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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Nov 5, 2021 18:44:16 GMT
Image is a strange thing though. Look at Queen, Freddie is now always remembered for the short hair and tash. When in reality when he adopted that look it sparked the beginning of a fallow period of 5 years for the band.
Most fans will say that clean shaven long haired Freddie in a harlequin cat suit was the best look, when Queen were producing thier best music.
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pipquo
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Post by pipquo on Nov 5, 2021 23:21:35 GMT
We spend too much in life worrying about image and how we look when in reality it’s all bollocks. Music is music and whether we like it or not is simply down to personal taste, the vanity with which some people (particularly in the rock fraternity) seem to constrain themselves is outdated and (should be) no longer relevant in modern society. All IMO of course !
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Nov 6, 2021 8:02:23 GMT
We spend too much in life worrying about image and how we look when in reality it’s all bollocks. Music is music and whether we like it or not is simply down to personal taste, the vanity with which some people (particularly in the rock fraternity) seem to constrain themselves is outdated and (should be) no longer relevant in modern society. All IMO of course ! That should apply to many many things. Much more important things. But, alas, the more modern society becomes, the more Neanderthal we seem to remain. Collectively at least. As for spending too much time worrying about image, I guess the music industry as a whole (not just rock) is as guilty as anyone for promoting that snobbery. For want of a better word.
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gerh
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Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
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Post by gerh on Nov 6, 2021 13:19:54 GMT
Decent posts there folks!👍
I've a pain in my face explaining to folks that just because I don't look like I (ought to) love Rock, etc. music, I actually DO and I even play baaaad ol' 'lectric guitar too [to makes things worse!]
A good while back I put an ad in a local paper trying to find some like-minded musicians and I felt compelled to add "... if age, image/looks, matter to you then don't reply - I'm just doing this for the music, nothing else". Strangely enough I only got one reply - from a guy who thought Neil Diamond was the bee's knees, when I wanted to play some Ozzy and Extreme (i.e. Nuno's band) stuff 😁.
So I s'pose that in itself is a comment on people's expectations [🙄 - -gobshites 🤬]
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Nov 10, 2021 14:24:03 GMT
Part of the appeal of Quos 70's image was the "they are one of us" thing and they just wore jeans with whatever On another thread recently me and curiousgirl tried to figure out when it changed, but we couldn't Stage clothes became a thing. *I think* that by the Raotw tour they each had a look for the whole tour they would stick to each night. I think they'd have been against that in 1972 Quo for a time wore stage clothes on TV appearances These things tell me that the band very much did have an image and it was looked after I notice than on the most recent Quo shows the whole band have worn a white top, so on it goes So wearing anything morphed into wearing a uniform. Much the same happened to many of the fans
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Nov 10, 2021 18:40:39 GMT
Forgot to add, anyone remember the sport aid Quo fiasco? The band were openly ridiculed for saying they couldn't play the gig because stage clothes and equipment were still abroad
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gerh
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Post by gerh on Nov 10, 2021 21:11:52 GMT
Forgot to add, anyone remember the sport aid Quo fiasco? The band were openly ridiculed for saying they couldn't play the gig because stage clothes and equipment were still abroad Have no idea what that's about - but surely after years of [in many many cases, self inflicted] ridicule, it was just added to the list. 🤔
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Nov 11, 2021 18:51:39 GMT
... We all felt that adoration in 2013 and 2014, and it was extraordinary. I should be over it but I still find it boggling that they walked away from the fantastic position and fans they had
I'm puzzled by this too. Historically, looking back, it was only Francis. They always had a breadth of styles. But the rock centred one was the most popular one and Francis always presented himself as very business-oriented.
It seems like he thought he could go back to pop and keep on winning. But they were not all that successful the first time round, apart from POMM, so he was wrong.
I don't mind the suits, though. As long as the trousers aren't too floppy.
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Post by azza200 on Nov 14, 2021 14:18:40 GMT
If you wanna look like a complete prat in your 70's while still dressing like your younger look at Dave Hill from Slade still dresses like he did in the 70's and he looks stupid
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Post by dennis on Nov 14, 2021 16:55:39 GMT
If you wanna look like a complete prat in your 70's while still dressing like your younger look at Dave Hill from Slade still dresses like he did in the 70's and he looks stupid tbf, he looked stupid in the '70s
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gerh
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Post by gerh on Nov 14, 2021 17:57:46 GMT
tbh, I was just thinking that myself too!
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Post by azza200 on Nov 14, 2021 20:32:13 GMT
yeah fair point he did even in the 70's look a complete prat
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uwe
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Post by uwe on Nov 15, 2021 3:27:43 GMT
Don't be silly, a rock band in suits is still a rock band. Lest we forget: Let's not plunge into the depths of the audience members at a Jimmy Page/Robert Plant gig I went to in my business suit coming straight from work. Some guys close to me hissed: "What's he doing there?!". Never mind how they were young enough to still have shat their diapers at a time when I was already seeing rock bands on a regular basis. That was a one-time solitary experience (figures that it happened with a Led Zep audience though), I've been to countless gigs of Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash, Whitesnake and, yes, Status Quo in business suits (always straight from office, I'm a lawyer, I start late and work late), often up front, with no one ever saying a thing.
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