Classic Masters

Performer: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Producer: Cheryl Pawelski; Shaun Ward; Bryan Kelley; Cheryl Pawelski (Compilation)
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Recorded between 1967 & 1971. Includes liner notes by Bill DeYoung. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Audio Remasterer: Robert Vosgien. Liner Note Author: Bill DeYoung. Although this edition of Classic Masters doesn't quite do justice to a band that was at their core an album band, it nevertheless provides a good summary of their five albums for Capitol. Understandably, it concentrates on their first album, with no less than five of these 12 songs deriving from that platter, but it chooses from the other four wisely, resulting in a good, concise overview of the band's peak years. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Uncut (9/03, p.122) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A handy, well mastered introduction..."

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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