The Best of Quicksilver Messenger Service [Capitol]Quicksilver Messenger Service
Release Date: 09/27/2005
Original Release:
1990
# of Discs:
1
J&R Item # 601510_CD
UPC # 094633090828
Label: Capitol/EMI Records
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Disc: 1
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Performer: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution Notes: The Best of Quicksilver Messenger Service is a budget-priced, eight-track selection of the psychedelic band's best-known material, and while there are some essential items missing, it still functions as a good, affordable sampler, featuring such hits as "Fresh Air," "What About Me," "Pride of Man," and "Who Do You Love." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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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