Farewell Electric Set List

Oct 1, 2016 7:43:16 GMT accidentprone said:

Sept 30, 2016 8:18:17 GMT @catlady said:

Along with the Oriental, the last song from HT I would include would be CUOY !  They have been two major culprit identities of the predestinate static CQ set list since the pre-Cambrian era.

But each to their own of course

And some very good choices otherwise

Agree with your point on the dreadful over exposure of CUOY and The Oriental. However, despite that I still enjoy CUOY live as it is a good song. I have always despised The Oriental though. Other options would be Solid Gold (stand out track on HT but I don't think it worked that well live when it was in the set) and Heavy Traffic itself (which did work). 

As as you have said on other threads what a huge missed opportunity by CQ in not playing some of their own back catalogue more often over the past few years.......As well as Solid Gold, Heavy Traffic, others such as GGUAG, Frozen Hero, Dust to Gold, TWT, Movin On, Power of Rock, Rock till you Drop, One Man Band, Shine On, Red Sky, You'll Come Round, Bad News etc etc.  Even just 3 of them put in ONCE over the last couple of years instead of The Oriental, CUOY and BOTE would have been a start !!!

I'm personally not a fan at all of Solid Gold, but in a hypothetical world would have chosen the likes of Blues and Rhythm and Heavy Traffic, the title song from the album.

The point is though as you rightly say, there were huge options available and the differences in individual taste from one fan to another only illustrate further the lack of excuse for not including far many more of them

I do not subscribe at all to the excuse about the set having to stay the same because these are the songs that the average jo is familiar with. Quo were always a band who listened to their fan base first and foremost and not people who only listen to their hits!  The band/management have created the situation where large numbers of people are unfamiliar with songs because they have chosen to turn Quo from a mainstream rock band into a commercial brand. Making it far too easy to act like they scratch their heads about the set because they think no-one will want to hear "obscure" album tracks.

Precisely the opposite approach has been adopted to the one that made them successful in the first place. Yes, they released instantly recognisable singles that mirrored their solid boogie identity, but they balanced that by improvising at their gigs in a way that fully showcased the best of the albums the singles were taken from.

They have engineered the change of identity and image and just because they have ended up with the audience they are aiming for (largely people who do not buy their albums) does not justify in any way its policy implementation in the first place.