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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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 CLASSIC
WHO DO YOU LOVE:
JESSY JENNY AMBER TESS GAIL
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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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Purchase Happy Trails CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Moby Grape (1st LP) CD (1967)
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It's all anchored with tight and inventive instrumental interplay and no less than four songwriters, each with a vocal character that would've made them the center of any band. However, from this enduring peak it all went downhill, with sad swiftness. The usual litany of in-fighting, bad management, label pressures, and drugs began undoing this great band as soon as this album appeared. While created in the late '60s, this is an essential album by the measure of any decade.
Though Moby Grape came blasting out of San Francisco at the height of the Haight-Ashbury scene, they are more related to LA bands ...
| | It's A Beautiful Day (1st LP) CD (1969)
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Starting with the majestically wafting "White Bird," an early high this band unfortunately never quite matched again, LaFlamme, Santos and company create an appealingly drifting, almost narcotic bliss. Of the other excellent tracks, the sultry "Wasted Union Blues" is a particular ...
| | Humble Pie Rockin' The Fillmore CD (1971)
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Recorded in 1971, shortly before guitarist Peter Frampton left the band, ROCKIN' presents Humble Pie live at New York City's Fillmore East. The British blues-rock group charges through a sweaty, high-octane set (originally released as a double LP) that includes ...
| | Quicksilver Messenger Service CD (1968)
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It may have lacked the longevity of peers like the Grateful Dead and Santana, but Quicksilver Messenger Service was one of the finest bands to come out the Bay Area's ...
| | Mike Bloomfield Super Session CD (1968) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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A surprise best-seller when it was first released, this mostly improvised pairing of singer/keyboardist/producer Al Kooper with two major guitar heroes of the day sounds fascinating all these years later precisely because of the distance of time--nobody makes records like this any more. The material runs the gamut from folk pop (covers of Donovan and Dylan), to blues ("Albert's Shuffle," "You Don't Love Me"), to heady jams ("His Holy Modal Majesty"), to big-band jazz ("Harvey's Tune").
All the tunes make effective templates for the kind off-the-cuff music-making that in less capable hands might have resulted in simple noodling. In fact, although Bloomfield and Stills don't play together on any of the cuts (Bloomfield played on one side of the original LP, Stills on the other), all three principals get off lots of good licks and producer Kooper has some interesting tricks up his sleeve, as in the over-the-top phasing he lavishes on "You Don't Love Me." The only real disappointment here is that Stills, a far better singer than Kooper, never opens his mouth.
Those familiar with the Live Adventures album these two recorded at the Fillmore West know how brilliant they could be on stage, and here's another gem, recorded at the Fillmore East this time and featuring 'One Way Out,' 'It's My Own Fault' (with Bloomfield trading licks with Johnny ...
| | Gene Ammons Boss Tenor CD (1960) (Import)
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Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Kazushige Yamazaki (JVC Studios).
Digitally remastered using 20-bit K2 Super Coding System technology.
This is part ...
| | Ohgr Sunnypsyop CD (2003)
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| | Richard Marx My Own Best Enemy CD (2004) (Import) Japan
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Japanese edition features the bonus track "Endless Summer Nights" (Live Version).
In the 1980s, Richard Marx embodied a successful brand of pop/rock that combined the gritty American Heartland sounds of Bob Seger and John Mellencamp with the smooth production style and heart-on-the-sleeve romanticism of the Barry Manilow/Leo Sayer ...
| | Lovehatehero Just Breathe CD (2005)
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| | John Lennon Peace Love & Truth CD (2005) (Import) United Kingdom
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| | Smokin Joe Kubek My Heart's In Texas CD (2006)
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| | Fall Out Boy Infinity On High CD (2007)
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Like My Chemical Romance, the wildly popular emo band Fall Out Boy opted to follow its breakthrough record (in this case, 2005's FROM UNDER THE CORK ...
| | Tara's Secret Tomorrow The World CD (Import)
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| | Moran, Kitt & Mike Kitt Moran Sings The Mike Moran Songbook CD (2008)
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Kitt and Mike Moran have been working together since the 1970's, first based in the New York City area, then Atlantic City and currently, Florida's West coast. Kitt has recorded with Rosemary Clooney, John Pizzarelli, Merv Griffin, Jack Sheldon, Frankie Randall, and Teo Macero. In Atlantic City, Burt Bacharach sat in and accompanied her on piano. Michel Legrand did the same thing but also sang backup. Vic Damone asked Kitt to be a part of his performance at Resorts International. Kitt and Mike spent several years performing at Gregory's on 63rd and First Avenue in New York, a jazz landmark. Each of Kitt's CD's included a couple of original songs by her husband, Mike. Mike has written for Teo Macero, Don Sebesky, among others, both as a lyricist and as a composer. This CD is a "best of " collection, remastered and thoughtfully assembled. ...
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