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What About Me (Quicksilver Messenger Service album)

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Released
  
December 1970

Length
  
45:09

What About Me (1970)
  
Quicksilver (1971)

Label
  
Capitol Records

Recorded
  
May – June 1970

Producer
  
John Palladino

Release date
  
December 1970

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Artist
  
Quicksilver Messenger Service

Genres
  
Psychedelic rock, Acid rock

Similar
  
Quicksilver Messenger Service albums, Psychedelic rock albums

What About Me is the fifth album by American psychedelic rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. Released in December 1970 and recorded partly at the same sessions that produced Just for Love, the album is the last to feature pianist Nicky Hopkins and the last pre-reunion effort to feature founding members David Freiberg and John Cipollina.

Contents

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Lindsay Planer wrote of the album "Musically, there is little to delineate the fifth long-player from Quicksilver Messenger Service, What About Me, from their previous effort, Just for Love. Not surprisingly, material for both was initiated during a prolific two-month retreat..."

Side One

  1. "What About Me" (Jesse Oris Farrow) – 6:43
  2. "Local Color" (John Cipollina) – 3:00
  3. "Baby Baby" (Farrow) – 4:44
  4. "Won't Kill Me" (David Freiberg) – 2:32
  5. "Long Haired Lady" (Farrow) – 5:55

Side Two

  1. "Subway" (Gary Duncan, Farrow) – 4:29
  2. "Spindrifter" (Nicky Hopkins) – 4:38
  3. "Good Old Rock and Roll" (Farrow) – 2:30
  4. "All in My Mind" (Duncan, Farrow) – 3:48
  5. "Call on Me" (Farrow) – 7:36

Personnel

  • Dino Valenti – lead vocals (except on "Won't Kill Me"), guitar, percussion
  • Gary Duncan – guitar, backing vocals, bass, percussion, organ
  • John Cipollina – guitar, percussion
  • David Freiberg – bass, backing vocals, lead vocal on "Won't Kill Me", guitar
  • Greg Elmore – drums, percussion
  • Nicky Hopkins – piano (except on "What About Me", "Baby Baby", "Subway", and "Call on Me")
  • Mark Naftalin - piano on "What About Me", "Baby Baby", and "Call on Me"
    • Additional musicians on "What About Me" and "Call on Me"
  • Martin Fierro - tenor and alto saxes, flute
  • Frank Morin - tenor sax
  • Pat O'Hara - trombone
  • Jose Rico Reyes - conga, percussion, backing vocals
  • Ron Taormina - baritone and soprano saxes

    • Charts

    Album

    Songs

    1What About Me6:45
    2Local Color3:04
    3Baby Baby4:48

    References

    What About Me (Quicksilver Messenger Service album) Wikipedia
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