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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 17, 2019 23:45:19 GMT
I always rather liked Jealousy, as a kind of likeable filler. (By which I mean the Quo version, not sure I have ever heard the other one.) It reminds me slightly of the way that not very famous Beatles tune "I'll Get You" was the B side to She Loves You and was a completely different kind of song. What is even weirder, now I think of it "Jealousy" and "I'll Get You" are even a bit similar. I don't think Francis dislikes nostalgia, I think he dislikes other people being nostalgic about him when he wants to go somewhere different. I'm sure that this must bug a lot of artists in all fields. Oh William, when are you going to put on Henry VII parts one two and three again! They were the greatest. This Tempest stuff with fairies in it is all very well, but ...
Having said that, no matter how hard I try and stretch my head around it, I will never get "Tommy's In Love."
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Mar 18, 2019 15:56:03 GMT
Alan believed that Francis did not want anybody to play on his songs except Bernie. He has said that Francis and Bernie did the demos and then when the band came in and made them better Francis was happy, but it was really hard to make them better because he wanted them certain ways. With "Jealousy", Alan has said that the band played exactly the same as the demo and in his opinion making it a bit better.
Alan said that it got to the stage with Jealously where he was saying to Rick "well, we've done it exactly the same, I can't even tell which one is which now". Alan believes that Francis put on the original. He doesn't think that's a Status Quo recording.
He thinks it's the Francis Rossi and Bernie Frost version on the album. Even back in 1982, Alan believed Francis wanted control.
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Post by makellysgreasydog on Mar 18, 2019 17:35:52 GMT
Back to the track. I don’t believe I hear Rick, Alan or Pete on the 1982 version. Hence Francis remark. So was it recorded separately by Francis and guests ? Yeah, I've always wondered about this. The drums on J82 are practically impossible to recreate live - you can't do the offbeat on the ride cymbal (let alone the timing change) while playing the hi-hat/snare beat. I have studied Pete's playing a lot - as a Quo fan and as an amateur drummer - and I've always been of the opinion that the ride cymbals were either overdubbed or played by someone else. I've never considered that it might be a drum machine, but Rossi's revelation that they used a drum machine on SBYBIL opens up this theory.
Similarly I'm certain the bass is different between the two versions of Jealousy. You can definitely tell it's Andy playing bass on the 1985 re-recording.
Our only hope is that one day someone will go back through Quo's master tapes and document the recording sessions in the same level of detail that the Beatles did!
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Mar 18, 2019 17:49:54 GMT
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Post by Quoincidence on Mar 18, 2019 17:49:54 GMT
Back to the track. I don’t believe I hear Rick, Alan or Pete on the 1982 version. Hence Francis remark. So was it recorded separately by Francis and guests ? Yeah, I've always wondered about this. The drums on J82 are practically impossible to recreate live - you can't do the offbeat on the ride cymbal (let alone the timing change) while playing the hi-hat/snare beat. I have studied Pete's playing a lot - as a Quo fan and as an amateur drummer - and I've always been of the opinion that the ride cymbals were either overdubbed or played by someone else. I've never considered that it might be a drum machine, but Rossi's revelation that they used a drum machine on SBYBIL opens up this theory.
Similarly I'm certain the bass is different between the two versions of Jealousy. You can definitely tell it's Andy playing bass on the 1985 re-recording.
Our only hope is that one day someone will go back through Quo's master tapes and document the recording sessions in the same level of detail that the Beatles did!
best get Sherlock onto finding those tapes then for that to happen.
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