Peter Lewis tells a story of how Stephen "stole" a song from the Grape -- on his rare Peter Lewis with David West-Live From Bremen CD (if you EVER have the chance..get this one!).
Peter: "Ok, this next one is from our second album and it's called "Murder In My Heart For The Judge". But ...a little story about this...We used to be good friends with Buffalo Springfield and there's, like, Neil Young's new book so its documented in there, so its not just me blowing smoke up here...
...at some point when I first met Neil & steve and they came up looking for Skip Spence, cause he was in Moby Grape and was also the original drummer for jefferson airplane, and the day they showed up, we had this little place up in Marin county that was an old ferry boat that had beached and they turned it into a rock and roll club, and we had this place to ourselves and we played every night. Neil and steve had heard that Skip had a new band and and so they came up to see us cause they heard we were pretty good. So I saw them walking up the gang plank that first day, and I didn't know the Bufalo Springfield, I was more of a Byrds/Lovin Spoonful guy,
...or when I was playing in LA I was always playing at Gazzarri's and they were playing at the Whiskey I was always working,I heard they were good though. And then the two guys came walking up. For some reason I, just, Buffalo Springfield just went off in my head and I just knew who those guys were. And they turned out to be Neil Young & Stephen Stills.
We spent the whole day playing together, and they hung out for about a week and brought the rest of the band up there and started playing alternate sets with us at The Ark. Then They went back to LA, and when they came back to do a gig at the Avalon here Stephen came up to me and he said "hey man, we just did this song, and we realized it was two of your songs...but you know, is it cool?" And so, of course it was cool...!!
I mean it's a compliment right? ...and people think you're good. In those days it wasn't all this copyright stuff...right? It was just musicians trying to ...it's more of like, this little group of people that were tryin' to, like.. feed off of each other and be creative.
So anyway this is the song or one of the songs that Stephen..see if you remember this, man, see if you know what song that Stephen wrote (David-"...based on this")..I'm not even gonna tell you, ok?...ha ha!
Right, two, three, four..."
Murder In My Heart For The Judge..in other words at a gig in Michigan in 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7W2lSbqgFo
So share you favorite Grape & Buff tunes here! Guess it's all a part of the same music! Life that is...
