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Here just to illustrate a point is a picture of Cipollina’s Amps and outboard, with his custom built Gibson SG and Bigsby Tremolo arm. When I put this on, having not listened to it for probably 20 years, it refreshed my senses like a slap in the face with a cold mountain. It is quite possible that were a young man or woman of today’s restricted palate to taste the vinyl blotting papaer of this particular ‘trip’ they would have their musical minds well and truly blown. This is therefore a kind of music you will probably (unless there is a ground swell of protest over the computer generated ‘In the box’ construction of pop music) never hear again.

The tremello’ed Guitar work of John Cipollina is a mighty thing to behold too and though like all noodler bands, where the moment is king and you never know what will happen next, you will exchange moments of mud laden playing with it’s missed notes and stumbling coherence for the shining brilliance of the here and now and playing that,… well… will never be played quite the same way again, for it is LIVE. You just have to admire any band with the testicles large enough to put 25 minutes of one track on side A of an Lp. Bursting into the tune, working into and through a sometimes muddy, but never boring Jam session and bursting back out into the sunlight of the song again for a reprise. I picked this one up in an Oxfam while on my travels just the other day and it reminded me about just why I loved Acid Rock for so long and why in the past I collected Lps like this avidly.įor a start it has a 25 minute long tune ‘Who Do You Love’, the old Bo Diddley number, and variations thereof on side A, in which the band meanders through just about everything you can do sonically with an electric guitar.

Happy Trails ~ Some of the best cover art of all time?

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