![]() ![]() Though not as commercially successful as contemporaries Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver was integral to the beginnings of their genre. ![]() They were part of the new wave of album-oriented bands, achieving renown and popularity despite a lack of success with their singles (only one, " Fresh Air" charted, reaching number 49 in 1970). The band achieved wide popularity in the San Francisco 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. However, enthusiasts of those albums will find much more to revisit on Shady Grove than those who favored the first two records.Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. In his review of the album, for AllMusic, Lindsay Planer writes: "This somewhat uneven effort would sadly foreshadow QMS's journey from psychedelia and into a much more pop-oriented sound on their follow-up, Just for Love (1970). The album became the group's highest-charting when it hit #25 on Billboard that winter.Ĭritical reception Professional ratings Review scores Hollister, of otherwise unknown personal information. The cover was designed by George Hunter's Global Propaganda and featured a slightly edited version of a work by painter L.K. "Joseph's Coat", co-written by John Cipollina and Nick Gravenites, also appears on Big Brother and the Holding Company's album Be a Brother, which featured Gravenites on vocals. "Flute Song", with its melancholic piano and string backing (ironically, no flute appears), is also prog-influenced. ![]() The story goes that Jones was tuning his guitar and asked Hopkins to give him an E on the piano with other noise interfering and Nicky unable to hear what he was saying, Brian eventually shouted out: "Give me an E, like in Edward!") The track's elaborate, classically inspired keyboard work and extended jamming veers closer to an English progressive rock sound. (“Edward” was a nickname for Nicky Hopkins, made up by Brian Jones during a 1967 session at Olympic Studios in London. Hopkins re-recorded the closing track, "Edward, The Mad Shirt Grinder", on his solo album The Tin Man Was a Dreamer, which features members of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. However, David Freiberg's vocal presence and John Cipollina's idiosyncratic guitar stylings make the Quicksilver sound of the first two albums still apparent. The influence of Nicky Hopkins, the English journeyman pianist who appears on albums by Jeff Beck, The Rolling Stones, The Who, all four of The Beatles and Steve Miller is felt throughout Shady Grove, and his contributions pushed the group in new directions. Nonetheless, the band began recording their third album with Hopkins that summer. The remaining members played a small handful of gigs in the spring and summer of the year with guest vocalist Nick Gravenites before hiring ace session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins to permanently join them that August, although only three gigs were played with this lineup until regular touring began again on New Year's Eve with the return of Duncan and the addition of Dino Valenti. ![]() Shady Grove is a 1969 studio album by Quicksilver Messenger Service.Īt the start of 1969, guitarist and vocalist Gary Duncan temporarily left the band, upon which they ceased touring. ![]()
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