Shady Grove - The Quicksilver Messenger Service Page

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The Jon Hammond Band

When I first started playing as a professional in 1960, that's 45 years ago, Hammond made a lot of Hammond B3 Organs. There were a lot of B3 players in those days. Hammond also made an option which attached to the legs of the organ and sat on the floor. It had keys like a Piano but the keys were about three times the size of the Piano. It was made to play Bass. You played it with your feet. Not everybody had one cause it was hard to play.............. like riding a bicycle and flying a plane at the same time. Back in those days when you were auditioning an Organist (and it was always a B3.....never a Farfisa) the first question which was usually asked by the Bass player was "Does he Kick Pedals, or....Can the Man Dance".....meaning Can the B3 player play Bass with his feet which meant the Bass Player was out of a Gig. Not every B3 player could "Kick Bass"..............only the Great ones

Jon Hammond "KICKS PEDALS............and "THE MAN CAN DANCE!!"

Just listen

Gary Duncan
Quicksilver Messenger Service

MUSIC FROM THE JON HAMMOND BAND

The Quicksilver Concert Timeline
by Marc Skobac

Blow your mind with a nearly complete list of QMS gigs from 66 to 75!

Doin' Time in the USA

Gary Duncan's Spring 97 interview
with John Barthel is now online at
The Sounds Of The Old Mission
There is a Spanish introduction
but the interview is in English.
(Sorry. This link is temporarily down.)

Quicksilver Messenger Service was one of the best bands to emerge from the Sixties Haight Ashbury - San Francisco scene. They loaded up their from-the-heart songs with free-form jamming; in gigs at classic venues like the Fillmore and Avalon, they stretched out and improvised, pushing their music in unpredictable directions. Tougher than the Dead, looser than the Airplane, but never managing to achieve the popularity of either; they faded away after 1975. Maybe they just weren't ambitious enough; in the words of guitarist Gary Duncan, "We had no ambition toward making records, we just wanted to have fun play some music, and make enough money to be able to afford to smoke pot". Sadly, today Quicksilver is too often overlooked as an essential classic rock experience.