Quicksilver Messenger Service

Quicksilver Messenger Service Artist: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988006834033
ASIN: B000AA7FG2


Release Date: 2005-09-15

Quicksilver Messenger Service


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Tracks:

  1. Pride of Man
  2. Light Your Windows
  3. Dino's Song
  4. Gold and Silver [Instrumental]
  5. It's Been Too Long
  6. Fool

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Album Description

Japanese pressing of the 1968 self titled debut album features the original 6 tracks packaged in a paper sleeve. EMI. 2005.

Album Details

Japanese Digitally Remastered Limited Edition Issue of the San Francisco Band's Album Classic Debut in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars To obi or not to obi?.......2006-10-28

The first, eponymous LP released in 1968 by Quicksilver Messenger Service remains one of the truly essential records that came out of the of the San Francisco psychedelic music scene.
Although already enjoying a huge reputation for their extended live improvisations, the band favours a more restrained approach here, with only "Gold and Silver" and "The Fool" clocking in at more than four minutes. The accent is put evenly on melodic content and instrumental guitar prowess.

This album can be considered as the best of their studio output. Apart from manager Ron Polte's "Too Long", which is pleasant but not outstanding, each track is a highlight! The cover of folksinger Hamilton Camp's "Pride of Man" is excellent with their hard rock folk structure; "Light Your Windows" is a fine, original, lazy, bluesy rock piece; Dino Valenti's "Dino's Song" proves very catchy, with quite poppy overtones; "Gold and Silver" is a fabulous and very rhythmic instrumental jam based on Paul Desmond's famous 5/4 jazz composition "Take Five" recorded by the Dave Brubeck Quartet on "Time Out" (try to hear it for yourself if you can). Finally, the 12-minute "The Fool" is marked by the judicious use of improvised classical overtones, of controlled electronic feedback and of wah wah pedal.

The vocals are ably competent, rather than great. However, the twin guitars of John Cippolina and Gary Duncan, which keep on bringing out flashes of awesome sonic dreamscapes, more than compensate.
Although Cippolina's highly melodic, twangy, vibrato laden, individualistic lead guitar style dominates the proceedings, Gary Duncan should not be considered a second gun; his interest in Jazz as well as his guitar interplay with Cippolina were crucial to the Quicksilver sound as a whole.

This Japanese import has been remastered and the sound quality is much better than on the old, standard UK or US issues. The CD is housed in a great looking mini LP sleeve, complete with a re-sealable polythene bag, a rice paper inner sleeve and a folded insert (mostly written in Japanese but including the English lyrics) ... without forgetting the all important obi paper strip folded around the left side of the CD with the title, price and sundry information.

This said, I think there is a worthwhile alternative to this CD. If you can live without the aforementioned "Too Long", you might consider buying the Rhino 2-CD remastered anthology titled "Sons of Mercury" which covers their complete career from 1968 to 1975.
Whichever way you choose, enjoy!

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