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Post by MrWaistcoat on Sept 12, 2021 21:50:58 GMT
... has the most songs that used keyboards? Don't remember seeing the question before
Would be good to know how many of each of the albums do, probably a lot more than we realised
I ask having recently noticed keys on is there a better way. Maybe I was just unobservent for 40 years!
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Post by photo4life on Sept 12, 2021 23:23:33 GMT
Quo has a few hidden keyboards.
Backwater has some kind of keyboards, maybe a mellotron, behind the solo.
There is a drone sound on Drifting Away.
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Post by allyp on Sept 13, 2021 11:06:49 GMT
... has the most songs that used keyboards? Don't remember seeing the question before Would be good to know how many of each of the albums do, probably a lot more than we realised I ask having recently noticed keys on is there a better way. Maybe I was just unobservent for 40 years! Probably Hello if you talking the 72-76 period???
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Post by Gaz on Sept 13, 2021 11:52:33 GMT
Unless I’m mistaken but hasn’t Quo had keyboards since they began and onto this day?
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Sept 13, 2021 11:57:15 GMT
Unless I’m mistaken but hasn’t Quo had keyboards since they began and onto this day? Thats what I'm hoping to find out on this thread! There are certainly loads of songs that don't sound like there's any...
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Post by Gaz on Sept 13, 2021 12:16:58 GMT
Unless I’m mistaken but hasn’t Quo had keyboards since they began and onto this day? Thats what I'm hoping to find out on this thread! There are certainly loads of songs that don't sound like there's any... Quo have always had keyboards from their beginnings with Roy Lynes.. now another proud Aussie along with Alan Lancaster 👍
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Post by dennis on Sept 13, 2021 12:55:11 GMT
I suppose from Dog of Two Head to Blue For You they may have had some songs without any keyboards, but probably not very many. I presume the Live ep from '75 was free of keyboards
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Post by mortified on Sept 13, 2021 12:58:57 GMT
I don't recall any Quo album not having any keyboards somewhere, although I appreciate that's not the question. There are even piano credits on Dog of Two Head, Piledriver and of course Break The Rules has a piano break.
But I imagine once Andy became a permanent fixture - even before he was an official member - there will have been keyboards of some description on every track. It's just a question, I suppose, of identifying what they're doing in the background because it's not all obvious piano or Hammond keys.
The hardest to nail is probably On The Level where there is no album credit for any keyboard. But there is definitely something going on throughout songs like Where I Am. No idea how much production techniques play a part in creating some sounds.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Sept 16, 2021 8:48:37 GMT
I suppose from Dog of Two Head to Blue For You they may have had some songs without any keyboards, but probably not very many. I presume the Live ep from '75 was free of keyboards You say that, and I'm sure you are right.... But there's a but! I could think of Piledriver, hello or OTL and be unable to name you a song that has keys on it. I know I've heard them (though not until recent years) on those albums but they just don't go in. Where they needed? I just didn't really notice keys until 1982. I think the reunions suggest that the FF themselves see the classic Quo era as basically just the 4 of them
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Post by dennis on Sept 16, 2021 11:57:40 GMT
I suppose from Dog of Two Head to Blue For You they may have had some songs without any keyboards, but probably not very many. I presume the Live ep from '75 was free of keyboards You say that, and I'm sure you are right.... But there's a but! I could think of Piledriver, hello or OTL and be unable to name you a song that has keys on it. I know I've heard them (though not until recent years) on those albums but they just don't go in. Where they needed? I just didn't really notice keys until 1982. I think the reunions suggest that the FF themselves see the classic Quo era as basically just the 4 of them You'll be claiming next that you hadn't noticed the saxophones on Blue Eyed Lady & Forty Five Hundred Times!
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Post by mortified on Sept 16, 2021 14:15:32 GMT
I suppose from Dog of Two Head to Blue For You they may have had some songs without any keyboards, but probably not very many. I presume the Live ep from '75 was free of keyboards You say that, and I'm sure you are right.... But there's a but! I could think of Piledriver, hello or OTL and be unable to name you a song that has keys on it. I know I've heard them (though not until recent years) on those albums but they just don't go in. Where they needed? I just didn't really notice keys until 1982. I think the reunions suggest that the FF themselves see the classic Quo era as basically just the 4 of them You can hear an isolated 'plonk' of a piano at the start of Roadhouse Blues if I remember rightly. But it's hardly Tchaikovsky's piano concerto, I admit I don't recall anything on On The Level other than the strange mellotron sound I've mentioned somewhere else. I'd have to listen to Hello! all the way through again to give a definitive answer on that one. Oh no, what a chore I suspect the keyboards on Piledriver and Hello! in particular were simply lost somewhere in the production. They'll be there. They'll just be a strained listen. Like the aforementioned sax on Forty-Five Hundred Times and Blue Eyed Lady which are now clear as day. Well, a foggy day at any rate.
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