Quicksilver Messenger Service - Full Concert - 12/28/75 - Winterland (OFFICIAL) 

Gary Duncan is my father, this set blows my mind. Quite a guitar duo. Both underrated. But my dad!!! The man was not just a meat grinder ,but The meat grinder of the day. Clapton, Beck, Page, Hendrix , none with the Dynamics and phrasing. Fucking miss the old man. Love you Pop. Jesse

Wow ! How great is this music even now in 2022 ! Sitting here at the ripe age of 68 groovin to the tunes of 1975 ! Thanks so much for this post !

Your father was one under thousands. This is my favourite band for all times. I´m now 68 years old and i cant find a better group.

Quicksilver Messenger Service & Spirit...two bands from that era that never got the love they deserve.

A Quicksilver fan forever. I saw them with War at the Filmore East in 1971, what a great show. Last saw a later incarnation of them in 2006 with Jefferson Starship. Gary Duncan was still killing it. RIP to John, Dino, Gary and Nicky. Nothing today comes close to this music.

High quality musicians . Never heard of them Until now that I am 71.

The most under rated band in rock and roll history!!

R.I.P. Gary Duncan, September 4, 1946 - June 29, 2019 🌹

Saw Quicksilver many times at the Avalon Ballroom. My favorite of all the SF bands. Good times.

I've been listening to Happy Trails for 53 years. It's in my top 5 LP's of all time.

Quicksilver Messenger Service provided the soundtrack to summers at beach. Every trip there started with Who Do You Love and a bowl.

I was at this concert !! I was 22 and loved every minute. How great to be able to relive it through this video. Thanks!!

RIP Gary Duncan!

Hello from Norway, I listened to This When I Was Younger,(STILL),I Even have a Poster(FRAMED) in my Livingroom(Fillmore Aud)(AND LPs) We Called It Always WestCoast Acid,when we were Teens . Regards from Dag Ingebrigtsen

without doubt one of the finest bands ever, with probably the most epic live record realised ever

Been listening to these guys since 67! Gosh am I that old! They are superlative!

even today.....these people leave one Speechless ......thanks guys

To say that they were underrated is an understatement!

SAW THEM IN 1967 AT THE STRAIGHT THEATRE. TRUE SAN FRANCISCO MUSIC. BRINGS BACK AMAZING MEMORIES.

I loved Quick Silver Messenger Service! The singer was awesome and the band was so good. Discovered them in 1969 at the age of 18. "What You Gonna Do About Me?" was appropriate in the 70's and 2020 that found this country in civil unrest, politically divided, violence and the historical pandemic raging on. This song is the backdrop for videos of this era. History does repeat itself as man cannot solve the problems on earth.

RIP John, the most underrated guitar player ever

I was really shocked the day I woke and typed in Gary Duncan and found he had died the day before. He will always be my favorite guitarist

Absolutely one of the best concerts ever... I love love love Quicksilver Messenger Service...

What a find!! One of the most underrated, unheard of bands during mid 60's-early 70's. These guys personified the the SF sound and never sold out to the commercial side of the business. ROCK ON!!!

I’m so lucky to have grown up seeing Quicksilver constantly as a teenager!! They were one of the best bands I’ve had the pleasure of seeing, John, Dino, Gary & Nikki were fantastic. Oh the happy memories they take me back to. I had just relocated to the Bay Area in 1975, at 20. I saw them at the Swing Auditorium all the time, the Swing burned in the 1980’s, but it was such a great concert venue.

I'm totally blown away by this band. Great musicians, Great sound.

𝄞 I could watch this show 100 times and still love every minute of it. Whether you like D Valenti's vocals or not, you cannot ignore the chemistry between Duncan and Cipollina with the driving force of G Elmore on drums. What a GREAT band! ☮

I saw them in concert in Nashville in 73 or 74. I was a young soldier stationed at Fort Campbell, KY. Great band and show. Lot's of "better living through chemistry" back in those days...........the days of my misspent youth.

I'm 74 yrs old. In the-late 60's I spent practically every weekend at a concert hall in SF. Big Brother and Quicksilver were my favorites. Quicksilver never got the props because their records never showed just how good they were. A real shame.

You simply cannot forget these guys... Gary Duncan was ahead of his time doing some great solo's (very underrated )and Dino Valenti could sing the hell out of those songs. What a great concert... so happy this video is available. The whole band on this video was just great...

I listened to this band in the early 70s and raided second hand record stores to find their albums and then bought re-releases in the mid 70s from a label in the USA. John Cipollina was an inspirational guitarist for me!

RIP JOHN AND GARY,I never saw them live but I met Gary a few years ago and worked in the studio with him,great guy and a very underrated guitarist

Great west coast rock band!　their play will last forever.

Man....I'm SO GLAD that I surfed into this by accident. I've loved Q-Silver since high school in the late 60's / early 70's. Saw them in Tucson around this same time. Dude.....those were the days....trust me. Lord, may I please just have one more day back then after I leave this planet? I'm begging!

Mind is blown !!!! Tight rhythm and vocals amazing

Absolutely the premier West Coast guitar duo, ever !

you know watching them,they are actually feeling the music and not just playing music.. Always a band in my heart

Love this band Quicksilver Messenger Service.... highly under rated... This whole concert was so awesome............... Dino's singing passion is overwhelming and powerful with messages that everyone can relate to today.

I'm only 67 but these guys were part of my life Savoy Brown Hendrix Joplin Bowie all of them pure greatness Jackson Browne Blind Faith Grateful Dead The Band where'd they come up with this shit

Nobody talks much of these guys in terms of the whole San Fran sound. Mostly you just hear about the Dead and the Airplane but...these guys rule just as hard...dare I say...harder? Hell yeah

Wow! What an amazing find! The '75 "Solid Silver" album was my first introduction to Quicksilver and it is wonderful to see these guys perform some of those songs live. Man, what a great band. "Gypsy Lights" should have been a huge hit.

I remember hearing these guys doing some really cool stuff like "What About Me" & "Cowboy On the Run" BITD, and the bands like QMS paved the way by going back to what's happnin'; "They Don't Know" is so American West at that top of the first hill run down the far side organ guitar vocal interplay between Felix and Gary & Cippolina. A great, inspiring gig. Thank you.

What a concert, dino sure could sing, and the twin lead guitar work, of cippolina, Duncan, truly a ledgedary band, one of my favorites,

Man these guys were way ahead of their time. Great musicians.

Being an upper New York state resident back in the 1960's and thru 1977 never got a chance to see this band live yet was the only teenager in my social group that ever bought any of their recordings. First recording I purchased as LP back in 1970's was Just for Love, also recall buying their Shady Grove LP when I was on vacation in L.A. at Tower Records on Sunset Blvd. back around 1970. Always liked this band's music, one of the best U.S. rock bands from the 1960's and 1970's. Loved the LP album cover of Shady Grove, created by Globe Propaganda, who also created the LP cover for It's A Beautiful Day's first LP release. Was personally into career art training back then for Commercial and Fine Arts, that LP cover was inspirational as creativity.

That we can watch this whole show here almost 50 years later!!! Love you RU-vid, thank you!!

my brother came home from his freshmanyear in college for thanksgiving break in 1969. i was a high school freshman. he brought a couple of quicksilver albums home with him and i was hooked on first listen. and here i am in 2020 still rocking out to quicksilver. a truly great rock band. thanks for posting. cuenca, ecuador. 10/28/20. covid pandemic times

Great band performance! Each member performs wonderfully. Together, it cooks.

I adore Cipollina's sense of structure and tonality, and that distinctive whammy-bar vibrato.

How many times have I listened to this concert since I listened to it the first time??? Can't answer that... lost count... Quicksilver concert with this lineup was awesome to its very core...

These guys were dripping with charisma in "Last Days at the Fillmore". Been a fan since I first heard them in '74 - a new friend had all their albums.

RIP Gary, you and John were special...

One of my very most favorite bands from back in the day. I could just listen to them for hours. Wonderful!

Happy Trails is one of my favorite albums. The Hait Ashbury sound was a signature Happy trails was a trip. Smell the patch on the buckskin coats and incense

Oberhammer dieses Quicksilver Konzert danke 1000 mal für das ein wahrer Genuss !!!!!!!

What an amazing, powerful, raw and pure direct ROCK N' ROLL performane!!! hell yeah QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE!!!

They always seemed to be on hand for all of the free concerts in Golden Gate Park. They had the right mindset. A couple of them played at the free Surrealist Solstice Jam at the park in 2017 celebrating 50 year anniversary of the Summer of Love.

guitar is crying ! So beautiful 🥀

Brilliant origional band. bought their double live album in the 80's and managed to get all their albums from then on. My favourite is the first lp. I was born in 65 and was a teenager during the vacous era of music this band was my pathway back to the San Francisco music from the Dead airplane real music and an era with a spirital sense we have lost in this plastic digital age where a sense of community has been lost ✌

Saw these guys several times from '67 on. Always great. The thing about the time...they got everybody's heart beating at the same time.

They used to play at an auditorium on the way to Napa. When it closed I got the Voice of the theater PA speakers. The were 7 feet tall. I felt privileged. God bless these guys...the real SFO sound!

Thanks Guys for All of the Love For All of these Years !!! Happy Trails !!! ;o)

I met all of them but John about two weeks later.met john the following year & became friends with.Was lucky to get to jam with him a few times,best times of my life.Quicksilver was the best.

John Cippolina and Gary Duncan were on point during this concert! Mad hands! Simply MAD!!! Love it! Torrentially beautiful! Actually, the entire band was at it's atmospheric best! I was lifted to a beautiful place with this vid! Taken back to the era of "Good Times"!

One of my favorite bands. They are always refreshing after 51 years of hearing them. I saw them twice in Birmingham Alabama in the early 70s.Thwy were a great band for sure. Thanks Quixhsilver for being there! Love you guys forever!

Watch how the vocals and the guitars are synched together with the organ. So underrated!

67 years old,got into this group in the mid 60s,Who Do You Love totally knocked me out! None of my buddies knew about them. Deepest regrets I never saw them live. Imagine 3 guitar players of that caliber in one group. Cipolino was amazing.

Cipollina has not received the attention due him . What a ferocious attack he had... and that tone my lord ❤ And Gary Duncan too they complimented each other so well

I'm not sure people realize the historical importance of this footage but I invite any and all comments. Quicksilver made it's name from '66-'68 with the tandem guitar wizardry of Gary Duncan and much missed John Cippolina. Gary decided to leave the band (I have heard many explanations) and they released the legendary Happy Trails in 1969. The band foundered for a bit but John struck up a great friendship with the legendary keyboard genius Nicky Hopkins. The resulting LP, Shady Grove is a marked departure from Happy Trails but I think quite inspired. I have often called it Nicky's greatest solo LP with the remaining members of Quicksilver as backing musicians. Not long after Gary returned along with Dino Valente. I saw them at the Fillmore East in April 1970 and they were quite good, they benefited from Dino's songwriting skills but I found them a bit "top heavy". They recorded the two "Hawaiian" LP's but Dino's personality was abrasive from the start. First to go was Nicky and John followed shortly thereafter in 1970. John gigged briefly with Copperhead and a Welsh band, Man. Gary soldiered on with Dino Valente to do a couple of lack luster LP's. I don't believe Gary and John ever played together again until they tried a reunion in 1975, and I believe this footage, is the result. There are lots of "tapes" from the early years but any footage of them playing together is almost nonexistent - until this. And what exists is very brief and not terribly noteworthy. This is remarkably good if you can get past Dino's posturing. And Greg Elmore is a much better drummer than I realized. I listened to today's processed music and it's so sad.

I'll always be a fan.

Springsteen's autobiography "Born to run" brought me here. Thanks Bruce!

It was the best of times and it was the BEST of times.

I love this concert and everyone in the band. But especially Gary and Dino. .

One the Great All Time and Top 5 of My Progressives Rock! Moody Blues, Doors, etc. I saw them Twice in Concert! The first time I ever heard of them I saw them at the World in Miami Florida and the second time at the Fillmore in San Francisco! As I was there I was Talking to a Black Man many minutes during the Concert about Quicksilver and I asked his Name! He said his Name was Howling Wolf! The Great Blues Singer! It blew My Mind! I listened to his Music a lot over the years as he was one of my Favorite Blues Singers! Small World isn’t it!

I was there.

Lived next door to QMS when I was in the 2nd/3rd grade. Spent many an hour in their living room in MV listening. Gary and Greg would take me and my sister to the park to play on the swings. Fond memories of creek lane.

A great band stands the test of time.

I have loved all their albums for decades but never heard much live stuff. This is a brilliant performance with a great mix of songs from across their recording career. It even has 'Gypsy Lights' - one of only 2 songs that I know of about UFO (UAP) sightings (the other being 'Have you seen the saucers ?' by Jefferson Airplane). And of course I sang along with 'What About Me'.😚

04/20/2021,,in NW Ohio,,needed a good Jam session,,this is the Best Medicinal Jam for my old Soul. ✌🏼👍🏼

Wow! What an amazing find! This is pure gold. 🙏 Thank you.

I wore out several copies of the first two QMS albums. Gold and Silver and Pride of Man off the first album were tunes I couldn’t live without in my formative years,

Some knockout playing here, what a great concert.

RIP Gary Duncan...Quick Silver Messenger Service. Only Elmore the drummer and Dsvid Frieberg left

A very underrated band. They are in my top 10 favorite all time bands!!! I never knew what they looked like. Get handsome men and great musicians. The sound is funky and clear. Bring back music like this.

So glad we got to live through this era !

The vocals are excellent with these guys. Just like Peter Green or James Dewer (Robin Trower). Rock and Roll!

At 69, this brings back memories.

I don’t see how anyone could not love this!

Nice San Francisco Sound; still moving today.Have another hit!

I saw them play at the Shrine Auditorium in the Exposition Hall. Walk around 2nd floor where you could watch from above in the 60's

I'm in my 70's and as a boy my Dad would say that gives me the Heebie Jeebies. I finally understood what he meant when I attended my first Quicksilver concert. Mona as a guitar player is my all time favorite.

I listen every day on Happy trails, Maiden of the Cancer Moon and Calvary, Gary and John a perfect combo, love from Sweden

In addition to their albums being sonic masterpieces, their album cover art were visual feasts for the imagination! So psychedelic! Imagery only matched by their music, a sorely under-rated band, love me some Quksilver on a sunday afternoon.

I was there as a 15 year old. They were my favorite of the '67 S.F. bands. LIttle Feat opened. Most of the crowd left after Feat finished. I hadn't really heard of Little Feat and was so surprised but the rest of the crowd was like a gathering of friends with QSM playing at a private party. They were wonderful. Thank you for posting this and enlivening one of my fave concert memories.

Dang! I thought their studio albums sounded good, but the live show is so much better. They can really jam. Thanks for posting this gem:)

I saw QMS in Atlanta at the old Sportsman's Arena about 1970. Opening act was Brewer & Shipley (One Toke Over the Line). Fantastic show! And a real bargain at $2.50!

I saw great Quicksilver show at the olympic auditorium in La , opened for ten years after

These cats were very real. Saw them back then with Country Joe and Sons of Champlin. Turned many young Dead heads in the 80's on to them as well as the Man band. Very Real Acid Rock.

60 years old and still learning about bands I've never heard about like this one and Link Wray

It really doesn't get much better .