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Post by blagult on Jan 19, 2024 12:19:54 GMT
I don’t know if anyone else went through the same as me. There was a point. Certainly after Again & Again single where collecting was starting to take over the music with Quo. Not wanting to miss a release. I guess it was a Masterstroke by the band to start cataloging their singles QUO1 etc.,then we start to get double packs etc.,, With me it became a habit just to buy rather than the music. I’d be looking at the collection like looking through a stamp collecting book !
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Post by railroad007 on Jan 19, 2024 12:43:50 GMT
I don’t know if anyone else went through the same as me. There was a point. Certainly after Again & Again single where collecting was starting to take over the music with Quo. Not wanting to miss a release. I guess it was a Masterstroke by the band to start cataloging their singles QUO1 etc.,then we start to get double packs etc.,, With me it became a habit just to buy rather than the music. I’d be looking at the collection like looking through a stamp collecting book ! It was the music for me, it I hadn't seen them live I reckon I'd have not really bothered after 1+9+8+2 = SHITE.
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mortified
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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 Jan 19, 2024 13:41:23 GMT
It's more or less like that for me now. However, I would say that it was always a combination of both until fairly recently. And I would never say the music has taken a back seat. It's one of these odd things. You start off and it's all about the music. But then, by a certain stage, you've managed to obtain that much between records, books and other memorabilia it becomes almost a separate thing. I guess not everyone is a collector. Of anything. It depends on your personality. The main problem with Quo is that they go back so far. I mean, the amount of stuff you can accumulate for a band that's been going 60 odd years is off the scale. I got my first Quo single when they had started out at school only 8 years previously. I love my Quo collection. But it's actually worth the square root of fvck all to anyone else. So it'll all end up in a skip or something. That doesn't sadden me at all. I've had my pleasure out of it. I still do. Rhino's hideous green vinyl is on it's way
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ant
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Post by ant on Jan 19, 2024 15:05:59 GMT
As the great Lemmy once said with his popular beat combo, Motorhead, The Chase Is Better Than The Catch (although he also called it The Face is Better Than The Snatch). I find with all my music these days that I get just as much pleasure from finding a hard to find artifact as playing it! Some stuff I search for for ages and then only play once!
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quodec
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Twelve bar blues is now alright.
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Favourite Quo Album: Blue For You
Favourite other bands.: early AC/DC, Angel City, Blackfoot, Rose Tattoo, Slade
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Post by quodec on Jan 19, 2024 16:22:49 GMT
I've accumulated a lot of Quo stuff since the mid-70s, nothing particularly collectable in itself, but the one record I havn't got is their second album Spare Parts. And going by some of the prices out there for it, it's looking like I'll be that one album short for the rest of my collecting days! Unless someone knows different!!!
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col
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Favourite Quo Album: Dog Of Two Head, Piledriver, Hello, Quo, Live
Favourite other bands.: Ramones, Warrior Soul, Soundgarden, King Buffalo, Small Faces, Motorhead, UFO, Screaming Trees, Kyuss, Clutch
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Post by col on Jan 19, 2024 18:05:04 GMT
I started collecting in the late seventies, and it was just Quo, it was probably more to do with punk and the advent of picture sleeves and coloured vinyl.
With then came multiple releases, the CD, the boxset and for a couple of artistes, it became serious collecting, Quo being one of them.
If I had a grand, there would be a couple of singles I would immediately buy, with tracks I already have, just to have them.
One day.
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gerh
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Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Jan 19, 2024 21:04:30 GMT
Nope, I’m just there for the music - lost patience with them around B2B and gave up with the risible ITAN and most (but, to be fair not all) of what came after. Afaik the only vaguely collectible thing I have is the ‘Jealousy / Calling the Shits’ 7”, oh and the Rossi and Parfitt ‘Live’ LP inner sleeves signed by them. Got a few books along the way, have some tour progs, posters n badges but tbh they don’t mean that much to me any more. 👍
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Post by dennis on Jan 19, 2024 21:11:23 GMT
still got this or at least one like it
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dth1
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Post by dth1 on Jan 20, 2024 14:46:09 GMT
I started collecting Quo records in 1975. Had about 15 singles by 1977 and thought 'wow that is a good colletion.....'
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per
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Post by per on Jan 21, 2024 1:10:15 GMT
From early -76 I started to buy more or less everything I could lay my hands on, which was a pleasure for many years, but slowly - as the albums and singles became weaker - I started to wonder why, and by the time of Perfect Remedy I realised ”Wait just a second, I’m buying so much new Quo stuff - which I don’t listen to and don’t like - that I can’t afford to buy music that I actually like, this seems extremely stupid!” and then I quit collecting. It was when Heavy Traffic was released my hunger for Quo restarted, and since then I once again concider myself as a Quo-collector, though I’m not buying exactly everything, I’m a bit more selective and buy only the stuff that I actually like😊
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sincity
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Favourite Quo Album: Hello
Favourite other bands.: Blackberry Smoke, AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Iron Maiden
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Post by sincity on Jan 21, 2024 1:33:39 GMT
Ive literally bought everything they`ve `officially` released - nearly all of it is signed, my Quo collection is huge, i had some recent items not signed but then saw Francis at the solo acoustic shows & he filled in the blanks - think he wanted to keep my 7cd bbc box
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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 Jan 21, 2024 14:50:42 GMT
I'd say that this collector thing should apply to music in general.
I have music (vinyl albums, vinyl singles, CD's, downloads) that goes back now over 60 years. The music is that old anyway. I didn't begin to buy music to any great extent until I'd left school and had wages to fritter away. I certainly have more music than I could ever listen to.
I've got music that I haven't listened to in decades. Have I thrown it out, sold it or given it away? Nope.
So, effectively, it's a collection. I imagine most of us is in the same boat.
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Post by No Contract on Jan 21, 2024 17:38:46 GMT
I used to collect everything I could get on the band. It was wonderful when I first got into them in 1986; starting with the back catalogue and then searching out anything rare, bootlegged, imported etc. I used to travel for miles to go to record fairs and markets to spend hours digging through all sorts of rubbish in the hope of sifting some gold. Unfortunately, at some point, the band stopped showing the same loyalty back and I literally stopped my relationship with them overnight in 1995 when Thirsty Work came out. It was the final nail in the coffin, and realisation finally set in after years of giving the band the benefit of the doubt / hoping for better next time, that they were royally taking the p*ss out of fans like me. They wanted me there with their fan club campaigns to buy sh*t singles in several formats to get them back in the charts, but they weren't prepared - or able - to deliver a decent album or tour any more. It's not a nice feeling when you realise that all your hard-earned has gone to people who don't actually have much respect or understanding about what you want any more. This is probably even worse in Francis' case, who actually thinks that you're a bit sad to have such a love or obsession for a band in the first place (while laughing all the way to the Bank). This might all sound a bit harsh, but for all their talk about "Why kill the goose that laid the golden egg", or "No-one would ask Coca Cola to change their recipe", they did exactly that. The Gerald Ratners of the music industry... Sorry, I went a bit off topic there. Rant over.
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Post by blagult on Jan 21, 2024 21:19:44 GMT
From early -76 I started to buy more or less everything I could lay my hands on, which was a pleasure for many years, but slowly - as the albums and singles became weaker - I started to wonder why, and by the time of Perfect Remedy I realised ”Wait just a second, I’m buying so much new Quo stuff - which I don’t listen to and don’t like - that I can’t afford to buy music that I actually like, this seems extremely stupid!” and then I quit collecting. It was when Heavy Traffic was released my hunger for Quo restarted, and since then I once again concider myself as a Quo-collector, though I’m not buying exactly everything, I’m a bit more selective and buy only the stuff that I actually like😊 Yeah I think common theme for a few of us. Collecting everything then along came TW & PR and then gave up. Although I wasn’t entirely happy with anything after NTL. Sold up and deserted the band for many years. All I’ve bought back are the FF albums including the first 2. I’m happy with that as my lot now.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Jan 22, 2024 17:32:22 GMT
... This might all sound a bit harsh, but for all their talk about "Why kill the goose that laid the golden egg", or "No-one would ask Coca Cola to change their recipe", they did exactly that. The Gerald Ratners of the music industry... Sorry, I went a bit off topic there. Rant over. Case in point ... Coca Cola boasted about their secret receipe ... they they changed it .... then they had to change it back! And then a few years after doing that, they changed it again by adding sodding corn syrup instead of sugar ... it's all you can get in the USA. You never hear boasts about secret recipes now ... and actually I hear Pepsi are doing really well now with Pepsi Max (which is even more horrible).
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