Live at the Carousel

 Quicksilver Messenger Service is considered to be one of the

most important bands to come from the San Francisco music

scene of the sixties along with their contemporaries The Grateful

Dead and The Jefferson Airplane.

The band initially came together in 1965 and proceeded to play

a great many gigs across America.

This double disc recording finds the Quicksilver

Messenger Service playing at the Carousel Ballroom

in San Francisco. The Carousel was another of Bill

Graham’s venues and he would re name it the Fillmore

West and run it until 1971. When this recording was

made it was just a few weeks after the release of the

self titled debut from Quicksilver Messenger Service.

The set included The Fool and Light Your Windows

from the debut alongside live favorites Who Do You

Love, Babe I’m Gonna Leave You and Walkin’ Blues.

The second disc however is the real pull for Quicksilver

fans as it contains just the one track of the band doing

what they do best and what sealed their reputation as a

live band. The disc is taken up with The Jam an extended

piece which never outstays its welcome but which

underpins the bands musical inventiveness and dexterity.

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