viza
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Post by viza on Jul 5, 2019 21:29:51 GMT
Bob Young also matches these criteria, should he be considered as a official member of the band? Bernie Frost? Frost played with Status Quo...when was that ? Bobs never been classed as a member. I don’t think adding gob iron live on a few tracks makes you a band member. But some bands include members who solely write but don’t perform live with the band. Frost did more vocal parts on JS, NTL, 1+9+8+2 and BTB than Parfitt and Lancaster together I am afraid.
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Post by azza200 on Jul 5, 2019 21:47:22 GMT
Andy was part of touring Pink Floyd's The Wall Live tour between 80-81 it makes sense him joining in 1982
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Post by markquo on Jul 6, 2019 0:12:47 GMT
Yes but officially joined in 82 Cheers The question from the original poster is “when did Andy become a full time member of the band”? From 1977 he was included on tour, in promo video’s and on tv show appearances, so he was full time with the band in 1977. he may have “officially” joined in 1982, but he was already full time with the band way before then. Full time session player yes Cheers
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Jul 6, 2019 12:48:46 GMT
I signed up as a full time fan in 1982 and one of the things I remember was the news that Andy Bown had just been made a full member of the band.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2019 13:37:02 GMT
Frost played with Status Quo...when was that ? Bobs never been classed as a member. I don’t think adding gob iron live on a few tracks makes you a band member. But some bands include members who solely write but don’t perform live with the band. Frost did more vocal parts on JS, NTL, 1+9+8+2 and BTB than Parfitt and Lancaster together I am afraid. Twee harmonies made twee songs even worse. The vast majority of the Rossi /Frost oeuvre was the absolute nadir for Quo.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Jul 6, 2019 13:51:25 GMT
There are lots of places in music where batsqueak harmonies can be useful, but I've never heard a good one in Quo music.
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Post by gav on Jul 6, 2019 14:53:26 GMT
Frost did more vocal parts on JS, NTL, 1+9+8+2 and BTB than Parfitt and Lancaster together I am afraid. Twee harmonies made twee songs even worse. The vast majority of the Rossi /Frost oeuvre was the absolute nadir for Quo. And they were never twee-er than on "Thirsty Work", even though they'd dropped the high harmonies.
Just some really bizarre songwriting. Unique, but terrible. Twee is the best word though. They were never twee-er than the mid 90's.
Some of the B-sides from the period are possibly blander than the blandest bland thing.
So strange when you consider the raw, earthy power of their heyday. Was it Francis kicking his drug habit that resulted in this weird, watered down Quo music? Something he couldn't help, even? Maybe didn't even notice?
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Post by azza200 on Jul 6, 2019 21:34:29 GMT
Twee harmonies made twee songs even worse. The vast majority of the Rossi /Frost oeuvre was the absolute nadir for Quo. And they were never twee-er than on "Thirsty Work", even though they'd dropped the high harmonies.
Just some really bizarre songwriting. Unique, but terrible. Twee is the best word though. They were never twee-er than the mid 90's.
Some of the B-sides from the period are possibly blander than the blandest bland thing.
So strange when you consider the raw, earthy power of their heyday. Was it Francis kicking his drug habit that resulted in this weird, watered down Quo music? Something he couldn't help, even? Maybe didn't even notice?
wasn't it more the David Walker effect back then with the nonsense they were putting out on albums in their peak karaoke lite panto era
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Post by gav on Jul 6, 2019 22:16:10 GMT
And they were never twee-er than on "Thirsty Work", even though they'd dropped the high harmonies.
Just some really bizarre songwriting. Unique, but terrible. Twee is the best word though. They were never twee-er than the mid 90's.
Some of the B-sides from the period are possibly blander than the blandest bland thing.
So strange when you consider the raw, earthy power of their heyday. Was it Francis kicking his drug habit that resulted in this weird, watered down Quo music? Something he couldn't help, even? Maybe didn't even notice?
wasn't it more the David Walker effect back then with the nonsense they were putting out on albums in their peak karaoke lite panto era I dunno, maybe DW was pressurising Francis to come up with truck loads of shit songs to fill up albums for the £££. Maybe DW didn't recognise the difference between a good song and a bad song. And then when the fans didn't exactly lap up TW, out came the cover versions.
I think Francis just had a whole heap of rubbish to get out his system at the time. He missed the 80's by about 10 years as he was out of it the whole time, so he turned the 90's Quo into an even naffer version of the 80's. With a little help from DW no doubt.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Jul 8, 2019 15:34:36 GMT
And they were never twee-er than on "Thirsty Work", even though they'd dropped the high harmonies.
Just some really bizarre songwriting. Unique, but terrible. Twee is the best word though. They were never twee-er than the mid 90's.
Some of the B-sides from the period are possibly blander than the blandest bland thing.
So strange when you consider the raw, earthy power of their heyday. Was it Francis kicking his drug habit that resulted in this weird, watered down Quo music? Something he couldn't help, even? Maybe didn't even notice?
wasn't it more the David Walker effect back then with the nonsense they were putting out on albums in their peak karaoke lite panto era I don't think DW believed that Quo had any mileage left in them in terms of self penned albums and why he encouraged them down the covers route. Francis then put out Thirsty Work which gave DW even more leverage to suggest they may only have another 5 years left in them, at that time. Think this was possibly going to coincide with his retirement so perhaps thought Quo wouldn't survive without him anyway. He was the consummate businessman and made them plenty of wonga but perhaps no real understanding of them as a credible rock outfit and little concern for them and us in that way. In terms of Andy B, seeing him on the cover of 1982 meant he was now definitely part of the furniture and something Francis had pushed for I believe.
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Post by frozenhero on Jul 23, 2019 20:38:51 GMT
I think Andy performing in the RAOTW video has some significance (And Alan being replaced by a puppet, although that's anther story...)
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Post by Detroit on Jul 23, 2019 20:58:03 GMT
I think Andy performing in the RAOTW video has some significance (And Alan being replaced by a puppet, although that's anther story...)That was most ignorant of Colin Johnson to do that. It was the beginning of the end.
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Post by Quoincidence on Jul 23, 2019 21:55:39 GMT
I think Andy performing in the RAOTW video has some significance (And Alan being replaced by a puppet, although that's anther story...)That was most ignorant of Colin Johnson to do that. It was the beginning of the end. but at the end of the day they needed a promo for Rockin' as the single was rocketing in the charts. Colin wasnt the bad guy at all, other people were that Colin had brought in to work with the band... Mr Crux
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Post by Gaz on Jul 23, 2019 21:59:37 GMT
I think Andy performing in the RAOTW video has some significance (And Alan being replaced by a puppet, although that's anther story...)That was most ignorant of Colin Johnson to do that. It was the beginning of the end. Alan must’ve been seething watching that... how bloody insulting!
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Post by Detroit on Jul 23, 2019 22:28:09 GMT
That was most ignorant of Colin Johnson to do that. It was the beginning of the end. but at the end of the day they needed a promo for Rockin' as the single was rocketing in the charts. Colin wasnt the bad guy at all, other people were that Colin had brought in to work with the band... Mr Crux The interview I listened to says that it was CJ's decision for the puppet.
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