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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. Album Cover Art - Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails Back to the Letter Q Alphabetical Listing Notes: This is the second release by the original line up and it brings their strengths for all to see. "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. 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. 'File under POPULAR: Pop Groups' at rear. Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. Issued in a flipback cover laminated on the front. 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". Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails - 1969 Full Album. 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. 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. The Quicksilver Messenger Service cover of Buddy Holly’s Mona, was released on their Happy Trails album. The entire album was recorded live at The Fillmore East and West in 1968, and the sparks just flew all over the place. Once again, we turn to another great cover version of a classic rock song. This was Quicksilver Messenger Service's first album, although they had already produced two songs for the soundtrack of the 1968 movie Revolution. A cover of his Who Do You Love (credited on the original album as Who Do You Love Suite and comprised of six separate ‘movements’) spanned the entire first side of Happy Trails. Quicksilver Messenger Service is the debut studio album of Quicksilver Messenger Service, released in 1968. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails - 1969 Track list:01. 'IAM' in triangle stamped in runouts denotes a Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Scranton pressing. Nick Gravenites, Harvey Brooks, Pete Welding First press rainbow, Capitol logo on top.
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