Live at the Quarter Note Lounge,New Orleans,July 1977

 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.

The bands debut album the self title Quicksilver Messenger

Service was released in May 1968 and was an eclectic affair

including key songs that still stand up to scrutiny forty years

later. The album includes Pride of Man, Dino's Song (Written

by Valenti), Gold and Silver and the extended song The Fool.

The following year the band released what many consider to

be their best album. Entitled Happy Trails the album broke

into the top 30 and included a side long suite of songs based

around the Bo Diddley song Who Do You Love. Happy Trails

also included another Diddley song Mona and also the Gary

Duncan composed Calvary. The album set the seal on the

bands reputation as one of the key bands of the time and

certainly one of the key bands to come from the San

Francisco music scene. Shortly after the release of Happy

Trails however Gary Duncan departed and he was replaced

by English keyboard player Nicky Hopkins. With this line up

the band recorded Shady Grove which was another top

thirty success for the band.

By the time of the 1970 release Just For Love Gary Duncan

had returned and Dino Valenti also joined up. Further albums

including What About Me (1970), Quicksilver (1971) and

Comin' Through (1972) were released although by the time

of the Quicksilver album both Frieberg and Cippolina had

gone.

This recording hailing from July 1977 was one of the many

partial reunions that took place between 1976 and 2006.

The line up features key members Dino Valenti and Gary

Duncan. Songs performed at the concert included staples

of the Quicksilver live repertoire including Who Do You

Love and Mona alongside lesser known songs Bittersweet

Love and Cowboy On The Run from the bands reunion

album Solid Silver.

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