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Post by paradiseflats on Aug 8, 2017 18:37:35 GMT
don't forget the rock till ya drop album.. Who recorded that ?
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Post by dennis on Aug 8, 2017 20:13:05 GMT
I can see why they didn't break the States..they love the 'big' bloated stuff in that neck of the woods. Breaking America was up to recently not so much to do with talent but record company and consequently radio support. The US label simply didn't push Quo hard enough. Certainly Francis in addition maybe others weren't willing to do the spade work, playing over there for long periods in smaller venues or as support compared to the larger headlining venues they could play in the UK and some parts of Europe. It wasn't down to the music, otherwise they and Slade would have been huge. An interesting US interview with Francis from the 1990s I think. www.hardradio.com/metalmama/statusquo.html" The old band had its magic here and there but it wasn't as good as the band we have today. All I ever wanted to be was famous. I can't pretend I wanted to be a musician. Perhaps I do now want to play better, but when I was younger it was just to be famous. I saw the Everly Brothers and I wanted to do that. In my 20s I was very adamant, I didn't need to learn anything and in the past five or ten years one of my sons is a particularly good guitar player and I felt ashamed that he was that much better than me." What goes on in that head?!
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Post by lemmystoenail on Aug 9, 2017 9:06:50 GMT
Breaking America was up to recently not so much to do with talent but record company and consequently radio support. The US label simply didn't push Quo hard enough. Certainly Francis in addition maybe others weren't willing to do the spade work, playing over there for long periods in smaller venues or as support compared to the larger headlining venues they could play in the UK and some parts of Europe. It wasn't down to the music, otherwise they and Slade would have been huge. An interesting US interview with Francis from the 1990s I think. www.hardradio.com/metalmama/statusquo.html" The old band had its magic here and there but it wasn't as good as the band we have today. All I ever wanted to be was famous. I can't pretend I wanted to be a musician. Perhaps I do now want to play better, but when I was younger it was just to be famous. I saw the Everly Brothers and I wanted to do that. In my 20s I was very adamant, I didn't need to learn anything and in the past five or ten years one of my sons is a particularly good guitar player and I felt ashamed that he was that much better than me." What goes on in that head?! I think its just the occasional tumbleweed blowing past mate
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