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- CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
- Quicksilver Messenger
Service "Happy Trails" 1969
(USA)
- Quicksilver's second
album is a live recording, mostly comprised of two lengthy jams on old
Bo Diddley numbers ("Who Do You Love" and "Mona") -- it's arguably the
best "San Fran jamrock" album of the old days NOT recorded by The
Grateful Dead (and maybe better than any of theirs too.) Even if you
can't stand The Dead, you might like this since QMS knows how to rave up
and boogie, and John Cippolina's innovative guitar playing is nothing to
sneeze at. Singer-songwriter Dino Valenti and super-pianist Nicky
Hopkins joined the band over the following year, and their sound changed
pretty radically. For the heavy psych motherlode, stick to those first
two Quicksilver records!
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