Editing Moby Grape (section)

===1990s–2000s===
The debut album and ''Wow/Grape Jam'' were first released on CD during the late 1980s by the [[San Francisco Sound Records|San Francisco Sound]] label, a company owned by their former manager, Matthew Katz. These releases suffer from mediocre sound and poor quality packaging. It is also contended that Moby Grape has never been properly compensated for recordings released by this label. The double CD 1993 [[Legacy Recordings]] compilation ''Vintage: The Very Best of Moby Grape'' includes their entire first album and most of ''Moby Grape '69'', selected tracks from ''Wow'' and ''Truly Fine Citizen'', as well as studio outtakes and alternate versions, in much better quality.<ref name="Larkin"/> This compilation attracted new attention to the band and helped introduce their music to a new audience. In 1994, the group members commenced an action against Matthew Katz, [[Columbia Records]] and parent company [[Sony Music]], seeking to have the settlement overturned. This settlement from 1973 meant that the group members would receive no royalties whatsoever from ''Vintage''.

The band had folded again in 1991 due to the deteriorating emotional state of Bob Mosley; who ultimately ended up being homeless in San Diego.<ref name="Larkin"/> This led Lewis, Miller, and Stevenson to regroup with Mosley and reform the band in 1996 as a means to help him resolve his problems; with health problems preventing Skip Spence from also joining the band.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17498799|title=Moby Grape Just Can't Catch a Break|website=Npr.org|access-date=September 7, 2019}}</ref><ref>Nickey Baxter, [http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/08.08.96/grape-9632.html Raisin Band] MetroActive, August 8, 1996.</ref> Spence lived in a residential care facility in northern California, and despite an extended period of homelessness and suffering from mental illness, there was a marked improvement in his domestic life in his later years before he died from lung cancer in 1999, two days before his 53rd birthday.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|url=https://ew.com/article/1994/03/04/whats-eating-moby-grape/|title=What's eating Moby Grape?|date=March 4, 1994}}</ref>