![]() ![]() ![]() The band also added Skip Spence on guitar and began to rehearse at Marty Balin's club, the Matrix. "We were to take care of this guy Freiberg", Cipollina recalled, and though they had never met before, Freiberg was integrated into the group. He had previously been in a band with Paul Kantner and David Crosby but like Cipollina he had been arrested and briefly jailed for marijuana possession and had just been released. The next day Dino got busted.”Īt this time David Freiberg, a folk-guitarist friend of Valente's, was recruited to the group. We talked about rehearsing one night and planned to rehearse the following night but it never happened. “I was recommended to Dino, probably because I was the only guy playing an electric guitar, let alone lead, at the time. ![]() Whether Quicksilver Messenger Service was what Valente had in mind, it appears from Duncan's recollections that he had at least talked with Cipollina about forming a band Cipollina remembered that: Well, when his own career didn’t do so well, he had more interest in playing in Quicksilver!.” He actually lived with us when he got out of prison, and while we played some music together and wrote songs, he had no interest in playing in Quicksilver he wanted to start his own career. When he’d been looking for a band, he’d talked to Cipollina, and everybody somehow put two and two together. But according to Dino, that wasn’t the case at all. “That’s the story Cipollina told everybody. The next day, Valente was arrested for possession of marijuana, and spent the better part of the next two years in jail. And we were gonna have these chicks, backup rhythm sections that were gonna dress like American Indians with real short little dresses on and they were gonna have tambourines and the clappers in the tambourines were going to be silver coins.' And I'm sitting there going, 'This guy is gonna happen and we're gonna set the world on its ear." We were going to have leather jackets made with hooks that we could hook these wireless instruments right into. 'We were all going to have wireless guitars. There is some confusion as to the real origins of the group. Recently, original members Gary Duncan and David Freiberg have been touring as the Quicksilver Messenger Service, using different musicians to back them up. The style he developed from these sources is evident in Quicksilver Messenger Service's swung rhythms and twanging guitar sounds.Īfter many years, the band has attempted to reform despite the deaths of several members. Member Dino Valenti drew heavily on musical influences he picked up during the folk revival of his formative musical years. 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. Although not as commercially successful as contemporaries Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, QMS was integral to the beginnings of their genre. ![]() Quicksilver Messenger Service gained wide popularity in the Bay Area and, through their recordings, with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe and several of their albums ranked in the Top 30 of the Billboard Pop charts. ![]()
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