Funkalicious Friday: Quicksilver Messenger Service

It was Valente who organized the group.I can remember everything Dino said. We were all going to have wireless guitars. We were going to have leather jackets made with hooks that we could hook these wireless instruments right into. And we were gonna have these chicks, backup rhythm sections that were gonna dress like American Indians with real short little dresses on and they were gonna have tambourines and the clappers in the tambourines were going to be silver coins. And I’m sitting there going, “This guy is gonna happen and we’re gonna set the world on its ear.”

From Monterey

Quicksilver Messenger Service was one of San Francisco’s original psychedelic bands of the late 1960s. Essentially a jam band, their early albums and live shows contributed to some of the best instrumental jams of the period. They were popular around the Bay Area and achieved international recognition among devotees of the psychedelic sound, but they did not reach the broader popularity enjoyed by their San Francisco contemporaries, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, and others. Their first album charted at 63 and their next four albums charted in the top 30 of the billboard Pop Albums charts.

LOUD!!!

And for all you annoying bastiges who keep asking Where’s my flying car….”

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    • nocatz on October 27, 2007 at 03:21

    ‘Fresh Air’ is a classic.  Gettin cold out there in the hinterlands?

  2. and were browsing their record selection and you saw Quicksilver records, you knew you were in a good spot.

  3. now show me a swimming train and I’ll be impressed.

  4. Weary Californians return homes

    I wonder how much ya get for a returnable home?  Gotta be at least a dime.

    • fatdave on October 27, 2007 at 04:06

    now I have to go mining in the cellar tomorrow. There is a rich seam of vinyl. And Bakelite.

    • RiaD on October 27, 2007 at 04:20

    and Airplane, Hendrix etc etc so although my age group was doing bubblegum music I was listening to good music!

    • RiaD on October 27, 2007 at 04:26

    • Robyn on October 27, 2007 at 04:38

    …of fresh air.

    Quicksilver, Steve Miller, or Steppenwolf was the opening act for most everyone who passed through town, when I was there.  Exactly who depended on the venue.

    • RiaD on October 27, 2007 at 05:05

    • Turkana on October 27, 2007 at 05:17

    one of my favorite bands!

    ooooh oooooooooh have another hit!

    • Turkana on October 27, 2007 at 05:20

    saw cipo play with the dead, a few times. he and michael bloomfield are the greatest forgotten guitar players.

    • nocatz on October 27, 2007 at 05:58

    the possible Electric Prunes (that sounds odd) I found another gem: the Blues Magoos

    • fatdave on October 27, 2007 at 06:24

    I can never find any.

    Michael Hurley and the Electric Clams.

    • Robyn on October 27, 2007 at 06:51

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