gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Apr 23, 2024 15:40:02 GMT
Westonbirt was the first one recorded/offered for sale back in the day was it not?
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Apr 23, 2024 15:34:37 GMT
Glasgow SE&CC 30th November 1991.
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Apr 19, 2024 14:45:26 GMT
Alan mentioned in an interview once that the keyboards thankfully glossed over their iffy playing for a while. Maybe that was one of his digs at Francis and Rick, because i thought Alan's playing on those first 2 albums was amazing, very fluid, proficient, and inventive, and totally in tune with that 60's style.
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Apr 17, 2024 21:03:49 GMT
I wish Red Sky was a real Quo song. A few days ago I was diddling with an IA "multitracking" tracks, and yes, it's like a ZZ Top song. The bass is a synth. Not a single not from a real bass. I remember thinking, even as an 11 year old, where's the bass gone? That lovely warm, thumping bass high in the mix that Alan played. If there was any real bass at all, it was blending seamlessly with the drums to the point you could barely hear it.
That's what i thought when i heard Rollin' Home and Red Sky.
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Apr 17, 2024 21:01:30 GMT
Yep, Alan started writing all those "big choruses" i guess in an attempt to fall into line with Quo's more poppy direction. I'm not sure it's how he would have wanted it, and i guess that was a source of frustration - that he was going against his more natural songwriting sensibilities, which needed the simultaneous input of the rest of the guys. He was kind of out on a limb, doing it on his own or with mates not in Quo. He must have felt ostracised, but then it was him who decided to move down under.
But... the songs... One Of A Kind could easily have been done by Quo. It seemed hot on the heels of Ol' Rag Blues and very much in that middle-of-the-road style. I like it too though.
Little mini-anthems, i think of Alan's songs in his latter Quo years. Choruses you might hear on the footie terraces. Big Man, I Love Rock and Roll, I Want The World To Know, One Of A Kind, etc. All big choruses.
But he was outdone by the Rossi/Young & Rossi/Frost partnerships. In the end he couldn't compete quality or numbers wise, which is a shame because his earlier songs were an integral part of Quo - he just seemed to end up trying a bit too hard to fit in. It was always him that talked about Quo being a live, performance kind of band - the song had to fit the performance. They lost that i think. Maybe that was his biggest regret?
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Apr 13, 2024 20:40:21 GMT
I have to say that one of my favourite tracks from the Army sessions was Parfitt's track Don't give it up. I actually prefer that to a lot of the album. And it fitted in nicely into the rock of the time, and was able to steer away from keyboard pop. I think if Quo produced more tracks like Don't give it up it would have been great, and I could imagine the Live Aid Line up doing tracks like that. That track wasn’t recorded in the album sessions it was a song taken from Rick’s abandoned solo album Recorded Delivery. Long legged girls, late last night and Halloween were the others taken For Quo B sides.👍 It’s a track John Edwards gave to Rick(via pip Williams ?)from a previous band he had played with. Rick and Francis probably got writing credits due to royalty issues. From memory the band was called Rhino, and Rhino co-wrote it with another band member, Richard Lightman.
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Apr 13, 2024 18:22:01 GMT
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Apr 5, 2024 10:59:49 GMT
Also Francis stopped singing co vocals on parts of the song in the 90s does anyone know why?? I assume he just needed to rest his voice more as he got older. He started doing it on a few songs (RAOTW springs to mind). Mystery Song too? (more recently)
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Apr 2, 2024 14:30:03 GMT
The only song off the album i like is this one, and it's pretty bland at best:
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Apr 2, 2024 14:28:21 GMT
Bored of this one cos people keep bloody posting it!
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Apr 1, 2024 22:13:54 GMT
Is the problem people have with Rhino's singing that he sort of sings in his speaking voice, and it's a kind of in your face, cockney-tinged pub rock style verging on shouty? Not that i'm speaking from personal opinion! It's just maybe a less subtle, less musical style none of the other 3, Francis, Rick, and Alan have employed. Sure, Alan and Rick could project their voices, but it wasn't really with their regional accents in the mix.
I like Rhino's voice on his solo stuff, it's meant to be, but with Quo stuff done before he was in the band, the sound of Rick or Alan's voices are ingrained, they're part of the sound, and they're not meant to be any other way other than theirs. The songs themselves are very much their author's and i'd defy anyone else to be able to pull it off. Quo music is very niche in that respect, i think.
I know, rock music shouldn't be so exclusive, it's just a bit of fun, but the melodicness needs to be delivered in a very particular way, and i think only Francis, Rick, and Alan can do it, the way they wrote it.
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Mar 31, 2024 17:32:36 GMT
Does anyone know what the significance of the girl getting punched is??
This album will be "like a punch in the face" ?
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Mar 31, 2024 17:31:09 GMT
Glen and Rita's version came out not long before Quo took it on...
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Mar 29, 2024 14:21:39 GMT
Listen to what Edwards plays on live versions of 'Mystery Song'. Pretty unadventurous root note stuff. Then listen to what Alan plays on the glorious original. I know which I think is better. Aye but listen to the Milton Keynes Medley from '84 - none of them can recreate what they did on the original - Parfitt's using a different effect, Rossi doesn't want to do the solo so it gets bunged into a medley, Alan has simplified his bass part, and Pete hasn't the dexterity or groove of Coghlan's part. Maybe Alan dumbed down his part in order to match Pete, and maybe it was this version Rhino and Jeff learnt and adapted their parts from. Who knows!
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,152
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Mar 19, 2024 8:41:44 GMT
I want to start off a debate, where some songs remind you of other songs. I'm going to kick off with Young Pretender has hints of Marguerita Time, so for some bizarre reason Young Pretender when I play it reminds me of Marguerita Time. I know it should be the other way round in terms of release, but it doesn't work that way. Address Book reminds me of Marguerita Time!
|
|