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Quicksilver Messenger Service

Quicksilver Messenger Service Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Jam Band / Psychedelic / Rock

    Location San Francisco, California, US

    Profile Views: 72171

    Last Login: 12/16/2007

    Member Since 2/3/2007

    Website http://quicksilvermessengerservice.com/

    Record Label Capitol Records

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    This is an unofficial site. .. In the late 1960s, Quicksilver Messenger Service occupied an unusual position in the pantheon of major San Francisco Bay Area psychedelic bands. Not that most of those acts weren't unusual, even in relation to each other. Part of what set Quicksilver apart from their peers, though, was that they were not so much singer-songwriters as they were virtuoso players and creative interpreters and stylists. They were not the greatest of vocalists or composers, although they did pen some sturdy folk-rock tunes. Their strengths lay in the ziplocked tightness of their playing and arrangements; their ability to whip up a psychedelic brew from a diverse pool of sources encompassing folk, blues, improvisational jazz, and even Spanish and classical guitar; and their inventive rearrangements of unexpected, even left-field, blues, R&B, folk, and jazz classics. .. .. .. .. ..Quicksilver Messenger Service - 1968.. .. .. .. .. ..Happy Trails - 1969.. .. .. .. .. ..Shady Grove - 1969.. .. .. .. .. ..Just For Love - 1970.. .. .. .. .. ..What About Me - 1970.. ..

  • Members

    Original Members: .. John Cipollina - Guitar .. Gary Duncan - Guitar, Vocals .. David Freiberg - Bass Guitar, Vocals and Viola .. Greg Elmore - Drums .. .. Jim Murray - Guitar, Vocals (1965-1967) .. Dino Valente - Guitar, Vocals .. Nicky Hopkins - Piano (1969-1974)

  • Influences

    Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Dave Brubeck, Bo Diddley, Smiley Lewis, Ray Charles, Mose Allison, Ennio Morricone.

  • Sounds Like

    Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Blue Cheer, The Grateful Dead. .. .. Folk, Blues, Improvisational Jazz, and even Spanish and Classical guitar. One of those 60's San Francisco Acid Rock bands. .. .. ..Monterey Pop Festival 1967.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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