Quicksilver Messenger Service – Fillmore Auditorium 11/5/66

Cleopatra Records’ latest archival release from the Quicksilver Messenger Service’s live vaults takes us back – waaaaaaaay back – to the band’s early days. QMS would’ve been just over a year old when they hit the stage of San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium on November 5, 1966 – and they sound as if they’re still discovering […]

Quicksilver Messenger Service – Live At The Winterland Ballroom: December 1, 1973

Those with a basic grasp of Quicksilver Messenger Service history might hesitate to put an ear to this album if they’re fans of the late, great six-string John Cipollina – the master of tasteful-yet-untamed psychedelic guitar. But if they do, they’re missing out – big time. For although it’s true that the amazing Cipollina (along […]

Quicksilver Messenger Service: Live At The Old Mill Tavern – March 29, 1970

On one hand, March of 1970 might be seen as the beginning of the end for Quicksilver Messenger Service. Keyboard genius Nicky Hopkins (who had joined the band the year before when co-founding guitarist Gary Duncan took a sabbatical) would be departing soon; so would guitarist/legend John Cipollina and David Freiberg, whose bass had provided […]