A Conversation with Jerry Miller (continued)

PM: Aside from Skip's sad passing just before the millennium, can you tell me what the other guys of the original band are doing? Where is everybody?

JM: Well, Bob Mosely is down in Santa Cruz. He's got a nice place. He's got a nice wife named Connie.

PM: He plays a lot, still, right?

JM: Oh, yeah, he plays. We're Moby Grape'n. We're doing that Monterey Pop Festival.

PM: Oh, yeah. I saw that there was going to be a gig in Petaluma, CA, is that going to happen, at McNairs?

JM: Yeah, I hope so. I mean, The Grape, at times seems a bit squirrelly. [laughs]

PM: So what's Peter Lewis doing?

JM: Well, there you go.

[laughter]

PM: That's the $48,000 question.

JM: Yeah. Pete is doing quite well. He's down in Solvang. He's writing, he's got his music going.

PM: Is that a California town?

JM: Yes, it is. I think it's in the Santa Ynez Mountains, just up from Santa Barbara.

PM: So he's playing music, too.

JM: Oh, yeah. Well, we've been rehearsing.

PM: Oh, that's great.

JM: At Mosley's house, right near Santa Cruz.

PM: And is Don Stevenson playing? Or who's playing drums?

JM: I just talked to Don. Don is playing.

PM: Beautiful.

JM: Yeah, he's also doing his business, it's this time-share kind of thing. So he's been down in Mexico for a while.

PM: Do you know where he lives down in Mexico?

JM: Well, he's back now. He was down in Zihuatanejo, or somewhere.

PM: Oh, Zihuatanejo, that's a nice town.

JM: Oh, yeah, he travels. He spent the nasty winter down there, that sun of a gun.

PM: Oh, that's a hell of a nice town. You ever see the movie Shawshank Redemption?

JM: Oh, yeah.

PM: Well, that's where they end up in the end, Zihuatanejo.

JM: Oh, boy.

PM: That kind of made that town famous.

JM: That is nice.

PM: Have you seen the cool Moby Grape videos on Youtube? There are a lot of good ones. [There are links to those at the end of the interview.]

JM: No, I haven't. I'll have to do that.

PM: I saw one of a Michael Douglas show--

JM: Yeah, I got a copy of that show.

PM: --where he introduces you as "the Moby Grapes." That was hilarious.

JM: Yeah, that's funny. It's great.

PM: And Skip is really funny in that clip, he's such a ham.

JM: Yeah, what else is funny, too, is after we were done playing, Mike Douglas came over and he says, "Why you got to play so f****n' loud?"

[laughter]

JM: And that was nothing compared to what we could have done, Mike.

[laughter]

JM: Yeah, man. So Don is up in Canada now.

PM: Oh, really?

JM: Yeah, he lives up in Vancouver.

PM: Oh, yeah, what a place.

JM: Yeah, he has been living up in Whistler.

PM: Is that a Canadian town?

JM: Yeah, it's a beautiful ski area. People come there from all over the world.    continue

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