Who Do You Love / When You Love

[Quaaludedude714]

I love 0wning Up to Her :) QC

[thekeifernet]

So many bands have coverd this Bo Diddley classic but having heard all the versions I have had a chance to hear over the years this one is by far the BEST

[badjaycl]

I always thought that John Cipollina's guitar sounded more "electric" than most other electric guitars, like maybe his volume went to 11 many years before Spinal Tap!

[tbarkley68]

@badjaycl i agree! And the magic blend between John Cipollina and Gary Duncan. The second solo (when do you love} shows Duncan's contrasting tone quality.

[ezcomezgo11]

@badjaycl He used an electronically modified Gibson SG with a lot of 'treble' and augmented 'presence'.

[badjaycl]

@ezcomezgo11 Thanks for the info EZ, I kind of figured there was a technical reason that Mr C's guitar sounded so clean.

[facebookcnp52]

I know each note by HEART.

[j17496]

best damn song ever!

[jrfinkel]

One of the greatest rock albums of all itme. Pairs really well with Ry Cooder's "Paradise and Lunch." I was lucky enough to see Chip play with Barry "The Fish" Melton (Fish and Chip) shortly before Chip passed. It was in a little dive bar in San Jose. Couple dozen people in the place. Last tune Chip walked to the front of the stage and played "Mona." I said to myself, "Now I can die and go to heaven...I've seen Chip play Mona."

A great musician. Chip never overplayed.

[Bensonrosse1]

The Great John Cipollina and Gary Duncan

[argi1968argi]

i saw john cipollina in thessaloniki in GREECE, one month before he die from asthma.....the greatest ROCK guitarist.....GOD BLESS YOU JOHN!!!!!!

[XMIR10C]

pardon me? Noone like him except Jeff Beck? Try JINGO - the 2 guitar masters.

[WeirFaithful]

Hey now! Someone sent me this cause made them think of me.. They were right I can hear this another million times before i die and come up w same answer ;-)

I love the Cip!!!! :-))) He's the most amazing guy

weirfaithful/4ever

[jstanley011]

Some of the greatest electric guitar riffs ever played.

[Eesgrampa]

the last 5.14 is ALL Gary Duncan on lead guitar, the first 3.14 is Cippolina ... a great vocal by Gary, and David too ... and David's bass guitar is amazing thruout ... and of course Greg Elmore's perfect timing ...

[bluepez57]

@DrHanuman - maybe it was an eargasm 

[kmrinreno]

In the Red Noodle (Bar) in Honolulu in 1970 for their grand opening, just behind the International Marketplace. QMS opened, late (due to acid in the poi, it was said). Still, in the audience were the Chambers Brothers (Time)...they all jammed this number for 45 minutes or more. Awesome!

[kekahanow]

@kmrinreno Awesome, I lived on 316B Seaside Ave and Kalakaua. I use to listen to this all the time with my turntable. I lived right next the Attic Bar. Remember where it was? That was the best time in my life. Hendrix, Joplin, Moby Grape, CCR, CTA, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, Zeplin, Santana and you know all the rest. I just seem to go into a trance remembering the times.

[bluecheer00]

great sound -- the amazing Johnny C.

[laphant]

nice job getting the drums in there strong...feels good ...dandy vid..

[jaynez31]

Marin county sound!!!

[dinosauriorex1000]

EL ROCK RUCO SUENA CHIDO

[signeseeker17]

Cip was exquisite, and lead all the way. I'll never forget him. No one even remotely akin, except Jeff Beck. Cip, RIP.

[GARYT1956]

John at his best right here. What a GREAT intro.

[deprived1000]

Forever Love......and what a beginning !

[glanada]

The music shaped my soul many years ago. Many years after, no longer a young girl that hasn't tried any weeds nor LSD, sitting in the office and listen to the song, it works, as centuries ago it did.

[LardavSes]

Also definitely hearkens back to the days when album covers were indeed works of art. Beautiful!

[LardavSes]

Thanks for this post! Amazing the way musical memory works! This popped in my head yesterday (basically note for note.) Hadn't heard this in about 40 years. Always loved these guys psych take on Father Bo. Way 2 B there! All Love Always!

[astronomius]

just heard this (the whole cut on Happy Trails) the other day for the first time... a mmmarvellous blend of blues and psychedelic rock... sounds like these guys really knew what they were doing.

tight, no slop

[punxsutawneybarney]

That's Gary Duncan coming in at the last. I always liked the contrast between Cippolina (fingers) and Duncan (heart) in this band.

[Toniolunique]

I Love This Song !!!!!!!! :)

[TheJomogogo]

Thanks for posting this, Happy Trails was the first album I ever bought, 42+ years ago. I still have it, but no turntable to play it on. I saw them do this at the Olympic Auditorium in LA, was on acid at the time and IT WAS FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE. Remember it like it was yesterday.

[leovigilid]

The moment at 7:22 where Gary Duncan flips the switch on his SG from the neck to the bridge pickup is one of my favorites in all of rock history. Don't ask me why, I can't explain it...nobody understood dynamics like Quicksilver.

[noexpectations17]

@leovigilid great call, yes, what a wonderful detail in a sublimely textured piece...after 30 years I still get chills listening...when Quicksilver was in Hawaii recording Just for Love I saw them jam with members of Steve Miller Band at Country Surfboards in Haleiwa...yeah

[mikekorz]

So similar to the dead,

why would my brother listen to this and not the dead, go figure???

[leovigilid]

Only superficially similar, but you had to be there, I guess.

[mikekorz]

Have this disc and no record player, I'd like to see this as a cd...

[PtelMeasOmo]

@ mikekorz... You can see it as a CD. Checked amazon. I think I've had mine now for a couple years. Great album of "San Francisco sound!"

[DrHanuman]

I think I just had a rockgasm.

[MrBluesy91]

great expression man!!

can i use it ??

[DrHanuman]

By all means, sir!

[Lessolinie]

@DrHanuman Two eargasms here

[GARYT1956]

Unfortunatly it takes a time of War like this time for the Creative Energy to Peak. Happy Trails was a hell of a time period in the USA. Bay Area was ROCKING!

[vurshon]

Found some of this stuff in my Dad's record collection - unbelievably good music, streets ahead of today's pedestrian x-factor fodder

[nerblebun]

Wow, a whole room full of us old pot smoking,acid dropping hippies! I also was at Altamont.First thing happened to us is a Hells Angel threw a full beer from the top of their bus and hit one of our ladies in the face.Oh shit,we thought, here we go.He jumped down from the bus and apologized all over himself.The guy was really cool to us. Whew.

[rockinroger69]

Absolutely the best version of this song but where's the rest of it?

[putoncabron]

when i first heard this many centuries ago  i was completely floord, ese! man what great music from those psyschedelic sixties. whis i had been there with tons-o- acid. man what a trip i'd had, ese!

[galcivare]

I saw then in LA. Sports arena. my very first concert. I love it. Ilove it. here is this freaking hippie kid having the greatest time of his life........(1968 or 1969)

my wonders years.......

[4samreno]

So glad that there are people out there that remember what real music is!!! I was at the Fillmore when this was recorded...sitting on one of the huge speakers on the stage...couldn't hear for a week after...life was good & as long as we keep playing the music it will remain!!!

[hendodabest]

Probably the most underated band of all time.Since all the greats have died along the way.Todays music is empty,no soul,no meaning,no life.The music industry has ruined music as we once knew it.

[Robspace1]

Great! I used to watch them nearly every week from 66' on at the Avalon or Fillmore. Great times-very high!

[kawliga55]

haha duke, i was thinkin bout that too, altamont,,,,i was hi-er than a kite there, had a blast, i never knew somebuddy died til the next day on the news....i just remember all the freakin cars on the 580, backed up for miles...

[harstrib]

One bunch of lucky fuckers !!! I was in the Navy avoiding VietNam when the California scene was HUGE. QMS are 2nd to none !!!!

[Behutet93]

I saw them in in San Jose in 1967 when I was 15 at an outdoor concert. They had a flute/sax player. Wonder if there are any bootlegs with that musician around. Saw Big Brother, Ace of Cups, Mad River, Freedom Highway on the same bill. Late 60's were a gas.

[TheKersey1]

7:08-8:48. Beautiful stuff.

[TheKersey1]

1:05-1:17 = masterful

[Baddoggone]

From '66 to when John Cipollina left I went almost every weekend to see them in SF. Gary Duncan & John Cipollina played so great together, one feeding off the other. The band was never the same without the two of them together. They complimented each other.

[dukeoforegon]

Who is the drummer during this era of QSM and is he still around playing. I seen this band at Winterland along with the Sons of Chaplin ,what a great night it was.

[Baddoggone]

•Gary Duncan - guitar, vocals

•John Cipollina - guitar

•David Freiberg - bass, vocals

•Greg Elmore - drums

[dukeoforegon]

I'm out to find this recording tomorrow I can't get enough of it and as I remember the vinyl recording Who Do You Love took up one entire side of the album I did a lot of pycs back then so I could be wrong. Thanks for the info on the drummer it must have been a real chore to keep beat with that great guitar work ....

[Baddoggone]

I still have the original vinyl, bought it the day it came out in 68'. I went to see QMS almost every weekend during the 60's.

[dukeoforegon]

I grew up in Hayward Ca. even though I was only sixteen in 1969 I seen about ten great concerts in S.F. My older brother and his friends corrupted me to pot and the concert scene AND I thank them everyday, I miss those times, the greatest of all times.

[Behutet93]

I grew up in Campbell .Class of 69. First concert at the Old Fillmore I saw was Vanilla Fudge and the Steve Miller Band(Boz Scaggs was in the mix) Scary times remember the Draft? Rock on. Oh yeh 420!

[dukeoforegon]

God I miss that whole era,the music, the people, Hippie chicks.Hell even Altamont was fun for me. Now its been forty years I wonder if they will have a Altamont revival "I really doubt it " !!!!!!!!

[Behutet93]

Wow you went to Altamont? Bet you got the vid of that. Ah yes hippie chicks. I was in awe as a teenager of those lades in their early 20's. Long hair, patchouli oil, gypsy queens in jeans. Now I'm 57 and older women don't look so old and the younger ones keep getting younger.

[Eesgrampa]

Elmore was the most solid drummer, the perfect counterpoint to the rest of the band, and always on time ... totally under rated ... he certainly doesn't miss a beat on tis song ... if you want take a listen to Holy Moly on Shady Grove and dig his beat when the band comes back in at the end of the song .... not a lot of drummers could hit that note so righteously ...

[Gymshoes]

An icon of the era... in every respect; music, art, everything. Back then i only carried three albums around with me and this was one of 'em. Why only 3? Man, they were jus too heavy, dig?

[dontfitinnobox]

oh the memories righton ^5

[oletimerocker]

what might be the meaning of the bands name QMS

[buzzbot]

Four of the five original members were Virgoes - ruled by Mercury. Mercury's other name is Quicksilver. John, David, Gary and Greg were all Virgoes - Jim Murray was a Gemini - Gemini is also ruled by Mercury. Other cool coincidences: John and David had the same birthday August 24. As do Gary and Greg - both born on September 4th. Virgo is signified by the (Greek) messenger god. One of Virgo's key attributes is service = QMS.

[3lullabies]

COOL RESEARCH BUZZ.AWESOME FACTS.

[danolson]

Don't know about who, but I know what I love....THIS.

I feel sorry for Duncan. He had the misfortune of being a very, very good guitarist, playing in a band with a GREAT guitarist. Chip is one of the Titans.

[buzzbot]

You wouldn't say that if you had seen them play live in their quartet period. They were both lead players with totally different but amazingly complementary styles. Many people who weren't there can't tell when they're listening to Duncan or Cip. Cip mistakenly gets credit oftentimes when it's actually Duncan playing. Duncan also shared front man singing duties w/ Freiberg; FYI, he did the singing on Who Do You Love. He had a strong stage presence and chicks would scream like it was the Beatles.

[ArbOLDEAIRe]

come on arlene who do you love¡¡¡??

[Stoned1959]

Who is the end of the song , 8:48. . . .?

[3lullabies]

when you hear this one by george thorougood on the radio,dont you ever think,man qms version was so much better.or,bo diddleys' was way more rockin than lonesome georges.anyway ,this is my fav version of em all.such a groovin album.def one of the top ten of the 60s all time freak list of cool cool music.and also an essential for lightin up a doobie.love peace and hair grease!!!!!

[blandndross]

doobie! haven't heard that in a million years man!

[marinal0c0v]

my father 41 ,told me that he have seen John cipollina in thessaloniki Greece in 90? some weeks before he died!!! all the history of rock when john play...amazing !!!!!!!Quick Silver Messenger Service LEGEND of rock!!!!

[maida1982a]

still brings chills, 40 years later-always will, too.

[katnip9]

Ageless, Timeless, Classic.... 5 S*T*A*R*S*

[sha4096]

I tabbed the intro, you will find it on ultimate guitar, search for the song name. But hey, I thought it was John, not Gary who played the intro. Anyway, great song

[LondonJohn129]

Just to make that clearer... the solo after the first verse is by Gary Duncan.

[LondonJohn129]

The first solo IS by Gary Duncan and it is the better of the two, by far!

[mksonic]

I must have played along with this recording hundreds of times, trying to cop whatever licks I could. It's a wonder I didn't wear a hole in the thing. Duncan's solo is beautiful and the band comps really nicely as well. Great album.

[katnip9]

OMG!

The memories....

~flashback~

[JubileeValence]

...incredible...

yep, speakers out the dorm windows & cranked all the way up was a whole different reality...(Remember the Mercury Head Dimes on his SG!!??)

Thanks so muchfor putting this up!

[Abernis]

sheer bliss!

[muncher64]

F-ing amazing. Too bad John's second solo isn't here.

[Rick000888]

I always thought the long solo after the vocal was Gary?

[haralds7]

A true classic!

Six Parts though, all of them a set in one, really!

Very probably the very best version of all of them (Original by Bo Diddley)

[yippierb]

All Time Favorite. As a kid in Cincinnati the first time Iremember hearing JC's guitar was when my friends sister played us the 45 rpm single of Pride of Man. I was hooked Soon heard the first album but that was nothing compared to this fantastic live album. Surely one of the top live albums of all time. This side of it was / Is! pure magic. I only saw John once in Sept 1983 at the old Saltair Pavillion in Salt Lake City,Utah with the Dinosaurs.

[taniasailor]

Decada de los 70s solo radio capital te ilustraba con su programa de vibraciones de lunes a viernes 9 pm la unica estacion que trasmitia rock y poesia a la vez si alguien recuerda el programa de vibraciones escriban sus comentarios y grupos que pasaban ya que no los recuerdo todos.

[gabinoramirez]

Efectivamente, Vibraciones era un excelente programa de finas de los 60's, hasta fines de los 70's, Grand Funk, Humble Pie, Canneat Heat, Osibisa, Allman Brother, etc. grupos que en ninguna otra estacion se escuchaban (a excepción de Radio Educación).

Nada más un comentario, no era poesía lo que leían, más bien eran pensamientos de la inventiva del conductor que llevaba el programa, que desgraciadamente no recuerdo su nombre.

[fingletoad]

one of the greatest rock songs ever, thank you!!

[ScooterNerd]

Guitar on fire!

[Stoned1959]

GREAT SONG !!!!

[Stoned1959]

GREAT SONG !!!

[Stoned1959]

GREAT SONG!!!

[maida1982a]

Saw Chip twice post Quicksilver; his playing made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. His playing was pristine.

[fjpkkk]

Forty years later on a hill above Forresters Beach after the Morning of the Earth this is musik is still magik

[gnome41]

This is the best version of this song! The intro is pure electric and the rest of the tune is just the finest example of free form jazz I've ever heard! Quicksilver was definitely the best at it, perhaps a little tighter than the Dead Masters of jam nonetheless!

[XMIR10B]

Searh YouTube for: qsstellarlemon love

[SEETER1]

love this song i onley know the single version of 3 min

[drgodburp]

this is fuckin it !!!

[alexx0804alexx]

f*cking osam!

just discovered this band

[NickkciN1966]

IS MY 20 BEST LP OF MY 1.000 VINYL

[kpete007]

I have been looking for this album for a long time. Friday afternoons at Northern Michigan University in the fall on whatever day was warm, it was time to open the windows in Gant Hall and crank the stereo with Who Do You Love and Mona. The women in the song were practically orgasmic and the music was great!

[stratomaster56]

oh wait didnt george thorogood do a cover of this song?

[rdx506]

George Thorogood owes me MONEY!! I shot cover photographs for his first album and Rounder Records never paid me for them!

[hippie3000]

LEGENDARY :)

[hillbillyvol]

We were yingen yangen zissboomb bangen ala astral projection from the acids projection. nes't pas?

[BuddyKatt]

One cannot play this song loud enough. I grew up listening to this on vinyl. Whoever posted this, I bow to you.

[alansham1]

Far-out, man

Far-out, man.!

[musicistheproblem]

damn love the guitar solo at the end. I have to find this record

[maida1982a]

This beats all-it really does. So well played and inventive. One of the first and one of the best jam bands, but this band jammed with a purpose and not just to noodle or show off.

[villedemer]

Great song! one of my favorite in all musics I like. Gracie mile!!!

[seacuc]

San Francisco's best

[dlanodrelda]

What a performance. A band to be reckoned with; Cippolina had the most original and distintive sound - to date - of any electric rock guitarist. Got to see him in a small NYC club in 1980; it was breathtaking.

[Rick000888]

After all these years, and listening to this about 100,000 times, still hearing notes in there that I missed before. This performance has more in common with Benny Goodman and Anita O'Day than it does with Hendrix or the Airplane.

[orses4corses]

Great to hear this again. Happy Trails is a landmark Album.

[musicthewall]

I love quicksilver

[XMIR10B]

Sounded and felt the same (short version)

[XMIR10B]

Anyone seen the kid?

[kboyxx]

Many many hours of hallucinating to the whole Who do you love suite.

RIP QMS right up there with the Dead and Airplane. The BIG 3

K

[katnip9]

I think I need to get all my LPs out of storage and start downloading them. A lot of us that survived the 60-70's era.

[toilettduckk]

A great song from a great album.

[JJCPH]

marvellous-simply the best

[taterdickens]

This is the Quik's at their peak at the Fillmore West prior to Dino Valente joining. Gary Duncan & Cippolina trading licks and Cippolina's amazing "stinging" lead break. Remake of Bo Diddley's classic. "Got a house by the roadside made out of rattlesnake hide". Indeed!

[pjnevada]

Dino Valente organized the group with Cipolina. Valente was not on the first album because he was in prison on a drug charge at the time

[taterdickens]

There is some dispute about that time , but it dosen's matter, this is this the best of the Quik's lineup. And don't forget Gary Duncan, he "drove" this band to their height and left shortly after Dino surfaced. Just my opinion, but I don't think Valente added nothing other than moving them in a more "pop" or hippie direction.

[6749er]

Duncan is why Dino was able to get into the band & Dino drove John David & Nicky away from QMS but Duncan didn't leave, he was with Dino to the end.

QMS for me is this pre-Dino era & I think Valente his ego & act destroyed the Magic & Grat band they were before him.

[6749er]

Dino was part of putting the group toghether but It's a Myth they were waiting for Dino to get out of jail or that anyone but Duncan wanted him in the band when he joined later.

[lethalgirl101]

i love it!!

[flaffyjoe44]

the guitar on this song is wicked!!!!

[rayallenray]

THANKS FOR THE ORIGINAL SONG

[XMIR10B]

Happy Trails has the anthology of this song:

Who do You Love

Where You Love

When You Love

How Do You Love

Which Do You Love

Who Do You Love Part I

The whole thing took up the whole album side (> 17 minutes)

[sithis44]

it is brilliant - one of the best things i've ever heard!

[boo71111]

WEll I have do disagree to a degree. I saw these guys in SF in 69 or 70 in a little club at the Beach. They played Who do you love and they did not mailed it, but nailed it. It was better than the albums verson.. This is still one of my all time favs..

[XMIR10B]

I was just getting into music in 1967. I had choice to make. Bubblegum or QMS/Ten Years After

[amosstoltzfus]

I've seen everyone, phila. elc factory, fillmore, avalon, and love these guys music, pure S.F. rock at its best, but sadly, the biggest disappointment ever in concert. Late 70's, northampton,pa. they mailed it in. Not trying to detract from great music I still play on vinyl, and this is a fine version, just sharing a sad moment from a glorious time. Flashbacks are a joy and a sorrow sometimes. Thanks for the great post. Anyone have anything from Atlantic city pop festival, 1969 ?

[6749er]

When you saw them in the late 70's that was Dino's QMS- Not this one.

No Dino in this band this is Quintessential Quicksilver & Pure SF.

Dino's Trip wasn't

Big difference

The Real QMS this one-Delivered!

Happy Trails

[yungshot14]

randazll his amp. was his guitar his guitar is he

[hillbillyvol]

And let's not forget Tull! Early Pink Floyd and Steppenwolf's Monster.

[hillbillyvol]

QSMS, Savoy Brown, Ten Years After! Old school rock at it's best.

[ando21133]

I agree with Weir4ever (at least for the genre). This version was on a PBS special, probably in the 1970s, and the QMS performances were unforgettable. Wish PBS would make the video available. Maybe if Obama wins, eh?

[ProkofyNeva]

That intro is one of the best intros -- no, THE best intros of all time! I first heard this on WCMF and got the vinyl album when I was 13. Absolutely the best.

[ProkofyNeva]

John Cipollini, one of the greatest white guitar players of all time...

[onsargeld]

one of the greatest GUITAR players of all time...

[jatterhaut]

THe all time original hard rock. Introduced to me in 1968 by the inimitable Gerald Paulk.

[fraf13]

Such an underated band. What a tune!

[710haightashbury]

Is this off Happy Trails

[onsargeld]

yes

[999belladonna]

GREAT !!

[710haightashbury]

My favorite Qsms song

[Faroutdog]

In 1968 I was standing in the front row in front John Cipollina when this was being played. We made eye contact during his 20 min lead break it seemed like he was trying to take me to that place we can only dream of. Yes I was on LSD & every else thought the same thing. Damn it was as close to heaven as I have ever been. God I knew then that I was blessed by the Bishop.

[craghak]

OMG, this is great!!!

[ArnolddeWijs]

Thanks for posting, awesome!!!

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!

[Jenscool]

Bummer, the way it ended! But good on the first 8:47!

[WEIR4EVER]

This is one of the best pieces of music ever played... Sure in my all time top five. Not to date myself or anything!

[WEIR4EVER]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees !!!!! Easy... I love you who posted this ; )