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Quicksilver Messenger Service - Castles In The Sand Audio CD

A fair review of the Quicksilver Messenger Service "Castles In The Sand" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Quicksilver Messenger Service reviews here, or go back to the Quicksilver Messenger Service tabs.

Quicksilver Messenger Service Band: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Title: Castles In The Sand
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Release Date: 2009-07-28
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Seor Blues 2: Subway 3: I Know You Rider #1 4: I Know You Rider #2 5: Walk In Jerusalem 6: Castles In the Sand 7: May You Never Be Alone 8: Warm Red Wine 9: Look Over Yonder Wall/State Farm 10: Wake Up, Dead Man (Part 1) 11: Wake Up, Dead Man (Part 2) 12: The Fool

ONCE A GREAT BAND BUT NOT AT THIS TIME
He was pack leader from the end of 1969, they obeyed his every command. The record is about this: Dino Valente was Cesar Millan, and the great musicians of QMS were his dogs. Valente was good at lyrics and lousy at instrumentals. QMS were Meister instrumentalists. But Valente took charge of the instrumentals. "Castles in the sand" shows how ordinary--and even less than ordinary--QMS musicians became with Valente as pack leader. They know it; as a fly on the wall, you get to hear Elmore and Duncan get explicitly berated by Valente for being asleep while playing. When Cippolina starts to do more than just play rhythm backing, Valente stops the tape. No other egos allowed. This record shows that QMS musicians lost their spirit and their ability to play extraordinary music. The result: this record is really boring. Flat line boring.

I do not want to discourage Charly from putting out unreleased QMS material; there is lots of great stuff out there. Charly just needs to hire someone who knows good music from bad. . . this record is in reality not a QMS record---these guys were just dependent sidemen for Dino session.

By the way, a third of this record was previously made available as a bonus on the live Kabuki cd release. .


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