The Future is Past blog on Quo.
Aug 13, 2016 22:43:09 GMT
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Post by curiousgirl on Aug 13, 2016 22:43:09 GMT
Here's an enjoyable read about Quo from a fan from the 70s on his blog The Future is Past. Here's the intro to the post.
Blogged 17/April/2016
The necessary fashion accoutrement for the aspiring bohemian at my school was the canvas rucksack. Cheap and hard wearing, available at all army surplus shops, the bag suggested ‘although I recognise that I have to carry school work around this cheap bag is all the respect am am going to show it’, or something like that. The other advantage of canvas bags was that they could be hand decorated with ball point pen. This of course had it’s own set of rules you were only allowed to put bands names on although if you could produce an approximate copy of the bands logo that would give you extra credibility points. Unsurprisingly though only certain bands were eligible for admission and they were the hard rockin variety whith names that could be abbreviated, we are talking Zep, Purple, Sabbath and, of course Quo.
I had problems with this apart from my usual problem of not wanting to be part of any club that would have me. Sabbath I didn’t get at all and still don’t really, they were just off my radar. History of course would prove me stupid but I didn’t really get Zeppelin either. I caught ‘Trampled Underfoot’ on The Old Grey Whistle Test where they did their usual thing that they did for bands who couldn’t be tempted into their broom cupboard to play live, of superimposing some random black and white unrelated footage over the recorded track. Well, it was one of the most boring things I had ever heard with Plant shouting intelligibly over a relentless riff with a guitar dub two thirds of the way through. One of the problems as far as I was concerned was that John Bonham’s drumming was leaden and just did not swing at all. Today, of course, he is regarded as probably the best rock drummer ever so its possible I might just be wrong about this but it’s fair to say that in 1973 the mighty Zep were not going to appear on my canvas rucksack.
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thefutureispast.co.uk/2016/04/17/quo/
Blogged 17/April/2016
The necessary fashion accoutrement for the aspiring bohemian at my school was the canvas rucksack. Cheap and hard wearing, available at all army surplus shops, the bag suggested ‘although I recognise that I have to carry school work around this cheap bag is all the respect am am going to show it’, or something like that. The other advantage of canvas bags was that they could be hand decorated with ball point pen. This of course had it’s own set of rules you were only allowed to put bands names on although if you could produce an approximate copy of the bands logo that would give you extra credibility points. Unsurprisingly though only certain bands were eligible for admission and they were the hard rockin variety whith names that could be abbreviated, we are talking Zep, Purple, Sabbath and, of course Quo.
I had problems with this apart from my usual problem of not wanting to be part of any club that would have me. Sabbath I didn’t get at all and still don’t really, they were just off my radar. History of course would prove me stupid but I didn’t really get Zeppelin either. I caught ‘Trampled Underfoot’ on The Old Grey Whistle Test where they did their usual thing that they did for bands who couldn’t be tempted into their broom cupboard to play live, of superimposing some random black and white unrelated footage over the recorded track. Well, it was one of the most boring things I had ever heard with Plant shouting intelligibly over a relentless riff with a guitar dub two thirds of the way through. One of the problems as far as I was concerned was that John Bonham’s drumming was leaden and just did not swing at all. Today, of course, he is regarded as probably the best rock drummer ever so its possible I might just be wrong about this but it’s fair to say that in 1973 the mighty Zep were not going to appear on my canvas rucksack.
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thefutureispast.co.uk/2016/04/17/quo/
NOoooooooooo
