quodec
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Favourite Quo Album: Blue For You
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Post by quodec on Apr 27, 2021 20:45:58 GMT
Great performance from the band at Neza in Mexico in 2003. The crowd shots show them to be VERY receptive to this exotic fast blues music!!
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Apr 28, 2021 7:57:25 GMT
Great show, have a DVD of this somewhere
Amazing crowd. Rhino got mobbed at the airport by 50 fans when they arrived in Mexico!
Remember being stunned on the old board when there were pics posted of the unofficial merch, which was amazing and recreated just about everything from the 70's. Dozens and dozens of stalls outside the venue
Apparantly 12 gold bars is the most bootlegged album in Mexico other than the beatles
If Quo's management had seen the opportunity - and Quo wanted it, they could have "done an Iron Maiden" and played to great crowds in South America
I wonder if they talked about it? Rhino and Matt probably never played to a better crowd than this
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Apr 28, 2021 10:13:39 GMT
Great show, have a DVD of this somewhere Amazing crowd. Rhino got mobbed at the airport by 50 fans when they arrived in Mexico! Remember being stunned on the old board when there were pics posted of the unofficial merch, which was amazing and recreated just about everything from the 70's. Dozens and dozens of stalls outside the venue Apparantly 12 gold bars is the most bootlegged album in Mexico other than the beatles If Quo's management had seen the opportunity - and Quo wanted it, they could have "done an Iron Maiden" and played to great crowds in South America I wonder if they talked about it? Rhino and Matt probably never played to a better crowd than this Yeah, I remember all that. There was an FTMO CD that was issued as well with interviews with the band and it had the Mexican crowd noise on it. It sounded amazing! Agreed it might have been a missed opportunity. I can't actually see the purpose of even going there if they weren't trying to make inroads into the market. From memory, I think this was the time they also played New York and maybe Chicago. A few hardy souls went across. I looked but couldn't afford it  |
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Apr 28, 2021 11:21:46 GMT
Yes I think they just wanted to play some shows where they hadn't been, or had barely been to
If I remember right the US shows were not well attended, even though the venues were small
The exception was LA. The sold out venue was packed out with Mexicans going apeshit
Also in the crowd were James and lars from Metallica, Kenny Rogers and a spice girl!! Lars loved it but Mr Hetfield left before the end. Lars of course went on to write a forward for one of Quo's books
Could any other band on earth have attracted those particular people to a gig?
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Post by azza200 on Apr 28, 2021 20:20:13 GMT
interesting too know James and Lars went what did Lars say in that Quo book? Why did James leave before end of the gig?
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quodec
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Twelve bar blues is now alright.
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Favourite Quo Album: Blue For You
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Post by quodec on Apr 28, 2021 21:22:33 GMT
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Post by steveb on Apr 29, 2021 5:29:29 GMT
Kenny rogers at a quo gig. I have heard it all now.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Apr 29, 2021 7:47:11 GMT
interesting too know James and Lars went what did Lars say in that Quo book? Why did James leave before end of the gig? James said he didn't get it, lars loved it Lars wrote a long forward for one of the books (can't remember). Hopefully somebody can share it somehow? What I can remember is him saying his Dad took him to see Quo in Scandanavia somewhere when he was a kid. "Francis Rossi was every inch the rock god" "I hope we (Metallica) can be half as cool for half as long". |
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Post by mortified on Apr 29, 2021 8:10:31 GMT
I think it was in the "Just Doin' It" book that Lars wrote the foreword on.
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quodec
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Post by quodec on Apr 29, 2021 11:18:21 GMT
Here's Lars foreword from the 2006 'Just Doin It' book: i.postimg.cc/C5NzSNfz/Lars-Ulrich-foreword.jpgHere's a nerdy/anorak aside: What if Lars persuaded his other band members to do a Quo song, as they do with Lizzy's 'Whiskey in the Jar'. What would they feel like covering? Could 'Backwater' be on their shortlist? |
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Post by per on Apr 29, 2021 11:35:34 GMT
Yes Lars is a huge Quo fan. Didnt he also write the foreword in a Classic Rock special Quo edition some years ago? I remember that he wrote that he and their canadian producer (Bob Rock?) were super excited and cancelled the recordings in order to go and see Quo. I also remember that he wrote about how he in the seventies took the ferry over to Sweden to ser them (probably at Olympen in Lund I guess, as Quo were frequent guests there), shitscared of all the drunken swedes!
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Post by mortified on Apr 29, 2021 13:00:51 GMT
Yes Lars is a huge Quo fan. Didnt he also write the foreword in a Classic Rock special Quo edition some years ago? I remember that he wrote that he and their canadian producer (Bob Rock?) were super excited and cancelled the recordings in order to go and see Quo. I also remember that he wrote about how he in the seventies took the ferry over to Sweden to ser them (probably at Olympen in Lund I guess, as Quo were frequent guests there), shitscared of all the drunken swedes!We've all been there   Kalmar 2007; nutters everywhere you looked |
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Post by per on Apr 29, 2021 17:50:36 GMT
Yes Lars is a huge Quo fan. Didnt he also write the foreword in a Classic Rock special Quo edition some years ago? I remember that he wrote that he and their canadian producer (Bob Rock?) were super excited and cancelled the recordings in order to go and see Quo. I also remember that he wrote about how he in the seventies took the ferry over to Sweden to ser them (probably at Olympen in Lund I guess, as Quo were frequent guests there), shitscared of all the drunken swedes!We've all been there Kalmar 2007; nutters everywhere you looked 😂😂 ”Welcome to Sweden!”😂😂 Even Francis said in an interview back in -81 that swedes are drunk like pigs at the gigs! He may have referred to the first gig I ever went to (Gothenburg -78), I’ve never seen so many drunk people at the same time before or since and the arena had a smell of alcohol and vomit everywhere😳😅 |
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Apr 29, 2021 18:49:33 GMT
Here's Lars foreword from the 2006 'Just Doin It' book: i.postimg.cc/C5NzSNfz/Lars-Ulrich-foreword.jpgHere's a nerdy/anorak aside: What if Lars persuaded his other band members to do a Quo song, as they do with Lizzy's 'Whiskey in the Jar'. What would they feel like covering? Could 'Backwater' be on their shortlist? Thx for the link I think they could do a really good job of Is There A Better Way, and make it their own I can't think of any others that would work |
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Post by unspokenwords on Apr 29, 2021 19:38:58 GMT
Watching this is like the band going back in time and meeting a 1970's audience and the old Quo army energy.
I remember at the time finding it funny to see the audience all with Frantic Four merchandise. It seemed that this was who they thought they had paid to see and as if they almost did not know the original band was no more.
Think it was a bit of a shock to the band who had become stale and were plodding along year after year. This audience hit them between the eyes and woke them up.
In this performance you can see the energy was lifting their level of performance.
Probably gave Rossi food for thought on what had been lost since Quo finished and the dead end road of mediocrity down which he had led/was leading the band (but then again knowing him and his ego probably not. Doubtful he had any regrets about flogging a dead horse for nearly two decades by that stage)
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