At the Kabuki Theatre [PA]

Performer: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Distributor: MSI Music Distribution

Notes: Liner Note Author: Jon "Mojo" Mills. Recording information: Kabuki Theatre, San Francisco, CA (??/??/1969-12/31/1970); The First Annual New Year's Eve Costume Ball, Erin Hill (??/??/1969-12/31/1970). Recorded in 1970, this live document captures a band in transition. With the arrival of singer Dino Valente, Quicksilver moved from free-form psychedelia jams to more concise (and commercial) song-oriented material. You can hear both strands of the Quicksilver sound here, but there's an added element of poignancy to guitarists John Cippolina and Gary Duncan's intertwining excursions, as Cippolina was soon to depart the band. This, then, is a snapshot of psychedelic glory right before the fade.

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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