Quicksilver Messenger Service - Dino Valenti Joins Quicksilver

Dino Valenti Joins Quicksilver

The next two albums, Just for Love and What About Me?, are sometimes called the Hawaiian albums because they were recorded mostly in a studio in that state, and both have a similar Hawaiian motif to their cover designs. They also sound similar to each other and very different from the group's earlier repertoire. Guitarist Gary Duncan is back. But an even bigger change is that Dino Valenti becomes the lead singer and (under the pseudonym of Jesse Otis Farrow) main songwriter. What had been a jamming guitar band became little more than the backup musicians for a folk / pop oriented singer-songwriter; naturally this alienated some fans, but the records sold relatively well and produced the group's one legitimate hit radio single, 'Fresh Air. Before the next recordings, John Cipollina, David Freiberg, and Nicky Hopkins all went their separate ways.