# Solid Silver

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Solid Silver
| type       = studio
| artist     = [Quicksilver Messenger Service](/source/Quicksilver_Messenger_Service)
| cover      = Quicksilver Messenger Service - Solid Silver.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = November 1975
| recorded   = June 30 – August 29, 1975
| venue      =
| studio     = CBS ([San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco))
| genre      = [Psychedelic rock](/source/Psychedelic_rock), [acid rock](/source/acid_rock)
| length     = 38:16
| label      = [Capitol](/source/Capitol_Records)
| producer   = John Palladino
| chronology = [Quicksilver Messenger Service](/source/Quicksilver_Messenger_Service)
| prev_title = [Comin' Thru](/source/Comin'_Thru)
| prev_year  = 1972
| next_title = [Peace by Piece](/source/Peace_by_Piece)
| next_year  = 1986
}}
'''''Solid Silver''''' is the eighth album by American [psychedelic rock](/source/psychedelic_rock) band [Quicksilver Messenger Service](/source/Quicksilver_Messenger_Service) and their mid-1970s comeback album, reuniting the band's entire core lineup.

Though the album charted slightly higher than their previous two releases, briefly denting the Top 100 on the [''Billboard'' 200](/source/Billboard_200), this would be the last Quicksilver album until Gary Duncan resurrected the Quicksilver name in 1986 with the album ''[Peace by Piece](/source/Peace_by_Piece_(album))'' and again in the 1990s with several albums.

{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic)
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Bruce |last= Eder |title= ''Solid Silver'' > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r47424 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=[Allmusic](/source/Allmusic) |accessdate=August 29, 2011}}</ref>
|noprose=yes
}}

==Track listing==
;Side one
#"Gypsy Lights" ([Gary Duncan](/source/Gary_Duncan)) – 3:40
#"Heebie Jeebies" ([John Cipollina](/source/John_Cipollina)) – 4:15
#"Cowboy on the Run" ([Dino Valenti](/source/Dino_Valenti)) – 3:13
#"I Heard You Singing" ([David Freiberg](/source/David_Freiberg), [Robert Hunter](/source/Robert_Hunter_(lyricist))) – 3:48
#"Worryin' Shoes" (Valenti) – 3:25
;Side two
#"The Letter" (Valenti) – 4:06
#"They Don't Know" (Duncan) – 3:54
#"Flames" (Cipollina, Valenti) – 4:20
#"Witches' Moon" (Valenti) – 2:59
#"Bittersweet Love" (Valenti, Duncan) – 4:23

==Personnel==
* [Gary Duncan](/source/Gary_Duncan) –  [electric](/source/electric_guitar) and [pedal steel](/source/pedal_steel_guitar) [guitar](/source/guitar)s, [vocals](/source/singing)
* [John Cipollina](/source/John_Cipollina) – electric and Hawaiian steel guitars, vocals
* [Dino Valenti](/source/Dino_Valenti) – guitar, vocals
* [David Freiberg](/source/David_Freiberg) – [bass](/source/bass_guitar), vocals
* [Greg Elmore](/source/Greg_Elmore) – [drums](/source/drum_kit)

===Additional personnel===

* [Nicky Hopkins](/source/Nicky_Hopkins) – [piano](/source/piano)
* [Pete Sears](/source/Pete_Sears) – piano
* Michael Lewis – piano, [organ](/source/organ_(music)), ARP synthesizer
* Skip Olson – bass
* Mario Cipollina – bass
* [Kathi McDonald](/source/Kathi_McDonald) – vocals

==Charts==
; Album

[Billboard](/source/Billboard_magazine) (United States)
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Chart
!Position
|-
|1975
|Pop Albums
|align="center"|89
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{QuicksilverMessengerService}}

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Category:Quicksilver Messenger Service albums
Category:1975 albums
Category:Capitol Records albums

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