roquer
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Post by roquer on Aug 18, 2021 20:20:10 GMT
It's a good song. I prefer it more than WYW, but maybe it is because of the overexposure from the latter (and WYW is a Oh What A Night Part 2 with a riff in the intro and another lyrics). Quoincidence As Mad About the Boy or Ring of a Change could be on the set the nights from the Apollo (the october ones) but... |
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Post by Quoincidence on Aug 18, 2021 20:30:29 GMT
It's a good song. I prefer it more than WYW, but maybe it is because of the overexposure from the latter (and WYW is a Oh What A Night Part 2 with a riff in the intro and another lyrics). Quoincidence As Mad About the Boy or Ring of a Change could be on the set the nights from the Apollo (the october ones) but... I have massive doubts that Ring Of A Change was ever played, as it would've been done early on during the Blue For You tour and it's not present on the Glasgow March bootleg, and the last time Mad About The Boy was played was March 15th in Wales. We've got 4 recordings from 1976 all with the same setlist. How boring  |
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Post by azza200 on Aug 18, 2021 22:09:50 GMT
Oh, what a night.
Late December back in '63.
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mortified
4500 Timer
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Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Aug 19, 2021 5:57:22 GMT
Whenever I hear any part of Oh! What a Night, or even see the song title on the album, my mind switches off Quo and instead I hear the contrasting takes on "Such a Night" by Johnnie Ray and Elvis Presley. It begins It was a night oo-oo what a night It was it really was such a night Two entirely different versions. The BBC banned the Ray one in 1954  . I saw him live in 1957 at the Palace in Manchester. Elvis covered it on the album "Elvis is Back" in 1960 I remember my mum saying she liked Johnny Ray but confessed that as she got older she couldn't understand why. Almost like she could eventually see through the act; the gimmick. Can't recall if she said she saw him live. |
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 5,861
Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Aug 19, 2021 6:01:31 GMT
It's a good song. I prefer it more than WYW, but maybe it is because of the overexposure from the latter (and WYW is a Oh What A Night Part 2 with a riff in the intro and another lyrics). Quoincidence As Mad About the Boy or Ring of a Change could be on the set the nights from the Apollo (the october ones) but... Neither of these songs was played at the Apollo in October '76. The set was the same every night and is reflected 100% on the live album. Mad About The Boy was in the set in March 1976 but Ring of a Change had been dropped by the time they got to Glasgow on the Blue For You tour. |
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Post by dontthinkitmatters on Aug 19, 2021 8:42:53 GMT
Makes it onto my Rockin'The Heat compilation album.
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roquer
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Post by roquer on Aug 19, 2021 11:38:52 GMT
It's a good song. I prefer it more than WYW, but maybe it is because of the overexposure from the latter (and WYW is a Oh What A Night Part 2 with a riff in the intro and another lyrics). Quoincidence As Mad About the Boy or Ring of a Change could be on the set the nights from the Apollo (the october ones) but... I have massive doubts that Ring Of A Change was ever played, as it would've been done early on during the Blue For You tour and it's not present on the Glasgow March bootleg, and the last time Mad About The Boy was played was March 15th in Wales. We've got 4 recordings from 1976 all with the same setlist. How boring I have the sames doubts about Don't Think it Matters. First show recorded was the 2nd of Glasgow, just 5 dates from the start of the tour. Maybe it was played in the first 4 shows and by the 5th, it was replaced by Someone's Learning, but we are in the same thing again. The first recorded show from the BFY tour was Stafford, the 6th, and by then, gone. I was thinking about Mad About the Boy too. Just the whole UK tour of march and then, dissapear. Which is strange, they didn't do that for I Saw the Light. Of couse in the USA they played short sets, but it was back in the setlist for the European tour, If I'm not mistaken. At least they brought it back for the New Year's Eve gig (but I think the OTL tour was a little chaotic. I Saw the Light wasn't on the Mainz bootleg, it wasn't on the Madrid bootleg (but maybe that's because RTVE cut the first two songs), Gerdundula in the middle of the tour and then out...) |
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. I saw him live in 1957 at the Palace in Manchester.