Quicksilver Messenger Service
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Quicksilver Messenger Service: Solid Silver
Review by Andy Childs, ZigZag, February 1976
WELL, THE GREAT name of Quicksilver Messenger Service is resurrected yet again, this time with perhaps more credibility than on previous occasions. A sticker on ...
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Quicksilver's John Cipollina (1984)
Interview by Gene Sculatti, Davin Seay, Rock's Backpages Audio, June 1984
Cipollina looks back on his childhood and youth, falling in love with the electric guitar and starting his first bands; meeting Dino Valenti and the formation of Quicksilver Messenger Service; the emergence of hippies, and the early Fillmore scene; hanging out with the Charlatans; signing to Capitol, and their first recordings; the evolution of psychedelic rock, and the brotherhood of the San Francisco bands.
File format: mp3; file size: 91.5mb, interview length: 1h 35' 21" sound quality: ***
List of articles in the library by date
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 18 August 1966
Some Real Flying In the Fillmore ...
San Francisco: The Flourishing Underground
Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 2 March 1967
SAN FRANCISCO — Forget the cable cars; skip Chinatown and the Golden Gate; don't bother about the topless mother of eight. ...
Monterey Pop Festival: The Hip Homunculus
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 29 June 1967
"The West is the best: Get here and we'll do the rest!" — The Doors ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Quicksilver Messenger Service (Capitol)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
YUMMY YUMMY: Quicksilver Messenger Service, yet another highly respected San Francisco group, are really too much. We've heard their name ever since the very beginning ...
Report by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 24 November 1968
SAN FRANCISCO — In the heady first days of the "San Francisco Sound," someone dubbed the city the "Liverpool of the USA." The title, though ...
New albums from Sly & the Family Stone, Quicksilver et al
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 26 July 1969
New Sly & Family Stone LP begins where other R&B LP's leave off ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Happy Trails (Capitol)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 26 July 1969
INTROSPECTIVE exploration of themes is the general idea on this album from one of America's top underground groups. ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 26 January 1970
Quicksilver Group Brings New Pianist To Fillmore East ...
Quicksilver Does A Quickchange
Retrospective and Interview by Lenny Kaye, Circus, March 1970
ON THE NEW Year's Eve separating 1968 and its successor, the Quicksilver Messenger Service played a farewell concert at Fillmore West. Looking back at the ...
Van Morrison, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Brinsley Schwartz: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 10 April 1970
I WAS ON that New York trip last weekend, too. My brief was to listen to the music. I have to report that as soon ...
Quicksilver, Van Morrison, Brinsley Schwarz: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, Billboard, 18 April 1970
BRINSLEY SCHWARZ is an unknown British group that aroused interest because over 100 U.K. journalists braved a 12-hour trouble beset trip from London to spend ...
Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 6 October 1970
Rock Triumvirate Thrills 6000 Fans ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service: What About Me (Capitol)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Rolling Stone, 18 February 1971
QUICKSILVER displayed acute weaknesses on their previous album and they remain very much in evidence on What About Me. Though the group has polished up ...
Nicky Hopkins: Have Piano, Will Travel
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 3 April 1971
Michael Watts talks to sessionman supreme NICKY HOPKINS ...
Profile by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, April 1972
THE ONCE-FAMOUS logo, "May the Baby Jesus Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind," has been supplanted by an outsized plastic marquee proclaiming ‘Summer of ...
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Melody Maker, 27 May 1972
Loraine Alterman in New York previews Fillmore, the film about America's legendary rock centre... and talks to its star, super-impresario Bill Graham ...
Quicksilver Messenger service: Comin' Thru
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 8 June 1972
DINO VALENTI had a pretty good niche in history carved out for a while: he wrote (or at least claimed to have written) 'Hey Joe', ...
Woodstock Remembered: KGB stages a rock festival
Report by Steven Rosen, Los Angeles Free Press, November 1972
SUNDAY’S KGB "Charity Ball" was important for one reason: the concert proved that people in large numbers can still come together for an event and ...
Quicksilver: Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Rock, 6 November 1972
ACCORDING TO LEAD guitarist Gary Duncan, Quicksilver is going through a "transitory period," mainly because of all the trouble they've been having with their label. ...
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 7 June 1975
JOHN CIPOLLINA, he's the real thing. Smallish, wiry, hair tied back, nicotine stains up to his elbow and the confident loquaciousness of a man who ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Solid Silver
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 14 February 1976
YOU MAY REMEMBER Quicksilver Messenger Service as one of the most enigmatic West Coast bands from the acid-soaked sixties, and not just because they never ...
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 23 August 1990
"My eyes were opened. There's a new world and a new society and a new spirit." ...
School of Rock: Monterey to Altamont
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, 2008
BETWEEN 1966 and 1970, there was a seismic change in British and American pop. Within a few short years "pop" became "rock", and teenagers who'd ...
Ken Mansfield on Capitol Records and the Beatles
Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 2015
INTERVIEWER'S NOTE: Ken Mansfield is a former Capitol executive and was the U.S. Manager of Apple Records. He was on the rooftop at Savile Row ...
Obituary by Tony Burke, Record Collector, September 2019
GARY DUNCAN, guitarist and vocalist of the San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service, died on June 29 at the age of 72 after suffering from a ...
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