![]() ![]() By no means is it bad, but unless you like experimental, avant-garde music, you have no business listening to Happy Trails. Let me introduce you to a fantastic album by telling you how amazingly difficult it is to listen to it in one sitting without losing your mind. I like to start off by saying what’s good about the album. I usually write my reviews in a common Introduction- Pro- Pro-Con-Conclusion format. Happy Trails just even further epitomizes that observation. Quicksilver never got the recognition or fame of their San Francisco counterparts, Jefferson Airplane, but they made just as good a psychedelic record, making them the unsung heroes of their genre. It has all the atmospheric guitar playing, the Latin inspired breakdown beats, groovy percussion, and a thumping, percussive bass rounding it all out. Between the dueling, experimental guitar interplay between John Cipollina and Gary Duncan with Duncan doubling as the vocalist, and a tight rhythm section of bassist David Freidburg and Greg Elmore, Happy Trails is a psychedelic orgasm. Quicksilver’s live album is a gem among dirt, like a diamond in the rough. They juxtapose what they are trying to visualize among many different moods, whether it be experimenting on blues, or brooding despondency. But this is not as wonderful as I have made it out to be. Quicksilver Messenger Service’s live album Happy Trails is strikingly visual enough to paint a metaphorical ‘sound canvas’ in your mind. If music was not auditory, would it still affect people in the same way? Would you feel the same emotions if you ‘saw’ music, rather than hear it? Would you feel anything at all? As weird, melancholy and stupid as this case may seem, a San Francisco psychedelic rock band knew how to personify their music into something that isn’t just heard. It was not heard, and not felt, but seen, and interpreted as something entirely unique from what we see it as. Music as we know it to exist as an audible art form was broken into something visible. I’d like to pose a hypothetical scenario to you: Imagine if all the notes in music- A, Bb, C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G and A# were all colors on the spectrum of light. The colors explode, giving the earth an image of natural fireworks in the sky. An example of this is the aurora borealis, the plasma bolts in the northern sky that illuminate the atmosphere with vibrant colors when plasma combines with oxygen, neon, hydrogen and nitrogen. Supernatural phenomena are the unexplainable wonders of the world that may or may not be visible to the naked human eye. ![]()
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