Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails

Digitally Remastered. Includes Extensive Booklet. Album Details

great classic psychedelic blues rock jam album

Imagine Jerry Garcia at his peak, with all 10 fingers intact, though with a lesser band. Most songs are quite strong, though Calvalry suffers from some of the spacey self-indulgence of the era (cf Dead's Caboose). August 9, 2008

This Next One's Rock N Roll

You have to remember that at the time of this performance, guys like Bo Diddley and Link Wray were Oldies but Goodies. Maybe even Oldies but Moldies. I had heard of Bo Diddley, but had never heard his stuff. I was a kid. But this album was as frisky as a young rattlesnake. Their timing and rhythmic perfection is irresistably dance inducing. Who do you love is a tour de force of variations on a theme, an orgiastic Dionysian ritual, and Mona devolves into ancient Egyptian rites of the Dead and the elevation of the spine of Osiris. The mythic character of the sequences on side B, Maiden of the Cancer Moon, Calvary, map perfectly to TS Eliot's poem, The Wasteland, and What the Thunder Said, which takes up the theme of the Fisher King, desertification, healing, and salvation. With this recording QMS reached a psychedelic zenith they never attained again, but for a brief moment in time, the full moon shone down on the children of the enchanted garden, and the roses bloomed... July 4, 2008

Quicksilver at the Filmore

A rare live album of a much underated 60's band. Excellent guitar playing with the usual long solos that were a part of live 60's performances. This album, I think I am right in saying was rated in the top 200 of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. I thoroughly recommend it! February 14, 2008

QMS : Best Expressive Acid Jam Band Ever

Happy Trails by The QMS is branded forever in our memory,
and especially its

Who, When, Where, How and Which Do You Love

(Bo Diddley reworks) on this splendid piece of
esoteric electric guitar masterpiece.

It is fine buy with a very long playlist.

Cipollina, Duncan and Others are superb.

(Even if they spent time in lock-up for enjoying Life,
in harmless peace-loving pursuits of flowerful happiness,
rather than bombing the Jungle Life of SE Asia in a
War Criminal War of extreme hypocrisy...)

The audience joins in with clapping and chanting in
complete harmony at times...

Happy Trails really brings back
vivid colourful memories, tinged with
rainbow electric iridescence...

Mona (originally by Bo Diddley), Calvary and Maiden
of the Cancer Moon, with their strange eerie vibes,
are worthy as unusual experimental music art.

QMS is one band we hope to remember and listen to
in the AfterLife.

We heard QMS greatly live at Mammoth Gardens in Denver
in the late 1960's and also enjoyed those colourful
psychedelic Fillmore West mandala Postcards.

Please Avoid Smoking in Flight...

Take Another Hit...

Of Fresh Air !

Happy Trails To You...

Until We Meet Again...
February 6, 2008

Bo Diddley lives !

A crazy 25 minutes jamming with "Who do you love" plus a splendid "Mona" from Diddley and a still more crazy "calvary", with a funny 45 sec. country tune... and all that before Nicky Hopkins joins the band. QMS is one the the most underated groupe in classic rock. December 8, 2007

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