It's back to San Francisco for more of the good stuff. Quicksilver Messenger Service is another band whose catalogue I don't know beyond one album. The band had an everchanging lineup and from what I gather, no two albums are really alike. "Happy Trails," the band's second album, was recorded live in 1969 and is said to give a good taste of what a live set of SF psych was. As with all such reco...
Rick Griffin was the King. Like Mouse, he came from the surf community and drawing cartoons for Surfer magazine. He'd also spent time in the hot-rod community, reworking pinstriper Von Dutch's all-seeing eye to monumental effect in his most famous poster. Sadly, he was killed in a motorcycle accident.You can see a full run of Fillmore and Avalon posters "here" and "here".Griffin was deeply Chri...
If MOG introduces a subscription model, I'll be extremely interested. Been using such services for what seems like forever, usually Rhapsody but I've also tried whatever that Windows service was they had for awhile, and before that there was MusicMatch. Right now I'm into Zune Pass ... I don't have a Zune, but their interface is so much better than Rhapsody's. I'm not excited about a browser-ba...
It's back to San Francisco for more of the good stuff. Quicksilver Messenger Service is another band whose catalogue I don't know beyond one album. The band had an everchanging lineup and from what I gather, no two albums are really alike. "Happy Trails," the band's second album, was recorded live in 1969 and is said to give a good taste of what a live set of SF psych was. As with all such reco...