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What
About Me?
(Released 1970)
Quicksilver Messenger Service
You poisoned my sweet water.
You cut down my green trees.
The food you fed my children
Was the cause of their disease.
My world is slowly fallin' down
And the airs not good to breathe.
And those of us who care enough,
We have to do something.......
(Chorus)
Oh.......oh What you gonna do about me?
Oh.......oh What you gonna do about me?
Your newspapers,
They just put you on.
They never tell you
The whole story.
They just put your
Young ideas down.
I was wonderin' could this be the end
Of your pride and glory?
(Chorus)
I work in your factory.
I study in your schools.
I fill your penitentiaries.
And your military too!
And I feel the future trembling,
As the word is passed around.
"If you stand up for what you do believe,
Be prepared to be shot down."
(Chorus)
And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live like an outlaw.
An' I'm always on the run..........................
An I’m always getting’ busted
And I got to take a stand........
I believe the revolution
Must be mighty close at hand.......................
(Chorus)
I smoke marijuana
But I can’t get behind your wars.
And most of what I do believe
Is against most of your laws
I'm a fugitive from injustice
But I'm goin' to be free.
Cause your rules and regulations
They don’t do the thing for me
(Chorus)
And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live just like an outlaw.
An' I'm always on the run..........................
And
though you may be stronger now
My time will come around
You keep adding to my numbers
As you shoot my people down
(Chorus)
I Won’t go
What about me Now.
I ain’t lookin’ for no trouble
Peace
LionHeart
February 2006
Quicksilver
Messenger Service
Quicksilver
Website
Quicksilver Messenger Service was one of the best bands to emerge from
the Sixties Haight Ashbury - San Francisco scene. They loaded up their
from-the-heart songs with free-form jamming; in gigs at classic venues
like the Fillmore and Avalon, they stretched out and improvised, pushing
their music in unpredictable directions. Tougher than the Dead, looser
than the Airplane, but never managing to achieve the popularity of either;
they faded away after 1975. Maybe they just weren't ambitious enough;
in the words of guitarist Gary Duncan, "We had no ambition toward
making records, we just wanted to have fun play some music, and make
enough money to be able to afford to smoke pot". Sadly, today Quicksilver
is too often overlooked as an essential classic rock experience.
They made hippie music, simple straight forward lyrics, mostly love
songs and some social commentary thrown in (from the freak point of
view). QMS from Solid Silver Musically loose, plenty of rough edges,
rarely over-produced, no slick singer, just a tough dual guitar attack
always looking for a little open space to stretch it out as far as they
could go. Their personnel sometimes changed based on who was busted
on the latest pot possession rap. But the two guitar attack of John
Cipollina and Gary Duncan was generally a constant. With the charismatic
folk rocker Dino Valente out front, the band had its most recognizable
singles "Fresh Air" and "What About Me". However
there is much to enjoy in all the bands phases from the heavy jamming
of the first albums, through the hits of the Valente folk pop period
(spiced up by Nicky Hopkins then Michael Lewis keyboards) and finally
sweet cowboyish love songs like "Gypsy Lights" and "Don't
Cry My Lady Love"
Quicksilver - Sweetwater 1997 Duncan, Freiberg and Lewis stretched Quicksilver
into the Eighties with the the lost classic "Peace by Piece"
where the band experimented with rap music and synthesized drums. Today,
Gary Duncan's powerful Shape-Shifting Quicksilver pushes the live sound
full circle, with long explorations of rock, jazz, pop and blues - touching
back to the endless jams of the sixties at the Avalon and Fillmore.
For
listen samples and reviews, click on CD cover photo. In new window,
click on CD photo again and scroll down.
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Messenger Service (1968)
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