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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Oct 10, 2022 20:33:16 GMT
Yep...I had it coming though. Disproportionate number of Quo gigs attended personally over the decades compared to other bands I really enjoy. Even when I was playing guitar on stage, nothing remotely Quo-like, the singer would still whisper "Rick Parfitt" in my ear!
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Post by freewilly on Oct 11, 2022 11:36:13 GMT
Do you do that thumbs in belt dance strangely associated with Quo. I never ever understood that. I have no idea when people adopted that Mud thing with Quo. It certainly didn't happen in the 70's. First time I think I witnessed it was in the Anniversary Waltz video. From then on, I began to see it more and more. Being a Quo snob, and a purist, I cocked a snoot at such behaviour Anyone who does that dance, can get in the bin... We've had MT, PR, Restless, the cove albums, the PR stunts and yet, this is what mortifies me (pun not intended) the most. Appalling stuff. A boil on the arse of humanity
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Post by pressbutton on Oct 14, 2022 11:51:13 GMT
I'm known as a Quo fan both in the office by colleagues, and by some of our clients! One Finance Director even emails me links to shows by Francis Rossi for example! But I figure that I could be known for a lot worse!
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Post by freewilly on Oct 14, 2022 17:58:53 GMT
I'm known as a Quo fan both in the office by colleagues, and by some of our clients! One Finance Director even emails me links to shows by Francis Rossi for example! But I figure that I could be known for a lot worse! You have a ponytail... Don't you?
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Oct 14, 2022 22:50:10 GMT
I get the three chord remarks. Do they think it's witty? I think it's just like a knee jerk of the brain (or neuron). I do the dance. I learned it from friends in the days when I didn't realise that there was an intellectual class who thought that it was low stuff. It's a good way of keeping a three-time beat while staying in one place.
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Post by pressbutton on Oct 17, 2022 11:37:42 GMT
I'm known as a Quo fan both in the office by colleagues, and by some of our clients! One Finance Director even emails me links to shows by Francis Rossi for example! But I figure that I could be known for a lot worse! You have a ponytail... Don't you? Nope - short hair!!
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Post by freewilly on Oct 17, 2022 13:04:14 GMT
You have a ponytail... Don't you? Nope - short hair!!
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Post by vivfromcov on Oct 17, 2022 22:39:17 GMT
I get the three chord remarks. Do they think it's witty? I think it's just like a knee jerk of the brain (or neuron). I do the dance. I learned it from friends in the days when I didn't realise that there was an intellectual class who thought that it was low stuff. It's a good way of keeping a three-time beat while staying in one place. A ‘like’ in that I agree and also get the three chord comments, usually with a wink! But I can’t agree on the abomination of that shoulder dance! Each to their own I guess
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uwe
Rocker Rollin'
Other than Quo? Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Blue Öyster Cult, Wishbone Ash, Be-Bop Deluxe, Sparks ...
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Post by uwe on Nov 6, 2022 20:45:59 GMT
I was known in the 70ies as "Hard Rock Uwe" at school, people would (good-naturedly - and I gave as good as I got defending the music I liked) scoff "He likes Deep Purple, Sweet and Status Quo !!!" (my classmates preferred proggier bands such as Genesis, Yes, ELP, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Supertramp). But whereas DP always had credit as excellent instrumentalists (albeit playing music well beneath their abilities, the proggies thought) even among people who otherwise disliked hard rock and even Sweet gained some recognition as their music audibly developed from bubble gum to pop-hard rock like Fox On The Run to more elaborate 10cc'ish pop à la Love Is Like Oxygen, it was open season for Status Quo, their music was regarded as archaic and samey, flirting with the singles pop market, teeny bopperish and the whole Quo Row image as duff.
Ironically, Quo's image improved over the decades in Germany, even though their sound had become poppier still. With the advent of bands like The Ramones, Motörhead and AC/DC, "same'ness" was no longer regarded a denigrating four letter word and musician magazines would suddenly start taking Quo serious in the 80ies, realizing what made Francis' and Rick's interplay different to other guitarists and analyzing the Quo sound which wasn't so easy to replicate after all. Quo became a respected institution. One of my music playing buddies (a guitarist/lead vocalist and Stones fan himself) would for ages never take Quo serious, but when he saw them (only sans Rick, unfortunately) opening for ZZ Top at an open air a couple of years ago (he was there for ZZ Top of course) he said unprompted after the gig: "I never realized how good a guitarist Rossi actually is. He is effortless in how he handles the front man, lead vocalist and lead guitar roles." And by now he even appreciates Parfitt's rhythm work and use of alternative tunings (a commonality with Keith Richards of course).
But I also do remember taking my copy of Blue For You to music class in 1976 (we were allowed to bring and play a song we liked) and stunning the naysayers with Is There A Better Way when they realized that Quo played 4/4 and 3/4 meters (during the Beatlish backing of the guitar solo) in that song - and our music teacher nodded his head in appreciation of the nifty arrangement.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Nov 7, 2022 0:14:53 GMT
Ronnie Radford's sad demise recently, got me thinking about Secondary school days in the early 70s and how there wasn't too much snobbery about bands and there seemed to be a general appreciation of the more pop-orientated rock bands such as The Sweet, Slade, T-Rex, Bowie, Roxy Music, Wizzard. Status Quo and Lizzy were also part of that scene. Though it wasn't frowned upon completely to appreciate the likes of Genesis and some other prog bands.
The 'uniform' at school in those days for me and most of the pupils had been the mix of green parka jackets, football scarfs, football hats, and 3-inch heeled shoes. There is a clip of Ronnie Radford's spectacular goal for Hereford FC v Newcastle in 1972 on YouTube and the subsequent pitch invasion. There were more green parka jackets than you could shake a stick at!
Scroll to the 55 sec mark and beyond...
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