love the guitar on this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpTGM74dbuQ
-- Michael B, Thursday, August 7, 2008 12:18 PM
@__@
― am0n, Thursday, 7 August 2008 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Did he ever record with Man?
"Maximum Darkness"
I have read that Cipollina's guitar was out of tune, and so his parts were mixed down or eliminated in the released disc. I have the LP but can't remember if I could hear him in there.
― nickn, Thursday, 7 August 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.quicksilverms.co.uk/cm/gfx/centre_r2_c10.jpg
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
My parent's friends were Quicksilver roadies back in the day. So they knew a lot of people. So when I was 12 they got me free backstage passes to Huey Lewis & the News Sports tour. I went backstage and met the band at my first concert. And I've been ruined ever since.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
CCR created a mythical Louisiana bayou to update with rock; QMS did the same thing with a Spanish-inflected Southwest. "Light All Your Windows" was one of my faves growing up, and I just wore Happy Trails out.
^^ just wanted to reiterate the OTM-ness
man whatever happened to "Vornado"? sad to see old ilxors leave.
in any case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCoHH9hmsQ4
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 28 March 2010 06:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm listening on Spotify so I don't know anything about the actual release but the new Live at the Fillmore '68 sounds fucking incredible
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 9 August 2013 00:35 (ten years ago) link
Wonder if some of that overlaps with the _Maiden Of The Cancer Moon_ boot? One of my all time favourite bootlegs. QMS were just immense at that point in time.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Friday, 9 August 2013 12:34 (ten years ago) link
Lost Gold & Silver was the same concert. Not sure if taht's still around , it was on Collector's Choice. I saw some complaints about editing from some people more familiar with the recording but I liked it. I think Maiden of The Cancer Moon repeated a track exactly but it's been years since I last heard that recording in that form.
― Stevolende, Friday, 9 August 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
All Collector's Choice CDs are oop.
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 August 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
Wow, hadn't heard that. Not sure what else they put out though. THink I have a very quiet copy of Gene Clark's No Other on the label. The UK version of that set had better sound, but taht's Gene Clark. Good lp though.
― Stevolende, Friday, 9 August 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
quicksilver are bomb!!!!!!
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Friday, 9 August 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
Ahhh, found this that clears things up a bit (obviously no mention of the new set):http://www.lysergia.com/LamaWorkshop/lamaQuicksilver.htm
― Wandering Boy Poet, Sunday, 11 August 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
yeah, that was what I was thinking of when I mentioned people not being happy with the editing. The only drag with the performance is that the drum solo in the middle of Gold & Silver drags on monotonously as it sounds like all the drum hits have exactly the same sound. Don't know if that had anything to do with the recording or if it was the performance. Just remember it being a major drag. So maybe if there is a newer more accurate transfer of the same oerformance that might sound better, but it will remain a drum solo whatever.
― Stevolende, Friday, 16 August 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
"What About Me" has to be up there on a list of late 60s early 70s period era paranoid drug rock tunes. Chet Powers (aka Dino Valenti/Jesse Oris Farrow) seems to have been one heck of a character. In context of his troubles with the law, this tune resonates a bit more than say some of Neil's or Stones records of similar ilk.
― earlnash, Sunday, 1 July 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
Haven't listened to that one in a long time--it was certainly a personal saga that seemed to resonate for many at the time, judging by how often I heard it on late night FM, at parties (sometimes two-three times in a row, the chorus becoming a sing-along), walking down the street, hearing it from houses and passing cars. But picky me was put off by Dino's incessant bleating into his magic microphone, though it worked better here than on some other tracks ("Ah'm-uh---psychedelic rain-jah.")Haven't heard the solo album finally excavated a few years ago, but he did earn his footnote by writing "Get Together," a poignant hit as performed by the Youngbloods (who I've always meant to check out more--more of the early stuff is good, huh? "Darkness Darkness" sounded great when Mott covered it). The precarious hopefulness of the verses--making the chorus more powerful really comes across on the recent Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Dave Alvin's recent album, with Gilmore's high lonesome drifter clarity, and Dave's rough-edged fluid guitar."Dino's Song," covered by the original pre-DV QMS, was a good change of pace on their s/t debut--thee first San Francisco dawning-ov-Acidquarious album, next to After Bathing At Baxter's, that really sounded like album covers, concert posters, light shows in the giant pages of Life Magazine etc. looked.In Quicksilver's case, there was a late night phosphorescence, and the feeling of being on the beach back when you didn't have to worry quite so much about helicopter spotlights---but that's all I'll say about that. Mainly agree with Myonga's take on their records' arc, way upthread.
― dow, Sunday, 1 July 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
yeesh, typos, sorry
― dow, Sunday, 1 July 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
Re: The Youngbloods--There's a nice single disc best of called "Get Together" that is probably all you need. IIRC, the tracklist is 1/2 of each of the first two LPs, and 3/4s of the third.
I also recommend checking out the "Go Ride The Music" TV special--half of it is the Airplane live in the studio at Heider's, and the other half is Quicksilver w/Dino (possibly one of his first shows w/them post-jail) live and busting out his best Rock Star moves at what appears to be an arts and crafts fair up in the hills for audience of about 50 people (babies included).
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 2 July 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
I really like that Copperhead record that John Cipollina's band did in '73. Has the recorded and never released second Copperhead record ever come to light?
Search on Youtube says no, but this place is good for that type of miscellany.
― earlnash, Saturday, 1 August 2020 09:30 (three years ago) link
never even heard of it before. I’ll have to ask my dad, he’s a big quicksilver head
― brimstead, Saturday, 1 August 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
re-listening to the dino valente solo record today. i wonder if kurt vile digs this track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC3i2unDR_s
― budo jeru, Friday, 15 March 2024 23:06 (two weeks ago) link
The one song of theirs I keep on my hard drive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgoykLXz3Dw
Will look into his solo album.
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 March 2024 02:26 (one week ago) link
I know he wrote it, and wasn't on the record due to being imprisoned (stuck in Folsom Prison?) but I don't think I've ever heard Dino singing Dino's Song, did he ever? Surely he must have, it's his song
― Florin Cuchares, Saturday, 16 March 2024 04:13 (one week ago) link