Thx for the accolade, but it's not actually my birthday... I was rather deep in the single malt when I laid down those data back in the day!
I absolutely agree on QMS. During my days as neo-hippy pot/beerhead student at university (say 1991-94), the QMS debut album was my most cherished possession. I love Trails and Cancer Moon as well, I think Grove is far better than its rep (although Duncan is missed), and I even think there are some real goodies on both Just and What About. There have been some very good boots released officially these last few years as well. As for Cippo, he was the reason why I bought my Gibson SG back in the days, and this was before I discovered that Manuel Göttsching, Barry Melton, Glenn Phillips (all fave axemen of mine) and others also played the thing. Of course I knew that Zappa, Tony Iommi and Leigh Stephens did.
Man, there were loads of great bands coming out of S.F. during that tenure (1966-70) - and I'm really glad I've collected most of it, from the lost goodies (Tripsichord, Kak) to the rather dubious ones (Savage Resurrection et al.).
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