When Jim Murray left in October of '67 and it was just the four they were at their best. Their finest playing was from 10/67 to 6/68. At their peak they were absolutely PHENOMENAL, in the1st tier of bands worldwide. They recorded their first album in the fall of '67. When it was released in May of '68 they started sounding stale and losing the spark. Unfortunately (in my opinion) they were never recorded properly. Their first album was mixed kind of flat. Even their second album the live more animated "Happy Trails" was too sanitized in the mixing - the instruments somewhat muted down. They were all Virgos (planet Mercury) and like bass player Freiberg said "Mercury slips through your fingers pretty fast". Although the Wolfgang 12/31/67 Fillmore concert sounds good, the tape quality and sound capture aren't so good. I strongly urge WV to locate and put up additional shows from the 10/67 thru 6/68 period. Please do so - your audience is gonna be surprised and amazed. If people were aware of the quality of their playing at that time, they'd be appreciated as they deserve to be. The world should know how great QMS was, otherwise it's a tragedy of omission. Also, waiting for a show that has "Walking Blues", "I Hear You Knocking", "Light your Windows" and "The Fool", as well as better versions of "Backdoor Man" "Too Long" and  Mose Allison's "If You Live" which WV mistakenly list in the credits as "Your Time Will Come".  WV also incorrectly credits Jim Murray for vocals and percussion. In reality, he sang, played guitar, harmonica and occasional tambourine with Quicksilver.

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'seeds said,

"The world should know how great QMS was, otherwise it's a tragedy of omission."

So fortunate to have grown up in the City and seen this stuff. It was a different day and different time. I think that their music and musicianship holds up today. You can't really explain what an experiance it was to see them. Those boys rocked so hard. In the context of that time they were an original music band. Who sounded like them? In forty yeas of buying tickets and standing in line to hear music, Quisilver concerts we among the best performances I have ever seen. We just took it for granted, right? They were like one of the local neighborhood bands. We were so young, the world was so straight and they were decidedly counter culture, it was outrageous music. It scared the bejeezus outta our parents.

I know you are saying about sound quality on the Fillmore concert but it is amazing to me that these tapes exist at all. I mean it's kinda like magic, no? Click on the computer and there is all this great music to mine. It is still pretty trippy stuff. Ha, ha, ha...