ptquo
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Post by ptquo on Oct 8, 2018 17:57:17 GMT
It’s beyond embarrassing that the band currently performing with the mane Status Quo are headlining these events next year. letsrockleeds.com/lineup/If I knew how to add pictures I’d post the whole line-up. The one thing they all have in common is that they are living off the glories of the past. And to think Rossi said he doesn’t do nostalgia!!
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Post by charles on Oct 8, 2018 18:02:15 GMT
It's a long time they lost their mane but so has Limahl, so not a real problem.
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Post by paradiseflats on Oct 8, 2018 18:04:49 GMT
It’s beyond embarrassing that the band currently performing with the mane Status Quo are headlining these events next year. letsrockleeds.com/lineup/If I knew how to add pictures I’d post the whole line-up. The one thing they all have in common is that they are living off the glories of the past. And to think Rossi said he doesn’t do nostalgia!! It’s not embarassing at all. It’s what they do. Not worth worrying about. They stopped being a serious rock band long long ago.
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Post by markquo on Oct 8, 2018 18:34:46 GMT
It’s beyond embarrassing that the band currently performing with the mane Status Quo are headlining these events next year. letsrockleeds.com/lineup/If I knew how to add pictures I’d post the whole line-up. The one thing they all have in common is that they are living off the glories of the past. And to think Rossi said he doesn’t do nostalgia!! Extremely sad state of affairs this once great rock band Cheers
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Post by piledriver62 on Oct 8, 2018 18:56:46 GMT
They are still very popular just not with QUO fans .
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2018 19:15:17 GMT
It’s beyond embarrassing that the band currently performing with the mane Status Quo are headlining these events next year. letsrockleeds.com/lineup/If I knew how to add pictures I’d post the whole line-up. The one thing they all have in common is that they are living off the glories of the past. And to think Rossi said he doesn’t do nostalgia!! Extremely sad state of affairs this once great rock band Cheers Making a good living and playing your music live for thousands of people who have a great time? Nothing sad about that. Much as we'd sometimes like to, you can't turn back the clock.
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Post by markquo on Oct 8, 2018 19:26:16 GMT
Extremely sad state of affairs this once great rock band Cheers Making a good living and playing your music live for thousands of people who have a great time? Nothing sad about that. Much as we'd sometimes like to, you can't turn back the clock. We’ll just have to agree to disagree then Cheers
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Post by blagult on Oct 9, 2018 9:16:10 GMT
An ageing Rock Band isn’t going to Attract a new ARMY of young Rock fans. Their best way of attracting sales and getting good appearance money are festivals. You just have to look at how many and how popular they are. Even these retro festivals attract huge attendances of a wide range of ages etc.. These are the hands that now feed them and who wouldn’t love performing to thousands of people many who have probably never seen the band. Better than an ageing split fan base of a few hundred who are bored having seen the band dozens of times. Same faces same seats. Looking bored. It’s like going out on a Friday night, the same people in the same pubs around the same time. Festivals of fresh faces have given them a boost. I think they thoroughly enjoy it 💴.
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Post by markquo on Oct 9, 2018 10:52:42 GMT
An ageing Rock Band isn’t going to Attract a new ARMY of young Rock fans. Their best way of attracting sales and getting good appearance money are festivals. You just have to look at how many and how popular they are. Even these retro festivals attract huge attendances of a wide range of ages etc.. These are the hands that now feed them and who wouldn’t love performing to thousands of people many who have probably never seen the band. Better than an ageing split fan base of a few hundred who are bored having seen the band dozens of times. Same faces same seats. Looking bored. It’s like going out on a Friday night, the same people in the same pubs around the same time. Festivals of fresh faces have given them a boost. I think they thoroughly enjoy it 💴. You don’t see other ageing rock bands playing retro festivals. Priest,ACDC,Maiden,Purple,Whitesnake etc. The only reason FRQ play these is because they can’t fill arenas or sell out tours anymore.Its a captive audience.Without appearing at them they are largely forgotten as the hardcore fan base have deserted them.But as he’s proved time and again Rossi cares little for those fans and continues to trade on former glories when he has stated in interviews he hates nostalgia Cheers
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Post by charles on Oct 9, 2018 12:22:20 GMT
They aren't a rock band anymore, and haven't been one for ages. They do have enough pop hits to entertain any festival crowd, and that is exactly what they have been doing. It does make sense for FRQ.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2018 16:40:43 GMT
You don’t see other ageing rock bands playing retro festivals. Priest,ACDC,Maiden,Purple,Whitesnake etc. The only reason FRQ play these is because they can’t fill arenas or sell out tours anymore.Its a captive audience.Without appearing at them they are largely forgotten as the hardcore fan base have deserted them.But as he’s proved time and again Rossi cares little for those fans and continues to trade on former glories when he has stated in interviews he hates nostalgia Cheers There's a huge difference between Quo and those bands. All those bands are world wide known and broke America and in the case of the first four never really drifted far from their hard rock origins so their fanbase has remained pretty much constant. Whitesnake of course changed just as much as Quo did musically when Cov decided to chase the dollar and be an MTV musician back in the 80s. Also the bands you mentioned never toured the UK as relentlessly as Quo have as they had to do full US tours , which can take a year in its own right, so their British audience was always eager for a tour as it could be 3 or 4 years since the previous one. There's a certain amount of ennui with Quo tours because up until recently you could see them every winter in the UK so that novelty wasn't there. But for Priest, Purple and Whitesnake even they don't draw the crowds they did back in the 80s, they've all been involved in two header tours where you're reliant on another bands fans buying half the tickets. I don't know when for you Quo's former glories ended. Certainly I remember seeing them on the RAOTW tour and being surprised at the massive change in sound with Andy being far more involved. For some anything post 76 isn't "proper" Quo but as I've said many times on this board all bands and musicians evolve. The sound of a band can't stay the same if members change, technology has changed out of all recognition for live work since the 70s. As a musician you just have to go with the flow.
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Post by cammythemortonfan on Oct 9, 2018 18:22:21 GMT
It’s topcs like one which ultimately make me visit this board less and less.
I’m not a happy clapper and don’t like everything Quo do.
But to criticise a band for making a living playing in front of thousands of people who may then check out some of the back catalogue is very petty.
Remember when the band played Download and went down a storm?
That still wasn’t enough for some on here who seemed criticised them for not doing it with the Frantic Four.
They just can’t win.
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Post by markquo on Oct 9, 2018 18:34:29 GMT
It’s topcs like one which ultimately make me visit this board less and less. I’m not a happy clapper and don’t like everything Quo do. But to criticise a band for making a living playing in front of thousands of people who may then check out some of the back catalogue is very petty. Remember when the band played Download and went down a storm? That still wasn’t enough for some on here who seemed criticised them for not doing it with the Frantic Four. They just can’t win. But they choose to ignore their awesome back catalogue and play exactly the same set night after night year after year.Rossi is doing exactly what he said he would never do and the band have become a poor tribute to themselves in my opinion. Cheers
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Post by azza200 on Oct 9, 2018 20:30:05 GMT
Someone mentioned Zeppelin in one these discussions in another topic again they only played like 5-6 shows in the UK between 1970-79 most of time they was in America selling out stadium after stadium. Iron Maiden another example don't play many UK shows on their tours sometimes they dont play here at all same with Metallica.
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Post by paradiseflats on Oct 10, 2018 6:24:54 GMT
Someone mentioned Zeppelin in one these discussions in another topic again they only played like 5-6 shows in the UK between 1970-79 most of time they was in America selling out stadium after stadium. Iron Maiden another example don't play many UK shows on their tours sometimes they dont play here at all same with Metallica. Which World Tour have Metallica missed the UK ?
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