''Unreleased Quicksilver Messenger Service — Lost Gold and Silver'' is a compilation 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, ...
. The album is made up of the European 2-LP release ''
Maiden of the Cancer Moon''
AllMusic review
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the data ...
/ref> from 1983, two tracks from the 1967 soundtrack album ''Revolution
In political science, a revolution (, 'a turn around') is a rapid, fundamental transformation of a society's class, state, ethnic or religious structures. According to sociologist Jack Goldstone, all revolutions contain "a common set of elements ...
'', both sides from a non-LP single released in late 1968 and some studio outtakes from the late 1960s.
Track listing
Disc one
"Live from 1968"
#"Back Door Man
"Back Door Man" is a blues song written by American musician Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1960. The lyrics draw on a Southern U.S. cultural term for an extramarital affair. The song is one of several Dixon-Wolf songs that became ...
" – 4:15
#" Codine" – 6:14
#"Gold & Silver" – 12:02
#"Smokestack Lightning
"Smokestack Lightning" (also "Smoke Stack Lightning" or "Smokestack Lightnin'") is a blues song recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1956. It became one of his most popular and influential songs. It is based on earlier blues songs, and numerous artists l ...
" – 10:15
#"Light Your Windows" – 3:06
#"Dino's Song" – 3:32
#"The Fool" – 13:15
#" Who Do You Love?" – 12:21
#"Mona/Maiden of the Cancer Moon/Mona" – 11:34
Bonus disc
"Studio"
#"I Don't Want to Spoil Your Party (Dino's Song)" – 3:06
#"Acapulco Gold and Silver (Gold and Silver)" – 2:37
#"I Hear You Knockin'" – 3:12
#"Back Door Man" – 4:00
#"Your Time Will Come" – 3:10
#"Who Do You Love (Part 1)" – 5:58
#"Walkin' Blues" – 3:07
#"Calvary" – 6:32
#"Codine" – 5:22
#"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" – 5:06
#"Stand by Me" – 3:35
#"The Bears" – 2:11
Personnel
* 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 ...
vocals, guitar
* 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 ...
vocals, guitar
* 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 St ...
vocals, bass guitar, viola
The viola ( , () ) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. Violas are slightly larger than violins, and have a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the ...
* 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 a ...
drums
Notes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Unreleased Quicksilver Messenger Service - Lost Gold and Silver
Quicksilver Messenger Service albums
1999 compilation albums