QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE

So for some reason (I think it was Dino Valenti's birthday or something . . . . ) I was checking out the reformed Quicksilver Messenger Service live at Winterland 1975 in San Francisco and admiring Dino Valenti's vocals and admiring the guitar work and ruminating as to how good they were as contemporaries of many similar SF bands like the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and Jefferson Airplane even Country Joe and The Fish. These guys could smoke it up! Three great guitarists actually who I had forgotten how good they were and check out Michael Lewis here (not Nicky Hopkins) on keyboards and ARP synth. If you listen to just one track try 'Fresh Air' such a classic song and reminds me of Spirit and 'Fresh Garbage' too! 




Fresh Air


Who Do You Love



In 1975, original members Greg Elmore, Gary Duncan, Dave Freiberg, John Cipollina, and Dino Valenti reunited for the album, "Solid Silver" and the Winterland Ballroom concert. By this time Freiberg was a member of Jefferson Starship.

Line-Up: March 1975 Winterland Ballroom San Francisco

Gary Duncan - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion
Dino Valenti - guitar, vocals
John Cipollina - guitar, vocals
Michael Lewis - keyboards, ARP synthesiser, 
Skip Olsen - bass
Greg Elmore - drums, percussion


check out these pages:

http://www.mjckeh.demon.co.uk/jc/q-det4.htm

http://www.penncen.com/quicksilver/

https://concerts.fandom.com/wiki/Quicksilver_Messenger_Service