Quicksilver Messenger Service Concert

Winterland (San Francisco, CA) Dec 31, 1967

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Quicksilver Messenger Service concert at Winterland on Dec 31, 1967

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  • Date:
    12.31.1967
  • Tracks:
    11
  • Total Time:
    1:09:59
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Concert Summary

This is Quicksilver's final performance of a three-night Winterland run. This night they were opening for local friends Jefferson Airplane.

It's New Years Eve 1967/68, and QMS is surrounded by friends and family both on the stage and off. It's obvious from the relaxed instrumental beginning that this will be a long, psychedelic night. With little or no thought of time constraints, almost all the material from the previous two nights is included again in this set. Strong improvisational versions of "Who Do You Love,"…entire summary

  • alaska slim | Saturday, May 29, 2010 | 1:37 pm

    got to jam with J C in Fairbanks, then we watched wolves at the arctic circle later...it doesn't get any better then this.
    met them, JA and the Dead (Torbert was also an Alaskan), Jorma let us use their gear to open for HT/JA.
    it doesn't get any better then this.

  • psychedelickid | Saturday, May 22, 2010 | 5:00 am

    Overall I liked this.Sounds like this was an awesome show,just wish the sound quality was better.

  • yippierb | Thursday, April 01, 2010 | 7:04 pm

    From 5 minutes onward it is essential.

  • yippierb | Thursday, April 01, 2010 | 7:02 pm

    Mona...Maiden get this shit cleaned up...please. We've had the bad fer years. Too good!

  • Anonymous | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | 4:14 pm

    a little rough

  • alaska slim | Saturday, October 03, 2009 | 12:20 pm

    I love the way they play their songs the same, yet different. All the parts are there in "Who Do You Love", it's just shorter. From the talking through minute #7 of "Maiden..." it sounds like a pirate audience tape. No matter, the music shines!

  • Chris89 | Friday, September 18, 2009 | 1:37 pm

    If the audio can be cleaned up a little this would be a fantastic release

  • UTS | Thursday, September 10, 2009 | 3:55 pm

    Quicksilver was one of the all-time great SF bands and I saw most of them growing up nearby and frequenting the Fillmore and Avalon regularly. I just discovered this incredible site doing some QMS research. I had gone off to school in Corvallis, Oregon in 1965 and started a band at OSU to help introduce some of that great bay area music to Oregon. We were the United Travel Service and guilty to some degree of plagiarism by adding the "Service" to the end of it, but Quicksilver was such an influence. We played at the Crystal Ballroom that same weekend Quicksilver played there the winter of 67-68 (maybe February?) as a front band. Quite a thrill. More of a thrill though was happening to run into Gary Duncan and John Cipollina in a Portland pawn shop the afternoon before playing. Playing this Quicksilver concert and reading the other reviews on wolfgansvault has revived some treasured memories.

  • SkipKnox | Tuesday, May 12, 2009 | 2:26 pm

    These guys were my first real rock concert (not counting a very weird encounter with the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band). Saw them at the fabulous Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon some time around the time of this show (winter '67). They opened for the Grateful Dead. I fell in love. Liked them much better than the Dead, despite an excellent show from the latter. Gold and Silver was downright spiritual. I saw them again in the early 70s and was bitterly disappointed. But the memory of that rainy night, with a crowd of only a few hundred, remains as one of the best rock n roll experiences of my life. So good to hear that sound again!

  • Anonymous | Sunday, February 22, 2009 | 10:42 am

    QMS was as good a live band as I ever saw--Haunted their concerts at Filmore, Avalon, Family Dog and the high school gym in Chico! You hear their melodic lines in songs today and the two lead guitars were always extraordinary. Thank you Wolfgang's for bringing these psychedelic memories back to us--even the photos.

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