Who Do You Love? (1973 B&W) - Quicksilver Messenger Service
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- Who do you Love? (Bo Diddley) video of live performance by Quicksilver Messenger Service at Winterland in 1973.
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'I like Dick Dale, I could appreciate him more during the surf period....like I was like.... I was anti-surf, you know? Because they were collegiate. They would like ...like during the folk era, you know...The Kingston Trio........ I was a beatnik..... I was more into jazz....grooving, sharing, umm....that kind of stuff, and like but Link Wray, man. Link Wray affected me so much that first of all, alot of my style, alot of my chords and stuff I got by copying, you know? I saw him on TV man. I'd never played guitar, and he had his guitar that looked so offensive, it was phallic...Rumble, man.....Rumble just blew me away. That's what turned me on to playing guitar. He's the father of the power chord. I still remember it as one of my strongest memories, man. It just burned itself in my mind. I heard Rumble....it was '58. When I heard that, what I heard was, dirty, man. What he was doing was saying, f#ck man, kiss my ass, you know, real rebellious shit, you know, without saying it, you know?' -John Cipollina
Quicksilver Messenger Service initially held back from signing a record deal but eventually signed to Capitol Records in late 1967, becoming the last of the top-ranked San Francisco bands to sign with a major label. Capitol was the only company that had missed out on signing a San Francisco freak band during the first flurry of record company interest and, consequently, QMS was able to negotiate a better deal than many of their peers. Quicksilver Messenger Service had appeared on the movie and soundtrack album Revolution.
Quicksilver Messenger Service released their eponymous debut album in 1968. It was followed by Happy Trails, released in early 1969 and largely recorded live at the Fillmore East and the Fillmore West. According to David Freiberg, at least one of the live tracks was augmented with studio overdubs and the tracks Calvary and Lady of the Cancer Moon were recorded in the studio just before Gary Duncan left Quicksilver Messenger Service.
These albums, which have been hailed as two of the best examples of the San Francisco sound at its purest define the classic period in the group's career and showcase their distinctive sound, emphasizing extended arrangements and fluid twin-guitar improvisation. Cipollina's highly melodic, individualistic lead guitar style, combined with Gary Duncan's driving rhythm guitar, feature a clear jazz sound, a notable contrast to the heavily amplified and overdriven sound of contemporaries like Cream and Jimi Hendrix. In 2003 Happy Trails was rated at #189 in the Rolling Stone Top 500 albums survey, where it was described as the definitive live recording of the mid-Sixties San Francisco psychedelic-ballroom experience. Archetypal Quicksilver Messenger Service songs include the elongated, continually re-titled suite based on Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love?. Additionally QMS had a reputation for joining their fans in the use of LSD during their live shows.
QMS's guitar work shimmered with a brilliance and clarity which made other bands seem murky in comparison. Unlike most members of the other San Francisco acid rock bands, who were often folkies converted to rock, John Cipollina and Gary Duncan were rock musicians before forming their band. Gary Duncan's playing clearly had the broadest scope of any guitarist among the S. F. bands and he had an expert facility to deliver it. Equally expert was John Cipollina, who also had the clearest vision of how he wanted to sound. Cipollina's playing was so completely given over to that vision, and he presented it so well, that the question of scope never arose. John's electric guitar playing was the musical essence of electricity itself, as though he was playing the current directly and the guitar was the valve that allowed him to do that.
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I first commented on this some 8 years ago, got it on vinyl and CD. I’m 79 now but still play it. This just might be one of the finest examples of real rock and roll. So called musicians of today just can’t compare.
John i here you man,these guys i love, my to favourite guitar players are john and garry,im a deadhead jerry garcia is very good,i cant say that.Grateful dead were really glorious but Quicksilver are just the best i love those guitar players,john allways was my favourite,coz im SG man.Ive got a Other QSM record on the way.Respect john 79 my friend i wish you many more beautiful years and you will.Whats your favourite QSM record?Peace brother
My brother was stationed in San Diego , and he brought me back all the good stuff. All these years later this is one of my favorite albums
@@gratefuldrifter6588 ripple, dear hearthead
Check out Samantha Fish.
I was Stunned by Quicksilver Messenger Service I am 74 now and Drooling over this, as one should!
So grateful for this video! I am a San Francisco native, born in 1951, and went to almost every Quicksilver concert between 1967 and the mid-1970s when Cipollina, my idol, left the band. This video is one of the few I have seen on TH-cam that truly captures what the experience was like to hear Quicksilver live. So glad the concert was recorded and preserved!!!
yes! I saw them @ THE FILLMORE IN 1970. This captures it perfectly.(what I can remember)
Me too Bonnie. Same age as you and probably saw you at many Fillmore/Winterland/Avalon shows
Same age but nyc boy so lucky I got to see them live twice
That must have been marvelous my parents always played this then my mother moved on Dad raised nine of us I'm in the middle Brothers the oldest. So when David come home from work and kick back he would play some of this what you going to do about me. So hush Little baby. Spectacular music from Days gone by but never forgotten it stays alive in my heart mind body and soul. Along with all the other unique music he would listen to
I attended Fillmore concerts and Winterland in late 60s early 70s. QMS was always one of my favorite groups. With Cipollina wailing on guitar, and top of the line vocals, it made for an amazing evening
"I walked 47 miles of barbwire" and now it's 2013, man I only blinked. Give me a thumbs up if you feel the same way.
"Got a gopher snake for a necktie"
Cobra snake
Coming to you post covid saying yes this is what the music performer holograms should be put to use doing!
Blink again, it's 2020
It's been a long strange road for me since 1973 and now it's 2020. We danced hard to this in 1973 and some of us old hippie boomers are still out dancing hard , waving our freak flags as "Stupidity and Selfishness" fight it out to the death.
John Cippolina and the entire line up of Quicksilver were powerful Haight Ashbury bands. I saw them live nearly every week when I lived there either at the Fillmore, Avalon, or Carousel Ballrooms and of course Sundays free at the panhandle in Golden Gate Park in the Haight. Sadly very few people understood the entire movement because by the time they discovered it in the Summer of Love it was over. In the late Spring of that year, we gathered around a real coffin and most of us old-time young hippies tossed our beads, etc into the coffin and carried it to Golden Gate and buried the Hip movement. You see by the end of 1966 bus tours were all around the Haight. Dark drugs and darker dealers arrived. And the caravan of the young lost abused kids of America arrived and the name Street People came into being. But the music lives on even as my generation is passing away. It was uplifting indeed but not about flower children, flower power, free -sex, etc
but yes it was about Rock n' Roll.
Very well written. Cool lil insight back into the day. Thanks for that. ✌
Popularity is also measured by $ (record sales & concerts). And Stoners didn't have that going for them. So there's that.
Regardless your state is up shit creek. . .
Thank you for this comment. Very enjoyed to read. Even it seems like rock'nroll is over these days, but rock'n'roll is alive and kicking. I'm born in 1973 and probably the rock'n'roll spirit came into me so I play rock'n'roll too
Thanks for sharing your experience. Its easy to romanticize, but the period after seems real dark to me and not romantic at all. I saw some documentaries on it, and it is sad to me to see so much longing to be, left unanswered mostly. I never knew about this ceremonial goodbye, good to hear that it was clear to you that it was time to move to a different place.
Have been listening to this magic since I was 14. Happy Tails forever❤️
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Cippolina & Duncan
right up there in the all time ranks of classic rock guitar duos!
Connoisseur classics...
One of the top bands ever...
John lived across the street from me on mount tam we called it rock and roll hill as Santana lived on the other side from John about once a month John would come over out of smoke and he would clean all my pipes and get the resin out and we would get so fucked up and sit for hours John would tell me story’s of mount Tam.he knew about all the places the live stock hung out.John would baby sit my son Sean when my wife and I would go out. he lived i a real small cabin and he had a open coffin that he called his bed and he would sleep in it and he had a pet tarantula that romed around the room. I miss our friendship he was a good guy.
Wow, loved reading your story about John, a unique gifted musician, could picture everything you said. Funny about the Tarantula, my older brother had a pet one too, named Titan🕷️ haha. Take care,
Love from San Rafael Marin county San Francisco California 🍄🌛⚡🌜🍄🌁🌁🌁🌁🍄
I can’t imagine he didn’t miss you, too
Location, location, location. Lucky sob!
@@pango-y8j😊
Greetings from Vienna!
Rare footage. Absolute gold dust 🎉. I'm a Brit, but love 60s/70s West Coast sounds. Great download, thanks 😊
Ian,
I'm a West Coast native who also loves the California bands of that era; but, I REALY love the British bands of that era!
In the 47 years since this album dropped, no one has ever really duplicated Cipollina's signature sound.....a screaming guitar pitch that grabbed you by the balls and could etch into your bones at high volume. We played the Who Do You Love? album a thousand times back in the day.
Still my go to! 😂🤫
Did you get to see them?
Albums from great bands did not "Drop". Thats a modern term pertaining to the worst music in the history of western civilization.
The interplay between him and Gary Duncan is unsurpassed.
@@nancylarson8973 They played at my high school. Santana played twice at one of my other high schools(Washington High School in Fremont[QMS], Ca. and Moreau High School in Hayward.).
They were my favorite for a long time...but I do think it's funny that people think of Gary Duncan as the rhythm guitarist when he played just as much lead as John...and probably more in this vid!
Two lead guitarists is how it should be described . But if you listen to alot of people you would think Duncan filled the Bob Weir role .
One of the most underrated rock bands in rock history. Before Fresh Air. My favorite line up.
Damn ! Forever fan still walking in the park with me...Thank you Bob Traller I really miss you brother
daccordo, uno dei gruppi piu sottovalutati ma grandissimi. questo disco è una pietra miliare ma anche Shady Groove...
What? That’s good!!!
You said it brotch!!! George Thorogood had the pipes & the guitar work was gr8 gfi remake but I just don't feel it can eminate the same mi nd rippin psychedelic aura that these guys could not help but pump out w/ the maddest of Luv!!! I absolutely Luvvv it!!!!!
Saw QMS, Grateful Dead, John Mayall, and It’s A Beautiful Day, all in one concert in Houston in 1970. All for about $10. All were great but QMS complete Who Do You Live Suite was the stealer. Even surpassed Mayall’s Room to Move.
RIP Gary Duncan. You were an incredible guitar player.
Duncan and Cipollina one of the best guitar duos ever.
what an underrated player he was - but will forever be remembered by the musically enlightened.
@@XMIR10C I don't think so mate, (IMO) at least Duncan & Cipollina, Green & Kirwan, Betts & Allmann, Powell & Turner are better than those two. Real counterculture rock musicians not like Ted.
Oh, and I forgot Marriott & Frampton, my bad.
@@XMIR10C Humble Pie guitar duo was before Pinera joined IB, and also that guitar duo is better than Ted's duo, thanks I almost forgot it.
Superb Gary Duncan. Equally brilliant and rudely not acknowledged. Makes other front men guitar singers look pathetic. Great drumming too. And the JC. A legend.
I agree 100%. John Cippolina was a great guitarist... but, Gary Duncan never received the credit he deserves!
One, if not, the best of the '60's guitar bands: incredible jam of a Bo Dudley song that for years defined guitar jams with a Rock'n'roll vibe and rocking beat. One of the best of the psychedelic '60's bands, especially live. Long live Quicksilver Messenger Service!!!
Thank you, Thank you! This is truely AWESOME! I never grow tired of Quicksilver Messenger Service. These guys could really cook.
This vid ROCKS. Thx to whoever cleaned it up and posted it. There are so few from that time. This is a real treasure.
What kínd of music, still sounds powerfull, One of many real rock bandós. Nothing today can compare to the Them.
Right on, its mind-blowing that some people listen to today's music at all. Sometimes I'll walk past my teenagers bedroom, I hear some pretty horrific stuff on the other side of that door sometimes. Is that the evolution of music? Haha..
This looks like the kind of concert that when it was over you didn't know which direction was home.
Or care...
Quicksilver was truly a great, great band. If you weren't there its hard to appreciate how fine they were.
cippolina and jerry were kings :). such a heady beautiful time, eh :)
@@SanFranciscoFatboy Bit psychedelic for many tastes ,...hung on to the feedback bit boringly too.
@@macmccreadie8541 right on, i can see that...... i was 14 yrs old in 1968..... i don't know if u were around but one thing we all forget is just how new ANY volume was in late 60's...... the only loud music on the planet was at Winterland and fillmore type places....no one had big systems at every lil bar....no kids owned big amps in the bedrooms...... so you are not wrong, there was a ton of noise that on tape sounds like shit..... but live it was exciting and frickin loud as f#$k....... Rock concerts were rare early on..... more of an event...and more experimenting w/ equipment.. cheers...
@@SanFranciscoFatboyall so new, wasn't it. A wonderful thing.
Gary Duncan was always under-rated as a guitarist, because of John's amazing playing, but,man, Gary really shines here.
Agree, really like his playing~singing. Never got to see them perform; born 10 years too late. Whew! GARY and the band were on
🔥🔥🔥😎.
For 50 years I thought John played the main solo in this song.
Boy, was I wrong. Gary was an AMAZING guitarist.
Digit, nice close to show jam , I have most clean iTunes offerings , this jam ranks TOP SHELF !!
Should be in the Rock Hall of Fame.
@@haroldtyler Jann W & Robbie R ruled the roost, Ahmet E Probly balanced things out for the better at~(Cleveland, ? i wish that was a nod to Alan Freed~it was a Rumor when they were picking cities)~The RnR HOF GR8 Architecturally! I don't know what current RnR HOF policy is but as of 2012 they would let touring bands in for free & the last 1/2 hour to 40 mins before close (& before soundchecks) was always free to the public, that is enough time to check any new revolving featured Artists. That said, QSMSx Deserves But Do Not need no Stinking HOF. They are running out of Artists & for 5 to 7 years have been forced to add older & newer artists they Never would have before, imho that all got traction when Patti/PSG/The Patti Smith Group got in~(Lest We not forget Guitarist Lenny Kaye who put out "The NUGGETS" compilations), but in the end Album sales still are a big part of it & the many comfortably numb Pleasant Valley Sunday honcho's there. Bests, dtf Ps, QSMSx still gets Indie & College RADio Airplay in Chicago, it depends on the DJ's tastes but even if it's not their thing all those stations here take & play requests & have QSMSx in their Libraries as well as much of/most of the main Lineages going back to the roots & DJ's will bring records from home to spin too. Since 1972 through & till '93/'94 & Seattle Grunge WXRT Chicago & Later WMSE Milwaukee & WORT Madison Wi played QuickSilver & their ComRADS Often at night~The Best time imho, now they like many are hindered by corporate manAGEMENT & Are Run By the KGB Like "Audicy/Audicey"~sp, i know the WXRT DJ's tastes & the DJ's still go to Big & small mostly touring gigs and they do what they can with a Heavy Heart of being hindered. Last time i was in SF was 2011 & SF RADio for me had been in Decline, i was in shock! But KFJC (89.7 FM) ia non-commercial college radio station in Los Altos Hills, California & DJ Maybelline who i met at a Patti Gig was/?is a Friday?Saturday Eve GR8 DJ.& not the only GR8 1 there, Be Well, Bests, dtf~the name was bequeathed to me in "79 by fans & bands & club owners/Workers from a KINKS song. Ps, nothing like QuickSilver in the fog or if you have been dumped.
Gary said his favorite music is Coltrane, Miles (Davis), and Jobim. I can hear a lot of Trane in Gary's modal solo here. What an amazing, and grossly underestimated guitarist he is... His concisely succinct and beautiful solo on "All In My Mind" blows a lot of Jazz guitar players away. No other rock player (except for Carlos Santana) could emulate such magnificent tone of his guitar no matter what guitar and amp he plays. The guy's a true genius!! Thanks for posting this aurora1957A!!
MIkiko Murdoch I concur! His jazz influences are all over the place in his playing. Miss those days.
Saw J Cippolina when he was near his end at a small club im the south bay. Leon Russell, D Frieberg, Edgar Winter, Barry Melton were all there. Twas quite a nite... I’ll never forget it!
@@Rich915 omg!! So lucky!!! I love QMS but born 10 years too late to see them live. Grew up with Leon Russell~JJ Cale aka the “Tulsa Sound” and lots of live music. Bumped into Leon when 19 at a small venue; had no idea who he was at the time. He was alone, playing his upright piano and there seemed to be a glow surrounding~emitting from him. Long gray hair/beard. It’s hard to explain but I was totally mesmerized; still picture visual today, thanks for the memory.
Highly concur! Great explanation of a wonderful, talented man; Gary Duncan had “it”. Wish I’d seen him live but glad to have vids. Love his playing & that voice; Double Threat.
Great clip! These guys played at my High School (Pleasant Hill HS) in 1966 and just blew all of our little Beatle minds....
They are one of the best rock bands I ever saw/heard in the 70’s and after. Their songs are unforgettable!
They remind me alot of the Allman Brothers. What is hidden in all this sound is that they were tremendously proficient as musicians.
The psychodellic American Pink Floyd that never sold out to commercialism. Buried treasure.
Absolutely nothing like Pink Floyd !
@@andrewarthurmatthews6685 Both groups were psychedelic. Pink Floyd was experimental in this fashion until the second side of the album Meddle. David Gilmore mentioned this. Quicksilver was a San Francisco underground band. They could have become much more popular as they were tremendously talented as musicians. In contrast, Pink Floyd sounded kind of experimental, noisy, and undisciplined until the album Meddle.
I meant Allmans were nothing like pink floyd. @@WilliamJones-sf5pt
@@andrewarthurmatthews6685 Actually, Quicksilver was a psychedelic band like early Pink Floyd and jammed early on like the Allman Brothers. They weren't just a bunch of long hairs. At times, they would turn on the proficiency.
The Flute Song by Quicksilver:
music.th-cam.com/video/et2YMDeNgZk/w-d-xo.html
"A graveyard hand in a tombstone mind, just seventy-two and I don't mind dying"... Happy Trails to you Shapeshifter travel safe!
@Dave State-61 Done?..Duck Dunn maybe...Love, Nick G. the Patriarch! Thx stay safe!
Favorite album! Happy trails!
I am so glad that someone captured this event, as. Quicksilver in their prime with those2 guitarists was one of the best bands of the time, and there were few people who preserved these concerts. Rare. Too rare. Jefferson airplane and others were very good but ... the dead, of course, had the master, jerry. There will never be another quicksilver, and their talent is all the more precious because they did not last long, and, as I understand it,had their flat nights, and they had to contend with Dino.".....all the rest of the guitarists of the time, including jerry, recognized cippolino as a unique guitarist, but I would also like to acknowledge Gary Duncan. How many bands have had 2 great guitarists
Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop in the Butterfield Band. Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Warren Haynes, and Derek Trucks in the Allman Bros. John Cipolina and Gary Duncan in Quicksilver. That's it.
Shame on you Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
@@harryking917, what is it with you ppl about the r&rhof? It doesn't matter....
Jason Cova the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame actually means nothing to me it's just a shame that if it's not going to represent rock and roll it shouldn't be called The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
My first concert ever. 1973 Boise Idaho.
Chambers Brothers opened. They closed there set with Time Has Come Today.
The Window Pane took effect right around the time these guys took the stage.
What an experience!
Ha! I haven't heard 'Window Pane' for 50 years!!!!
Seems like very few of us are able to remember....@@pesachBtov
4 way window pane!
Oh shit man, just read your comment and I'm still chuckling! Man, those days!
I clearly remember a friend sitting me down on his couch and telling me "you ain't never heard who do you love like this" as he put on Happy Trails album... he was right... still is. Fell in love with Cipollina and Duncan. To this day that album remains a favorite.
So So underrated! this is the real deal it's called ROCK and ROLL!
Both are gone now... Here it is, archived testimony, QMS at their finest, magnificent!
Best ever QMS lineup was Duncan, Cippolina, Frieberg, and Elmore (the Nicky Hopkins addition was a plus later on)!! Dino Valenti dragged QMS into mediocrity (by the early '70's they were already imploding thanks to Valenti) and once Cip left it became a sad shadow of it's former glory....
Absolutely agree.
As a teen, I was so upset when Dino joined. For years, I felt he ruined QMS. But now that almost 60 years have passed, I appreciate how much of the music he composed. "Get Together" that he gave to the Youngbloods was his masterpiece. If only he had just been their composer -- like the way Robert Hunter was for the Grateful Dead.
Thank you.....loved Quicksilver...loved Winter land.....sacred memories truly
John and Gary were an awesome twin guitar team !.
the great QMS...one of my favorite bands ever...I still love their music...RIP John and Dino...
Cipollina, yes;. Dino, not so much (not at all, really).
Of all the versions of this tune, I love Quicksilver's version the best. It is truly wonderful!!!!
This band had two great lead guitarists, some of the best keyboardists in the business, solid bass and drums, and three players who could sing lead vocals. Not too shabby!
Amen brother. These guys hit the Soul. Thank you.
Saw them at Lake Tahoe in 71. Looked right at Chip Chipolina. Cool cat really. Rock and Roll hero no kidding.
One of my favorite bands, it's too bad they never made it to my neck of the woods. Happy Trails is in my Top Ten LPs, and stands alongside Live at Leeds and Band of Gypsys as best live album ever recorded. While I liked some of the later work, they really really should have stayed a guitar band.
Hey, maybe over the hill or hills, but recognize great sounds especially since I have been going to concerts since I was 19. Thanks so much for your time and consideration. I don't want to go to the pearly Gates knowing that it was all in vain.
MAN,WHERE HAVE I BEEN?.I'M 53 AND NEVER HERD OF THESE DUDES...THEY KICK BIG TIME!
Indeed, typical of this age. Lots of buried gold from that time that never hit the top ten format. These guys take on the characteristics of southern power rock with the two percussionists.
William Jones
Southern power rock?? I believe they took it from the Bay area musical groups.
Cool Janey. I would believe it. These guys were amazing and it is no wonder that they became popular world wide. In a sense, Pink Floyd went commercial as they became well known. I think Quicksilver Messenger Service were every bit just as talented.
Absolutely William. I always felt that way about Pink Floyd. Loved their early work, hated Dark Side of the Moon. Too commercial!
Welcome Ronnie! I would love it if someone could find Mona from the Barry Melton Saloon Years album!!!!
Gary Duncan - What an awesome guitarist. I saw Quicksilver 12 times in NY, CA.
The musac these days is rubbish compared to the 60's.
Listen to ´Tainted Lady ´.............a great, fresh band..........you´ll love them !
You lucky dabber. I've seen ~Jeff Beck a lot lately, different but also wonderful.
Quicksilver was one of the best bands I've ever seen San Diego 1970
Check out Samantha Fish.
Amazing guitar work & performance by one of the truly really great guitar duos in rock & roll history. Happy Trails may still be the greatest live album ever recorded. Question is who is the second drummer with Greg Elmore?
I'm not sure but I caught his face in profile and it looks like Mickey Hart.
Someone said Harold Aceves. Don't know myself.
This performance is astounding. I always did love these guys. Look at what a unit they were. They talked to each other with guitars and whispers. This song doesn't feel like it's being performed toward the crowd, but rather that the crowd is invited to observe the re-creation of it as a free form jam. I have their double LP record, and I love it. This epic piece reminds me of why.
You know, in a sense, it reminds me of that Vanilla Fudge jam, "Break Song," that took up the whole side of an LP.
Astounding is the word. Peeerless is another ..superatilave band.
I loved QMS back in the day. Their trippy jams were better than the Deads.
I thought that they were way better without Dino. He always seemed to be more commercial, where Gary, and John were more into jazz-like improvisations.
Yes, in my neck of the woods, only POP People were into The DEAD...the rest of us were into heavier stuff. Of course I hated that they also snubbed 3 Dog Night for being too mainstream.
Dino a drag, definitely.
Better than Garcia...for, that's hard. I want both, each delights my soul.
The jam by the Dead are not comparable to the ones of QSM, for only one simple reason. They are not comparable but they are, in any case, awesome!
They' were greats a.lot. not so easy to understans, but.in my eyes more easy than grateful
THIS is better than Garcia and Dead? There’s no substance. It’s loud, I’ll give you that
I just gave my computer a standing ovation.
Thank goodness someone had the foresight to record this.
Winterland was the first place to have in house video. There was this mezzanine that went round the whole place, where the concessions were....there were a couple of bars and a head shop and the usual merch stuff....hot dogs and such.....the video and the audio feed from the board was distributed to all those locations....there's a great wealth of old Dead shows and other stuff out there from Winterland....Saw many shows there.....best venue ever!
Robyn Webb I so agree, Winterland was the greatest venue ever!
Too true. Well said.
Before the internet it was a challenge to plug into the bootleg tape trading circles and being a kid from a small farming based town I had no idea there were bootleg recordings available until the early 90's (and those were only advertised in the classified section of vinyl collecting mags for wa-a-a-a-y too much money) and I didn't catch on to the tape trading until the late 90's but when I did I made up for lost time and made some great friends who I thank eternally for getting me started with those QMS boots!!
AMEN!!
It's incredibly obvious that John Cippolina was the greatest psychedelic guitarist of all time.
Enorme banda, por siempre excelentísima obra de arte!
Met the drummer Harold Aceves in Cincinnati, backstage @ a Quick Silver Show in Taft Auditorium, then moved to AZ in late 74, got re-instated @ USPS, Tempe, AZ speaking w/the guy training me in the PO Bos section 1 day in early 75, I mentioned meeting a "Harold Aceves" in Cincinnati, a drummer from Bay Area, he replied that's my son! One of many "things that made themselves known to me on my journey!!! Got to be good friends booked bands he was in many times between 75 & a couple years before he passed away, good drummer, nice guy! Rick the Mailman! Plus.....
Love the danseuse in bright white sneaking to the front of the stage -- quite the visual "blast" for those with dilated pupils and/or heavily influenced brains. Quite the show. Was only ever exposed to the album version; this is a wonderful rendition by a famous SF EXPERIENCE! QMS must have given The Dead a real run for their money! Yes, infinity kudos to whoever arranged for filming and a great job on sound engineering (usually the most thankless job for concert recordings -- consider Woodstock 1969!!!). Thanks so much for posting this seldom seen gem!
The dancer girl was often onstage with many of the big S.F. Bandsin the late 60s and eary 70s -- this video above is the only footage I have ever seen of her dance preserved. When I was a teenager, spending every moment I could at the Avalon, the Fillmore, Winterland, all the ballrooms with "the Quick and the Dead," she was always on the stage. I wonder what became of her?
Aye Bonnie what Legends the Quicksilver are! Wish I'd been able to c them live in the Bay Area! John's guitar 🎸 Style is very powerful he is the master of the Tremelo/ Whammy Bar!! Never seen anyone use it as Savagely as John Great Sounds from his SG! Welsh Rockers loved the Vibe n Sounds of the Bay Area! John Guest's on Mans Superb Live Album Maximum Darkness! He Introduced himself but the Man Band didn't Believe he was John Cipollina! So they asked him to do the Growl which he did! And that's how he came to play with them! I love Maximum Darkness! And Happy Trails 👣! Would love there to be More Live Album's of their's! As Performing live they were at there Best! Some Bands r More Studio Orientated! But Quicksilvers Sound n Performance is Best Observed at a Live Gig! Like their fellow Bay Area Giant's The Grateful Dead! Live Band every times over Studio Album's! Sadly John's passed away! True Legend of Mine Along with Skydog Duane Allman Rory the Irish Wizard Gallagher! Sinner Boy done good! And Koss of the Superb Free! He was the King of Sustain No Effects Pedals Needed! Koss on! One love Rasta Jake Bonnie Scotland the Brave
QMS Happy Trails Live @ Filmore East and West is and has always been one of my all time favorites. It doesn't get any better than this. I've been looking for footage of those live recordings and this is the closest I've seen so far. There has got to be footage out there....PLEASE, whoever has it...POST IT!
two of the greatest guitar players in this band.
Can't imagine anyone on stage now in just a tee-shirt & jeans. Not enough 'staging' for modern sensibilities; to bad. Pure music here.
Quicksilver.....what a fantastic 'Live' band!
agree
Superb, just wonderful.
yes! one of the greatest of the great..sorely missed and died way to young!....I'm thankful to know his music
Free shows withQMS,Airplane, Dead back then with jamming
Excellent! So glad to see this clip. Gary Duncan was/is tremendous, and one of the most underrated lead guitarists ever! Cip got all the attention, and I don't know why Gary doesn't get just as much love. Visually, Cip had the cool factor down, but I love Gary's guitar style and those sort of latin-flavored licks. QMS were brilliant.
+Jon Van Horn AGREED!
they were an incredible pairing..each different from the other and yet perfectly dovetailed. I remember well when the first album was released.. I played it over and over and over and ‘tried’ to play along with them.. It was incredible music.. completely admire them both.. Rest in Peace Cip., health and peace to Gary
Agree completely. Band are beyond compare, really.
Gary was good -excellent even -John was a genius -who's playing is immediately recognizable and singular. Hip factor has zero to do with it a dumb and demeaning thing to say about the finest guitarist of that whole scene played out at the Avalon and the Fillmore West -was John an incredible presence onstage? Yes. He was also the far less prosaic of the two geetar players in that band...a band I saw many, many, times..... Even Duncan has noted in interviews John was the better guitarist.....and live onstage- it was readily apparent -even here his licks are like John made ordinary with standard blue based chops -but clearly back then Gary wasnt happy being the front man and second guitarist -you could see the tension onstage....unfortunately, it destroyed the band -and hurt Garys legacy -as just think of what Quicksilver could have gone on to do with the original lineup -without the addition of the talentless, patently awful, Ego Valenti -but we were all young then....
I'd be wary of chucking the word genius around and the need to play Cipollina against Duncan is, I think, unnecessary since the point is how good they were together. I'd rate their partnership as up there with Clapton (in the days when he was one mean, serious mother) and Allman, as the best I have heard. 'Happy Trails' is the only record I have actually worn out as I played it so much! Anyway yours isn't a post I entirely agree with but it's interesting and good to find a Cipollina-lover as QMS
remain criminally underrated. Best wishes to yez.
I'm originally from California and I used to see Quicksilver at the Winterland Arena and also the Straight Theater on Haight Street. Answer the question with answer! Really the best of the best in John Cippolina.
Rest Well Gary Duncan!
One of the Bay Areas Greatest.
Love the black and white!. Great version that brings out the intricasies of lyrics and instruments! Feel like I'm present at the performance--Wow! Great groove by the drums! Nice blending into one tune bringing in psychedelic nicely after strong upbeat beginning, then back to easygoing followed by excellent psychedelic, ending with exciting beat and sudedenly tearing into final guitars raising the roof! Showing this supremely talented group at a level greater than studio version! Great ride!
"Guys, we gotta have some visuals, y'know, for the chicks. How about a lady all wrapped in white silk and muslin, and she waves her limbs around ethereally?"
"Yeah, OK, cool, let's go with that."
Just dropping by for a West Coast top up...this will always be incredible.
Esto es solo Rock and Roll, de los mejor en esta Galaxia..........--
won of the best bands...in the summer of 67...
2 drummers means no over dubbing...
I followed them everywhere…from S.F. all the way to a beach in Santa Cruz…hundreds of shows! They were my favorite! John C….a huge crush! I was young!
Quicksilver,at the height of their power..the best rock and roll band,in the US....live,unequaled,they were just the shit....Gary Duncan's lines were classic,but,it was Cippolina's creativity,including his classic growl,that took them over the top.....if you saw them in the early days,you know....if you are just discovering them,welcome.
That was 20 minutes of my life I don't mind living over a few times. Awesome. Thanks for posting it!
The blonde dancer in Renée "Dancing Girl" LeBallister.
Note jose c areas second drummer Santana
Saw them opening for The Dead and they just blew them away. They just weren't commercial enough for the time.
The Dead were brilliant at their best but awfully inconsistent from one gig to the next. When they had their timing down and Jerry was playing inspired solos they were a very interesting band but at times they were simply a mess.
From everything I've read, the labels were trying for a while(the Dead, Jefferson, Moby,et al) , were all making it big and the record companies wanted them. But QMS weren't interested. Just wanted to play.
The "Quick and the Dead" were a double bill in all the hippie ballrooms. Their popularity in 1967 (when I discovered both) was pretty equal at the time. It wasn't that one was opening for the other -- the members of QMS and the Dead were all good friends and great musicians!
I never saw them live. I had Happy Trails though and a poster 😂
Nie znam hui a zyje juz 70 lat i z muzą jestem za pan brat kto to9 tak cudnie gra???!😮😮😮😮👀🖤🦹✳️😪🦸
This is the best band I ever heard. I grew up with these guys. Thank you QMS.
Thank you. Nice to know details of that remarkable period in history. The musicians and obviously dancers learnt their crafts because they loved music and that's why the music was so good. This is an excellent performance too bad this isn't on a CD. Better than anything that came after Happy Trails.
Damn I can't believe I've never seen this! Gorgeous and heavily instrumental! A time when musicians could write whatever the hell they wanted to. That's quoting someone from QMS interviewed in 1980 when I was in college. Though I love Shady Grove, that live jam is second to nothing! So glad this is getting the exposure it deserves. Aurora you rock!
Say what you will about guitarists, one of the unsung greats is John Cipollina, the man was the 'snake,' that is what they said and with Gary Duncan at his side providing the driving rhythm and with Freiberg and Elmore bringing up the bottom, NO one could blow this band out. The only one who comes close to Cipollina and his psychedelic style is Jorma Kaukonen, on a few occasions, one might see them jamming at the end of a gig in which, the Airplane and QMS shared the bill. Awesome. Absolutely awesome.
Please don't forget James Gurley.
Duncan continues to make good music.
I saw Cipollina play just weeks before he he passed at the Relix 25th anniversary celebration . I commend him for attending despite his rapidly declining health .I think it was April 89 .
True, what Moses says about John & Jorma. But see the slingers that were at John's side throughout the years: as well as Gary Duncan, they've done much more than provide the driving rythm, they were very very talented.
Duncan is underestimated
R.I.P. Gary Duncan.
I guess the happy part is these guys are never dead they are always available on vinyl and CD’s.
Gary Duncan sounds more like an angry mosquito here than usual, more like Cipolinna's style. Shows his versatility. These guys and their peers learned and practised the guitar because they wanted to and they saw opportunities. Living was cheap enough they could devote themselves to music. Professional corporate "rock" "music" ws in the future, the sort where session musicians recorded the albums and the bands were for some reason not quite as good live. But QMS, Buffalo Springfield, the Cream, and the Stones were good live. Sometimes better than on record.
Thank you!
They had few peers, hell I prefer them even over Clapton and Allman....
This is classic Quicksilver. Awesome! This is a more representative version of Who Do You Love? than the full Winterland 1975 version.
Okay kids this was 46 years ago or so. I remember way back in the late '60 seeing this band and it was an amazing experience. The music went on and on every four minute track turned into these amazing jams much like the video you are watching. Like I said amazing absolutely amazing 😎
wow, my friday night here and remembering how lucky we were...i saw QS for a 2$ ticket along with Country Joe if memory serves....they rocked the house and I still listen and feel like I am 14 yo and knew the score....we probly did compared to the circumstances now...60s and 70s were amazing and intense, thank you!
Who else came here from Patrick Willems dad talking about QMS in a video? It’s a real band!
What a fabulous old relic! Thank you so much for posting this.
Back when you had to have some talent to make it in the music industry
so cool to see that duncan cippolina guitar-sharing kick-ass riff along with the drum insisting all along with bass that this band did the moments proud. i remember hearing these guys, thinking along them, "yeah, what about me?", and realized that the best are mostly under the radar, but felix sure did let his freak flag fly; Happy Trails to all even as we play the songs that make it a better place.
Rest in peace John & Gary, you're finally reunited in that big gig in the sky!
This show was fantastic. Didn't expext it to be nearly all Gary solos. Thanks for the upload & big cheers from the Delta🤡😬
Every time I hear this tune, which is the last five days in a row, I think of the Allman Brothers at the fillmore east. Did the Allman's get any inspiration from Quicksilver? Man, this song is amazing, the way they improvise, especially at the end. WOW, is this tune good! This will be the 2nd time I have heard this tune today. What talent!!!!!
AWESOME GUITARS, GREAT FOOTAGE. THANKS FOR POSTING 🥃🎸
The poor picture quality is no surprise, but us old- time stoners appreciate the thought.
Doesn't bother me. Before today this didn't exist.
Revern! It's the music!
Gary Duncan, Master of tone and melody.
GARY DUNCAN!!!!
amazing music from one of the truly great guitar duos in Rock & Roll history. Question is who is the second drummer playing with Greg Elmore? some of the greatest music ever, thanks.
The other drummer was Harold Aceves from Tempe, AZ. He also played with Country Joe and the Fish (Barry Melton) in the 70s, and continued to play with Barry, John Cipollina, Peter Albin, Robert Hunter, and Spencer Dryden in The Dinosaurs in the 80s.. Harold passed away in 2012.
This Quicksilver concert 🎶 well captures the intellectual and social zeitgeist of the times.
I remember the black and white reel to reel video. I always like this band and saw them play live in the early 1970's. Great video.
I'm presuming this was a Bill Graham show. THANKS to all involved for recording this. Thanks Bill; you gave us so many unforgettable pleasurable experiences. Special thanks to the lovely, graceful dancer.
It's Winterland not the Filmore.
@@KaiserBlade Did you know that Bill Graham produced many, many shows at Winterlnd? All those plaques on the balcony with pictures of just some of the artists that played shows at Winterlandas seen in The Closing of Winterland video? Those are Bill Graham produced shows...Look it up. Too bad you never went to any of those shows. I went to some of them; they were great. You would have loved them.
@@KaiserBlade It's spelled FILLMORE.
Ren’ee LeBallister~Performance Artist. Renee helped to get the crowd up and out of their seats and dance along. She doesn’t get enough recognition! 💖
@@namcat53 i remember 4:30 am Winterland departures and Bill was serving apples and coffee to everybody leaving.
Totally made my day:) I never got tired of seeing them either
V.
Yes. Harold Aceves as drummer #2. A friend of mine. He passed away a few years ago now. I had this footage for years, but couldn't share as Harold was worried that BGP would find out, and he would be in trouble (he was a VERY sweet person, never wanted to step on toes) for it. Cipollina was a "guest" because his band, at the time, was Copperhead, which was the opening band to QMS at this gig.
Who or what is BGP?
@@jasomkovac9115 Bill Graham Productions
Loved Quicksilver as a young 17 year old punk in '73...They could jam!