The second collection, "Happy Trails", is now regarded as a classic. The quartet of Cipollina, Duncan, Elmore and Freiberg recorded the first two albums both were important in the development of San Francisco rock music, as the twin lead guitars of Cipollina and Duncan made them almost unique. Jim Murray departed soon after their well-received appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Quicksilver finally signed to Capitol toward the end of 1967 and recorded their self-titled debut album in 1968. They debuted at the end of '65 and played around the Bay Area and then the West Coast for the next two years, building up a large following, but resisting offers to record that had been taken up by such San Francisco acid-rock colleagues as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. In 1965, the line-up was strengthened by the arrival of guitarist Gary Duncan and, replacing Sonoban, Greg Elmore. He did not rejoin the band until late 1969. Significant in Quicksilver's development was the almost immediate arrest and imprisonment of Valenti for a drugs offence. ![]() Alexander 'Skip' Spence also spent a brief time with the band, before being whisked off to join Jefferson Airplane as their drummer. Dogged by early personnel changes, the original band in 1964 comprised of vocalist Dino Valenti, guitarist John Cipollina, David Freiberg on bass and vocals, Jim Murray on vocals and harmonica, and drummer Casey Sonoban. Of all the bands that came out of the San Francisco area during the late 60s, Quicksilver Messenger Service typified the style, attitude and sound of that era. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band, formed in 19… Read Full Bio ↴ Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band, formed in 1965 in San Francisco. ![]() that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. But there is seemingly no way out but death. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"-being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song.
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