rocker
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Post by rocker on Sept 27, 2021 21:05:41 GMT
RIP Alan. Thank you for the great music.
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Post by powerage on Sept 27, 2021 22:16:47 GMT
Thank you for this, great stuff. |
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Post by kachunk on Sept 28, 2021 0:13:04 GMT
Nobody was more proud to be a member of Quo than Alan.
Nobody was more proud of the fans than Alan.
We will always be proud of you Alan, for what you started in 1962.
The soundtrack of our lives.
R.I.P Nuff.
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Post by 4th Chord on Sept 28, 2021 7:47:19 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."
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gerh
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Posts: 2,485
Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc.
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Post by gerh on Sept 28, 2021 15:35:43 GMT
Where's that quote from 4th?
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Post by 4th Chord on Sept 28, 2021 15:38:25 GMT
Where's that quote from 4th? Record Collector magazine in 2013. If you see my download link earlier it's in there as a PDF. |
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gerh
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Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc.
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Post by gerh on Sept 28, 2021 15:41:10 GMT
Thanks 4th - probably sounds corny but I was too upset to read it the other day. 👍
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gav
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Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on Sept 28, 2021 17:07:43 GMT
It's funny how it gets you. The news didn't particularly shock me, but watching the NEC '82 video last night, that bit at the end of the Little Lady solo where Alan and Francis raise their guitar necks to the skies, it got me then. Those great little Alan moments where he was in full flow - watching him really loving performing....
I suppose to continue on from what gerh was saying about being more affected than by Rick's passing, we knew less of Alan, he was much quieter overall, he didn't get the media attention the comedy duo got in the end. He was the underdog, BUT... he seemed to take Quo much more seriously, or at least liked to be the spokesman, the band's philosopher, the guardian of the music, Quo's essence, their reason for being, and seemed to overall have a lot more interest in the band's integrity.
So maybe we feel that we've lost all of that now. We lost Alan 36 years ago really. Some say he was treated unfairly - who really knows for sure, but there was a sense and still is, if not more since, that Alan's serious dedication to the band didn't pay off. We feel sad for the guy, and sadder now in light of that - that his commitment to Quo was somehow dismissed when he clearly meant it.
But also great respect and admiration for him as blagult said earlier for sticking to his principles. He's never been gone, really. And never will be.
I have seen some comments from his daughter on social media that reflect that he was a true family man also, and deeply loved. Which makes it all the more poignant that we didn't get to know him better, in the way we got to know Rick and Francis.
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Post by railroad007 on Sept 28, 2021 18:40:25 GMT
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gerh
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Posts: 2,485
Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc.
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Post by gerh on Sept 28, 2021 18:50:19 GMT
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Post by thewildone on Sept 28, 2021 19:45:05 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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Got me exactly the same. I do not know why. Maybe it's because 50% of the band are now gone. It also makes us realise time waits for no man. AL was also a gent and the one that stood up for the Quo legacy and tried to protect it. |
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Post by charles on Sept 28, 2021 20:03:55 GMT
Both of them gone now, but how much did they love the reunion? Just look at them...   |
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Sept 28, 2021 20:21:51 GMT
It's funny how it gets you. The news didn't particularly shock me, but watching the NEC '82 video last night, that bit at the end of the Little Lady solo where Alan and Francis raise their guitar necks to the skies, it got me then. Those great little Alan moments where he was in full flow - watching him really loving performing....
I suppose to continue on from what gerh was saying about being more affected than by Rick's passing, we knew less of Alan, he was much quieter overall, he didn't get the media attention the comedy duo got in the end. He was the underdog, BUT... he seemed to take Quo much more seriously, or at least liked to be the spokesman, the band's philosopher, the guardian of the music, Quo's essence, their reason for being, and seemed to overall have a lot more interest in the band's integrity.
So maybe we feel that we've lost all of that now. We lost Alan 36 years ago really. Some say he was treated unfairly - who really knows for sure, but there was a sense and still is, if not more since, that Alan's serious dedication to the band didn't pay off. We feel sad for the guy, and sadder now in light of that - that his commitment to Quo was somehow dismissed when he clearly meant it.
But also great respect and admiration for him as blagult said earlier for sticking to his principles. He's never been gone, really. And never will be.
I have seen some comments from his daughter on social media that reflect that he was a true family man also, and deeply loved. Which makes it all the more poignant that we didn't get to know him better, in the way we got to know Rick and Francis.
I think we got to see part of the relationship between Francis and Alan in that walk around South London extra in Hello Quo. Yes the 2 were never going to see eye to eye over musical direction. There was a lifelong connection between the 2 of them no matter what went on. |
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Post by thewildone on Sept 28, 2021 22:14:34 GMT
Not sure about that, Rossi have proved what a tit he is over and over.
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Post by tqontq on Sept 29, 2021 5:46:10 GMT
It's funny how it gets you. The news didn't particularly shock me, but watching the NEC '82 video last night, that bit at the end of the Little Lady solo where Alan and Francis raise their guitar necks to the skies, it got me then. Those great little Alan moments where he was in full flow - watching him really loving performing....
I suppose to continue on from what gerh was saying about being more affected than by Rick's passing, we knew less of Alan, he was much quieter overall, he didn't get the media attention the comedy duo got in the end. He was the underdog, BUT... he seemed to take Quo much more seriously, or at least liked to be the spokesman, the band's philosopher, the guardian of the music, Quo's essence, their reason for being, and seemed to overall have a lot more interest in the band's integrity.
So maybe we feel that we've lost all of that now. We lost Alan 36 years ago really. Some say he was treated unfairly - who really knows for sure, but there was a sense and still is, if not more since, that Alan's serious dedication to the band didn't pay off. We feel sad for the guy, and sadder now in light of that - that his commitment to Quo was somehow dismissed when he clearly meant it.
But also great respect and admiration for him as blagult said earlier for sticking to his principles. He's never been gone, really. And never will be.
I have seen some comments from his daughter on social media that reflect that he was a true family man also, and deeply loved. Which makes it all the more poignant that we didn't get to know him better, in the way we got to know Rick and Francis.
Very well articulated. It does feel harder and more personal than when Rick passed precisely because of the reasons you say. He might not have been the frontman or the 'voice' of Quo but he was arguably more Quo than Rick and Francis in many ways - again as you state why this is so and why we feel the loss is so deep. Alan the man is lost and also Alan the guardian of Quo is lost. Lovely words mate. Thank you for saying it. |
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