gav
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Post by gav on Aug 22, 2023 19:30:50 GMT
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Aug 22, 2023 20:14:34 GMT
Presumably supporting Slade? I'm as sure as I can be that Quo wouldn't have headlined at the Apollo (a 4,000 seater) that early. Incidentally, would it not have been Green's Playhouse at the time? I have to confess, I'm not that convinced these pics are as early as September 1972 simply by virtue of what the band are wearing. But if whoever posted them says it is, maybe it is. Convince me
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Post by 4th Chord on Aug 22, 2023 21:36:04 GMT
Rick talking about his first gig at Green's Playhouse.
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Post by gav on Aug 22, 2023 22:51:25 GMT
I thought they look more like '73. There was an Apollo gig on 28th September 1973 according to the Quo gigography website.
Edit: the same site lists the only Glasgow gig in 1972 as the Slade support on 11th May, so likely someone's pulled the date out a hat!
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Post by Quoincidence on Aug 23, 2023 0:13:35 GMT
I'd say it's 1973, going off of what they are wearing and their hairstyles. Rossi didn't start wearing the white t-shirt / waistcoat combo until '73, as he was still wearing very odd low neckline tops (Marquee Nov. '72 being an example). Both Rick and Alans hair length is also considerably shorter than the Marquee footage too. So I'd say its the 28th Sept. '73 show - the day the Hello! album was released. Also, everything pretty much lines up with this TOTPs appearance for Caroline. (yes, I'm a saddo... )
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Aug 23, 2023 5:54:01 GMT
I'd say it's 1973, going off of what they are wearing and their hairstyles. Rossi didn't start wearing the white t-shirt / waistcoat combo until '73, as he was still wearing very odd low neckline tops (Marquee Nov. '72 being an example). Both Rick and Alans hair length is also considerably shorter than the Marquee footage too. So I'd say its the 28th Sept. '73 show - the day the Hello! album was released. Also, everything pretty much lines up with this TOTPs appearance for Caroline. (yes, I'm a saddo... ) Welcome to the forum for saddos I'm with everyone else though. Looks like post- Piledriver tour to me. So anytime from September '73 onwards. Incidentally, those low neckline tops were high fashion back then My mum got me some out of the catalogue and I wore a purple one to my first Quo gig. They also had a sort of shirt tail design. No idea what they were called. Ahem, anyway; where were we?
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Post by buffrobb on Aug 23, 2023 7:43:03 GMT
I have a pic taken by my mate at Quos 1973 gig in Edinburgh Hello tour with Savoy Brown in support, and can confirm is genuine as I was at the concert with him and the late great Stuart Adamson of Skids and Big Country fame.
Getting to the point, they have the same stage clothes on as the Apollo pics, just trying to upload the photo, see how it goes
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Post by buffrobb on Aug 23, 2023 7:43:51 GMT
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Post by buffrobb on Aug 23, 2023 9:00:25 GMT
Managed the upload, not bad for an old fella Yeh Mortified will be interested in the pic as he was at the same gig. Checking out the amps and Ricks black & white platforms they all match the Apollo pics. I have another pic somewhere (one of the little thumbnails that came with the standard pic) which has Rick playing his Red SG Not sure how we managed to smuggle the Brownie 127 camera into the gig, big difference from today where everybody is taking pics and recording the concert on their mobiles
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Post by mortified on Aug 23, 2023 11:42:20 GMT
Is that the Empire, buffrobb? 👍 Quick question to check your memory (and mine ). Do you remember a girl with long hair and knee high platform boots climbing over that barrier and grabbing Francis? She was escorted to the side of the stage where I think they let her stay and watch. She'd have been arrested these days She'll be in her 60's now, if not even older. It's a vague recollection. I was upstairs at the side and can still sort of picture it.
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Post by curiousgirl on Aug 23, 2023 19:53:48 GMT
Great pics. Strange for me to realise that they were only 23 or 24 then... Because to me they were always so much older.
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Post by mortified on Aug 24, 2023 4:39:27 GMT
Alan looks like his own dummy in that Empire pic
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Post by buffrobb on Aug 24, 2023 6:28:56 GMT
Is that the Empire, buffrobb ? 👍 Quick question to check your memory (and mine ). Do you remember a girl with long hair and knee high platform boots climbing over that barrier and grabbing Francis? She was escorted to the side of the stage where I think they let her stay and watch. She'd have been arrested these days She'll be in her 60's now, if not even older. It's a vague recollection. I was upstairs at the side and can still sort of picture it. Yes that's the Empire gig mortified we were seated downstairs quite close to the front centre stage. This was my first gig (I don't count The Corries at The Carnegie Hall Dunfermline, just to make sure nobody gets confused with the one in America when I was about 12 ) Yes I do remember the stage jumper now that you mention. I don't recall much about Savoy Brown, but Quo blew me away. Can you confirm if we had to wait until the bingo finished
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Post by buffrobb on Aug 24, 2023 6:36:39 GMT
Alan looks like his own dummy in that Empire pic he sure does, my mate back in Fife has the rest of the photos somewhere. He dished out a couple to each of us that attended the gig. I didn't think you got much photos out of a spool back then. The trepidation and the waiting at Elena Mae's or Boots The Chemist for them to be developed and fingers crossed the turned out, just to end up in an old shoe box up the loft
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mortified
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Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
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Post by mortified on Aug 24, 2023 6:57:13 GMT
Is that the Empire, buffrobb ? 👍 Quick question to check your memory (and mine ). Do you remember a girl with long hair and knee high platform boots climbing over that barrier and grabbing Francis? She was escorted to the side of the stage where I think they let her stay and watch. She'd have been arrested these days She'll be in her 60's now, if not even older. It's a vague recollection. I was upstairs at the side and can still sort of picture it. Yes that's the Empire gig mortified we were seated downstairs quite close to the front centre stage. This was my first gig (I don't count The Corries at The Carnegie Hall Dunfermline, just to make sure nobody gets confused with the one in America when I was about 12 ) Yes I do remember the stage jumper now that you mention. I don't recall much about Savoy Brown, but Quo blew me away. Can you confirm if we had to wait until the bingo finished Yeah, we had to wait and queue outside until the bingo finished. So, if I remember rightly, the gig was quite a late one. It's funny the daft insignificant things you remember thinking back. The music before Quo came on for example. It was the first time I'd heard Nutbush City Limits and BTO's You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet and I ended up buying both. Or rather, my mum did I know what you mean about the photos. I tried to take a few at other gigs with a Kodak Instamatic but they were hopeless. I've got some somewhere of John Miles and Hawkwind, both at the Usher Hall in the mid-70's because I was front row. I only learned properly about flash photography much later when I took it up as a proper hobby with proper equipment
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