What About Me

Performer: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Artist: Nicky Hopkins
Distributor: Caroline Distribution

Notes: Quicksilver Messenger Service: Gary Duncan (vocals, guitar, bass, organ, percussion); David Freiberg (vocals, guitar, bass); Dino Valenti (vocals, guitar, percussion); John Cipollina (guitar, percussion); Greg Elmore (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Jose Rico Reyes (vocals, conga, percussion); Mark Naftalin, Nicky Hopkins (piano). Quicksilver Messenger Service: Jose Rico Reyes (vocals, percussion); David Friedberg (guitar, bass guitar); Gary Duncan (guitars, bass guitar); Dino Valenti, John Cipollina (guitars, percussion); Mark Naftlain, Nicky Hopkins (piano); Greg Elmore (drums, percussion). Quicksilver Messenger Service began as Grateful Dead-like psychedelic warriors full of improvisational bravado. By the time of WHAT ABOUT ME, they had become a much more song-oriented outfit, fronted by Dino Valente, who crooned the title tune's semi-protest message (which garnered the band a healthy amount of airplay) along with tracks that mixed psychedelic rock, folk, blues, and jazz influences. This would be founding guitarist John Cippolina's last album of the band's initial run, marking the end of an era.

Along with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service were one of the first and best of the San Francisco '60s psychedelic bands. Though they shared with their peers an improvisational bent and eclectic roots in blues, jazz, folk, and rock, what helped set them apart was the distinctive twin-guitar work of John Cipollina and Gary Duncan, two virtuosic players. When New York singer-songwriter Dino Valenti became their frontman, their sound became more accessible and they scored a couple of minor hits before disbanding in the mid-'70s.

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