Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fillmore East, New York City, 6-7-1968

First off, I want to say this post is all due to the excellent audio editing work of Prof. Stoned. It's taken from his blog, "Prof. Stoned: Rare and Deleted," which you can find here:

Prof Stoned: Rare & Deleted 

This is probably the very best full-length concert by Quicksilver Messenger Service when they were at their peak, in 1968.

The music has been officially released, but it was done so badly that Prof. Stoned ended up doing a ton of work to fix it. It was first released in 1983 as the album "Maiden of the Cancer Moon." However, that didn't use the best quality sources, had been partly mislabeled as being from a different concert, and wasn't complete. Then it was released in 1999 as "The Unreleased Quicksilver Messenger Service: Lost Gold and Silver," which was basically just a renaming of the 1983 released. Then it was released again in 2013, as "Live at the Fillmore June 7, 1968." But, as Prof. Stoned put it, this was "little more than a cash grab with its horrible mastering, shuffled track order and lame packaging."

Prof. Stoned found the best version publicly available, which is a soundboard made by the band, and then made some improvements to it. Here's more quotes from his notes, which I've included in full in the download: "The original stereo image is wonky with drums and vocals on one channel; I'm guessing this was the mono house mix. The other channel had a bit of everything except vocals. This new mix set to rectify the poor balancing where possible but also to create a much more satisfying stereo image, which vocals and drums in the center and guitars spread left and right. It proved to be a long arduous process to achieve that, requiring lots of manual work, but here it is."

The band performed two sets on this night. Unfortunately, this is most of what they played, but not all of it. The first ten tracks make up the first set. But there are an unknown number of songs before the first track that apparently didn't get recorded. But the second set is complete, from track 11 to 21. 

This album is an hour and 28 minutes long. 

01 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
02 Smokestack Lightning (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
03 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
04 Codine (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
05 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
06 Light Your Windows (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
07 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
08 Mona (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
09 Maiden of the Cancer Moon (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
10 Mona [Reprise] (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
11 Pride of Man (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
12 If You Live (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
13 Dino's Song (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
14 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
15 Back Door Man (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
16 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
17 Acapulco Gold and Silver (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
18 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
19 Who Do You Love (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
20 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
21 The Fool (Quicksilver Messenger Service)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9Hj35ufP

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/bbhlXr2N6XjyBNl/file

There are surprisingly few good photos of this band in the late 1960s, and almost no color ones. After some digging, I found this one, which might be from a TV appearance. It was in black and white, but I colorized it with the Kolorize program.