gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
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Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on May 14, 2020 22:26:38 GMT
I live the intro of the album version....the quiet build up and gives the familiar opening more impact. I’ve never been keen on the outro....I’ve never felt that it fitted with what went before . It’s kind of country....I want to go yee hah and go to a rodeo ! I did an edit once of the intro tacked onto the single version, and much preferred it.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on May 14, 2020 23:03:49 GMT
My favourite! The last track on the last studio album of the classic era, they'd never be (quite) this good again Never thought of it like this but it is so true. It was the last song of classic Quo marking a transition to some thing different and they were never that good again on record. Great how they did this with an almost classical multi layered beginning and played out with this also, phasing in to a country vibe...masters at work, although they probably were not aware of this at the time and did not really know that they were doing this or that this marked an end and change in direction. These types of things actually annoyed Francis as he always thought Rick tried to complicate things! Rick apparently complicated Slow Train, Big Fat Mama, 4500 times etc., !!! He even complicated Caroline by adding the power chord introduction and guitar lick (later copied by Apollo 440 'Can't Stop the Rock') (and yet he did not get song writing credit for his contribution to Caroline which transformed it to a different song) Mystery Song was however part of a change ('ring of a change' going through them) and I remember an article in the music papers at the time with Rick and Francis at one of their country piles being interviewed (as the children payed at the pool) and they talked at length about the changes they were intending (and ultimately, unfortunately, transmitted in the Rocking All Over The World travesty/tragedy). Francis wanting to be like the Eagles has a lot to answer for! He did not have this talent. Why was he not happy being Status Quo? He was good at that.
There is something a bit weird about this. Francis must have "ears" as he can write a tune, but why does he think that doing interesting intros and outros and having some changes is "complicating" things? Some of the songs that he wrote later were more like nursery rhymes (and not in a good way). Maybe those people who knocked Quo for being "three chord" had something after all ... like they could sense it before it happened ...
Excuse me, nutter idea go into runaway around midnight ...
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