Quicksilver Messenger Service - At the Kabuki Theatre
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Artist: Quicksilver Messenger ServiceEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2007-02-26
Music Label: Snapper UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Fresh Air
- New Year's Jam
- Baby, Baby
- Too Far
- Truth
- You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond
- Doctor Feelgood
- Cobra
- Song for Frisco
- Mona
- Subway
- What About Me
- Call on Me
- Pride of Man
- Local Colour
- Not Fade Away
- Mojo
- Freeway Flyer
- Subway [Studio Rehersal][*]
- Castles in the Sand [Studio Rehersal][*]
- Look Over Yonder Wall/State Farm [Studio Rehersal][*]
- Se?or Blues [Studio Rehersal][*]
Music reviews of At the Kabuki Theatre
Music Review: Not the best QMS but quite enjoyable
Rating: 3 Stars
As someone who was there in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the late 60's and early 70's, I saw QMS a number of times. I should have been at this show but couldn't decide between the Dead at Winterland or QMS up the street at the Kabuki....so I went to a New Year's party and listened to both. The Dead were on KSAN and QMS were on KMPX.
I have to say the Dead were way better that night but QMS was at the end of their rope and the Dead were just starting to rev up to the stratosphere.
A little background to this concert:
John Cipollina had already left the group when this was recorded. A dismal gig at Winterland three months earlier (I was there) headlining for the Dead and the Airplane was the last straw. Obviously, he was unhappy with the direction of the band under Dino Valente's increasing influence. He wasn't the only one. Quicksilver was booed almost off the stage by the hometown crowd when they showed up with a 5 man horn section and stunk up the joint. Everyone was so primed for them after great sets by the Dead and Airplane and they came out and fell flat on their face.
This gig was a last hurrah. They brought John back one last time and the results are the usual uneven. Sure, it had only been 3 months since they played live, but they are not as tight as they were earlier in the year. Nicky Hopkins was gone by this time, as well. Too bad.
While there are great moments (how can there not be when you have Cipollina and Duncan together), too much Dino Valente was the recipe for disaster with this group.
For years I've been pleading with whoever will listen and has access to release some of the gigs from early in 1970, (3/21/70 at the Olympic in LA would be heaven) when this band was at their absolute peak-the original 4 plus Nicky Hopkins and Dino Valente before he became overload. Maybe someday we'll see some of those concerts on CD. In the meantime, the Kabuki will have to do.
Description of At the Kabuki Theatre
Recorded in December of 1970 in San Francisco, this is the Last Show Recorded with Members John Cipollina and Dino Valenti. Includes 18 Live Tracks and a Bonus Four Studio Tracks Recorded in 1969 with Nicky Hopkins.Psychedelic Rock CDs
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