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11-07-2010, 01:19 PM
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I just stumbled upon them. Pretty neat stuff.
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11-07-2010, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Tommygunn  I just stumbled upon them. Pretty neat stuff.
What do ya'll think? | drug busts and such played havoc with them,and i'd say they were one of the best bands to emerge from the frisco ballrooms....check out the anthology and the first album.....i'm not sure which are available these days,but i saw fresh air on youtube,and some footage from monterey....big brother,the dead,moby grape,jefferson airplane....
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11-07-2010, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Tommygunn I just stumbled upon them. Pretty neat stuff.
What do ya'll think? | Check out "The Fool" on their first album. It's sort of a symphonic piece in form, and in one of the later movements Cippolina does some of the most expressive wah work I have ever heard, before or since. It blew me away the first time I heard it in 1971 or so, and it still gives me chills. "Gold and Silver" and "Pride of man" from that album are also very good.
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11-07-2010, 04:36 PM
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11-07-2010, 04:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Twixt a rock and a hard place | | | Yes, a favorite from the 60's San Francisco scene. If you search around you will find some nice bootleg stuff of theirs. Definitely pick up the Happy Trails album. Good stuff! |
11-07-2010, 05:05 PM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | Believe it or not, Quicksilver opened for the Carpenters at a concert I attended in the early '70s. I can't say whether they sucked or blew more, but it was one of them. Horrible at that time.
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11-07-2010, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Tommygunn I just stumbled upon them. Pretty neat stuff.
What do ya'll think? | I played a show opening for John Cipollina (his band was called The Dinosaurs) back in the 80s. He had to carry an oxygen tank with him, but he still played brilliantly. The Quicksilver shows I saw way back in the 60s and 70s were very much hit or miss, like many of the hippie bands tended to be. |
11-08-2010, 03:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Passinwind The Quicksilver shows I saw way back in the 60s and 70s were very much hit or miss, like many of the hippie bands tended to be. | I saw them a few times too, some shows were good but then Dino Valente seemed to just ego/drug out and the shows got pretty sad.
Some great stuff on their CDs, especially the stuff with Nicky Hopkins.
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11-08-2010, 05:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Friday Harbor, WA | | | Mona is an awesome song. In fact, that whole album is really good.
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11-08-2010, 08:29 PM
|  | (No Longer) Tradin' My Hours for a Handfulla Dimes | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Boston | | John Cipollina died young (around '87?) of a lung problem....I actually liked the very raw stuff he did with Nick Gravenites (an act they called Thunder and lightning). Shows available on Internet Archives for legal download. http://www.archive.org/details/cipol...-06.aud.flac16
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11-09-2010, 10:57 AM
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11-09-2010, 11:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Campbell, KaliFornia | | | I saw Cippolino with the Dinosaurs also. The opening act was Commander Cody. Cippolino blew me away, getting sounds from his guitar that I had heard only from studio records.
He is well worth listening to. And he has a fanzine type web page, explaining his gear, recording history, stuff like that. I just don't remember what it is.
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