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Post by Railroad17 on Apr 16, 2016 20:01:55 GMT
Did you go to the 86 ITAN tour? I went to Hammersmith...what a shock that was.I thought it be would be OK without Lancaster,yellow jersey for that one.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Apr 17, 2016 8:01:24 GMT
If you never saw Quo live in the seventies, I feel sorry for you. That's why all this endless bollocks about CQ v FF is tedious shite. If you've only ever seen the band from the mid eighties onwards, you have no fucking idea what you're talking about. Sad, but true. Thank goodness I saw them in the early eighties. Me too.
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Post by Victor on Apr 17, 2016 8:36:47 GMT
Did you go to the 86 ITAN tour? I went to Hammersmith...what a shock that was.I thought it be would be OK without Lancaster,yellow jersey for that one. I was at a concert in 86 and heard dreaming for the first time and saw Rhino making his piruettes...remember thinking " what the bloody hell is THAT ? "
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Post by curiousgirl on Apr 17, 2016 9:57:12 GMT
Did you go to the 86 ITAN tour? I went to Hammersmith...what a shock that was.I thought it be would be OK without Lancaster,yellow jersey for that one. I was at a concert in 86 and heard dreaming for the first time and saw Rhino making his piruettes...remember thinking " what the bloody hell is THAT ? " I'm not laughing at you Victor, because I'm sure I would have thought the same. But your description of your experience is funny.
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Post by Victor on Apr 17, 2016 9:59:20 GMT
I was at a concert in 86 and heard dreaming for the first time and saw Rhino making his piruettes...remember thinking " what the bloody hell is THAT ? " I'm not laughing at you Victor, because I'm sure I would have thought the same. But your description of your experience is funny. LOL CG ! Oh I can understand the laugh about it ! But really...when I heard those darn synth trumpets and saw the piruettes...my face must have been an expression of total unbelief !
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Post by wolfman on Apr 17, 2016 10:33:36 GMT
Sheffield was the place to be back then...they got banned from the city hall for a couple of years .....ask tramper...
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Post by curiousgirl on Apr 17, 2016 10:47:31 GMT
I'm not laughing at you Victor, because I'm sure I would have thought the same. But your description of your experience is funny. LOL CG ! Oh I can understand the laugh about it ! But really...when I heard those darn synth trumpets and saw the piruettes...my face must have been an expression of total unbelief ! If I was there I would not be laughing. I would have felt sick and disappointed. By 86, I was a in world where no-one would have ever been a Quo fan and I put them out of my head, as I really wanted to fit in. New chapter in my life. So I missed this dreadful experience.
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Post by curiousgirl on Apr 17, 2016 10:49:48 GMT
I also think its easy to forget we were all pretty young then with the intense feelings of youth. When I saw the film Hello Quo and saw Alan/John again after all those years - I'd seen clips/interviews of Rick/Francis from 2002 onwards but not live - I was right back there in my bedroom, with posters on the wall. They'll always be perfect for me back then. btw - John C shook my hand again at his gig last weekend. And that was like my poster reaching out of the wall to me.
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Post by dennis on Apr 17, 2016 11:46:20 GMT
I'm not laughing at you Victor, because I'm sure I would have thought the same. But your description of your experience is funny. LOL CG ! Oh I can understand the laugh about it ! But really...when I heard those darn synth trumpets and saw the piruettes...my face must have been an expression of total unbelief ! The point I realised it really was all over - until the reunions anyway. It amazes me they've managed to keep an audience over the last 30 years. Maybe that's down to some sense of blind loyalty on the part of some, I just don't understand it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2016 12:34:55 GMT
Dreamin, as I have said before, was my first real OMG moment with Quo
But the live gig was still a much better experience than Dreamin - the song and video had been, even though it was obviously nothing the same as it had been. So it wasn't enough to dissuade me from seeing the new band a couple of times in the few years after 1986.
But the peak fan period was over, and it has mainly been album listening that has followed
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Post by Victor on Apr 17, 2016 12:40:30 GMT
Dreamin, as I have said before, was my first real OMG moment with Quo
But the live gig was still a much better experience than Dreamin - the song and video had been, even though it was obviously nothing the same as it had been. So it wasn't enough to dissuade me from seeing the new band a couple of times in the few years after 1986.
But the peak fan period was over, and it has mainly been album listening that has followed
Yep. I kept listening too after 82, in the false hope something would get better again... I even went to a few gigs back then... but it just was nothing like it had been before 83... It never came back untill the reunion. Yes, there are some CQ albums I do like (UTI, QPQ) but it never ever was nor will be the same as the FF
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Post by Victor on Apr 17, 2016 12:41:59 GMT
LOL CG ! Oh I can understand the laugh about it ! But really...when I heard those darn synth trumpets and saw the piruettes...my face must have been an expression of total unbelief ! The point I realised it really was all over - until the reunions anyway. It amazes me they've managed to keep an audience over the last 30 years. Maybe that's down to some sense of blind loyalty on the part of some, I just don't understand it. For some it has been blind loyalty without a doubt. For others I guess the reason they kept going/listening to CQ was some sort of hope that something would change somehow, I know that was how it was for me.
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Post by dennis on Apr 17, 2016 13:05:34 GMT
The point I realised it really was all over - until the reunions anyway. It amazes me they've managed to keep an audience over the last 30 years. Maybe that's down to some sense of blind loyalty on the part of some, I just don't understand it. For some it has been blind loyalty without a doubt. For others I guess the reason they kept going/listening to CQ was some sort of hope that something would change somehow, I know that was how it was for me. Yes, it was probably a mixture of blind loyalty & the fact that, even after John was replaced by Pete, the live performance was still good that kept me interested. I actually bought the albums up to In The Army & was, unfortunately, given Ain't Complaining - strangely, none of those post-JC albums survived when I cd-ised my collection!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2016 13:06:00 GMT
Dreamin, as I have said before, was my first real OMG moment with Quo
But the live gig was still a much better experience than Dreamin - the song and video had been, even though it was obviously nothing the same as it had been. So it wasn't enough to dissuade me from seeing the new band a couple of times in the few years after 1986.
But the peak fan period was over, and it has mainly been album listening that has followed
Yep. I kept listening too after 82, in the false hope something would get better again... I even went to a few gigs back then... but it just was nothing like it had been before 83... It never came back untill the reunion. Yes, there are some CQ albums I do like (UTI, QPQ) but it never ever was nor will be the same as the FF If CQ had made the Live experience more exciting in terms of actually playing much more of their better back catalogue I would have definitely gone to more gigs than I have. It is this that is my beef with them more than anything - much as seems to repeatedly annoy those who go to see the band out of that complete loyalty that dennis mentions, irrespective of either their promotion or Live product.
Besides, money isn't always easy to come by for all of us. That means that such decisions as to where it is spent if and when it becomes available take on even more importance.
However, if I did have more money to burn, I would still not be choosing to go to the last electric tour (let alone follow CQ around Europe) based on the stance that they have taken to the finish
All this makes the memories of what it was like as a fan back in the 70's even more stark.
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Post by madtom on Apr 17, 2016 13:06:11 GMT
The point I realised it really was all over - until the reunions anyway. It amazes me they've managed to keep an audience over the last 30 years. Maybe that's down to some sense of blind loyalty on the part of some, I just don't understand it. For some it has been blind loyalty without a doubt. For others I guess the reason they kept going/listening to CQ was some sort of hope that something would change somehow, I know that was how it was for me. Plus the fact that they have picked up a new audience (the happy clappy blue rinse brigade etc.). They have become entertainment for the whole family. A decent rock gig isn't something you would go to with your young children or parents IMO.
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