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Post by jamesboogiewoogie on Oct 26, 2016 16:05:25 GMT
- All Status Quo fans agree, as do Rick, Alan and John, that the FF were special - they WERE special, and yet Rossi seems so indifferent to the line-up which made him famous.
- The 77' live album is widely regarded as one of the seminal live albums from the 70s - it's always showing up in 'best live album polls'. But does Mr Rossi like it? Never, never has done.
- Rossi says he's a perfectionist and yet AQ2 has some appallingly out-of-tune singing, desperately dull arrangements; it's just 'dead'. His lead-guitar work during gigs is just messy at best, and cringe-worthy at worst, the FF reunion gigs being an exception.
- Since 2014 EVERYONE has hoped that the FF would reform and do one last album/tour - Rossi absolutely won't.
- Rossi used to be such a committed member of Status Quo. He's always done the majority of Music press interviews; time and time again, back in the 70s he would stress how Quo were a 4 piece band where all 4 members were equal - there was no big-star trip going on. He wrote many of the balls-out Quo classics for gods sake. Now he just seems so uninspired and miserably-cynical about all things pre-'85.
- As a teenager in the 70s, Rossi was the first member of the band who appealed to me. Whilst ploughing through my teenage years he was my absolute Musical hero/idol, and yet he's also been the one who finally put me off the band, for good.
- He can undoubtedly be very charming and witty and yet he can be so insensitive - I remember him recalling during an interview, that when his wife told him his mum had died,he just rolled over and went back to sleep. Who does that??
- He has written some of the catchiest, rockiest, ballsiest songs in all of Rock-Musicdom, and yet since '84 he has also written many truly awful, awful songs....I mean really fuckin' bad. In fact I would go so far as to say that since the mid-80s the vast majority of Rossi compositions have been awful.
- I've met him a few times and he is genuinely so likeable - and yet he has this certain contrariness about him too.
- He created the 'greatest rock n' roll band in the land' and yet he also killed the goose that laid the Golden egg.
.....and now it's time for a glass of Thai-Whiskey! quoal  .
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2016 16:17:33 GMT
Not everyone wanted the FF to get back together let alone continue. Some of the comments posted after the gigs were along the lines of "hated it. Francis and Rick weren't their usual self. They're usually so funny". Apparently "fun" is what attracts so many people to CQ. They couldn't care less if the music is s**t, like it has been.
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Post by jamesboogiewoogie on Oct 26, 2016 16:25:40 GMT
"Hated it"  Blimey, ok well I suppose even Rolls Royce gets complaints - but come on, the amount of folk that came away from those FF gigs preferring Panto-Quo to the 'real deal'- you could count on one finger. |
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Post by sincity on Oct 26, 2016 16:34:34 GMT
Not everyone wanted the FF to get back together let alone continue. Some of the comments posted after the gigs were along the lines of "hated it. Francis and Rick weren't their usual self. They're usually so funny". Apparently "fun" is what attracts so many people to CQ. They couldn't care less if the music is s**t, like it has been. Those were the people who stood out like a sore thumb & were gutted cos they couldnt do the twirling finger thing to the wanderer - to be honest they were few and far between at the 9 shows i was at but i guess there must have been a few of the flask of soup brigade there  |
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Post by kachunk on Oct 26, 2016 16:48:02 GMT
"Hated it" Blimey, ok well I suppose even Rolls Royce gets complaints - but come on, the amount of folk that came away from those FF gigs preferring Panto-Quo to the 'real deal'- you could count on one finger. I presume that these people hated it,even though they probably trampled numerous people to death to get to their sacred front row spot,because: A) Rhino wasn't there to gob water all over them. B) Francis and Rick were unable to play in auto pilot,thereby unable to give these fans the wave of recognition from the band that they so clearly think that they deserve. C) RAOTW wasn't played,even though it was clearly advertised that it would be material from 70-76. Aside from being tremendous gigs,the other main positive of the FF shows was on a fan level: It sorted out the tourists from the purists. |
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Post by jamesboogiewoogie on Oct 27, 2016 2:01:40 GMT
"It sorted out the tourists from the purists" - love it!!
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Post by paul70 on Oct 27, 2016 8:16:48 GMT
"Hated it" Blimey, ok well I suppose even Rolls Royce gets complaints - but come on, the amount of folk that came away from those FF gigs preferring Panto-Quo to the 'real deal'- you could count on one finger. I presume that these people hated it,even though they probably trampled numerous people to death to get to their sacred front row spot,because: A) Rhino wasn't there to gob water all over them. B) Francis and Rick were unable to play in auto pilot,thereby unable to give these fans the wave of recognition from the band that they so clearly think that they deserve. C) RAOTW wasn't played,even though it was clearly advertised that it would be material from 70-76. Aside from being tremendous gigs,the other main positive of the FF shows was on a fan level: It sorted out the tourists from the purists. Just once this: Tour 1 was heaven, for many yes. Loud, nostalgic.. Set was ok, Backwater etc., i love it... but weakest link now was ..John. Sorry. Other tour was pure business, that 'damn showbiz'. No more. They did it twice, fine. Time to go on......to the end of the road. Time to go on. Rossi's way solo tour?pro-job? Oh! and every other pub has own quo these days , so you can choose. |
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Post by wolfman on Oct 27, 2016 14:32:19 GMT
rossi was up there with the guitar gods in the 70s for me....but ..ugh ..most people are saying what I think these days...these new generation of fans following the quo panto once a year have no fecking idea....the last few months have been jaw dropping...rossi n porter do the one last decent thing...and not tour under the current name...
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Post by wolfman on Oct 27, 2016 15:04:29 GMT
The reason is quite simple: HE'S A WAALLOPER!!!!!first fucking class.. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 16:21:05 GMT
Not everyone wanted the FF to get back together let alone continue. Some of the comments posted after the gigs were along the lines of "hated it. I don't think it was a case of 'hated it', there were some (like myself) who saw the 'FF' many times back in the 70's who REMEMBER the energy and balls out playing from that time. Personally, on seeing the re-formed band at Hammersmith on the first reunion tour there was honestly no comparison . Yes, the band played what everyone wanted to hear, yes it was good to see them back together again, BUT there was very little real energy and virtually no chemistry between them on stage, add to that some of the playing was pretty lousy as well.
Granted I enjoyed the gig BUT what actually tipped it over the edge and made it memorable was the audience reaction, far better than any current Quo gig I've ever been to and in many ways it gave the 70's audiences a run for their money.
Don't get me wrong it was a good gig, just not anywhere near as good a gig as they used to play back in the day.
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Post by freewilly on Oct 27, 2016 16:26:51 GMT
Not everyone wanted the FF to get back together let alone continue. Some of the comments posted after the gigs were along the lines of "hated it. I don't think it was a case of 'hated it', there were some (like myself) who saw the 'FF' many times back in the 70's who REMEMBER the energy and balls out playing from that time. Personally, on seeing the re-formed band at Hammersmith on the first reunion tour there was honestly no comparison . Yes, the band played what everyone wanted to hear, yes it was good to see them back together again, BUT there was very little real energy and virtually no chemistry between them on stage, add to that some of the playing was pretty lousy as well.
Granted I enjoyed the gig BUT what actually tipped it over the edge and made it memorable was the audience reaction, far better than any current Quo gig I've ever been to and in many ways it gave the 70's audiences a run for their money.
Don't get me wrong it was a good gig, just not anywhere near as good a gig as they used to play back in the day.
Yeah, there's a reason it was lousy..... "Hey Adam, Larry and The Edge, let's go on tour for a few months and let's rehearse, in private and on stage, for 8 weeks" Compared to.... "Alright Spud, Nuff, Rick....Let's get these gigs out of the way now ffs. Rehearse for 12 days. No arguments" "Ha erm OK but, Francis..." "Oh that's it!! I've had enough!!!" There was also tons of energy and chemistry in comparison to a CQ gig. I don't mean to be speaking down to you here but, in the grand scheme of things, drop the rose tinted glasses in relation to CQ |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 16:43:05 GMT
Not everyone wanted the FF to get back together let alone continue. Some of the comments posted after the gigs were along the lines of "hated it. I don't think it was a case of 'hated it', there were some (like myself) who saw the 'FF' many times back in the 70's who REMEMBER the energy and balls out playing from that time. Personally, on seeing the re-formed band at Hammersmith on the first reunion tour there was honestly no comparison . Yes, the band played what everyone wanted to hear, yes it was good to see them back together again, BUT there was very little real energy and virtually no chemistry between them on stage, add to that some of the playing was pretty lousy as well.
Granted I enjoyed the gig BUT what actually tipped it over the edge and made it memorable was the audience reaction, far better than any current Quo gig I've ever been to and in many ways it gave the 70's audiences a run for their money.
Don't get me wrong it was a good gig, just not anywhere near as good a gig as they used to play back in the day.
I think you'll find that if you go back and read some of the comments on Ticketmaster there were people slaughtering the band for not playing what they wanted to hear. That the gig was too loud, Francis and Rick "weren't funny", etc. |
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Post by freewilly on Oct 27, 2016 17:05:06 GMT
I don't think it was a case of 'hated it', there were some (like myself) who saw the 'FF' many times back in the 70's who REMEMBER the energy and balls out playing from that time. Personally, on seeing the re-formed band at Hammersmith on the first reunion tour there was honestly no comparison . Yes, the band played what everyone wanted to hear, yes it was good to see them back together again, BUT there was very little real energy and virtually no chemistry between them on stage, add to that some of the playing was pretty lousy as well.
Granted I enjoyed the gig BUT what actually tipped it over the edge and made it memorable was the audience reaction, far better than any current Quo gig I've ever been to and in many ways it gave the 70's audiences a run for their money.
Don't get me wrong it was a good gig, just not anywhere near as good a gig as they used to play back in the day.
I think you'll find that if you go back and read some of the comments on Ticketmaster there were people slaughtering the band for not playing what they wanted to hear. That the gig was too loud, Francis and Rick "weren't funny", etc. Yep.... A very famous "GAA all star" and starter in "Team of the Millennium" told me how let down he was at the Dublin gig... Why? Oh because they didn't play Rollin Home, In The Army Now or Burning Bridges....... I know, I know....Truly boggles the mind |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 19:36:25 GMT
I don't think it was a case of 'hated it', there were some (like myself) who saw the 'FF' many times back in the 70's who REMEMBER the energy and balls out playing from that time. Personally, on seeing the re-formed band at Hammersmith on the first reunion tour there was honestly no comparison . Yes, the band played what everyone wanted to hear, yes it was good to see them back together again, BUT there was very little real energy and virtually no chemistry between them on stage, add to that some of the playing was pretty lousy as well.
Granted I enjoyed the gig BUT what actually tipped it over the edge and made it memorable was the audience reaction, far better than any current Quo gig I've ever been to and in many ways it gave the 70's audiences a run for their money.
Don't get me wrong it was a good gig, just not anywhere near as good a gig as they used to play back in the day.
Yeah, there's a reason it was lousy..... "Hey Adam, Larry and The Edge, let's go on tour for a few months and let's rehearse, in private and on stage, for 8 weeks" Compared to.... "Alright Spud, Nuff, Rick....Let's get these gigs out of the way now ffs. Rehearse for 12 days. No arguments" "Ha erm OK but, Francis..." "Oh that's it!! I've had enough!!!" There was also tons of energy and chemistry in comparison to a CQ gig. I don't mean to be speaking down to you here but, in the grand scheme of things, drop the rose tinted glasses in relation to CQ I can only assume you didn't read my post properly, I didn't say the gig was 'lousy', just SOME of the playing, by no means all of it.
The main difference between the gigs I went to in the 70's was in those days the energy was coming from the stage, the reunion gig I went to at Hammersmith the energy was coming from the audience.
Again, it was a good gig, just not the best I've seen that particular line up play.
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Post by freewilly on Oct 27, 2016 20:26:50 GMT
Yeah, there's a reason it was lousy..... "Hey Adam, Larry and The Edge, let's go on tour for a few months and let's rehearse, in private and on stage, for 8 weeks" Compared to.... "Alright Spud, Nuff, Rick....Let's get these gigs out of the way now ffs. Rehearse for 12 days. No arguments" "Ha erm OK but, Francis..." "Oh that's it!! I've had enough!!!" There was also tons of energy and chemistry in comparison to a CQ gig. I don't mean to be speaking down to you here but, in the grand scheme of things, drop the rose tinted glasses in relation to CQ I can only assume you didn't read my post properly, I didn't say the gig was 'lousy', just SOME of the playing, by no means all of it.
The main difference between the gigs I went to in the 70's was in those days the energy was coming from the stage, the reunion gig I went to at Hammersmith the energy was coming from the audience.
Again, it was a good gig, just not the best I've seen that particular line up play.
As I said Billy, the difference between rehearsing for 8 weeks and 13 days was significant. No way in hell should Rossi go uncriticised for that. The mere fact you couldn't spot Matt Letley phoning it in, during the 2007-2013 years, is astonishing. I remember seeing it with my own eyes on numerous occasions and thinking, "there's trouble brewing here." And thanks to Alan G. Parker, it turns out I was right. |
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Blimey, ok well I suppose even Rolls Royce gets complaints - but come on, the amount of folk that came away from those FF gigs preferring Panto-Quo to the 'real deal'- you could count on one finger.
