RIP Gary Duncan, Quicksilver Messenger Service guitarist/vocalist, who suffered a severe fall at home and died of the head injuries at the beginning of this month . . .
Duncan and drummer Greg Elmore were previously members of the Brogues, who had a minor hit with . . .
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1Quicksilver co-leader John Cipollina invited them to join what became Quicksilver not long after that 1965 hit. (Bassist/vocalist David Freiberg completed the group, who'd lost their leader Dino Valenti to a two-year stretch in the calaboose over marijuana. When Valenti returned, reedy voice and songwriting alike, he took the group over completely to sound
very different than the jammers who'd first made the band's splash in 1967.)
"I Ain't No Miracle Worker" eventually got a definitive cover from . . .
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