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Post by freewilly on Apr 3, 2021 22:32:08 GMT
With the exception of LOAI, what is in your opinion the Quo song that perfectly sums up Rick? That when you listen to it, all you think of is Rick Would love to hear some thoughts  |
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Post by dublinquo on Apr 3, 2021 23:25:55 GMT
Probably Big Fat Mama
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Apr 4, 2021 3:13:57 GMT
'Rain' for moi. Alternative tuning etc is very Rick.
The fact that Rick played the track with Rick Wakeman & Co on the TV show 'Gastank' was all the confirmation that was needed to know it was very much a Parfitt track... lock, stock and barrel.
Never really understood Rossi's much more recent blasphemous utterance that Rick didn't write good Rock songs. Very strange.
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Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Apr 4, 2021 6:42:30 GMT
I suppose there's one on most Quo albums. His writing tended to differ quite a lot. Or at least it did from the Rossi/Young or Rossi/Frost offerings.
If I think off the top of my head of a Rick track, it tends to be Shine On. Over the last, oh, 4 decades or so, it sticks out a mile as "Rick" for me.
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Post by paradiseflats on Apr 4, 2021 11:29:00 GMT
Forty five hundred times has all the elements of Rick in one song
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Post by dennis on Apr 4, 2021 14:52:26 GMT
I'd probably go for Mystery Song as my favourite. However, I think you might need a compilation to address the original question!
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Post by frozenhero on Apr 5, 2021 19:48:46 GMT
I know it's not particularly liked around here, but somehow Let's Rock sums him up.
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Post by paradiseflats on Apr 6, 2021 14:38:49 GMT
I know it's not particularly liked around here, but somehow Let's Rock sums him up. I don't think it does, far too much of a charature of what he was previously. He was a far better singer and song writer than than that song, to say it is all he was capable of is shown to be untrue by his solo album. |
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Apr 6, 2021 20:54:58 GMT
"This is Me"
I'm quite literal minded. But it does always remind me of the time in when he was always teetering between being on his uppers and always in the papers. And he never changed.
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Post by frozenhero on Apr 10, 2021 20:45:47 GMT
I know it's not particularly liked around here, but somehow Let's Rock sums him up. I don't think it does, far too much of a charature of what he was previously. He was a far better singer and song writer than than that song, to say it is all he was capable of is shown to be untrue by his solo album. That's not what the OP asked and it's also not what I said. Let's not drag other discussions into this. I think the song sums up his attitude and image, certainly so in the second half of his life. |
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Apr 11, 2021 20:34:03 GMT
Your smiling face
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gerh
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Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
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Post by gerh on Apr 30, 2021 23:23:05 GMT
Yep - I'm thinking either Mystery Song [esp. the video - chest flowing and hair all puffed out... or maybe I have that arseways!!??] OR 4500x [alternate tuning, shimmery-ish chords, more chest flowing, high-pitched vocal bits, machine-like-tempo rhythm playing, never ending groove] what's NOT Rick about it? |
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Post by per on May 5, 2021 8:55:45 GMT
Little Lady
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Post by 37 on May 7, 2021 17:11:07 GMT
Crikey, this is a difficult one. My head says Mystery Song but my heart says 4500 Times..........or Big Fat Mama!
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