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Post by quomaster on Oct 13, 2024 2:59:48 GMT
1985 when I bought 12 Gold Bars on my very first CD, then years of backtracking, finally seeing them live up until the last Australian tour in 2017. All good up until Backbone. The lack of physical product, Rick, and further touring outside Europe has wound it up for me.
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 6,525
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 13, 2024 6:46:35 GMT
Thinking more deeply on this, I remember at being 17 when the Army album came out in 86 and thinking well it wasn't really the end then as on the back sleeve it said Quos Back. But took comfort in that so much so far as to say I think the charisma was already for many years coming from Rick and Francis anyway. I think they really were the Morecambe and Wise or Ant and Dec of Rock n Roll as Rick and Francis normally always stood in the same position on stage, just as the comedians I mentioned earlier does or did. Which makes Rick and Francis a unique unit all on their own. I think even on some of the record sleeves had Rick and Francis as the front cover in full concert flight. So I could maintain an interest as long as I knew Rick was in the band, but in 2016 for me at least something ripped my heart out, and turned it upside down, and Quo for me was over. The party that wasn't over yet, actually was over, with an eiry blanket sound of nothingness. This is sort of what I mean by eras of seeing the band, although I appreciate this wasn't the first time you'd seen them. When I first saw them, it wasn't the Rick and Francis show. It was all 4. And it wasn't until it became deliberately marketed as such, more or less from '86 onwards. With the crossed guitars. 'Borrowed' from Hard Rock Café probably I personally never saw it as Rick and Francis until very, very late on. Even though album covers like Rock 'til You Drop, Under The Influence and .... Party might have told me otherwise. It just never registered. Or maybe subconsciously I just refused to let it.
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Post by Gaz on Oct 13, 2024 9:06:27 GMT
Just think. I was alive then! But I never saw this set. I regret that.
It was the one and only set I saw. I saw the same set in Australia back in 75. Such a powerful moment that stays with us forever.
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Post by charles on Oct 13, 2024 9:29:28 GMT
From 79 to 84. I saw them at Selhurst Park, which was an adventure for us youngsters, but their output had been a letdown with 1+9+8+2 and especially BtB in 83, so the end was near. Never even listened to the Army album, as there were so many more exciting bands around, like Maiden and Priest. One year later I discovered seventies music properly, and folk, and blues...
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colin69
New Rocker Rollin'
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Post by colin69 on Oct 13, 2024 19:39:05 GMT
For me as a kid I was Quo mad from 1978-1982. Got back into them around 2010 but didn’t see them live until 2012. Seen them a number of times since but nothing will top the reunion gigs and if I’m honest I rarely listen to them now.
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col
Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 779
Favourite Quo Album: Dog Of Two Head, Piledriver, Hello, Quo, Live
Favourite other bands.: Ramones, Warrior Soul, Soundgarden, King Buffalo, Small Faces, Motorhead, UFO, Screaming Trees, Kyuss, Clutch
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Post by col on Oct 14, 2024 7:05:29 GMT
For me, it was 1973 until 1987.
It was nothing to do with line-ups or musical direction, otherwise I would have bailed out in '77 or '82.
Playing Sun City in apartheid South Africa is what did it for me, still can't believe they did that.
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gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 3,186
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 14, 2024 9:50:18 GMT
For me, it was 1973 until 1987. It was nothing to do with line-ups or musical direction, otherwise I would have bailed out in '77 or '82. Playing Sun City in apartheid South Africa is what did it for me, still can't believe they did that. Didn’t know they did that - mind you it fits the ‘how low can we go’ post-‘81 plan (whose plan exactly, I neither know nor care cos it was bloody awful)
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