John Cipollina

Quicksilver Messenger Service

Ed Perlstein, who has archived collections by Nick Gravenites, Spencer Dryden, Steve Keyser (John Cipollina’s manager) and others, and who currently possesses John Cipollina’s personal tapes, was given the approval of John’s sister, Antonia, to share John’s live and studio outtake recordings in the interest of keeping his music alive for future generations.  Steve Keyser, who recorded most of John's live shows with several different bands while he was his manager, has allowed Ed to digitize his master cassettes, and to share them with John’s fans and collectors.


Quicksilver Messenger Service
Fillmore Auditorium,
San Francisco, CA
April 23, 1966


Source: Soundboard (low gen) > cdr
Lineage: wav > iZotope RX 10 Advanced >
CD Wave > Flac16



01   //Light Your Windows *
02   It's Been Too Long
03   Who Do You Love
04   Gold And Silver * (includes drum and sax solos)



John Cipollina - lead and rhythm guitar
Gary Duncan - rhythm and lead guitar, lead and backing vocals
Greg Elmore - drums
Jim Murray - rhythm guitar, lead and backing vocals

guest:

Steve Schuster - flute and saxophone (probably) *


Comments:

- Grass Roots and Family Tree also played.


Notes:

- Pitch adjusted
- 1 or 2 seconds are clipped at the start of "Light Your Windows"



Source provided by Steve Keyser
CD extraction by Ed Perlstein
Pitch checked by Joe B. Jones
Files tagged and quality control by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Photo by Ed Perlstein at www.musicimages.com
edited and mastered
SIRMick
February 2023


shntool output:

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     4:07.41       43667276 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5534  qms1966-04-23t01.flac
     3:24.73       36157340 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5685  qms1966-04-23t02.flac
     8:19.50       88141244 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5166  qms1966-04-23t03.flac
    11:41.66      123811676 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5473  qms1966-04-23t04.flac
    27:34.05      291777536 B                            0.5416  (4 files)

flac fingerprints:

qms1966-04-23t01.flac:8de3a05a74b4d90f2d4ddf415b394a92
qms1966-04-23t02.flac:f30168649805561db90baf55ac62c217
qms1966-04-23t03.flac:7de65c570fecdaccd609b813dcb5dc0b
qms1966-04-23t04.flac:a1767f268930ab0c5f1dfe9e829e05a2





Quicksilver Messenger Service
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco, CA
11/5/66 Sets I & II

Soundboard ? > ? cassette > DAT > CD >
Plexwriter PX-W4824A extraction (EAC v0.9
beta 4) > sector boundary verification
(shntool v1.01) > level 8 FLAC encoding
(Flac Frontend v.1.7.1 etree edition).

Single Disc (15) 76:23
--Set I--
01. Dino's Song [3:12] [0:02]
02. Hair Like Sunshine [4:55] [0:43] (1)
03. I Hear You Knockin' [3:34] [0:48] (2)
04. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You [4:28] [0:11]
05. Smokestack Lightning [11:37] [0:54]
06. If You Live [5:33] [0:04]
07. All Night Worker [3:50] [0:06]
--Set II--
08. [0:57] Got My Mojo Workin' [4:08] [0:32]
09. You Don't Love Me [2:40] ->
10. Suzy Q [3:38] [0:16] (3)
11. Hoochie Coochie Man [5:18] [1:08] (4)
12. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You [4:30] [1:09] (5)
13. Gold & Silver [2:09] [0:51]
14. Stand By Me [4:18] [0:56] (6)
15. Pride of Man [3:44] [0:08]

Notes:
- Clean but oversaturated soundboard.  Based
on the provenance and on the level of hiss, I
would guess that the true lineage is MSR > C >
D > CD, but I cannot confirm that.
- The fact that Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
appears in both "sets", and comment #4
(below) make it seem likely that this
material comes from more than one date, though
I have no idea whether or not QMS at this stage
might have played the song twice in one night
(e.g., in early and late shows).
- I have some questions about the order of
the songs for the late show.  The order in
which they appear here corresponds to the order
written down on the labels of the digitized
cassettes, but *not* to the actual music on the
cassettes, which was as follows: Hoochie Coochie
Man, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Gold & Silver,
Stand By Me, Pride of Man, Got My Mojo Workin',
You Don't Love Me -> Suzy Q.  I was encouraged
to keep that order, but have decided to put
things as they were originally labeled, for one
single reason: the banter corresponds much more
closely to the written order than to the actual
order on the tapes.  This is most clearly true
for banter #6 (before Pride of Man).  Also, the
tuning before Mojo Workin' seems consistent with
the start of a set/show.  But not a note of this
material was edited, so one can still re-arrange
the material as originally laid out.

Banter Notes (approximate):
- (1) "It's called Hair Like Sunshine, it's
written by Jack Sheldon (?). Do a song that
Jimmy wrote next called 'I Hear You Knockin''."
- (2) "Do a folk song next called 'Babe I'm
Gonna Leave You. A real honest-to-God folk
song." "Folk rock, is what it is." "Well ...
try to keep up on everything."
- (3) We'd like to dedicate this first song to
Muddy Waters.  It's called "I Got My Mojo Workin'.'"
- (4) "We got a request to do a song called
'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You'."
- (5) "We'd like to do a song now called
'Acapulco Gold & Silver'.  It's a [sic] instrumental,
nobody ever sings on it."
- (6) "We're gonna do one more song, and then,
uh, this thing's gonna be over, and it's called
'Pride of Man'.  It's written by Hamilton Camp,
and it's about, uh, it's about some kind of
religious thing. I don't know. I don't wanna get
involved." "See, see, last song. After this
everybody, good night."



QUICKILVER MESSENGER SERVICE
NOVEMBER 5,1966
FILLMORE AUDITORIUM,
SAN FRANCISCO,CA.,USA

BILL GRAHAM ARCHIVES MASTER SB REELS > AUDIO CD > EAC > FLAC

SET 1
1-DINO'S SONG
2-HAIR LIKE SUNSHINE
3-I HEAR YOU KNOCKIN'
4-BABE I'M GONNA LEAVE YOU
5-SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING
6-IF YOU LIVE
7-ALL NIGHT WORKER

SET 2
8-GOT MY MOJO WORKIN'
9-YOU DON'T LOVE ME
10-SUZY Q
11-HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN
12-BABE I'M GONNA LEAVE YOU
13-GOLD AND SILVER
14-STAND BY ME
15-PRIDE OF MAN

ON A RELATED NOTE,THE BG DATABASE SHOWS 3 DATES FOR THAT 2/67 WEEKEND;FEB.3,4 AND 5,1967.
THESE TAPES GO AROUND AS FEB.4,5 AND 6,1967 AND MY COPIES CONTAIN THE SAME INFO.
NO SHOW IS LISTED FOR FEB.6.

Quicksilver Messenger Service
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco, CA
Nov 20, 1966


Source: Stereo Soundboard Cassette (probably 1st gen)
Lineage: wav > Adobe Audion 3 > iZotope RX 10 Advanced > CD Wave > Flac16


01   Intro
02   Dino's Song
03   You Don't Love Me
04   I Hear You Knockin'
05   Acapulco Gold And Silver
06   Codine
07   Suzie Q
08   Hey Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
09   Pride Of// Man



Jim Murray - guitar, harmonica, vocals
John Cipollina - guitar, vocals
Gary Duncan - guitar, vocals
David Freiberg - bass, vocals
Greg Elmore - drums


Comments:

- SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) Benefit k/a Snick Benefit
- James Cotton Blues Band and Grateful Dead also played.


Notes:

- I compared "Pride of Man" to another played around the same time and found that there is something like 13 seconds missing, it's part of the instrumental break.


edited and mastered
SIRMick
September 2022


shntool output:

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     0:32.35        5727164 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4917  qms1966-11-20t01.flac
     3:44.20       39560684 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6338  qms1966-11-20t02.flac
     3:25.07       36178508 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6115  qms1966-11-20t03.flac
     4:25.48       46858940 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6132  qms1966-11-20t04.flac
     3:45.09       39711212 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5719  qms1966-11-20t05.flac
     5:43.42       60604028 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6313  qms1966-11-20t06.flac
     4:55.59       52176812 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6274  qms1966-11-20t07.flac
     3:38.74       38629292 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6195  qms1966-11-20t08.flac
     3:27.23       36568940 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6508  qms1966-11-20t09.flac
    33:38.17      356015580 B                            0.6185  (9 files)

flac fingerprints:

qms1966-11-20t01.flac:129560682a994e4e651bb9194cdceb5a
qms1966-11-20t02.flac:33c6f011853f8f387b3b5285e8a2fd37
qms1966-11-20t03.flac:6fc641b3afbabcddc44a0b9611de9c91
qms1966-11-20t04.flac:37a1eb778f1bd1adc68e720bcdd50265
qms1966-11-20t05.flac:295ce0ae4a05ad8128ca03f3881e19c9
qms1966-11-20t06.flac:6a55bc43b5789f22b22976ca13c66a0b
qms1966-11-20t07.flac:ef311cb40b7c681fd40465e2b115d640
qms1966-11-20t08.flac:1759c612e3a46ee4bc1ab673c9a193b4
qms1966-11-20t09.flac:eb4d9a12a94f41201a4205597923db46



SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State
163739	1966-04-23	Fillmore Auditorium	San Francisco	CA
Source: Soundboard (low gen) > cdr Lineage: wav > iZotope RX 10 Advanced > CD Wave > Flac16 edited and mastered SIRMick February 2023
127266	1966-11-05	Fillmore Auditorium	San Francisco	CA
Soundboard ? > ? cassette > DAT > CD > Plexwriter PX-W4824A extraction (EAC v0.9 beta 4) > sector boundary verification (shntool v1.01) > level 8 FLAC encoding (Flac Frontend v.1.7.1 etree edition).
89948	1966-11-05	Fillmore Auditorium	San Francisco	CA
BILL GRAHAM ARCHIVES MASTER SB REELS > AUDIO CD > EAC > FLAC part of a collection of four shows purportedly from the Bill Graham Archive, dated 11/05/66 and 02/04, 05 and 06/67.
158177	1966-11-20	Fillmore Auditorium	San Francisco	CA
Source: Stereo Soundboard Cassette (probably 1st gen) Lineage: wav > Adobe Audion 3 > iZotope RX 10 Advanced > CD Wave > Flac16 edited and mastered SIRMick September 2022

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