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Post by paradiseflats on Jan 21, 2019 14:46:18 GMT
When I was on holiday in Switzerland in the early 80s I bought a cassette version. It had a different track listing with Backwater/JTM separated. Can’t remember the rest.
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Post by Detroit on Jan 21, 2019 16:54:56 GMT
I recall years ago (I posted this on the first board) that while waiting in a gas station parking lot in my uh hum, van, I was playing Backwater quite loud when a guy with no front teeth (not sure I had to mention that), came up to my window and asked "isn't that from the album with heads growing out from roots"? Kinda made my day that did. I'm not sure. It all sounds a bit too deliverance-y to me. No banjos involved though.
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Post by vivfromcov on Jan 21, 2019 17:28:46 GMT
I recall years ago (I posted this on the first board) that while waiting in a gas station parking lot in my uh hum, van, I was playing Backwater quite loud when a guy with no front teeth (not sure I had to mention that), came up to my window and asked "isn't that from the album with heads growing out from roots"? Kinda made my day that did. I remember you posting that! It's so cool that there were a few people on the other side of the pond who knew them! Shame that they didn't get more recognition.
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Post by paradiseflats on Jan 21, 2019 18:55:09 GMT
I recall years ago (I posted this on the first board) that while waiting in a gas station parking lot in my uh hum, van, I was playing Backwater quite loud when a guy with no front teeth (not sure I had to mention that), came up to my window and asked "isn't that from the album with heads growing out from roots"? Kinda made my day that did. I remember you posting that! It's so cool that there were a few people on the other side of the pond who knew them! Shame that they didn't get more recognition. You may not like the music they made but in Ratts book they talk about when Quo were supporting someone in the US and say they loved them. But there’s loads of reasons why they didn’t make it big there from lack of record company interest ,management ,the comfort of being a big headliner in Europe and them deciding to concentrate on that market
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Post by vivfromcov on Jan 21, 2019 23:26:53 GMT
I remember you posting that! It's so cool that there were a few people on the other side of the pond who knew them! Shame that they didn't get more recognition. You may not like the music they made but in Ratts book they talk about when Quo were supporting someone in the US and say they loved them. ?? Sorry don't quite understand.... am I being dense? Who's Ratts?!
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Post by charles on Jan 22, 2019 6:45:45 GMT
Silly American hair metal band from the 80s?
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Post by paradiseflats on Jan 22, 2019 6:57:18 GMT
Silly American hair metal band from the 80s? That’s them....
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Post by Detroit on Jan 22, 2019 21:40:16 GMT
I recall years ago (I posted this on the first board) that while waiting in a gas station parking lot in my uh hum, van, I was playing Backwater quite loud when a guy with no front teeth (not sure I had to mention that), came up to my window and asked "isn't that from the album with heads growing out from roots"? Kinda made my day that did. I remember you posting that! Many, many years ago. I'm not surprised I remembered posting. People say I have a very good long-term memory. It's my short-term memory of a goldfish I have problems with.
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Post by frozenhero on Jan 23, 2019 13:39:59 GMT
It has a lot of good songs ...very good, but ,I've never managed the audio/sound on it.
Imagine the Quo album with the sound from Piledriver or Hello.... Agree with the sound issue. The deluxe edition makes the most of the sound but there's only so much you can do with it. Those distorted cymbals... Anyway this is the classic era album I struggle with the most. I'll have to listen to it again to refresh my opinion on it, but in the meanwhile I'll say that Slow Train is a song that really should have been played live in full during some point of their career...
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Post by dontthinkitmatters on Jan 23, 2019 16:14:19 GMT
I think most should have been played live and included in the set at some point, not just Slow Train. Ok maybe not Fine Fine Fine , which I like by the way, but only as a quieter track on a full on album. Drifting Away and Don't Think It Matters also sound immense played live by tribute bands on the Quo Live complimentary video thread, They would have had potential to have become live classic anthems if given air time in my opinion, much like other studio album tracks have become.
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equo
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Post by equo on Jan 28, 2019 21:37:13 GMT
When ever I listen to the whole album, I'm always blown away by the magic and intricacy of Slow Train. Its almost better than... 45 100x. What a great ending to an album. To my opinion it is better than 4500 times, musically speaking. But when Rick sings: "beeeee myhhhhhh frie-e-end" I stil get goosebumps. So it's undecided.
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equo
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Favourite Quo Album: Quo
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Post by equo on Jan 28, 2019 21:49:59 GMT
Best Quo album ever. Lonely man is Quo's "Stairway to heaven". Slow Train can not be compared to any song by any band. Backwater / Just take me is an absolute classic. Drifting away might be Quo's loudest song ever. This album made me fall in love with this band. I will play this album until my dying day.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Jan 29, 2019 7:38:15 GMT
I dont think there are too many Quo songs better than Backwater...what an album. During the Summer holidays when i was a teenager i sketched the album cover..took me ages..think it got thrown away a while back...it is without doubt a great sleeve...something magical about album covers..today a lot of folk just download stuff but the joy of buying album or even cds should never be underestimated. Same here, used to paint the album covers, including the 'QUO' album, such was my devotion back then! Even painted a picture, split into four, with Francis, Rick, Alan and JC. Sent that one off to SQ HQ (Quarry) Wardour St, back in the summer of 1981. In terms of the album, it was the time when Rossi and Bob Y were working on potential material for a Rossi album and Alan and Rick went off and wrote much of the 'QUO' album. I know the band were championing 'Backwater' as a single but personally hard to see/hear that track as anything other than a superb album track... too complex, in a sense, to appeal to the single-buying masses beyond the already converted Quo Disciples. The drawn-out intro alone may have tuned people out. The record company/Colin Johnson knew their market and BTR actually stands out as still fairly heavy but radio friendly, in the singles market of those times. 'Don't Think It Matters' would have been my 2nd single choice over 'Backwater', as just more accessible. There are always surprises in terms of successes in the single charts, such as 'Bohemian Rhapsody', but I don't think 'Backwater' would have been one of them. Boogie is a bit too generic and usually important to get the audience's attention from the off. Some folk say 'Break The Rules' has been the forgotten single and say it can't be that good, but to me that has a lot to do with the fact the band never played the song regularly on stage for years, the way say 'Caroline' has been a staple of the set. Francis has not found the the solo in BTR that easy to replicate on stage but I gather they were experimenting with speeding up the recordings/tape in the studio back in '74. Rossi isn't overly keen on the 'QUO' album but then perhaps his heart wasn't in it from the start? Though 'Slow Train' is a class act and ensures that the album is up there as one of their best.
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Post by dontthinkitmatters on Feb 13, 2019 18:14:34 GMT
Given up of trying to find any studio footage of them playing Break The Rules as a single.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Feb 16, 2019 12:00:35 GMT
Same here, used to paint the album covers, including the 'QUO' album, such was my devotion back then! Even painted a picture, split into four, with Francis, Rick, Alan and JC. Sent that one off to SQ HQ (Quarry) Wardour St, back in the summer of 1981. I n terms of the album, it was the time when Rossi and Bob Y were working on potential material for a Rossi album and Alan and Rick went off and wrote much of the 'QUO' album. I know the band were championing 'Backwater' as a single but personally hard to see/hear that track as anything other than a superb album track... too complex, in a sense, to appeal to the single-buying masses beyond the already converted Quo Disciples. The drawn-out intro alone may have tuned people out. The record company/Colin Johnson knew their market and BTR actually stands out as still fairly heavy but radio friendly, in the singles market of those times. 'Don't Think It Matters' would have been my 2nd single choice over 'Backwater', as just more accessible. There are always surprises in terms of successes in the single charts, such as 'Bohemian Rhapsody', but I don't think 'Backwater' would have been one of them. Boogie is a bit too generic and usually important to get the audience's attention from the off. Some folk say 'Break The Rules' has been the forgotten single and say it can't be that good, but to me that has a lot to do with the fact the band never played the song regularly on stage for years, the way say 'Caroline' has been a staple of the set. Francis has not found the the solo in BTR that easy to replicate on stage but I gather they were experimenting with speeding up the recordings/tape in the studio back in '74. Rossi isn't overly keen on the 'QUO' album but then perhaps his heart wasn't in it from the start? Though 'Slow Train' is a class act and ensures that the album is up there as one of their best. Great post cheers. I've highlighted what I didn't know. Had no idea Francis was thinking solo that far back.
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