Dark
Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 336
Favourite Quo Album: Quo
Favourite other bands.: Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Huey Lewis,
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Post by Dark on Dec 3, 2019 12:08:10 GMT
Didn’t go to see them until a few years later on the Live Alive Quo tour, but I did get the live video that was filmed on that tour and watched it many times in the early 90s. The Power of Rock was a real highlight, and I loved Rossi’s lead guitar playing during In My Chair.
Looking forward to hearing the gig again when the deluxe edition of the Perfect Remedy album comes out.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Dec 3, 2019 14:09:05 GMT
Went to Newcastle that Tour. Just remember the touts outside virtually trying giving tickets away. They got well and truly stitched that day...poor touts 😂
Aw!
To be honest, with automated ticket grabs, non existant tickets being put on sale by certain resellers, and the abuses now exercised by some quite large and powerful sellers and (etc) ... I feel quite nostalgic about those touts outside. You could buy reasonable stuff from them as long as you had some idea what fibs they were going to tell you about how good the tickets were.
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Post by Quoincidence on Dec 3, 2019 16:11:39 GMT
Yeah, those G-Mex gigs were special. They were brilliant there on the AC tour, yet too clean and polished same tour other dates I saw. Perhaps the imperfect sound was an intidote to the perfection elsewhere? Certainly in the period 88-92 I remember lots of very special gigs with Quo Remember buying the album in a record store, and having to ask. The shop owner said it was the first time there was no promo poster or any push whatsoever from the record company. Don't think many fans knew it was out The band didnt want it out, and Pip didnt want it out either. Quos relationship at the time with the label had grown very weary and they were fed up. I'm sure I've read somewhere, in an official book, that one of the Perfect Remedy singles was released before it was meant to be and Quo were fuming with the label. |
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Dec 3, 2019 18:44:02 GMT
From memory I think Pip wrote to the RC to ask them not to release it
I didn't know Rick n Francis felt the same. Francis seemed genuinely enthused by the album in the fan club at that time
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Dec 3, 2019 20:08:33 GMT
Yeah, those G-Mex gigs were special. They were brilliant there on the AC tour, yet too clean and polished same tour other dates I saw. Perhaps the imperfect sound was an intidote to the perfection elsewhere? Certainly in the period 88-92 I remember lots of very special gigs with Quo Remember buying the album in a record store, and having to ask. The shop owner said it was the first time there was no promo poster or any push whatsoever from the record company. Don't think many fans knew it was out 1988 at the G-Mex was my mate's first ever Quo gig, and the Perfect Remedy gig the year after was mine. I always thought those G-mex gigs were fantastic, but I was a teenager and I had nothing else to compare them too (except other bands...which were not the same)! We always went on the barrier on Rick's side. It was cold queuing up in December without a coat (but warm compared to Glasgow in 2013), and f***ing loud down the front....my left ear has never truly recovered! Good memories. |
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Post by Railroad17 on Dec 4, 2019 18:28:12 GMT
Stopped going after Wembley and didn't go back until 2010.
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Post by kursaal75 on Dec 4, 2019 21:53:03 GMT
30 years ago this evening
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Triggsy
Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 229
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
Favourite other bands.: AC/DC Greenday Airbourne
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Post by Triggsy on Dec 5, 2019 8:41:57 GMT
Saw Quo at the Torbay Leisure Centre, even back then, Quo were a split personality regarding Live and in the Studio, great memories though  |
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