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Post by 4th Chord on Dec 24, 2023 19:09:33 GMT
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Post by backwater67 on Dec 24, 2023 21:05:01 GMT
Rhythm king…Legend 🎸…
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Post by curiousgirl on Dec 24, 2023 21:16:16 GMT
Good for Dave Ling. Thanks for sharing 4th ChordI've been thinking of Rick all day. Good that we can still remember him like this. |
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Post by azza200 on Dec 24, 2023 23:10:44 GMT
I watched The Frantic Four Wembley gig earlier in memory of Rick and Alan. Also just seen this pic  |
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Post by tqontq on Dec 25, 2023 8:35:32 GMT
We've read these words before but it's still a fantastic read and summary by Dave Ling. Great work.
It's easy to get melancholy at Christmas time but damn if Rick and Alan's passing still get to me from time to time. I guess many of us hinge onto our past, our youth and see both as a substantial part of what shaped us into adult hood - at the very least as major influences and the provider of decades of memories. It funny isn't it, I don't think any of us could ever have imagined being in our sixties and still getting off on this band and still reliving all those gigs and meeting your heroes as if it were a few years ago. Even the Reunion is a decade old! None of it fades. It's still there, even if Quo are long, long gone.
Rick with Quo is part of our own history and that's what makes me get all watery eyed thinking about it.
Great piece to read on Christmas Day. Thank you.
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Post by 4th Chord on Dec 25, 2023 12:31:06 GMT
We've read these words before but it's still a fantastic read and summary by Dave Ling. Great work. It's easy to get melancholy at Christmas time but damn if Rick and Alan's passing still get to me from time to time. I guess many of us hinge onto our past, our youth and see both as a substantial part of what shaped us into adult hood - at the very least as major influences and the provider of decades of memories. It funny isn't it, I don't think any of us could ever have imagined being in our sixties and still getting off on this band and still relieving all those gigs and meeting your heroes as if it were a few years ago. Even the Reunion is a decade old! None of it fades. It's still there, even if Quo are long, long gone. Rick with Quo is part of our own history and that's what makes me get all watery eyed thinking about it. Great piece to read on Christmas Day. Thank you. The older we get, the stronger the pull of the past becomes. To paraphrase Billy Connolly, nostalgia is really about missing your youth. |
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Post by Gaz on Dec 28, 2023 11:00:14 GMT
We've read these words before but it's still a fantastic read and summary by Dave Ling. Great work. It's easy to get melancholy at Christmas time but damn if Rick and Alan's passing still get to me from time to time. I guess many of us hinge onto our past, our youth and see both as a substantial part of what shaped us into adult hood - at the very least as major influences and the provider of decades of memories. It funny isn't it, I don't think any of us could ever have imagined being in our sixties and still getting off on this band and still reliving all those gigs and meeting your heroes as if it were a few years ago. Even the Reunion is a decade old! None of it fades. It's still there, even if Quo are long, long gone. Rick with Quo is part of our own history and that's what makes me get all watery eyed thinking about it. Great piece to read on Christmas Day. Thank you. Mate that’s one of the best posts on here for a long time. You nailed exactly what many of us feel about Quo. Like you I’m mid sixties and still can’t believe this band, I first heard of with Down Down and then saw live back in ‘75, still are heavily a part of my life. It’s remarkable really. |
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Post by mortified on Dec 29, 2023 7:51:09 GMT
I have to confess, I'm not Dave Ling's biggest fan. I can always detect the underlying agenda in his writing and it always comes to the surface; eventually. Which makes his articles largely predictable. There is almost always the odd passing snipe. But, admittedly, that's a nice piece and does the great man justice. I'm well past the stage of craving my youth and the past in general. It was there during the, ahem, mid-life crisis years  but it passed fairly quickly. I'm just settling nicely into old age now. I hope it lasts because I like it I'm grateful to the point of privilege, and purely through an accident of birth, at having witnessed Rick (and the others) in full flight at the height of their powers. Rick was and still is a VERY underrated musician. Rhythm guitarists always are. But without them, where would a lot of bands be? And he was the best. A powerhouse and more influential than he will ever be given credit for. He'll never get it because he's been gone 7 years now and you normally get the credit after you pass. But we know and that's all that matters. |
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Post by railroad007 on Dec 29, 2023 18:21:27 GMT
Said some of the funniest things I've heard from a non-comedian. I think about him and start to smile, grin, chuckle and then laugh. There's an interview with FR and Brian Mathew on My top twelve and it's the best one I've heard, the Henry Cooper bit is hysterically funny. And what a player, writer and singer. As Max Miller used to say "There'll never be another"
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Post by thewildone on Mar 19, 2024 22:44:16 GMT
I I bet the people working on this had a few stories to tell their friends. Plus I hope they tell everyone what an amazing guitarist he was.
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but it passed fairly quickly. I'm just settling nicely into old age now. I hope it lasts because I like it 