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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2016 13:54:25 GMT
I wonder how many hard core Led Zeppelin fans were in angst when Robert Plant got together with Alison Krauss? Apart from a few selected great songs, I am not a LZ fan at all, but I suppose the argument then was that it was tolerable to partner a female (with her violin) for a music project because the music wasn't happy clappy and had some serious creative musicality to it.
Quo, with their cheeky chappy knees-up style simply don't get away with girls and their back up vocals, violins and accordions in the eyes of many of their own hardest core fans.
I'm not a LZ fan either, and don't know what the reaction was like when Plant and Krauss got together, but given that it wasn't released under the LZ name, I doubt there was any anger in that respect. Also, Alison Krauss is a major part of the musical process instead of being background fluff like the girls with Quo are. Their inclusion seems to be down to Francis' desire to sing with girls and him wanting to move Quo away from being "macho". How else could you explain why such rank rotten singers get the job? Well other major well respected rock-men like Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd have had "background fluff" as you call them too - albeit singing and moving together in unison to a very different product of course. I'm sure the Quo girls would be highly flattered by being described like that
Yes, Francis has oft repeated his desire to sing with girls. I can still remember a favourite records show he did for R1 in the late 70's which my sister and I taped one Sunday evening on our shared cassette recorder He played a Connie Francis song, saying how much he admired her voice and loved her songs in general - and how much he liked the idea of doing a duet with a lady like her. - It was very interesting and intriguing to hear at the time based on the stage image he still had at the time within the FF. Plus some wide eyed teenage crush was still happening at the time on my part of course.
Little was to know to so many fans that this type of thinking was paving the way ahead for him in the years to come. As I said in another post today, none of it is a surprise really in terms of his tastes both musically and personally. His abrasive stage act, mainly of the peak FF era, hid a quite different guy in reality.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2016 14:10:50 GMT
I'm sure the girls on the Rossi solo tour would have been flattered by being called eye-candy, by Francis himself.
Francis has never hidden his desire to sing with girls, but their overall contribution to the Aquostic projects doesn't help them from being called background fluff. They are completely unnecessary, because they offer nothing musically. Though it seems to go down well with Francis for reasons already stated, and Porter who wants Quo to appeal to the Strictly/X Factor crowd.
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Post by freewilly on Sept 10, 2016 14:14:39 GMT
Jesus... Tickling balls comes to mind
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Post by derryquo on Sept 10, 2016 14:37:18 GMT
Good to see hem on their feet, off the seats...perhaps they can make his work afterall..
Ha fucking ha
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Post by freewilly on Sept 12, 2016 3:14:45 GMT
Just seen this version described as "truly amazing"
The original must be up for a couple of Ivor Novellos so
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Post by americanquo on Sept 13, 2016 23:35:20 GMT
I honestly thought I was back in the Hofbrauhaus in Munich watching the show, except without the great beer. Jeez.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Sept 14, 2016 13:23:01 GMT
I'm sure the girls on the Rossi solo tour would have been flattered by being called eye-candy, by Francis himself. Not one of his finer moments. (Even if he'd cleared it with them.) It's not like they were in a position to provide any return banter. He did of course once, briefly, sing with the best. The bad news: it was All Around My Hat.
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Post by madtom on Sept 14, 2016 13:38:42 GMT
I'm sure the girls on the Rossi solo tour would have been flattered by being called eye-candy, by Francis himself. Not one of his finer moments. (Even if he'd cleared it with them.) It's not like they were in a position to provide any return banter. He did of course once, briefly, sing with the best. The bad news: it was All Around My Hat. I quite like All Around My Hat, the Steeleye Span version that is.
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