''Solid Silver'' is the eighth album by American

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Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. The band achieved wide popularity in the San Francisco Bay Area and, through their recordings, with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe, ...

and their mid-1970s comeback album, reuniting the band's entire core lineup. Though the album charted slightly higher than their previous two releases, briefly denting the Top 100 on the ''Billboard'' 200, this would be the last Quicksilver album until Gary Duncan resurrected the Quicksilver name in 1986 with the album '' Peace by Piece'' and again in the 1990s with several albums.

Track listing

;Side one #"Gypsy Lights" (

Gary Duncan Gary Duncan (born Eugene Duncan, Jr., adopted at birth and named Gary Ray Grubb, September 4, 1946 – June 29, 2019) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was guitarist with The Brogues, then most notably with Quicksilver M ...

) – 3:40 #"Heebie Jeebies" (

John Cipollina John Cipollina (August 24, 1943 – May 29, 1989) was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the prominent San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. After leaving Quicksilver he formed the band C ...

) – 4:15 #"Cowboy on the Run" ( Dino Valenti) – 3:13 #"I Heard You Singing" (

David Freiberg David Freiberg ( ; born August 24, 1938) is an American musician best known for contributing vocals, keyboards, electric bass, rhythm guitar, viola and percussion as a member of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, and Jefferson ...

Robert Hunter Robert Hunter may refer to: Arts * Robert Hunter (painter) (died 1780), Irish portrait painter * Robert Hunter (encyclopædist) (1823–1897), British editor of the ''Encyclopædic Dictionary'' *Robert Hunter (author) (1874–1942), American sociol ...

) – 3:48 #"Worryin' Shoes" (Valenti) – 3:25 ;Side two #"The Letter" (Valenti) – 4:06 #"They Don't Know" (Duncan) – 3:54 #"Flames" (Cipollina, Valenti) – 4:20 #"Witches' Moon" (Valenti) – 2:59 #"Bittersweet Love" (Valenti, Duncan) - 4:23

Personnel

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- electric and Hawaiian steel guitars, vocals * Dino Valenti – guitar, vocals *

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, vocals *

Greg Elmore Gregory Dale Elmore (born September 4, 1946, in the Coronado Naval Air Station, California) is an American drummer, formerly with The Brogues and the San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service is an ...

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Additional personnel

Nicky Hopkins Nicholas Christian "Nicky" Hopkins (24 February 1944 – 6 September 1994) was an English pianist and organist. Hopkins performed on many popular and enduring British and American rock music recordings from the 1960s to the 1990s, most notably ...

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– piano * Michael Lewis – piano, organ, ARP synthesizer * Skip Olson – bass * Mario Cipollina – bass *

Kathi McDonald Kathryn Marie "Kathi" McDonald (September 25, 1948 – October 3, 2012) was an American blues and rock singer and songwriter. As a teenager she sang with different bands around the Pacific Northwest before she was discovered by Ike Turner. She ...

– vocals

Charts

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References

{{Authority control Quicksilver Messenger Service albums 1975 albums Capitol Records albums