''Comin' Thru'' is the seventh album by American

psychedelic rock Psychedelic rock is a rock music Music genre, genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelia, psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music incorporated new electronic sound ...

band

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, ...

. It is generally regarded as their weakest effort, and more or less marked the end of Quicksilver as anything other than a part-time band.

Track listing

;Side one #"Doin' Time in the U.S.A." (

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 ...

) – 4:15 #"Chicken" (Traditional, arranged by Dino Valenti) – 4:03 #"Changes" (Valenti) – 4:15 #"California State Correctional Facility Blues" (Valenti, Duncan,

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 ...

, Chuck Steaks) – 6:10 ;Side two #"Forty Days" (Valenti, Duncan, Elmore) – 5:31 #"Mojo" (Valenti) – 5:34 #"Don't Lose It" (Duncan, Valenti) – 5:57

Personnel

* Dino Valenti –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or witho ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...

, congas *

– guitar, vocals * Chuck Steaks – organ * Mark Ryan –

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–

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

Additional personnel

* Ken Balzell –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

(track B1) * Dalton Smith – trumpet (tracks A3, B2, B3) *

Bud Brisbois Austin Dean "Bud" Brisbois (April 11, 1937 – June 1978) was a jazz and studio trumpeter. He played jazz, pop, rock, country, Motown, and classical music. Career Brisbois was born in Edina, Minnesota and began studying the trumpet at age 12. ...

– trumpet (tracks A3, B2, B3) * Pat O'Hara –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrat ...

(track B1) * Charles C. Loper – trombone (tracks A3, B2, B3) * Sonny Lewis –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

(track B1) * Donald Menza – saxophone (tracks A3, B2, B3)

Charts

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(United States)

References

{{Authority control Quicksilver Messenger Service albums 1972 albums Capitol Records albums