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Post by MrWaistcoat on Feb 29, 2020 22:47:10 GMT
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Post by vivfromcov on Mar 1, 2020 1:47:19 GMT
Not a fan then!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2020 2:06:27 GMT
Shockingly badly written review from someone who clearly knows little about the band or rock music in general. Slinging together a few over used, generally incorrect sentences does not constitute a balanced and accurate review. Mind you from what I remember of The Guardian on the few occasions I've read it when in England, it was amateurish, lefty nonsense so that so called review probably fits right in.
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Post by quovadis on Mar 1, 2020 15:08:59 GMT
Clearly not a fan he looks the type who likes boy band take that westlife etc each to there own
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Mar 1, 2020 18:59:35 GMT
Rossi would happily play on stage with just one spotlight! That's how they they cut their teeth by playing on stages with just a an orange spotlight switched on but learning how to get an audience to fever pitch. Their music and style did the talking on stage.
Rick saw the importance of a reasonable light show and would get close to the lighting designers in that respect. Though Quo never felt the need to go all pyrotechnic and would look daft trying to do a Pink Floyd!
Not sure that Quo were lacking craftsmanship. A band can't have survived all these decades without having something special about them. Quo somehow have always made their audience feel good at the gigs and feel part of the Quo family.
The days of the Frantics charging around the stage with their guitars leads getting tangled all over the place and something of spectacle were obviously over by the year 2000 but I think the hack had scored an own goal when he finished with the following, as surely the fans' positive reactions, who paid their money to get in (unlike many a press hack), were all that mattered in the end?...
"And the near-capacity crowd lapped it up... The rest of the crowd were in similar high spirits and kept it going all night - right down to the last chung-ka, chung-ka, chung-ka, chung".
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Post by stringybob on Mar 1, 2020 22:43:43 GMT
To be fair to The Graun it gave the Frantic Four reunion a magnificent review and on Richard's sad passing printed what must be the best obituary I saw. I don't think anyone here would cite the 2000 tour as being a highlight of Quo's career.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Mar 1, 2020 23:00:17 GMT
To be fair to The Graun it gave the Frantic Four reunion a magnificent review and on Richard's sad passing printed what must be the best obituary I saw. I don't think anyone here would cite the 2000 tour as being a highlight of Quo's career. Not necessarily a highlight stringybob, but perhaps a real lack of awareness at that time of just what a touring machine Quo actually were and fans were able to see the band year on year in many places on the 'never ending tour of duty', when many of their big time peers were disappearing for months if not years on end.
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Post by azza200 on Mar 2, 2020 0:10:18 GMT
They do need to improve their stage lighting set up as various vids i have seen of the last few tours the stage set up is very basic to the say the least. Having an updated lighting set up visually would improve things. As other current trendy rock/indie bands have better stage set ups then current quo.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Mar 2, 2020 1:23:32 GMT
They do need to improve their stage lighting set up as various vids i have seen of the last few tours the stage set up is very basic to the say the least. Having an updated lighting set up visually would improve things. As other current trendy rock/indie bands have better stage set ups then current quo. It was interesting that with the frantic's reunion gigs, the lighting bods went retro and tried to re-create something of the lighting rigs of the past. Fortunately for the band, it didn't automatically mean a return to the very hot spotlight cans of past decades but at least something reminiscent of previous eras...but less hot! When I went to the Frantic's reunion gigs, it really could have been an orange spotlight only though, as all that mattered in that moment had been seeing them back together and knocking out the tunes that they put together in the studio in the 70s. Lighting was very much secondary and irrelevant in the scheme of things, in my book, at that time.
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Post by matt on Mar 2, 2020 9:08:30 GMT
This is 20 years ago. Before the renaissance and the reappraisal of the band. In fairness Quo 2000 was probably around their nadir
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Mar 2, 2020 15:30:18 GMT
The year 2000 was definitely a transitional year for Quo.
Paul H stepped in for Andy B when Andy had personal family matters to deal with. Jeff Rich stepped down and Matt Letley joined the band.
Didn't stop the band touring like maniacs. A testament to their resilience. Gigs all over Europe, an tour of Australia and the UK gigs.
I didn't see them in 2000, one of only a handful of tours ever missed. Therefore can't say categorically that Quo were not firing on all cylinders but most likely it would have been business as usual.
The Journalist mentions Quo doing numerous encores...?? In 1984 maybe, when the band were flying so to speak! but not usually Quo's way. Tends to make the gig review a little unconvincing unless someone on here can confirm that the band did do numerous encores? Comparing a Quo gig with a Madonna extravaganza seems bizarre really. Quo have never been flamboyant!
Think Bob Geldof summed things up on the visual front with Quo when he reflected on Live Aid and Quo were his vision of 'it', ie. the archetypal rock band, the right look, the right uniform etc. Though perhaps had this journalist reviewed Quo's Live Aid appearance then he may have said that only Rick's cerise shirt had made any visual impact?!
Agree with some of the posts on here about being a dodgy time in 2000 for Quo, but for me that would just be on the recording side and quite a low point with Famous and the cover albums. At least just the 2 tracks 'Old Time Rock and Roll' and 'Roll Over Beethoven' were played on the tour and were probably the wisest choice from the Famous album. Quo gigs rarely failed to deliver for the majority of the punters. Quo never went in for any major set changes on any tours. I saw them on the 2001 tour and they played some tracks from the yet to be released Heavy Traffic album. That had been very welcome but that's as radical is it gets with Quo.
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Post by matt on Mar 2, 2020 20:16:13 GMT
Only time I remember them really mixing it up was 1996 where they first played the wanderer, SBYBIL, backwater, softer ride, the new album tracks and rockin on; and again the Pictures tour 2008, where they added ice in the sun, POMM, break the rules, Is there a better way etc.
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Post by cammythemortonfan on Mar 2, 2020 20:20:05 GMT
This quote particularly annoyed me : “. You can knock the big songs all you want but they do have an anthem-like ability to stick around, rather like a bit of old chewing gum.“
The guy can’t even give them credit where it’s due without taking it away again promptly
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Post by gav on Mar 2, 2020 21:51:36 GMT
This quote particularly annoyed me : “. You can knock the big songs all you want but they do have an anthem-like ability to stick around, rather like a bit of old chewing gum.“ The guy can’t even give them credit where it’s due without taking it away again promptly Doesn't even make sense - since when did chewing gum ever have anthem-like ability?!
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Post by azza200 on Mar 2, 2020 22:58:59 GMT
stick a disco ball in a bus stop blast some quo out could be a trend setter for the youths of today lol the chewing gum thing is when your doing a michael jackson dance move to get the gum off your shoe
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