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Post by Gaz on Oct 1, 2016 14:11:13 GMT
From the FTMO Facebook Page: Only problem is it appears you can only watch online if you "reside within Australia". "reside within Australia". I'll steal a loaf of bread and get myself over for free. Geez you Poms did it hard over here back in the late 1780-90s. Those that made were tough as teak.
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Post by madtom on Oct 1, 2016 15:18:05 GMT
Looking forward to our Aussie members putting the clip on you tube Id do it for you if I knew how. PM Lozza, I'm sure she'd be happy to show you.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2016 15:33:08 GMT
Looking forward to our Aussie members putting the clip on you tube Id do it for you if I knew how. I've never put one on there either, so best to leave it to the techies on here
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Post by Whoppa Choppa on Oct 1, 2016 16:09:14 GMT
Bring it on, stusqo ! A bit of Alan-positive vibes wouldn't be wrong, now would it? In defence of Stus, I believe he's very much a fan of FF Quo. I hope he takes it as the tic-thing it is!
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Post by viza on Oct 2, 2016 7:38:20 GMT
You can watch Australian TV abroad with a VPN (virtual private network). Then you can simulate an ip address that looks like it's from Australia. I'm not sure how it works but it shouldn't be too hard to fix.
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Post by Gaz on Oct 2, 2016 21:35:15 GMT
OK, Alan on the show today... it just showed a clip of Alan with the opening comment saying 'Alan reveals explosive secrets behind Status Quo!!'
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Post by 4th Chord on Oct 2, 2016 21:43:05 GMT
OK, Alan on the show today... it just showed a clip of Alan with the opening comment saying 'Alan reveals explosive secrets behind Status Quo!!' Get the vhs tape in Gaz.
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Post by Gaz on Oct 3, 2016 0:08:07 GMT
Well, what a brain numbing show!! But after 1 hour and 50 minutes, Alan's interview finally came and I can tell you now that Francis comes out of it looking as, what Davy has always called him,....a waalloper and I suspect Alan and him are finished for good. Alan was given all the usual facts such as Quo has sold over 120 million albums and where did the money go etc, in which Alan replied that the 120 mill album claim he 'suspects' as being wrong...it's more like 40 million. He said once Roy left, the band then found its groove (our thing) and away we went and after all the hits they had with the records, not one band member has ever seen a royalty statement from the record company. The band fell apart after they were introduced to cocaine and Francis became an 'anti Quoist' during his addiction. 'Anti Quoist' in that he hated everything about the band from the music,to the management, and most of all the band members. He resented JC and John was sacked very quickly, Pete Kircher was brought in we went on to record our worst album ever. Alan said JC was by far the best shuffle drummer in the world, the band was flying high and Francis goes and sacks him...why? He was 'Anti Quo'. The interveiwer then says..."and you were sacked shortly after"....Yes we did the End of the road tour,then I was called back to do the Live Aid gig then next day was sacked from a band I founded. Then he says.."Why...because Francis could earn more money with less original members in it!" Dayle was then introduced and told about life with Alan. He didn't cook much but loves making buckwheat pancakes...in fact any guests who walk into their house, that'll be the first question they'll be asked.."Do you want some buckwheat pancakes?" More small talk followed. Alan and Dayle looked very well btw. If you do get to watch the show (apparently its on 'repeat' for 3 weeks), just bypass all those stupid infomercials and get to around the 1:45 hr mark.
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Post by stusqo on Oct 3, 2016 0:32:03 GMT
Would love to post the show for you but technically challenged guys. I hear you all say challenged in more ways than one!!! Still sad state of affairs as we all love/d Quo back in the day. Correct assumption I am and always will be a FF fan, Status Quo fan and whatever Quo term you use fan. Very saddened to see this band disappearing . Will always have the best memories of first gig at Melbourne showgrounds supporting Slade as a 17 year old. And finally seeing Quo once again during 90's at Thebarton Adelaide front row. For all my rantings I will miss the band. Always have the memories and the music however. Rockon Wilquo
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Oct 3, 2016 17:07:17 GMT
I don't think they've ever actually claimed it is 120 million albums; I think they're misquoted. I think the official line is 118 million units, which I take to include singles, albums, compilation albums, videos, DVDs, and anything else music related. (Could be wrong though, that's just how I understood it).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2017 19:13:10 GMT
Hi All, Sorry for resurrecting a dead thread and if this article has been posted already, but I came across this by 'Team Rock' which featured the studio10 interview with Alan.....
Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi wound up hating everything to do with the Frantic Four lineup because of his drug addiction, says Alan Lancaster!
Status Quo co-founder Alan Lancaster has blamed the collapse of the band’s Frantic Four lineup on Francis Rossi’s drug addiction.The bassist believes the frontman grew to hate everything to do with the most successful incarnation of the band as a result of his issues. And he says he lost more money than he ever made from the band as he tried to protect it from what he saw as a hostile takeover.
Lancaster and Rossi formed Status Quo in 1962, and remained together until Lancaster’s acrimonious split in 1985, following the departure of original drummer John Coghlan three years previously. The Frantic Four – also featuring Rick Parfitt – reunited in 2013 and again the following year, while the 21st-century Quo lineup continued to operate.
Lancaster tells Australia’s Studio 10: "It was a cocaine thing that broke Status Quo up. Cocaine was endemic in the business around the time. It makes you feel as if you’re better than everybody else, superior. I think that’s when we started to lose our brotherhood. Francis became… I call him the anti-Quoist. Everything to do with the original band he seemed to abhor. He got to dislike management, he got to dislike John, everybody in the band. he wanted to do it all on his own for ages. One by one he got to oust us all."
He says of Coghlan: "It was unthinkable that one of us could leave – we’d just reached the top of our tree. John got ousted. We were in Switzerland making an album and John was on a plane back home. Pete Kircher came in to substitute him, and we made the worst album we’ve ever made." , "John is probably one of the best swing shuffle drummers in the world, but Francis was having nothing of it.
"“Once John went it was easy to start getting rid of us. And it’s all to do with money as well – once one member leaves you make more money if you don’t pay them." Lancaster describes the experience of watching the band continue without him as "like having your child abducted" and adds: "Status Quo ended up costing me more money than I ever made from it because I was trying to protect it. I’m not a big corporation any more, I’m on my own. In the end you have to give up."
He says Rossi – who’s admitted to suffering from a round-the-clock cocaine habit in the 1980s – was his "first recruit" when the band was coming together. "In those days none of us could play," the bassist remembers. "We did our first gig within the first year. It’s a bit strange forming a band when you can’t play an instrument."
And despite the regular assertion that Status Quo have sold over 120m records during their career, Lancaster believes the total is much lower. “I think it’s more like 40m – from my royalty statements it’s around 35, to 40m. "None of us in the band have ever received a royalties statement ever. We’ve never had an accounting from management." , "There’s lots of millionaires going around the world who’ve made their money from Status Quo. But the band themselves struggle to get there."
Courtesy of:- teamrock.com/classic-rock
Geoff.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Aug 21, 2017 11:49:38 GMT
Thanks Geoff for a more detailed report on the interview.
Funny thing is that John himself has said he walked out, and that he was being impossible. So if Francis "sacked" him, then he (John) walked into it like a coach and horses. I do believe though that he was hustled away and back to England more or less as soon as he was out of the room, so there was no will among the band to retrieve him. There's no sign that Alan (sorry, Al) tried to retrieve the situation, or that Rick did. So very true is the song: If you tolerate that, then your children [and you] will be next. And though many would agree that B2B was the worst Quo album, at least do date, that wasn't the fault of the drummer.
It's an odd idea that Francis "hated the management", because he actually dissed Alan for questioning them, at the time of the court case in whenever it was 1985? 86? And he also said, if Alan thinks that Alan Crux is a problem, why is he still Alan's financial manager? Francis was still very much at-one with the Cruxy and Cols management, it was only much much later than he said, Alan was right, we were being ripped off. This has never been tested in court as far as I know and remains a mystery, with only the story of "we only got a roll of demin" poking above the horizon.
I believe that Alan says about the 40M. Either that, or he's still not getting accurate statements.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2017 12:21:42 GMT
It's an odd idea that Francis "hated the management", because he actually dissed Alan for questioning them, at the time of the court case in whenever it was 1985? 86? And he also said, if Alan thinks that Alan Crux is a problem, why is he still Alan's financial manager? Francis chose not to tour JS to prove a point to the management that a record could sell without the band having to tour. Could be that's what Alan was referring to.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Aug 21, 2017 12:42:54 GMT
Who knows? And that just raises the question, why did Francis have the "say" in this anyway? (I didn't know what you meant to start with, I was trying to fit Spud's name into "JS" This was before my time, so I would not have noticed. The singles from JS did very well - I actually bought one of them. Francis was no prophet to the future of the music business, but this was the 70s and nobody else was either! But it is interesting that he'd gone off the idea of touring, that far back. JS was the last really good album that Quo did, IMO, at least until Heavy Traffic.
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Post by freewilly on Aug 21, 2017 14:56:08 GMT
It's an odd idea that Francis "hated the management", because he actually dissed Alan for questioning them, at the time of the court case in whenever it was 1985? 86? And he also said, if Alan thinks that Alan Crux is a problem, why is he still Alan's financial manager? Francis chose not to tour JS to prove a point to the management that a record could sell without the band having to tour. Could be that's what Alan was referring to. And then you read that Francis wanted out of the band during that time...
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