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  • GREAT SONG ~ MOVIETIME

  • At least we have the sweet memories of all those daze!!!!

  • loved living in the city in the 60's bands at the fillmore,avalon,and goldengate parkwhat a great time.loved santa cruz

  • amazing band

  • Forgotten hell! Those who truly appreciate real classic rock and not the "play by numbers" tracks most "classic" rock stations play truly have not forgotten this band. They are sadly though another band in a long list of great ones who we'll never be able to witness the original lineups of due to key members no longer on this plane of existence. Rock on John, Nicky, and Dino wherever you're at!!

  • I really enjoy this as i did back in 60s Another great alblum is Santanic Majestries Request.,Like 1 Joint and (like whatever your choice is)YOU KNOW THIS IS THE ALBLUM FOR THAT!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • This one goes out for anyone who's ever ridden a motorcycle up California Highway 1 (or through the redwoods near Eureka, CA). LOVE John's guitar riffs in this one -- a bit of spicey Spanish influence mixed with sultry blues. Ghostly keyboards from long ago. We were all medium cool back then. Yeah, we were (and still are).

  • @mickeymousebiker1 oh yes mickey, born and raised in the bay area, flowerchild I was, am, and always will be lol.

  • @flowerchildca One can never tell. I might be venturing to NorCal someday (soon, I hope). The midWest has become too long in the tooth. I also want to live where my now-deceased and resplendent wife, Barbra, was from (Santa Rosa, CA). I still have some b/w pics from Look magazine (shot by Irving Penn) of some hippies and a few of the Bay area Hells Angels. Johhny Depp could portray a Chet Helms-like character in a valid film about the SF counterculture scene, circa 1966 - 1967. Best to you

  • @tomandbenny - On this song, it's DIno Valenti vocals & rhythm guitar; Gary Duncan lead guitar & vocals; David Freiberg bass & vocals - think 3 part harmony; John Cipollina background guitar fills & comps; Jesse Oris Farrow was a pseudonym for DIno Valenti; Nicky Hopkins did more than occasional piano. He was an official QMS member & played on 3 of their albums: Shady Grove, What About Me & Just For Love. Prior to QMS Nicky played on Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Jeff Beck & other recordings.

  • Thanks for the long forgotten memory!!!

  • Who is singing lead in Fresh Air? slj66213@yahoo.com

  • @kjay67 - If I remember - Dino Valenti on lead vocals, Gary Duncan on bass, David Freiberg on drums, the incomparable John Cippolina on lead guitar, lyrics by Jesse Oris Farrow. Nicky Hopkins also played occasiobnal piano with them. You're scratching some very old memory banks here...

  • @tomandbenny

    Thanks for the response. I was afraid of that. Dino is gone......I hate that! I think Fresh Air needs to be revived, maybe in an environmental ad on TV - something with class. I think Dino would approve of that. Maybe someone could contact his son Joli & see what he thinks.

  • @kjay67 - If I remember - Dino Valenti on lead vocals, Gary Duncan on bass, David Freiberg on drums, the incomparable John Cippolina on lead guitar, lyrics by Jesse Oris Farrow. Nicky Hopkins also played occasional piano with them. You're scratching some very old memory banks here...

  • Who is singing lead in Fresh Air?

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  • This tune is awesome

    anyone know where I can find guitar tabs for it

  • Just an awesome tune, thanks for sharing!

  • Has anybody seen their stage manager, Edd Pieters? If so, please contact me, barbshirland@mac.com. Thanks.

  • There's something magical

  • Oh yeah.....speedway meadows, polo fields, avalon, fillmore, winterland, peace rallys,the panhandel..conga drums.....smoke.... crazy but beautiful days....not a care in the world....Quicksilver...one of the best short lived bands...

  • I always loved this song! A classic! A great one.

  • I always loved this song!

  • i remember my twin brother and i would go to the filmore east , saw these guys . and was blown away. and there was this guy who worked there and his job was to go around and tell u to put your weed out he was the buzzman any body remember him?  those were some fun times

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  • hey just chill out and listen - theres too much politics right now give it a rest man - enjoy and spread some love and peace while you can -

  • does anybody know a Re-make for this song Please <3?

  • @petitefillle Quick Silver Messenger Service

  • Thanks. GOD BLESS

  • Nice post! Thanks for hipping me to this song. Be easy. PEace and GOD BLESS

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  • I don't think these guys were a forgotten band.

  • ...these 2 clowns still think we have a 2 party system, HA !

    "...have another hit !"

  • Tasty. Haven't heard this in ages!

  • Never heard this before... wow this made my day, seriously... fantastic

  • No 8mm out there?

  • plyin the song 4 my papa notbad

  • I collect vinyl...and I just rediscovered this one!! How fantastic it sounds on unblemished 'wax'.....CD's really don't do it justice. Thanks for posting this.

  • John Cippolina, David Freiburg, The Rest--- Nicky Hopkins. They ROCK

  • Saw them at the Warehouse in New Orleans....no seats in the place ...you stood or sat....on old carpets.....good place !

  • what can you say about this song. up there with white bird. what a great band they were.....

  • Yes, indeed almost forgotten, except for this song. I've heard it for twenty years.

    One day wonders: the best

  • thanks for posting, I haven't heard this in many years.

  • I had the pleasure of seeing this band "live" in KC, MO, at The Freedom Palace, 'round about 1970. No A/C, sat on the floor- so smooooth that I---- had another hit(and another-and another) Good times :-) Peace out--

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    So they were in KC? I wish I had gone. slj66213@yahoo.com

  • fresh air of smoking paul mccartney.

  • quintessential quicksilver..quintessential SF rock. This is the real stuff!

  • OK, so I'm checking out the album cover and notice the "Q" has an ankh (Egyptian symbol for eternal life) and something that looks like bulls horns. What the heck is this? Anybody know?

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  • If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there!! yuk yuk yuk

  • This song has such a haunting feeling to it. I first heard this group back in Boston on WBCN and instantly fell in love with their sound. Their sound is as fresh and and sweet now as back then. I get the chills listening to it as all the memories of my youth and past life go through my head. It has a hypnotic effect. I was 19 when this came outand 40 years later i still love QMS wow where has life gone thanks for this song allmanbros. Have another hit of FRESH AIR live it love it feel it

  • WBCN-'This is Dan Sheckter, Your News Disectter'.

  • @delta9779 you and me both

  • OMG sounds incredible

  • Hmm, this has a California connection but I always thought instead of the wilderness of Montana, Wyoming, or of Canada. But definitely no links to the ugliness of the aforementioned illegal items (or alcohol related). Inspiration and enjoyment ... they also come naturally, perfectly well intended, and sound.

  • With all due respect, I enjoy picturing this song in a non-dope imagery. Just natural, clean natural country, river / lake, snow capped mountains; fresh air. Sweet, clean air and the scent of forest green and earthly goodness -- again, with no typical tendency to illegal matters. Always liked this song and it brings back nostalgic memories of the tumultuous but tremendous 60s. Never once had any interest in alcohol, drugs, or tobacco. Still, I appreciate this particular QSMS work.

  • Hell Yeah! Love this song! Instant fav!!!

  • The memories are flooding in, black light posters, bell bottoms, sweet northern calif air, ocean, hils, pot and mescaline. And I can remember it all 40 yrs later lol

  • @flowerchildca ain't nothin wrong with a lil weed.

  • Believe me, have done my share. And to Querencias, you were a minority lol. This is exactly what this song among most music during that era is all about. Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys and on and on and on lol. Wish I could go back.

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  • @flowerchildca After doing all of that lucky you can still remember it! lol

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  • @flowerchildca Please tell me you did not help elect that moron nancy pelosi? lmao

  • @cobraman96 Hell no, in fact, she better get kicked out this election in Nov. I now am living in Houston so really pis ed I can't be involved there. Daughter will take care of it lol. BUT I will be involved in getting Obamanation out.

  • @flowerchildca Good,Whats funny is the people from the 60's for the most part were against government control!So its easy to see why a lot of them grew up to have more common sense like a true conservative.(notice i didnt say republican)?

  • @cobraman96 Just checked out your channel, nice but best of all is your vid. I love Bell Bottom Blues written by Eric Clapton. Can't believe I didn't remember that one for my favs, as you can see I was into all music but of couse 60's and early 70's. were mindblowing lol. I almost went to Woodstock but opt to go to Vegas and see Elvis at one of his first shows. Front row center stage. Good decision lol.

  • @cobraman96

    So true I'm one of them.

    There is a theme that has survived thou time and that's that big business SUCKS!

    And we have to always watch out for the WAR pigs(Republicans).

  • @DocRocz Who employees people?Has poor person ever givin u a job? The 60's are over and the democrats are the ones trying to control your life ,not republicans!

  • @cobraman96

    Republican are the one's doing all the blocking. No, their not blocking for you and me. The have one interest and it's Big business.

    Like apologies to BP and the list just goes on and on.

    Yes, the 60's are over but the theme is still the same.

  • @DocRocz Hey dumbass,Democrats run everything! They can't block anything!

  • @cobraman96

    Wow, so you're saying this whole recession was brought about by the Democrats.

    8 years of Republican crap and you have the nerve to call me a "dumbass".

    Of 415 historians who expressed a view of President Bush’s administration to this point as a success or failure, 338 classified it as a failure and 77 as a success.

    Remember google is your friend.

  • @DocRocz hey dumbass,Go look an unemployment graph.It never was 9.9 under republicans the last 8 years.Fannie and freddie is another democratic redistribution of wealth scam.....thats all dumbocrats know,Buy votes w/handouts of everyone elses tax dollars! Samew thing w/the illegals..give whatever they want say they wlll vote for democrats.Oh and wait till nobama gets theu and google his presidency...He is jimmy carter times 100!

  • @cobraman96 Thank you so much for making my case for me.

    You clearly show your ignorance as the current unemployment rate is a result of the policies implemented by the Bush administration.

    You are the epitome of the Republican party. You fail to provide any facts to support your position and what you do provide are facts that have been scewed to show the Republicans in a better light.

    A classic example is Michael Steel when he said that the war was started by Obama.

  • @DocRocz  right on!!

  • @DocRocz He started dropping bombs yesterday...and gitmo is still open and we have the same two wars....so wtf has he done?He said he would do all these thing and now he is busy trying to reelected...holy crap.

  • @cobraman96 Are you seriously interested in what the President has accomplished or are you just fishing?

    Because a simple google search will bring up pages and pages of what has been accomplished by this President only 1/2 through his term.

    For anyone who is really interested just do a google search for: "Obama's Accomplishments - BlueOregon".

    You will find not only what has been done but the references to support those claims.

    I will warn you the list is amazing. You won't be happy cobraman96

  • @DocRocz Are smoking rocks again ,doc? What the left calls accomplishments,i call taxes and more government control..ie government mandated healthcare,and trying to make us buy into the highspeed rail b.s. .

  • Respond to this video...Anymore so called accomplishments and the taxes on your grandchildren will be in the 60% range. lmao 

  • @cobraman96

    This OBAMANATION was started October 19, 1933 - from the freakazoid hero who sold us ALL out-----FDR and thank the socialist hero Wilson For putting the cap on that bullet! DemoCrap or RepubliCon same sh_ _ !

  • @cobraman96 satats can be deceiving certainly if you think how the beginnining of the current crisis is the result of government spending udner bush, neoliberalization of the market under bush. he's just lucky to get away with it.

  • @DocRocz Ok,If the theme is the same....Hippies were protesting against government controlling their lives! Now who is trying trying to control our lives?DEMOCRATS!! Go google that moron! Does doc smoke rocks? No way you are straight while spewing your jibberish.

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  • @DocRocz War pigs? Nobama just bombed libya....? wtf?

  • @cobraman96 See I told you, you wouldn't like it.

    Remember google is your friend.

  • @flowerchildca

    i was at that party too

  • @a420highway lmfao

  • @flowerchildca MAN TAKE ME BACK TO THOSE DAYS.

  • @flowerchildca , no other generation had more fun then those who grew up in the 60's & 70's. No big brother watching your every move.

  • @TimLally54 So true

  • @TimLally54 born in 47 and as time has gone by I thank God I was

  • @flowerchildca born 2 weeks after Roswell, and I totaly agree. We saw the best.....love these flashbacks....lol

  • @flowerchildca oh Yeah,,,,,,,,,,,

  • In a word; 'CLASSIC!'

  • Will someone PLEASE pass me that doob? Jeez!!

  • Don't bogart it, bird....

  • I'm so HEP to that smokiebird06 - please - please pass that doob!

  • QMS!!! Where's the BONG???

  • Wheres' the lake? barbecue? and the beer? And this song?

  • okay someone break out the doobage...

  • Who says stoners never accomplished anything???

  • Hey, don't pass me up. I'm right over here. :/

  • With all due respect, gotta set the record straight 6749er. I was there, Avalon, Fillmore etc - was at most of QMS gigs 66 - 68 and onwards. As a musician got to know the styles of Duncan and Cip real well. It's Duncan who always did the main guitar solo on Fresh Air - from the Capital Records recording to live renditions. On Fresh Air John accents Gary's playing w/ short well aimed riffs - a kind of a background lead.

  • buzzbot-I was there-On my space video under QMS they have a clip that sed to be on U-Tube from Winterland where like every time I saw them do it when he was in the band John does not Accents-The Lead on Fresh Air. Check it out. I'll let Cips playing do the talking.

  • buzzbot with all due respect w/ your age listed at 29 & being there Avalon Fillmore 66-68 sure U know QMS 65-67 Gary Duncan didn't play a whole lot of guitar when Jim Murry was in the band & as a musican sure you remember what he did play a lot back when we were there.

    .

    Love the cover art by the legendary Rick Griffen.Like the 4 man band he did it for both California Classics.

  • Hey buzzbot. Hard to image being he's so good & made such Magic w/ Cipollina but in the early days of QMS Gary didn't play guitar at all & not much after & wasn't till Murry left in 1967 that he really started to play. When he did it was amazing to me that he didn't before. As it would have been to you if you were there.

    I have friends who never played a instrument who knew the styles of JC & GD from watching them play live which from your listed age was before U were born w/ all due respect.

  • There can be only one!

    Quicksilver Messenger Service!

    Take ME Home!!!!

  • Why parse the difference? Isn't this just a great song from this band? This music is still better than what's comin' out now........

  • Gary Duncan has the lead guitar solo in the middle, you can clearly hear this difference between him and john, Duncan

    was always the jazzier

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  • You are incorrect check the album just for love you will see in the credits Gary Duncan lead solo in Fresh Air, it doesn't even sound like anything john does, can you hear the difference in solos in Mona on Happy trails or the first long solo on who do you love is Duncan he does not use as much tremolo

  • My copy of J.F.L. doesn't have who played lead on Fresh Air.

    Tell me where it says it on yours?

    He played lead on that song every

    time I saw them do it when he was in the band.

    There was a brief video on UTube of them doing Fresh Air

    during the mid-70's reunion w/ John playing such a tasty lead.

    Take a look at your copy & tell me where it says who played lead & I'll look again. If u can't find it or the video there is

    someone I can ask who was there & knows better you or me.

  • "can you hear the difference in solos in Mona on Happy trails or the first long solo on who do you love is Duncan."

    Yes gondoman I can & could from before they had a record from live in person.

  • gondoman if you'd like to go to my space video under QMS & watch John's lead on Fresh Air live from Winterland it's there.. I've never seen a copy of Just For Love with anyone listed as the Lead on Fresh Air from when it first came out to now. Where is it? I saw them do Mona live for years before Happy Trails before Gary played a whole lot of guitar & whole lot of Mona's when he was in the 4 man band.

    Check out Cips lead on Fresh Air.

    It's hot licks & I'll let his playing say it.

  • Superb keyboards from Nicky Hopkins (RIP) - a real band effort here. Thanks for posting this gem.

  • Who is on lead guitar?Kinda sounds like carlos santana even though is probaly not.

  • John Cipollina (August 24, 1943 - May 29, 1989) was a lead guitarist best known for his work with the San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. He pronounced his surname with the Italian "C" (Chipollina). Born in Berkeley, California, he attended Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California (as did his brother, Mario Cipollina).

  • QuickSilver Messenger Service, specifically "Fresh Air" and "What About Me" almost sound like a cross between early Jefferson Airplane circa 1967 (Monterey Pop era) and early Chicago (Transit Authority) circa 1968. The studio echo, reverb, and stereo separation contribute to the late 60s/early 70s sound.

  • your right

  • I was born in '66, so I don't remember this band or "Fresh Air" during the first run on the charts. I "discovered" Quicksilver Messenger Service, specifically "Fresh Air" and "What About Me" in the summer of 1986. I was mesmerized the first time I heard this band. "Fresh Air" and "What About Me" sums up the late 60s/early 70s perfectly, not only lyrically, but musically. The sound is both dated and fresh, jazzy and hippie rock. The stereo separation adds to the time capsule effect.

  • To me, QMS epitomizes the late 60s and early 70s more than any band. I close my eyes and I am back in the bay area and it's 1972 and .... Well, some things are best left unsaid.

    Great music!

    Thanks allman... :D

  • I love this song. I had the album, it was a double album as I remember. I did replace this song onto a cd, but dont have the whole lp anymore. Wow the memories! This song is awesome and was ahead of its time!

  • This was a track on the Just for Love album released in August 1970. Founding member Dino Valenti, who returned to the band after a stint in prison on drug charges, was largely responsible for the new sound. The only single culled from the album, "Fresh Air," became the band's biggest hit, reaching #49.

    I saw them perform this song at the Diamond Head music festival in Hawaii in the summer of 1970.

  • I agree Trick and Jaynez. Heard it for my first time growing up in Portland Oregon 1970-71. Brings back some good memories of better times.

  • Each time I listen this, I see the scenery of around San Anselmo, Corte Madera and San Rafael driving either Redwood Highway or Magnolia Ave so vividly.

  • 1972 was my introduction to this band...i was 16 and that was real music. Music is NOT music today ...Music today has 3 notes and the same beat for hr.s

  • nothing is new no more, see history, now we are millions of humans that can't think and bring innovations, no more....it seems that we have to change the economics of the world, and the way we think is a waste, can't invent something new and impressive? i can't! but i love that music from then born 1961, just the second was over and garage bands in europe, we hate war but... we are abscent of the mind, we are sheep, we have no idea. stereotypes

  • WE R THE NEW HIPPIES  :-)

  • SHELL WE CHANGE THE WORLD

  • If it has more than 3 notes is considered too complicated.

  • My friend, currently is no longer about music but trade. Pity.

  • 1967 here... I was a part of the roaming tribes... God this song tears me up... it was a prophecy man!

  • There are many descendant of roaming people around Humboldt county, Mendocino county which include Wavy Gravy's rainbow things. In 90's, there roaming tribe people tuned out the Clam Beach just down the Mckinlyville. That was like reminiscent of the Merry Plansters.

  • I was a disc jocky at the time this song came out . I was in a medium size market in Alabama and the station was owned by a very conservative manager that kowtowed to the store owner's that he sold commercial time too . I wanna tell you folks what a struggle me and another DJ had in putting songs such as this masterpiece on the air . This was back in the late sixties and early seventies .

  • Awesome classic

  • A bit of trivia..They were all Virgo's hence the name.. Quicksilver..Mercury..Hermes! GREAT SONG!!! I'm gonna have another hit!!!

  • Of sweet California sunshine.. (google the lyrics)

  • this was the quintessential SF sound of the 1960's ...this song especially . The first few resounding chords the wafting into eternal space . "Have Another Hit" just like "Don't You Need Somebody To Love" ....basically hit the nail on the head for the screwed up times then & now . What gives me hope now is the quite young woman i met bartending in Nor Cal lately that had a huge tatoo on her arm that simply said --->BREATH in bold lettering

  • Now, I know that I got five thumbs down for that but

    I wasn't trying to offend anyone

  • You didn't offend me (at least), recycled. I wasn't one of those who gave you a thumbs down. When I first heard Elton John's "Rocket Man" I thought he was saying, "Burning up my shoes, my hair is long" instead of "burning up my fuse up here alone." :-)

  • no you dumbass........

  • John Cippolina was a unique treasure ass a guitarist to behold! Literally 100's of times!

    They WERE THEN BOMB IN THA DAY! Many bands Like MAN were inspired by them. John Cippolina is a Rock God! IMHO!

  • sure brings back memories.....

  • When I was Eureka, my music teacher who brought one of the Grateful Dead drummer for the music class at CR. There many old and young hippies reside in north coast. My ex-girlfriend's mom was one of the flower people. Her ex-husband's older brother who was member of "Country Joe & The Fish" They used live in Mill Valley and attended the Tamalpais High School.

  • PEACE GROOVY FAR OUT.......

  • Terrific song!

  • what a great sound,....love this song.....soooooooooo good.....

  • I don't disagree that music is still evolving. (although I'd call the current infatuation with "rap" - DEVOLVING!)

    But any (rock) music being created today, is simply building on what was already done. And for music, the 60's and 70's were simply a REVOLUTIONARY time. The ORIGINALITY of the music is what was amazing.

    I'd still have to say there hasn't been another RE-EVOLUTION which could compare. It wasn't just about the music, it was about the times, the people, the social changes.

  • I don't see kids walking around with t-shirts of those bands. I see Doors, Led Zeppelin, Grateful Dead, et. al.

    None of what you mention has the passion of the older rock 'n' roll. Today's "sound" is completely corporatized for distribution to the masses. Back then they used to just throw anything against the wall to see what stuck.

  • i'm 15 years old.. and if i had a "quicksilver messenger service" t-shirt i would use it haha too bad they dont sell them in my country (Peru).. but don't loose hope, i have tons of friends who love rock.. i mean.. REAL rock.. zep, cream, jefferson airplane, quicksilver, doors, grateful dead, santana, ten years after, the who :D haha rock.. er.. rocks!

  • yo yaky: check out 'wolfgang's vault'. the guy who ran the filmore(s) had tons of bootlegs and t-shirts and shit...

  • This is insane. So trippy and hypnotizing.

  • Brings back lots of fond memories. Too bad those days are gone. (nothing in this time compares!)

  • first i have heard this song/band, absolutely cracking!!

  • wow very cool.. i have not heard this is years ... Thanks for posting .. Peace!!

  • I love these guys! My dad's taught me well--I inherited mum's looks and dad's musical taste, luckily. (I'm 14 as of two weeks ago.)

    This stuff goes unparallelled

  • Great song, LOVE that piano solo before the last verse.

  • speaking of great music anyone here remember a stones instrumental produced between 1969-70...it was intro music to a WHFS-FM bethesda ,md radio program hosted by weasel,damian or cerf

  • これは物凄く良い

  • The 60's was a rare "perfect storm" of raw, unbridled, creative energy that I think comes only once in several generations. The kids of subsequent generations have absolutely no idea what they missed out on; but they sure recognize it when they come across it accidentally - you can see their astonishment when they hear it for the first time. Todays music is just so painfully mediocre that I have to literally shut my ears.

  • Very well said. It was a "perfect storm" on so many levels: an awakening to the potential to be more, recognition of Eastern religions, political repression and ignorance, despicable violation of civil rights; the freedom to dress and groom however you wanted, and to expand consciousness in a way that would forever alter history.

  • Totally true and correct. What a time it was. Thanks for making this great comment. Appreciate it. Peace.

  • Absolutely and totally Right On, man! You had to live through it to know it and appreciate it. All these years later, many of us still hold true to those times ... and are glad to still do so. Great, great comment. Thanks. Peace.

  • sans commentair...du pure fresh air!!!