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Post by derryquo on Oct 25, 2020 23:51:06 GMT
A local Derry man named Liam 'Leeky' Glenn passed away yesterday. He was an old mate of my late Brothers (Alec) and one of the main reasons why i got into Quo in 1982 back where i grew up in a place called Shantallow.
RIP Liam and thank you for inspiring me into the Quo, as i had many years of joy and great experiences that i might never have had if it wasnt for you.
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Post by gerh on Oct 26, 2020 0:21:16 GMT
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis, DQ.
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Post by unspokenwords on Oct 26, 2020 12:11:05 GMT
Sorry to hear that. May he rest in peace.
Derry, back in the day, had a big Quo following, including many who lived and breathed the band.
I also know that the band played a big part for some of those affected by the 'troubles' including some who ended up in gaol, and some from Shantallow who took solace from the music as they contemplated life from behind the prison bars.
Mickey Bradley, bass player, from the Undertones refers to this phenomena in Derry in his book and how as 'punks' they could not be seen to like these dinosaurs but that later on in life he and other members of the band on reflection actually realised how brilliant Quo were. (they also were also a support act for Quo at Dalymount Park in 1979, a concert for which I went to in a bus from Pennyburn Youth Club, Shantallow, and an area in which I (mis)spent my youth)
Another book published recently by Paul Cassidy, titled 'Get Beethoven' (who escaped from days around Shantallow to become a successful classical musician in the Brodsky Quartet and playing with such people as Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello) outlines life in the area, that I also knew very well, and where Quo (and also Thin Lizzy) were a major part of the life of the local youth.
At one stage in the mid 1970's Derry had a Quo tribute act ('Quo 11') so popular was the music. They were not however very good really. Crickewood Green, another local band, however did a stonking version of Slow Train and I can vividly remember them performing this at an open air concert in Brooke Park and the music drifting across the city. They were brilliant (and also amazing, and I really mean amazing, at Rod Stewart/The Faces covers).
Paddy Rice (RIP) owner of a record shop on Carlisle Road, Derry, who was mainly in to traditional music but understood and was aware of the level of local sentiment and contacted Quo about playing Derry in the mid 1970's but the fee was too high and there no real suitable venue either that could accommodate such a concert.
Liam Glenn. RIP
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Post by derryquo on Oct 26, 2020 18:48:24 GMT
Sorry to hear that. May he rest in peace. Derry, back in the day, had a big Quo following, including many who lived and breathed the band. I also know that the band played a big part for some of those affected by the 'troubles' including some who ended up in gaol, and some from Shantallow who took solace from the music as they contemplated life from behind the prison bars. Mickey Bradley, bass player, from the Undertones refers to this phenomena in Derry in his book and how as 'punks' they could not be seen to like these dinosaurs but that later on in life he and other members of the band on reflection actually realised how brilliant Quo were. (they also were also a support act for Quo at Dalymount Park in 1979, a concert for which I went to in a bus from Pennyburn Youth Club, Shantallow, and an area in which I (mis)spent my youth) Another book published recently by Paul Cassidy, titled 'Get Beethoven' (who escaped from days around Shantallow to become a successful classical musician in the Brodsky Quartet and playing with such people as Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello) outlines life in the area, that I also knew very well, and where Quo (and also Thin Lizzy) were a major part of the life of the local youth. At one stage in the mid 1970's Derry had a Quo tribute act ('Quo 11') so popular was the music. They were not however very good really. Crickewood Green, another local band, however did a stonking version of Slow Train and I can vividly remember them performing this at an open air concert in Brooke Park and the music drifting across the city. They were brilliant (and also amazing, and I really mean amazing, at Rod Stewart/The Faces covers). Paddy Rice (RIP) owner of a record shop on Carlisle Road, Derry, who was mainly in to traditional music but understood and was aware of the level of local sentiment and contacted Quo about playing Derry in the mid 1970's but the fee was too high and there no real suitable venue either that could accommodate such a concert. Liam Glenn. RIP Unspoken, good annaylsis of how important Quo were in our city. BTW, at one point i thought you were Liam Glenn or his mate Jackie Martin. Have we brushed shoulders over the years at Quo gigs? Im sure we have but not sure we have realised it. |
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Post by Victor on Oct 26, 2020 20:21:28 GMT
Sorry to hear about this DQ. Always sad to have a quofan pass away and especially when you had such a connection with him. May he rest in peace
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Post by americanquo on Oct 26, 2020 21:01:06 GMT
I envy his lifelong association with the band.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Oct 26, 2020 22:41:41 GMT
Sorry to hear that a fan and a mentor passed away. RIP Liam.
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Post by unspokenwords on Oct 27, 2020 13:00:06 GMT
Sorry to hear that. May he rest in peace. Derry, back in the day, had a big Quo following, including many who lived and breathed the band. I also know that the band played a big part for some of those affected by the 'troubles' including some who ended up in gaol, and some from Shantallow who took solace from the music as they contemplated life from behind the prison bars. Mickey Bradley, bass player, from the Undertones refers to this phenomena in Derry in his book and how as 'punks' they could not be seen to like these dinosaurs but that later on in life he and other members of the band on reflection actually realised how brilliant Quo were. (they also were also a support act for Quo at Dalymount Park in 1979, a concert for which I went to in a bus from Pennyburn Youth Club, Shantallow, and an area in which I (mis)spent my youth) Another book published recently by Paul Cassidy, titled 'Get Beethoven' (who escaped from days around Shantallow to become a successful classical musician in the Brodsky Quartet and playing with such people as Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello) outlines life in the area, that I also knew very well, and where Quo (and also Thin Lizzy) were a major part of the life of the local youth. At one stage in the mid 1970's Derry had a Quo tribute act ('Quo 11') so popular was the music. They were not however very good really. Crickewood Green, another local band, however did a stonking version of Slow Train and I can vividly remember them performing this at an open air concert in Brooke Park and the music drifting across the city. They were brilliant (and also amazing, and I really mean amazing, at Rod Stewart/The Faces covers). Paddy Rice (RIP) owner of a record shop on Carlisle Road, Derry, who was mainly in to traditional music but understood and was aware of the level of local sentiment and contacted Quo about playing Derry in the mid 1970's but the fee was too high and there no real suitable venue either that could accommodate such a concert. Liam Glenn. RIP Unspoken, good annaylsis of how important Quo were in our city. BTW, at one point i thought you were Liam Glenn or his mate Jackie Martin. Have we brushed shoulders over the years at Quo gigs? Im sure we have but not sure we have realised it. Derryquo, thanks for the post. We probably have not brushed shoulders. I was away for a number of years and most of my concerts would have been around London (Wembley many times, The Brixton 'Don't Stop' concert, and Shepherds Bush 'Famous' concerts) and Brighton where I attended every year for several years. In NI I did come back home for the concert at Templemore Sports Complex in Derry (and for Rory Gallagher there also) but really this was post Quo in my opinion and wilderness years. And yet I continued to go to many concerts in some form of hope and nostalgia. I did attend several concerts around Belfast (Kings Hall on the End of the Road, Waterfront Hall a few times and a number in Maysfield leisure Centre, one of which on the bus to Derry a soldier was killed in an accident with the bus at Glenshane Pass returning from Belfast (the soldier stepped out in the dark road in the early hours, without any advance notice or lights etc.,) and was both a tragedy and also a tense situation as the soldiers who boarded the bus were highly charged, emotional and pointed loaded guns at the fans who until that stage had been in good form, but thankfully wiser heads were able to calm the situation. It was after all an accident but the soldiers seemed to want revenge and were in an angry, nervous, worked up state with loaded rifles. I always felt sorry for the Ulsterbus driver and can still picture his face). I also went to concerts in Dublin (a few at the the old Point and 3 mights in a row at the Olympia one time). However although I did enjoy the band live in these days, increasingly I was unhappy with the new releases and the bands failure to progress creatively which I started to put down to the fact that they were not Quo anymore so how could the releases be this. Live they also became very stale, a tribute act really, relying on 90% of the Frantic Four material to survive playing live, and I started to realise they were not really that good regurgitating this stuff out, year after year with no heart or soul. When the band played Ebrington as part of the Derry 'City of Culture' year I was bought tickets as a present but gave them away, so fed up was I with the band. I had stopped buying any material and going to any concerts and when the Frantic Four reunion came about I was actually in mixed minds about this and whether to go as Francis (who I had really admired) and his sleeked, two faced, untrue ways annoyed me so much . In the end although I had access to the best seats, serious illnesses eventually made the decision for me and I could not go (I survived!). In all of this Quo adventure I did not really mix with other fans much attending most of the concerts and events on my own, only occasionally being accompanied. So i was not part of any Quo circles really. |
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Post by lozza on Oct 27, 2020 18:18:36 GMT
r.i.p liam
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Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
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Post by gerh on Oct 27, 2020 20:39:28 GMT
Unspoken, good annaylsis of how important Quo were in our city. BTW, at one point i thought you were Liam Glenn or his mate Jackie Martin. Have we brushed shoulders over the years at Quo gigs? Im sure we have but not sure we have realised it. Derryquo, thanks for the post. We probably have not brushed shoulders. I was away for a number of years and most of my concerts would have been around London (Wembley many times, The Brixton 'Don't Stop' concert, and Shepherds Bush 'Famous' concerts) and Brighton where I attended every year for several years. In NI I did come back home for the concert at Templemore Sports Complex in Derry (and for Rory Gallagher there also) but really this was post Quo in my opinion and wilderness years. And yet I continued to go to many concerts in some form of hope and nostalgia. I did attend several concerts around Belfast (Kings Hall on the End of the Road, Waterfront Hall a few times and a number in Maysfield leisure Centre, one of which on the bus to Derry a soldier was killed in an accident with the bus at Glenshane Pass returning from Belfast (the soldier stepped out in the dark road in the early hours, without any advance notice or lights etc.,) and was both a tragedy and also a tense situation as the soldiers who boarded the bus were highly charged, emotional and pointed loaded guns at the fans who until that stage had been in good form, but thankfully wiser heads were able to calm the situation. It was after all an accident but the soldiers seemed to want revenge and were in an angry, nervous, worked up state with loaded rifles. I always felt sorry for the Ulsterbus driver and can still picture his face). I also went to concerts in Dublin (a few at the the old Point and 3 mights in a row at the Olympia one time). However although I did enjoy the band live in these days, increasingly I was unhappy with the new releases and the bands failure to progress creatively which I started to put down to the fact that they were not Quo anymore so how could the releases be this. Live they also became very stale, a tribute act really, relying on 90% of the Frantic Four material to survive playing live, and I started to realise they were not really that good regurgitating this stuff out, year after year with no heart or soul. When the band played Ebrington as part of the Derry 'City of Culture' year I was bought tickets as a present but gave them away, so fed up was I with the band. I had stopped buying any material and going to any concerts and when the Frantic Four reunion came about I was actually in mixed minds about this and whether to go as Francis (who I had really admired) and his sleeked, two faced, untrue ways annoyed me so much . In the end although I had access to the best seats, serious illnesses eventually made the decision for me and I could not go (I survived!). In all of this Quo adventure I did not really mix with other fans much attending most of the concerts and events on my own, only occasionally being accompanied. So i was not part of any Quo circles really. G
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Post by derryquo on Oct 28, 2020 1:26:07 GMT
Unspoken, good annaylsis of how important Quo were in our city. BTW, at one point i thought you were Liam Glenn or his mate Jackie Martin. Have we brushed shoulders over the years at Quo gigs? Im sure we have but not sure we have realised it. Derryquo, thanks for the post. We probably have not brushed shoulders. I was away for a number of years and most of my concerts would have been around London (Wembley many times, The Brixton 'Don't Stop' concert, and Shepherds Bush 'Famous' concerts) and Brighton where I attended every year for several years. In NI I did come back home for the concert at Templemore Sports Complex in Derry (and for Rory Gallagher there also) but really this was post Quo in my opinion and wilderness years. And yet I continued to go to many concerts in some form of hope and nostalgia. I did attend several concerts around Belfast (Kings Hall on the End of the Road, Waterfront Hall a few times and a number in Maysfield leisure Centre, one of which on the bus to Derry a soldier was killed in an accident with the bus at Glenshane Pass returning from Belfast (the soldier stepped out in the dark road in the early hours, without any advance notice or lights etc.,) and was both a tragedy and also a tense situation as the soldiers who boarded the bus were highly charged, emotional and pointed loaded guns at the fans who until that stage had been in good form, but thankfully wiser heads were able to calm the situation. It was after all an accident but the soldiers seemed to want revenge and were in an angry, nervous, worked up state with loaded rifles. I always felt sorry for the Ulsterbus driver and can still picture his face). I also went to concerts in Dublin (a few at the the old Point and 3 mights in a row at the Olympia one time). However although I did enjoy the band live in these days, increasingly I was unhappy with the new releases and the bands failure to progress creatively which I started to put down to the fact that they were not Quo anymore so how could the releases be this. Live they also became very stale, a tribute act really, relying on 90% of the Frantic Four material to survive playing live, and I started to realise they were not really that good regurgitating this stuff out, year after year with no heart or soul. When the band played Ebrington as part of the Derry 'City of Culture' year I was bought tickets as a present but gave them away, so fed up was I with the band. I had stopped buying any material and going to any concerts and when the Frantic Four reunion came about I was actually in mixed minds about this and whether to go as Francis (who I had really admired) and his sleeked, two faced, untrue ways annoyed me so much . In the end although I had access to the best seats, serious illnesses eventually made the decision for me and I could not go (I survived!). In all of this Quo adventure I did not really mix with other fans much attending most of the concerts and events on my own, only occasionally being accompanied. So i was not part of any Quo circles really. Unspoked we have indeed attended a good few.of the same gigs, belfast, dublin and i was a regular at Wembley. The sports complex was dreadful and despite sharing simiar views, esp re Rossi, i did reluctantly attend the Ebrington gig. To be fair it was probably in my top 3 gigs ( outaide of all the FF gigs). Take Care. We have the memories of the.good old days, i can now listen again without thinking about the man that Rossi turned into,so im enjoying the music |
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Post by tramper on Oct 29, 2020 5:48:17 GMT
Sad news.. RIP Liam.
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Post by derryquo on Oct 29, 2020 18:45:49 GMT
Seen footage of the burial on FB. After the coffin was placed in the ground, the family rocked out to Caroline. Rock on Liam
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Post by tramper on Oct 29, 2020 22:33:44 GMT
Seen footage of the burial on FB. After the coffin was placed in the ground, the family rocked out to Caroline. Rock on Liam wow, that's great, sad, but great..👌 |
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