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Post by curiousgirl on Jul 13, 2023 19:09:12 GMT
To my ears, and clearly we all hear things differently, Creepin' Up On You is a direct copy of Dimples tune and with lyrics closer to the Animals version.
btw - musicians of those early band in the 60s, all listened avidly to black blues music. The Stones were obsessed with hearing all the latest tracks from the actual artists. Francis has said he felt uncomfortable doing that. But this suggests to me that Quo would be aware of blues music, in a way that the general public wouldn't be.
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Jul 14, 2023 6:08:54 GMT
To my ears, and clearly we all hear things differently, Creepin' Up On You is a direct copy of Dimples tune and with lyrics closer to the Animals version. btw - musicians of those early band in the 60s, all listened avidly to black blues music. The Stones were obsessed with hearing all the latest tracks from the actual artists. Francis has said he felt uncomfortable doing that. But this suggests to me that Quo would be aware of blues music, in a way that the general public wouldn't be. Francis has said, although probably in retrospect, that he found the British blues boom pretentious. But he finds most aspects of anything popular that he doesn't like pretentious. Or deliberately goes out of his way not to like  He's wrong of course. There will have been elements of fashionable hangers-on. Comes with the territory. But people like Keith Richards in particular are still obsessive fans of the blues. If anyone was pretentious, it was Quo in the mid to late 60's. |
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Post by frozenhero on Jul 14, 2023 7:54:09 GMT
The way I remember him talking about it was that he likes blues, but wasn't an obsessive and didn't really remember names and so on. Funny thing is that I was an obsessive with several CDs that included "Dimples", so I knew that song much longer than the Quo one, but I still didn't notice the similarities until it was pointed out on this board.  As for the "wiggle, giggle" lines, here's another that used those: |
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