`    Well, I can add this. I was the Music Editor at the Berkeley Barb when the Grape's over-the-top coming out party was staged. (And I do mean staged.) Never seen anything like it, before or since. Every press person who came in the door that night was handed one of those ``obscene`` press kits. Each kit consisted of a small box  approximately 7x7x2 inches. The top of the box had a fuzzy velour imprint of the band's logo. Inside there were five singles, each in its own individualized picture sleeve (the LP cover art plus the A and B-side titles). I believe there was also a fancy booklet inside. Also in each box...a small bottle of wine!   It didn't stop there. As the band took the stage, 5000 purple orchids were tossed from the balcony onto the crowd below! Everyone, stoned or not, was pretty much blown away by that. But the orchids weren't much fun as the night progressed. As people walked on them they squished, eventually turning the dance floor into a slippery, slimy mess.    I don't recall how I reviewed the show at the time. I may have a tear sheet somewhere. I do recall the band sounded great, but the hype was completely insane.   Not mentioned on the main page, and definitely something that made the first LP cover memorable, was the infamous flipping of the bird on the washboard by Don Stevenson. When Columbia figured out what had sneaked past their art department, they frantically airbrushed it out. They may have recalled some of the original releases, too, to sanitize them (as Capitol had to do with 100,000 copies of the first Sons of Champlin album). In any case, LPs with the finger became highly prized.   Also missing from the timeline is a reformed Grape who played a gig at the Alibi Tavern in Kent, Washington circa 1979. I covered the show for the Daily Journal-American (Bellevue, WA). After the gig I was given a ``bootleg`` Grape LP on purple vinyl, which doesn't appear to be included in the discography.    `