Product Details
Audio CD (July 17, 2012)
Original Release Date: 2012
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Cleopatra
Track Listings
1. Who Do You Love Part 1
2. When You Love
3. Where You Love
4. How You Love
5. Which Do You Love
6. Who Do You Love Part 2
7. Mona
8. Maiden of the Cancer Moon
9. Calvary
10. Happy Trails
Review
A very special vintage concert performance by one of the most critically acclaimed bands to come out of the San Francisco 60s psychedelic rock movement, Quicksilver Messenger Service!
Features the classic line-up performing their entire second album, Happy Trails - ranked at #189 on Rolling Stone s list of the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time!
What looks like a pretty exciting release is actually just a re-packaging of Quicksilver Messenger Service's 2nd album "Happy Trail" (1968). Just compare the track listing and the timings between the two: they are pretty identical.
How Purple Pyramid Records (a subsidy of Cleopatra Records) can get away with this obvious rip-off is beyond me, especially since BGO records (UK) just released a remastered "Happy Trails" in 2010.
Purple Pyramid's "shiny" new cover art is kinda interesting, but that's about it. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Capitol Records ends up suing the pants off of Purple Pyramid for copyright infringement.
As far as the music, this is prime Quicksilver Messenger Service. Live, improvisational and spontaneous. If you don't already have this in your QMS collection, this one is a must. The sound is exceptional with good stereo separation. Hard to believe this is even a live recording at all.
Thank you for the heads up about this being a mere reissue. I've had it in my wish list for a while but won't be buying it now.
I've been ripped off before, but never this blatantly! I scoured the web before I bought this CD as I already had Happy Trails on LP and I was wary of the identical track listing and the fact that it was amazing that unreleased live stuff from Quicksilver Messenger Service from 1969 had eluded all of us fanatics up until the present. The inside liner note that someone posted stated that this was an unknown performance from 1969 and the last one with Gary Duncan and made no mention that this was merely a reissue of Happy Trails, albeit with inferior sound quality; so I figured that this CD was a dream come true for us Quicksilver freaks. I'm still incredulous that Purple Pyramid could pull off a stunt like this and not be aware of the damage to their reputation! I mean, like, what were they thinking?
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