Quo and live radio broadcasts in the US

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Quo and live radio broadcasts in the US Oct 30, 2019 13:03:09 GMT via mobile vivfromcov, wallden, and 1 more like this

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Post by per on Oct 30, 2019 13:03:09 GMT

There seem to be litterally dozens of radio broadcasted live shows from the USA with Ac/Dc from their “struggling years” (1976-79) over there, and there are at least two radio broadcasts (Chicago 1976 and Philadelphia 1977) with Thin Litzy, only to mention a few acts. The list can be made much longer. I guess that bands before their real big breakthrough in the US was desperate for all AirPlay they could get and said yes to more or less every radio station who asked. These recordings are now a gold mine for the fans.
But then again Quo - how come there are no professional live recordings from their tours in the USA during the seventies? Not a single one?!? Did the band and/or the management for some reason say no? If so commercial suicide IMO. Or did they never get the question? If so why? Weren’t they considered ”hot enough” in any state or city they performed?
Or are there maybe broadcasts recordings that we here in Europe don’t know?
Interesting and quite strange, isn’t it?

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Quo and live radio broadcasts in the US Oct 30, 2019 13:44:08 GMT per likes this

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Post by MrWaistcoat on Oct 30, 2019 13:44:08 GMT

Hadn't thought of that before, there's no radio from the glory years I can think of (72-81) from anywhere

What really gets me is video. Love that little Serbia clip on the gigs board, there's such poverty of classic Quo live stuff. It's so hard to understand why.

Quo remain unknown in America. Rock musicians who toured Europe in the 70's to mid 80's know all about them, beyond that it's bog all. So could it be that nobody has bothered to look? Highly unlikely that any US radio station would think there would be any interest, even if they knew they had a recording. Probably the best way forward is for somebody to ask Bob or one of the FF if they remember doing any. I'm sure they would remember if asked

It wouldn't surprise me if there were no radio recordings. All we hear suggests they were very poorly managed over there.

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Quo and live radio broadcasts in the US Oct 30, 2019 21:59:48 GMT per and frozenhero like this

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Post by Quoincidence on Oct 30, 2019 21:59:48 GMT

Quo were constantly inbetween record labels in America. Cadet Concept, A&M Records, Capitol Records and the Riva Records. Going off of what Rossi says in his book, American record companies didn't give a toss about releasing Quos output.

The band signed with Capitol Records in 1976 and Blue For You was released but was just titled as "Status Quo" as opposed to Blue For You. They also released the Live! Album and Rockin' All Over The World. The heat album didn't see a release in the United States, and Whatever You Want wouldn't until 1980 under a new title "Now Here This".

It was pointless the band signing with Capitol Records as April 1976 was the bands last attempt at cracking the American audience, and they didn't return until the late 90s.

As far as Live material ranging from 1972 - 1981;-
Live At The Marquee, November 1972 (Paper Plane and Don't Waste My Time. The rest seems to be missing from the Swedish Archives)
Live In Mainz Germany, 22nd February 1975 (Radio Broadcast could still exist)
Live! Bristol University / Kursaal Southend / Stoke-On-Trent / Lancaster University 1975 (could possibly still exist)
Live At The Monumental Theatre, Madrid, 14th March 1975 (possibly destroyed by RTVE after the 2000 broadcast)
Live At The Olympia, London, December 31st 1975 (Radio Broadcast from the New Years Eve gig. Could possibly exist)
Live At The Glasgow Apollo, 27th / 28th / 29th October 1976 (all still exist)
Live At The Hammersmith Odeon, 26th June 1979 (still exists)

That's 12 recordings from the 70s right there, give or take a couple that may no longer be around

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Quo and live radio broadcasts in the US Oct 30, 2019 23:29:01 GMT via mobile Quoincidence, vivfromcov, and 1 more like this

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Post by per on Oct 30, 2019 23:29:01 GMT

It would be absolutely brilliant if the recordings you mention Quoincidence would be released officially one day!
The idea I had about US radio recordings was that if you for example look at the Thin Lizzy live at the BBC box set there are plenty of recordings before they really made it big (up until 1974) and then during the golden years there’s nothing, but in the end of the career - ”the downhill years” (from 1981 and onwards) there’s once again radio broadcast live recordings. A band during its peak don’t need the extra help with radio live recordings, but they do need it during their way up, and also when the career starts to fade. So when Lizzy didn’t do any more radio live recordings in Europe, they still made them in the USA (1976, 1977) as they hadn’t ”made it” there yet and still needed to be heard everywhere. As Quo never made it in the US I thought they would have been in desperate need for airplay and therefore said yes to every offer from radio stations. But maybe they where so small and uninteresting and so far from making it that the offers from the lokal radio stations never came?
Yes Rossiwaistcoat, as you say: the best way to get to know would probably be to ask Bob or the members. Or maybe, maybe (smaller chance) to write to all those radio stations who recorded the up-and-coming Ac/dc, Thin Lizzy, Kiss, Runaways and so on if they have anything in their archives.

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Quo and live radio broadcasts in the US Oct 31, 2019 11:15:38 GMT via mobile Quoincidence and per like this

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Post by Gaz on Oct 31, 2019 11:15:38 GMT

Oct 30, 2019 21:59:48 GMT Quoincidence said:

Quo were constantly inbetween record labels in America. Cadet Concept, A&M Records, Capitol Records and the Riva Records. Going off of what Rossi says in his book, American record companies didn't give a toss about releasing Quos output.

The band signed with Capitol Records in 1976 and Blue For You was released but was just titled as "Status Quo" as opposed to Blue For You. They also released the Live! Album and Rockin' All Over The World. The heat album didn't see a release in the United States, and Whatever You Want wouldn't until 1980 under a new title "Now Here This".

It was pointless the band signing with Capitol Records as April 1976 was the bands last attempt at cracking the American audience, and they didn't return until the late 90s.

As far as Live material ranging from 1972 - 1981;-
Live At The Marquee, November 1972 (Paper Plane and Don't Waste My Time. The rest seems to be missing from the Swedish Archives)
Live In Mainz Germany, 22nd February 1975 (Radio Broadcast could still exist)
Live! Bristol University / Kursaal Southend / Stoke-On-Trent / Lancaster University 1975 (could possibly still exist)
Live At The Monumental Theatre, Madrid, 14th March 1975 (possibly destroyed by RTVE after the 2000 broadcast)
Live At The Olympia, London, December 31st 1976 (Radio Broadcast from the New Years Eve gig. Could possibly exist)
Live At The Glasgow Apollo, 27th / 28th / 29th October 1976 (all still exist)
Live At The Hammersmith Odeon, 26th June 1979 (still exists)

That's 12 recordings from the 70s right there, give or take a couple that may no longer be around

Appears like Keystone Cops management as In they’d signed with Capitol in ‘76 which upon Blue For You was released along with the Live album then the Quo ‘team’ decide not to tour/promote the albums after April ‘76... wtf?? The band had just had a string of No.1 albums through Europe, they were red hot in Australia... this was a band that were ready for that next step but it’s plain to see the management was incompetent.

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Quo and live radio broadcasts in the US Oct 31, 2019 21:12:27 GMT MrWaistcoat, per, and 1 more like this

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Post by americanquo on Oct 31, 2019 21:12:27 GMT

Oct 30, 2019 13:44:08 GMT MrWaistcoat said:

Hadn't thought of that before, there's no radio from the glory years I can think of (72-81) from anywhere

What really gets me is video. Love that little Serbia clip on the gigs board, there's such poverty of classic Quo live stuff. It's so hard to understand why.

Quo remain unknown in America. Rock musicians who toured Europe in the 70's to mid 80's know all about them, beyond that it's bog all. So could it be that nobody has bothered to look? Highly unlikely that any US radio station would think there would be any interest, even if they knew they had a recording. Probably the best way forward is for somebody to ask Bob or one of the FF if they remember doing any. I'm sure they would remember if asked

It wouldn't surprise me if there were no radio recordings. All we hear suggests they were very poorly managed over there.

Not entirely.

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Quo and live radio broadcasts in the US Nov 2, 2019 12:23:35 GMT per likes this

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Post by backwater67 on Nov 2, 2019 12:23:35 GMT

Airplay was a major issue too. The last 2 singles to get any sort of play were Whatever you want & Living on an island & this was mainly down the west coast. Blue for you managed to reach no’147 in the US & stayed in the top 200 billboard chart for 8 weeks.