tqontq
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Post by tqontq on Feb 14, 2024 5:00:43 GMT
www.simongarfield.com/assets/pdfs/Journalism_3_some_famous_or_interesting_people/07_status_quo.pdfInteresting find from 1997. Exert below. If only Rick had stood his ground. ---- The drugs – which dominated both men’s lives for the best part of a decade – drove Rossi and Parfitt apart. Parfitt draws a curve in the air with his hand – a roller-coaster defining their relationship. ‘It would go up and up through the Sixties and Seventies – me and Fran conquering the world, best mates, women throwing themselves at us. But then it just disintegrated.’ The two friends barely communicated. Even their favourite three chords didn’t sound so good any more. ‘We just blew it all,’ Parfitt says. ‘I thought that everything that he did was wrong. As far as I was concerned, Francis was going very soft. I wanted to carry on with the whole headbanging hard rock thing, and Francis was totally losing the plot, going over to bloody country. I went round to his house to hear some stuff he’d recorded with the band that I didn’t even know about, and I told him it was crap. I told him I wouldn’t play on it. We went out to his driveway, and we nearly came to blows.’
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Post by freewilly on Feb 14, 2024 8:31:38 GMT
www.simongarfield.com/assets/pdfs/Journalism_3_some_famous_or_interesting_people/07_status_quo.pdfInteresting find from 1997. Exert below. If only Rick had stood his ground. ---- The drugs – which dominated both men’s lives for the best part of a decade – drove Rossi and Parfitt apart. Parfitt draws a curve in the air with his hand – a roller-coaster defining their relationship. ‘It would go up and up through the Sixties and Seventies – me and Fran conquering the world, best mates, women throwing themselves at us. But then it just disintegrated.’ The two friends barely communicated. Even their favourite three chords didn’t sound so good any more. ‘We just blew it all,’ Parfitt says. ‘I thought that everything that he did was wrong. As far as I was concerned, Francis was going very soft. I wanted to carry on with the whole headbanging hard rock thing, and Francis was totally losing the plot, going over to bloody country. I went round to his house to hear some stuff he’d recorded with the band that I didn’t even know about, and I told him it was crap. I told him I wouldn’t play on it. We went out to his driveway, and we nearly came to blows.’ Last part makes sense as they both said they nearly came to blows in his driveway
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Triggsy
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Post by Triggsy on Feb 14, 2024 17:18:21 GMT
Looking back, I can see where Rick would have been coming from, I think any Long Term Quo Fan would have, the reformation of '86 saw the keyboard dominated sound suppress the 'Quo Sound' far too much, it got worse as the decade wore on with 'AC' and the generally awful 'PR', they knew it when they 'pulled' in back with the decent 'RTYD' and then it was back to too much commercialism with 'TW' followed by desperate Covers crap (and listening too much to Manager David Walker) perhaps the stand off between Rossi and Parfitt DID sink in with the sound and quality of 'UTI' a couple of years later...just a shame we never got to hear Rick's side through his Autobiography
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Post by railroad007 on Feb 14, 2024 17:55:03 GMT
www.simongarfield.com/assets/pdfs/Journalism_3_some_famous_or_interesting_people/07_status_quo.pdfInteresting find from 1997. Exert below. If only Rick had stood his ground. ---- The drugs – which dominated both men’s lives for the best part of a decade – drove Rossi and Parfitt apart. Parfitt draws a curve in the air with his hand – a roller-coaster defining their relationship. ‘It would go up and up through the Sixties and Seventies – me and Fran conquering the world, best mates, women throwing themselves at us. But then it just disintegrated.’ The two friends barely communicated. Even their favourite three chords didn’t sound so good any more. ‘We just blew it all,’ Parfitt says. ‘I thought that everything that he did was wrong. As far as I was concerned, Francis was going very soft. I wanted to carry on with the whole headbanging hard rock thing, and Francis was totally losing the plot, going over to bloody country. I went round to his house to hear some stuff he’d recorded with the band that I didn’t even know about, and I told him it was crap. I told him I wouldn’t play on it. We went out to his driveway, and we nearly came to blows.’ "Even their favourite three chords didn’t sound so good any more." Then came a line when the music didn't rhyme He couldn't find the rhyme 'cos he couldn't find the time
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Post by cammythemortonfan on Feb 14, 2024 23:05:41 GMT
If i had to guess, it was Thirsty Work.
Trouble was, Rick wasn’t writing at the time, perhaps due to the lack of a songwriting parter after RTYD.
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Feb 15, 2024 6:27:10 GMT
I think they just had differing musical ideas as they grew older. Although, to be fair, Francis had been writing country style music for a very long time (Claudie, Fine Fine Fine, Rearrange, Another Game In Town, Address Book and many others), so why it would come to a head in 1997 is beyond me.
And, also to be fair, Rick didn't exactly come up with much of the " headbanging rock thing". Not until he started to write with Rhino did an edge creep into the music. Admittedly, one we probably all related to.
It's that old adage, "musical differences" and it usually splits a band. This time they stayed together and tolerated each other. Just, it would seem.
I mean, be honest. How much country flavoured stuff has there been on Quo albums since 1997? Precious little I'd argue.
The keyboard/synth dominated music is a completely different argument but even it waned from Under The Influence onwards.
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Post by matt on Feb 15, 2024 7:57:53 GMT
Although I agree with Rick to a degree, name a decent parfitt penned song between 1988 and 2000 that isn’t on RTYD, doesn’t sound like Man Overboard and doesn’t have the word Shine in the title
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Post by azza200 on Feb 15, 2024 10:42:10 GMT
Though Francis when you think about it got live out his country dream to some degree with the Aquostic stuff granted there was no banjos or slide guitars on those albums and performances but it is as close as Country Quo you will get.
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Post by dennis on Feb 15, 2024 10:56:04 GMT
chew on that, Francis!
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Feb 15, 2024 11:12:28 GMT
chew on that, Francis! Bob never really took any stick for that album. Is it because he's Bob, Quo fans turn a blind eye? Or is it because it isn't Quo? It was never my cup of cookie, although I tried to like it. God, how I tried It just wasn't my thing in the end. Not everything can be.
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col
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Post by col on Feb 15, 2024 11:40:01 GMT
chew on that, Francis! Bob never really took any stick for that album. Is it because he's Bob, Quo fans turn a blind eye? Or is it because it isn't Quo? It was never my cup of cookie, although I tried to like it. God, how I tried It just wasn't my thing in the end. Not everything can be. It's part of the collection, as is the CD re-release, Tex Axile Rides Again. My god, I've even got the Young and Moody album (if you're expecting an album of Don't Do That (what a song) or These Eyes, you might be disappointed).
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Feb 15, 2024 13:29:36 GMT
Yeah, got Tex Axile and both the Young & Moody albums, col. (And Don't Do That and These Eyes) Although I only ever grabbed the first album on cassette for some reason. I sort of did that for a while in the mid-70's. No idea why. But, you're right; they're sort of for collectors only. The two singles were great (one for an advert I think?) but the rest has just sort of lain there for decades. Micky Moody, just out of Snafu, also attracted my attention back in the 70's. I just think fans don't like the country style (wasn't that a chocolate bar? ) being associated with Quo because they then can't ignore it as if it was any other artist. Personally, I always thought that the keyboards, especially in the 80's, was WAY worse than any country song.
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Feb 15, 2024 13:31:51 GMT
I thought it was. I remember the advert on telly, all barn dance and checked shirts
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Post by dennis on Feb 15, 2024 14:20:28 GMT
I like what Bob did with the songs far more than how they were screwed about with on aquostic. Quo in their prime were a rock band with a bit of ooomph, capable of producing hit singles for the pop charts, sure to win over any crowd live, & far more diverse then they were given credit for. For me, the big problem was the drift away from being"Quo" to something much more bland and middle of the road, as if they were auditioning for Val Doonican's backing band. I never had an issue with them doing something quite different, if it was done well, but it only worked in the context of them still being"Quo". That "Quoness" steadily dissipated, particularly after John left, & they didn't even sound much like Quo live to my ears after Alan left.
I was also partial to the odd Country Style bar, back in the day - Cadbury's chocolate has turned to shite too!
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Post by 4th Chord on Feb 15, 2024 14:30:03 GMT
chew on that, Francis! Bob never really took any stick for that album. Is it because he's Bob, Quo fans turn a blind eye? Or is it because it isn't Quo? It was never my cup of cookie, although I tried to like it. God, how I tried It just wasn't my thing in the end. Not everything can be. You've never line danced to that version of Down Down then?
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