Post by I Ain't Complaining on Feb 25, 2016 18:26:49 GMT
Feb 24, 2016 20:51:38 GMT @deepthroat said:
I have no beef with you DT; but the points you posted are just your opinion, not fact. We will never know if CQ could have done better (chart wise, financially or critically) because we can't test what would have happened if they'd done things differently.
I don't know that I'm right and you're wrong....I'm just offering an alternative opinion (that I actually believe in). There's always another opinion!
The quote from Porter that you chose to ignore - "Quo is Quo, whatever the lineup" - suggests that the FF could play arenas and sell as many (if not more) tickets than CQ. The only problem is that the majority of the audience wouldn't like it, because the hits wouldn't get played. But, as I said, no-one except a handful of teenage girls go to see Quo because of Rhino, Andy or Leon.
The line-up doesn't matter.
The FF have been underpromoted time and time again, starting from the off. Anything FF got posted three or four times on FB while anything to do with Bula Quo was posted several times a day, several days a week. When the FF boxset was to be released in October 2013, Quo released the GGG single, which meant that the FF were ignored. The German arena dates in 2014 were very poorly promoted.
It doesn't cost anything to post on FB, so why post more about one and not the other? The answer is that it's a case of what you say - "current Quo are Quo, and the FF is the past". But as soon as you post about the FF, whether you believe they are the past or not, they become current. IMO, Quo didn't want that and that is why posts about the FF were limited. Selling albums at gigs was probably seen as OK because the public didn't get to know about it.
Airplay on Radio 2 is not indicative that you will sell albums. BTT and MO got playlisted for about ten weeks yet the album didn't climb in the charts.
A title doesn't make ME want to buy an album any more or any less, but it decides how something is marketed. There's a reason why artists choose not to release albums with a similar title to the one before - it's bad practice. It makes no sense unless you're building up a trend - e.g. Led Zeppelin I-IV, Bat Out Of Hell I-III - to which you can exploit customers in later years with boxsets, etc. I don't think that's what's happened with Quo - it's laziness, IMO.
Finally, the decision to promote everything with a one-size-fits-all approach is annoying, and at times, mis-guided. How does Quo faffing about aim to promote a serious rock song (i.e. TWT) or encourage people to care deeply about a cause (ITAN 2010)? Every man and their dog knows that Quo have a sense of humour. Why focus on it every bloody time?!!
Well we'll have to agree to disagree then. A lot of it possibly comes down to how Francis and Rick see it, and what is important to them at this stage of their career. I'm sure it's not all Porter. The promotion of the German FF dates, surely that's down to the promoter??
I wasn't ignoring parts of your first post....they were the parts I didn't disagree with