This may be the earliest known live performance of the Quicksilver Messenger Service. It does not appear to be circulating. I transferred it from a cheap 1980s cassette which was labeled as The Matrix, SF, mid '66. I was able to find information on the Internet which narrows the date down to August 9-10, 1966. I don't know which date this is, and there are several cuts in the tape, so it could be from both dates. Since there are no duplicate songs, I assume it's all from one night, possibly multiple sets.
Interesting to me, and possibly confirming this as an early show, are the lyrics to track 14. "Hair Like Sunshine" is on several other Quicksilver recordings, but on this one, the lyrics are completely different for the first part of the song: no Hair Like Sunshine, for example. The second part of the song is as usual. Track 2 is also unique as far as I know, and I'm not sure of the title. The source tape had tracks 7-16 as Side A and tracks 1-6 as Side B but I switched them; seems more correct with the incomplete Mona at the end. Tracks 1-6 sound slightly better too.
Recording quality is listenable but not great. This is a very primitive stereo soundboard tape.
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2 comments:
Thanks for the great rare post!One small problem though; "You don't love me" & "Hair like sunshine" have broken files in megaupload. Also,looking for any rare Moby Grape shows, too.
Thanks for sharing this one. There is a problem in that part 3 of the megaupload files is damaged and gives bad CRC errors for a couple of the tracks. The Rapidshare part 3 is OK to use in its place.
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