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If the quintessential San Francisco Sound is defined by lengthy improvised guitarwork and near-telepathic interplay, then HAPPY TRAILS crystallizes the genre on record. Extemporizing mightily two Bo Diddley songs ("Who Do You Love" and "Mona," the quartet introduces new realms of expression to rock music. Guitarists John Cipollina and Gary Duncan offer contrasting textures and sound, goading each other to greater heights. Largely recorded live in concert, HAPPY TRAILS encapsulates an era of experimentation, employing images that embodied the outlaw chic of the hippie subculture. Its strengths are not, however, bound to that era; the album's mesmerizing power remains as true as ever. The George Hunter cover painting is also indispensible.
Quicksilver Messenger Service: John Cipollina, Gary Duncan, Greg Elmore, David Freiberg.
Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.108) - Ranked #44 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records".
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.136) - Ranked #189 in Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time"
Rolling Stone (5/3/69) - "...It begins with an entire side dedictated to Bo Diddley's `Who Do You Love,' superbly recorded at the Fillmores East and West...a beautiful example of the kind of communication rock'n'roll is all about..." -Greil Marcus Quicksilver Messenger Service Happy Trails Songs Happy Trails Music Review Average Rating: (4.4 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Quintessential SF Rock
This is it! If you want to know what 60's San Fransisco Rock and Roll was all about, this is the album for you: feedback louder than God, dueling guitars and 12 minute collective improvisation jams in 'altered states' inspired tones that no guitarists had ever made before or have made since. I was there then, and these guys were the best!
Submitted by jondalf (Fort Collins, CO) 
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WHO DO YOU LOVE:
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Great Rendition of "Who Do You Love"
If you like George Thoroughgoods rendition of "Who Do You" Love" this is a must buy album. The CD sound quality makes it better than when this album it 1st came out
Submitted by gshovan813 (Clearwater, Fl. USA)
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Great album that still holds up. Worth the price if only for the "Who do You Love.....
John Cippolina never sounded better--one of the greatest blues/rock guitarists ever.....
PICK IT UP!!
Submitted by newjaner (Londonderry, NH, USA)
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"This here next 'uns rock 'n roll", vocalist Duncan deadpaned, introducing a style of laid back psychedelic 'reverbe' never before imagined, much less heard -- except of course inside the gendre of the SF "acid rock" culture, and the California hippies of the 1960s.
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The cover of the 2005 compilation Peace, Love & Truth bears an explanation of the album's purpose: it's "The Musical Life and Times of John and Yoko. The dream lives on..." Yes, Peace, Love & Truth is another installment in the canonization of St. John, the first Lennon LP devoted to the heavily marketed idealized caricature of John that has been incessantly peddled by his estate since the late '80s. The concept is to collect all of John's songs about, well, peace, love, and truth, but since he was wilier than the cartoon of St. John suggests, this isn't quite as successful as it might seem to be initially. First of all, there's the problem of culling this from a variety of sources. There are hits -- non-LP hits, actually, like "Instant Karma," "Give Peace a Chance," and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," which are always nice to have on a collection, plus such hit singles as "Imagine," naturally -- and a bunch of LP tracks, plus previously released demos. There's also "Listen the Snow Is Falling," the Yoko Ono-led B-side to "Happy Xmas" that featured the full Plastic Ono Band -- a reasonable inclusion since, as the insipid liner notes say, "it was produced by John & Yoko & Phil Spector." More problematic are the inclusions of Ono's unspeakably awful trip-hop remix of "Give Peace a Chance Y2K+" and yet another remix, "Give Peace a Chance Remix 2005," featuring "the Voices of Asia," which is regrettably not overdubbed vocals by John Wetton, Steve Howe, and Geoffrey Downes, but overdubs from "some of Asia's best known singers," including Parking Lot Pimp, that combine for a version that "stays true to John's original musical anthem for peace." It's wretched, a jumble of stale drum loops and silly, awkward rhymes that has very little to do with any music that John made, and only hammers home how irritatingly small and cartoonish the St. John myth is. In fact, the Lennon songs themselves here undo that myth quite handily on their own -- songs like "I Don't Want to Face It" and "Bring on the Lucie (Freeda Peeple)" are too loose and funny to be pious, "Instant Karma" is too knowing and sardonic, "Mind Games" is too open-ended to really be pigeonholed as merely warm, fuzzy thoughts ...
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