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Post by vivfromcov on Nov 1, 2016 21:14:10 GMT
And....
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Post by Tʰᵉ Wᵃˡˡ Oᶠ Dᵉᵃᵗʰ on Nov 1, 2016 21:19:44 GMT
And.... These aren't the faxes.....?
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Post by Whoppa Choppa on Nov 1, 2016 21:50:40 GMT
Nah... that's an astromek droid, a protocol droid, O-bee Do-bee Doo, and the R Parfitt wig from early '10s....
What does the fax say?
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Post by Quoincidence on Nov 1, 2016 21:58:48 GMT
Now they won't be able to track us down
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Post by vivfromcov on Nov 1, 2016 22:18:17 GMT
Now they won't be able to track us down But seriously, it's good that you shared the contents on here. Even if they delete from FB, it's here in the public domains and a lot will have seen it.
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Post by Quoincidence on Nov 1, 2016 22:47:19 GMT
Now they won't be able to track us down But seriously, it's good that you shared the contents on here. Even if they delete from FB, it's here in the public domains and a lot will have seen it. It's no problem I'm not entirely sure who has FB on here and it's only right to share some new Quo info with everyone
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2016 16:45:55 GMT
Deep respect for Alan Lancaster. **Taken from QuoLlectors Facebook** Not if you think Alan was only in it for the money. And that Francis and Rick never did anything to find out because they were "simply" too drugged up to care. Of course, the blessed St Francis knew all along what Alan was up to. Guess where that huge lump of bullshit came from...
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Nov 2, 2016 21:53:27 GMT
Also taken from Quo Llectors page. Yesterday we had a great evening. When two collectors on the continent come together to dig in the early recordings of Quo .. then there is something magic. We were digging in the first years Spectres years and even before. For the first time I was also privileged to read all the private letters, faxes between Francis, Rick and Alan in 1984 / 85 /86. Very very interesting Even the letter in which Francis sacked Alan, was a surprise. We know now the reasons why. < Puzzled > Someone with access to private business corrspondence is discussing it on Facebook? Nothing inplausible about the contents, but it doesn't sound on the face of it as if it's the recipients who are discussing it ... Ownership of correspondence like that does not lapse with time.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Nov 2, 2016 22:06:54 GMT
They don't say how they got hold of these faxes. But the gist of this matches what I heard in connection with the court case. The friction was between Alan and Quarry (Alan Crux was mentioned, but I think this is just because he was the finance director, or such). Francis didn't like it or want to get involved. (As we know a few years later, he was admitting that they had found out there was a financial problem.) There also appears to have been an issue that Alan particularly wanted to "try again" on the USA, even suggesting that they move the operation there. This is not something Francis wanted, having gone off the USA in a big way earlier, mostly for reasons of scale. I've never heard that Alan was sacked. It seems to be a matter of record that Alan and Rick approached the record company, after Francis said he was quitting, and offered them a Quo based on Alan and Rick. The record company said no, there were recording obligations, and they would not accept this without Francis. As he was the main PUBLIC figure, this made perfect sense. Alan wasn't sacked, IIUR. Francis genuinely wanted out, but couldn't get out, but refused to work with Alan. In effect the band came apart, then moved sideways to somewhere Alan wasn't, and re-appeared. I have a faint recall of at least a couple of other bands I knew about doing something similar in the 70s. Mrs F, I need to re:watch the Hello Quo doc which I've now got a copy of but I'm sure that this was the big reveal in the film. Official letter was sent to Alan and signed by Francis sacking him from the band. I'll update to confirm when I can. Yes, I think you are right ... I have some faint memory of that, and thinking "that's a turn up for the books." The Teamrock interview with Alan takes the view that Francis wanted to break up the band, though even John admits that he was being awkward squad at the time and wasn't that surprised that they let him go when he walked out. But I also heard the story about him being bundled into the car and packed off home after he walked out ... no opening for a reconciliation.
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