John Cipollina

Quicksilver Messenger Service

Quicksilver Messenger Service
4/14/68
Carousel Ballroom
San Francisco, California

Master SBD > "Molly" C > DAT > SHN (sounds like a MONO soundboard set)

CD #1

1. Back Door Man (4:48)
2. Light Your Windows (5:33)
3. Who Do You Love (12:57)
4. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (5:08)
5. Walkin' Blues (5:40)
6. The Fool (13:36)

CD #2

7. Jam (41:48)

Comment: * some unknown musicians + unknown flute
Lineup: Gary Duncan, John Cipollina, David Freiberg, Greg Elmore

A very nice mix right from the beginning Light Your Windows has microphone problems in the beginning.

The Fool cuts out the master tape right very near the end. My guess would be only about 15 seconds missing.

Jam cuts in * The sax & flute player in these is never introduced. However, the chances that it is Steve Schuster (friend of Gary's, co-writer of "Gold And Silver") are very high.



Quicksilver Messenger Service
6/7/68 & 6/8/68
Fillmore East
New York, NY

SOURCE:
  SBD > unknown 90-minute tape > CD > SHN > repairs > SHN
  Ripped/shortened by Datsit, repaired by Alec Wood
  Normalized with CoolEdit Pro by Miner Gleason

TRACK LISTING:
  01) Pride of Man                                   (Hamilton Camp)  4:08
  02) If You Live                                     (Mose Allison)  4:25
  03) Dino's Song                                     (Dino Valenti)  3:36
  04) Back Door Man                                   (Howlin' Wolf)  4:58
  05) Acapulco Gold and Silver           (Gary Duncan & S. Schuster) 11:47
  06) Smokestack Lightning                            (Howlin' Wolf) 11:08
  07) Codeine                                      (Buffy St. Marie)  6:44
  08) Light Your Windows              (Gary Duncan & David Freiberg)  3:03
  09) Who Do You Love?                                  (Bo Diddley) 13:39
  10) The Fool                        (Gary Duncan & David Freiberg) 13:23
  11) Mona                                              (Bo Diddley) 12:22
                                                                    -------
                                                        Total Time = 89:21
TRACK LAYOUT:
  01 > 02 > 03 > 04 > 05  (Beginning of 6/7/68 show)
  06 > 07 > 08            (Middle of a set, night unknown)
  09 > 10                 (End of 6/7/68 show)
  11                      (End of 6/8/68 show)

PERSONNEL:
  John Cipollina - Guitar
  Gary Duncan    - Vocals, Guitar
  Greg Elmore    - Drums
  David Freiberg - Bass, Vocals

NOTES:
Quicksilver played two nights at the Fillmore East on June 7th and 8th of 1968, their first time playing in New York. Both nights Steppenwolf opened, Quicksilver played next, and Electric Flag headlined.
I have retracked, reordered, and made other minor repairs to this show...
My determinations of which songs were played which nights have been made by listening to the onstage comments between songs.  I have not attempted to arrange the songs to fit on CD, possible arrangements might be:

With Filler:    CD 1: 01 > 02 > 03 > 04 > 05, 09 > 10, 11   (68:24)
                CD 2: 06 > 07 > 08                          (21:01)

Without Filler: CD 1: 01 > 02 > 03 > 04 > 05, 06 > 07 > 08  (50:05)
                CD 2: 09 > 10, 11                           (39:30)



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There is another version of this recording with the same source and exact same sound that should be included in this source page. The md5 is below:

4f60402109ef357a56526e0ad1411294 *qms06-07-68-d2t03.shn
65999681f3c7b5531fe6df7d9759d6e4 *qms06-07-68-d2t02.shn
4cee2b4fb9383f0d7e02ab0fc5a9a11c *qms06-07-68-d2t01.shn
abadbc61d927352e67bd7799cbbebbc4 *qms06-07-68-d1t08.shn
696c73f6b3a28651f95c9aa16b002ff1 *qms06-07-68-d1t07.shn
addae9a545e0684aecd3caab4264db1b *qms06-07-68-d1t06.shn
85ee3f7ff2dfbe8eb12a94ee1a04955a *qms06-07-68-d1t05.shn
c760b74333477bb7076cb4b40a12652d *qms06-07-68-d1t04.shn
df0c7eb8eaaf41f275857d12030b5609 *qms06-07-68-d1t03.shn
4330bbde675f7da56ffb9a5f23a2ce62 *qms06-07-68-d1t02.shn
f2fa394a94f9ec2761ce9cfe68c6933f *qms06-07-68-d1t01.shn



Ed Perlstein, who has archived collections by Nick Gravenites, Spencer Dryden, Steve Keyser (John Cipollinaâ€™s manager) and others, and who currently possesses John Cipollinaâ€™s personal tapes, was given the approval of Johnâ€™s sister, Antonia, to share Johnâ€™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 Johnâ€™s fans and collectors.



Quicksilver Messenger Service
Fillmore East,
New York, NY
June 7,1968


Source: Soundboard Cassette (low gen)
Lineage: iZotope RX 10 Advanced > CD Wave > flac 16



01   Smokestack Lightning
02   Codine
03   Light Your Windows
04   Who Do You Love
05   The Fool



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


Comments:

- Electric Flag and Steppenwolf also played

Notes:

- All tracks have been pitch corrected.
- This is the original mix.



Source provided by Ed Perlstein
Pitch review by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged and quality control by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Photo by Ed Perlstein at www.musicimages.com
Edited and mastered by SIRMick


shntool output:

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
    11:07.22      117710588 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5070  qms1968-06-07t01.flac
     6:52.41       72773276 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5113  qms1968-06-07t02.flac
     3:10.14       33548972 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5280  qms1968-06-07t03.flac
    13:48.06      146073356 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5211  qms1968-06-07t04.flac
    13:25.25      142060844 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5277  qms1968-06-07t05.flac
    48:23.33      512167036 B                            0.5187  (5 files)

flac fingerprints:

qms1968-06-07t01.flac:ddd0ed9d569b15ca62ba15930fb13dfd
qms1968-06-07t02.flac:d19f7b3409a4564fe0cc10790d7af0e2
qms1968-06-07t03.flac:ea40bab0fbc4fd431778cd19911931e5
qms1968-06-07t04.flac:8abdfb217213c04992e4d62c6615c4ff
qms1968-06-07t05.flac:aeae632fccdd7a0188542c0e3d1aac33



Ed Perlstein, who has archived collections by Nick Gravenites, Spencer Dryden, Steve Keyser (John Cipollinaâ€™s manager) and others, and who currently possesses John Cipollinaâ€™s personal tapes, was given the approval of Johnâ€™s sister, Antonia, to share Johnâ€™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 Johnâ€™s fans and collectors.



Quicksilver Messenger Service
Fillmore East,
New York, NY
June 8,1968


Source: Soundboard Cassette (low gen)
Lineage: iZotope RX 10 Advanced > CD Wave > flac 16



01   Pride Of Man
02   If You Live
03   Dino's Song
04   Backdoor Man
05   Acapulco Gold And Silver
06   Mona



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


Comments:

- Electric Flag and Steppenwolf also played

Notes:

- This is the original mix
- All tracks have been pitch corrected.
- The original reel was degraded and this caused some dropouts in the left channel. Repairs have been made and it sounds better but isn't perfect.



Source provided by Ed Perlstein
Pitch review by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged and quality control by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Photo by Ed Perlstein at www.musicimages.com
Edited and mastered by SIRMick


shntool output:

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     4:08.28       43813100 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5365  qms1968-06-08t01.flac
     4:27.35       47181164 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5057  qms1968-06-08t02.flac
     3:41.17       39024428 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5198  qms1968-06-08t03.flac
     5:04.17       53665628 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5067  qms1968-06-08t04.flac
    12:37.36      133619516 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5037  qms1968-06-08t05.flac
    12:01.21      127233836 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5201  qms1968-06-08t06.flac
    42:00.04      444537672 B                            0.5136  (6 files)

flac fingerprints:

qms1968-06-08t01.flac:8d435871dcdf02d086b65ee576b07074
qms1968-06-08t02.flac:f726620af0ad4cabf372dc0314fb06d7
qms1968-06-08t03.flac:3601b5ccf7c58c25338491402eccf432
qms1968-06-08t04.flac:5332080e715b7279732cf02c2094086b
qms1968-06-08t05.flac:88eb58d1ffb558e0ee0f0822f3ecb1f6
qms1968-06-08t06.flac:98ddfa642ff90d4350b10243159252f8



Quicksilver Messenger Service
Golden State Recorders
9/12/68

Items #45 and #295 from Cipollina's collection

MSR? > Teac X-300R 1/4 R2R playback > unknown model HHB CDRW/0 > unknown drive extraction (Easy CD-DA Extractor) > tracking (CD Wave) > CD/1 (Easy CD Creator) > Plexwriter PX-W4824A extraction (EAC v0.9 beta 4) > sector boundary verification (shntool v1.01) > level 8 FLAC encoding (Flac Frontend v1.7.1 etree edition).  EAC >> FLAC by jjoops.

Disc One (12 tracks, 48:43)
--JC collection item/reel #45--
01. Instrumental Tune Overdub w/ Drums
02. Talking & Tuning
03-05. Instrumental Tune Overdub w/ Trombone
06. Talking & Tuning
07-08. Guitar Suites
09. Talking & Tuning
10. Instrumental Jam
11. Talking & Tuning
12. Gypsy in D Minor - Take 1

Disc Two (17 tracks, 53:28)
--JC collection item/reel #45 (con't)--
01. Talk & Tune
02. Gypsy in D Minor - Take 2
03. Talking & Tuning (1)
04. Instrumental
05. Talking & Tuning
06. Instrumental
07. Talking & Tuning
08. Day Song #2 - Take 2
09. Talking & Tuning
10. Instrumental Jam
11. Talking & Tuning
12. Instrumental Jam
13. Talking & Tuning
14. Day Song #2 - Take 3
15. Day Song #2 - Take 4
16. Talking & Tuning
17. Day Song #2 - Take 5

Disc Three (12 tracks, 61:55)
--JC collection item/reel #295 ("part 2" of rehearsals)--
01. Day Song #2
02. "F-Sharp Thing" (Calvary)
03. F-Sharp Instrumental
04. Talk
05-12. Stand By Me

Notes:
- It is assumed that Cipollina's reels are masters, but there might be subsequent reel generations.  This material sounds very nice.
- What a pleasure it is to hear this stuff, especially everything from the middle of disc one ("Guitar Suites") on!  There is just some wonderful music here and also some wonderful insight into the music that would end up on "Happy Trails", most notably Calvary.
- (1) "why don't you come in here and smoke a joint"
- What is included here as disc three is from reel/item #295.  It is noted as part 2 of this date's rehearsals. The notations on the tape box, presumably Cipollina's, are as follows:
	Day Song #2 (Take 5) Con't from Tape 1
	F# Instrumental (Takes 2,3,4,5)
	Stand By Me (Several Attempts - a couple complete & real good)

Thanks to the generous provider of this material!


Quicksilver Messenger Service
11/7-10/68
Fillmore West
San Francisco CA

Smokin' Sound Boot (SBD)

[71:42]
1. Mona/Maiden Of The Cancer Moon/Calvary [18:24]
2. Smokestack Lightning [15:00]
3. Who Do You Love [27:07]
4. Suzy Q [4:44]
5. I Get In Trouble (Gravenites) [2:06]
6. Stand By Me (Studio Single) [4:16]


Quicksilver Messenger Service:
John Cipollina: Guitar
Gary Duncan: Guitar, vocals
David Freiberg: Bass, vocals
Greg Elmore: Drums


Quicksilver Messenger Service
11-07-1968
Fillmore West, San Francisco, Ca

Source : SBD>Rm>Cass>Dat>CD
Transfer: CD>EAC>Samplitude>Flac

Partial:

d1t01	Mona
d1t02	Smokestack Lightning
d1t03	Who Do You Love
d1t04	Susie Q



SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State
21006	1968-04-14	Carousel Ballroom	San Francisco	CA
SBD > "Molly" C > DAT > SHN
21007	1968-06-07	Fillmore East	New York	NY
SBD > unknown 90-minute tape > CD > SHN > repairs > SHN
166436	1968-06-07	Fillmore East	New York	NY
Source: Soundboard Cassette (low gen) Lineage: iZotope RX 10 Advanced > CD Wave > flac 16 edited and mastered SIRMick November 2023
166437	1968-06-08	Fillmore East	New York	NY
Source: Soundboard Cassette (low gen) Lineage: iZotope RX 10 Advanced > CD Wave > flac 16 edited and mastered SIRMick November 2023
30724	1968-09-12	Golden State Recorders	San Francisco	CA
MSR? > Teac X-300R 1/4 R2R playback > unknown model HHB CDRW/0 > unknown drive extraction > tracking > CD/1 > Plexwriter PX-W4824A extraction > sector boundary verification > level 8 FLAC encoding.
23490	1968-11-07	Fillmore West	San Francisco	CA
Smokin Sound bootleg (SBD)
79280	1968-11-07	Fillmore West	San Francisco	CA
SBD > Rm > Cass > Dat > CD > EAC> Samplitude > Flac

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