tqontq
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Post by tqontq on Mar 12, 2023 22:56:19 GMT
The best thing they ever did. There's so much in it. The by play between the lead guitar and the piano while the rhythm section does so much more than aimlessly chug along.At 8:47 until the play out for some reason I get the image of a big dark diesel goods train (The 149 perhaps) going slowly across some points with all the sparks and smoke before picking up speed and becoming an unstoppable force. Not many bits of music have made me visualise stuff like that. Beckenham (Backwater) Junction circa 1971-73.   At the time I lived at Elmers End and thought Beckenham Junction was big city, bright lights kind of stuff in comparison. Certainly doesn't look like that in the photo!! Maybe Alan was actually referring to Elmers End when writing Backwater??  |
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tqontq
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Post by tqontq on Mar 12, 2023 22:58:07 GMT
And yes, 4500 Times - the greatest piece or rock music EVER written by ANYONE... PERIOD!
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Post by rockonquo on Mar 13, 2023 6:14:50 GMT
I even like the RTYD version. Excellent rocker all round.
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 4,608 
Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: 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 Mar 13, 2023 6:32:18 GMT
Nah, he definitely says "you get to sing a bit!". "Get sick of it and all that business" I always thought it said this but listening again it certainly sounds like "You get to sing a bit and all that business". I'll get my anorak on and see what happens. I've always thought he said "sick of it"  Good grief, after all these years (all 46 of 'em!), I've had myself corrected. I blame the kerrap stereo I had at the time. A Sanyo Twin Tub 400  |
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Post by 4th Chord on Mar 13, 2023 8:10:05 GMT
I always thought he said "if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it"
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Post by Mustang Bass on Mar 13, 2023 14:29:31 GMT
I always thought he said "if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it" I think that was Gary Glitter. |
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Mar 13, 2023 17:44:34 GMT
I'll listen to the 1976 version again. I was sure he said "getting sick of it and all that...." before introducing Forty Five Hundred Times but the memory can play tricks so I'll double check. It's been a while since I listened to that version. 👍 Agree there Mortified, I personally thought Rossi was using his stage chat back then to take swipes at the negative hacks/press. He was mimicking and mocking the press about negative stuff that had been written. He just does these things in an ambiguous way! Quo fans had been labelled as 'easy to please' and lame brains or the band being lame brains, I think? I imagined that the 'getting sick of it' stuff was probably either something that he had read previously by a hack in the press about their albums etc or anticipating that the press would no doubt be slating the live album. That's how I had heard it back in the 70s. Always happy to be wrong though with these types of things and "get to sing a bit etc" it could be and works just as well! |
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Post by cactuspete on Mar 13, 2023 18:30:47 GMT
Ive said this before,
Had any other band recorded this it would be still on many rock stations day and night.
Quo were never considered cool in those years,however ir remains an astonishing live track.
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 4,608
Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: 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 Mar 14, 2023 7:06:54 GMT
The term Frantic Four, endeared by so many and grabbed as a marketing vehicle by Quo's management, was intended as an insult back in the 70's, a play on words with the Fab Four (The Beatles). I wonder if the hack in whatever rag it was now tells all his grandchildren that he actually coined the phrase? Lamebrains was a shocking term to use. As nasty as some "journalism" is now. But it never deterred the fans or the band. Quo just got bigger and bigger and the music press could do sod all about it. Which pi$$ed them off even more. Like the tabloid media, both then and now, they thought they could make or break anyone. The headline for Sounds music paper when the Piledriver tour was announced was "Quo Rock Off!" with a picture of Francis on the front in full Great Western Music Festival flow. I remember it so well.  Within about 3 months, they were being slagged off spouting that people were walking out of gigs because it was so bad. This was before I'd seen them, so it had an effect on me. I'd spent my well earned 60p on a ticket It was rubbish of course. Made up by someone who probably thought Gentle Giant were the future of rock. And here we are  |
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Mar 14, 2023 14:52:08 GMT
Well summed up Mortified and good to see the Sounds front page...7p! I started buying Sounds and some of the other music rags from around '77 so missed that first time around.
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Post by dennis on Mar 14, 2023 15:30:30 GMT
nothing wrong with a bit of Gentle Giant - the thinking man's Jethro Tull! |
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Post by rocker1977 on Mar 15, 2023 19:41:45 GMT
Got to be time for another link to this! GOOSEBUMPS all over again. Simply majestic |
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