Live at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco 1966 [Alternate Tracks] [PA]

Performer: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: Audio Remasterer: Johnny Oldhitz. Liner Note Author: Jon Kirkman. Recording information: 10/28/1966. Like its predecessor, Part Two of LIVE AT THE AVALON BALLROOM 1966 captures Quicksilver Messenger Service in a formative period, on their way from blues-rockers to psychedelic explorers. Early versions of album cuts "Pride of Man" and "Mona" stand alongside covers of Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning" and Mose Allison's "If You Live" for a rare glimpse of this crucial period in Quicksilver's evolution.

Along with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service were one of the first and best of the San Francisco '60s psychedelic bands. Though they shared with their peers an improvisational bent and eclectic roots in blues, jazz, folk, and rock, what helped set them apart was the distinctive twin-guitar work of John Cipollina and Gary Duncan, two virtuosic players. When New York singer-songwriter Dino Valenti became their frontman, their sound became more accessible and they scored a couple of minor hits before disbanding in the mid-'70s.

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