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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2015 16:04:41 GMT
I can't remember the last time there was such a lack of interest in a Quo tour as there appears to be about this one.
Third gig tonight and a complete lack of 'tour topics' on this (and the other) message board.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2015 16:16:44 GMT
Really strange with all the setlist changes...lol
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2015 16:30:31 GMT
I knew the first comment back would mention the dreaded set list!
Just though by now we would have some topics from someone admitting to going to a gig...
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Post by lazypokerblues on Dec 1, 2015 16:48:36 GMT
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Post by madtom on Dec 1, 2015 17:32:10 GMT
Does anyone know what the attendance has been like?
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Post by lazypokerblues on Dec 1, 2015 17:43:04 GMT
Sold out in Blackpool and Manchester. The arenas with 2/3 of the seats curtained off will also appear to be busy.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2015 20:42:57 GMT
I'm going to Brum.....I'm sure I will enjoy it when I'm there but I'm not feeling it yet.
Shame.....
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Post by smq on Dec 1, 2015 20:58:48 GMT
Doing Brighton mainly because I think there won't be many opportunities left
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Post by Revolter on Dec 2, 2015 1:37:16 GMT
Fans realize more than ever now that the band are nearing the end - comments made by band members nowadays are largely negative. Combine this with the fact that Quo have run out of ideas (every product in recent years a permutation of the Quo name - QPQ, BQ, Aquostic), DVDs/boxsets out every six months, re-issues inbetween. It has literally been non-stop.
Accept No Substitute? The crossed guitars yet again. The pub theme (how highly original...). Another hits package - just like Aquostic. "But that was done acoustically..." And??? Still the same songs, over and over and over again. Absolutely sick of the sight of them.
FITLC - Quo at their lowest. They bounced back. No chance of that this time. Face it... Quo are finished.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Dec 2, 2015 13:21:48 GMT
I can't remember the last time there was such a lack of interest in a Quo tour as there appears to be about this one.
Third gig tonight and a complete lack of 'tour topics' on this (and the other) message board. You are absolutely right. Very strange? Yes Unexpected? No
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Post by paul70 on Dec 2, 2015 13:29:46 GMT
Poor youtube vids are often just 'poor youtube vids'. But if forget moanings bout' the setlist - quo is still great live act
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Post by cooliquo on Dec 5, 2015 11:18:23 GMT
It literally just occurred to me that Quo were in Glasgow last night.
Usually I'd either be at the gig or I'd be checking the messageboards to find out how the gig went and to catch any videos..
Completely forgot about them this year....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2015 13:27:46 GMT
I do wonder if CQ have become an imitation of themselves in the way that it has been suggested for so long that CQ had become an imitation of the FF. If the FF were original first generation Quo and the post 86 incarnation were second generation - then the sense of the current band being out of touch with both FF and CQ fans on this site suggests that a third generation is born.
If we take this as true, that actually logically implies that there is a new third generation of fans to whom very few of any of us on this site belong to and the bands efforts are concentrated on pleasing them.
I think that even on C&C where a large percentage of CQ support has existed, regardless of resistance to change by the band, this also now applies with the disappointment and feeling of alienation expressed over there
On that basis it is maybe no surprise that the cries for changes in songs, and attitude towards gigs falls on deaf ears.
The FTMO article with bemusement from Francis over suggestions they don't care about fans may be answered in this way. They do indeed care, but they care now for the greatest hits package generation who happily fill up concert halls and give the impression of solid unity behind the band. There is solid unity, but it no longer applies to the large majority of fans who have been there for all, most, or even half the journey - but a newest generation who lap up the re-constitutions of greatest hits packages. Aquostic played its part in this too,
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2015 13:58:13 GMT
Edited that last sentence to correct to 'majority of fans' !
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Post by Revolter on Dec 5, 2015 16:01:10 GMT
The third generation (the casuals) isn't new - it's always been there. One reason I think fans have become frustrated is because at a time when Quo's output is supposed to have improved (1999 onwards), the set has become more and more static. During the 80s and particularly the 90s, with the band being reduced to cheap stunts, it was perhaps seen that the band were fighting for survival, therefore the band just being able to play a gig was enough, and the set being changed was a bonus.
Now the band are on a better financial foot and more highly regarded in the media, perhaps the band don't feel the need to please the hardcore? I can see why, as when ITABW, BEL and OB have been added to the set, they've went down like a damp squib.
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