QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE - Happy Trails (Capitol ST 120) USA 1968 original LP
vinyl: VG/VG+ (some sureface noise in silent parts - many hairlines / plays just fine) | cover: VG (some ringwear / definitely used.)

The first side of the album consists entirely of a live performance of Bo Diddley's song, "Who Do You Love?". In a self-deprecating poke at the rendition's extended length, it is listed as the "Who Do You Love Suite", with individually titled "movements" which give writing credits to the soloist on each segment. The performance of Bo Diddley's composition breaks down into a guitar solo by Gary Duncan in a style somewhere between jazz and rock (described as "Bloomfield-like"^[2]) with a walking bass line by Freiberg. It then mellows down into some apparently improvised guitar and bass plucking and sliding, with feedback, handclapping and audience participation 'almost like a "found object" out of Dada.'^[2] Solos by Cipollina and then Freiberg follow. Then comes a slower, quieter reprise of one verse of the Bo Diddley song, leading to a pianissimo ensemble vocal, and a finale in which Elmore changes to a back-beat, while Duncan and Freiberg still play the Bo Diddley beat and Cipolina plays a lead against the melody, resulting in a polyrhythmic rock sound.