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After more than seven years as a member of The Country Gentlemen, mandolin player and vocalist Doyle Lawson founded his own group on April 1, 1979. [1] The original lineup included guitarist and vocalist Jimmy Haley, banjo player Terry Baucom, and bassist Lou Reid; the group was briefly known as Doyle Lawson & Foxfire, but was soon renamed Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver (DL&Q). [2]
Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. [3] The band achieved wide popularity in the San Francisco Bay Area and, through their recordings, [ 4 ] with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe, and several of their albums ranked in the Top 30 of the Billboard Pop charts.
Doyle Wayne Lawson [1] (born April 20, 1944) is an American traditional bluegrass and Southern gospel musician. [2] He is best known as a mandolin player, vocalist, producer, and leader of the 6-man group Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. [3]
John Cipollina (August 24, 1943 – May 29, 1989) was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the prominent San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. After leaving Quicksilver he formed the band Copperhead, was a member of the San Francisco All Stars and later played with numerous other bands.
After leaving Doyle Lawson's band Quicksilver, guitarist Russell Moore, fiddle player Mike Hartgrove and bassist Ray Deaton formed IIIrd Tyme Out (3TO) in May 1991. [1] They completed the initial incarnation by adding mandolin player Alan Bibey and banjo player Terry Baucom , both of whom left Lawson spin-off group The New Quicksilver to join ...
David Freiberg (/ ˈ f r aɪ b ər ɡ / FRY-berg; born August 24, 1938) is an American musician best known for contributing vocals, keyboards, electric bass, rhythm guitar, viola and percussion as a member of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, and Jefferson Starship. [1] Among other tracks, he co-wrote "Jane", a hit for ...
Gary Duncan (born Eugene Duncan, Jr., adopted at birth and named Gary Ray Grubb, [1] September 4, 1946 – June 29, 2019) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was guitarist with The Brogues, then most notably with Quicksilver Messenger Service, where the complex interplay between himself and fellow-guitarist John Cipollina did much to define the unique sound of that San ...
He traveled with Quicksilver's Gary Duncan to New York in January 1969 to form a new band (to be called The Outlaws) shortly before Quicksilver's noted album Happy Trails appeared in March. While Valenti/Powers and Duncan were in New York, British keyboardist Nicky Hopkins joined Quicksilver for their third album, Shady Grove (December 1969).