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Post by freewilly on Mar 8, 2024 23:10:53 GMT
It's more like "Rossi / Young in small talk." 1 min 47 seconds, and not one of these original writing demo cassettes, that Bob had supposedly found, has made an appearance. Dreadful, and poorly produced. Captured straight onto a phone. No professional audio equipment. Cheap New to Quo, Luke? 🤣
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Post by freewilly on Mar 8, 2024 15:30:35 GMT
Heard about that Dalymount gig from many an Irish Quo fan. Each of them said it was the best they'd seen the band
I wouldn't know. I was but a sperm
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Post by freewilly on Mar 8, 2024 12:10:45 GMT
Neither were first. That accolade belongs to the Beach Boys (Prague, 1968) Sorry, badly worded. I wasn't claiming Quo were the first. Just don't understand why Queen are using that as some sort of badge of honour when it was done before
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Post by freewilly on Mar 8, 2024 11:48:45 GMT
to play behind The Iron Curtain. Budapest. Summer 1986.
But Quo played there months before in April...
Why is Queen giving the accolade?
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Post by freewilly on Mar 7, 2024 15:53:13 GMT
Don't get me wrong I do think Mystery Song is an awesome piece of work. I just feel or can hear a pop song in there some how. Obviously it rocks, but theres a pinch of pop to it in my ears. Still a great track though. That's the way with a lot of Quo songs of that era. They're rock songs, with elements of pop. It's what I agree with Francis on. Quo have the rock edge sound with pop melodies. The only ones I can think of, off the top of my head that don't, would be possibly Nightride and Drifting Away. But even then it's a stretch. Drifting Away is just sang out of tune at times
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Post by freewilly on Mar 7, 2024 12:14:58 GMT
Probably because the sound was tight, the playing was tidier and better and the production was more "clean" when compared to Paper Plane, Caroline, BTR, Mean Girl etc
They were producing themselves so they obviously gained more experience and knowledge. Their playing was obviously going to get better and tighter
Probably those elements contribute to your way of thinking with it.
But it is a rock song, with pop elements. Like all Quo songs. Even Alan's songs. Which is why Francis saying Alan hated the singles as they weren't manly enough will always be a pile of shite to me, going by his contributions to Rain, Mystery Song and him writing/co writing Blue For You, A Year, Lonely Man, Blue Eyed Lady, All The Reasons etc
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Post by freewilly on Mar 6, 2024 23:38:44 GMT
Did anyone much prefer the B side like I did ? Top song that is
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Post by freewilly on Mar 6, 2024 15:47:42 GMT
Hasn't there been whisperings (or even from the horse's mouth?) that this wasn't a full Quo recording? Pretty sure Rossi & Parfitt have said that they at least added in the crash cymbal hits? The drums sound a bit looped or something to me, but would they have had the tech to do that, or even be bothered? Certainly strong rumours that it wasn't Alan on bass, Glover rather, though it does sound like Alan, so a good imitation at least. Genuinely get the impression that neither Rick, Alan or John are on it. Going by the sound of it. Francis' vocal and lead guitar are the only distinctive things I get that are Quo from it
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Post by freewilly on Feb 23, 2024 12:48:05 GMT
It's a mix of everything.
Whether they want to admit it or not, they needed the tension. The tension is what makes great music. Every band has it. It's never plain sailing. A creative relationship will always have tensions and be ego driven. But, in the end, it's always the music that comes out on top.
From the outside looking in, Rick was busy playing the rockstar and then had to contend with such a tragic incident that is unimaginable. Alan was disconnected being in Australia and when he was around, he had Rick and Francis constantly out of it and that is going to irk on you, regardless of what the relationship is based on. Francis had/has a giant ego and he doesn't like to be challenged. It's his way or no way. Throw in the cocaine, he's going to think he's even better than he actually is and that is not nice to be around. Add Alan's stubbornness into that, it's no wonder they fell out. Then, you add in management getting into Francis' ear, burnout, JC's mental breakdowns...It was always going to fall apart.
In my opinion, I don't blame Alan or anyone for challenging a musical direction in a band. I don't care who's side you're on, people on here in the same situation would have done the exact same thing. This cobblers about "how can I play this to my family?" in regards MT...If that was the tipping point, Francis really does have the thinnest skin I've ever known.
In regards the reunion, health issues aside, Francis loves control and wants to be in control. I can't imagine how he must have felt when the fans welcomed and reacted Alan and John back. That must have touched a nerve. But That's fine. I heard he got seriously pissed off with Andy, Richie and Rhino drinking on one of the tours. Difference is, he can control that situation. He can't control Rick, Alan and John because they'd stand up to him. Sounds like a putdown but I don't mean it that way. Francis finally got what he always wanted and who can blame him for not wanting to give that up? He didn't want confrontation. He didn't want to be challenged. He didn't want band members being unhealthy. That's fine and understandable. We heard Alan got ratty with a crew member on the last tour, but from his perspective, I've never heard anyone who has met or dealt with Alan, to have said anything negative about him. He was also in a bad state of health, knowing he wasn't going to play with Quo again, it all adds up as to why he may have gotten dickheadish with a crew member
In my honest opinion, I'll always put the majority of the blame on Francis for the downfall of Quo. But Rick and Alan were not innocent in any of it. Alan would get the least blame out of the two and I wouldn't blame JC for any of it and the way they speak about John, they know this.
As for Pete, it was a disgrace how he was treated and Francis knows this.
I don't give any blame whatsoever to Andy, Rhino or Jeff. What are they supposed to do?
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Post by freewilly on Feb 23, 2024 10:40:33 GMT
If he loves Quo as much as he says he does in his videos, why doesn't he buy their albums? Because he wouldn't get views on YouTube. It's as simple as that and we all know what I mean
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Post by freewilly on Feb 14, 2024 8:31:38 GMT
www.simongarfield.com/assets/pdfs/Journalism_3_some_famous_or_interesting_people/07_status_quo.pdfInteresting find from 1997. Exert below. If only Rick had stood his ground. ---- The drugs – which dominated both men’s lives for the best part of a decade – drove Rossi and Parfitt apart. Parfitt draws a curve in the air with his hand – a roller-coaster defining their relationship. ‘It would go up and up through the Sixties and Seventies – me and Fran conquering the world, best mates, women throwing themselves at us. But then it just disintegrated.’ The two friends barely communicated. Even their favourite three chords didn’t sound so good any more. ‘We just blew it all,’ Parfitt says. ‘I thought that everything that he did was wrong. As far as I was concerned, Francis was going very soft. I wanted to carry on with the whole headbanging hard rock thing, and Francis was totally losing the plot, going over to bloody country. I went round to his house to hear some stuff he’d recorded with the band that I didn’t even know about, and I told him it was crap. I told him I wouldn’t play on it. We went out to his driveway, and we nearly came to blows.’ Last part makes sense as they both said they nearly came to blows in his driveway
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Post by freewilly on Jan 12, 2024 11:52:48 GMT
The whole album sounds like a soundcheck. People have different tastes and what not.
The difference between the FF albums and albums like this in my opinion is, one set of albums had feeling and whatever tension was going on, they put everything into their playing and everything was thought through. The Wild Ones for example. Written by Alan but Francis grabbed hold of it and turned it into what it is. Albums like PR stink of blandness and zero emotion or feeling. It really sounds to me like a group following the leader.
As for this track, I actually don't mind it. Little Dreamer, Perfect Remedy and TPORR actually sound great live and I really like them in that setting. On record, pure shite. Not at all is a piss take. Heart on Hold sounds like they're jamming. Address Book and 1000 years are laughable. Going Down For The First Time is a very good song, but Francis' delivery of it is appalling. Wanting to be something he's not and never will be. He's not Waylon Jennings. He's not Johnny Cash. He's not Dolly Parton or Willie Nelson. That's a song for artists like those, not Francis Rossi. He cannot deliver those kind of songs, vocally
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Post by freewilly on Jan 9, 2024 14:18:35 GMT
They definitely got ripped off here in their naivety. It was the possible equivalent of Michael Jackson being given a case of pepsi cola for his 80s promotion and told thanks very much… Well, he got badly burned on his scalp, got addicted to painkillers, got addicted to cosmetic surgery and fucked him up physically and mentally Would rather a case of Pepsi over that tbh
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Post by freewilly on Jan 5, 2024 11:52:32 GMT
What was all that about i wonder? Wasn't Francis starting his rapid hair-loss around this time? A piss-take or solidarity with him... probably both! Francis was starting to lose his hair as far back as 1972. You can see it at the Marquee gig. Was already thinning. He done ridiculously well to hold onto it until 1984. I should know. I started balding at 18. 17 years later, still clinging on for dear life
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Post by freewilly on Jan 5, 2024 10:23:07 GMT
Jesus Christ The Francis Rossi band indeed
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