield Blues Band from Chicago. Second, regardless of their manufactured pedigree and subsequent crash-and-burn, Moby Grape produced one hellacious album. Only the truly xenophobic—yes, even hippies acted very strangely at times (an understatement, no?)—objected to the Grape's origins. The music was simply too good.



and Carlos Santana from TJ
OK, Jeff Airplane and early Dead and others in San Fran, who was emulating whom? 
 toterola wrote:
That album cover is a class picture of the Citibank Board of Directors! {#Drunk}

Good ol' hippy sh*t! Those were the days! Peace!

"In days of old,
when pot was gold,
and we'd never heard of disco,
we shook our behinds,
and blew our minds,
and trucked on out to Frisco!"
 
Cheers toterola!!!  : )
 toterola wrote:
That album cover is a class picture of the Citibank Board of Directors! {#Drunk}

Good ol' hippy sh*t! Those were the days! Peace!

"In days of old,
when pot was gold,
and we'd never heard of disco,
we shook our behinds,
and blew our minds,
and trucked on out to Frisco!"

 
{#Lol} {#Daisy} Power!
Ouch.
That album cover is a class picture of the Citibank Board of Directors! {#Drunk}

Good ol' hippy sh*t! Those were the days! Peace!

"In days of old,
when pot was gold,
and we'd never heard of disco,
we shook our behinds,
and blew our minds,
and trucked on out to Frisco!"

 E_A_D_G wrote:
'Bout time for some Grape!. 8:05 gotta be next.
 
8:05 is the best!

man that song did really suck
Jesus. That sure sucked.
Kind of has a Tim Buckley ring to it?
I had this in the car CD player last week. Incredible album—tho' this is one of its odder cuts, uncharacteristically hippie-dippie. Contrast with, for instance, "Hey, Grandma!", "Omaha", and "805." Great album.

Edit re Bill's post-track commentary. This wasn't a San Francisco band per se. Skip Spence was the only indigenous musician, having been Jefferson Airplane's original drummer. The rest were highly talented ringers from Seattle and Southern California brought in by entrepreneur/hustler Matthew Katz for the expressed purpose of making a killer, money-making album, which they did.

Two ancillary points. First, no, not all the "San Francisco" bands of that era (ca. 1966-70) were indigenous. The Steve Miller Band and Sir Douglas Quintet were from Texas; The Youngbloods from New York; and the Butterfield Blues Band from Chicago. Second, regardless of their manufactured pedigree and subsequent crash-and-burn, Moby Grape produced one hellacious album. Only the truly xenophobic—yes, even hippies acted very strangely at times (an understatement, no?)—objected to the Grape's origins. The music was simply too good.

e-you! icky.
jadewahoo wrote:
So good to hear, and to hear how it has held its ground as an enjoyable listen.

esotericderek wrote:

I'm not sure you and I are experienceing the same reality.




You are right... we are not. Mine is an extension of my own values and history, preferences and perspectives. {#Meditate}
Yours is, well, yours. I like mine better {#Jump}


Wow! a blast from the past. Nice! I used to listen to Captain Nemo from a different album-need to find it and dust it off.
esotericderek wrote:
Um....Barnie's brother, Barnacle?
Very good.
It has been at least 40 years since I've heard anything by Moby Grape on anything besides my own record player.
jadewahoo wrote:
So good to hear, and to hear how it has held its ground as an enjoyable listen.
I'm not sure you and I are experienceing the same reality.
Sublime seminal SF vibe. Xlnt!
A seminal song of my youth. So good to hear, and to hear how it has held its ground as an enjoyable listen.
driver8 wrote:
what's big and purple and lives inthe ocean?
Um....Barnie's brother, Barnacle?
driver8 wrote:
what's big and purple and lives inthe ocean?
I dunno, what?
what's big and purple and lives inthe ocean?
'Bout time for some Grape!. 8:05 gotta be next.