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| Happy Trails | 
 enlarge | Artist: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (67 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5231
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 91215
UPC: 077779121526
EAN: 0777791215264
ASIN: B000002UTY
Release Date: August 9, 1994
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Quicksilver Messenger Service October 8, 2007
A great glimpse back to the acid rock days of the early seventies. One side devoted to Bo Diddly's "Who do you Love?". Some great guitar work.
 bad sound September 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great performance,
but the sound is poor, compressed and the frequency response is midrangy and really limited. Spend a few bucks more and get the IMPORT version (not the Japaese one). The IMPORT sound is a REVELATION, three octaves wider, hi-fi demo quality on a good stereo, despite being over 40 years old. Just spectacular sound, unbelievably well recorded bass lines.
This pressing has criminally bad remastering by Capital, who doubtless has the master tapes.
If you haven't heard the IMPORT, you've NEVER heard this CD!
The one you want is: not this version.
The "EROC at the Ranch" remix.
The Last Great Quicksilver Album August 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
With guitarist Gary Duncan's imminent departure looming in the background, "Happy Trails" immortalizes one side of the original QMS quartet's concert and ballroom legacy. While Quicksilver's debut had showcased ex-folkie bassist David Freiberg's ear for quirky material and the band's few attempts at songwriting, this album emphasizes Duncan's backlog of rhythm-and-blues garage tunes (Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love" and "Mona"), brought to life by John Cipollina's inimitable finger-picked electric guitar leads, as well as Duncan's own daredevil psychedelic forays. As one of the first recordings of its kind, "Happy Trails" suffers a bit in retrospect -- mediocre sound quality, shoddy drumming, and occasional improvisational dead ends -- but its bright spots are as exciting and triumphant as acid rock has ever been.
 Don't Hesitate, you will love it August 16, 2007
I waited to buy this live album, for whatever reason....DO NOT make the same mistake!!!! This album definitly ranks up there with my favorite live rock albums...The guitar playing takes you to a higher level.
wonderful June 24, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I went in expecting an album with an old, lackluster guitar sound and uninteresting guitar playing because, let me be honest, there's a lot of guitar playing from the 60's that doesn't sound good to me. Let me take that back- it SOUNDS good, but the notes aren't inspiring me to continue listening because it's mostly a guitar playing over simple blues rhythms and whatnot. It's alright in small doses, but not in great quantities for me.
However, Happy Trails is just the opposite. The reviewer below is right- if you like the Grateful Dead's "Live/Dead" album or even some of the spookier Doors moments when they are letting loose and jamming out, this album won't disappoint. Throw in some melodic guitar jams with lots of delicious licks and really good and unpredictable bass work, and you got yourself a quality album.
Even if you don't care for the versions of "Who Do You Love" that you may have heard, you can ignore all those versions because this is a VERY different song. It takes the theme of that song and expands and builds on the melody in various ways. An album created to satisfy all the guitar jam fans out there. It's awesome. A must buy.
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