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Post by gentlemanjoe on Jun 17, 2019 20:29:24 GMT
Just watched on YouTube a very recent performance of Caroline by the band that calls itself Status Quo, and while they were tight, it was soulless performance that left me with just nothing to commend it, it was just 6 minutes of noise that I recognised but there is just sommat not there without Rick, and I can’t tell you what it is.
I couldn’t bring myself to stand through and hour and a half of that. There was no edge or enthusiasm, The audience look like the extras from the Walking Dead, apart from the fact they weren’t moving..
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Post by musiktruhe on Jun 18, 2019 13:01:19 GMT
They are better than ever and if you read the new promo for the backbone record carefully you will find that the band with richie Malone will not only keep going they actually keep up the pace.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2019 13:42:46 GMT
If you don't like it don't watch the YouTube videos, don't go and see them live and don't buy the new album. Quite simple really.
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Post by gentlemanjoe on Jun 18, 2019 13:47:10 GMT
You may have noticed that my post indicated that they were in fact NOT “better than ever “, but were functioning as a band, playing all the right notes in the right order, But it wasn’t happening musically. The crowd were stood there like road signs and that excitement that certain x-factor that Rick brought to proceedings just wasn’t there.
I hope the new album will be along the lines of Quid Pro Quo, but in my opinion, it will be a Status Quo album in name only.
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Post by Isaac Ryan on Jun 18, 2019 13:47:24 GMT
Just watched on YouTube a very recent performance of Caroline by the band that calls itself Status Quo, and while they were tight, it was soulless performance that left me with just nothing to commend it, it was just 6 minutes of noise that I recognised but there is just sommat not there without Rick, and I can’t tell you what it is. I couldn’t bring myself to stand through and hour and a half of that. There was no edge or enthusiasm, The audience look like the extras from the Walking Dead, apart from the fact they weren’t moving.. Pop it on here, we can all murder it together.
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Post by Isaac Ryan on Jun 18, 2019 13:52:12 GMT
You may have noticed that my post indicated that they were in fact NOT “better than ever “, but were functioning as a band, playing all the right notes in the right order, But it wasn’t happening musically. The crowd were stood there like road signs and that excitement that certain x-factor that Rick brought to proceedings just wasn’t there. I hope the new album will be along the lines of Quid Pro Quo, but in my opinion, it will be a Status Quo album in name only. The two tracks they are doing live seem like very good rocking tunes, the album may surprise you.
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Post by gentlemanjoe on Jun 18, 2019 13:52:33 GMT
Sorry didn’t keep the link. May have been in Germany?
I didn’t get to the end of the song, as I could feel a coma coming on😴😁
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2019 16:16:22 GMT
I've seen them twice this year in Germany and on both nights the crowd loved the show. The things you have to take into consideration are that it was wasn't a 1970s Hammersmith Ode hardcore crowd, it was a pretty much casual, middle-aged to older crowd and as someone who's been playing gigs in Germany for over 40 years the behaviour was exactly what I'd expect, especially nowadays. Germans are more reserved at gigs than Brits, always have been.
Anyway they all had a great time and the new songs went down really well but it's your prerogative to like or not like. As for the band line up the musical fulcrum of Quo was always John Coghlan, not Rick. I suppose by the standards of many people on here they should have folded when he was fired.
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Post by gentlemanjoe on Jun 18, 2019 16:36:25 GMT
Noted.
I understand the older crowd etc..
However all that went out of the window on the reunion tours. where I witnessed the kind of Quo army singing, dancing, swaying and the incredible noise, an unbelievable vibe.
Just my opinion, mind. Each to his own etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2019 16:44:13 GMT
Exactly, the reunion tours, the thing we never thought would ever happen. Hardcore came out of the woodowrk, people who hadn't been to a gig in decades. They were incredible nights, I saw 8 gigs over the two tours and they were phenomenal but they were an event out of time as it were, something that recaptured the past when we were all young but also sadly something that couldn't last. So great at the time though but I still remain a fan of live music over recorded so I go to see Quo. Like I go to see Purple, Whitesnake and many other bands that bear no resemblance to the bands I knew when I was in my 20s and 30s but I still get that thrill hearing songs I love played live.
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Post by markquo on Jun 18, 2019 17:29:57 GMT
I've seen them twice this year in Germany and on both nights the crowd loved the show. The things you have to take into consideration are that it was wasn't a 1970s Hammersmith Ode hardcore crowd, it was a pretty much casual, middle-aged to older crowd and as someone who's been playing gigs in Germany for over 40 years the behaviour was exactly what I'd expect, especially nowadays. Germans are more reserved at gigs than Brits, always have been. Anyway they all had a great time and the new songs went down really well but it's your prerogative to like or not like. As for the band line up the musical fulcrum of Quo was always John Coghlan, not Rick. I suppose by the standards of many people on here they should have folded when he was fired. I disagree.Alan was the music fulcrum Of Quo, and it’s what’s still missing all these years later Cheers
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Post by 37 on Jun 18, 2019 18:17:49 GMT
I've seen them twice this year in Germany and on both nights the crowd loved the show. The things you have to take into consideration are that it was wasn't a 1970s Hammersmith Ode hardcore crowd, it was a pretty much casual, middle-aged to older crowd and as someone who's been playing gigs in Germany for over 40 years the behaviour was exactly what I'd expect, especially nowadays. Germans are more reserved at gigs than Brits, always have been. Anyway they all had a great time and the new songs went down really well but it's your prerogative to like or not like. As for the band line up the musical fulcrum of Quo was always John Coghlan, not Rick. I suppose by the standards of many people on here they should have folded when he was fired. I disagree.Alan was the music fulcrum Of Quo, and it’s what’s still missing all these years later Cheers This!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2019 19:13:26 GMT
markquo I think it's interesting that neither of us thinks it's Francis, despite his dominance over the decades.
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Post by paradiseflats on Jun 18, 2019 20:25:39 GMT
You may have noticed that my post indicated that they were in fact NOT “better than ever “, but were functioning as a band, playing all the right notes in the right order, But it wasn’t happening musically. The crowd were stood there like road signs and that excitement that certain x-factor that Rick brought to proceedings just wasn’t there. I hope the new album will be along the lines of Quid Pro Quo, but in my opinion, it will be a Status Quo album in name only. The two tracks they are doing live seem like very good rocking tunes, the album may surprise you. ‘Very good’ is subjective. Bang average and nothing to rival former glories is also subjective but what I heard. I have an open mind but let’s be honest, a surprising album from Status Quo is unlikely, very unlikely given there record since 81. If anything the surprises they have made have not been good surprises.
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Post by Isaac Ryan on Jun 19, 2019 8:39:00 GMT
I've seen them twice this year in Germany and on both nights the crowd loved the show. The things you have to take into consideration are that it was wasn't a 1970s Hammersmith Ode hardcore crowd, it was a pretty much casual, middle-aged to older crowd and as someone who's been playing gigs in Germany for over 40 years the behaviour was exactly what I'd expect, especially nowadays. Germans are more reserved at gigs than Brits, always have been. Anyway they all had a great time and the new songs went down really well but it's your prerogative to like or not like. As for the band line up the musical fulcrum of Quo was always John Coghlan, not Rick. I suppose by the standards of many people on here they should have folded when he was fired. I disagree.Alan was the music fulcrum Of Quo, and it’s what’s still missing all these years later Cheers I disagree, all four of them were part of the fulcrum and when JC left it changed somewhat.
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