![]() The album charted at #63 on Billboard upon release as the group continued to play shows across the country, with a specific preference for the Bay Area. Many songs which had been regulars of the group's live show in 19, including "Long Distance Call", "Smokestack Lightnin'", "All Night Worker", "Suzie Q", "Got My Mojo Workin'", "Walkin' Blues" and "I Hear You Knocking" were passed over for recording while other popular early staples like their covers of "Mona" and "Who Do You Love" would be saved for the next release. "Dino's Song" was written by Dino Valenti who was at that time in prison due to marijuana-related offenses he would eventually rejoin the group at the start of 1970 and radically alter its sound. "Pride Of Man", "Dino's Song", and "Gold And Silver" (in a shortened 3 minute version) had appeared regularly in the group's live setlists as far back as 1966, while the multi-sectional, quasi-symphonic psych epic "The Fool" had first been premiered for shows in May 1967 and gradually extended and polished into what is heard here. Stream songs including 'Who Do You Love, Pt. Gary Duncan and John Cipollina displayed innovative dueling lead guitars, which can be heard on extended jam tracks such as "Gold and Silver" and "The Fool". And in the hands, heads and hearts of QMS, two of his numbers would turn into sprawling epics. Listen to Happy Trails by Quicksilver Messenger Service on Apple Music. Unlike contemporaries such as the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver's jams were highly planned as can be heard by comparing the studio versions of songs with those from bootleg live performances. The album displays the group's jam sound amidst lighter pop-oriented songs. 777.1K Join others and track this album Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account Sign Up to Last. The band achieved wide popularity in the San Francisco Bay Area and, through their recordings, with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe, and several of their albums ranked in the Top 30 of. A very special vintage concert performance by one of the most critically acclaimed bands to come out of the San Francisco 60s psychedelic rock movement, Quicksilver Messenger Service. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails - Vintage Album Cover Poster. Original singer/guitarist Jim Murray quit the group in August 1967 just prior to this album's recording and does not appear, as they adjusted to a four-man format. Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. This was Quicksilver Messenger Service's first album, although they had already produced two songs for the soundtrack of the 1968 movie Revolution. Quicksilver Messenger Service is the debut studio album of Quicksilver Messenger Service, released in 1968. ![]() Nick Gravenites, Harvey Brooks, Pete Welding Issued on lime green Capitol labels with pink/black circular logo sleeve with lamination on the front folding 1cm. ![]()
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