Quicksilver, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1971Ĭomin' Thru, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1972 What About Me, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1971 Just For Love, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1970 Shady Grove, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1969 Happy Trails, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1969 Main studio recordings Quicksilver Messenger Service, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1968 It does not include recordings by individual band members or subsequent related groups.Īdditions, corrections and comments are welcome This discography is a summary of recordings by the original QMS up to their final dissolution in 1976.
SHADY GROVE QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE ALBUM ARCHIVE
Main albums | Archive albums | Compilations | Singles | Various artists compilations A brief reunion in 1976 led to the release of one LP. Further changes included the addition of Nicky Hopkins in 1969 and the return of Dino Valenti in 1970. The first two QMS albums were recorded by the classic line-up of the group John Cipollina, Gary Duncan, Greg Elmore and David Freiberg. Various personnel changes occured through that year culminating in the arrival of Gary Duncan and Greg Elmore from The Brogues. The original line-up of QMS, including Dino Valenti, Jim Murray and John Cipollina, came together in early 1965. Quicksilver Messenger Service Discography That may be true, but the results are still extraordinary.Grateful Dead Family Discography: Quicksilver Messenger Service Discography Home | Index | Many Quicksilver enthusiasts dismiss this album because Hopkins so thoroughly dominates the proceedings as to make the band almost secondary. From the opening Hopkins blast on Shady Grove, to the achingly beautiful drawing room/salon type solo on Flute Song, to the countrified leanings of David Freiberg on Words Can’t Say, right up to the grandiloquent opening to the ultimate Hopkins opus, Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder, this album has a lot going on musically.
This album has none of the feel of the first two but it stands on its own as a fine recording. But, that’s what’s great about bands…people come, people go, the music changes, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Okay, look, there’s no way this album could sound the same. What an honor for Quicksilver that he chose them. Well, only the addition of a world class musician could save the band and that’s what happened when Nicky Hopkins, who had been living in San Francisco and recording with Steve Miller and Jefferson Airplane, decided to actually join a band. He was such an integral part of the band, how could they continue without him. When Gary Duncan left after 1968, it looked like the end.
They had a great talent for long, exploratory jams that really took you on that acid trip. The first two Quicksilver albums are among the classics of the era.
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