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Post by MrWaistcoat on Dec 12, 2023 15:47:15 GMT
I've decided I can't answer this - one for the old guard!
I heard an interview recently with Baz from Predatur, and he suggested 1972/3, and pointed to the live version of DWMT from Reading fest as evidence.
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Dec 12, 2023 15:58:32 GMT
It all depends on your point of view really and how you want to judge it.
Is it the musicianship? The slickness or otherwise of the show? The set list?
When I watch old footage, of which there is precious little, I tend to home in on the Madrid performance from 1975. That's really when I'd say they peaked for me. Roadhouse Blues sends shivers down my spine when I watch it. Just the way they were on stage. At least I think it's from Madrid.
So I'd probably say '75 or '76 because the Apollo gigs in 1976 were special. All of them, including the Blue For You tour earlier in the year.
But it'll be different for everyone and especially for the band whose agenda will have been entirely different.
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Post by Dark on Dec 12, 2023 18:22:44 GMT
Do we know for sure that they have peaked? ...
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Post by gerh on Dec 12, 2023 20:56:11 GMT
Do we know for sure that they have peaked? ... huh? they're SO far past 'peaked' it's almost funny! [in a sad kind of way]
Peak Quo for me is MKGS to before they started writing for the RAOTW album. Then came the 'slide' [with a few more 'peaks' along the way]
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Post by azza200 on Dec 12, 2023 22:24:26 GMT
The Jeff Rich era i would say they peaked around 90-92 the Knebworth & Live Alive Quo performances showed they still had it and could make any new upcoming band or artist look like amateurs
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Post by Detroit on Dec 12, 2023 22:29:19 GMT
I only saw them once.....in '75 and only knowing of POMM the day of the gig. The entire set was virgin to my ears.
That was peak enough for me.
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Post by gav on Dec 12, 2023 22:32:08 GMT
They can peak more than once surely? But i know what you mean! In answer, i dunno, it's not an easy question. Lotsa variables.
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Post by 4th Chord on Dec 12, 2023 22:46:37 GMT
Scarborough 2012.
Aside from Live Aid, Glasto, supporting Queen and other multi-act festival gigs, what gig do we think probably had the biggest crowd?
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Post by mortified on Dec 13, 2023 5:11:59 GMT
Scarborough 2012. Aside from Live Aid, Glasto, supporting Queen and other multi-act festival gigs, what gig do we think probably had the biggest crowd? Probably Milton Keynes which had something like 42,000 there, purely to see Quo. But someone else might come up with something different. That's just off the top of my head. |
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Post by col on Dec 13, 2023 8:57:01 GMT
For me, it's got to be pre-77.
Something changed when RAOTW came out, broadened the "fanbase".
Maybe they did the right thing for their pension pot.
It never had the same fervor again, they were still great, they still are, but that quasi-religious experience was over.
2013 did approach it, it tended to be a different audience, although I did hear some complaints that they never played RAOTW or WYW.
They had become two different bands.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Dec 13, 2023 12:02:44 GMT
Jeff era Quo I think Perfect Remedy tour. I think they felt they had a point to prove after flopping in the charts. Gmex 89 the best gig I saw of that line up
Matt era anywhere from 2002 to 2006. The standout for me was an outdoor gig somewhere before HT came out, SG was previewed. They were brilliant
Some other points fans have made over the years
Atmosphere was best on raotw tour. The excitement of the new drone and new opener cause bedlam. Oh for a time machine - I would havr loved to go back and experience that
Never too late - the bands loudest and heaviest tour
Visual peak? I think of Quo 77-81
Stage movement? I really dont know.
Musicianship and tightness - live alive Quo era?
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Post by freewilly on Dec 13, 2023 12:23:39 GMT
Always heard that the RAOTW tour, it changed in terms of tightness and precision.
Perhaps nowt to do with the album. They were always going to become slick and well oiled the more they gigged
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Post by railroad007 on Dec 13, 2023 13:41:05 GMT
I think they reached a level that had nothing above it. 2013 at Hammersmith there were glimpses of that, Railroad and the period between the start of the guitar solo and the change to Rain. When they introduced Dirty Water to slow things down at bit it had to be done because they were getting older and so was the audience, someone would have died!!
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Post by mortified on Dec 13, 2023 13:55:36 GMT
I think they reached a level that had nothing above it. 2013 at Hammersmith there were glimpses of that, Railroad and the period between the start of the guitar solo and the change to Rain. When they introduced Dirty Water to slow things down at bit it had to be done because they were getting older and so was the audience, someone would have died!! That's a good point that I'd forgotten about. They introduced Dirty Water into the set in 1977 and it was the first time I'd seen them perform a slower number. The nearest they'd got to that in the previous 4 years was In My Chair! I didn't want to slow down. I was only 20 and full of it! Well, full of everything you can be at that age  |
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Post by backwater67 on Dec 13, 2023 21:41:09 GMT
For me…Quo mk1 around about 1977/78. Quo mk2…1990/92 & a resurgence in 2002.
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