Quicksilver Messenger Service - Who Do You Love (1968)

[DudeAsInCool]

One of my favorite all time songs.. John Cippolina on guitar...

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[KiwiCoromandel]

great choice dude..i have most of their live stuff..a brilliant band in their heyday..... :) :)

[Kooperman]

Koop recommends: the self-titled solo album by Quicksilver lead singer Dino Valenti...it's worth the search.

Here's some info about the psychedelic folk album:

http://www.richieunterberger.com/valenti.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Koop recommends: the self-titled solo album by Quicksilver lead singer Dino Valenti...it's worth the search.

Here's some info about the psychedelic folk album:

http://www.richieunterberger.com/valenti.html

You forgot to mention Jesse Colin Young - Quicksilver was a super group after its time

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Jesse Colin Young got his start as a solo act on the folk circuits of Boston and New York, and had already cut a couple of unsuccessful albums before deciding to form a band with guitarist Jerry Corbitt. After a failed single called "My Babe", they hired aspiring jazz drummer Joe Bauer and guitarist/pianist Lowell Levinger III, better known simply as "Banana". Young began playing bass when several candidates, including Felix Pappalardi and Harvey Brooks (later of The Electric Flag), proved incompatible, and the quartet took the name 'Youngbloods' from the singer's second solo album.

The group was eventually selected as the house band at New York's famed Cafe Au Go Go, and established itself as a leading folk rock / good time attraction. Their sound would temper their blues and jugband influences with gentle California psychedelia, particularly after they moved to the San Francisco Bay area.

While Young was always the focal point of the band, their first two albums also had songwriting contributions from Jerry Corbitt. Their first single, "Grizzly Bear" was a local hit and their second attempt, "Get Together" didn't do much better when it was first released. This Dino Valenti song had previously been recorded by the Jefferson Airplane, but The Youngbloods' slow, soulful interpretation of "Get Together" was definitive. The record faded quickly but suddenly rocketed to the Top 10 when it was re-released in 1969, after it had been used in a television public service ad. The tune was subsequently adopted as a counter-culture anthem.

By that time, Corbitt had left, and the Youngbloods, reduced to a trio, were living in Marin County, CA. 1969's "Elephant Mountain" was produced by country artist Charlie Daniels. Reflecting the mellowing influence of San Francisco psychedelia, it was their best effort, featuring some of Young's best songs. They released a few more albums in the early '70s (some live), but on these, the mellow California rock sound that had served them well on Elephant Mountain had begun to turn lame and wimpy.

Further albums by Bauer, Levinger and Young were marred by inconsistency. A friend from the Boston days, Michael Kane, joined the band in the spring of 1971, but they split the following year when Young left the band. Levinger, Bauer and Kane continued as "Banana And The Bunch", but this occasional venture subsequently folded.

Jesse Colin Young went on to have a long and moderately successful career as a solo singer / songwriter.

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[Kooperman]

I saw The Youngbloods in early 1972 in Jackson, Mississippi. It was bad weather and only a hundred or so fans braved the storms and showed up in the large coliseum. To their credit, the band put on a good show, although Jesse Colin Young was hitting the Jack Daniels pretty heavy during song breaks.

His solo career had real highs and lows, due in some part, I think, to his laziness. He had some excellent extended jazzy songs on several albums, but he would put throwaway songs as filler to complete the albums.

He's in Hawaii now. He was in the coffee producing business for a while, although he still performs and makes albums from time to time...they're real sappy stuff, though.

[DudeAsInCool]

His song 'Come Together' with the Youngbloods is one of the greatest rock songs of all time...

[Kooperman]

His song 'Come Together' with the Youngbloods is one of the greatest rock songs of all time...

You're mixing up John Lennon's "Come Together" and "Get Together", which the Youngbloods recorded...and Dino Valenti wrote. "Get Together" did come to symbolize the youth and hippie movements, and became famous in a couple of major commercials in the 80's and 90's.

[DudeAsInCool]

You're mixing up John Lennon's "Come Together" and "Get Together", which the Youngbloods recorded...and Dino Valenti wrote. "Get Together" did come to symbolize the youth and hippie movements, and became famous in a couple of major commercials in the 80's and 90's.

Well, I certainly wasn't thinking of the Beatles, but you are correctimente about the title - at least I knew one of those dudes wrote the song

Hear are the lyrics:

Love is but the song we sing,

And fear's the way we die

You can make the mountains ring

Or make the angels cry

Know the dove is on the wing

And you need not know why

C'mon people now,

Smile on your brother

Ev'rybody get together

Try and love one another right now

Some will come and some will go

We shall surely pass

When the one that left us here

Returns for us at last

We are but a moments sunlight

Fading in the grass

C'mon people now,

Smile on your brother

Ev'rybody get together

Try and love one another right now

If you hear the song I sing,

You must understand

You hold the key to love and fear

All in your trembling hand

Just one key unlocks them both

It's there at your command

C'mon people now,

Smile on your brother

Ev'rybody get together

Try and love one another right now

Right now

Right now!

[KiwiCoromandel]

.... :) :) :)