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Quicksilver Messenger Service is the debut studio album of Quicksilver Messenger Service, released in May 1968.The group were among the last of the original major San Francisco bands to secure a recording contract, which meant that the album appeared many months after the debut efforts of Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Country Joe and the Fish, Moby Grape, and Big Brother and the Holding ...
Quicksilver (1971) Comin' Thru (1972) Quicksilver is the sixth album by American psychedelic rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. Background.
Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. [3] The band achieved wide popularity in the San Francisco Bay Area and, through their recordings, [ 4 ] with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe, and several of their albums ranked in the Top 30 of the Billboard Pop charts.
"Fresh Air" is a 1970 song written by Gary Duncan with lyrics by Jesse Oris Farrow, the pen name of Chester William "Chet" Powers, Jr., who also used the stage name of Dino Valenti (it is only credited to Powers/Valenti, however). It was first recorded by the San Francisco-based band Quicksilver Messenger Service
However, David Freiberg's vocal presence and John Cipollina's idiosyncratic guitar stylings make the Quicksilver sound of the first two albums still apparent. Hopkins re-recorded the closing track, "Edward, The Mad Shirt Grinder", on his solo album The Tin Man Was a Dreamer, which features members of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles.
John Cipollina (August 24, 1943 – May 29, 1989) was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the prominent San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. After leaving Quicksilver he formed the band Copperhead, was a member of the San Francisco All Stars and later played with numerous other bands.
[1] [4] "Pride of Man" was the opening track on Quicksilver Messenger Service's eponymous 1968 debut album and was released as a single on the B-side of "Dino's Song"; [5] [6] Rolling Stone described this version as having been "carr[ied] off admirably". [7] Quicksilver Messenger Service regularly performed the song in concert. [1]
Quicksilver is a song, which became a hit for Bing Crosby in 1950. It was written by Eddie Pola , George Wyle and Irving Taylor . A composition of the same name by jazz pianist Horace Silver was first recorded in 1952 and has become most associated with him.