gav
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Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on Jan 23, 2018 21:42:12 GMT
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Post by azza200 on Jan 23, 2018 22:09:15 GMT
Never knew that
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Post by curiousgirl on Jan 23, 2018 22:17:01 GMT
Maybe I don't want to believe this, but if it is true, then how come Quo can still never replicate the old sound if Francis played all the parts. This sounds like a story to me. And yes, I know that Francis doesn't want to but.. still don't buy it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2018 22:17:59 GMT
Interesting read. If all of it's true I don't know. Certainly re-recording of an artist does happen quite a lot and is usually very very hush hush, I've done it myself on albums I never officially played on but I certainly never heard on the grapevine that Alan was being overdubbed. Doing it with his and JC's contributions would be difficult because they both have a really recognisable style, John in particular, you can pick out his drum sound so easily. Some of the events with Francis sound distinctly "un-Francis-like" too.
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Jan 23, 2018 22:26:49 GMT
I don't think this is all that true. In fact I think this is the guy who kept turning up to Francis house with all kinds of wierd guitars. Including ones with holes in. You see that guitar in the TPAOY DVD hanging on the wall, Francis is also using it in the Who Asked You Vid. Had he held on to this guitar for 9 years and no-one saw it. I doubt it as Francis Tele had a hole in it back in 1970. So he didn't drill his Tele because he saw this "Holey guitar" in 1977.
I seem to recall Francis told this guy to clear off in the end as he became a nusance.
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Post by Detroit on Jan 23, 2018 23:01:16 GMT
Didn't Rossi completely on his own go in and remix Ol' Rag Blues, after it was finished?
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Post by dennis on Jan 23, 2018 23:14:51 GMT
" ... the lyric had been based upon the conversation about how nice was "what I had been proposing" that evening back in Holland. Apparently, my frustration at not having the money to develop green technology power sources was construed as "runny-nosing" ... " - Well that's cleared that lyric up then!
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Post by Detroit on Jan 23, 2018 23:24:28 GMT
Didn't Rossi completely on his own go in and remix Ol' Rag Blues, after it was finished? That was "Going Downtown Tonight"....which explains why it's utter shite. It was Ol' Rag Blues |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2018 23:52:46 GMT
I always took "runny nosin" to be a reference to snorting coke, round that time the rock scene was ankle deep in the stuff.
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Post by Detroit on Jan 24, 2018 0:11:21 GMT
I always took "runny nosin" to be a reference to snorting coke, round that time the rock scene was ankle deep in the stuff. Couldn't have been Rossi's nose, his fell off.  |
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Post by azza200 on Jan 24, 2018 0:42:58 GMT
I always took "runny nosin" to be a reference to snorting coke, round that time the rock scene was ankle deep in the stuff. Couldn't have been Rossi's nose, his fell off. wonder how many lines of Coke Rossi sniffed of the green tele over the years pre show like this  |
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Post by tqontq on Jan 24, 2018 2:54:21 GMT
I would take all that with a pinch of coke. Sorry, i mean salt  Obviously reminiscing about his part brush with fame via the Quo connection and spinning some yarns among it. Impossible to believe that Frame played Alan and John's parts in the studio and Rick's guitar tuning filled in for Alan's base on stage. I mean...come on. What an absurd statement. We all know Frame did just that on Back to Back but it is obvious in the sound and recording - ie. it sounds terrible. A funny read though if you like make believe. |
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Post by unspokenwords on Jan 24, 2018 10:13:57 GMT
What a pretentious git! He is trying to name drop and make something more of his life than it really was....meeting/hinting that he was going out with the ex girlfriend of David Bowie....brown nosing...Status Quo...the brains behind their alternative tunings etc., etc., etc.,
I had heard before that Francis had tinkered here and there with music in certain recording sessions in the sense of 'adding' pieces (he has said this himself in regard to some bass and drums in some sessions), but this guy is almost trying to say that Rossi recorded everything and in particular Lancaster and Coghlan's parts as they were poor players and he completely re-recorded this without their knowledge.
He is certainly in some futuristic UFO land in this regard. Deluded does not even come close. In studios musicians add, over dub etc including parts of other musicians esp,. when they are not there and not available, late at night or whatever. Apparently a lot of Rossi's parts were recored by Pip Williams (and this is clear in some instances) but in 99% of the Quo recordings the bass and drums attributed to Lancaster and Coghlan are played by them. Both had a style that is recognisable.
I wonder why the band have never returned this mans 'Hi' to them...because he is a nobody to them.
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Post by freewilly on Jan 24, 2018 10:55:26 GMT
That's a pile of shite.
Alan and John's parts re-recorded by Francis? Alan's bass playing helped on stage by Rick's B-tuning, which was used, at most, twice during a gig? Rick wrote the riff to WYP, while Francis claims he wrote it, as he was angry with the guy in question?
Alan known as the luckiest guy in music?
Yeah, sorry....None of that is true
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Post by freewilly on Jan 24, 2018 13:58:14 GMT
Francis didn't re-record anything of Alan's..
How do I know?
Apart from the obvious fact that there is no difference in Alan's sound on stage and on record, Francis moaned in a recent interview that he wanted bass lines like The Eagles but, Alan said no way!
Now, where are these Eaglesque bass lines?
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