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Post by keyfodge on May 22, 2019 12:05:32 GMT
Hi everyone. Finally I've reached another Quo show on my gig blog. This blogging business is tough. This is the Riffs Tour from 2003. Hope you enjoy reminiscing. sweatingwithstrangers.home.blog/2019/05/22/quo-riffs/Feel free to share it around to anyone else who might like it. Cheers, Hodge |
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Post by MrWaistcoat on May 22, 2019 16:13:55 GMT
Thanks mate, enjoyed that. I'd forgotten about the raot riffs thing!
The old MB was in overdrive with excitement over the Guildford set. But I wasn't disappointed. The band were in superb form with Matt, and I remember thinking the band were simply brilliant from 2002 to about 2008 on all the gigs I caught.
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Post by charles on May 23, 2019 10:06:03 GMT
Another great read. I bought the Riffs album for a couple of quid some years ago and shouldn't have bothered. Although the title sounded great, it's probably their worst ever (that I know of).
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on May 23, 2019 11:56:24 GMT
Yes but if you got the two-disc package at that time it had the only up to date live version of 4500 Times on it ... it went on my Xmas list just for that reason.
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Post by vivfromcov on May 23, 2019 11:59:05 GMT
Thanks Keith! A very good read! I wonder if anyone on here was at that Guildford gig? Unfortunately for my Quoing experience I wasn't back in the fold until December 2004. Shame I missed out on such a good tour....
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on May 23, 2019 12:33:39 GMT
Thanks for that i was really enjoying the band live at this time on the boggo setlist so did not have room for sadness and regret. And I think they revived all those songs during the Reunion. Which is a start. (And a finish, of course.)
Your comments on the AAJ gig slightly reminds me of our experience at an Automatic gig years ago, only without the blood and the crowd surges. (The floor between the front and the sound desk was pretty vacant.) The sound was just awful - it was in Telford, I think, though I don't think Telford was responsible. Town hall? Anyway, it was bad, but the young folk at the barrier seemed to be having a good time. The band didn't seem to be quite on top of their playing either. I cancelled my plan to catch them further east a few days later if we liked the Telford gig. (And they changed direction to a more poppy sound shortly afterwards, which didn't suit me, so that was the end of that, but I think I have their first album somewhere and I liked it.)
I know what you mean about live not being absolutely everyting, Traffic were generally better on their albums than they were live, due to a certain element of chaos, but they were never less than good live and I never regretted seeing them.
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Post by 37 on May 23, 2019 19:38:56 GMT
Ahh, the Riffs album. Total pants apart from a brilliant cover of Canned Heats On The Road Again. I went to that aforementioned tour, I must be getting old as I cannot remember Break The Rules being played in full. Could have been the beer of course!
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