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Post by freewilly on Mar 15, 2024 15:40:01 GMT
Met Steel City Quo, Neil and some other fans from the board in Manchester 2013. Great people. Great times.
Neil deleted me off FB. I regularly post shit jokes and my own music. He's clearly not a fan of either
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Post by Xland on Mar 15, 2024 17:11:21 GMT
On 'reduced membership', I just feel that the board's appeal has become more selective..... Just had a look and close to a couple of decent milestones, nearly 1000 members and nearly 200,000 total posts! Not bad for a supposedly unfashionable vintage rock bands message board mk3 or 4??? Also most members online May 1st 2018, someone will have to point out if there was any particular reason for that I've forgotten about.
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Post by dennis on Mar 15, 2024 18:19:08 GMT
On 'reduced membership', I just feel that the board's appeal has become more selective..... Just had a look and close to a couple of decent milestones, nearly 1000 members and nearly 200,000 total posts! Not bad for a supposedly unfashionable vintage rock bands message board mk3 or 4??? Also most members online May 1st 2018, someone will have to point out if there was any particular reason for that I've forgotten about. World Asthma Day?
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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 Mar 15, 2024 19:10:40 GMT
On 'reduced membership', I just feel that the board's appeal has become more selective..... Just had a look and close to a couple of decent milestones, nearly 1000 members and nearly 200,000 total posts! Not bad for a supposedly unfashionable vintage rock bands message board mk3 or 4??? Also most members online May 1st 2018, someone will have to point out if there was any particular reason for that I've forgotten about. Taylor Swift tour dates released?
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37
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Lancaster+Parfitt+Coghlan+Rossi=Pure Quo
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Post by 37 on Mar 15, 2024 19:39:21 GMT
Yes, what a popular board that was. I can remember the newspapers getting hold of the story when it closed. It certainly had Frantic Four fans (us) and Quolite fans (weirdos) arguing with each other. Some of the debates were brilliant, especially after the 1st reunion tour. I think the membership went into the thousands. Names I can remember that are not on here. 1) Steve devious 2) crapmodem ( odd chap that seemed to adore Pantoquo) 3) derryquo ( Northern Irish fella. Took the piss out of himself) 4) To quo or not to quo These are some off the top of my head. There was a chap in Australia who was a proper Frantic Four fan. I cant recall his name, but watch out if you said anything about them. Decent lad!
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Post by Gaz on Mar 15, 2024 21:41:43 GMT
Yes, what a popular board that was. I can remember the newspapers getting hold of the story when it closed. It certainly had Frantic Four fans (us) and Quolite fans (weirdos) arguing with each other. Some of the debates were brilliant, especially after the 1st reunion tour. I think the membership went into the thousands. Names I can remember that are not on here. 1) Steve devious 2) crapmodem ( odd chap that seemed to adore Pantoquo) 3) derryquo ( Northern Irish fella. Took the piss out of himself) 4) To quo or not to quo These are some off the top of my head. There was a chap in Australia who was a proper Frantic Four fan. I cant recall his name, but watch out if you said anything about them. Decent lad! The Aussie bloke you talk of was probably townsvillequo. Every single post he wrote had Alan’s name in it.
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Post by Gaz on Mar 15, 2024 21:47:03 GMT
How about Catlady? You’d need an hour to read her posts.🤓 And I remember the biggest shit stirrer on the board was rockinon (?) Talk about winding people up.😝
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Post by cammythemortonfan on Mar 15, 2024 22:21:20 GMT
I often think that if Go Go Go had been the first single from Bula Quo right after the FF tour then there wouldn’t have been such a backlash.
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Post by azza200 on Mar 16, 2024 0:21:45 GMT
BlueHighway what has happened to him not seen him post on here for ages i liked the chats i had with him after i joined here BlueHighway, every family has Blue sheep and he was ours. He was an imposter pretending to be a famous keyboard player and like yourself I thought he was an okay bloke, but, seeing as I didn't actually know the bloke he was pretending to be, a bloke named Tony Carey who was in the band Rainbow so I never asked him about that side of his alleged life. I think one or two on here believed him and rightfully felt betrayed by this liar when the real Tony Carey was contacted by a board member and he found he was known to Carey as someone who was doing this. oh damn fuck, yep he had me fooled too
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matt
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Post by matt on Mar 16, 2024 0:27:56 GMT
Is blue highway not on here though?
Derry quo did he not have his band. Or was that Philpayola? Supported quo I think.
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Post by azza200 on Mar 16, 2024 0:32:25 GMT
He was on here when i signed up he has not posted for a few years now since he got exposed
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Post by vivfromcov on Mar 16, 2024 0:37:24 GMT
Is blue highway not on here though? Derry quo did he not have his band. Or was that Philpayola? Supported quo I think. What, wait did you miss that? It was the most exciting day on the board for ages!! I’m sure if you put in the search box something about fake false bluehighway / Tony Carey you’ll find the posts!!
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per
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Post by per on Mar 16, 2024 12:22:09 GMT
So fun to read about the old messageboard, lots of memories comes back when I read all this! I made lots of friends there, many that I later met on conserts, and there were also many idiots that absolutely drove me nuts, especially all those ”Quo light lovers” and Alan haters (Fisherman for example). I checked it out every day for many many years and became a 4500 Timer. I’m so grateful that this board started when the old one closed, I still check it out daily but don’t write as much nowadays
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Post by 4th Chord on Mar 16, 2024 12:45:36 GMT
Is blue highway not on here though? Derry quo did he not have his band. Or was that Philpayola? Supported quo I think. What, wait did you miss that? It was the most exciting day on the board for ages!! I’m sure if you put in the search box something about fake false bluehighway / Tony Carey you’ll find the posts!! The Bluehighway thing is still beyond strange. He never trolled, kept it up for 5 years, had very detailed replies to some posts, and more mundane, general updates on life. Last posts were talking about something happening with Rainbow if I recall, and then *poof*, varnished, like an old oak table. Plus of all the characters to choose to pretend to be. I knew who Tony Carey was and even had some music of his but why not pretend to be an ex Quo roadie or something if you wanted to be a Walter Mitty character on a Quo fan board. Still think it was maybe him and something happened to stop so suddenly but then I remember that the IP addresses were all NW of England, so likely not. It's usually one of the first things I check with members, but I just never did with this character.
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Post by curiousgirl on Mar 16, 2024 13:01:55 GMT
Good points 4th Chord. But if he pretended to be more closely connected to Quo, he would have been spotted much earlier. We know Swisscheese pops in from time to time. Is there a big cross-over in the fanbases of Quo and Rainbow? I only know the band name and I'd heard of Ritchie B. Never heard of TC until he appeared. I'm not surprised on reflection. This chap enjoyed the attention, the mystery, being someone important for once, in a small pond. I'm relieved there was nothing more sinister and no-one here got badly taken in by him. There are a lot of lonely people out there. This was his way of having fun.
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