allyp
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Post by allyp on Apr 11, 2024 8:48:47 GMT
Best B Sides of Quo were Lonely Night and AB Blues. Didn't appear on any albums and love them both. Apparently A/B blues wasn’t a contrived thing the band were jamming in the studio and John Eden decided to switch the tapes on hence that little funny start to it. He told them to improvise and it got used as a b side as stated.
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col
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Post by col on Apr 11, 2024 10:33:01 GMT
Best B Sides of Quo were Lonely Night and AB Blues. Didn't appear on any albums and love them both. Apparently A/B blues wasn’t a contrived thing the band were jamming in the studio and John Eden decided to switch the tapes on hence that little funny start to it. He told them to improvise and it got used as a b side as stated. Thing is, some European copies of AB Blues fade in, so is the tape start an effect?
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gerh
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Post by gerh on Apr 11, 2024 12:06:02 GMT
Yeah, I always wondered what FR really thought about releasing AB Blues to us the masses, cos it was [imho] a throwback to what they were before the pop-poop re-infection. 🤔
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Post by tqontq on Apr 11, 2024 23:03:28 GMT
before the pop-poop re-infection. 🤔
Never a finer word has been spoken. I admire you for coming up with such an apt phrase. Sums it all up really in one short sentence. You won't mind if I refer to that every time there is an old/new debate on this board?
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gerh
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Post by gerh on Apr 12, 2024 12:04:40 GMT
Hah! That’s mild compared to what I was really thinking! 🤪
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Post by dontthinkitmatters on Apr 12, 2024 19:30:46 GMT
Love both AB Blues and Lonely Night . Better B sides than a lot of A sides.
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Post by dennis on Apr 12, 2024 20:01:19 GMT
All Through The Night was much better than it's a-side, imo
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allyp
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Post by allyp on Apr 12, 2024 21:28:20 GMT
Mysteries from the ball should have been an A side.
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Post by roadhouse on Apr 13, 2024 0:52:24 GMT
Mysteries from the ball should have been an A side. I always thought that too 👍
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Post by kachunk on Apr 13, 2024 10:52:40 GMT
It’s easy to say this in hindsight but the B Side choice should have been a non album track which would be credited to those members who didn’t write the A side. I think that would have lessened the tensions within the group.
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