Carlton Melton Music. Planet Gong: Gong, GAS and Gliss. Official Site of the Grateful Dead. Jefferson Airplane: The Official Website. Jefferson Starship-2013 Discover the inbetween. Ozric Tentacles - Tour Dates, Music Downloads. Shady Grove - The Quicksilver Messenger Service Page. Quicksilver Messenger Service was one of the best bands to emerge from the Sixties Haight Ashbury - San Francisco scene.
They loaded up their from-the-heart songs with free-form jamming; in gigs at classic venues like the Fillmore and Avalon, they stretched out and improvised, pushing their music in unpredictable directions. Tougher than the Grateful Dead, looser than the Jefferson Airplane, but never managing to achieve the popularity of either; they faded away after 1975.
Maybe they just weren't ambitious enough. In the words of guitarist Gary Duncan, "We had no ambition toward making records, we just wanted to have fun, play some music and make enough money to be able to afford to smoke pot". Sadly, today Quicksilver Messenger Service is too often overlooked as an essential classic rock experience. WOODEN SHJIPS.