jagdriver wrote: 
Bought mine too when it was first released on the east coast.  I was barely a  teen!  Changed my life I think.  Still have my original copy.

 WonderLizard wrote: 
Not just the time sig, but the first six notes.

 jagdriver wrote: 
Me too!   (We're revealing our age, jag!)

 Moonman1 wrote: 
It's the time signature, 5/4. IMHO, Cippolina's response to Brubeck. Brubeck was local to SF at that time, lionized in the press, and certainly well known to a stylistic sponge like Cippolina. Cool, eh?

 Moonman1 wrote: 
Agreed; that's the first thing I thought of too.  Right down to the minimalist percussion.

Not too shabby.

 JeffGuyett wrote: 
Wow!

8 ==> 9

Bought the LP as it was issued; this is still a favorite track. The whole LP is a gem.

Ah, good times, good times . . .

Moonman1 wrote: Me, too, but I still like it.

arcas2000 wrote:
Too right, magic!

I think this sounds an awful lot like Dave Brubecks "Take Five"

Weird. Yesterday I watched a movie called Quicksilver starring Kevin Bacon about a stock broker turned bike messenger. Not a good film, but it has some entertaining bits in it. Anyway, when I googled the movie this morning, I also got some hits for Quicksilver Messenger Service. I thought to myself, "I wonder what they sound like". And somehow Bill must have been reading my mind, because here we are listening to them.

Cipollina. Amazing. Were he still with us.....

This rocks!
I was born in the wrong decade.

Tasty little guitar tune...I never heard it before.

Now that was a blast from the past.

EssexTex wrote:

TampaPurple wrote:

Give them one finger and they'll take five (or rather a whole hand) is a Dutch saying. Very true in this case.

Alafia wrote:

Yes, actually I've never stopped hangin out in small clubs where some guys jam the whole night while you listen and drink tons of beer.

I still love jam music.

RParadise wrote:

Actually, all these Bay Area guys were "under the influence," which is why it all seems so similar.

Used to deliver papers in the neighborhood where Blue Cheer practiced in a garage and spent more than a few stray minutes just listening while sitting on my stingray...

Great song...one that some might not be hearing for much longer if a new law is passed preventing workers playing any kind of radio in the office etc without a perfomance license that companies would certainly not want to pay for, this is a possibility in the UK and might spread to the US and so on.

Slowly all the joys of life are wiped away by rules and regulations.

Early QMS = the best.

HA HA:  8/14/08:  I was just thinking that I had not heard this in years.   Well, my bad.   I love this.

ctdfalconer wrote:I just came lookin' to see who'd ripped off BDB!

This is awesome old-school psychedelic hippie rock. How can someone not like it?

That was freakin' sweet.

I remember listening to this on KBEY in Kansas City in 1970 while working on my MSEE. The DJ at the time commented that this was basically a jam session that QMS recorded -- imagine the talent to improvise like this. I never knew the name of this cut until just now!

hcaudill wrote:

Oh wow that's just so cool. No really ....

I find myself thinking of Badly Drawn Boy. This is pretty fun stuff.

How can you listen to this and not hear where the Grateful Dead got some of their influences?