tqontq
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Post by tqontq on Oct 7, 2022 0:27:36 GMT
Ah but is it REALLY 60 years of Status Quo??? 60 years of a brand name, sure.
For me its 12 years of Status Quo, possibly 14 if we include up to EOTR live.
The rest is throwaway, with a few flashes of excellence every now and then.
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Post by asthequoflies on Oct 8, 2022 14:34:58 GMT
It's quite interesting reading all these. I find it fascinating that some people didn't see the band live until they'd already been in existence for at least 35 years! Mind you, I didn't see the Stones for the first time until 1999. But that didn't diminish my enthusiasm or my enjoyment  I personally never distinguish between line-ups. I don't categorise the gigs or the music other than by the year in which they happened. But I guess I'm lucky to have that luxury. Very interesting reading all of these thoughts, yes. Through the years friends and family wonder why I would see a band twice or thrice in the same week, the usual remark: "..but it's the same show, yeah?". Its an experience, an exhilaration. Magical, or as Mortified said, close to religious on occasion. When you have a passion for certain bands and love their music, it is not simply a "show" you sit through, it is so much more than that. Dublin, Portlaoise, Killarney, same week 2009 for example - absolutely magical. Set list same. Three experiences however, same level of intensity and excitement. Why wouldn't you want to repeat such magic! First Quo show for me 2001, Olympia Dublin. Loved every minute of it, and turned me from an enthusiast into a superfan who wished to locate every album and repeat that live nirvana. Seen them 13 times since and every one of those was special. A truly wonderful live band. |
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mortified
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Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Oct 8, 2022 21:40:51 GMT
It's quite interesting reading all these. I find it fascinating that some people didn't see the band live until they'd already been in existence for at least 35 years! Mind you, I didn't see the Stones for the first time until 1999. But that didn't diminish my enthusiasm or my enjoyment I personally never distinguish between line-ups. I don't categorise the gigs or the music other than by the year in which they happened. But I guess I'm lucky to have that luxury. Very interesting reading all of these thoughts, yes. Through the years friends and family wonder why I would see a band twice or thrice in the same week, the usual remark: "..but it's the same show, yeah?". Its an experience, an exhilaration. Magical, or as Mortified said, close to religious on occasion. When you have a passion for certain bands and love their music, it is not simply a "show" you sit through, it is so much more than that. Dublin, Portlaoise, Killarney, same week 2009 for example - absolutely magical. Set list same. Three experiences however, same level of intensity and excitement. Why wouldn't you want to repeat such magic! First Quo show for me 2001, Olympia Dublin. Loved every minute of it, and turned me from an enthusiast into a superfan who wished to locate every album and repeat that live nirvana. Seen them 13 times since and every one of those was special. A truly wonderful live band. Me and Mrs Mortified did that Irish tour. Started in Killarney and ended in Dublin, via Portlaoise, Belfast and Castlebar. I have to say, Portlaoise was the highlight, although all of the gigs were superb. 11 days, 5 gigs and great fun. In February!  It was the first time we'd met Richie Malone and his dad and we occasionally bumped into them when they came to Llandudno every year for the winter gigs. Happy days. Great times |
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Post by dontthinkitmatters on Oct 8, 2022 22:35:03 GMT
60 years is awesome, albeit most have past me by. Golden era (live) for me was my Quo gigging years 70d early 80s with a spike in the 20teens. JCQ provided some excellent nights more recently.
Adding those up its about one sixth of the Quo gigging years 😩
Wish I had been around for the early 70's
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Post by curiousgirl on Oct 14, 2022 15:55:19 GMT
Ah but is it REALLY 60 years of Status Quo??? 60 years of a brand name, sure. For me its 12 years of Status Quo, possibly 14 if we include up to EOTR live. The rest is throwaway, with a few flashes of excellence every now and then. It's not even 60 years of the brand name. They were called SQ from '67 onwards? It's 60 years since that first gig at the sport club in South London. What was important to the members of the band was that they got paid too! And asked back to play again. And then Pat Barlow saw them offered to manage them. It's 60 years of gigging for Francis Rossi. |
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Post by charles on Oct 14, 2022 16:00:54 GMT
So I am exactly as old as the brand name.
I wasn't past my prime in '82 though. '07 perhaps.
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Post by freewilly on Oct 15, 2022 3:12:20 GMT
Ha fun fact...
Going through my old pics of Quo gigs, I was on the piss with Ritchie at a gig. Was a great guy. Was extremely excited for the FF reunion
Mad to think how it all played out.
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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. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Oct 15, 2022 12:42:45 GMT
Some really great memories there folks - think my ‘award’ goes to Kursaal’s list, some remarkable ones in there!
Amazing too to read Mort’s Portlaoise memories; I was born 7 miles from there - I never ever thought Quo would be that close to my home place!
For me, I’ll never forget 1-July-‘79 festival in Dalymount - Quo headlining with Priest as main support - WHAT a day!
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Post by freewilly on Oct 15, 2022 14:47:57 GMT
Some really great memories there folks - think my ‘award’ goes to Kursaal’s list, some remarkable ones in there! Amazing too to read Mort’s Portlaoise memories; I was born 7 miles from there - I never ever thought Quo would be that close to my home place! For me, I’ll never forget 1-July-‘79 festival in Dalymount - Quo headlining with Priest as main support - WHAT a day! 👍 Heard that was an incredible gig |
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gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,948
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. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Oct 15, 2022 19:47:16 GMT
'twas!  |
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Post by pressbutton on Oct 17, 2022 12:04:31 GMT
My first gig was Broadlands in 2002 - although I bought 12 Gold Bars sometime between 1978 and 1980! I was too young in the 70s (only in my teens) plus I lived on the Isle of Wight until 1978 and don't remember Quo playing on the island anywhere. When I left uni in 1982 I ended up raising a family, so again couldn't afford going to gigs, plus the husband did shift work and I also worked part time during the evenings. It was only in 2002 that my husband bought me tickets to my first gig for my birthday, and I decided then it would not be my last!! I don't know how many times I've seen them, I know I've been to several different places - Broadlands x2, Birmingham (the first one after Rick's throat cancer scare), Bristol, Basingstoke x2, Bournemouth (many times!!!) Zurich x2, Oslo, Portsmouth x2, and Cowes Isle of Wight, Rochester Castle and Rowlands Castle.
Not as many as some, and not as far flung as others, but I've been to the gigs I could afford to, when I could afford them!
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Oct 17, 2022 22:34:04 GMT
When I was listening to Helen Shapiro singing Tell Me What He Said, just about the first real UK hit record I actually picked up on, I had no idea that somewhere in South London there was a group hatching that would still be part of my best memories 60 years later (and still gigging).
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uwe
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Post by uwe on Oct 26, 2022 19:26:09 GMT
My Quo deflowering was on 16 March 1977 in Wiesbaden - my second proper rock gig after Rainbow (with AC/DC as openers) a few months before. Ritchie and Ronnie had been great of course, but the mighty Quo were blissful. It was a cryptosexual experience, a sonic orgasm for my then 16-year-old self. And Francis Rossi addressed me smilingly from the stage with " You can keep on going son, that's alright!" after the first two numbers or so when he noticed that I became self-conscious for headbanging too much (I was all the way upfront). It's become a running joke in my family: " Yeah Dad, tell us again about that one time the Status Quo guy spoke to you from stage!"  This poster here graced my room - to this day I think that it sums up Quo (minus John unfortunately!) in their 70ies glory more than any other pic. ( pop was a German teen mag/music magazine which covered Quo regularly and always had the best high quality pics.) My then girlfriend used to joke respectlessly: " Francis Rossi looks like an ape in that pic!"  |
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Post by charles on Oct 26, 2022 21:38:06 GMT
That's a superb poster. Just brilliant and never seen it.
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 5,840
Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Oct 27, 2022 7:02:45 GMT
My Quo deflowering was on 16 March 1977 in Wiesbaden - my second proper rock gig after Rainbow (with AC/DC as openers) a few months before. Ritchie and Ronnie had been great of course, but the mighty Quo were blissful. It was a cryptosexual experience, a sonic orgasm for my then 16-year-old self. And Francis Rossi addressed me smilingly from the stage with " You can keep on going son, that's alright!" after the first two numbers or so when he noticed that I became self-conscious for headbanging too much (I was all the way upfront). It's become a running joke in my family: " Yeah Dad, tell us again about that one time the Status Quo guy spoke to you from stage!" This poster here graced my room - to this day I think that it sums up Quo (minus John unfortunately!) in their 70ies glory more than any other pic. ( pop was a German teen mag/music magazine which covered Quo regularly and always had the best high quality pics.) My then girlfriend used to joke respectlessly: " Francis Rossi looks like an ape in that pic!" That poster nails an era of my life. Definitively. Great stuff |
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