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Post by frozenhero on Nov 24, 2023 22:48:21 GMT
That's a great point too dennis Bob would have known Rick from pre 84 days. I don't think Andy wrote songs for them back then, but I've not checked and could be wrong. And he wouldn't have hung with Rhino at all. Andy certainly co-wrote a few that appeared from'78 onwards, primarily with Rick but also with Francis & Alan - never with Bob, I think According to the writing credits, "Falling In Falling Out" was written by Rick, Andy and Bob. It's the only song on the album he has a credit on, and perhaps the last Quo song he co-wrote for a long time ("Invitation", "Keep Me Guessing" and "Late Last Night" were all demoed in the late 70s, but not properly recorded until the ITAN era).
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Post by frozenhero on Nov 21, 2023 19:52:36 GMT
They played this live on the Thirsty Work tour although I can remember very little about it. Everyone only really remembers Restless. How could we forget? They played 3 or 4 off the album I think. But that reminds me. Me & Mrs Mortified watched a recording of a Stones gig on Saturday night from 1978. It was the Some Girls tour. They played 7 of the songs from that album. There were only 10 on it. 7 brand new songs in a set seems a brave move. Sorry, a bit off the beaten track there. But it's something Quo would never do. 5 from Rock 'til You Drop was as close as they ever got I think. That's not a criticism by the way, just an observation. They performed all 24 tracks from the Aquostic album when I saw them at the Roundhouse in 2014 And then just three songs from Aquostic II, one of them being a bonus track, on the final acoustic shows...
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Post by frozenhero on Oct 21, 2023 22:27:45 GMT
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Post by frozenhero on Oct 20, 2023 15:01:59 GMT
Ooh, that bass line's not quite right and, well, that drum filler is missing. I'm gutted It depends on whether one thinks the fill is important or not. I think what John did on the original of O Baby is pretty spectacular, so to see him (on DVD) miss that fill several times in a row and eventually doing it is frustrating. For me personally, there really is something missing that should be part of the song. If you don't think it detracts, well, fair enough. And for people like Andy and Rhino, who have played with the band a lot of times and tried to play their parts correctly, it seems natural that they would notice things going wrong more than the average fan. Musicians can be hard critics. Gary Moore heard every wrong note somebody played. Should they swallow their opinions to avoid enraging fans?
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Post by frozenhero on Oct 20, 2023 14:53:42 GMT
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Post by frozenhero on Oct 19, 2023 18:35:43 GMT
You could hardly say Mick and Keef had successful solo careers. Which probably proves some sort of point. Keith not so much, but Mick had several solo hits. Quo's solo careers are a bit like Quo's US success. They didn't really give it enough attention to have a real chance. Like Francis wanting to do a country album with Bob in the 70s, and then not releasing the album he did with Bernie in the 80s. Surely they could've re-negotiated their deal in some way that would force the label to release those if they wanted any more Quo. Then maybe, like Genesis for a while, solo and band careers could've peacefully co-existed. But maybe promoting that extra stuff would've taken too much time and effort away from touring with Quo?
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Post by frozenhero on Oct 19, 2023 18:25:18 GMT
A lot recycled from the delux edition liner notes, but these are new quotes I like... Andy: "There's a fuck of a lot of notes in that song." Rossi: "There are also two saxophones on that song but you can't fucking hear them." Andy saying that he played on 4500x is also new. And of course he's not very nice to the hardcore fan. But well, I wouldn't argue with him! I do remember hearing drums and bass, more or less where I'd expect them to be You certainly wouldn't know it from the official releases I've heard. Can't hear the bass on them. But perhaps this is a fault of Paxo's remixing. I probably need to search for the raw done-on-the-night mixes that Dark mentioned. I'm a musician of 20 years and it my ears, musically, it wasn't "all over the place" and once Francis said John kept slowing the songs down, people hopped on it and there are posts on here and on YT of people saying the songs were too slow. Utter bullshit. John slowed down on some songs on the first tour, but you'd really need to be listening to hear it and it was hardly noticeable to 95% of those who were there. I don't think I was all that actively reading all the posts at the time, but when I heard the reunion version of Down Down, it was blatantly obvious that the song was too fast for John. The question remains why they even played it, since it hadn't been on the 1976 live album... But as you said, it's different when you're there. Maybe. I think I have Francis' critical ear, even at a gig. It's not always pretty, because you want to enjoy things but can't help picking out things.
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Post by frozenhero on Oct 13, 2023 8:22:32 GMT
Listening to QPQ and seeing how both Francis and Rick have credits for keyboards (same on ISOTFC), I wonder if anybody knows much about what keyboard work they did on those later albums?
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Post by frozenhero on Oct 13, 2023 8:19:31 GMT
Eike Freese in his Chameleon Studio, Hamburg. He‘s working very close with earMUSIC in Hamburg and mixed stuff for Deep Purple, Thunder, Alice Cooper, Saga, The New Model Army, Simple Minds and lots more. My problem with him is always the same - he mixes (or masters) hard rock to sound like metal, which doesn't work. Too much compression. The Saga live album So Good So Far is a good example. Saga need a slightly more relaxed sound, not drums gunning down the rest of the music. I actually enjoyed his mixes on the Backbone bonus disc, and think they sound much better than anything that Paxman did, but the mastering partially undoes all that.
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Post by frozenhero on Oct 13, 2023 8:14:24 GMT
He was also honored by HR1, although the selection of songs could've been a smidgen better, since both Quo tracks they played were written and sung by Francis. At least we got a track from Over and Out.
Pictures of Matchstick Men Long Distance Love What You're Proposing
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Post by frozenhero on Oct 9, 2023 8:15:30 GMT
Next releases are London 2012 and Westonbirt. Yes, the same show that was already plundered for the Quoin' In deluxe edition. When are these being released? Not sure. This was mentioned in the GoodTimes interview, which I haven't gotten around to translating yet.
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Post by frozenhero on Oct 3, 2023 22:02:15 GMT
For lyrics I'd go with PBT from 4th chord Take me to another place, a place that I can go Where nobody looks the same and everybody's slow Nothing seems to matter, yet somebody seems to care Even though it's clearer now, there's something in the air An attempt to recapture the surreal feeling of their early psychedelic work with the wisdom of older age, maybe?
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Post by frozenhero on Sept 29, 2023 21:58:39 GMT
Which song stands out as bizzare, weird, beyond genre For me you have to go some way to beat Tango Tommys in love Calling the shots Calling The Shots is pretty much an Andy Bown solo track that was recorded at Ricks studio. Andy was asked at one point about this track - Q: Calling The Shots, is that a Quo recording? A: It's sort of a Quo recording, I recorded that at Rick's studio, no-one else could get to grips with the chords. That tracks. It's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the thread title.
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Post by frozenhero on Sept 26, 2023 16:04:26 GMT
Oh, I could come up with all sorts of questions. Like if he's ever going to release his first solo album with the correct mixes as they were intended. Or if the work he did with Bernie will ever be released in full.
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Post by frozenhero on Sept 24, 2023 9:35:13 GMT
Quo's fifth drummer turns 45 today
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