Sunday, December 27, 2015

Song(s) of the Day # 707 Quicksilver Messenger Service


The Haight Ashbury bands aren't generally order of the day around here. Although I've always found the idea of the scene they arose from and fed into quite interesting, the music itself has never much appealed. Despite their formidable reputations, I've only ever found a handful of Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane songs that I get along with. None of the other San Francisco bands meanwhile seem to have a series of records to their name that seriously rival those put out by LA's Byrds, Love and Doors.

So to Quicksilver Messenger Service. What have they got going for them apart from one of the very best band names of all? Mostly their reputation is as a twin-lead guitar live band. Spotify has one bootlegged concert after another for them. Second album Happy Trails is considered their best studio record but for the most part my vinyl copy sits alone and unplayed in the Q section of my collection.



Here's their best known single Fresh Air which scraped the American Top 50 in 1970. Also, Who Do You Love (Part 1), from said record Happy Trails, to give an idea of the fluid guitar style that they made their name on. and a third song, Pride of Man, which hails from their first album.



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