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Post by quolaf71 on Sept 29, 2021 8:44:37 GMT
It was 1977.
I was 6 years old.
I got a pick-up player from someone...
Two 20 watt boxes joined it.
But I had not that many records.
So I got to my brothers room.
He had everything there was at the time.
I saw 4 lads on the cover of an album.
Long hair, jeans..
The album was called "On the Level"
I took it..and went to my room.
Put on the needle, and played that LP for like 6 or 7 times.
I was completely overwhelmed by such power and hard riffs.
My English wasn't that good at the time, but I kind a knew what they where singing about.
I would "steal" eventually all Quo albums from my brother.
He sadly was a junky when he turned 17, and the heroin was more important then everything else.
I "saved" all the albums he had.
I was a Quo fan.
When it was 1985 I really wanted to see their last gig in The Netherlands.
My mother refused.
I was devastated, because 4 years earlier I could see AC/DC, but now I could'nt see Quo's last concert with the Frantic Four?
I cried for 3 weeks..played all their albums.
The next day I read in the newspaper that they played great, and everybody was crying and people took overdoses that night.
I know why my mom wouldn't want me to be there.
But I didn't smoke or drank alcohol yet..I was 15 years old!
Then it was 2013...I could see them! Finally! I went there with my wife, it was in Oberhausen, Germany.
The circle was complete.
I saw Francis, John, Rick and Alan.
I am thankfull for their music, it pulled me through very difficult times in life.
Still have no friends, and my family was torned apart when I was growing up.
But Status Quo was always there.
And now they are almost gone, but I am 50 years old and still play their albums for comfort and remembrance.
I will never forget them.
I got all their LP's, cd's, dvd's and blu rays and will play them until it is my turn to leave this world.
Bless all Quo fans worldwide.
#RIPRickParfitt #RIPAlanLancaster
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Post by roquer on Sept 29, 2021 15:30:15 GMT
Question folks - is it just me, or is anyone else feeling this a lot worse than when poor ol' Rick passed? [NO disrespect to Rick - but this is, I dunno, deeper or something?] And I'm a guitar player - so it's not a bass-love thing either.
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See, I'm the opposite. It was less of a blow to me than Ricks death. I was told the first week of September that Alan wasn't well, so it was all but on the horizon. He's been getting worse on a yearly basis, since the reunion tours. It became very obvious just how frail he was at the last convention when he couldn't hold a bass up and just sang on stage. You're not alone. I think, as was Rick's, isn't a suprise to me either. Yes, it was a blow, but, somehow, when we already knew about his health and seeing the videos from the last reunion or the last convention, you know that it wouldn't be a surprise, even from him it would be better, now he can rest. Rick's was awful. I remember being in the supper of christmas Eve and feeling sad. Yes, I knew he wasn't well and he wouldn't be on the band, but something inside me thought "Maybe it isn't the last time, maybe he will just recover again and back on the road"...And you know that wasn't the case anymore. |
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Post by roquer on Sept 29, 2021 16:30:30 GMT
I think Alan always had the best take on why the band imploded. Alan is in no doubt that drugs pulled the band apart. 'The coke was endemic in the business, and when you've got your associates on it, record company people on it and two members of your band on it... I called it the Cocaine Gang. They'd make decisions one day and the next day they'd forget. It all became so up in the air when the cocaine hit the camp.
"I didn't understand it. I didn't understand what it did to a person psychologically. Our really deep sense of humour suffered. We had a very warped sense of humour, but once the cocaine hit the scene, all that humour sounded cynical. Paranoia set in, and things you'd say in humour were taken as cynicism. I think cocaine changed the dynamics and the synergy of us as people. The camaraderie had gone." But he did coke too, didn't he? The only one that I know that he didn't was Spud. So? He was being hypocritical in that case. |
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Post by freewilly on Sept 29, 2021 16:42:42 GMT
I think Alan always had the best take on why the band imploded. Alan is in no doubt that drugs pulled the band apart. 'The coke was endemic in the business, and when you've got your associates on it, record company people on it and two members of your band on it... I called it the Cocaine Gang. They'd make decisions one day and the next day they'd forget. It all became so up in the air when the cocaine hit the camp.
"I didn't understand it. I didn't understand what it did to a person psychologically. Our really deep sense of humour suffered. We had a very warped sense of humour, but once the cocaine hit the scene, all that humour sounded cynical. Paranoia set in, and things you'd say in humour were taken as cynicism. I think cocaine changed the dynamics and the synergy of us as people. The camaraderie had gone." But he did coke too, didn't he? The only one that I know that he didn't was Spud. So? He was being hypocritical. Not 100% certain. I never heard of him doing it. I remember reading Francis saying only John didn't do it. What I do know for absolute certain is going by the look and behaviours of the band between 1983 and 1985, if he did take it, it wasn't anywhere near the amount that Rick and Francis were shoveling into themselves. Alan, Andy and Pete all looked fit and trim in videos, gigs, and promo shots. Rick always looked like he woke up out of it and Francis aged to look about 50 odd in such a short space of time |
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Post by steveb on Sept 29, 2021 19:34:03 GMT
he dabbled ,but it didn't consume him like it did rick and francis, they were addicts
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Sept 29, 2021 19:40:53 GMT
I think Alan always had the best take on why the band imploded. Alan is in no doubt that drugs pulled the band apart. 'The coke was endemic in the business, and when you've got your associates on it, record company people on it and two members of your band on it... I called it the Cocaine Gang. They'd make decisions one day and the next day they'd forget. It all became so up in the air when the cocaine hit the camp.
"I didn't understand it. I didn't understand what it did to a person psychologically. Our really deep sense of humour suffered. We had a very warped sense of humour, but once the cocaine hit the scene, all that humour sounded cynical. Paranoia set in, and things you'd say in humour were taken as cynicism. I think cocaine changed the dynamics and the synergy of us as people. The camaraderie had gone." But he did coke too, didn't he? The only one that I know that he didn't was Spud. So? He was being hypocritical in that case. Thing Is Francis would agree with this as well. Looking at what he has said about it, he said that the humour all went when Coke was on the scene. Which then made the times where they had issues blow up out of proportion. |
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Post by stickyfingers on Sept 30, 2021 0:41:06 GMT
Everyone was on form here...
God bless you wee man...
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Post by nino on Sept 30, 2021 14:19:19 GMT
Question folks - is it just me, or is anyone else feeling this a lot worse than when poor ol' Rick passed? [NO disrespect to Rick - but this is, I dunno, deeper or something?] And I'm a guitar player - so it's not a bass-love thing either.
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Exactly the opposite for me. Ricks death hit me hard. Really hard. I couldn't watch a video or listen to a song of his or any Quo for months without welling up, it's not like that now. Rick and Francis were Quo to me, without meaning any disrespect to Alan or John, that's just because I'm only 30 (well, 31 in ten days)and became a fan in 2005 so it's clearly an age thing. Alans passing was really bad, too, of course, don't get me wrong, please, but just not as Ricks to me. Seen Rick at all my 47 gigs, Alan only 7 times in 2013 and 2014. Anyways, still incredibly sad and somehow incomprehensible that half of my favourite band is gone. Sunday was a sad sad day. |
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Post by smq on Sept 30, 2021 14:46:00 GMT
Like many I've been playing a lot more Quo than usual this week and reading threads like this etc. I'm old enough and lucky enough to have seen the FF play in their prime and also at the reunions. For me, Alan was the one. The one to whom Quo meant everything and why it seemed so cruel when it was taken away from him. While you knew he was struggling physically, you could see how much the reunions meant to him (and us) and the joy he took from them. RIP Alan.
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Post by viza on Oct 1, 2021 5:44:06 GMT
Can't find the words really. Thoughts goes to his family. He didn't have much influence of the band the last 40 years but was one of the cornerstones and the essence of Quo.
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Post by therockdoctor on Oct 2, 2021 5:10:01 GMT
Gold 104.3 FM here in Melbourne have a tribute to Alan as part of their afternoon show from 4pm today (Saturday 2nd October), tune in online if not from this part of the world.
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Post by steveb on Oct 2, 2021 8:49:50 GMT
that's wonderful. I still have people texting me asking if I heard the news.
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Post by kursaal75 on Oct 3, 2021 14:57:01 GMT
Johnnie Walker just played and edited version of the studio recording of 'Roll Over Lay Down' as a tribute on his Sounds Of The 70s Show.
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Post by kursaal75 on Oct 4, 2021 7:30:10 GMT
On the Essex Rock show yesterday, the dj payed a tribute to Alan Lancaster by playing the live version of 'Whatever You Want', from.......1992!!!  |
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Post by tramper on Oct 4, 2021 16:40:22 GMT
On the Essex Rock show yesterday, the dj payed a tribute to Alan Lancaster by playing the live version of 'Whatever You Want', from.......1992!!! 🤦 |
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