viza
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Post by viza on Sept 22, 2019 21:15:49 GMT
Rhino's bass comes across well on the album. It will never quite have the definition Alan's did for the reason that Rhino uses his fingers and not a pick. But since the early 00's, Rhino's bass on the albums seems to have become stood out a fair bit more. Maybe his playing changed a bit too with not having Jeff in the band, who was always over-produced on record. There's some great playing by Rhino on Backbone. He gets the heaviness of Quo for sure, and on Cut Me Some Slack, there's some very tasty bits from him. Very fluid playing. Any thoughts? Rhino is a great bass player for sure. In this music I very much prefer the sound of pick playing rather than finger playing. That's only my personal preference.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Sept 23, 2019 23:04:12 GMT
Rhino's bass comes across well on the album. It will never quite have the definition Alan's did for the reason that Rhino uses his fingers and not a pick. But since the early 00's, Rhino's bass on the albums seems to have become stood out a fair bit more. Maybe his playing changed a bit too with not having Jeff in the band, who was always over-produced on record. There's some great playing by Rhino on Backbone. He gets the heaviness of Quo for sure, and on Cut Me Some Slack, there's some very tasty bits from him. Very fluid playing. Any thoughts? You have to have the quality songs, first and foremost, but a large part Backbone's appeal, for me, has been the overall sound of the album. A few niggles perhaps here and there, but Rhino and Leon have a convincing rhythm section going on now. Accustomed as we are as seeing Alan as the pick player and Rhino as the fingers player, curiously in the clip on youtube of Quo and 'In My Chair' circa 70/71 on TOTP, I think, Alan is playing finger style and no pick. You know the clip, where Alan is wearing a patchwork jacket and is standing in the foreground and with Rossi and Parfitt standing further back. Perhaps Alan was just posing as such as on TV and thought fingers looked better than a pick?
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Post by americanquo on Sept 26, 2019 0:53:26 GMT
Rhino's bass comes across well on the album. It will never quite have the definition Alan's did for the reason that Rhino uses his fingers and not a pick. But since the early 00's, Rhino's bass on the albums seems to have become stood out a fair bit more. Maybe his playing changed a bit too with not having Jeff in the band, who was always over-produced on record. There's some great playing by Rhino on Backbone. He gets the heaviness of Quo for sure, and on Cut Me Some Slack, there's some very tasty bits from him. Very fluid playing. Any thoughts? Rhino is a great bass player for sure. In this music I very much prefer the sound of pick playing rather than finger playing. That's only my personal preference. I'm glad you enjoy him. As a session player he's not bad, but for god's sake can he please not sing anymore?
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stringybob
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Favourite Quo Album: Quo
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Post by stringybob on Sept 27, 2019 2:24:30 GMT
Enjoying the album by and large but deary me, that snare sound is HORRIBLE.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Sept 27, 2019 15:49:21 GMT
Enjoying the album by and large but deary me, that snare sound is HORRIBLE. Yeah Really like Backing Off, but the snare sounds like it could be a snake hiss or drum machine
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Post by tommy on Oct 4, 2019 13:15:04 GMT
Firstly I am really enjoying the album - far exceeded my expectations.
I downloaded it from iTunes and on my headphones via my phone, it sounds fine. However, as soon as try to play it via some speakers (AirPlay) it sounds very muffled.
I know it’s not the speakers or method of playing as I bought a Fleetwood Mac album at the same time which sounds great!
Anyone downloaded from iTunes and found the same?
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