dbrinkm1 - I responded to your comment on your channel, but went back to cut & paste - couldn't find it. Anyway, you were very lucky to see QMS. Gary D., Dino, Michael Lewis and John C. - I would trade all the concerts I've been to...just to have seen these guys.
this is one of the coolest jams i have ever heard !! gotta say kinda santana like obviously , but their own kinda (i hate to say groovy ) mix ! i know, smoke another one , but really.
I presume this was shot after John left the band sometime in 71, but why is Gary playing John's SG? Especially since, I think in the earlier days, Gary played an ES? Gary does a nice job here, but it doesn't sound like signature vibrato work. My favorite incarnation of QMS was the duel guitars, pre-Dino era.
It gives me the chills just to hear the typically shorter-than-short introduction from my hero, Bill (Wolfgang) Graham, without whom a dozen great bands (and dozens of other important bands) would never have been heard from outside local bars. And then to see Quicksilver deliver some fresh music that proves how important that was, is a five-minute treat.
@robin56 He really did a GREAT job on this.So have another hit!!!!!!!!!!Oh and its really great that sony apoligized for taking off this and other great music.Three piece suit mother fuckers!!!
By 1971, their marijuana-fueled brilliance had grown a bit tired, but they remained tight and cohesive and, as Bill Graham said at the beginning of the clip, "The nicest guys you'll ever meet"
Great post,,did you film Quicksilver back in the day? I saw the Allman Brothers with Duane back in the day. Takes me back 40 year ago at age 18. Never saw Quicksilver but I remember them.
Love it - absolutely love it! What a great time that was. Some of my fondest memories. The kids today have no idea what they missed. But I'm teaching my son! By the way, the audio is good. Great job. Thanks for posting!
Those where the day's,F W was the place to be or not to be & it was no question when you were where it was at,The Light was Clear .Thanks for posting one of SF's best of the Trips Bands ,With Mr.Naturals Love Saves All :-}
Don't forget that QMS was the first rock band to have two guitarists equally qualified to play both lead and rhythm. This was QMS's innovation and gave them the ability to trade solos as well as engage in collective improvisation. After John, left, Gary did a great job carrying the band with Dino on rhythm. Chuck Steaks is Mark Naftalin? That makes sense. Mark played with Paul Butterfield and is a great player in his own right.
Put this band against the Stones any day & in my opinion, QMS is way more talented & way better to look at! You guys should have been huge. Wish I could have seen them in person.....makes me very sad.
this is really nice love it. They used to play in Forest Park in St Louis on Hippie Hill all the stoners would go and lay on blankets and party wine in leather cool have another hit
@spacepatrolman The ES-335, ES-345, and ES-355 are semi hollow. The ES-330 (aka Casino) is hollow. Semi-hollows aren't completely hollow, and have a different tone than a full hollow body guitar.
I'm sure it was a task cleaning up the audio from so long ago. Thanks for the effort. I think you did a great job and I'm glad to hear this great song from QMS. =;-)
Thanks for the comments. It took me a few view to figure out that the lead guitar was Gary Duncan and not John Cippolina because he was playing John's Batwing SG guitar. I couldn't make Quicksilvers' show for the closing week of the Fillmore, but I did make the Deads' show! It was a kinder and gentler time!! Thanks for the memories. I miss John Cippolina, but still a treasure!!
I agree with you QueenCeleste -I don't think I have heard Fresh Air on the radio since the 70s. I wanted to put it as the ringtone on my phone & Verizon couldn't do it. Just learned about the band in depth the past month. Don't know why the song just popped into my head after all these years. Sort of wished I hadn't after learning about Dino's death. What a talented man. So sad.
@QueenCeleste2 The classic radio stations usually only play a total of fourteen hairy butt songs starting off with the Rolling Stones. We can't get enough of them.
@kjay67 Hairy Butted Rock Music -- a genre of rock originating in the late 60s played mostly by white British groups of black musician wannabes. These mostly ugly musicians didn't play their rock music but tended to dink out the blues instead. Example lyrics: "Oh the heavy hearted hairy butted! Yeah!" When squinting ones ears to listen to such music, the peripheral one generally envisions is of a large beer drinking fellow with long hair, lots of tattoos and riding noisely on a Harley.
I was lucky enough to see them back in the 70's in Beckley, WV. Helped them set up on the stage. I don't remember who, but they had two drummers. It remains one of my favorite concerts of all time. Great video.
OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH I wanta know what you do to me little girl.... Have another hit of fresh air....... from Japan..... to southern California........2011. Mercury= quicksilver. That voice echoes still and I'm 56 yrs old one of the very first albums to never forget.
Unbelievable stuff. I love how that 60's and 70's (in particular) were full of songs that just made you feel- good. Now, all the music makes you feel depressed and angry. If everyone heard this kind of music, we'd all be in better moods.
Cleartwater- thanks for your service! I never saw QMS, was too young although i am 50 now. But, sure have always appreciated their music- moreso now than ever. I am definitely old school- they just dont make music like this anymore, and probly never will again.
Dino V. I believe was arrested for awhile but this video is great. For a 62 year old Vietnam Vet, this was the music I carried around with me in country. Everyone was always trying to rip me off but I kept the tape well hidden and listened to it as much as I could. Anyone who remembers QMS is old school and probably still smoking a joint on occasion as I do. Cleartwater. Omaha, Ne.
That sure sounded like Bill Graham introducing them. I was at a few shows where he did that. Mostly at Winterland. Thank you for everything Bill. You changed the world.
@qwilleranj Did you know that Bill Graham's music collection (or much of it) can be heard at a site called Wolfgang's Concert Vault? I love to listen to the whole concert when I have the time :)
Take me take me take me BACK to those DAAAYYYSSSS.................. I'll have another HIT of fresh ggggggggggggg. I mean it from the bottom of my SOUL every musician, every group, still to this day I heard the best and it was live concerts everywhere. Now I see it was the best bang for your buck. My generation had it all,classic cars to cartoons, from album to album I've never weened myself off.
Let's quit the pissing contest. One of the great SF bands of the late 60's. Sadly, Dino Valente and Nicky Hopkins have left us for the big concert in the sky.
@kjay67 saw Cippolina 2wks before he died in Berkeley Starry Plow , he had two beautiful marin co girls in tow and was living right , right up to the end . Hey , who among us is going to live forever and can you say you went out playing ? This is a later version but the earlier acid days @ Filmore were raw & unbelievable .The cutting intro on the record is great!! Always loved the full compliment of congas & percussion but after a while you needed to stop flying so close to the sun ...
I’m interested in Chuck Steaks. After I played with the Outlaws, Gary suggested I contact Quicksilver & gave me their number. So I went north and auditioned. They got Nicky Hopkins instead. Never liked Nicky with QMS but Chuck plays the way I would have wanted to with QMS.
So good to hear that old San Francisco sound that's never been duplicated anywhere! I was there, walking the Haight, 1967, fresh out of the navy...This music made an indelible imprint on my life, a wave of new and good things that came ever after. Sure, there were drugs and such, but no crime during the Summer of Love, because there was a news strike on, and nobody thought about those things.
@Allways27 Ever sit on the corner where there's a Ben and Jerry's, u'd of seen many cars, that stopped and kidnapped chicks for rape! Bad ass black dudes from the Fillmore Area.
There was no Ben and Jerry's then. This was the beginning, (summer of 1967, AKA "Summer of Love"), of people saying there ought to be peace and love. There was no crime then either, but that changed as soon as the news strike was off. Only then did it get ugly! The newspapers began reporting how horrible it all was, and sure enough, it did become horrible, with many of the peaceful people just moving out and leaving the troublemakers behind.
@Allways27 I 110% agree with ya, Gr8 times, but it was, as many said, that, that ticked off a lot of resentment in the fillmore area, and they played off of the media, and then the bad scene came down, exactly on Haight and Ashbury, hence, the "the death of hippie" was the evoked. Too bad a good thing can't be left to gather......but I had my fun.
@Allways27 I wandered into Haight Ashbury easter 1967 and I can tell you it was weird. Lot of people tripping. Didn't take very long before the love generation turned into the turned on generation. The good vibe stayed around longer in canada and europe - no war and aiding draft dodgers - well into the 70's. By then we all had jobs and babies.
one of the best groups- saw them live at a New Year's Eve celebration at Winterland back in the days of yore- I think it was December 31st 1969. Bill Graham served breakfast for the New Year!
Remember the spring and summer days back 1970 & 71 when this song wift through the air and could be heard on a regular basis...take yourself back for a moment and unwind...recall..and smile...smile and smile.. :)
I collect vinyl....just got a gorgeous unblemished QSMS album and heard this...oh yeah. Makes me wanna quit my job...and have another "Hit" of Fresh Air!!
Bill Graham opened the New Fillmore and didn't do a thing for the atmosphere of the place:: When you walked in you were confronted with a bunch of Red Velvet on the walls, like you see in old Mexican cafe's. Red Velvet bulls.....Bill never did a thing but make money and screw up a nice 60's scene with his money schemes. Family Dog and Chet Helms had the right idea
@aurora1957A Well thats nice but it does Nothing for all those times I went to the Fillmore west and had to look at that red velvet. You know what that does to good acid??
@kolimpah That red fuzzy velvet on the walls of the New Fillmore west screwed with good acid! But the music smoothed it all out..If Bill Graham had changed that velvet I'd like him a little more, I mean, he had the money, he could have and he made me look at that stuff....
@IExpos Grated Bill wasn't Chet but it cost the same to see a show at the Fillmore as the Avalon, which also had felt. The Airplane,Dead and QMS were running The Carousal before Bill moved there and changed the name to the Fillmore West. They had the same velvet walls when they had it, so you want to blame them too? It didn't bum out me or anyone I've know like it did you.. Sounds like your problem. The FW had a lot of classic ballroom look and Bill put on great shows. We enjoyed it.
@6749er I never went to the FW until B Graham had it. That velvet was bad for psychic life. Mine anyhow. I'd had enough by the summer of 69 and never went back.. I'm a little surprised and disappointed that hard core mind explorers could live with that stuff. Guess I'm just too sensitive.
@IExpo Maybe it was because I was there for the music and fun and didn't spend time looking at walls and wasn't going to put a wall between me and a good time. When the Airplane Dead QMS was "running" the place as The Carousal it was Way Fun and Way Crazy. The felt came from way back when it was the El Patio Ballroom. Kinda historic funky chic if you let it be but sorry you let it get in the way of all the great shows before and after 69, Obliviously a whole lot of us tripsters didn't.
@6749er Yeh, well we can't all be as cool as you. I wasn't staring at the walls, they screamed bad taste. I liked Haight Ashbury for awhile too but it didn't take long for that appeal to disappear too. I guess I'm just whining. In my opinion that red velvet is part of the symptom. Lack of aesthetics. The reason places are decorated is for atmosphere. Produces a certain feeling...1968 concert deco' wasn't red velvet bulls for me. But I'm glad you like it. I stayed away.
@IExpo The red velvet was on the walls in the 1930's so if you want to use it as part of the symptom of the fall of Haight that's up to you. Didn't say I liked it, just me and many thousands of others didn't let it bum our trip.
@6749er I think you've over generalized my comment. But,no, I didn't like it and I can't believe that same ugly shit would be on the walls for 30 years. Seems like it would have a little, you know, grease, dust, grime. Maybe they vacuumed it? It was much nice at On the Beach. And aesthetics matter. I can't believe that many people had that much bad taste. they could have slathered the walls in cool posters, anything but red velvet bull
@IExpo It was on the wall when the Airplane, Dead, QMS were running the Carousal. Guess they had bad taste and no Hip esthetics too? Bill took over in 68 and it stayed till The Fillmore West closed. You've established that you didn't like it. I'm not trying to talk you out of it but it's your gripe not all the many thousands of us who didn't mind, so I hope you don't think anyone needs to make your problem ours. I'm sure not.
@6749er Yes, I guess they did have bad taste. It was ugly. Look, super cool all I did was leave a word saying the entry decor was shit. And it was. Glad you found it passable. You alone address it as an issue and try to make my simple comment look like something it's not., now go back to your old rolling stones magazines.
This sound great thanks for sharing this for us to enjoy..peace be safe Larry
1949beatles 1 day ago
dbrinkm1 - I responded to your comment on your channel, but went back to cut & paste - couldn't find it. Anyway, you were very lucky to see QMS. Gary D., Dino, Michael Lewis and John C. - I would trade all the concerts I've been to...just to have seen these guys.
slj66213 1 day ago in playlist Quicksilver Messenger Service
Mikael Akerfeldt on lead guitar ;)
mantas66666 1 week ago
Fan friggin fantastic. I'm A virgo too.
drmikeyg 1 week ago
@drmikeyg I'm a Virgo too!
slj66213 1 day ago
this is one of the coolest jams i have ever heard !! gotta say kinda santana like obviously , but their own kinda (i hate to say groovy ) mix ! i know, smoke another one , but really.
mugfordpete 1 week ago
love it...i met dino in the 80's...what a treat!his mom was my neighbor,she used to make me homemade muffins before i went to school....miss you dot
ArchitectRufus 3 weeks ago
I presume this was shot after John left the band sometime in 71, but why is Gary playing John's SG? Especially since, I think in the earlier days, Gary played an ES? Gary does a nice job here, but it doesn't sound like signature vibrato work. My favorite incarnation of QMS was the duel guitars, pre-Dino era.
Realitytourist 3 weeks ago
It gives me the chills just to hear the typically shorter-than-short introduction from my hero, Bill (Wolfgang) Graham, without whom a dozen great bands (and dozens of other important bands) would never have been heard from outside local bars. And then to see Quicksilver deliver some fresh music that proves how important that was, is a five-minute treat.
Avon53 3 weeks ago
Sounds like they're trying to be Hot Tuna. Just gimme the studio version of this song, which is Epic.
welcome2myhell 4 weeks ago
@welcome2myhell Hot Tuna? this sounds absolutely NOTHING like Hot Tuna.
garymichael1950 2 weeks ago
@garymichael1950 sounds like Hot Tuna on a bad night
welcome2myhell 1 week ago
@welcome2myhell Ah! Now THAT may be! Love this song though! You know the audio is NOT all that bad considering..
garymichael1950 1 week ago
Nice job on this vid!!
2011Hippiechick 4 weeks ago
Oh, yeah.
ReneODeay 1 month ago
have another hit of fresh air ... and some weed
shlomonew 1 month ago
you cleaned it good
robin56 1 month ago
@robin56 He really did a GREAT job on this.So have another hit!!!!!!!!!!Oh and its really great that sony apoligized for taking off this and other great music.Three piece suit mother fuckers!!!
mike4asianwoman 1 month ago 4
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robin56 2 weeks ago
@mike4asianwoman I know. I love it!
robin56 2 weeks ago
By 1971, their marijuana-fueled brilliance had grown a bit tired, but they remained tight and cohesive and, as Bill Graham said at the beginning of the clip, "The nicest guys you'll ever meet"
Here's to you, guys. I remember you
notmorphy 1 month ago
Great post,,did you film Quicksilver back in the day? I saw the Allman Brothers with Duane back in the day. Takes me back 40 year ago at age 18. Never saw Quicksilver but I remember them.
UfoDan100 2 months ago
For all who saw this great band in person......you are all so very lucky. Thank you so much for all the wonderful QMS videos.
slj66213 2 months ago
Love it - absolutely love it! What a great time that was. Some of my fondest memories. The kids today have no idea what they missed. But I'm teaching my son! By the way, the audio is good. Great job. Thanks for posting!
hiramchik 2 months ago
I saw Cipollina play in Seattle...not long before he died. Great guitarist!
55tozen 2 months ago
One of my favotrite groups from the late 60s they don't do music like this any more.
imwhitewolf 2 months ago
Those where the day's,F W was the place to be or not to be & it was no question when you were where it was at,The Light was Clear .Thanks for posting one of SF's best of the Trips Bands ,With Mr.Naturals Love Saves All :-}
freebymagick 2 months ago 2
terrifc sound, great video....thanks...
AlbionDavid 3 months ago
Don't forget that QMS was the first rock band to have two guitarists equally qualified to play both lead and rhythm. This was QMS's innovation and gave them the ability to trade solos as well as engage in collective improvisation. After John, left, Gary did a great job carrying the band with Dino on rhythm. Chuck Steaks is Mark Naftalin? That makes sense. Mark played with Paul Butterfield and is a great player in his own right.
theresahaffner 3 months ago
It sounds great, despite all the political rectification going
on these days. Translated, we can take anything we want, except more leaders who invest in "futures".
spoildn8410 3 months ago
Wasn't Cippolina in the band at this popint?
Rockym100 3 months ago
Put this band against the Stones any day & in my opinion, QMS is way more talented & way better to look at! You guys should have been huge. Wish I could have seen them in person.....makes me very sad.
kjay67 4 months ago
NICE JOB... GREAT SOUND AND MIX.....
gregjcase 4 months ago
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kjay67 4 months ago
What can I say?
litedave 5 months ago
this is really nice love it. They used to play in Forest Park in St Louis on Hippie Hill all the stoners would go and lay on blankets and party wine in leather cool have another hit
77sunsetable 5 months ago
Love it ! I like the less than perfect, but very listenable live feel :)
MsBluheart 5 months ago
YOUR RIGHT THATS GARY.WITH JOHNS SG. THEY DO LOOK ALIKE. JOHN HAD MOVED ON TO HIS OWN THING IN 71. STILL A GREAT BAND
THETWILIGHTGULDE 6 months ago
THATS JOHN CIPOLLINA ON LEAD THATS HIS CUSTOM SG DINO ON BASS GARY ON VOCALS WITH ES 355
THETWILIGHTGULDE 6 months ago
@THETWILIGHTGULDE Wrong. That is John's SG, but that's Gary Duncan playing it, Dino on ES-335 and David on bass.
karmices 6 months ago 6
@karmices What does "SG" & ES-335 mean?
slj66213 1 month ago
@slj66213 Gibson SG is the type of guitar Gary Duncan is playing and a Gibson ES-335 is what Dino is playing.
karmices 1 month ago
@karmices Thanks. I'll Google this and learn about them.
slj66213 1 month ago
@karmices an Sg is a Solid body guitar an Es is a hollow body guitar so its Empty
spacepatrolman 1 month ago
@spacepatrolman Yes, I know. Thank you.
karmices 1 month ago
@spacepatrolman The ES-335, ES-345, and ES-355 are semi hollow. The ES-330 (aka Casino) is hollow. Semi-hollows aren't completely hollow, and have a different tone than a full hollow body guitar.
slpplexi1969 3 weeks ago
@slpplexi1969 yea i know a 335 has a plank in it its heavy but that could increase your sustain
spacepatrolman 3 weeks ago
I'm sure it was a task cleaning up the audio from so long ago. Thanks for the effort. I think you did a great job and I'm glad to hear this great song from QMS. =;-)
fhaedra 6 months ago
Thanks for the comments. It took me a few view to figure out that the lead guitar was Gary Duncan and not John Cippolina because he was playing John's Batwing SG guitar. I couldn't make Quicksilvers' show for the closing week of the Fillmore, but I did make the Deads' show! It was a kinder and gentler time!! Thanks for the memories. I miss John Cippolina, but still a treasure!!
bigmRin 6 months ago
Nice job on the audio.
Beauxbeaux1 6 months ago
I like it, Dino had an unreal voice, with such feeling, you can cry listening to it !
meltorment949 6 months ago
Wendy and I saw these guys at the Victory a few times. Most amazing!
ardellefly 7 months ago
Sounds like a Bill G introduction?
mrjbkap 7 months ago
@mrjbkap Bill G introduced all (well most all) acts at the Fillmore.
karmices 6 months ago 2
Why on earth is this song not played on classic radio stations today?
QueenCeleste2 7 months ago
@QueenCeleste2
I agree with you QueenCeleste -I don't think I have heard Fresh Air on the radio since the 70s. I wanted to put it as the ringtone on my phone & Verizon couldn't do it. Just learned about the band in depth the past month. Don't know why the song just popped into my head after all these years. Sort of wished I hadn't after learning about Dino's death. What a talented man. So sad.
kjay67 7 months ago
@QueenCeleste2 The classic radio stations usually only play a total of fourteen hairy butt songs starting off with the Rolling Stones. We can't get enough of them.
MisterNifty 6 months ago
@MisterNifty
What are hairy butt songs???????? Is that California lingo?
kjay67 6 months ago
@kjay67 Hairy Butted Rock Music -- a genre of rock originating in the late 60s played mostly by white British groups of black musician wannabes. These mostly ugly musicians didn't play their rock music but tended to dink out the blues instead. Example lyrics: "Oh the heavy hearted hairy butted! Yeah!" When squinting ones ears to listen to such music, the peripheral one generally envisions is of a large beer drinking fellow with long hair, lots of tattoos and riding noisely on a Harley.
MisterNifty 6 months ago
@MisterNifty Thanks for the response. Guess some things never made it to KANSAS.
Sondra
kjay67 6 months ago
Dino is the lead Vocalist here.
Jimala3 7 months ago
I was lucky enough to see them back in the 70's in Beckley, WV. Helped them set up on the stage. I don't remember who, but they had two drummers. It remains one of my favorite concerts of all time. Great video.
mrkartoom 7 months ago
This is the best video of Dino. I have played it over & over. Wish I had seen the band in person....guess they never came to Kansas City.
slj66213 7 months ago
Aurora1957 - THANKS!!! The audio was just fine.
HVYMETL 7 months ago
@fleetwoodlad not now......see live 1975 on ytube
posthumanhero 7 months ago
Thank you so much for this gem. Dino never got the props he deserved and, of course, QMS was the shit...forever and always.
dac10012 7 months ago
One of my fav song from the way back time machine! Wonderful editing on this!
KMelKang 7 months ago
is this from a full length concert movie?
would love to see a whole show.
have always thought this was a rockin' jam.
great upload.
u rock :D
studio910 7 months ago
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buffspringfield 8 months ago
OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH I wanta know what you do to me little girl.... Have another hit of fresh air....... from Japan..... to southern California........2011. Mercury= quicksilver. That voice echoes still and I'm 56 yrs old one of the very first albums to never forget.
basicdata 9 months ago 11
Cipollina is the brother of huey lewis and the news' bass player...very talented fam.
love this song
jesicanjam 9 months ago
@jesicanjam
Sadly, John's younger brother died as well, not too long ago, of an overdose.
notmorphy 7 months ago
Thankyou so much! This was altogether too much. How many muches can I say? I'ts a crying shame Dino and Nicky are gone, but not forgotten.
thebeast2407 9 months ago
Another great QS song.......
wrclassic 9 months ago
Unbelievable stuff. I love how that 60's and 70's (in particular) were full of songs that just made you feel- good. Now, all the music makes you feel depressed and angry. If everyone heard this kind of music, we'd all be in better moods.
MoonNymph775 9 months ago
@MoonNymph775
spot on, how does it get any better than this, sound is beautifully raw, can't imagine it was to see this
live
imaging 9 months ago
it just gets no better than this!!
phoebepeepers 10 months ago
Cleartwater- thanks for your service! I never saw QMS, was too young although i am 50 now. But, sure have always appreciated their music- moreso now than ever. I am definitely old school- they just dont make music like this anymore, and probly never will again.
jananney 10 months ago
Dino V. I believe was arrested for awhile but this video is great. For a 62 year old Vietnam Vet, this was the music I carried around with me in country. Everyone was always trying to rip me off but I kept the tape well hidden and listened to it as much as I could. Anyone who remembers QMS is old school and probably still smoking a joint on occasion as I do. Cleartwater. Omaha, Ne.
Cleartwater 10 months ago
@Cleartwater
Loved your comment. I'm your age. Lived in Omaha in late 90's for a few years. Finished college at Bellevue. Sorry you had to go to Nam.
slj66213 7 months ago
Wow, I was at that show. What a great band. Thanks for the flashback man... Really appreciate it. :-)
MrFinger8r 10 months ago
Unequaled!
kcolpaer 10 months ago
This tune ROCKS and is so peerfect for the Hippie daysl...
DavelovesRealMusic 11 months ago
@garthmillersienkiewi
the lineup here is:
gary duncan vox, lead guitar (playing one of founding member john cipollina's guitars if I'm not mistaken)
david freiberg vox, bass
dino valenti lead vox, guitar
greg elmore drums
chuck steaks (mark naftalin) keyboards
:)
aurora1957A 11 months ago
That sure sounded like Bill Graham introducing them. I was at a few shows where he did that. Mostly at Winterland. Thank you for everything Bill. You changed the world.
qwilleranj 10 months ago
@qwilleranj Did you know that Bill Graham's music collection (or much of it) can be heard at a site called Wolfgang's Concert Vault? I love to listen to the whole concert when I have the time :)
rckrchck 10 months ago
A very big favorite.....i love you god knows i do
imaging 11 months ago
Take me take me take me BACK to those DAAAYYYSSSS.................. I'll have another HIT of fresh ggggggggggggg. I mean it from the bottom of my SOUL every musician, every group, still to this day I heard the best and it was live concerts everywhere. Now I see it was the best bang for your buck. My generation had it all,classic cars to cartoons, from album to album I've never weened myself off.
basicdata 1 year ago
which one is Dino Valenti?, the guy who penned "get together".
barnabas50 1 year ago
@barnabas50
the lead vocalist
:)
aurora1957A 1 year ago
@barnabas50 dino valenti was my aunt's first love in high school
clydeholbrook 5 months ago
@barnabas50 Dino didn't write "get together". Chet Powers wrote it.
vinegarjoe 4 months ago
@vinegarjoe THATs Dino Valente, his alais.
overbrookXXX 4 months ago
@vinegarjoe Chester Powers was Dino's penname.
overbrookXXX 4 months ago
John Cippolina was a fantastic guitarist
ozarkdem 1 year ago
Outstanding, Aurora. Thanks!
aladent 1 year ago
Let's quit the pissing contest. One of the great SF bands of the late 60's. Sadly, Dino Valente and Nicky Hopkins have left us for the big concert in the sky.
LindseyMurillo 1 year ago 11
@LindseyMurillo
yah...
aurora1957A 1 year ago
@LindseyMurillo not about that
oreokookie1000 9 months ago
@LindseyMurillo Sadly also, John Cippolina, who's not present here, but is conspicuous by his absence in the lead guitar role.
elgrovez13 7 months ago
@LindseyMurillo Don't forget the passing of John Cipollina. Wish I could have seen them in person. You are very lucky. Sondra
kjay67 3 months ago
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Treadlightlyful 2 months ago
@kjay67 saw Cippolina 2wks before he died in Berkeley Starry Plow , he had two beautiful marin co girls in tow and was living right , right up to the end . Hey , who among us is going to live forever and can you say you went out playing ? This is a later version but the earlier acid days @ Filmore were raw & unbelievable .The cutting intro on the record is great!! Always loved the full compliment of congas & percussion but after a while you needed to stop flying so close to the sun ...
Treadlightlyful 2 months ago
Eargasm!!!!!
mopardude6969 1 year ago
One of the finest bands of the 60's ....no question! :)
Rhythmrancher1 1 year ago
TI NA LEME TWRA!!!!!!! GREEKS LOVES JOHN AND Quicksilver Messenger Service
argi1968argi 1 year ago
If this is from the closing of Fillmore, then I saw this...great song and emblematic of those days.
Bjejune 1 year ago
I’m interested in Chuck Steaks. After I played with the Outlaws, Gary suggested I contact Quicksilver & gave me their number. So I went north and auditioned. They got Nicky Hopkins instead. Never liked Nicky with QMS but Chuck plays the way I would have wanted to with QMS.
theresahaffner 1 year ago
one my favorite bands.... yummy
plumeriasj 1 year ago
john cippolina
72hdryder 1 year ago
john cippolina
72hdryder 1 year ago
Oh, I love this -have it on CD, "Best of.."
'Have another hit..'
tomk773 1 year ago
I think it sounds very good, thank you for the video.
smbroager 1 year ago
Absolutely fantastic! Wore this one out in high school... lots of good memories. Nice job!!!
jimncheryl 1 year ago
Absolutely fantastic! Wore this one out in high school... lots of good memories.
jimncheryl 1 year ago
Wow- really fine visuals.
Is this available on disc...?1 I'd love to have it.
amarijayamari 1 year ago
Great version...I hear an added verse near the end that wasn't on the record...thanks for posting.
fusion07mp3 1 year ago
Dino Valenti
sandrastein 1 year ago
Nasty??? I dont see how...But let me re-phrase it then....Perhaps he was guilty of reinforcing negative ethnic stereotypes.
MrDougpro 1 year ago
I think you did a great job - good sound, and vid quality is really good.
This is my favorite of QMS - totally enjoyed!!!,
thanks ;-D
rokedetbamidbar 1 year ago
This sounds fantastic and looks terrific. Good work and thanks for posting it.
duncanstpt 1 year ago
Did john leave at this point in the band?
cavemanfarts 1 year ago
post to my status on face bollk
SuperKennylong 1 year ago
Mike and Debbie ,,, we got it!
SuperKennylong 1 year ago
Thanks for your effort brah!
Downedbuck 1 year ago
Wow! Sound is fine for ME... Nice work!
pcbrown373 1 year ago
excellent. thank you.
jfarinacci1 1 year ago
Sounds GREAT !!! LOVE IT !!!
phillyirish38 1 year ago
IExpose; did you drop acid at the Avalon? No red velvet there; a much friendlier place. Run by Family Dog; Chet Helms.
shuksanblue 1 year ago
Dino Vaneli the down fall of the Quick Silver Messangers sound.............
Newman54 1 year ago
Many thanks for posting.
I had seen it many years before at TV.
Great version without John Cipolina.
He had already left.
andrewtournavitis 1 year ago
To Weissfella: I was a freshman in HS in San Jose. Myself and two friends made it to that concert. Never, never forget it!
JarLeeLan 1 year ago
@JarLeeLan absolutely jealous. Loved the movie and album set
ronaldT10001 1 year ago
Audio doesn't sound too bad man.
Bigpolak57 1 year ago
Fantastic job. We'll never again see bands like the bands of the 60's 70's.
stevemiholick 1 year ago
So good to hear that old San Francisco sound that's never been duplicated anywhere! I was there, walking the Haight, 1967, fresh out of the navy...This music made an indelible imprint on my life, a wave of new and good things that came ever after. Sure, there were drugs and such, but no crime during the Summer of Love, because there was a news strike on, and nobody thought about those things.
Allways27 1 year ago 2
@Allways27 Ever sit on the corner where there's a Ben and Jerry's, u'd of seen many cars, that stopped and kidnapped chicks for rape! Bad ass black dudes from the Fillmore Area.
Jenscool 1 year ago
to Jenscool:
There was no Ben and Jerry's then. This was the beginning, (summer of 1967, AKA "Summer of Love"), of people saying there ought to be peace and love. There was no crime then either, but that changed as soon as the news strike was off. Only then did it get ugly! The newspapers began reporting how horrible it all was, and sure enough, it did become horrible, with many of the peaceful people just moving out and leaving the troublemakers behind.
Kill your TV! You'll feel better.
Allways27 1 year ago 9
@Allways27 I 110% agree with ya, Gr8 times, but it was, as many said, that, that ticked off a lot of resentment in the fillmore area, and they played off of the media, and then the bad scene came down, exactly on Haight and Ashbury, hence, the "the death of hippie" was the evoked. Too bad a good thing can't be left to gather......but I had my fun.
Peace.
Jenscool 1 year ago
@Allways27 I wandered into Haight Ashbury easter 1967 and I can tell you it was weird. Lot of people tripping. Didn't take very long before the love generation turned into the turned on generation. The good vibe stayed around longer in canada and europe - no war and aiding draft dodgers - well into the 70's. By then we all had jobs and babies.
RustyfFender 8 months ago
one of the best groups- saw them live at a New Year's Eve celebration at Winterland back in the days of yore- I think it was December 31st 1969. Bill Graham served breakfast for the New Year!
weissfella 1 year ago
STILL spine-tingling! And now, the documentary from which this is excerpted in availavble on DVD.
kcolpaer 1 year ago
@kcolpaer What documentary?????
slj66213 1 month ago
great job
dad742 1 year ago
Remember the spring and summer days back 1970 & 71 when this song wift through the air and could be heard on a regular basis...take yourself back for a moment and unwind...recall..and smile...smile and smile.. :)
designermite 1 year ago
I collect vinyl....just got a gorgeous unblemished QSMS album and heard this...oh yeah. Makes me wanna quit my job...and have another "Hit" of Fresh Air!!
beckjuly100 1 year ago
One of the first albums I owned.
TheUnclehowie 1 year ago
3:19 was a great shot, I wonder where that pic is today.
radcam69 1 year ago
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Bigpolak57 1 year ago
Where did that lead guitar player..rock, after the split up of QMS?
stubbypeeps 1 year ago
uuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
williams5885 1 year ago
where was JC?
jimothy60 1 year ago
So beautiful, so increible.
What is the name of the QSM lead guitar
stubbypeeps 1 year ago
@stubbypeeps Gary Duncan plays lead here. Earlier QMS featured dual lead guitarist John Cipollina
aurora1957A 1 year ago 2
@aurora1957A Duncan is a strong player. Good Rhythm, good pitch and lots of emotional drama. He plays in the pocket.
erod1944 1 year ago
@aurora1957A This from the fillmore movie bill graham gets into a funny staged argument in his office with boz scaggs
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
@spacepatrolman actually it was mike wilhelm from charlatanse....funny i used to think it was boz too....lol.
darrenfinizio 1 year ago
Gibson SG same as Tonny Iommi and Angus Young and of course Eric Clapton sometimes with Cream
alexlancer11 1 year ago
Groovy!... : )
Kungen940127 1 year ago
Good old Dino! Damn it, man, you are sorely missed.
prospectus91 1 year ago
John and Gary were my first guitar heros. Did my best to sound like Duncan.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!
eslmc 1 year ago
being 18 i dont have many friends who like this kinda music so when people my age use my mp3 player their like "WUT?"
MeestaKeefGirly 1 year ago
Bill Graham opened the New Fillmore and didn't do a thing for the atmosphere of the place:: When you walked in you were confronted with a bunch of Red Velvet on the walls, like you see in old Mexican cafe's. Red Velvet bulls.....Bill never did a thing but make money and screw up a nice 60's scene with his money schemes. Family Dog and Chet Helms had the right idea
IExposeMormonism 1 year ago
@IExposeMormonism
He taped almost every show, and many can now be heard for no charge at Wolfgang's vault...
:)
aurora1957A 1 year ago 4
@aurora1957A Well thats nice but it does Nothing for all those times I went to the Fillmore west and had to look at that red velvet. You know what that does to good acid??
IExposeMormonism 1 year ago
@IExposeMormonism
lol!
:)
aurora1957A 1 year ago
@IExposeMormonism I can still taste that red !!
BigFishingShop 1 year ago
@IExposeMormonism Probablly sucks big time! LOL
inatizzy2 1 year ago
@inatizzy2 'specially when you're coming on hard to a pink wedge or window pane...
IExposeMormonism 1 year ago
@IExposeMormonism shbould the former proceed the ladder, asked perched on such a remeberance throne
ePhilosopher9 1 year ago
@IExposeMormonism
Dude,
nothing screws with good acid.
well, maybe the fuzz
kolimpah 1 year ago
@kolimpah That red fuzzy velvet on the walls of the New Fillmore west screwed with good acid! But the music smoothed it all out..If Bill Graham had changed that velvet I'd like him a little more, I mean, he had the money, he could have and he made me look at that stuff....
IExposeMormonism 1 year ago
@IExpos Grated Bill wasn't Chet but it cost the same to see a show at the Fillmore as the Avalon, which also had felt. The Airplane,Dead and QMS were running The Carousal before Bill moved there and changed the name to the Fillmore West. They had the same velvet walls when they had it, so you want to blame them too? It didn't bum out me or anyone I've know like it did you.. Sounds like your problem. The FW had a lot of classic ballroom look and Bill put on great shows. We enjoyed it.
6749er 1 year ago
@6749er I never went to the FW until B Graham had it. That velvet was bad for psychic life. Mine anyhow. I'd had enough by the summer of 69 and never went back.. I'm a little surprised and disappointed that hard core mind explorers could live with that stuff. Guess I'm just too sensitive.
IExposeMormonism 1 year ago
@IExpo Maybe it was because I was there for the music and fun and didn't spend time looking at walls and wasn't going to put a wall between me and a good time. When the Airplane Dead QMS was "running" the place as The Carousal it was Way Fun and Way Crazy. The felt came from way back when it was the El Patio Ballroom. Kinda historic funky chic if you let it be but sorry you let it get in the way of all the great shows before and after 69, Obliviously a whole lot of us tripsters didn't.
6749er 1 year ago
@6749er Yeh, well we can't all be as cool as you. I wasn't staring at the walls, they screamed bad taste. I liked Haight Ashbury for awhile too but it didn't take long for that appeal to disappear too. I guess I'm just whining. In my opinion that red velvet is part of the symptom. Lack of aesthetics. The reason places are decorated is for atmosphere. Produces a certain feeling...1968 concert deco' wasn't red velvet bulls for me. But I'm glad you like it. I stayed away.
IExposeMormonism 1 year ago
@IExpo The red velvet was on the walls in the 1930's so if you want to use it as part of the symptom of the fall of Haight that's up to you. Didn't say I liked it, just me and many thousands of others didn't let it bum our trip.
6749er 1 year ago
@6749er I think you've over generalized my comment. But,no, I didn't like it and I can't believe that same ugly shit would be on the walls for 30 years. Seems like it would have a little, you know, grease, dust, grime. Maybe they vacuumed it? It was much nice at On the Beach. And aesthetics matter. I can't believe that many people had that much bad taste. they could have slathered the walls in cool posters, anything but red velvet bull
IExposeMormonism 1 year ago
@IExpo It was on the wall when the Airplane, Dead, QMS were running the Carousal. Guess they had bad taste and no Hip esthetics too? Bill took over in 68 and it stayed till The Fillmore West closed. You've established that you didn't like it. I'm not trying to talk you out of it but it's your gripe not all the many thousands of us who didn't mind, so I hope you don't think anyone needs to make your problem ours. I'm sure not.
6749er 1 year ago
@6749er Yes, I guess they did have bad taste. It was ugly. Look, super cool all I did was leave a word saying the entry decor was shit. And it was. Glad you found it passable. You alone address it as an issue and try to make my simple comment look like something it's not., now go back to your old rolling stones magazines.
IExposeMormonism 1 year ago