Happy Trails

Just didn't really vibe with it

This was far better than expected, as while I knew guitar noodling was a major part of this, I actually didn't find it to be too aimless that often. In fact, I'm super impressed this is a live album, as you could hardly tell with the thought put into some of what they did, and the theming on the first half of the album is cool. It does get a bit boring at times, especially when they decide to do more ambient noise stuff that goes on for seemingly days, and I'm not a huge fan of the singer's voice, but I still enjoyed this enough to get it up to that positive rating.

Late-60's jam band stuff. Interesting to listen to but I'm not sure I need to hear any more.

It's by no means the worst one of these I've heard. Feels like actual chaotic prog rock rather than forced. But I won't be coming back.

4/5. I have never heard of this band before but I really enjoyed this album! I have a feeling George Thorogood’s Who Do You Love came from this band

It's fine. Not bad music, but there is no reason this album should be in the book. This is an excellent example of those who chose these albums having fond memories of the band and it influencing their decision on whether to include it. Dropping acid and making out with a girl at a Quicksilver Messenger Service concert, that has to make the band a must-listen? Right? Awful name for a band, bad cover and just generally boring, inconsequential music. They are a jam band who covered blues very competently. Throw a rock and you may hit a similar band.

Really different but I enjoyed it a lot. My only issue is that some of the highs were a little loud and sharp.. I wonder if there is a remastered version? Never heard anything like this though

Very interesting. I like it

I found this album quite tough going. It starts off with 20 odd minutes of instrumental music which just sounded a bit repetitive. I don't know where the album was heading and it just kinda meandered with not a great deal of spirit. I saw other reviews which gave it 5 stars and I'm baffled by that. It may have been trying to be quirky and a bit alternative but I just didn't see, or more importantly, hear it.

Un album qui m'a rappelé cet épisode où j'ai renoncé à acheter une casquette Roxy alors qu'elle m'allait très bien pour la simple et bonne raison que je suis un homme.

Le service Quicksilver n'est vraiment plus ce qu'il était... Le fartage de la planche est complétement bâclé, la wax mal aposée, et que dire de la qualité de la pose d'aileron... À fuir

01) Who Do You Love Suite - 4,5 02) Mona - 5,5 03) Maiden Of The Cancer Moon - 4,0 04) Calvary - 3,5 05) Happy Trails - 4,0 TOTAL: 4,30 (43/100)

Aika tylsä, vaikka ihan lupaavia loppu-60-luku-elementtejä oli. Instrumentaalisuus oli omaperäistä, tai no ainakin askelta muita edellä. Ihan kivoja fantasiamaisia melodioita. Mutta: tylsä lopputulos.

Tietävät, mikä on Bo Diddley-biitti, mutta häpeävät salaa sitä, etteivät kykene säveltämään biisin biisiä.

Not relevant to anything at all. Just a group of guys practicing their instruments. I could do better myself. No thank you.

pretty alright

Un dels millors discos de jam de l'época. La versió de 'Who Do You Love' ocupa tota una cara i és força més llarga del que sembla a l'escoltar-la. La versió de 'Mona' també és de mèrit i els dos temes que tanquen el disc -melodia de 'Happy Trails' apart-no desentonen. Un clàssic obscur i perdut, però certament reivindicable

This is Sergio Leone on acid.

Underwhelmed, kind of slack jam band forgetability to me. Probably would have been a blast to be in one of the actual audiences, most likely super duper high.

Rock psicodélico. Está bien. Un 4.

#30 of working through the 1001 Albums list Honestly I didn't think I would like this album, based on the cover alone. I also didn't think I was into Psychedelic Rock or Acid Rock but as soon as that first song kicked in, I knew I was going to be in for a good time. This is not necessarily my style, but I appreciate the style and I am trying to be more open to different styles. I was grooving along to this album and I didn't realise that the songs were blending into each other, that was beautifully done. It does make it hard to pick out standouts, but at least I know this is an album listen, not just a few songs. This has a real prog rock vibe to it, which I think I loved, I really do enjoy the experimental and I think this would be a good album to listen to while high. Standouts: Who Do You Love, Pt. 1, Who Do You Love, Pt. 2, Mona

ganska meh

By the time I got to the 5th song that was titled “____ you love” I said “Oh fuck you” out loud and was resigned to not enjoying this album. Boring hippie jazz bullshit.

I tend to give mediocre albums 3/5. This is just another psych rock album and I have already forgotten half of it right after listening. No highlights.

Very samey, not a word I know

Fett guitar men var på stranda og raka så idk 3,5

Some good music. I never listened to it before.

Not a fan of this one I'm afraid. Sounds like a jam band, and I do like them, but this one was just quite rambling and all over the place.

nihuya не понятно, но очень интересно

мне интересно что пацаны скажут))) у меня много эмоций от этого альбома

Ляяяяя, а куда оно плывёт... Слушайте, ну вообще прикольно; я хотел даже местами это в прог-рок записать, ну хорошие соляки выдаёт гитарист - ну прям тема! Но в какой-то момент панорама (кажется, на How You Love) меня чуть не довела до тошноты. Я не говорю, что это плохо, я думаю, это скорее особенности моего организма... туды-сюды так быстро ходило, что как будто вестибулярку отключили нахуй. Сюита убийственна, можно было бы на ней альбом и заканчивать.

I'd never heard of them until now, but having listened to the album everything suddenly makes sense. A definite missing link in psych-rock, and they seem pretty influential too.

honestly the best album here so far with the nick drake one, love the transitions, love the grooves, love the cover, just a great vibe generally

Nuuudy

Virtuosic.

2/5 Really nothing to say.

It felt like one, very long, song.

Very nice psych rock guitar

Late 60s country psych..?

The extra long jam session of Who Do You Love was fun. That long track in the second half really dragged. I don't know, it was fine

A good time if you just want to hang out and listen to some melodic soloing over some country/desert rock/white rabbit type beats

Never heard of this one. Really solid album dang. The first half was really great, i love albums where they only make sense to listen from beginning to end.

Hippie rock

Since this was instrumental, I didn’t mind it as much as the other rock on this list. I wouldn’t listen to it again but it wasn’t too shabby.

AJ: the most San Francisco-y

Nice album... Something my old guitar teacher would have probably liked. Interesting sonically as well

Kinda jammy but not the worst thing

Quality jam album.

first group in this project i've never heard of. I liked it. Always down for lots of good instrumental tracks.

I listened to this album at 8:00am very sober. It was fine. Nothing that excited me, save for maybe when they moved on from one idea to the next. Tended to drag at points, but overall it's clear these guys are talented.

I found this interesting and unique. Psychedelic cowboy sounding stuff from the 60s? 3.7

Interesting chords and wildy progressive for the time, however there isnt enough here for me to be wowed. Its some cool chords that were on the front at the time, but years later it is hard to find enjoyment in thsi when theyre are better records

3.5

Good album, interesting choice to record it live

A jolly good live album of a band that I hadn't heard of before. They really combine the louder and quieter parts very well and end with a country-like song - the end of an acid dream. The only thing I wished for: More highlights, less meandering in the middle tracks.

Awesome classic psychedelic vibes!

Started fun, but bored me a bit after a while. Also, some parts are just bad.

According to Wikipedia this band was hugely influential in the San Francisco psychedelic rock scene. I’ll have to take their word for it, because this album doesn’t live up to that reputation.

Nice album but after a while the songs felt a bit long

Good album

Does some interesting stuff but gets a bit annoying after a while.

Ik denk: leuk, weer zo'n jaren zestig-bluesrockbandje, maar al snel ontaardt het in kunstzinnig-psychedelisch gesnor. Had voor mij niet gehoeven. De boodschap komt niet bepaald met de snelheid van kwikzilver aan.

Je ziet de hoes en weet: 'Dat wordt trippen'. Maar dan volgt toch een onverwachte start. Blijkt het toch een jazzy rockband. Dus maar eens struinen op het internet. En dan lees je vooral dat de A kant één nummer is. Het ligt maar aan je definitie. Je zou de A kant ook een (half) concept album kunnen noemen. Ondanks de gedeelde basis, liggen de delen soms toch flink uit elkaar. Want warempel. Dan krijgen we even later toch die trip geluiden waar de hoes al voor waarschuwde. Zonde wat mij betreft. Uiteindelijk hebben ze een echte luisterplaat neergelegd, met ups en downs. Kom ik op uitgemiddelde 3+.

Ik had nog nooit van de beste heren gehoord, maar het is lekkere onvervalste bluesrock. Soms iets te weinig liedje en iets teveel improvisatie, waar ik zoals wellicht bekend van vind dat bands daar soms teveel in doorslaan. Misschien ben ik daar eerder bij de Allman brothers iets te streng geweest, dus zal ik dit gewoon een fijne en vrolijke 4 sterren geven. Want van een goede pot bluesy gitaar kunnen we nooit genoeg krijgen.

Dødskult og rar psychedelisk rock med innslag av americana/country

This was incredibly dull to the point that I kept forgetting I even had music on because I completely tuned it out. Really bland and generic.

was actually fun!

This is a classic psychedelic rock album that I always had managed to avoid, as I thought it would be boring. This happens to be correct. The music is not bad, but the album is a struggle to listen to in one go. Won't play again in the future (necessary condition for a +3 score).

This feels like an endless jam in which all band members are allowed to display their skills. I guess they had a good time but I don't care.

little bit led zeppeliny at times, quite different to what i usually listen to but very enjoyable

boring

If you read the track titles, its like who, when, where, how, which (do) you love? And it seems like the answer is the name of the next track- Mona. Music is good, however, half of any track is only instrumental. It's almost like the lead singer forgot to sing and remembered only towards the end that he had some lines to sing. Nice, but will I listen to it again? Maybe not

2.75

A bit too much directionless noodling at times. The better parts of the album were when they strayed away from the boring generic blues-rock.

Niets om over naar huis te schrijven, dus dat doe ik dan maar niet.

Lekker jammen met zijn allen!

Ja, sta een beetje in dubio. Hoor best wel aardige dingen, soms zelf wat Doors-achtig. Maar ook wel veel gepiel in de marge. Nou vooruit door de creatieve bandnaam rond ik het af naar boven.

Found this fun enough. Liked the guitar. Got a lot of work done with it so I guess it’s pretty effective study music. The tracks with lyrics were the strongest.

Achei que fosse mais musica de cowbory corno mas parece mais um Deep Purple!

5/10. Now *these* guys saw the Electric Prunes' ad for the Vox Wah Wah Pedal

Over half of this album is the same song just played slightly differently each time. Almost a quarter of it is a single song/fever dream. Maybe I just don't get it. Track highlight: Maiden of the Cancer Moon

It was ok at times. Very Grateful Dead at times. Some of side 2 reminded me of late Doors.Long live jams but I'm not sure it merits being on the list.

Interesting album. It didn't keep my attention as much as it should have. There's alot of nice noodling on guitar and good musicianship, but overall when I was done with it, I was happy enough. It's a high two. 2/5

I’m really just not in love with jam band stuff. The musicianship is good on this album but it never feels like it goes anywhere.

I did enjoy listening to this. Still, it was mostly instrumental so not my cup of tea.

This was okay, but not really feeling it.

A little too jam band for me, but still decent..

Could not get into this at all.

Concept album about love and happy trails I guess...

I know a lot about love now, but one thing I know for sure is that I don't love their music.

Neatly managed transitions can't make me care about this. Note: Competent studio techs were at work in '69. Note: The coda makes a fun listen appropriate to the list.

52/100

Listened all the way through anticipating the part I had to hear. Finished none the wiser. Definitely could have done without the cover of Happy Trails. Ouch.

forgetable album. here the same style but better. i guess ca la inspiré du monde. 4.5/10

The solos on the first half of the album was a great example of chill psych rock, then the second half of the album was pretty average. It was a lot slower and didn't grab me the way the first half did. Best: Who Do You Love - Pt. 1 Worst: Happy Trails 2.5 stars

It's hard to get too excited about a 26 minute psychedelic jam band cover of a Bo Diddley song. This is an album that needs to be considered in the context that it was originally performed. It may have been significant at the time for helping to establish the genre, but doesn't hold up compared to some of their contemporaries like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. Not a terrible album, but not one that I'd return to.

Not too bad, not too good.

very pink floyd-esc 3.5/5

Nice smooth, funky guitar rock! Enjoyed this but won’t be rushing out to buy it I don’t think? Maybe add to the list but not as a priority purchase. Enjoyed how tight the band sounded.

Better than I was expecting it to be, based on the reviews. Unlikely to make it into rotation though.

I will never complain about how indulgent, noodly and length that Allman Brothers double live album is. Imagine all the skill, fire and interest removed from it and that's what we have here. How is this on this list when 90s scenesters EMF are Unbelivably not?

Nah. I do not like blues jamming in the slightest. At least this had sections, and it didn’t actively bother me, but it’s just jamming, and not unique. Having an entire side be a 25-minute version of a two chord song was a fun idea that never should have gotten past that phase. Not very good at not at all memorable, the only reason I’m not extremely mad about getting two one stars so close is because in between I had Pet Sounds.

I don't always love long long wandering rock, but it must have been the day because I liked this fine. It went well with a long long wandering walk.

This album had some moments that really grabbed me, like had me rockin' with it or saying, "oh, I like this part"...but there were only some of those moments. I really wasn't inclined to give it a second listen, but I had the time today and it actually was easier to digest, although I think part of that was because I let it blend into the background. I can sense some quality here, but I guess it wasn't my jam to hear this band's jam.

When the first track started, I was all, "all riiiight!" But then the rest of the album happened. Lots of jamming. Too much jamming.

Somewhere in the last 30 years I became that guy that can happily listen to something like this because I wouldn't have had the patience years ago. Don’t know how that happened but I don’t mind that it did. Some of my friends today will likely be dismayed by my favorite song pick. I really was surprised how into this I was. Closing with "Happy Trails" was a great touch! The perfect transition back into real life after a groovy listen.

4.25

Meh

Very good.

This felt like one quick song followed by 45 minutes of jams. It was probably meant to be enjoyed live at Woodstock tripping balls in 1971

Easy down the trail, pardner.

Eka biisi lupaili parempaa mitä toimitti. Perus yksi kerta riittää, kiitos.

Tämäkin ihan ok, sen suurempia tunteita herättämättä meni taustalla ajaessa

Who Do You Love got a little weird

Really insane guitar solos during certain songs. I thought this was going to be a country album

I found the opening sounds very promising. The wildness introduced in the first track however, I was hoping would be harnessed into something more concise, but that never really happened. Intellectually I can appreciate it as a psychedelic jam record, and a snapshot of the San Fran Haight Ashbury scene of the late 60's.

Jam sandwich.

A seemingly pretty authentic snapshot in time of a psych-acid-jam band. Never heard of them before but it was an enjoyable listen, although nothing really grabbed me. Definitely one to have on vinyl and listen all the way through though. 3.5 down to 3.

basically butt rock of its time. hippy dippy jam shit. pretty cohesive at pretty compared to a lot of Dead stuff but still pretty boring and forgettable. Moana was probably the dumbest track for sure…..very butt rocky. can i make luurv to you once in a while 😎 gee so creative LMAO. the title track was cute.

Didn’t know what I was getting into on this one. It was a good record.

So much better stuff came out of San Francisco in the 60s this just ain't it

Well, I listened to it. They seemed to be enjoying themselves. Probably. Another of the list of very American albums that don't travel, certainly not as far as these ears.

How to make Bo Diddley sound terrible. Listen to side one of this dreck. I have to imagine the consortium who made the choices of which album appeared in this book took a whole whack of drugs back in the day. The only explanation why this monstrosity made this list. Ugh!

Pretty pleasant listen. Who Do you Love - Pt 1 was my favorite track. Mona and Calvary both felt long and boring to me, cut those two tracks and the album goes up a solid star for me.

Quite enjoyed this album so an easy 3*

It was kind of bland.

Nah, I'm at the point where o just can't be bothered with any more jam bands. Buhbye

Alright at times.

I have heard about the band before but never listened any of their albums before this one. 'Happy Trails' is a good psychedelic-rock album, which is mostly instrumental. Because it is so jammy, this music is better to listen to live than on a record, though. But overall it was an enjoyable listen.

Alright psychedelic rock. Gets very jammy at times which I usually don't mind but I wasn't really in the mood for it when listening to the album. I think I've gotta give it a 3.5 of 5

Meh

njae, mitt emellan tvåa och trea. dom goa låtarna är rätt goa men långa konstiga solon är inget för mig.

Average hippie bullshit

I have no idea what to expect Boring psychadelia That's a no from me dawg 1

What even is this?!

Some amazing moments, but kind of buried in there.

If I want Bo Diddley I'd get out a Bo Diddley album. I think they mis-spelt 'Trails' here. The beauty of Bo is that he gets straight to the point. This sounded like an extended jam session on some not very interesting stimulants. It didn't really work in the Thursday evening post-work downtime slot. The Morricone-esque tune near the end warrants one star, though.

Oh joy - another pub rock outtake. This album dragged. Complete nonsense and nothing to draw me back in. CHANGE IT.

psychedelic tinged blues rock with a jam band sensibility. while they’re very talented, not my thing.

This is really good background music for a beach blanket Babylon where you're more interested in the vibe than in the music itself. I am not at a beach blanket Babylon.

I like some of this. I love some of this. But I’m not really sure why it should be on this list.

I usually don't have the patience for this kind of music, but this didn't annoy me. Probably underrated, because very few people mention them these days. On the other hand, they're not as good as Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd. Favorite song: when you love.

super pour marché à l'ombre quand il fait chaud

It was a pleasant listen. So pleasant I fell asleep. Oops.

This album is basically. An embarrassment to the general huge fan of psych and all sixties and seventies rock however this. Has terrible writing terrible production. No arrangement intricacies whatsoever and doesn't. Really offer anything above what can be described as musical sound

Building half your album around an extended jam session inspired by [checks notes] a guy who generally managed to keep his songs well under 4 minutes... was a choice, I guess. Okay, clearly these guys can play. But man, was this jammy, unnecessarily so. One thing I will say for it is that you're a good 10 minutes into the album before you realize that oh, this is live. That speaks to Quicksilver Messenger Service's technical talents, but that only carries this album so far. Musically this was fine, probably one of the better live recordings I've heard yet, but I don't have any interest in returning to it. Fave Songs: Who Do You Love Suite, Mona

3 stars

Good

Ouf, c'est pas pire par endroit, amsi bon il s'éclate carrément à la guitare tout le long. Cependant, j'ai de la difficulté à voir le fil conducteur parfois. Je n'ai pas trop aimé meme étant guitariste... 3

Very odd - in a good way! Extended jazz-like improv, recorded live (mostly), but note perfect (as far as it can be for songs largely made up on the spot!). Not one I immediately loved, but there is plenty there for repeated listening. The kind of album that is the reason for me doing this project - I'd never have heard it any other way.

A rock band that disappoints isn’t too common for me but this is what happens when you have an album consist of mainly just one song. The same guitar riffs the same beat. It just continued. How many times can someone ask who do you love. I don’t quite get why this album is on this list. This was repetitive and not worth a listen. 3.2/10

Ok

While it is a good album, I do love rock guitar, and it may be a pioneering album. It falls short of a great album. Most of these works have been done better by other artists.

Not bad but not perfect, side one is just really nice though

This was actually a good time. I love that it's just two giant songs and I love the love themed names that go through the first set

Great instrument playing, bit repetitive, kinda boring by the end.

they love who do you love

I really liked this album so much more than expected.

Early noodle rock that blends into one big song

:))

Old school cool

I do love that guitar

Sinceramente no es la gran cosa un 6/10, un disco que para la epoca propone ciertas cosas pero son mínimas. Si bien se enteinde el concepto de album conceptual tampoco se es tan incisivo al contarlo, las primeras canciones no tienen casi variación y no tienen eje en comun para reconcoer algo como ese amor (love).

Enjoyable classic rock music.. right up my alley.

Every so often there comes an album where the music does more of the talking than the vocals do. This is one of those. It is not for lack of singing, but for what little lyrics are presented on this album, the music makes up for in giving those few words gravitas and meaning. This is hard to do either direction, but QMS dare it be said delivers so nicely here. This is not a well-balanced album in that sense, there are moments where a verse or at least a bridge would be a welcomed break in the groove, but overall no regrets are to be had here. While not exactly experimental in which the music feels aimless, it does have a trip-trance-like ebb and flow where the journey does not feel blind, as though the music is the resolve and that is where the strength of this album lies in comparison to other psychedelic offerings. Each key change, or change in melody is a resolve, the music feels complete in that sense. While some experimental or psychedelic music puts an emphasis on being lost, where QMS delivers better is best summed up by Tolkein's Gandalf, where not all who wander are lost. The 12-minute track "Calvary" is a decent example of this. If using one's imagination they could build an anthology story in their own mind of what each section could be about, and build a fitting end to each. The album is simply satisfying.

Nice

I enjoyed it - but don't need to listen to it again.

3,5

Alright alright

Pretty darned good guitar work...but not sure how often I could listen to this....

This album cover really made me think this would be a country soundtrack or something so I was pleasantly surprised by the club style psych rock I was met with. The first half being split up seemed a little pointless to me but if that's the way they wanted to present it, I think it's a cool idea. Overall - 8.1

I don't like live album cover bands, and these guys are clearly just an imitation of The Grateful Dead. Not a bad imitation, but an imitation none the less. I really don't have much to say other than they played well, but that's not much. I don't really have anything to go off so how could I rate them. I enjoyed listening to the album so I guess they got that going for them. Want to give them a one, but I know they don't deserve that low. 2/5

Vaguely remember the group's name but never heard their music. Liked it.

Never come across even the name of this band before, so was totally unprepared for it. On first listen, really enjoyed the music and will come back to it. 3 stars is really only a place holder. Needs to be listened to more.

Starts off brilliantly, tails off by the end of the record sadly

I loved the a-side. A raw blues rock collection of standards, with great guitar work. But the b-side, sliding into psychedelic, loses its edge, and while the guitar remains as impactful, my interest fades.

Decent almost-instrumental album but quickly forgotten again

Didn’t do it for me

It was okay, not one I'll go back to.

Highlights: "Mona," "Calvary" The jam is cemented in pop this year; we have CCR two months before, and King Crimson in the Fall. We can credit Quicksilver for their craft in jamming: they vary dynamic range, listen to each other, feature each other, and move cohesively through ideas. I can't properly credit them for any particular riff or lick -- maybe later after hearing more context for them. It just lacks standout moments or statements other than the base material, which is not theirs. We have now heard Bo Diddley three times, a man not featured on this list! Why not give him the Fats Domino treatment at least? This is a much better 'raga' than the Byrds offered five years ago, but not a remarkable album apart from how it lays out the grab bag of jamming gimickry. Accelerando! Turn on an effect! Call and response! Breakdown! Buildup! They're holding the line for a form I think is boring and dishonest, but yes they're holding the line.

Fun jam album, seems like it was pretty influential to many other jam bands as were as others from the era

This was kind of boring. Loads of potential but it never goes anywhere

Can appreciate, but not for me

I kinda dig this album. The guitar-work in particular is awesome.

It was ok. I don’t think I will listen to it again.

This is a very interesting album. Listed as rock but feels like country. Long stretches of instrumental guitar made it feel like a cowboy on the range. And with Happy Trails and Who Do You Love, this feels like an album that has been used by others so I’m assuming that means it’s well liked. I found some of the songs to be rambly, but that also feels like the point.

When I saw the tracklist I started laughing, and then I looked it up and was laughing even more. A Bo Diddley "Who Do You Love" suite in a live performance, exploring the facets of who/what/when/where is a hilarious concept. Unfortunately for me, there's not much humor in the music itself. It's good, don't get me wrong, I was just bracing for laughs, and it's very sincere. Some really enjoyable pieces, including a couple from the suite. Is Bo Diddley even on this list? I'm gonna guess no. But I'm not upset with this one, even though it's technically a live album. Favorite tracks: Who Do You Love pt. 1, When You Love, How You Love, Calvary. Album art: Really love the cover, great image and art style, great font. Looks intentionally older and wistful. Strikes me as odd that they wouldn't refer to the love suite in the title, but maybe they didn't want legal trouble. 3.5/5

Was not in the mood for this. You could’ve told me it was Grateful Dead and I would’ve believed it. Not sure why it needs to be in the list.

better than expected but also i don't remember any of it

A 25min rendition of Bo Diddly’s “Who Do You Love”. What’s not to like? I also wear a rattlesnake as a necktie. Reminded me of the Doors “Live at the Hollywood Bowl and their (relatively short) 8:15 rendition of “Light My Fire”. By the time I got to Calvary, I was pretty spent on the jam session, however.

Cool Concept. Excellent playing, the guitar is exceptional. On Mona...Wow. the band interplay also fantastic. I'm just not a big blues rock fan, however I think just from a historical and quality point of view this album should be in my collection. Just wish I liked it more. 3.5 stars

Decent, but way too long.

I don't have many feelings about this album. Feels more like background music I would hear in a party than something I actively listen to. So don't love, don't hate, just kinda there. Favourite song: Which Do You Love Worst song: Happy Trails

Man, I do like this album art. The playing on this is just fine, just fine indeed. But jam bands, brother, they go into the background for me.

[Vince McMahon getting excited, falling out of his chair meme] "1969 release date?" "Live album?" "Recorded at the Fillmore West?" "A jammed out Bo Diddley cover takes up an entire side of the album?" But seriously folks, this is mostly a sea of tedium. The odd tasty lick or interesting improvisation cannot redeem the meandering ebb und flud of this overcooked turkey.

This stupid site skipped right over Public Enemy for me and instead showed me this mofo all day for the past 2 days. Grrr. Intellectually speaking I like the experiment of what is essentially an album consisting of one single extended song. (See: Sleep's "Dopesmoker.") Emotionally, I just wish it was any song other than this one. And the sloppy cover of "Happy Trails" doesn't count. Some good guitar playing here and there, and then some utterly obnoxious guitar playing there and here. This is not my jam.

Side one: who do I NOT love? Side two: Moaner Overall: Unhappy trails This is what I would describe as ‘noodling’ but not sure if that’s the correct application of the word. I mean - it’s inoffensive but just so boring! Not horrible but tedious listening to all those flipping guitar solos!

I love the Bo Diddly song "Who Do You Love" but this is jam band overkill. This is a fun band party vibe but unforgettable. I could probably listen to this album again and pick out a few "kewl" moments but I wouldn't replay it for enjoyment. I don't hate it but I understand why I'd never heard of this record. It drifted off into obscurity and there it should have remained. It's between a 2 and 3 but I can see myself recording something like this in the garage with my drinking buddies so I'll bump it up to 3.

I did not need to hear this album.

I'm at a bit of a loss on this one. I took a minute just now to read the AllMusic review, which was a solid five-star write-up (yes, out of five), which didn't clear things up for me. Well, I guess it answered the "would anyone out there actually rate this a five-star album?" question. I guess I'll see if any of you are in the same boat. I'll say this, I never lost patience with the record. With a band like the Grateful Dead, which kept coming to mind as this rolled on, I do find I get agitated — not enjoyable for me. With this, I didn't go there, exactly, but I was struck by the general disinterest in adding structure to the proceedings. It was loose to the point of rambling, and had I not been tasked with listening to it, I don't think I would have stuck around to hear more after the first song and a half. There were moments that flowed, some noodly passages that transcended, but they were the diamonds in the haystack. Most of it just drifted innocuously out of the speakers and filled space. Did I like it? I don't know. I don't expect I'll listen again to try to discern that. So this is two stars, but that doesn't reflect a dislike for the material so much as an inability to connect with whatever was motivating this band.

Not my jam

Je vais faire comme si j'avais rien entendu

médiocrité décadente

Nothing special. Just fine.

I've heard the name of this band before because they were part of the same Bay Area music and psychedelia scene in the 60s, but I am not sure if I've ever heard their music. I know this is a live album and I have a feeling this is a lot better than it might have been had it been a studio album. They are having fun and they are into the music as they perform, and I can hear that. I can also hear how good they are as performers and improvisers. I can get past the way they sound and their music choices -- which have been done by so many for so long -- because this is earlier in the rock path that was developing at the time. The lead singer's voice and vocal performances remind me a lot of early Grateful Dead's Ron "Pigpen" McKernan. I'm sure a lot of blues-rooted rockers of the time sounded that way. I don't see myself coming back to re-listen at all, but I get the importance of the album given the time, the culture, and so on.

What a great album. It was like discovering another early Grateful Dead I never heard of. Must have been a wild party in those San Fran days!

Three takeaways: - Kevin Bacon was a terrible day trader, but didn't know he made music - "happy trails" -heh - Where You Love is terrible - otherwise this is one of the greatest stoner rock albums ever -

“Happy Trails” isn’t really billed as a live album. But it was recorded live over multiple performances. I’ve complained about live albums on the list many times, but I think it’s the greatest hits nature of many of them, not the way they are recorded. Record in a studio in multiple takes. Record on a stage in a single take. You do you. Quicksilver Messenger Service does it with some terrific classic guitar work. But their psychedelia got a little out of hand. I’m more worn out by psychedelic rock at this point than I am of live albums.

Lots of great stuff here, but like all jam bands, it gets boring and hard to differentiate the who and what (the where was easily the worst)

They kept it interesting for the first two movements of Bo Didley’s Who Do You Love. Then as all jam bands do, they shift into some random noise exploration that just kills the momentum on Where You Love. It’s several minutes of minimalism with picks scraping across guitar strings and claps and whoops from all over. What a disappointment.

Hmm. Do I like this? Not sure. I like large bits of it certainly but it's very long for a continuous jam, even for my tastes, and I fucking love a big song that build and builds. I guess this doesn't necessarily do that though, it stops for a snooze now and then. Also I think we need to blame them for Phish, contractually? But then we wouldn't have had the Analyze Phish podcast with Harris Wittels, and both before and after that I haven't been impacted by Phish, so, net positive. So I am enjoying Calvary, which actually seems to suit the album cover. As a whole I think this goes in the 'enjoyable listen, glad I heard it, not sure I will ever put it on again ' section.

De eerste helft is een lange jam maar opzich wel nice. 2e helft wat minder. Prima als achtergrond, 3.5/5

Didn't grab me. Not clear of significance for it to be on the list.

3+/5

this is the first album in over 400 where i had to skip a track because of how much i wanted it to be over (calvary) fuck this boring trash

There was a whole lot of loving going on (and on). Add this to the 'you couldn't find 1001 albums better than this?' list.

This is good competent blues psychedelic live rock - but I think you have to be in the mood for 20 minutes of Who Do You Love.

Kind of sounds like generic rock background music. 6/10.

Better than Jefferson Airplane - not as noodly, but still over indulgent in places. Low 3

I enjoyed the long-form, guitar-driven movements of the first half, but then again I am squarely at the intersection of both those musical interests. The back half definitely drops off into pure noodling territory, but I find myself so surprised at how captivated I was in the first that I'm willing to mildly excuse it. Perhaps a bit malformed and wandering for an early stab at psychedelia, but somebody had to take the first shot and it's overall good for what it is.

Love the concept of blowing a song up this much but a lot of it winds up sounding samey

Verloop good music, i like the guitar parts

Great psych/acid rock. Really shows the artistry that took over Haight/Ashbury in the late 60s.

The first two songs of this album were great then the third track got super weird and lost me. The guitars and heavy soul feel was good and it was cool that it was live I think but then I ended up tuning out lost of it because it got like experimental/improvisational. Also didn’t help that I still have dummy music stuck in my head. The last song was short and sweet though.

At first I was a bit like sigghhh prog rock sesh but actually I submitted to it. I was hoovering my parents house and it got me in a trance like focus state. A bit like jazz you need to let go of what you expect from the songs

It was cool in places but and also nice to have some classic blues guitar but can't say it excited me too much

Jam band type music. Similar to Grateful Dead. Very long instrumentals, guitar solos. It wasn't bad, some if it was recorded live.

This is just mostly white men guitar jamming on a blues scale without any song, or structure, or both whatsovever. I don't get what is supposed to be psychedelic about this one. Or good, for that matter ... 1.5/5

Guitar dumb diddling

Pretty standard blues album - nothing memorable about this. When Craig McLachlan does your song better you know it’s average.

The 1st half is background music and self indulgent, the 2nd half is very good.

Shit

The epitome of psych/freak music, with its good and bad. It sometimes becomes tedious but overall great jams to get lost into. It must have worked perfectly when everyone in the audience was stoned out of their minds!

Good album! Transitions songs really well

Wanky

Groovy, gritty and legit bluesy psychedelia. The vocals aren't exactly soaring, but the axe explorations are steadily impressive and totally diggable. Dumb ending cut, though. Had to be there, one supposes, and wouldn't that have been fun, at either Fillmore.

Good psych music, but a little repetitive. Songs are not differentiated, it's like one big song and they just take breaks to do acid and bong hits.

Meh

Not the worst thing I’ve listened to, but what’s with this cover stuff? Nothing special at all. Listening to unoriginal music like this…. again, all I can ask is, “why no Rammstein!?” I mean, come on. Easy 1 rating for QMS.

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: had some interesting accoustic elements but it’s not something I see myself revisiting Favourite song: Track 6 - Who Do You Love Pt.2

Zuivere rockmuziek live gebracht. Erg leuk album

Haven't listened to them much. Good jam band SF vibe.

Not bad but I got annoyed with some of the run on songs

I wasn't holding out a lot of hope for this based on the name and the cover art, but it's true what they say about assumptions. I really liked this album. It was really ahead of its time given the whole "do you love" theme, connected tracks that bleed together, and the fact that they seem to have beaten everyone to the drug-rock era (clear and obvious influence on the Doors and others). I'm giving it a bump in the rating just for being early to this scene.

My dad has this record, I heard it a few times in high school because it was one of his favorites so even though it's the 1990s this is blasting out of the speakers in our home. It's a good record to my ears still. I like the psych. And I probably got that from my POP. But also, you see, there's this Boris record Rainbow with guest guitarist Michio Kurihara who likened inspiration for his tone to the tone of the lead guitar on this record. And, all I have to say is that as good as Happy Trails is that Rainbow record slays it. So it's hard to not rate this one relatively and in that context.

Loved it, very chill.

Way too long with not a lot going on

Good live record. Nothing really stuck with me though. Like the psychedelic feel. Eh

Greta Van Fleet of 1969. In case you are wondering, that is not a compliment.

YES! So trippy. Where has this been all my life???

really enjoyed listening to the first few, nothing mindblowing

Not what I was expecting from the album cover, but in a good way. It was enjoyable but at times it does feel like they only have 2 songs.

truly dreadful. First song is one verse of a Bo Diddley song then 20 minutes of uninspired blues noodling. And that's the highlight! Each track gets steadily worse, with awful hippy grunting on top of amateur guitar riffing. 2nd to last track is literally 13 minutes where nothing happens at all, but even this is preferable to the final track which is as brief as it is awful. might be one of the worst albums I have ever endured.

Its alright. Lots of noodling. Not sure why it's on the list.

A big long psychedelic jam session. Felt like Wild West music at times. I liked the lead guitar tone a lot; and the bass guitar when it appears for a sec on “Which” Favorite moment was probably midway through “Cavalry” I enjoyed it enough; don’t need to hear it again though

Not at all what I was expecting but a really strong album of psychedelic blues jamming. Prefer this sort of experimental noodling to most of the “acclaimed” jam bands out there, but it didn’t completely capture my attention for the whole record. The first side is the highlight although the quasi-western jaunt “Cavalry” is another great listen.

i dont know man

Eh, this is both good and bad at the same time. Talented musicianship, just lacks substance.

Psychedelic but boring after a while

A very specific mood. It's nice, hippie alt rock realness

Good blues instrumental type album, would listen again

So 60s, so viby

10/10 super nice, proggy stuff love it

Over half the album is one big fucking jam. Sick

Awful jam band stuff. No need for it to be on this list. Definition of inessential.

Well I was kind of distracted so I will listen again. Sounded indulgent. But I think when I listen again with my headphones I will really like it. So going to give it a four.

Happy Trails is the second album by the American band Quicksilver Messenger Service, and it was partially recorded live at two different performances in 1968. This album was well received and was later certified gold in 1992. It's a psychedelic rock album that incorporates honky-tonk and western music - which would eventually evolve into the genre country. Much of the album are cover songs of Bo Diddley songs, which the band loved playing for audiences. This old school jam band could play anything with their high spirits, and it would never become boring or pretentious. My imagination was able to wander while listening to this great album.

Proof that San Francisco had the most powerful drugs in the late '60's, since one would need to be under their influence to appreciate this. Not for nothing, but Van Halen's all accapella version of Happy Trails tops the one here that closes the album.

Yea, fun album

This felt like one long jam session that someone recorded.

Enjoyable enough, but definitely gets dull at times and doesn’t quite earn the length of the jams.

Возвращаюсь в игру. Тру Детектив + Джентльмены Гая Ричи (в подтверждение!!! у меня после окончания альбома медиатека продолжила проигравание похожего и включила Cream — Sunshine of your love из Джентльменов) Такое я люблю Очень приятные мне звучание и музыкальность, кайфово просто сидеть и слушать, следя за мелодией

очень круто! треки перетекают один в другой, альбом как одна полу-импровизационная композиция (как выяснилось (так пишут в вики) - смесь рока и джаза) захотелось снять короткий метр построенный полностью на хэппи трэйлс (что опять же говорит о его структуре)

2.5/5. This was kind of boring, but I didn't mind listening to it.

A whole lot of fun jams. Best track: Calvary

is it jazz? is it psych? is it blues? dunno what this is and i can't decide if i liked it or not.

Background music from Woodstock

very good. Valente seems like a cool guy

An interesting album. Was very chill but compelling.

Will hopefully listen again when there’s no background sound, but my impression of the 90% I did hear was that it was pretty good but overlong in both side A & B 20/07/22

Pretty good

Jam band noodlings

This starts off OK, feels like a nice entry to what'll turn into a Creedence Clearwater Revival type album, but loses all it's energy pretty quickly and never really gets it back. It's too long, too meandering, and too boring to get anything higher than a 2. It's fine background music and not actively unpleasant, but nothing more.

It is an "okay" psychedelic album. Maybe less would be more.

Started off ok but just trudged along. Not my bag

Starts off shy, but later progression makes it shine. A solid prog-rock album. Highlight: Calvary

Brzdąkanina. Widać, że skillowi gitarzyści i fajnie sobie eksperymentują brzmieniowo, ale się dłuży i w żadnym momencie nie wciąga

Ei hetättänyt liiaksi tunteita. Ihan ok

Ihan jees, mut eipä jäänyt paljoa käteen.

Alkupuolen Who Do You Love Suite on suorastaan jazzahtavaa klassikkorockia! Sen perusteella annetaan 4/5, ei ne muutkaan biisit huonoja olleet.

A real oddity and not in a good way. Quite a slog, hard to find the purpose of it all.

Back to psychedelic rock. When it’s not us new wave from 1979 NY, it’s the summer of love. Someone on Spotify is wondering when they will ever get to archive this stuff, if 1001 keep make people listen to it. Would drugs even help? Cover art: love the cover tho 😂

Ok. It's nice for a 1-hour long guitar solo.

Begins pretty emphatically with a Bo Didley cover that the first half of the album is devoted to. Two renditions bookend a fifteen minute instrumental. The second half, again is strong - taking a darker turn with Calvary, which is a far more engrossing instrumental than the bulk of the Who Do You Love suite, before ending with a chipper Happy trails. The album is standard of the 60s San Francisco psychedelic scene, I don't think it is anything particularly ground-breaking but all-in-all, an enjoyable album.

You know, I'm usually here for the psychedelic jam band vibe. And, for the first few tracks at least, I was digging this record. But then I hit track three which dissolves into pure, nonmusical noise about a minute in leaving the listener to suffer through five minutes of pointless cacophony. They brought it back around to, you know, actual music on the next track but it took most of the remainder of the album to regain its groove. And then, it totally lost the groove all over again on track ten before ending with an atonal rendition of a country song for some unknowable reason. Which is a shame because I can tell that these guys really do have chops. This should have been a much better experience overall. A talented psychedelic jam band recorded live at not one but BOTH of the legendary Fillmore venues? Should have been a slam dunk. But, at the end of the day, it never quite managed to be great. Grateful Dead did it better the very same year. And they only needed one Fillmore to do it.

Sick of these uninspiring 60s psychedelic albums. Nothing remotely interesting going on in this album. 1/5

wow- terrible. just noise, and not good noise at that

I think I quite enjoyed every song except for the title track but I guess it's just a nice closer.

Typical late 60’s psychedelica. Nice and groovy live performance, but also a bit on the average

Rating: 6/10