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  • This song seems so relevent to today's events because it isn't a song about events, it's a song about the human condition, and that hasn't changed much.

  • @23moksha go and listen to the Miphon version of What About Me and see what its really about !! ENJOY!!

  • @Bianchi541 I wasn't able to find Miphon, but the great thing about music or poetry is the fact that there can be many ways to interpret and understand it, and each one is true and correct.

  • only one thing, the album is not who do you love, it's from the album what about me

  • this song still is relevant today

  • Thank you...thank you from the bottom of my heart for posting this song. It has run through my mind at least once a day since 1971.

  • Dino Valente shows his stuff, while 6749 bathes with Nixon and the Young Republicans! 

  • Actually this song is from the What About Me album, from 1970. Cipollina, Freiberg and Hopkins are also on it, along with Valenti and the group's real engine, Gary Duncan.

  • @JKT3953 I have the "Who Do You Love" album, that's where I got this version. copyright 1969 Thanks for listening and commenting!

  • "What About Me" was originally released on the album of the same name in 1970.

    There is a collection of Quicksilver songs on an import album called "Who Do You Love" that was released in 2003.

    The song, "What About Me" was included on this album.

  • @lorendad "What About Me" was originally released on the album of the same name in 1970.

    There is a collection of Quicksilver songs on an import album called "Who Do You Love" that was released in 2003.

    The song, "What About Me" was included on this album.

  • @JKT3953 .....TO THE LAST THREE COMMENTING..... I TOO STILL HAVE THE LP, ALONG WITH MY SPOOKY TOOTH AND LED ZEPPLIN. THIS ABOUT THE LATE 60'S /EARLY 70'S......IT'S STILL THE BEST TIMES IN ROCK FOR ME. KENT STATE MAKES ME THINK OF CROSBY, NASH & YOUNG. THE WORST OF IT ALL ......WE HAVE LEARNED NOTHING AS FAR AS HOW THE FIGHT THESE FUCKING CORRUPT GOVERNMENT AND THEIR CONTROL GROWS MORE 7 MORE. THE PATRIOT ACT JUST MADE THINGS WORST FOR AMERICANS WITH EVEN MORE CONTROL ON AMERICANS, FUCKING BUSH!

  • @JKT3953 .....TO THE LAST THREE COMMENTING..... I TOO STILL HAVE THE LP, ALONG WITH MY SPOOKY TOOTH AND LED ZEPPLIN. THIS ABOUT THE LATE 60'S /EARLY 70'S....IT'S STILL THE BEST TIMES IN ROCK FOR ME. KENT STATE MAKES ME THINK OF CROSBY, NASH & YOUNG. THE WORST OF IT ALL ......WE HAVE LEARNED NOTHING AS FAR AS HOW THE FIGHT THESE FUCKING CORRUPT GOVERNMENT AND THEIR CONTROL GROWS MORE 7 MORE. THE PATRIOT ACT JUST MADE THINGS WORST FOR AMERICANS WITH EVEN MORE CONTROL ON AMERICANS, FUCKING BUSH!!

  • SEEMS WE LEARNED NOTHING ABOUT VIET NAM WAR. KILLED MOST OF THE ROCKIN SOULS. EVEN NOW, AMERICANS WERE PRO-WAR IN AFGANASTAN AND THEY HAD TO LEARN THE HARD WAY. IT WAS JUST ANOTHER POLITICAN WAR....AMERICANS LOST BIG TIME. YESTERDAY WAS VETERANS DAY AND TOO BAD WE DON'T TALK ABOUT ALL THE PTS OF THE MAJORITY OF MEN. OUR THE HERO DOGS THEY KILLED AND DIDN'T ALLOW TO COME BACK TO THE STATES. OUR GOVERNMENT IS A GREED GAME FOR THE WEALTHY IN CONTROL.....THE INDUSTRY OF KILLING MACHINES. WAR GAMES!

  • @JKT3953 From Wikipedia.... "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..."[1]"

  • The fact that this song still applies to todays world is scary.

  • Maybe we had some better songs but the generations rising are all heart; you're the heroes now, and you have all my love & respect.

  • He just can't do no wrong!

  • I knew them when I was 14 years old. wow-they have done so much better than I thought they would. Congrats guys.

  • check john's other groups esp Dinosuars

  • I believe the revolution must be mighty close at hand

  • @23moksha we can only hope

  • the 10 people who did not like this song prohably listens to rap.

  • What we gonna do about the 10 dislikes?

  • @fatheroflatus Just send them love,they´re only sad conditioned idiots fast asleep.This song opened my eyes in 1974,I´m 62 now and still play it regularly as a reminder of what i see today.Chem trails in the sky,genetically modified food,forests cut down,you name it.Anyway,great band and a feckin GREAT song.Check out ANONYMOUS and wikileaks if you have´nt already,i think the dislikes will dislike this as well,haha

  • ...and most of what I do believe is against most of your laws...but,,,but I am going to be free because most of your rules and regulations - don't do a thing for me...I feel like a stranger in the land which I was born and I live just like an outlaw,,I am always on the run,,,,,,watcha gonna do about me???-W

  • There is alot of wisdom in this song

  • Lyrics still ring true!!!

  • MAN I LOVE THIS SONG. PEOPLE STOP KILLING MOTHER EARTH

  • I ask you......

    What would be the outcome if humans pulled 'toke's' instead of triggers? Trigger's or Toke's.... you don't have to pull either one... I LOVE YOU!!!

    PEACE ALL.... please...  PEACE......

  • Thanks! Saw QSM in 1970 at the Filmore West. You mentioned The Youngbloods. I hosted Jesse Colin Young at my club in the early 90's. Still had it.

  • Have to say this is not from the "Who Do you Love?" album, this is from "What About Me?", a later album..........

  • What about those baby boomers now? Jobs, Social Security Cuts, etc...?

  • What a great song!! One of my all time favourites...

  • takes me back. great tune. and a prophecy come partly true: 'they' did indeed poison our sweet waters (as well as our salt waters) and all the other stuff. Unfortunately the revolution turned out not to be so close at hand. bummer.

  • Like This :) QC

  • me me me me QC C

  • this brings back memories of my philly girl who loved this song and me, i loved her back...shipped out to Korea and i broke her heart...i got lost in the world, will always hold her special and never forgive myself for hurting her...hope she has had a good life, we did love pretty good when we were together...Dar was great...

  • wow.. the visuals fit the music perfectly! thank you for the upload... this is really one of the great songs of the 60s

  • this is a great song that still makes me sad today as back then... and angry at dare i say...the establishment.. not expecting a peaceful revolution, unforrtunately without some divine intervention.

  • "I smoke marijuana, but I can't get behind your wars. And most of what I do believe is against most of your laws." Happy 4/20!!!!

  • Jim, I remember Kent State... what happened there should be taught in schools. "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, we're finally on our own".

  • @lorendad What lesson should be learned from May 4, 1970 at Kent State? Too bad Neil young does not sing about all the events leading up to that unfortunate day. As usual he blames the government and the establishment, but yet he dwells and prospers in it.

  • @lorendad this summer i hear the drummin. Four dead in ohio. hell yeah. im currently a freshman in highschoool and veitnam, woodstock, the chicago seven etc fit nowhere into our curriculum.they teach the America they want us to believe in and it makes me sick.

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  • @lorendad crosby said neil young wrote that song in ten minutes [4 students were killed 7 national gaurdsman indieted none convicted only one family of the victims recieved money on appeal ] i have a friend who was a student at kent state at the time .

  • @lorendad 4 students were killed 8 national gaurdsman indicted none convicted only one family recieved money compensation on appeal chrissie hynde was a student there then so was my friend we had a morattorium at my college

  • WHat you gonna do about me--if you get bored, go make a stand-in ohio?

  • Used to own the album, when they were actually called albums. I saw them in concert during the mid-seventies. Great concert and band. Thanks for posting it.

  • jcs4bama, thanks for info. I seem to find these songs by accident. I'm always willing to discover gems like this one.

  • aimeemannfan2010. try 10 years after, pacific gas and electric, janis joplin, hendrix, or go to google and look look up somgs for the particular era u want. You will be surprised what you can find!!!

  • 40 years later and this song has more relevance now than when it actually came out .....wow.....i guess we haven't learned much since that time.......

    Great song!!!.......great band..........

  • Rugodot, I'm a little confused. Are you referring to a comment I made? Or, the song by QSM?

  • I'll check them out. Thanks.

  • Aimeemannfan..George's All Things Must Pass!!!!... T.Rex...Procol Harum...Captain Beyond....Chocolate Watch Band......Seeds.....Neil Young & Crazy Horse....these r artists r overlooked..there r so many great tunes so little time...the internet is like a big giant candy store where the best tunes can come & play...it just so happens much of the best reside in the 60's/early70's.

  • "a fugitive from injustice" I always thought that was a clever line. GREAT TUNE!

  • Askysbottom, you have turned me on to Spirt and QMS. Which, I have to say are two great bands. Can you recommend anyone else? I'm a huge Beatles fan. But, I guess who

    Isn't. I have a story about QMS. In the early 80's I worked as a doorman/bouncer at a local downtown bar. The manager insisted that we play, "what about me" at least once a night. I asked him why and he said it brought back many fond memories of a girl he once knew. The power of music. It never ceases to amaze me. Thanks.

  • Aimeemannfan....totally ok...I'm from the 60's & it is still my fav...the 80's r my 2nd fav....keep flashing back.

  • I forgot to thank you for the info on QSM.

  • Askysbottom, are you serious about the youth comment? I apologize. It Is not my intention to piss anybody off. I happen to like the music from the 60's. Unfortunately, it wasen't my era.

  • good stuff..........

  • Aimee fan...quit making us jealous w/the youth thing.....Quicksilver a San Francisco product at the height of hippies & light shows. Their years of perfection were 1968-1971...similar years to Spirit. The talent was John Cippolina/ Gary Duncan/ Dino Valenti/ David Frieberg/ Greg Elmore....Definitely another underrated band. Happy Trails & keep finding those 60's music gems.

  • What a great song. Very powerful lyrics. What's the story on this group. I'm to young to remember. Thanks for the post.

  • this has deep meaning

  • I remember hearing this in the 70s and thinking, WOW,what a song,would hear it on the buzzard,WMMS,great times,17 and searching and angry

  • heavy....really heavy

  • Powerful song. Great lyrics. This song is from the 60's but, the message could be applied to our current situation. Thanks for posting.

  • i oearned about this album when i was 13 yrs old im 56 now Happy Trails To you

  • I lived it. San Francisco days and nights.

  • i remember this when i was toung in the 70's great stuff, i wish they made music like this now,..

  • There's still a lot around if you look for it. Jorma's playing, Mavis Staples, Seva benefit, One From the Vault (Rez Foundation), Phil's 70th birthday, Richard Thompson, David Nelson's band, Mickey Hart at the Fillmore, Kreutzman's band at the Independent - more but I'm old now and my memory isn't very good:)

  • Thanks for the post have been looking for this tune for years!!OUTSTANDING!!!

    Cheers!!!

  • You are welcome! Search for the Youngbloods, you may also like some of their songs. Peace now...

  • Dig this groovy song.

  • soo true

  • Back when music was good... And meant something.

    This still applies.

  • @jmar1371 We thought we could change the world for the better. But the evil ones we did not care about were working to make their evil more powerful. The result is today.

  • just read your comment under qsm "me" . you nailed in 3 sentences what ive been trying to express to myself , children, friends, and even the "fvil ones" . my eyes welled with tears at the unfortunate truth of your statement, but also pride in that they were naver able to"do about me" . we just got to keep movin on and put the love out there to be shared with and energize otherd for generations behind us . thank you joe b.

  • jimmatera- This is not the same 'me' that the children today are always crying. Listen to what they are saying, not what you hear. it was about ALL of us then. We were one. A concept that the youth of today does not have.

  • What I'm wondering is, where can I get the source video of this. Can anyone tell me?

  • I bought the album, put the music n the visual together with my iBook n a video camera.

  • I figured that out, but where did you get the visual?

  • It's either the visualizer from iTunes or windows xp music player. I set the movie camera up at the screen. I did the same thing with a couple other of my videos. Check out Debra Allen vids.

  • There"s no Video unless in some dark room somewhere but i did see them in 1972 along with = The Chamber Brother and = The Turtles for $6.50 . And Trust me under some Orange Sunshine Acid it was one of the best concert i ever been. The crowd was blown away and were able to con the band into playing two more extra songs at the end.

  • 1:40 to 2 mins suchh a groove..damn man fuck it this whole songs good lol

  • Thank you so much! This song is an experience to a long ago era I was part of. I had to add it to my Channel. Thanks again.

  • I was born in 1964,But i feel like i lived thru the sixites as a teenager.Music is so bland today.........love qms!

  • 1956 and i wish i was born in 1945 that way i would had enjoy the complete 1960s and 1970s .

  • Bland is just another word for "Dogshit rap,crap. I was popped in 1955 and remember digging Quicksilver back in the days of the "Old West".

  • don,t we all cry-what about me!!!!

  • It is more about the people to stand up and question authority... was true back in the sixties as it is now.

  • I agree with 6749er 2 clicks down. . . . totally right on the mark. I had a friend who know Cippolina really well. . .he got royally screwed by Valenti.

    Ruined Quicksilver--one of the greatest bands of that era.

  • ...I work in your factories...I study in your schools...I fill your penatentiaries...and your military too....and I feel the futrure trembling...as the word is passed around....

  • Saw a list of worst trades in SF team history.There has been some bad ones like Orlando Cepeda for Ray Sadeki

    but #1 on the list was Quicksilver Messenger Service trading

    John Cipollina, David Friberg &, Nicky Hopkins for Dino Valente,

    I agree!

  • ATWA Forever

  • We saw what was coming and yet still see a beautiful world to be. Never give up yet we must surrender to Love. :)

  • saw them in asbury park sunshine inn in1972 with black sabbith and cactus

  • Fantastic

  • BabyBoomers had the best music, it's not fair...the bands these days suck ass. eff green day

  • one has to dig deep to find good new music, but it's out there.

  • @maggiescanyon Guilty as charged! It was worth it! Long-term Bay Area Hippie.

  • i saw them in 1972 at the Miami Jai Alai hall on 4 way sunshine along with the Chambers Brothers and ..The Turtles for $ 6.50 thats right six dollars and fifty cent the acid hit cost me $ 5.00 but the memories are priceless . hi Dick Finnegan and Donald and my Honda 350 SL brand new in 1972 what a hell of a summer that was school was out so Alice Cooper was also playing in the same hall so was Black Sabbath

  • i was 16 and with bike to travel from party house to party house oh and concerts did i forgot Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes haha  to my friends who are still alive you know who is this i miss forever Jeffrey Grimes hello Karen sorry about jeff my best friend.

  • When I was buying acid in the late 80's it was usually $5 a hit (not 4X, though). Likely not nearly as good as your's. Do you mean that it was actually Owsley's Sunshine?

  • 5 bucks a hit? ouch!

    :)

  • 5.00 bucks for acid,ouch.but i still would have been there.

  • Hey, didn't expect to see you here, sir! Just LOVE your magic tricks. :)

    Anyway, I'm glad I was shown this song; My friend Hazama Yakiba guided me here, telling me that this song reminded him of me. Hearing it, I am very, very flattered.

    Thank you for the upload, and Zendish; I feel I've neglected to watch your videos lately, and I feel kinda bad. I hope you've got new card tricks up! ^_^

  • LOL< we paid a buck for WIndow Panes, Orange Sunshine, etc. Damn, how did I live thru it!

  • man i'm lucky if i can find it anymore

  • this is an example of what music should be.what emotion not about the money but the love of music and people

  • The reason groups like this were so unique and great was they had jazz, folk, classical, early rock n roll and blues background influences. What hope is there for young musicians today to be innovative when there influences are Blink 182 and Nickleback. It's sick. As a musician myself I'm so glad I have so many great bands to influence my playing like QMS. Check out the "Love is the Song We Sing" box set. It's amazing how many fantastic bands came out of San Fran.

  • Led Zepellin was on Palladia Monday night. Movie "The Song Remains the same". Robert Plat, Jimmy Paige, John Bonham... talk about a trip back in time. You're right, very few of these wannabes these days can "make your own music".

  • BVGGB GGNXFNNGNXNXN

  • This is a GREAT SONG The words says it all, I seen them in concert, it brings back suck good memories.

  • reminds me of the show at SDSU in the basketball areana in 69 what a show

  • I tell my children and grandchildren that this is a classic example of "Hippie Music". Beautiful...goosebumps. Remember to love each other

  • 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

  • Lorendad know what you mean."Hey you Long Haired Queer".I was still fresh from the reservation.I'd turn around and say"You ever get the shit beat out of you by a longhaired queer?So much for Peace and Love lol,

  • lorendad...I went to high school in one of the most racist places in the swamps of Louisiana.I played drums in a band called Fresh Garbage with 4 white boys.With our music we started a revolution in one of the most unlikely places.I went to college in New Orleans in 1969.Full of Hippies with long hair,beads,smoking loco weed and peyote..Just like Me.

  • I'm glad you survived! Even as a white boy with long hair I had to run and hide more than once to keep from getting my butt beat. Dam rednecks...lol.

  • Respect, mate.

  • This was one of my inspirational songs in high school.....went from super jock to super revolutionary lol.I played drums in a band called "Fresh Garbage" down in the bayous of south louisiana.

  • Those were the days!!!

  • the moody blues style harmonies on the chorus are gorgeous. i would be the first to admit that i like earlier quicksilver a bit better though.

  • what are we watching? This looks a lot like a video feedback effect I used in the early '80's, only a bit different! Can anybody answer? I simply aimed a VHS camera at my TV while wired up to see what I was recording and got all these fantasticly psychedelic images! I wonder if this is the digital version of the same effect principal?

  • I used my HP laptop for this effect. I believe they call it a "skin" effect in the Windoz OS. Not as clear and free flowing as the effects on my Debra Allen's "Delta Dreamland Video" that I made on my iBook and used the "visualizer in iTunes".

  • One of the all time great songs!!!

  • This song was made long ago, but the words are still on time with our time.. as you know.. what are you doing to do about ME.

  • "never tell you whole story?" yea it's right. They snooped and violated our constitutional rights, operating secret prisons, violating Geneva convention treaty, and so on under name of the protecting nation from a terror attack?

  • Thing is... this song was written forty years ago!

  • @lorendad This corrupt crap, it doesn't change....

  • Holy smokes, I had almost forgotten about this band! I loved this song way back when. Great music, and don't you know it - the lyrics are still relevant. Must go find a CD...

  • It seems like you can only get the truth from mystic poets and comedians . Only very rarely are they inclined to be politicians , and never from the corporate world of greed . Glad to know there are so many free thinkers still keeping watch . Our networking is a great strength .

  • i believe this was on their 1970 album "What About Me", not on the "Happy Trails" live album (which is what i think you meant by "Who Do You Love album"). although both albums are indeed pretty awesome.

    is this not right? i don't know much about the band so someone please tell me if i'm wrong...

  • This song is on the 1970 "Who do you love" album. And you are correct: this was an awesome band.

  • There aren't many of us left from this era!

    Too bad for some of the neanderthal remarks. (Profanity)

  • We're still here. Reaching across the years to embrace modern psychedelic music (Meat Beat Manifesto, Negativland, Noble Gas) to ancient tribal musicians, classical musicians like Messiaen, and jazz like Weather Report.

  • I forgot how much I loved this song when it was on the radio.

    :)

  • the radio played this fantastic classic song while i was riding my hog today in california. my heartrate went up and so did my speed. when i arrived home i immediately went on line searching and that's how i arrived here today friends. bad ass mother fucking band! peace out!

  • I hear ya... nothing like the wind in your face and good music in ones ears. Going to do some riding here in Florida tomorrow. Peace on you too!

  • I went to the 40th anniversary of the Summer Of Love at Monterey july 2007. And one of the main reasons was some of the members of QSMS were going to perform there right where they did 40 years earlier. I'm not familiar with all the names of the band members but I do know David Freiberg was one of the dudes on stage that great day. I took a picture of him and one of the other guitar players. They jammed! PEACE!

  • Great stuff . Beauty keeps the heart open for truth . That is the artist job, always . It separates art from propaganda .

  • Well said...

  • Truly prophetic

    Today, 02-26-09, he has truly won

    The inmates now run the asylum

  • I'm with you Delta

    Tou Che

  • this is one of the timeless songs. in league with marvin gaye's what's going on album, and gil scott-heron's the revolution will not be televised. the truth transcends generations.

  • Delat... saw your post 10 hrs ago and thought I'd respond.. Yes life is fleeting and no matter what words are used to convey that to the young, it cannot be realized until it has sped past you (I'm 60). This has always been one of my favorites. I was in S.F. 65-68, & I heard ALL the bands that played Filmore. I wonder why this song hasn't been picked-up now by the young as the lyrics still hold true today as they did then..and even more!!! Be Well In Life and enjoy every minute of it.. :)

  • Still get the chills when I hear this and fresh air. I am 58 and I never stop listening and getting lost in the memories these songs bring back to me. Wow did life fly by so quick.

  • classic god bless

  • Amen brother!

  • i loved quicksilver the first time i heard them in the summer of love, just turning 18 and ready to take on the world. what a melancholic feeling this song brings to mind whenever hearing it. very underrated band. thank God for youtube

  • qe buena banda

    temasoo!!

  • Great song ,way ahead of its time,looks like were finally listening,lets hope we get it right

  • I'm afraid fear and ignorance have taken over the collective consciencess. If the fight is taken to the streets again the NWO army will be there to greet us. Be ready for the challenge. The Flag may still fly at the post office but this isn't America anymore

  • Great, great song!

  • Hey there,  I still have this album...and think we have sooo many changes coming very soon...yay!

  • I am appalled . . . the words of this song ring as true today as they did all those years ago - and nothing's been done.

    For a similar sentiment, listen to Gil Scott Heron's B Movie (the 9-plus minute version) here on U-Tube.

    Thanks for a great posting!

  • This is not true Things are being done It though is today just as it was then Those who do something those who do care are so far and in between that we find ourselves fighting alone Preparing for the witch trials It appears my generation just as all the ones before us fell for the lie They fell for the hope of the mighty dollar their greed has overcome them It appears my dollar is worth as much as there plastic Absolutely nothing

  • What?!

  • Have another hit... of..... "Fresh Air"

  • The kids need to hear this song as the words still stand.

  • Now more than ever......just 40 yrs later.....What u gonna do about me!

  • I know what they are to doing about me. What are they doing about you? Are you prepared to be shot down? Are you a fugitive from injustice?

  • I love this song so much . It floats through the air like a cloud of holy , healing gas from mother nature . Thank you Quicksilver ; I've been loving your song since it came out . The Marine's have their battle hymn and I have mind , What about that !

  • Hey klauss,I know what you mean.Check out "leaf and stream" by wishbone ash, your'e probably already familiar with "nature's way" by spirit and "everybody's talkin' at me" by harry nillson,"people get together" by the youngbloods.Isn't stiener spelled steiner? :)

  • Thanks for the references , I'll check em out . Yes steiner is not spelled stiener and I'll get around to fixing that . Take care .

  • I was just a baby (well, 15 or so - same thing) when I first heard this song. Who knew it would still be this good, and pertinent, 40years later!! Thanks for posting it!!

  • Oh, yeah. Well said.

  • I love YouTube. It's the only way WE THE PEOPLE can really talk to each other.

  • love this song. even though born too late for the 60s it listened to this music during its teens -- Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver, Hendrix, 10 Years After, etc.

  • I had totally forgotten about this song because the radio stations insist on playing Lynerd Skinnerd and Led Zepplin all day long. The other day we were talking and my son said, "What about me?" It triggered my memory so I went to You tube to look this up. THANKS!