Albums I Wish Existed: Quicksilver Messenger Service

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Live (1967)

As I said in the last post, by the time that Quicksilver Messenger Service released their debut album in May 1968, they'd already been gigging around the circuit for nearly two years, and a lot of those concerts had been professionally or semi-professionally recorded, resulting in there being quite a lot of good quality live material from the band fairly freely available. I could propose this album as a very similar one to the previous post, and say that the band could easily have released a live album as their debut in 1967, but I don't think that would have been very likely, so this collection of live recordings of songs which never appeared on their studio albums is more of a companion piece to 'Q.M.S. 1968', which included studio takes of songs which never appeared on the official albums. Quicksilver Messenger Service were always at their best in the live environment, and even though a lot of these recordings are covers, the band put their unique twist on them, and you can't help but be impressed at just how good they were as a live unit (and also at the quality of these recordings from 1966 and 1967).