Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Shady Grove"

Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band, formed in 1965 in San Francisco and is considered one of the leading acts on the city's psychedelic scene in the mid-to-late 1960s. Essentially a jam band, Quicksilver Messenger Service gained wide popularity in the Bay Area and with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe. Many of their albums ranked in the top 30 of the Billboard Pop charts. Though not ultimately as commercially successful as their contemporaries Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead, the band was integral to the beginnings of their genre. With their jazz and classical influences, as well as a strong folk background, the band attempted to create a sound that was individual and innovative. Member Dino Valente drew heavily on musical influences he picked up during the folk revival of his formative musical years. The style he developed from these sources is evident in Quicksilver Messenger Service's swung rhythms and twanging guitar sounds. After many years, the band has attempted to reform despite the deaths of several members. With the modest success of these ventures, many members have also attempted solo careers including Gary Duncan, former guitarist of Quicksilver Messenger Service, who has enjoyed a prolific career after leaving the group.

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Music

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• Quicksilver
• Messenger
• Service
• Shady
• Grove

[DixiePenguin]

Old people still rock!!!! 59 this month and still rockin'!!!!!! Here's to OUR generation!

[nolasurrealism]

Nicky Hopkins and John Cippolina....two souls gone too soon...their music still paints the sky with indelible starry melodies...forever in peace men.....

[terryk323bed]

Nicky Hopkins...play in heaven

[RIVRAINphilippe]

immortel!

[pmnorris]

Who's the idiot who didn't like this?.....what a moron......this totally rocks!

[teleevangelist]

@DixiePenguin /11/4/53 here, love this band, best of luck to you and your family and loved ones/wynn

[ReneODeay]

we need some cheering up.

[beanerboyd]

Sex, drugs, and Shady Grove. 

[GypsySerai]

@DixiePenguin You said it. Three cheers for our generation! Almost (in a month) 55 myself and still mesmerized by music and life. Rock on!

[drumsyeah]

@DixiePenguin Right on, baby !!!  60 in Jan 2012 !!!

[dougerrr]

Where all the PIGS have tails!!! Love it!!!

[YobSmoke]

I'm 19 and I still love these guys