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Quicksilver Messenger Service was formed in the late 60's as one of San Francisco's first psychedelic bands, although just who formed the band remains debatable . Chester William Powers, JrPhotobucket (d.Nov. 1994)(aka: Dino Valente) Claimed he had formed the band. But, that has been disputed by other members. Powers was frequently busted for drugs and after one such bust was fired from Quicksilvers line-up. However he rejoined the group in later years as lead singer and rhythm guitarist. Other original members were : John Cipollina (guitar), Gary Duncan, born Gary Grubb (guitar, vocals), David Freiberg (bass, vocals and viola), Greg Elmore (drums), and Jim Murray (vocals, guitar, and harmonica), Murray left the band before they had made a recording.

concert posterAfter Murray left, the band began to tour the west coast of the U.S.. In 1967 they signed with Capital records as did "the Steve Miller Band) who QSMS had appered with in the movie and soundtrack "Revolution". In 1968 They released "Quicksilver Messenger Service" and in !969 "Happy Trails". These were the two albums most associated with QSMS's unique sound.

Most original members have died including : john Cipollina in 1989, Nicky Hopkins 1994 and Chester Wiliam Powers also in 1994.

The band was resurrected in 1986 by Gary Duncan and has released some albums and a website . In 2006 Duncan and David Freiberg held a 40th anniversary tour.

Freiberg and Murray came up with the name Quicksilver Messenger Service . Cipollina and Freiberg wereborn on the same day, and Duncan and Elmore were born on the same day. We were all Virgos and Murray was a Gemini. And Virgos and Geminis are all ruled by the planet Mercury, and another name for Murcury is Quicksilver. And Quicksilver is the messenger of the Gods, and Virgo is the servant so........Quicksilver Messenger Service.


The Brogues
Best known to the rest of the world for providing two founder members of San Francisco ballroom mainstays the Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Brogues retain an unparalleled cachet amongst connoisseurs of garage sounds, thanks to the singles, "Someday" and "I Ain't No Miracle Worker". All the more incredible when you realize they were only together for a brief nine months in 1965.
The line-up was Eddie Rodrigues on guitar, Rick Campbell on organ, Bill Whittington on bass and Greg Elmore on drums, with Gary Duncan (his real name was Gary Grubb) joining on vocals in the summer of 1965...read more @ 60spunk.m78.com/brogues.htm 

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Quicksilver Messenger Service Albums
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QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE(1968)
1 -Pride of Man
2 - Light Your Windows
3 - Dino's Song
4 - Gold and Silver [Instrumental]
5 -Too Long
6 - The Fool
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QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE (1968) (EMD/CAPITAL)
1 -Pride Of Man
2 - Light Your Windows
3 - Dino's Song
4 - Gold And Silver
5 -Too Long
6 - The Fool
7 - Angela
8 - To Be With You
9 -Steal The Night
10 - Finale
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HAPPY TRAILS(1969)
1 - Who Do You Love, Pt. 1
2 - When Do You Love
3 - Where You Love
4 - How You Love
5 - Which Do You Love
6 - Who Do You Love, Pt. 2
7 - Mona
8 - Maiden of the Cancer Moon
9 - Calvary
10 - Happy Trails
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SHADY GROVE (1969)
1- Shady Grove
2 - Flute Song
3 - Three or Four Feet From Home
4 - Too Far
5 - Holy Moly
6 - Joseph's Coat
7 - Flashing Lonesome
8 - Words Can't Say
9 - Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder
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WHAT ABOUT ME  (1970)
1 - What About Me
2 - Local Color
3 - Baby Baby
4 - Won't Kill Me
5 - Long Haired Lady
6 - Subway
7 - Spindrifter
8 - Good Old Rock and Roll
9 - All in My Mind
10 - Call on Me
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JUST FOR LOVE (1970)
1 - Wolf Run, Pt. 1
2 - Just for Love, Pt. 1
3 - Cobra
4 - The Hat
5 - Freeway Flyer
6 - Gone Again
7 - Fresh Air
8 - Just for Love, Pt. 2
9 - Wolf Run, Pt. 2
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QUICKSILVER (1971)
1 - Hope
2 - I Found Love
3 - Song for Frisco
4 - Play My Guitar
5 - Rebel
6 - Fire Brothers
7 - Out of My Mind
8 - Don't Cry My Lady Love
9 - The Truth
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Comin' Thru (1972)
1 - Doin' Time in the U.S.A
2 - Chicken
3 - Changes
4 - California State Correctional Facitlity Blues
5 - Forty Days
6 - Mojo
7 - Don't Lose It
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ANTHOLOGY (1973)
1 - Pride of Man
2 - Dino's Song
3 - The Fool
4 - Bears
5 - Mona
6 - Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder
7 - Three or Four Feet from Home
8 - Fresh Air
9 - Just For Love
10 - Spindrifter
11 - Local Color
12 - What About Me
13 - Don't Cry My Lady Love
14 - Hope
15 - Fire Brothers
16 - I Found Love


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THE BEST OF QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE (Capital)(1990)
1 - Who Do You Love?
2 - What About Me?
3 - Shady Grove
4 - Just for Love
5 - Fresh Air
6 - Pride of Man
7 - Dino's Song
8 - Joseph's Coat
9 - Long Haired Lady
10 - California State Correctional Facility Blues
11 - Stand by Me
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PEACE BY PEICE (1986)
1 - Good Thang
2- 24 Hour Dejavu
3 - Midnight Sun
4 - Swamp Girl
5 - Wild in the City
6 - Pool Hall Chili
7 - Pistolero
8 - Peace by Piece

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GARY DUNCAN QUICKSILVER : SHAPESHIFTER VOLS.1 - 5 (2005)
1 -Rebel
2 - Big Bright Street
3 - The Dog Song
4 -Bubba Jeans
5 -Life Is So Funky
6 -Angeline
7 - Carnival Time In Nicaragua
8 - I Don't Wanta Hear It Anymore
9 - Don't Go To Strangers
10 -Richmond Welfare Strut
11 -Nobody But You
12 -We'll Be Together
13 - Tattoo

SHAPESHIFTER VOL. TWO
1 -Rex Dark
2 - King-O-China
3 - Snowman / Nica's Dream
4 -The Fatman
5 - Steve McQueen
6 - Close Enuf For Jazz
7 -Please Don't Touch The Tip
8 - Gangster Purple
9 - Gangster Purple -Inst-2
9 -Vera Cruz
10 - What Did You Do To Yo Do
11 - Jackie Boy
12 -Blue Weasel On Ice
13 - Hoochie Coochie Man
14 - Sugar Pie
15 -Holiday

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SOLID SILVER (1975)
1 - Gypsy Lights
2 - Heebie Jeebies
3 - Cowboy on the Run
4 - I Heard You Singing
5 - Worryin' Shoes
6 - The Letter
7 - They Don't Know
8 - Flames
9 - Witches' Moon
10 - Bittersweet Love






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THE ULTIMATE JOURNEY (1999)
1 - Who Do You Love?
2 - Pride of Man
3 - Codine
4 - Dino's Song
5 - Gold and Silver
6 - Joseph's Coat
7 - Shady Grove
8 - Fresh Air
9 - Too Far
10 - Stand by Me
11 - What About Me?
12 - Mona
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CLASSIC MASTERS (2002)
1 - Pride of Man
2 - Light Your Windows
3 - Who Do You Love, Pt. 1
4 - Stand by Me
5 - Dino's Song
6 -Shady Grove
7 -Joseph's Coat
8 - Flute Song
9 - Fresh Air
10 - What About Me
11 -Just for Love
12 - Hope

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AT THE KABUKI THEATRE (2007)
1 - Fresh Air
2 - New Year's Jam
3 - Baby, Baby
4 - Too Far
5 - Truth
6 -You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Band
7 - Doctor Feelgood
8 - Cobra
9 - Song for Frisco
10 - Mona
11 - Subway
12 - What About Me
13 - Call on Me
14 - Pride of Man
15 - Local Colour
16 - Not Fade Away
17 - Mojo
18 - Freeway Flyer
19 - Subway [Studio Rehersal]
20 - Castles in the Sand [Studio Rehersal]
21 - Look Over Yonder Wall/State Farm [Studio Rehersal]
22 - Senor Blues [Studio Rehersal]

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BEST OF QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE(CEMA) (1992)
1 - Fresh Air
2 - What About Me?
3 - Pride of Man
4 - Who Do You Love?
5 - Dino's Song
6 - Joseph's Coat
7 - Shady Grove
8 - Just For Love

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UNRELEASED QUICKSILVER : LOST GOLD AND SILVER (2000)
1 - Back Door Man
2 - Codine
3 - Gold and Silver
4 - Smokestack Lighting
5 - Light Your Windows
6 - Dino's Song
7 - The Fool
8 - Who Do You Love?
9 - Mona/Maiden of the Cancer Moon/Mona
10 - I Don't Want to Spoil Your Party [Dino's Song]
11 - Acapulco Gold and Silver
12 - I Hear You Knockin' (It's Too Late)
13 - Back Door Man
14 - Your Time Will Come
15 -Who Do You Love?
16 - Walkin' Blues
17 - Calvary
18 - Codine above
19 - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
20 - Stand by Me
21 - The Bears
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WHO DO YOU LOVE (2002)
1 - Who Do You Love
2 - Fresh Air
3 - Gold and Silver
4 - California State Correctional Facility
5 - Long Haired Lady
6 - Pride of Man
7 - Shady Grove
8 - What About Me
9 - Mona
10 - Good Old Rock 'N' Roll
11 - Dino's Song
12 - Stand by Me
13 - Just for Love, Pt. 1
14 - Joseph's Coat


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SONS OF MERCURY (1968-1975)(released 1991)
1 - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
2 - Codine
3 - I Hear You Knockin' (It's Too Late)
4 - Pride of Man
5 - Light Your Windows
6 - Dino's Song
7 - The Fool
8 - Gold and Silver
9 - Bears
10 - Who Do You Love? [Single Edit]
11 - Mona
12 -Maiden of the Cancer Moon
13 - Calvary
14 - Happy Trails
15 - Shady Grove
16 - Flute Song
17 - Joseph's Coat
18 - Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder
19 - Fresh Air
20 - Cobra
21 - Subway
22 - What About Me
23 - Local Color
24 - Hope
25 - Fire Brothers
26 - Don't Cry My Lady Love
27 - I Found Love
28 - Doin' Time in the U.S.A
29 - Gypsy Lights
30 -Cowboy on the Run


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SHADY GROVE / SOLID SILVER (2004)
1 - Shady Grove
2 -Flute Song
3 -Three or Four Feet From Home
4 - Too Far
5 - Holy Moly
6 - Joseph's Coat
7 - Flashing Lonesome
8 - Words Can't Say
9 - Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder
10 - Gypsy Lights
11 - Heebie Jeebies
12 - Cowboy on the Run
13 - Heard You Singing
14 - Worryin' Shoes
15 - The Letter
16 - They Don't Know
17 - Flames
18 - Witches' Moon
19 - Bittersweet Love
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BOOKs
My Husband the Rock Star: Ten Years with Quicksilver Messenger Service: A Memoir
Book
Gary and Shelley are teenage lovers. Gary's burning desire is to be in a rock and roll band. With his best friend, drummer Greg Elmore in tow, the two men set out for San Francisco. Shelley runs away from home, following her man to the big city life. Within months the members of Quicksilver Messenger Service gather their musical forces together and hit the stages of the Fillmore and Avalon Ballrooms together with their cronies, the Dead and the Jefferson Airplane.

So join this husband and wife as they take a wild ride into San Francisco during the 60's, when everything seemed possible, when magic was the norm, and when growing up turned out to be the hardest thing of all.