Thoughts about Quo.

There's a lot of people out there who think the same..
I'm not quite but almost one of them.. 🥴🙄😢

In one aspect I say good on him for staying in the game for so long and being successful at that, despite the sell out and cringe worthy tactics he took to stay in the limelight at any expense. I guess he made a good living out of the Quo name and hard to begrudge him that.

But ... Quo as a band will always leave a bad taste in my mouth for what Rossi did to the brand and its legacy. Hard to fathom anyone almost obliterating their past and trying to rewrite history when it is clear to everyone who lived through this band just how brilliant the classic line up was and how he owes 100% of his success to that 1972 - 1981/84 period of the band. Instead of shitting on the old Quo he should be praising how damn good they were and that the new Quo are simply a different version under his command and direction. Without them all as Quo doing what they did back in the day, Rossi would never have made it past the club circuit playing his cabaret music (which is actually true for all of them as individual musicians), hence the magic of the four was only there when combined as a whole.

It's funny though, 30 years of shitting on the classic line up and its musical legacy and now with his talk shows, it is ALL about that period of the band.

At the end of the day he couldn't work with John, he couldn't work with Alan, he put up with, because he could exert control, Rick. He had a falling out with management, with Bob Young (even if contrived) and god knows who else has suffered under his egotistical ways. At the end of the day the buck stops with him. I love him for what he contributed to the classic Quo and idolised him for over a decade but will forever consider him the catalyst for taking the Quo name and dragging it through the dirt to suit his own personal agenda and having ZERO respect for the fans who put him where he is/was.

But hey, it happens every day in the business world. I guess the music industry is no different.

I don't even think along these personal lines. I don't know him. Never spent more than 5 minutes in his company and, even then, only when he's had his Quo hat on. 

He was my hero for a long time. He probably still is to some extent (hence the avatar), but you grow out of that. Or at least you should. Mind you, seeing him in his pomp back in the mid-70's still sends shivers down my spine. Trouble is, there's very little filmed material to see, which actually adds to the mystique.  

I might moan about it occasionally, but I don't care about his personality. I don't care about his musical tastes or his drive to run Quo like a business, ploughing a furrow through the light entertainment/daytime TV industry. I respect him immensely for what he's given me, even from a distance, throughout my entire adult life. 

But he's not my mate and if he happens to be someone who, if I knew him well, I'd rather not spend time with, I don't care about that either. 

Fandom is a very fickle thing. If the object of the worship does the opposite of what the fan wants, he's the devil incarnate for ruining the expectation. Even if that expectation is unrealistic (anyone read any of the K-Pop revelations lately?). Because when the 25-year old becomes the 40-year old and beyond, they change. Don't we all.

He's made some wrong decisions and he's made some right ones. That makes him precisely the same as the rest of us. If that's a shock to the system, it's a shock to my system that anyone can't see that.

Or maybe it isn't. 

These days it seems, more than ever before, that it’s all just about the money. As we are all now getting on (assuming you are a long-time fan)
most of that era of bands and artists are reaching the end of their careers so they will extract as much money out of us as they can before they go. How many times have you bought Quo’s PYE era material? Yet here it is again presented in a nice new box set. Do I want it? Yes, I do but I got made redundant in February so that’s not going to happen. I have all the deluxe editions of this album or that and they would probably pull me in again with whatever format comes out next (but financially, not now). The prices of everything seems extortionate to me, books costing £50-£100 pounds, Mark Knopfler’s new album £50 on vinyl. No thanks I’m done with it all. I love the guys for the music they’ve given us, no-one hit the mark for me like the classic Quo did, but I’ll no longer be a cash cow.

Sad old, bitter men going off on here!

Fully endorse the comments of Mr Mortified, we don't own him. He is a businessman free to do what he wants. Don't like it, don't buy it. Above all don't live it.

Showing gratitude for the phenomenal catalogue of work out there should nullify any need to attack one person for changing things to keep relevant. Just makes you internally angry, nothing else. But such is the way of the interwebz these days.

As for all that has happened, to paraphrase a well known poet - "can't be done, poop, it's done, and thank Christ for yesterday.."

Let's avoid any name calling folks.

EoTR was 40 years ago ffs…. i dont know what sort of life someone has to worry about this in 2024. we don’t know these guys, what they had to put up with , but this is their job. seems mad to us, but not them. when i was 16 i thought they’d never split, didnt take drugs etc. but they did…john left ( sacked, whatever ) & got over it, likewise alan & i got over it… i’m 60 now & i still enjoy seeing them… it hasnt been 1975 for a long time & i find some of these threads astonishing … &