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Post by americanquo on Apr 9, 2019 21:38:12 GMT
I bought my copy of Patty Parfitt's book in the British Heart Foundation shop in Skipton for £1.99 a few years back. So Amazon can stuff their £93 right up their fat, greedy corporate arse. Rick Roper. I checked. That's not Amazon, those are individual dealers. Amazon gets a cut but the prices are set by the used book dealers.
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Post by Quoincidence on Apr 20, 2019 18:27:18 GMT
Honest Review from myself... I bought the book about a week or two after it was released, as I decided to hold off and see what other people thought first before I jumped onto the bandwagon. Have to say I have really enjoyed reading it, well... mainly the first half / 3 Quarters of the book. I love how in depth into the early days of Quo it goes, as everything seems to do e.g. Hello Quo! What I do dislike is how the '86 to '00 Line-up seems to be dismissed ALL THE TIME! No matter what it always gets glossed over, even though it is quite important in the bands history. '86 Comeback, New Managememt [briefly mentioned], Knebworth '90 gig, BRIT Awards, RTYD Album & Event. What else annoys me is the fact that the very short period during late '84 when the band were in the studio doing the pre-production for a Quo album which never was, always gets ignored also... a couple of songs recorded during those sessions, of which The Wanderer and Cadillac Ranch were released. Not too keen on the massively incorrect facts throughout the book, which hurts the other "truthful" information he tries to put across. And not to be THAT person, but it comes across that he still has a slight love for cocaine, even if he isn't taking it. Seemed like he was advertising it as he goes on about it for a good half a page or so... almost got me wanting a line The last quarter of the book got so FUCKING BORING... David Walker might have been great for the band and all but FUCK ME, there was a single line about him that kept being repeated over and over, Again And Again... trying to hit a word-count limit for the book [erhaps? All in all, a great read but incorrect facts and massively one sided. He has said himself that Rick could take one toot [of coke] and be done for the day, whereas he would have to do it constantly throughout the day. In the book it comes across as Rick being a bigger cokehead than he was(?). And I'd never realised that David Walker was a cokehead, but he always came across as very "twitchy" (shall I say) during the RTYD Doc. Cheers
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Post by Railroad17 on May 11, 2019 20:33:52 GMT
Read it over a day and a half and it's okay.The origins and up to EOTR are the most interesting,possibly because as a South Londoner I instantly recognized the geography and attitudes. I read it as though it was about a small decorating company,a job rather thansome big rock n roll life.
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Post by curiousgirl on May 12, 2019 10:38:46 GMT
Read it over a day and a half and it's okay.The origins and up to EOTR are the most interesting,possibly because as a South Londoner I instantly recognized the geography and attitudes. I read it as though it was about a small decorating company,a job rather thansome big rock n roll life. I've yet to read it but I will. I don't know what their dreams were when they started out in terms of the big rock'n'roll life, but from the talking tour, I discovered just how hard his parents worked. He didn't make a thing of it but the fact that they did 2 rounds a day, ice cream for kids after school and fish and chips for adults in the evening helped me understand both his work ethic and approach to life. You did me make laugh though, 'small decorating company.'
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Post by 4th Chord on May 12, 2019 10:51:17 GMT
Read it over a day and a half and it's okay.The origins and up to EOTR are the most interesting,possibly because as a South Londoner I instantly recognized the geography and attitudes. I read it as though it was about a small decorating company,a job rather thansome big rock n roll life. I've yet to read it but I will. I don't know what their dreams were when they started out in terms of the big rock'n'roll life, but from the talking tour, I discovered just how hard his parents worked. He didn't make a thing of it but the fact that they did 2 rounds a day, ice cream for kids after school and fish and chips for adults in the evening helped me understand both his work ethic and approach to life. You did me make laugh though, 'small decorating company.' It's well worth a read. I feel he's very sincere. All those memorable events as fans, good and bad, it's fascinating seeing them presented from his point of view. Why they did the 'Ain't Complaining' album the way they did makes total sense for the time period. Of course, he sees it now as their worst album. The panic within the Quo camp as the hits dried up. Rick's out of control spending, using each tour to bale out his finances...and then they stopped touring. And of course, his relationship with Al. Quoincidence, when you get 5 mins would be really interesting to have a wee list of the facts he presented you felt were dubious! :-) Favourite comment; "Art for art's sake, hits for fuck's sake''.
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Post by mm1 on May 12, 2019 16:53:34 GMT
There is a really popular Thin Lizzy Song: Dont Believe A Word. So you are saying the book is all lies?
There are many bits where Francis says the drugs clouded his memory but there are few areas where he can be said to be blatantly lying. But the blind will jump on anything.
Nuff has been threatening to write a book since 1986 - why hasn't he?
Good question.
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Post by jcb on May 12, 2019 19:08:25 GMT
Who would publish it? He’d have to self publish or do it as a blog. No one cares. The Rossi book got published coz he’s famous. The publishers came after him, with buckets of money. Can’t see it happening for Alan Lancaster. I would love to read his version of events.
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Post by gav on May 12, 2019 20:27:28 GMT
Who would publish it? He’d have to self publish or do it as a blog. No one cares. The Rossi book got published coz he’s famous. The publishers came after him, with buckets of money. Can’t see it happening for Alan Lancaster. I would love to read his version of events. It's a shame Alan didn't get in there before Francis, or before any of the 'autobiographies' came out. Unfortunately Francis now has the upper hand and has even more folk on side. He's kind of monopolised the story/truth. IMO.
Alan could have done something nearer the time of his leaving Quo, after the court case maybe. It would have been raw and bitter, for sure, but to publish one now would maybe be seen to be real sour grapes so long after his Quo days, what with the 'anti-Quoist' slant it would probably contain.
Maybe various legal proceedings over the years have thwarted his attempts to get a book together.
It's kind of like the PLC thing, or the previously unheard Quo tracks, or the quality '70's live footage - we hope to hell it will come to light some day, but we know deep down it probably won't.
Mind you, the FF reunion would have been on that list not too long ago.....
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Post by Dark on May 13, 2019 8:16:16 GMT
Who would publish it? He’d have to self publish or do it as a blog. No one cares. The Rossi book got published coz he’s famous. The publishers came after him, with buckets of money. Can’t see it happening for Alan Lancaster. I would love to read his version of events. It's a shame Alan didn't get in there before Francis, or before any of the 'autobiographies' came out. Unfortunately Francis now has the upper hand and has even more folk on side. He's kind of monopolised the story/truth. IMO.
Alan could have done something nearer the time of his leaving Quo, after the court case maybe. It would have been raw and bitter, for sure, but to publish one now would maybe be seen to be real sour grapes so long after his Quo days, what with the 'anti-Quoist' slant it would probably contain.
Maybe various legal proceedings over the years have thwarted his attempts to get a book together.
It's kind of like the PLC thing, or the previously unheard Quo tracks, or the quality '70's live footage - we hope to hell it will come to light some day, but we know deep down it probably won't.
Mind you, the FF reunion would have been on that list not too long ago.....
John managed to get his book published, so I am sure Alan could manage. I'm sure it wouldn't be as high profile as the Rossi book, or get the same amount of shelf space in the book stores, but he could still get it out. I recently read books by Don Powell & Dave Hill of Slade, you can't tell me that they have a huge profile with the general public these days.
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Post by 4th Chord on May 13, 2019 8:17:35 GMT
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on May 13, 2019 13:51:16 GMT
It's a shame Alan didn't get in there before Francis, or before any of the 'autobiographies' came out. Unfortunately Francis now has the upper hand and has even more folk on side. He's kind of monopolised the story/truth. IMO.
Alan could have done something nearer the time of his leaving Quo, after the court case maybe. It would have been raw and bitter, for sure, but to publish one now would maybe be seen to be real sour grapes so long after his Quo days, what with the 'anti-Quoist' slant it would probably contain.
Maybe various legal proceedings over the years have thwarted his attempts to get a book together.
It's kind of like the PLC thing, or the previously unheard Quo tracks, or the quality '70's live footage - we hope to hell it will come to light some day, but we know deep down it probably won't.
Mind you, the FF reunion would have been on that list not too long ago.....
John managed to get his book published, so I am sure Alan could manage. I'm sure it wouldn't be as high profile as the Rossi book, or get the same amount of shelf space in the book stores, but he could still get it out. I recently read books by Don Powell & Dave Hill of Slade, you can't tell me that they have a huge profile with the general public these days.
It looks like John was lucky enough to find a micro-publisher (or a writer who knew a micro publisher) who now publishes the book as a Kindle. (The bound edition is out of print. I assume there was one.) He could do that himself, except it's a big easier to get a page on Amazon if you have (I am assuming) a business account and take several pages.
The reviews indicate that it's not very well written, etc., but full of stuff that core Quo fans would like to know about.
Alan could get something like that published if he finished writing it - but writing the book is the hardest bit. (Then finding an agent and a publisher is the hardest bit. Then getting people to buy it is the hardest bit. Then getting the money is the hardest bit ... ) (And one they never put in lists ... or maybe they do now ... after all that, if your book is a success, dealing with all the fan mail is the hardest bit.)
Alan has a name connection, though, with Status Quo. He should be able to find a publisher even if it takes a while.
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Post by jcb on May 13, 2019 15:42:26 GMT
What John book are we on about here?
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Post by 4th Chord on May 13, 2019 15:56:29 GMT
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Post by jcb on May 13, 2019 16:10:01 GMT
Thank you. Got that one. Very good book. Same author did one about Jack Bruce, also a very good book. I thought there may have been a new one, the way it was being mentioned. One that John actually wrote himself.
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Post by kiwi on May 14, 2019 10:02:00 GMT
I would think that a condition of the FF reunion was that Lancaster did not publish a book or make any derogatry remarks about Quo and Rossi in any forum
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