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Post by markquo on Apr 28, 2017 18:41:53 GMT
Without Alan there is no Quo IMO Cheers
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Post by derryquo on Apr 28, 2017 20:32:30 GMT
My definition of cq fan is simple. Ones who accepted fredie for one of shows. And then accepted Rick's departure even before he died. Far too simple...and unfair! We've both spent 30+ years following the band to here,and there can't much official SQ left. It's rational for fans just like us to think "well I've come this far, daft to walk away now before the end ". Neither does that mean they are happy with the way things have gone and are going. Well personally I have no problem walking away. I genuinely wouldn't watch this band in the back yard free
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Post by dontquoteme on Apr 28, 2017 21:11:33 GMT
Its not a band anymore, it's a solo project.
If I am being brutally honest I would probably have felt that way even if it was just Rick or Alan or John left on their own playing under the Status Quo banner.
Somehow I never had the affinity with Rossi. He was always my least favourite member of the 4. So really it's been easy for me to say cheers for the memories but I've had my lot.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Apr 29, 2017 13:38:22 GMT
Quo means different things to different people. Pretty much like life in general. Quo to me was the hard rock band of the 70s/early 80s which i was lucky enough to see the final throes of the frantic four. I always went to see them live after the FF broke up and subsequent line ups because Rossi and particularly Parfitt were still there and although i only went for half a set (the songs written before 82/83) it was a pilgrimage I always made as the classics made up for the other crap. Watching Rick play Rain was worth the ticket money alone. Now Rick's gone it's all over for me but if others want to keep going fair enough. I'm not that bothered either way. It's been clear for a long time Rossi gets what Rossi wants and if the punters keep buying the tickets then good luck to them. No one is forcing anyone to go. Some might regard it as a lack of respect etc. but we all have different views on that. Even before Rick died it was clear the band was carrying on in some form without him so in that respect him dying didn't change the long term plan as he wasn't part of it anyway. i find it hard to comprehend anyone who would prefer the post FF split up Quo to the FF but i guess it maybe depends where you came in. To my ears they've never released anything that comes even close to the FF output of the 70s but maybe some folk think In the Army Now is the greatest song they've ever done. I'd question their sanity but they're entitled to their opinion. So in summary if Rossi wants to continue with Quo and people want to go and see it then carry on. Nothing I say or do on a Quo forum is going to change that and as i said atthe beginning Quo means different things to different people and not worth getting too worked up about. I find it sad when some fans seem to want the band eliminated so that their personal fave era can be preserved like a royal burial/Great Pyramid temple to their good memories and lost youth. Life brings disappointments. It is said that, if you had a good time when you are young, you will find getting old harder to deal with, and vice versa. I don't know how general that is, but it has the Sting of Truth about it, I always think.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Apr 29, 2017 14:06:32 GMT
My definition of cq fan is simple. Ones who accepted fredie for one of shows. And then accepted Rick's departure even before he died. Technically, derry is unarguable. CQ means "current Quo" and he's describing recent manifestations of Quo. So I am probably not a CQ fan, in that, the band and its projects as it now is, is probably not the band I would have become a rabid fan of, though it's quite likely that if someone had ticketed me to see the Last Electrics gigs early enough in the tour, I would have been inclined, if I had the resources, to give it another go. I don't know, I'll never occupy that niche. (This doesn't include going overseas, BTW.) On the other hand, I am a Status Quo fan. It can't be helped. I am still a fan, the neurotoxin is still running in my veins. This must mean that I share SOME of the same musical genes with other rabid Quo fans of the same ilk, though maybe not many with some others, and still less with, say, rabid AC/DC fans, though I am an admirer of that band. Even if I don't share any other music-type genes with any other Quo fan anywhere. Which is statistically unlikely, I mean, I know there are admirers of Iron Maiden among our number, but just saying. Quo is really the live band to me. It kept a setlist that I cared about long enough. I am not sure that it has changed enough to (have kept) me away even now, but it is weaker, no doubt about that. Acquostic isn't a positive draw for me, though (like the curates egg) it is good in parts. As I detected long before I became a fan, the tendrils of a band that was going to be really great, so I have for a while been detecting the tendrils of a band where a certain person anyway is tending to get tired and bored. But he has to keep going because, as my ancient Ma in law says, the alternative isn't that great.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2017 17:50:16 GMT
I wonder what percentage of the crowd from the reunion gigs is that would call whats going on now as STATUS QUO ?, just a guess but id say around 5%-10% , them crowds back then spoke volume on what fans wanted .
Whats going on now is quite frankly a farce .
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2017 15:24:42 GMT
It was stark how many who usually attended/attend the RAOTW bop were AWOL at the reunions. The converse is true of course
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Post by MrWaistcoat on May 1, 2017 9:26:44 GMT
I was at a family event yesterday and was asked if Quo had any plans since Rick's death
With real disapproval I instantly shot back with "they are just carrying on as if nothings happened...I'm done with them now." - and the rest of the family nodded with distaste. I surprised myself as I didn't know I felt like that....it just came out. Think Rick's death is still raw.
Suppose Francis is entitled to follow the money and end the band in this totally crap way. I'm equally entitled to walk away.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on May 1, 2017 9:49:02 GMT
It was stark how many who usually attended/attend the RAOTW bop were AWOL at the reunions. The converse is true of course Also true that many who followed Quo in the 70s did not attend the Reunions, not because they didn't know about it (though I think that many didn't) but because, well, that was then and this is now, and they were content with their memories.
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Post by Victor on May 1, 2017 10:34:50 GMT
I was at a family event yesterday and was asked if Quo had any plans since Rick's death With real disapproval I instantly shot back with "they are just carrying on as if nothings happened...I'm done with them now." - and the rest of the family nodded with distaste. I surprised myself as I didn't know I felt like that....it just came out. Think Rick's death is still raw. Suppose Francis is entitled to follow the money and end the band in this totally crap way. I'm equally entitled to walk away. Quoted for truth
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2017 10:50:22 GMT
It was stark how many who usually attended/attend the RAOTW bop were AWOL at the reunions. The converse is true of course Also true that many who followed Quo in the 70s did not attend the Reunions, not because they didn't know about it (though I think that many didn't) but because, well, that was then and this is now, and they were content with their memories. Yes, you are likely right.
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