gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,156
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on Aug 4, 2022 21:18:04 GMT
A few interesting reviews/interviews etc. someone has taken the time to type out:
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Post by 4th Chord on Aug 4, 2022 21:45:25 GMT
"There’s something wrong when the inarticulate is raised to such epic stature that saying “Pissin” or “Fuckin”‘ rates a huge round of applause. If that’s the voice of the grass roots revolution of rock then it is certainly revolting and negative"
Bleedin' yobbos!
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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 5, 2022 6:05:33 GMT
" I mean, you can’t stomp to a voice. You need a steady beat which never seems to let up. Personally I would have preferred the boys to vary the tempo a little more" Someone who never saw dance music becoming any sort of force then?  "... after a couple of bars of “Rock Me Baby”"; That'll be Junior's Wailing then?  I remember many articles from the music press in the 70's. Most of it was derogatory or inaccurate because most journos thought they were funny and hip and called the tune. They didn't. And certainly not with Quo. But amusing to see some of those again. And Kevin Ayers (I think) on the cover of "Sounds" from March 1976 looking remarkably like Beck! 👍 |
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Post by railroad007 on Sept 1, 2022 18:37:18 GMT
I stuck this on here in 2020 and it's worth looking at again.
"It's Quo time. From the reverberations of enthusiasm in the crowd, it's quite obvious that they're the band that the majority of people have come to see.
Status Quo must be the most solid, workmanlike crowd pleasers working in this country today. They're unmistakenly beer-and-fags British. They are obviously aware of their limitations, and they are quite clear that the people have come to hear nothing more than their hallmarked overdrive R&B – and they don't disappoint them.
Within their very limited terms of reference, Quo are brilliant. Their sound is their product and they undoubtedly give value for money.
The sun has gone and the darkness is starting to close in. For the first time, the stage lights come on. Rossi stomps and roams the stage while the others fall into the bending, head bobbing stance that has become their trademark.
I take a walk out in the audience. The crush at the front is frenziedly echoing the move. They are obviously getting exactly what they want.
As I watch I realise that Quo are pretty much the Charles Bronsons of British rock. They have the horny-handed expertise of artists who don't aspire to anything more than entertaining their audience. Bronson will never play Hamlet and Quo will probably never produce a Sgt. Pepper. Both however, know their market and stick to it.
Just before it becomes totally dark, Chalkie and I climb the old tower of the castle. Looking out from the 600 year-old battlements we see that stage surrounded by a bobbing sea of people. Oddly enough it all fits together: very logical and Very British."
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