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Post by therockdoctor on Feb 21, 2017 9:35:00 GMT
It now appears that the band will be playing the electric show on the cruise and not Aquostic as first advertised. Can't imagine anyone will be demanding refunds as a result
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Post by viking55 on Feb 21, 2017 15:22:51 GMT
Think Francis has the bug again. Aquostic dead and buried after this year. Maybe even a new SQ album. Fantastic !
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Post by markquo on Feb 21, 2017 15:54:38 GMT
Think Francis has the bug again. Aquostic dead and buried after this year. Maybe even a new SQ album. Fantastic ! It won't really be SQ though will it? Cheers |
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Post by Whoppa Choppa on Feb 21, 2017 15:59:04 GMT
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Post by freewilly on Feb 21, 2017 17:08:49 GMT
Think Francis has the bug again. Aquostic dead and buried after this year. Maybe even a new SQ album. Fantastic ! It won't really be SQ though will it? Cheers As he says, Spud's Quo are nothing but a tribute, while Rossi's Quo is the real deal.... Despite the fact they both have just the one member of Quo in each band and they both pay tribute to their 70s peak in their live sets and Rossi's band just played to vastly smaller audiences than before..... I know And while I'm at it, I find the whole "Oh he's got the bug again" lark highly disgusting and an unnecessary remark to make. Considering the man's professional partner of 50 years just died. |
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Post by 4th Chord on Feb 21, 2017 17:30:06 GMT
Think Francis has the bug again. Aquostic dead and buried after this year. Maybe even a new SQ album. Fantastic ! I don't mind you playing Devil's advocate, I really don't, but given your past admission you post certain things to wind people up, can I ask that you lower the rhetoric a bit. Rick is gone, 'dead and buried', and things will never be the same. In my view, and it's just my view, to try and replicate the band as if nothing happened, same setlists (and it will be), with Rhino and Andy shoehorned into Rick's songs is pretty low, and is nothing to celebrate. |
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Post by viking55 on Feb 21, 2017 18:22:49 GMT
I haven't mentioned the word Rick Parfitt. In fact if you trawl through some of my posts including my fav album maybe you would think differently.
If you cannot post anything going forward because what you say may be interpreted incorrectly then what's the point !!! Just because I said Rossi has the bug again is in no way disrespectful to Rick Parfitt !!
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Post by freewilly on Feb 21, 2017 18:30:23 GMT
I haven't mentioned the word Rick Parfitt. In fact if you trawl through some of my posts including my fav album maybe you would think differently. If you cannot post anything going forward because what you say may be interpreted incorrectly then what's the point !!! Just because I said Rossi has the bug again is in no way disrespectful to Rick Parfitt !! Rossi has the bug again, after Rick was replaced and sadly died...... Yeah, that doesn't imply anything disrespectful man  |
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Post by viking55 on Feb 21, 2017 18:35:07 GMT
No FW it's just you WANTING to interpret it that way
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Post by freewilly on Feb 21, 2017 18:39:35 GMT
No FW it's just you WANTING to interpret it that way Yeah, whatever |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 18:46:06 GMT
Think Francis has the bug again. Aquostic dead and buried after this year. Maybe even a new SQ album. Fantastic ! I don't mind you playing Devil's advocate, I really don't, but given your past admission you post certain things to wind people up, can I ask that you lower the rhetoric a bit. Rick is gone, 'dead and buried', and things will never be the same. In my view, and it's just my view, to try and replicate the band as if nothing happened, same setlists (and it will be), with Rhino and Andy shoehorned into Rick's songs is pretty low, and is nothing to celebrate. I see nothing provocative or taunting in viking55's post, to anyone who saw gigs on the last tour it was obvious the something had happened to Francis and Andy, both were playing out of their skins, some of the best soloing and Hammond work I've seen them do for decades. Now it may be an unpalatable fact that things in the band had soured between members and this had caused a creative stagnation but it could be that Rick would have left anyway of his own volition, from the way things looked that was a distinct possibility had his health problems not changed that. So if Rick's leaving was the catalyst for a burst of fresh enthusiasm then that isn't a bad thing, it is just massively unfortunate that the thing that enabled it wasn't his leaving and doing solo projects but his untimely death. The band have been replicating past glories since the moment JC walked out and it's been going on ever since then, members come and go, as is the way of the world in rock bands. I went to see a band I was a member of in the mid 70s last summer and only one member from that line up is still in the band, the rest were hired hands just for a limited number of gigs, but despite that fact they still rocked the place and the audience loved it. Quo have members going back decades so have just as much right to be out there working, I don't see how it's disrespectful at all to Rick's memory, the band I was in has lost three of the other members and nobody in the audience batted an eyelid or was shouting for the original vocalist, drummer or bassist. Bands evolve, they make the best of it, always have and always will, fans will come and go too, if you don't like it, don't go to gigs or buy new product but for those thousands who still want to go and see the band and rock out for a couple of hours it's not your place to be a killjoy and say they shouldn't. |
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Post by 4th Chord on Feb 21, 2017 18:55:57 GMT
I don't mind you playing Devil's advocate, I really don't, but given your past admission you post certain things to wind people up, can I ask that you lower the rhetoric a bit. Rick is gone, 'dead and buried', and things will never be the same. In my view, and it's just my view, to try and replicate the band as if nothing happened, same setlists (and it will be), with Rhino and Andy shoehorned into Rick's songs is pretty low, and is nothing to celebrate. I see nothing provocative or taunting in viking55's post, to anyone who saw gigs on the last tour it was obvious the something had happened to Francis and Andy, both were playing out of their skins, some of the best soloing and Hammond work I've seen them do for decades. Now it may be an unpalatable fact that things in the band had soured between members and this had caused a creative stagnation but it could be that Rick would have left anyway of his own volition, from the way things looked that was a distinct possibility had his health problems not changed that. So if Rick's leaving was the catalyst for a burst of fresh enthusiasm then that isn't a bad thing, it is just massively unfortunate that the thing that enabled it wasn't his leaving and doing solo projects but his untimely death. The band have been replicating past glories since the moment JC walked out and it's been going on ever since then, members come and go, as is the way of the world in rock bands. I went to see a band I was a member of in the mid 70s last summer and only one member from that line up is still in the band, the rest were hired hands just for a limited number of gigs, but despite that fact they still rocked the place and the audience loved it. Quo have members going back decades so have just as much right to be out there working, I don't see how it's disrespectful at all to Rick's memory, the band I was in has lost three of the other members and nobody in the audience batted an eyelid or was shouting for the original vocalist, drummer or bassist. Bands evolve, they make the best of it, always have and always will, fans will come and go too, if you don't like it, don't go to gigs or buy new product but for those thousands who still want to go and see the band and rock out for a couple of hours it's not your place to be a killjoy and say they shouldn't. You can disagree without being patronising you know. The fact that people 'enjoyed it' doesn't change the the reality of my statement. It's beyond disrespectful to Rick's memory. You don't like that opinion? Don't read my posts. Where's the 'fresh enthusiasm' exactly? Playing the same old tired set for a few more pound notes. And where EXACTLY did I say people shouldn't go? Where? I don't mind folk disagreeing with me, but don't say I said things I didn't please! |
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Post by 4th Chord on Feb 21, 2017 19:00:07 GMT
I haven't mentioned the word Rick Parfitt. In fact if you trawl through some of my posts including my fav album maybe you would think differently. If you cannot post anything going forward because what you say may be interpreted incorrectly then what's the point !!! Just because I said Rossi has the bug again is in no way disrespectful to Rick Parfitt !! Please read my post again and the points I made. Perhaps your use of 'dead and buried' wasn't the best turn of phrase to make your point... |
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Post by 4th Chord on Feb 21, 2017 19:06:06 GMT
Something has struck me about the two types of Quo fans. There are those who have no real emotional connection to the members. Fair enough. I can think of Mortified, a member here who doesn't post so much, who says it's just about the music. Lots of folk are like that. Viking , clearly you are.
However, others, and I count myself amongst them, form an emotional bond with the band. Hard to explain, maybe some might see it as a bit 'sad', but it's true. How can I go to a Quo gig and instead of seeing RICK PARFITT, the machine, giving it his all, I see some young dude who I've absolutely no connection with.
Sorry that might be hard to understand, but to me music is about excitement, sadness, lust, lost love, memories, raw emotions. I certainly didn't find that in Aquostic, and I certainly don't find it in Andy singing Whatever You Want. I do understand not everyone is like that.
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Post by viking55 on Feb 21, 2017 19:12:14 GMT
Ok I get what your saying regarding the phrase but it honestly wasn't meant n the way you and FW are interpreting it.
The whole sentence was about Aquostic hopefully coming to an end so maybe those words would have worked better in hindsight. I do understand a lot of people feel Ricks death still affects them immensely so apologies if the phrase upset anyone !
BUT for a message board going forward in the future then at some point in time some things you just have to come to terms with !
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