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Post by andyjm1018 on Oct 13, 2021 21:40:26 GMT
Who would of thought it..Johnny Rotten a fan of Status Quo
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Post by stringybob on Oct 13, 2021 23:37:05 GMT
He is effusive in his praise for the band in his second autobiography 'Anger Is An Energy'. Here's what he has to say:
"I loved the way that they found something inside a simple format to say so much. Their methodology is simplicity, and perfection inside that simplicity. I'm so empathetic with what they do, it just sounds like jolly good push-and-shove. Fantastic rock. Wonderful, brilliant, beautiful stuff"
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Oct 14, 2021 8:06:31 GMT
To be fair Quo during 71-75 were to me one of the early pre punk acts. I mean they were the total opposite of bands like Yes and Floyd. They made short songs with guitar bass and drums and were very loud.
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Post by uwe on Oct 14, 2021 13:02:29 GMT
Herr Lydon was also a fan of French-British proggies Gong and of Hawkwind of course, whose chugging, rhythm guitar-oriented sound bore similarities to Quo. The Sex Pistols even covered Silver Machine. Quo really didn't bear the brunt of the "boring old fart" criticism heaped on established rock bands at the time, the NME even wrote that there wasn't much of a difference between a Quo and a Dr. Feelgood audience - nor in their music for that matter. Coming from the NME, that was an accolade!  That said, everything that was claimed at the time by the new guard should be taken with a grain of salt: The guys from Generation X (with a young Billy Idol) dug Ritchie Blackmore and Sweet, the keyboard player of The Stranglers was an avid Jon Lord fan, Andy Summers of Police had even played on Jon Lord's Sarabande solo album. Even The Sex Pistols had Alice Cooper as a hero. Joey Ramone was another DP fan. The Motors, another band of the time, where widely perceived to have patterned their rhythm guitar-heavy sound after Quo's recipe. It's not like the Punks came out of a musical vacuum. The likelihood of them having been raised on bands like, say, T. Rex and Quo was much higher than the bands they would name as inspirations in the summer of 1976 (mostly: The New York Dolls, Iggy & The Stooges, The Velvet Underground and MC5 - none of them strong album sellers). Quo were always viewed as a band of the people. And unlike a lot of their British hard rock contemporaries they never neglected their home market in an effort to crack the US of A where success eluded them. Even for a Punk it was difficult to picture Quo as being out of touch with British working youth. The weren't distant rock gods like Led Zep. |
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Post by mortified on Oct 14, 2021 13:32:48 GMT
Always been an admirer of Mr Lydon. An intelligent and articulate man who, like many at the time, played it all down to appeal to the working class 'yoof'. This, of course, encouraged sales and, by default, the 'movement' to maintain the momentum. I assume at the behest of people like Malcolm McLaren; someone John Lydon grew to detest. Paul Weller's admiration of Quo is also well documented now. But it wasn't then. That would never do  I can see maybe Talking Heads being influenced by the likes of Velvet Underground but Los Pistoleros? No chance  If anyone has any doubts, have a listen to their song Did You Know Wrong. Not a Nico or Lou Reed in sight. But maybe, just maybe, a Rick Parfitt |
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Post by gerh on Oct 14, 2021 15:33:05 GMT
Yep - he's something of a 'truth teller' alright. His Auto-Biog [didn't realise there were two tho'?] is a great read. 👍
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Post by 4th Chord on Oct 14, 2021 15:37:58 GMT
Traditionally, there are three records that are cited as the “first” punk rock releases: the first Ramones album (April 1976), the “New Rose” 45 by the Damned (October '76), and the Saints debut album, (I'm) Stranded (September '76).
However, there was a fourth...
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Post by dennis on Oct 14, 2021 16:03:37 GMT
Traditionally, there are three records that are cited as the “first” punk rock releases: the first Ramones album (April 1976), the “New Rose” 45 by the Damned (October '76), and the Saints debut album, (I'm) Stranded (September '76). However, there was a fourth... Surely, it was this |
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Post by stringybob on Oct 14, 2021 17:33:15 GMT
Yep - he's something of a 'truth teller' alright. His Auto-Biog [didn't realise there were two tho'?] is a great read. 👍
His first one is called 'Rotten - No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs'. It's superb. |
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Post by uwe on Oct 14, 2021 20:11:36 GMT
If anyone has any doubts, have a listen to their song Did You Know Wrong. Not a Nico or Lou Reed in sight. But maybe, just maybe, a Rick Parfitt I hear a whole lotta Mott the Hoople in that, Ian Hunter should have sued! And in fact some English-appropriated Lou Reed as well. |
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Post by uwe on Oct 14, 2021 20:29:30 GMT
The real Pistols role models were these guys here however:
The Pistols were basically founded over McLaren's frustration of not having been able to keep the Dolls an operating unit when he managed them in their career nadir.
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Post by uwe on Oct 14, 2021 20:45:22 GMT
The Motors weren't really yet Punk, but they had Punk (and rock critic) credibility with their Pub Rock roots. They certainly had their share of Quo intake: the chugging rhythm, the Rossi/Parfitt'esque harmony vocals and even the intro riff at 00:11 ... I always half-expected that Quo would put this song on one of their cover albums.
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Post by mortified on Oct 15, 2021 5:43:40 GMT
The Motors weren't really yet Punk, but they had Punk (and rock critic) credibility with their Pub Rock roots. They certainly had their share of Quo intake: the chugging rhythm, the Rossi/Parfitt'esque harmony vocals and even the intro riff at 00:11 ... I always half-expected that Quo would put this song on one of their cover albums. A superb song that I still play to this day. Always thought it had a Quo signature all over it And Bram Tchaikovsy, the bassist, went on to record a couple of very good albums in the same vein. Much more consistent than the band he left. |
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Post by unspokenwords on Oct 15, 2021 9:55:32 GMT
The real Pistols role models were these guys here however: The Pistols were basically founded over McLaren's frustration of not having been able to keep the Dolls an operating unit when he managed them in their career nadir. I always think that the NY Dolls were punk years before official punk (although the Mick Jagger influence is also clear in David Johansen's singing and swagger). and of course NY had another major part in the brilliant Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers |
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Post by uwe on Oct 15, 2021 12:04:10 GMT
Small wonder, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbrakers is to the New York Dolls what Rainbow was to Deep Purple (surely the first time those four bands are named in unison! ), Johnny Thunders was the lead guitarist of the Dolls. He's the black-haired guy/guitarist who sings/screams in the first NYD vid I posted ('Chatterbox'). For his post-NYD career, he got himself a haircut and was indeed pivotal to early British Punk as his band had relocated to London around that time. "And Bram Tchaikovsy, the bassist, went on to record a couple of very good albums in the same vein. Much more consistent than the band he left."In the Dancing The Night Away vid, co-writer (together with guitarist Nick Garvey) Andy McMaster plays the bass, Bram is the lanky lead guitarist to the right (not the one singing, that is Garvey). Bram is mostly a guitarist though I've seen pictures of him playing bass (but not with The Motors). To add to the confusion, Andy McMaster would play keyboards with The Motors once Bram had left (frustrated that there was no room for his songwriting within The Motors), with a new bassist (Martin Ace, more known as a member of MAN) joining. We need some rock family trees here - where is Peter Frame when you need him?  (And forgive me for being such a smart Alec, but as a Purple fan, being line-up change savvy comes with the affliction! ) |
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(And forgive me for being such a smart Alec, but as a Purple fan, being line-up change savvy comes with the affliction!