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Post by americanquo on Dec 18, 2015 4:01:19 GMT
A year ago I had completely stopped listening to music, at home and in the car. I listened to audiobooks and nothing else. Now I know RAOTW and IYCSTH virtually by heart. Piledriver, Quo, Hello, OTL and TPAOY I know about 75% by heart. People give me strange looks when I'm pounding air drums and singing at a stop light. My youtube Quo playlist is 319 videos currently, and I listen to it every night. I have a new favorite song every week (this week it's 'Lonely'). Fueled by this playlist, I wrote a 164,000 word novel in one f'n year! No band ever has had such an effect on me. They are my favorite band of all time, and I could argue they were consistently better than even the Stones. (I'm not a Beatles fan so I don't have that discussion.) If I compile a list of top ten favorite albums from any group, Quo would have 3 or 4 spots. The only others off hand I can think of that measure up are: Mott by Mott the Hoople The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust by Bowie Past, Present and Future by Al Stewart They Only Come Out At Night by Edgar Winter Group (a high school favorite, this is a sentimental pick) Sticky Fingers by the Stones That's all I can think of. Piledriver, Hello, Quo, OTL, RAOTW and IYCSTH are all fighting for the other five spots. And yes, I know a lot of you don't like the last two I picked...too bad. I think they're incredible. Did that answer the question? Oh, and if anybody cares, my favorite Quo 3 album is probably ISOTFC. Great post. Even if you are a little bit Panto Nobody's perfect.
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Post by curiousgirl on Dec 18, 2015 5:15:13 GMT
A great response like that leaves no-one in any doubt about your credentials as a Quo fan Its a shame that many more of your country-folk don't share this appreciation, or knowledge of Quo.
I'm always interested to hear feedback from you of those you have introduced to Quo over there. Whether that be directly, or indirectly ....maybe through an open window of your car
I also agree with your assessment of ISOTFC as a favourite CQ album. Its mine too, very closely followed by RTYD and UTI.
LOL...you should have seen the looks I got from a truck full of Mexicans about half an hour ago. I had 'Rain' cranked up and was head-banging and I think they thought I was having a seizure. I'm not sure what it is about Quo that struck such a chord in me, but I have never had this reaction to a band before, and I'm 60 years old. It's been a weird year, some really bad but some really good. Quo is much of the good. Two really interesting posts AQ. So your 2 fav albums are ones where Quo tried to break into the US. Maybe they were right in that respect, bar not having the right lead singer voice. And did you know that Quo are actually popular in Mexico? They toured there about 2 years ago and held one (or 2?) of their biggest gigs ever.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2015 10:18:11 GMT
A great response like that leaves no-one in any doubt about your credentials as a Quo fan Its a shame that many more of your country-folk don't share this appreciation, or knowledge of Quo.
I'm always interested to hear feedback from you of those you have introduced to Quo over there. Whether that be directly, or indirectly ....maybe through an open window of your car
I also agree with your assessment of ISOTFC as a favourite CQ album. Its mine too, very closely followed by RTYD and UTI.
Cats - what about TPAOY? Hi Carl, what would you like to know? Its quite good within the CQ period. Its not fiskadelic enough though
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Post by americanquo on Dec 18, 2015 15:52:08 GMT
LOL...you should have seen the looks I got from a truck full of Mexicans about half an hour ago. I had 'Rain' cranked up and was head-banging and I think they thought I was having a seizure. I'm not sure what it is about Quo that struck such a chord in me, but I have never had this reaction to a band before, and I'm 60 years old. It's been a weird year, some really bad but some really good. Quo is much of the good. Two really interesting posts AQ. So your 2 fav albums are ones where Quo tried to break into the US. Maybe they were right in that respect, bar not having the right lead singer voice. And did you know that Quo are actually popular in Mexico? They toured there about 2 years ago and held one (or 2?) of their biggest gigs ever. Don't get me wrong, I love the FF albums in general, but my two least favorite are Ma Kelly's and Dog. I like them, just not as much as the later ones. But for driving in your car and freaking out people your own age, RAOTW and IYCSTH are hard to beat. And it's fun! You see all of these guys my age looking old and dour and tired, and there I am drumming along to 'I'm Going To Teach You To Love Me' and they look at me like I'm nuts, while I look at them like they have a terminal illness. Some of them point, but secretly I think a lot of them wish they were me. By the way, IYCSTH is John Coghlan's album. If you put any other drummer (except maybe Keith Moon) on that record, it's just good, and some of the songs slip into the 'meh' category. But he absolutely elevates the whole thing. I know that AL wrote a lot of the stuff, and his bass tracks are critical, but I have not heard Coghlans' stamp on any other album to the same degree.
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Post by Whoppa Choppa on Dec 18, 2015 16:00:25 GMT
Two really interesting posts AQ. So your 2 fav albums are ones where Quo tried to break into the US. Maybe they were right in that respect, bar not having the right lead singer voice. And did you know that Quo are actually popular in Mexico? They toured there about 2 years ago and held one (or 2?) of their biggest gigs ever. By the way, IYCSTH is John Coghlan's album. If you put any other drummer (except maybe Keith Moon) on that record, it's just good, and some of the songs slip into the 'meh' category. But he absolutely elevates the whole thing. I know that AL wrote a lot of the stuff, and his bass tracks are critical, but I have not heard Coghlans' stamp on any other album to the same degree. Listen to the remaster of On The Level, and enjoy the drumming there, as well! He was so very involved with the songs. Then someone told him to just keep the time....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2015 18:58:26 GMT
Hi Carl, what would you like to know? Its quite good within the CQ period. Its not fiskadelic enough though NowwaitacottonpickinminuteCats.... howdyalikethemmellotrons? Shoulda known better
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2015 19:02:59 GMT
Hi Carl, what would you like to know? Its quite good within the CQ period. Its not fiskadelic enough though Imagine a new fisk album Cats! #sigh I know...*sigh* *sob*
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Post by americanquo on Dec 20, 2015 3:41:45 GMT
By the way, IYCSTH is John Coghlan's album. If you put any other drummer (except maybe Keith Moon) on that record, it's just good, and some of the songs slip into the 'meh' category. But he absolutely elevates the whole thing. I know that AL wrote a lot of the stuff, and his bass tracks are critical, but I have not heard Coghlans' stamp on any other album to the same degree. Listen to the remaster of On The Level, and enjoy the drumming there, as well! He was so very involved with the songs. Then someone told him to just keep the time.... Hah! I think I have it, and thought the same thing in the car today. The guy is/was great, getting rid of him was plain stupid.
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Post by paul70 on Dec 20, 2015 8:15:45 GMT
Listen to the remaster of On The Level, and enjoy the drumming there, as well! He was so very involved with the songs. Then someone told him to just keep the time.... Hah! I think I have it, and thought the same thing in the car today. The guy is/was great, getting rid of him was plain stupid. There was heavy drinking / breakdown. He f,..up 82 original session , smashing studio equipments etc. He quit himself..
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Post by paul70 on Dec 20, 2015 10:11:37 GMT
LOL...you should have seen the looks I got from a truck full of Mexicans about half an hour ago. I had 'Rain' cranked up and was head-banging and I think they thought I was having a seizure. I'm not sure what it is about Quo that struck such a chord in me, but I have never had this reaction to a band before, and I'm 60 years old. It's been a weird year, some really bad but some really good. Quo is much of the good. Two really interesting posts AQ. So your 2 fav albums are ones where Quo tried to break into the US. Maybe they were right in that respect, bar not having the right lead singer voice. And did you know that Quo are actually popular in Mexico? They toured there about 2 years ago and held one (or 2?) of their biggest gigs ever. good stuff
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2015 12:03:51 GMT
Hah! I think I have it, and thought the same thing in the car today. The guy is/was great, getting rid of him was plain stupid. There was heavy drinking / breakdown. He f,..up 82 original session , smashing studio equipments etc. He quit himself.. John also says himself that if the band, at that very time he quit, had taken a year or so to draw a breath and re-group themselves then he could have carried on and who knows what that might have meant for the FF as a whole.
He clearly has a point here, because both Francis and Rick have long admitted that the drugs and excesses had completely taken over objective control of the band - and hence why the 1982 and BTB albums are widely perceived by fans as weak and disjointed as they are.
Although Alan's own material deteriorated overall at the same time as Francis and Rick (after John's departure) my own view is that he still remained more objective and clear headed, at that time, than either of the two-pronged guitarists. His own inspiration much depended on the cohesiveness of the four of them around, but with John gone he became quite isolated because, as time has gone on to prove, despite the haze of drugs and personality destructions, Francis and Rick still had that double act intuitive relationship between them which easily picked up and carried on post 85.
Lots of ifs, buts and maybe's. Hind sight is that wonderful thing though, and on the other hand it could easily be argued would there be any Quo at all for any of us to be discussing as a going concern all these years later. By that I'm not speaking just of CQ but also the fact that further FF activity cannot yet be ruled out before the end finally arrives. Many of us would obviously have liked the FF to continue back in the 80's, but taking John's scenario of re-grouping in the early 80's to enable him (and them) to continue - how long might it have lasted into and beyond the time that CQ had taken over after the EOTR and Live Aid marked the end of the final part of the pre-85 era with Pete by then as drummer?
By dint of that we will also never know whether there would have been reunion all these later.
Should the band have controlled their destiny better in the early 80's we might well have seen a further period of inspired boogie rock rather then the two weaker products of 1982 and BTB. But the suspicion still points to over induced lifestyle taking over once more and overall self control continuing to conflict with internal differences of opinion. Perhaps we are actually lucky that although the recorded material deteriorated rapidly after 81, the live gig experience remained remarkable right up to the finish in 84/85
Its also arguable with all this in mind whether all the band members would still be alive today if the FF had continued. Thankfully they all are, and in that sense while we can rue the FF imploding as they did all these years back, at least we still have them all still here today and, at the time of writing, with two glorious reunion tours already into the history books, all possibilities are still on the table till the definitive end to all playing finally arrives
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Dec 20, 2015 13:32:19 GMT
Amquo - you are like one of those Deep South travellin' preachers. Spreadin' the boogie word. They ought to make a document about you. A documentary? Yes they should - spread the word! Maybe the FSB and CIA - A - A - A already have a document on him
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Dec 20, 2015 13:49:22 GMT
I have been a fan of the official "best" in rock and pop. The Beatles. The Stones. Led Zep. I never saw the first two live, but I saw Zep live several times, including before their success in the US reached my ears (and anyway why would I care?) I know why they knocked spots off every one else.
Nonetheless nobody knocked me over Live more thoroughly than Quo, and Quo have kept going too. They may not have got "bigger and bigger", but they have kept going and you can still catch that Quo Sound on a good day even in 2015 with the current lineup. They are my 30-year band, there is no other. 'Tis only the gods of Rock n Roll who decide who carries the One Guitar. OK it took 3 of them to do it, but THAT DOESN'T MATTER and I think somewhere in there is the secret of the sound. There is nobody like Quo, I know cos I have been looking and there just isn't. There is nobody like Quo. I don't really do number one band, but without Quo there would have been a massive black hole in my musical life.
That is where Quo sit with me.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Dec 20, 2015 13:58:42 GMT
PS This sort of talk ^^ embarrasses Francis I think, and I can understand why. If I were not a fan myself, I would find it embarrassing too. But he has seen grownup men with tears wrinkling down their noses ... I'm told, he is actually sympathetic, personally. They are not the only band who can do this to their fans, but they CAN do this, not everyone can. They can turn us into jellies. It's not their fault, don't be embarrassed Francis, it is the Way of Wyrd, it's just something that happened, like Life crawling from under a stone or the universe coagulating from a cloud of molecular grit that nobody had any use for at the time. It's a funny thing, but I am still happy to be here.
(Anyone who can read the signs would deduce that we were at the Nightwish gig in London last night.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2015 14:20:02 GMT
By all means they're not the greatest band of all time, but to me of course they are.
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