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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 |
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For example one reviewer here says 'Better than anything the Grateful Dead ever did'. Such a comment would have any self-respecting old hippie tutting and shaking their heads. It’s nothing like the ‘Dead, it’s nothing like Cream. Believe it or not it actually has it’s own identity. To the reviewer who criticized the lyrical content. Please do your homework, they were written largely by Bo Diddley. Go accuse him of being lowbrow – see what response you get!
OK, so this album is clearly dividing opinion and maybe I'm not the best person to sum it up because I love it so but I felt the need to defend it from some of the attacks it has received here. About the audience participation: anyone who knows what it was actually like to be there, somewhere on the west coast, in the arena during one of those 'acid rock' gigs (hardly anybody called it that in those days) knows that audience participation was both such a new and an unusual thing that the musicians and the audience were learning as they went along. The most famous example I suppose being the ‘rain chant’ at Woodstock. Happy Trails contains one such segment that some reviewers seem to find objectionable. Why? What would you have done if you were there, NOT join in? I bet you would have ;-) It’s all about the time and the place. It's also one of my favourite parts of Happy Trails, building up the tension, finally exploding into a thoroughly expected but nonetheless satisfying guitar ambush. What’s not to love about that? Oh, I forgot it’s ‘one long yawn’ (another reviewer).
Damning with faint praise is one thing but putting something down because you don’t ‘get it’ just shows the ignorance of the observer. It really ill behooves anyone who doesn't understand the contemporary influences and surroundings of a recording, to pass such negative comment on something that was as carefully and lovingly crafted as this album. Remember the old saying about the sixties: ‘If you can remember it you weren’t there maan’. I'd like to add to that: If you think you know what you’re talking about, you probably don’t. That might apply to me too but this album is in my all time top ten. And no I didn't need drugs to like it! (although they might not have hurt...)
Cheer up folks and go with the flow.
Great Album with some stunning music if you like 1969 california music this album is for you not much more to say except i think it is brilliant
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