Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band, formed in 1965 in San Francisco. Of all the bands that came out of the San Francisco area during the late 60s, Quicksilver Messenger Service typified the style, attitude and sound of that era. Dogged by early personnel changes, the original band in 1964 comprised of vocalist Dino Valenti, guitarist John Cipollina, David Freiberg on bass and vocals, Jim Murray on vocals and harmonica, and drummer Casey Sonoban. Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence also spent a brief time with the band, before being whisked off to join Jefferson Airplane as their drummer.
Significant in Quicksilver’s development was the almost immediate arrest and imprisonment of Valenti for a drugs offence. He did not rejoin the band until late 1969. In 1965, the line-up was strengthened by the arrival of guitarist Gary Duncan and, replacing Sonoban, Greg Elmore.
They debuted at the end of ‘65 and played around the Bay Area and then the West Coast for the next two years, building up a large following, but resisting offers to record that had been taken up by such San Francisco acid-rock colleagues as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead.
Quicksilver finally signed to Capitol toward the end of 1967 and recorded their self-titled debut album in 1968. Jim Murray departed soon after their well-received appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
The quartet of Cipollina, Duncan, Elmore and Freiberg recorded the first two albums; both were important in the development of San Francisco rock music, as the twin lead guitars of Cipollina and Duncan made them almost unique. The second collection, “Happy Trails”, is now regarded as a classic. George Hunter and his Globe Propaganda company were responsible for some of the finest album covers of the 60s and Happy Trails is probably their greatest work. The live music within showed a spontaneity that the band were never able to recapture on subsequent recordings. The side-long suite of Bo Diddley’s ‘Who Do You Love’ has some incredible dynamics and extraordinary interplay between the twin guitarists.
Quicksilver Messenger Service is the debut album of Quicksilver Messenger Service, released in 1968.
Although this was Quicksilver Messenger Service's first album, they had already produced two songs for the soundtrack of the 1968 movie Revolution. Noted for its instrumental passages (most notably in "Gold and Silver" and "The Fool"), this album displays the group's jam sound amidst lighter pop-oriented songs. Unlike contemporaries such as the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver's jams were highly planned as can be heard by comparing the studio versions of songs with those from bootleg live performances.
There are three covers and three band compositions on the album, including the 12-minute closer "The Fool." "Pride of Man" was written by Hamilton Camp, "It's Been Too Long" by producer Nick Gravenites, and "Dino's Song" by founding member Dino Valenti who was at that time in prison due to marijuana-related offenses.
- John Cipollina - Lead Guitar
- Gary Duncan - Guitar, Vocals
- David Freiberg - Bass Guitar, Vocals, Viola
- Greg Elmore - Drums
Length / Продолжительность: 00:31:29
Tracks / Треклист:
01. Pride Of Man (04:06)
02. Light Your Windows (02:39)
03. Dino's Song (03:07)
04. Gold And Silver (06:44)
05. It's Been Too Long (02:56)
06. The Fool (12:10)
Happy Trails is the second album of the American band Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Happy Trails consists mainly of a performance cover of Bo Diddley's - aka Ellas McDaniel - "Who Do You Love?" spread out over 25 minutes. The live portions of the album were recorded at the Fillmore East and at the Fillmore West.
The second half of the album consists of an almost continuous suite. Beginning with another Bo Diddley song ("Mona"), guitarist Gary Duncan's "Maiden of the Cancer Moon" follows and the album closes with "Calvary", which manifested itself during a studio acid trip. As a coda, the band sing the theme tune from Roy Rogers' western television show, which lends its title to the album.
The record was released by Capitol records in stereo.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 189 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The song "Mona" was ranked number 88 on the list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs also of Rolling Stone.
- John Cipollina - Guitar and vocals
- Gary Duncan - Guitar and vocals
- Greg Elmore - Drums
- David Freiberg - Bass, vocals, violin
Length / Продолжительность: 00:50:26
Tracks / Треклист:
01. Who Do You Love - Part 1 (03:32)
02. When You Love (05:30)
03. Where You Love (06:00)
04. How You Love (02:40)
05. Which Do You Love (03:26)
06. Who Do You Love - Part 2 (03:21)
07. Mona (06:53)
08. Maiden of the Cancer Moon (03:07)
09. Calvary (13:25)
10. Happy Trails (00:47)
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