At 67 yrs old and being a devoted acid head back in the day, I can tell you that this excelled at the time for when we gave music the "acid test"...did it stand up during a trip?...Many decades later and being straight for over 40 yrs....it still stands up as one of the finest efforts to come out from that period to my "straight" ear today....absolutely amazing and we will never see a period like that again. Happy Trails everyone!
I used to see QMS and others at the Family Dog on the Great Highway. Back in the late 80's I visited family back East and went to the R&R Hall of fame. Saw John's Stack With the Horns atop displayed and almost cried Oh those memories!
66 and definitely not 'straight' but always looking for music on TH-cam. The Quick were masterful at covering & stretching old blues/rock tunes. RIP John Cippolina. Stay safe buddy
It's Max Headroom, but I don't know how to take it? Is all acid or LSD or Purple Haze, the sane thing? Just got through coming off some purple 💜 haze about 50 or so many years. Will you please help me down. I'll reciprocate any ways possible. ☮️ Peace Love, Haight Ashbury.
My brother came home in 71 after two half years In Vietnam before left(Vietnam ) he came home (Stationed San Diego) with the most incredible music this was one of the many 8 tracks I listened to at 16 I’m now 70 my brother 75 we get together on his Wooded, River Run through natures wilderness talking about this incredible time and the Music that came out of it -
This is my first time ever hearing this band. My boyfriend is older than me and put this on for me today. He also introduced me to a band Lynrd Skynyrd...wow I'm having one of the best summers of my life ! I love reading these stories from people about their history with this music aswell, thank you for sharing.
The best version of this fantastic song. One of the longest songs in rock. I really can't think of a longer song, and yes it was recorded live. The reason that everyone loves Quicksilver Messager Service is that they never sold out. They stuck it out playing good rock and roll, it have driven yhe record company crazy. In the end, they are the big winners. Dave in Sierra Vista AZ
Pure music, no sidebars into distortion(torture), just pure orgpanized music. One of the few albums of mine d++×head bro didnt trade off for pot while I was away in the Army. An often overlooked masterpiece.
In 1968 a friend asked me to his party, but I had to bring an album. So as a joke I bought Happy Trails thinking I was buying a country music album. But... I was sooo wrong. This album remains one of my favorites
I remember laying on the floor in front of the stereo, stoned, staring at (and daydreaming deep into) that cover for the full duration of the song (some 45 years ago). Something about the repeated, pulsating chord progression just lent itself to that horse running across the expanse of the brown-yellow plains - with Gary Duncan's guitar solo driving the horse on and on and on... We were so lucky to grow up in the era of (a) the best rock and roll of all time, and (b) the age of the vinyl LP album - the greatest medium of music, that helped create a landscape and backdrop for the music of the time. Albums just created so much more depth to the music and the bands. And this one was a prime example.
I always thought that QMS was was a extremely funky band !! a little bit cooler than Grateful Dead almost as cool as WAR,Yeah Mon !!Miss them .wasn't Freiberg in QMS and later on he was in Jefferson Airplane!
48 years ago I bought this album and I was High. 48 years ago I listened to this album and I was High. 48 years latter I'm High and listening to this---------- and Smiling !
Ha, you guys trip me out!! My uncle gave me this 8 track tape along with Neil Young - Everybody Knows; Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge; and one other I can't even remember, so must not have been that good. But he told me, boy, these are gonna be big hits. lolol I've loved them all since 69.. and that was some cool hip shit for the hillbilly state of West Virginia back in the day... shit, still is, wtf, yeah 😂😂😂
My brother sent his record collection home from being stationed in Germany during the vietnam war, me, his 15 year old brother listened to it and the rest is pretty hazy.
Back in the late 60's I used to take big doses of acid and listen to music like this to disengage myself from the known world. This tune was my #1 favorite on that score.
Early QMS epitomizes the West Coast rock sound even mores so than the Grateful Dead. This is the quintessential West Coast sound and style. Many thanks to Cipollina and the band for this epic sound and album. I hope Bo Diddly was proud of this cover.
Psychedelic really doesn't "get it" for the music these kids could make. Really it's in a whole realm of it's own. This is raw hormones/pheremones music. Straight to the reptile-brain stuff.
this was a time when we young people were eager to feed our heads .. had my first trip on this album at 17.5 y.o. and I never went back from it, nor regret it :)) now a buddhist french doc, still not retired .. Peace & Love everyone be thankfull to life 🙏
One of 'the' most outstanding pieces of music ever composed and performed, 2 great guitarist, and let's not forget that drummer, he never missed a beat!
@@wolfliou3678 He doesn't miss a beat, even when there isn't any (haha); at very end one can hear his hands drop to drum-set; bet he was somewhat fatigued.
after 40 years since I got the vinyl it still stunts me,clean and acid at the same time,brilliant and creative guitar work ,stupendous interplay of instruments.One of the very few genuinely life changing albums
John Cipollina is playing lead here. Gary plays the rhythm part until his solo after the song later breaks down into the minor key jam, then when it breaks again into the freeform jam, Cipollina resumes the solo-ing and continues on out when the song kicks back into the "Who Do You Love " riff, then at around 18 minutes Freiberg takes a solo on his bass. When guitars return after the 20 minute mark, Cippolina resumes solos to the end. Not trying to be a wise guy, it's kinda easy to tell because of the unique, slightly jittery style of John's "Vibrola" use... ...and Gary didn't have/use a trem here. Gary's guitar is also richer and more full sounding than John's typically thin tone with his SG Standard and bizarre home-brew rigs.. Gary was playing that big jazz hollow body, "Trini Lopez Custom", around this time and it sounds like what he's using here.
I’ve asked this question before but got no answer; who did the albums artwork? Anybody know? It reminds me of Frederic Sackrider Remington (a fav of mine).
All their songs and compositions are dynamic, and still connoting deep meaning; one of my top 5 groups in past 55 yrs of listening and hearing lots of great work; have thousands of hrs involved digging it as deep as it goes. Hell man, music makes me whole!
I'm 68 and still loving this music I remember me and friends gathering round the burn barrel on friday night handing out whatever acid or mescaline we had to start our weekend FAR OUT
At 68 years old I still believe this album is one of the top albums of all time. It was my favorite album through my high school and college. I wore a groove into the Who do you Love side of that record ! Cippolina rules in those guitar riffs. I've never heard anyone like that since. RIP John and band.
look, i was in a head shop buying some incense when I heard this for the first time. many people will not know what a "head shop" is, but not for nothing, it served up this album in toto for me in their bean bag seats and the clandestine tokes of Jamaican herbals...what a time!
In 1968 I was told to bring an album to a party. So I bought HAPPY TRAILS, as a joke thinking it was country. It turned out to be one of my favorites. What the he'll happened to the 60's? Seems like yesterday!
John Cipollina's guitar playing is a sound you can never forget. Quicksilver was the ultimate hippie band. The Greatful Dead to me were a close second...........
This album is truly "sacred in the pantheon of legendary rock and roll albums." The only luck I've had in my life is being born in SF and going to college in the '60s-and loving the electric guitar. Johnny Cippolina, Mike Bloomfield, Gary Duncan. Jerry Garcia, James Gurley and all the rest. Many, many incredible guitarists-and they were all in their 20's! The Messenger Service's first two albums are magic. Pure and simple. A pity Cippolina and Garcia died so young. To think about what they could have done as the years rolled by is, well...Anyhow enough has been put on vinyl (far superior to digital shit) so many generations can be inspired and full of joy at the magic that took place. God (what ever that is) bless 'em all. I love those experiences I had as being part and parcel to those incredible performances. Performers and audience: in separable.
"Cobra-snake for a necktie. A house made outta rattlesnake hide... A chimney way-up-on-top made from human skulls." There's two things I love. Snakes and skulls. I've got a plastic skull hanging on my wall over my monitor with a rubber coral snake in it's teeth. The other one on the other side has a rose in it's teeth ( you can guess the reference there ). I didn't die 9 times on the midnight train but I almost drowned one time. Sometimes I *still* wonder if I didn't wind up in a veggie-ward after that little incident and everything I've experienced afterward isn't just some elaborate narrative I've concocted in my bored-to-tears mind when denied access to the *real* world... I was, after all, "just 22 and I d[id]n't mind dyin'". I'm a lot more than 22 now but I *still* don't mind dyin'. A life lived in fear is no life at all. Well; maybe for a mouse. Who do *you* love?
When I was 19, I was in the infantry, in Viet-Nam, walking through the jungle, with my platoon, on recon patrol. When we got back to the fire base, later that night, I was chillin' out, drinking a cold Pabst, and listening to this for the first time. Been hooked ever since. On the music that is. Forty six years ago. Can't drink Pabst anymore, Agent Orange has destroyed my innards.
For the first month I was back in the world i sat stoned in my basement apt, with the curtains drawn, in day and night darkness, listening to this, as well as Zep and Hendrix. I was living on Ring-Dings and milk and when I was able to sleep I was having real bad dreams. The only thing that saved my ass was going back to my old employer who rehired me. That , and pretending (for years) that I was normal. So I survived.
I was 14 living in Germany. My friend had short wave radio. We listened to San Francisco sounds on radio Luxembourg. The theme song was Silver and Gold by Quicksilver. Absolutely amazing now and then. I walked 47 miles of barbed wire wore a cobra snake for a necktie. Wonderful
I bought this album as soon as it hit the record store! Heard QMS on KAAY Little Rock--which was waaay ahead of everyone else in the country on new Rock & Blues bands to check out in the 1970's!
@@keithd2284 ha ha. I'm 66 now young fella. Thanks to u tube I can still listen to it and other great tracks from the golden age of rock.. Not stoned though, gave up weed and acid years ago.. Might have some red wine though.. Take care buddy
David W. & I were driving around town one night & bumped into Bruce & his fiancee Cheryl. I'd just bought this on 8-track & David had some decent weed, so we parked out in a farmer's field, broke out the weed, & got Cheryl high for the first time ( well, it WAS only 1970 ). Loaded this into the tape player & kicked back for the next half hour. Dropped them off later, & when I saw Bruce ( God bless him, now deceased ) the next day, he said " Last night I got the best sex I've ever had in my life!!" QSMS STILL rules!!... peace out...
I was 12 years old growing up in Mexico City in the 60's and we blasted this tune at school, long and loud, baby. Hamilton School, Lomas de Chapultepec. Nunca olvidaremos Tlatelolco 2 de Octubre 1968.
First, let me start with this: ¡Que se pudra el "Trump" en la cárcel sumido en mierda suya! Now, to quicksilver. I missed them at their peak. Saw the Dead and Airplane, but not them. Why? In September of 1970 for reasons too lengthy to explain and that I still find hard to believe, I went to live in Mexico, the Capital. I was there from the 19th of September that year until June 30th, 1972, when I crossed the border for the last time without plans to return again and live, and learn and study Spanish. There is no way for me to know today what might have been without that experience, but I'm sure it would have been far less, much worse, and not nearly as interesting. During the 68 Olympics, I heard about the "riots" like most people did in the U.S., getting the government version which played down the carnage and slaughter. It didn't take me long to hear more of the truth, once I arrived. Coincidentally, we arrived on the train, and I noticed this nice map, on a building to the west of the car. It showed the valley, and in the north western foothills "El Desierto de Los Leones." I'd had an introductory course to Spanish, so I knew what it meant, but just thought of it as a picturesque name. So I studied at the Instituto Mexicano-Norteamericano de Relaciones Culturales, in la Zona Rosa, (Hamburgo 115) Conversational Spanish until late December when funding difficulties meant we had to leave. 3 hours a night, 5 nights a week, read and reread the course text--about 3 hours a day, go to class, and go out after and never have a chance of forgetting anything you just learned because you go out and use it immediately. Best educational experience of my entire life. 5 week courses. Nearly completed the third, but had to go, 90% done. Two months or so later, after returning in early January, it was March of 1971, studying at UNAM then, one day, and I just found myself thinking in Spanish. Wouldn't have been as fast without the conversational courses. Anyway, just thought I'd say "hi" to someone who knows. I came close to not returning. In 1972, taking cursos temporales at UNAM again, I left my text and notes in the back of a friend's car (VW Bug, behind the back seat) when I rode out with him to his place in The Desert of the Lions. Nice little weekend cabin I'd been too before. Lots of space outside for young men and coeds to mingle after class, know what I mean. Caught a ride back to my car with one of the coeds. Got back "home" to the family I was living with in La Colonia Guerrero." I think there was more to the name. There was a professional baseball stadium a few blocks north. Maybe "Romero y terreros." Something like that. Missed the notebook and text when I got to where I needed it. Hours had passed couldn't get him on the phone. Finally just decided to try my luck. Drove out. It was night by then. I knew a way through the fence (just like maybe 2 year old tree trunks, maybe 2-3 inches thick, but 12 feet high set in a rock wall about 3 feet high, where there was a trunk/pole missing. Decided to start a fire and wait. Plenty of dry wood. Put some in the fire pit. Got his can of starter: a mix of gas and oil. Poured it, stood back, stuck the match along the edge of the box. It arched through the air hit the wood, bounced down to the bottom and sputtered out. I wasn't paying much attention to the sputter by then. I was too busy noticing every hair on my body standing at attention after I'd heard the big cat behind me come out with that hissing roar. I turned around in time to see it turning away and sauntering off. Its nose had been within 4 feet of my back. That match must have done to its eyes what a flashbulb does to ours if we look straight at it in a dim environment. If it weren't for the fact that the government taxed matches and you couldn't get lighter fluid, or disposable lighters, I might have knelt down to try and light that fire with a kerosene lighter. That probably would have been lights out for me. In that deserted area, at night, in a forest where it's even darker still, and nobody living around for miles. Picturesque name. Right. I was never able to be sure, it was too dark and I only saw a silhouette, whether it was a puma or jaguar, which have overlapping ranges in that area--not that it would have mattered much to me which species was ripping my throat out. From the sound, it sounded exactly like what you hear from a puma. But I don't know if jaguars would make a sound like that if surprised or annoyed. I'm just glad I didn't get eaten. My friend told me the next day "Oh, yeah! You have to be careful around there at night!" I put that one in the "No shit, Sherlock" bin. Anyway, I didn't see Quicksilver, live, ever. But considering what I got instead, it was worth it. ¡Que nunca se olviden el 2 de Octubre, 1968 y los muertos del masacreTlatelolco!
@@victorgenarobritobarreiro644 They had great radio in the DF back in the day. Even Radio 590 La Pantera! played the Dead, Hendrix, and non-stop Rolling Stones. Unbelievable. Paz y amor, hermano!
Oh my god - this takes me back - I bought this album in 1969 & learnt all the chords & lead parts so that my band could play it at the college where we were at the time. I was 17 & it was the Technical College in St Mary's Street in Southampton if anyone remembers ! The gigs were in the smoke filled basement of the Students Union building .We also played 'Sunshine of your love 'by Cream !! Happy days ! thnks to EMILIANO ECCO for bringing me here.
I remember listening to this over and over when I was a kid in the late 60's (11 or 12). I shared a room with my brother who was 10 yrs older and he had an awesome assortment of beautiful music..it opened a whole new world for me...and this was one of'm. I still think it's one of the best guitar jams I ever heard....great memories
My dad, who was in his teens in the 60's kept this record and many others. He had an early 80's record player and played this for me when I was 8 or 9 (around 1990). It has stuck with me ever since.
Yeah I burned though two copies of this album. Thank goodness for reissues. 10 years or so older than you and couldn't get enough of this stuff and grass was $25 an oz.
....and you got higher and higher with each note...THAT was some serious acid...I was eating it on East Coast, at same time....Also listening to this song whilst on it's heady kick...Listening to this track almost brings back the coming on "butterflies" ( ....when you knew you were gonna get REAL high for a BUNCH of hours...), cutting through the alcohol and pot buzz I'm at immediate moment...Peace to ye, doggie......
I remember this song starting on the eight track in my friends Dodge Charger. 1970 Portland about midnight coming on to Orange Sunshine. One of those moments you never forget.
Still and by far the "heaviest" music I've ever heard. Some of Gary's lightning riffs are so beautiful but so complicated that you can't quite repeat them in your mind (or catch them fully while he's doing them). Raw talent plus Amphetamine? Music conceived on Acid and performed on Speed? Have always wondered about that line near the end--"You been foolin' around with the Devil". An aura of Magick surrounded these guys long enough for them to create this masterpiece. Should be placed in a Time Capsule or preserved in a deep space probe.
I think the line at the end is "You been foolin' around with another." I used to think it was "the Devil" too, but after another 1000 (approx) listens I decided it's "another."
One of THE BEST bands back in the late 60's- I mean this was 30 minutes long!Only Doors and maybe Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead at the time were doing this. Love the whole vibe.
actually paul butterfield blues band or specifically Mike bloomfield was responsible for the long track,.East West,it influnced the san francisco sound,however this is a brilliant track had the chance to hear it earsplitting loud one of my favorite best songs ever but now we have King Gizzard carrying the torch and all is well with the rock and roll world,check out Cellophane live!
I recall joining the Capitol record club. You remember doing that? Now if you did not send in your card for a request they would send you one that they picked. I recall getting this album by default and I was so pleased when I heard the very first sound of the first song. I had to stop it... turned it up and played it through. I was blown away but then again I was only 15. The other album they sent me was The Steve Miller Band... "Brave New World" . I was so into that album that I played it all night while I slept. Traffic "Last Exit" was another... "Shanghai Noodle Factory" I really liked that kwazy song. This was back when your room was special.
when steve miller1st arrived on that scene,livin in the USA,reallt cool stuff,then he went for the dough,commercially,shit like fly like an eagle,pure garbage
Just remember, the five minutes starting at 3:33, an accompanied solo for the ages, is Duncan. Of course, Cippolina's bridge that follows, beginning at 8:26, is a masterful, trembling, plaintive expression of unmatched timing and originality. This is still the fundamental definition of acid rock. Superb.
I saw Quicksilver 3 times at the Fillmore East.Always a good show.Cippolina was one good guitar player.I went to the R&R Hall of Fame and they had his amp set up before you went into the museum. We guitar players always wanted to see how he set up his amp.30 years later i finally got the chance to see how he did it.
Wow, lucky you. "always a good show" is a major understatement I'm sure. I was told I went to the Fillmore once, but like Jim Morrison always said, it must of happened during one of my blackouts because I have no memory of that.
Undeniably, hands down the best guitar interplay of the ages. On this song, Cippolina and Duncan could transition so deftly btwn lead and rhythm, for the 1st few years ('69-'73), I thought it was mostly just JC. They were both underrated (esp Duncan). They were the best at conjuring up feedback as if that were art! One of the greatest LPs of that time.
This has always been one of my favorite, whole side of an album live version of a song. Quicksilver at Fillmore East & West had to be as awesome as it gets!
Went through vinyl, cassettes and 8 track copies of this. Many copies. Always had a spare tape copy in the car on every road trip. (I still have the working 8 track recorder)
I used six vinyl copies of "Happy Trails" through the years. The first CD edition misses the highest notes from John's interventions. For the remastered stuff, I don't know. All in all: Happy Trails remains as my all-time favorite album.
Una obra maestra, para los verdaderos amantes del rock sin duda una joya, que ojala algún dia el mercantilismo le rinda un homenaje a quienes son verdaderas leyendas de la música.
Woefully underated group. Their song Pride of Man is still my favorite even though it does not come close to being their best work. It just strikes a chord with me. These people did not produce a bad album in their career.
Ah Winterland New Years eve something like '68-'69, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver, Santana and the Ace of Cups, and Bill Graham threw in a breakfast provided by the diggers,,,memories,,
I was fortunate to speak with John in 1984 in the back at The Keystone Berkeley. He was playing with the New Riders . We chatted for a bit . I had a SG like his at time . He showed me a couple of things then it was time for the show . My roommate and I dozed and off we went . The Keystone was like a frat house basement. The stage was about 5 feet high and the whole place was painted black. They had like one kind of beer . The Balcony was so rickety it was scary. We got very high in there that night .
One of my favorite songs in junior high. I had it on an 8-track mix tape. The girl on the cover is copied from the girl on the cover of the "It's A Beautiful Day" album that has "White Bird" on it.
I’m moving to Croatia Sold my 1,400 albums. Most first pressings. Certainly one of my favorites. Heard Shady Grove the other day by the original artist. Quicksilver was an all around amazing band. You don’t need to be high to appreciate; but it sure doesn’t hurt!
My favorite, all time tripping music. The song is a true work of art, from the musicianship, the beautiful, intense, guitar work, to the arrangement of the song. It has the initial rush of an LSD trip, the settle down into the long series of hallucinations, the crazy, freaking out part, then the come down. Brilliant.
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At 67 yrs old and being a devoted acid head back in the day, I can tell you that this excelled at the time for when we gave music the "acid test"...did it stand up during a trip?...Many decades later and being straight for over 40 yrs....it still stands up as one of the finest efforts to come out from that period to my "straight" ear today....absolutely amazing and we will never see a period like that again. Happy Trails everyone!
I used to see QMS and others at the Family Dog on the Great Highway.
Back in the late 80's I visited family back East and went to the R&R Hall of fame.
Saw John's Stack With the Horns atop displayed and almost cried
Oh those memories!
Were a member of the Merry Pranksters...trip on
66 and definitely not 'straight' but always looking for music on TH-cam. The Quick were masterful at covering & stretching old blues/rock tunes. RIP John Cippolina. Stay safe buddy
I agree thanks happy trails to you too
It's Max Headroom, but I don't know how to take it? Is all acid or LSD or Purple Haze, the sane thing? Just got through coming off some purple 💜 haze about 50 or so many years. Will you please help me down. I'll reciprocate any ways possible. ☮️ Peace Love, Haight Ashbury.
My brother came home in 71 after two half years In Vietnam before left(Vietnam ) he came home (Stationed San Diego) with the most incredible music this was one of the many 8 tracks I listened to at 16 I’m now 70 my brother 75 we get together on his Wooded, River Run through natures wilderness talking about this incredible time and the Music that came out of it -
This is my first time ever hearing this band. My boyfriend is older than me and put this on for me today. He also introduced me to a band Lynrd Skynyrd...wow I'm having one of the best summers of my life ! I love reading these stories from people about their history with this music aswell, thank you for sharing.
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This song starts out with one of the greatest riffs in rock and roll history.
Agree! It still plays in my head a few times a week decades after I last played the LP.
This album is sacred in the pantheon of legendary rock and roll albums.
those were the days.youngster
That my friend is a fact!
true!
Can I git uh aaaaaaaa maaaan nuh ....hallelu YAAAAAAAHHHH
Listened to this on 800 mcg. of Owsleys best. Cannot be described w/words. You had to be there. Thanks for posting. Haven't heard it in yrs.
The best version of this fantastic song. One of the longest songs in rock. I really can't think of a longer song, and yes it was recorded live. The reason that everyone loves Quicksilver Messager Service is that they never sold out. They stuck it out playing good rock and roll, it have driven yhe record company crazy. In the end, they are the big winners. Dave in Sierra Vista AZ
Pure music, no sidebars into distortion(torture), just pure orgpanized music. One of the few albums of mine d++×head bro didnt trade off for pot while I was away in the Army. An often overlooked masterpiece.
I’m going to be 72 in a few days and I’m rocking out to this. It’s so exciting to hear this! I first saw Quicksilver in 1968 at the Avalon Ballroom.
Me too…along with The Chatlatans 🎶🎵🎶
Back in the days riding out in the country smoking weed mud riding the perfect road riding music.
Same here Chief
Go to tune 🥰
I saw them in 73 ,at the Commadore Ballroom,in Vancouver,B.C.
I made it to all their performances at THE AVALON in 1968, greatest times.
In 1968 a friend asked me to his party, but I had to bring an album. So as a joke I bought Happy Trails thinking I was buying a country music album. But... I was sooo wrong. This album remains one of my favorites
+spacedoutcowboy Smells like patchouli for sure
MacFeeley smell like sausage stuck up your nazi ass for sure
Smoked a lot of weed listening to this,gave up the drugs,still listening to who do you love.it never gets old..
blew a few minds, huh?
You are sooooo right.
I remember laying on the floor in front of the stereo, stoned, staring at (and daydreaming deep into) that cover for the full duration of the song (some 45 years ago). Something about the repeated, pulsating chord progression just lent itself to that horse running across the expanse of the brown-yellow plains - with Gary Duncan's guitar solo driving the horse on and on and on...
We were so lucky to grow up in the era of (a) the best rock and roll of all time, and (b) the age of the vinyl LP album - the greatest medium of music, that helped create a landscape and backdrop for the music of the time. Albums just created so much more depth to the music and the bands. And this one was a prime example.
One of the best psychedelic era bands and one of the most underrated. Rocking album.
I always thought that QMS was was a extremely funky band !! a little bit cooler than Grateful Dead almost as cool as WAR,Yeah Mon !!Miss them .wasn't Freiberg in QMS and later on he was in Jefferson Airplane!
I used it for a movie plus on the flip side you have a tremendous version of another Bo classic “Mona”
@@fisheyemedia6849absolutely love their version of “Mona”. Gary Duncan has an amazing, voice; sings with strait up conviction.😅
48 years ago I bought this album and I was High. 48 years ago I
listened to this album and I was High. 48 years latter I'm High and listening to this---------- and Smiling !
Right there with you man..
1968 so 52 years and half ton of weed and the song remains the same 😜🌮
Ha, you guys trip me out!! My uncle gave me this 8 track tape along with Neil Young - Everybody Knows; Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge; and one other I can't even remember, so must not have been that good. But he told me, boy, these are gonna be big hits. lolol I've loved them all since 69.. and that was some cool hip shit for the hillbilly state of West Virginia back in the day... shit, still is, wtf, yeah 😂😂😂
My brother sent his record collection home from being stationed in Germany during the vietnam war, me, his 15 year old brother listened to it and the rest is pretty hazy.
@@sjstone7337 I wanna see the list of them
1970 summer camp, 12 yrs old, the "cool" counselors introduced us to this ,Airplane Volunteers,Tommy, and more... thank you Ricky L😅😅
Gary and John just flat rip it on this track. They were the best two guitar combo in the era...
Back in the late 60's I used to take big doses of acid and listen to music like this to disengage myself from the known world. This tune was my #1 favorite on that score.
If you remember the 60's you weren't there.
@@anton1949 ~ You're delusional.
You're not the only one!
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Early QMS epitomizes the West Coast rock sound even mores so than the Grateful Dead. This is the quintessential West Coast sound and style. Many thanks to Cipollina and the band for this epic sound and album. I hope Bo Diddly was proud of this cover.
The tremolo on the lead guitar is trademark.
One of the BEST Psychedelic songs.....no one that I have heard since 1967 ever got the sound of that guitar...no one.......
Psychedelic really doesn't "get it" for the music these kids could make. Really it's in a whole realm of it's own. This is raw hormones/pheremones music. Straight to the reptile-brain stuff.
this was a time when we young people were eager to feed our heads .. had my first trip on this album at 17.5 y.o. and I never went back from it, nor regret it :)) now a buddhist french doc, still not retired .. Peace & Love everyone be thankfull to life 🙏
One of the greatest album of all time.Unique and unreapetable.
I have no idea how many times I've had a righteous buzz and this blasting in my headphones over the last 53 years.
One of the most epic psychedelic tunes ever...
Smoked alot of lebonese hashish wearing out this piece of vinyl
@@derrickblackwood8852 Every head back then had this lp....lol
@@derrickblackwood8852 with swirls of opium blended in it...dreams exotica!
Some of the greatest guitar work ever
I couldn't believe how good this was when I heard it almost 50 years ago. It sounds good now.
One of 'the' most outstanding pieces of music ever composed and performed, 2 great guitarist, and let's not forget that drummer, he never missed a beat!
Drummer far too heavy 😂
@@wolfliou3678 He doesn't miss a beat, even when there isn't any (haha); at very end one can hear his hands drop to drum-set; bet he was somewhat fatigued.
RIP John.....passed in 1989 at age 46. Congenital emphysema. Too young.
I was alive and they were amazing...Saw several incarnations, including John Cipolina in tiny SF club,just before he died...Sweet man...
after 40 years since I got the vinyl it still stunts me,clean and acid at the same time,brilliant and creative guitar work ,stupendous interplay of instruments.One of the very few genuinely life changing albums
Gary Duncan (1946-2019) does most of the lead guitar work here.
Such an underrated guitarist.
And his singing voice, he’s fantastic 😅
John Cipollina is playing lead here. Gary plays the rhythm part until his solo after the song later breaks down into the minor key jam, then when it breaks again into the freeform jam, Cipollina resumes the solo-ing and continues on out when the song kicks back into the "Who Do You Love " riff, then at around 18 minutes Freiberg takes a solo on his bass. When guitars return after the 20 minute mark, Cippolina resumes solos to the end.
Not trying to be a wise guy, it's kinda easy to tell because of the unique, slightly jittery style of John's "Vibrola" use... ...and Gary didn't have/use a trem here. Gary's guitar is also richer and more full sounding than John's typically thin tone with his SG Standard and bizarre home-brew rigs.. Gary was playing that big jazz hollow body, "Trini Lopez Custom", around this time and it sounds like what he's using here.
I’ve asked this question before but got no answer; who did the albums artwork? Anybody know? It reminds me of Frederic Sackrider Remington (a fav of mine).
All their songs and compositions are dynamic, and still connoting deep meaning; one of my top 5 groups in past 55 yrs of listening and hearing lots of great work; have thousands of hrs involved digging it as deep as it goes. Hell man, music makes me whole!
Totally underrated, Cipollina was a totally great guitarist w/roots in classical guitar=a fine family of musicians to Spanish Classics.
Anybody else here from Patrick Willems' channel. His dad knows good music
I'm 68 and still loving this music I remember me and friends gathering round the burn barrel on friday night handing out whatever acid or mescaline we had to start our weekend FAR OUT
At 68 years old I still believe this album is one of the top albums of all time. It was my favorite album through my high school and college. I wore a groove into the Who do you Love side of that record ! Cippolina rules in those guitar riffs. I've never heard anyone like that since. RIP John and band.
Thanks to Bo Diddly.
look, i was in a head shop buying some incense when I heard this for the first time. many people will not know what a "head shop" is, but not for nothing, it served up this album in toto for me in their bean bag seats and the clandestine tokes of Jamaican herbals...what a time!
euge johnson ah yes the good ole days of Youth and freedom!
In 1968 I was told to bring an album to a party. So I bought HAPPY TRAILS, as a joke thinking it was country. It turned out to be one of my favorites. What the he'll happened to the 60's? Seems like yesterday!
Hmm, like yesterday, but in fact 50+ yrs ago, and me? somewhat bashed and broken and deaf yeh thats what I said
They died in a wonderful foolishness of...
A total Duncan, Cipollina, Freiberg and Elmore Masterpiece!!
Valenti ruined the band
John Cipollina's guitar playing is a sound you can never forget. Quicksilver was the ultimate hippie band. The Greatful Dead to me were a close second...........
This album is truly "sacred in the pantheon of legendary rock and roll albums." The only luck I've had in my life is being born in SF and going to college in the '60s-and loving the electric guitar. Johnny Cippolina, Mike Bloomfield, Gary Duncan. Jerry Garcia,
James Gurley and all the rest. Many, many incredible guitarists-and they were all in their 20's! The Messenger Service's first two albums are magic. Pure and simple. A pity Cippolina and Garcia died so young. To think about what they could have done as the years rolled by is, well...Anyhow enough has been put on vinyl (far superior to digital shit) so many generations can be inspired and full of joy at the magic that took place. God (what ever that is) bless 'em all. I love those experiences I had as being part and parcel to those incredible performances. Performers and audience: in separable.
Donald bro you can create Luck in your life. Look into the S G I. A Buddhist group maybe in your town. I'm serious man make your own good luck.
You forgot Jorma!
@@Mrbeahz1 An oversight due to age.
@@Mrbeahz1absolutely!
A little sound of surf and sunset, a bit of cowboy and a lot of drugs, baked together for a serene sense of eternity....masterful!
Sounds suspiciously like an evening at the Family Dog on the Great Highway.
This great guitarist smoked himself to death, regular cigarettes I suspect?
"Cobra-snake for a necktie. A house made outta rattlesnake hide... A chimney way-up-on-top made from human skulls."
There's two things I love. Snakes and skulls. I've got a plastic skull hanging on my wall over my monitor with a rubber coral snake in it's teeth. The other one on the other side has a rose in it's teeth ( you can guess the reference there ).
I didn't die 9 times on the midnight train but I almost drowned one time. Sometimes I *still* wonder if I didn't wind up in a veggie-ward after that little incident and everything I've experienced afterward isn't just some elaborate narrative I've concocted in my bored-to-tears mind when denied access to the *real* world...
I was, after all, "just 22 and I d[id]n't mind dyin'".
I'm a lot more than 22 now but I *still* don't mind dyin'.
A life lived in fear is no life at all. Well; maybe for a mouse.
Who do *you* love?
When I was 19, I was in the infantry, in Viet-Nam, walking through the jungle, with my platoon, on recon patrol. When we got back to the fire base, later that night, I was chillin' out, drinking a cold Pabst, and listening to this for the first time. Been hooked ever since. On the music that is. Forty six years ago. Can't drink Pabst anymore, Agent Orange has destroyed my innards.
cseanz a
Thanks for your service, gentlemen. I was and am in your debt. Free to be who i wanna be.
Welcome home brother, same-same: 11 Bravo.
For the first month I was back in the world i sat stoned in my basement apt, with the curtains drawn, in day and night darkness, listening to this, as well as Zep and Hendrix. I was living on Ring-Dings and milk and when I was able to sleep I was having real bad dreams. The only thing that saved my ass was going back to my old employer who rehired me. That , and pretending (for years) that I was normal. So I survived.
sorry to hear that,bro- hope you got some compensation from those evil bastards!
I was 14 living in Germany. My friend had short wave radio. We listened to San Francisco sounds on radio Luxembourg. The theme song was Silver and Gold by Quicksilver. Absolutely amazing now and then. I walked 47 miles of barbed wire wore a cobra snake for a necktie. Wonderful
Written by Bo Diddley.
to hear this when it came out and then get to see them live at the Fillmore are reasons I'm really satisfied with when I got to exist.
You and me both. Saw them at the Filmore East in '68. Unforgettable.
I’m so veryy jealous of the both of you! So darn lucky, me,,,born too late but love their music
@@KittyGrizGriz One of the few advantages of being old. 😄 Luckily they left us some good recordings.
I bought this album as soon as it hit the record store! Heard QMS on KAAY Little Rock--which was waaay ahead of everyone else in the country on new Rock & Blues bands to check out in the 1970's!
Heard Aphrodite's Child and Steppenwolf's Monster on same. Clear as a bell on a clear night in Kansas City.
Omg.....how have I never heard of this band till tonight???
Still think this is the best rendition of this song! Great guitar work!
I remember listening to this back in 73 or 74 ...stoned. ..I'm nearly 63 now but the memories flood back...
I'm pushing 40 with a pretty short stick. My Dad has this on vinyl. Hope you're doing well, Old Man!
@@keithd2284 ha ha. I'm 66 now young fella. Thanks to u tube I can still listen to it and other great tracks from the golden age of rock.. Not stoned though, gave up weed and acid years ago.. Might have some red wine though.. Take care buddy
@@keithwaites9991 Cheers.
Loved this as a teen, played it over and over. A psychedelic jam version of one of Bo Diddley's best songs.
Is that peter green of the original fleetwood mac in your profile picture? If so great taste
+Thelonesniper101 Yes. I have a FB group you may be interested in: "Then Play On ... Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac."
George Thorogood and the Destroyers did a very good rendition of that song as well, altho much shorter!
David W. & I were driving around town one night & bumped into Bruce & his fiancee Cheryl. I'd just bought this on 8-track & David had some decent weed, so we parked out in a farmer's field, broke out the weed, & got Cheryl high for the first time ( well, it WAS only 1970 ). Loaded this into the tape player & kicked back for the next half hour. Dropped them off later, & when I saw Bruce ( God bless him, now deceased ) the next day, he said " Last night I got the best sex I've ever had in my life!!" QSMS STILL rules!!... peace out...
Bring back 1968, and never leave
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I was 12 years old growing up in Mexico City in the 60's and we blasted this tune at school, long and loud, baby.
Hamilton School, Lomas de Chapultepec. Nunca olvidaremos Tlatelolco 2 de Octubre 1968.
First, let me start with this: ¡Que se pudra el "Trump" en la cárcel sumido en mierda suya! Now, to quicksilver. I missed them at their peak. Saw the Dead and Airplane, but not them. Why? In September of 1970 for reasons too lengthy to explain and that I still find hard to believe, I went to live in Mexico, the Capital. I was there from the 19th of September that year until June 30th, 1972, when I crossed the border for the last time without plans to return again and live, and learn and study Spanish. There is no way for me to know today what might have been without that experience, but I'm sure it would have been far less, much worse, and not nearly as interesting. During the 68 Olympics, I heard about the "riots" like most people did in the U.S., getting the government version which played down the carnage and slaughter. It didn't take me long to hear more of the truth, once I arrived. Coincidentally, we arrived on the train, and I noticed this nice map, on a building to the west of the car. It showed the valley, and in the north western foothills "El Desierto de Los Leones." I'd had an introductory course to Spanish, so I knew what it meant, but just thought of it as a picturesque name.
So I studied at the Instituto Mexicano-Norteamericano de Relaciones Culturales, in la Zona Rosa, (Hamburgo 115) Conversational Spanish until late December when funding difficulties meant we had to leave. 3 hours a night, 5 nights a week, read and reread the course text--about 3 hours a day, go to class, and go out after and never have a chance of forgetting anything you just learned because you go out and use it immediately. Best educational experience of my entire life. 5 week courses. Nearly completed the third, but had to go, 90% done. Two months or so later, after returning in early January, it was March of 1971, studying at UNAM then, one day, and I just found myself thinking in Spanish. Wouldn't have been as fast without the conversational courses. Anyway, just thought I'd say "hi" to someone who knows. I came close to not returning.
In 1972, taking cursos temporales at UNAM again, I left my text and notes in the back of a friend's car (VW Bug, behind the back seat) when I rode out with him to his place in The Desert of the Lions. Nice little weekend cabin I'd been too before. Lots of space outside for young men and coeds to mingle after class, know what I mean. Caught a ride back to my car with one of the coeds. Got back "home" to the family I was living with in La Colonia Guerrero." I think there was more to the name. There was a professional baseball stadium a few blocks north. Maybe "Romero y terreros." Something like that. Missed the notebook and text when I got to where I needed it. Hours had passed couldn't get him on the phone. Finally just decided to try my luck. Drove out. It was night by then. I knew a way through the fence (just like maybe 2 year old tree trunks, maybe 2-3 inches thick, but 12 feet high set in a rock wall about 3 feet high, where there was a trunk/pole missing. Decided to start a fire and wait. Plenty of dry wood. Put some in the fire pit. Got his can of starter: a mix of gas and oil. Poured it, stood back, stuck the match along the edge of the box. It arched through the air hit the wood, bounced down to the bottom and sputtered out. I wasn't paying much attention to the sputter by then. I was too busy noticing every hair on my body standing at attention after I'd heard the big cat behind me come out with that hissing roar.
I turned around in time to see it turning away and sauntering off. Its nose had been within 4 feet of my back. That match must have done to its eyes what a flashbulb does to ours if we look straight at it in a dim environment. If it weren't for the fact that the government taxed matches and you couldn't get lighter fluid, or disposable lighters, I might have knelt down to try and light that fire with a kerosene lighter. That probably would have been lights out for me. In that deserted area, at night, in a forest where it's even darker still, and nobody living around for miles. Picturesque name. Right. I was never able to be sure, it was too dark and I only saw a silhouette, whether it was a puma or jaguar, which have overlapping ranges in that area--not that it would have mattered much to me which species was ripping my throat out. From the sound, it sounded exactly like what you hear from a puma. But I don't know if jaguars would make a sound like that if surprised or annoyed. I'm just glad I didn't get eaten. My friend told me the next day "Oh, yeah! You have to be careful around there at night!" I put that one in the "No shit, Sherlock" bin. Anyway, I didn't see Quicksilver, live, ever. But considering what I got instead, it was worth it. ¡Que nunca se olviden el 2 de Octubre, 1968 y los muertos del masacreTlatelolco!
Hey Red, remenber VIBRACIONES, in Radio Capital? Never missed a day of it's broadcast, great memories of great times, in Balbuena
@@robertbishop9267 You said it all.
@@victorgenarobritobarreiro644 They had great radio in the DF back in the day. Even Radio 590 La Pantera! played the Dead, Hendrix, and non-stop Rolling Stones.
Unbelievable. Paz y amor, hermano!
One of the my favorite songs I'm grown up on Mexico city since I earing this group still like viva Mexico cabrones
Oh my god - this takes me back - I bought this album in 1969 & learnt all the chords & lead parts so that my band could play it at the college where we were at the time. I was 17 & it was the Technical College in St Mary's Street in Southampton if anyone remembers ! The gigs were in the smoke filled basement of the Students Union building .We also played 'Sunshine of your love 'by Cream !! Happy days ! thnks to EMILIANO ECCO for bringing me here.
I remember listening to this over and over when I was a kid in the late 60's (11 or 12). I shared a room with my brother who was 10 yrs older and he had an awesome assortment of beautiful music..it opened a whole new world for me...and this was one of'm. I still think it's one of the best guitar jams I ever heard....great memories
My dad, who was in his teens in the 60's kept this record and many others. He had an early 80's record player and played this for me when I was 8 or 9 (around 1990). It has stuck with me ever since.
Yeah I burned though two copies of this album. Thank goodness for reissues. 10 years or so older than you and couldn't get enough of this stuff and grass was $25 an oz.
amazing version, fantastic guitar John Cipollina
Avfg
The only
Gary Duncan too
Gary Duncan doesn’t get enough recognition, the voice too🔥🎸😎
@@KittyGrizGriz Especially if you consider he handled 50 % or more of guitar solos
Amazing San Francisco twist on a Bo Diddley classic, all 25:14 of it.
....and you got higher and higher with each note...THAT was some serious acid...I was eating it on East Coast, at same time....Also listening to this song whilst on it's heady kick...Listening to this track almost brings back the coming on "butterflies" ( ....when you knew you were gonna get REAL high for a BUNCH of hours...), cutting through the alcohol and pot buzz I'm at immediate moment...Peace to ye, doggie......
Thanks Gary! As long as people have taste you and your band will be fondly remembered.
I remember this song starting on the eight track in my friends Dodge Charger. 1970 Portland about midnight coming on to Orange Sunshine. One of those moments you never forget.
just listened to it for the umpteenth time.felt every note of sweet Cipollina in my bones and was at peace
Still and by far the "heaviest" music I've ever heard. Some of Gary's lightning riffs are so beautiful but so complicated that you can't quite repeat them in your mind (or catch them fully while he's doing them). Raw talent plus Amphetamine? Music conceived on Acid and performed on Speed? Have always wondered about that line near the end--"You been foolin' around with the Devil". An aura of Magick surrounded these guys long enough for them to create this masterpiece. Should be placed in a Time Capsule or preserved in a deep space probe.
I think the line at the end is "You been foolin' around with another." I used to think it was "the Devil" too, but after another 1000 (approx) listens I decided it's "another."
oscar3eyes ok let a look open kk
Nobody sounds like John Cipollina. Amazing tones!
Relax, kick back, indulge, and dream. I wish I was alive to see them in concert.
This was played at our house on Albany st St Johns Nl 72/73 ,takes me back .
Listen to this on acid it is deep
Heard this song for the first time back in the late-70's and have loved these guys ever since. Thanks for the upload.
Been listening to QMS since the 60's. One of my favorite West coast bands.
One of THE BEST bands back in the late 60's- I mean this was 30 minutes long!Only Doors and maybe Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead at the time were doing this. Love the whole vibe.
actually paul butterfield blues band or specifically Mike bloomfield was responsible for the long track,.East West,it influnced the san francisco sound,however this is a brilliant track had the chance to hear it earsplitting loud one of my favorite best songs ever but now we have King Gizzard carrying the torch and all is well with the rock and roll world,check out Cellophane live!
Others did too. But here we have the ultimate thing in intensity. From the first note to the last - including the unheard !
GTF
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I recall joining the Capitol record club. You remember doing that? Now if you did not send in your card for a request they would send you one that they picked. I recall getting this album by default and I was so pleased when I heard the very first sound of the first song. I had to stop it... turned it up and played it through. I was blown away but then again I was only 15. The other album they sent me was The Steve Miller Band... "Brave New World" . I was so into that album that I played it all night while I slept. Traffic "Last Exit" was another... "Shanghai Noodle Factory" I really liked that kwazy song. This was back when your room was special.
I had mine man!!!!!
when steve miller1st arrived on that scene,livin in the USA,reallt cool stuff,then he went for the dough,commercially,shit like fly like an eagle,pure garbage
Just remember, the five minutes starting at 3:33, an accompanied solo for the ages, is Duncan. Of course, Cippolina's bridge that follows, beginning at 8:26, is a masterful, trembling, plaintive expression of unmatched timing and originality. This is still the fundamental definition of acid rock. Superb.
Great stuff
Beyond words, ethereal.
I had no idea. I thought it was all Cippolina. After 50 years I learn there's no Santa Claus.
@@snowcapsnowcap1 Cippolina's solos are easy to pick out. He was a master of the whammy bar
I cut my teeth with this hippy rock and roll, great stuff, ya got to dig it man.... "come talk a little walk with me and tell me who do you love"
A highly underrated band in the San Francisco Bay area they were gods to those who understood them.
I saw Quicksilver 3 times at the Fillmore East.Always a good show.Cippolina was one good guitar player.I went to the R&R Hall of Fame and they had his amp set up before you went into the museum. We guitar players always wanted to see how he set up his amp.30 years later i finally got the chance to see how he did it.
Tell us about his amp setup
It's really cool guitar playing, great rhythms
Wow, lucky you. "always a good show" is a major understatement I'm sure. I was told I went to the Fillmore once, but like Jim Morrison always said, it must of happened during one of my blackouts because I have no memory of that.
An absolute masterpiece. The greatest post on TH-cam. Happy Trails.
agree 100%
Cipolina was such a great guitarist with that beautiful high tone sound
shimmering for LSD
You'd appreciate Terry Doherty then.
John was great, you bet your life on that, but so was Gary....
Tim Withee yes, Duncan doesn't get nearly enough credit
Undeniably, hands down the best guitar interplay of the ages. On this song, Cippolina and Duncan could transition so deftly btwn lead and rhythm, for the 1st few years ('69-'73), I thought it was mostly just JC. They were both underrated (esp Duncan). They were the best at conjuring up feedback as if that were art! One of the greatest LPs of that time.
This has always been one of my favorite, whole side of an album live version of a song. Quicksilver at Fillmore East & West had to be as awesome as it gets!
I have the original album. I have a great turntable that plays it well. Still great after all these years.
I wore this album out when it came out. Still great music & John Cippolina was very underrated.
And Gary Duncan
Went through vinyl, cassettes and 8 track copies of this. Many copies. Always had a spare tape copy in the car on every road trip. (I still have the working 8 track recorder)
Agree with you %100 dude.
"This here next one's Rock'N'Roll..."
This is the most amazing compoz to come out of the late 60's underground movement. It never seems to disappoint!!!
Rest in peace Gary Duncan
First heard this album when I was 17(1969). I never get tired of it.
RIP Gary Duncan
Nov. 2023.
It never really got any better than this particular album. TRUE classic.
Still the best. Classic and timeless!
RIP Gary Duncan.
Best rendition of this song Ever Ever. Something good never gets old. Love and appreciation.
Maybe THE greatest band and song of all times
just the ending's dynamics outshine most comlete work...WOW
One of my all-time favorites,pull it up now and then.never gets old..
This was all they were playing in 1969 around the lake during the Texas International Pop festival. Also sen them several times.
I used six vinyl copies of "Happy Trails" through the years. The first CD edition misses the highest notes from John's interventions. For the remastered stuff, I don't know. All in all: Happy Trails remains as my all-time favorite album.
This album, Live Dead and Electric Music For The Mind And Body are my favourite West Coast psychedelic albums. Still got my vinyl copy of this.
Great tripping music.
The lead counter to the rhythm around 16 - 17 is killing it for me. Shit is awesome.
My best friend in the Army turned me on to this album. Especially "Who Do You Love." We played it over and over again. Great memories from 1971-72.
Play side 2 Mona , maiden of the cancer moon, calvary..it's cool it would take a while to get to side 2
Una obra maestra, para los verdaderos amantes del rock sin duda una joya, que ojala algún dia el mercantilismo le rinda un homenaje a quienes son verdaderas leyendas de la música.
Woefully underated group. Their song Pride of Man is still my favorite even though it does not come close to being their best work. It just strikes a chord with me. These people did not produce a bad album in their career.
A Hamilton Camp song 🎵
Underrated only by people who've not heard of them; highly rated by those who have.
I had this album back in 1969. So happy to have found it.
After wearing out their first album seeing this cover you just knew you wanted to be flying when the needle dropped!
Ah Winterland New Years eve something like '68-'69, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver, Santana and the Ace of Cups, and Bill Graham threw in a breakfast provided by the diggers,,,memories,,
One of the great masterpieces of rock, John Cipollini earned his place on the list with this one.
I was fortunate to speak with John in 1984 in the back at The Keystone Berkeley. He was playing with the New Riders . We chatted for a bit . I had a SG like his at time . He showed me a couple of things then it was time for the show . My roommate and I dozed and off we went . The Keystone was like a frat house basement. The stage was about 5 feet high and the whole place was painted black. They had like one kind of beer . The Balcony was so rickety it was scary. We got very high in there that night .
One of my favorite songs in junior high. I had it on an 8-track mix tape. The girl on the cover is copied from the girl on the cover of the "It's A Beautiful Day" album that has "White Bird" on it.
I’m moving to Croatia Sold my 1,400 albums. Most first pressings. Certainly one of my favorites. Heard Shady Grove the other day by the original artist. Quicksilver was an all around amazing band. You don’t need to be high to appreciate; but it sure doesn’t hurt!
God, I loved this band.
My favorite, all time tripping music. The song is a true work of art, from the musicianship, the beautiful, intense, guitar work, to the arrangement of the song. It has the initial rush of an LSD trip, the settle down into the long series of hallucinations, the crazy, freaking out part, then the come down. Brilliant.
I call 3 a.m. music