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Post by curiousgirl on Aug 16, 2017 14:45:59 GMT
Maybe they could use the ladies they have used on Aquostic. For what? Making some sandwiches? Certainly won't be for singing. There are plenty of great young female singers. Not Quo, grant you but still good.
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Post by freewilly on Aug 16, 2017 15:05:18 GMT
For what? Making some sandwiches? Certainly won't be for singing. There are plenty of great young female singers. Not Quo, grant you but still good. That's what he meant. Those backing singers Quo use are cack....
Good looking but, harsh on the ears
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2017 15:34:20 GMT
Yep. I was referring to how they contribute nothing on both Aquostic albums. IMO, anyway.
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Post by paradiseflats on Aug 16, 2017 15:35:37 GMT
Yep. I was referring to how they contribute nothing on both Aquostic albums. IMO, anyway. I think they add some good harmonies at times. Like on Dear John.
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Post by Detroit on Aug 16, 2017 15:40:55 GMT
Quo mark 1 had five members not four. Not for most of its existence. 1970 they were down to 4, and Andy didn't officially join until what? 1979? And I don't count the psychedelic stuff, that was just awful. BUT...if you want to up the first band to the Frantic 5, then 40% of the band is still intact, and to me that just doesn't make sense. POMM, a very good song, put them on the map to greatness. One could say that without that hit, which btw made it top 10 in USA and Canada, they might have gone a different direction. One never knows.
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Post by paradiseflats on Aug 16, 2017 15:46:36 GMT
Not for most of its existence. 1970 they were down to 4, and Andy didn't officially join until what? 1979? And I don't count the psychedelic stuff, that was just awful. BUT...if you want to up the first band to the Frantic 5, then 40% of the band is still intact, and to me that just doesn't make sense. POMM, a very good song, put them on the map to greatness. One could say that without that hit, which btw made it top 10 in USA and Canada, they might have gone a different direction. One never knows. Also if we start choosing when the band started etc based on taste. There is only one lineup '70 to 75.
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Aug 16, 2017 18:07:59 GMT
Not for most of its existence. 1970 they were down to 4, and Andy didn't officially join until what? 1979? And I don't count the psychedelic stuff, that was just awful. BUT...if you want to up the first band to the Frantic 5, then 40% of the band is still intact, and to me that just doesn't make sense. POMM, a very good song, put them on the map to greatness. One could say that without that hit, which btw made it top 10 in USA and Canada, they might have gone a different direction. One never knows. They would not have existed, as If that had also flopped they would have been dropped by Pye and Francis was going to go and become a Ice cream salesman.
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Post by curiousgirl on Aug 16, 2017 19:04:53 GMT
Yep. I was referring to how they contribute nothing on both Aquostic albums. IMO, anyway. Fair enough. I'm not a fan of the singing on those albums either. But your comment about making sandwiches was ambiguous.
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Post by Detroit on Aug 16, 2017 19:27:58 GMT
POMM, a very good song, put them on the map to greatness. One could say that without that hit, which btw made it top 10 in USA and Canada, they might have gone a different direction. One never knows. They would not have existed, as If that had also flopped they would have been dropped by Pye and Francis was going to go and become a Ice cream salesman. ....then try his hand at country music?
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Post by unspokenwords on Aug 16, 2017 22:13:36 GMT
Reading some of the posts in this topic I thought I was on the wrong site and had accidentally gone on to the 'cups and cafe' lighter side of life. All this perhaps give them a chance, they might actually rejuvenate Status Quo etc.,is mind boggling. For people to even thank that an original band can be the same when the members change makes no sense and is disrespectful to the original creator of the art/music and what attracted people to this unique talent.
For myself no matter what the new members of the FR band do, it will never be Status Quo.
If Noel and Liam Gallagher, with their admiration for The Beatles and John Lennon in particular, joined together with Paul McCartney would it be right that it be called 'The Beatles'? Paul, George or Ringo have never presented themselves in any guise as The Beatles other than when they recorded together or re recorded tracks together that included Johns vocals.
If some one paints in the style of a famous artist are they that artist? If someone deigns a building in the style of a famous architect are they that architect. I don't think so.
I am not at all interested in what Ritchie, Leon, Andy or for that matter what Rossi do. If they do something my only hope is that they do not do it under the name as Status Quo. It might be good, who knows, but no matter what quality it is not Status Quo.
I doubt very much I would personally like it. Ritchie was not that impressive in the pub band he played in and I doubt his partnership with Rossi, Leon, and Andy will mount to anything more than playing Status Quo covers in a clinical business like manner.
Status Quo are no more, apart from their recordings and memories, end of the story.
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Post by azza200 on Aug 16, 2017 22:38:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 7:32:25 GMT
Reading some of the posts in this topic I thought I was on the wrong site and had accidentally gone on to the 'cups and cafe' lighter side of life. All this perhaps give them a chance, they might actually rejuvenate Status Quo etc.,is mind boggling. For people to even thank that an original band can be the same when the members change makes no sense and is disrespectful to the original creator of the art/music and what attracted people to this unique talent. For myself no matter what the new members of the FR band do, it will never be Status Quo. If Noel and Liam Gallagher, with their admiration for The Beatles and John Lennon in particular, joined together with Paul McCartney would it be right that it be called 'The Beatles'? Paul, George or Ringo have never presented themselves in any guise as The Beatles other than when they recorded together or re recorded tracks together that included Johns vocals. If some one paints in the style of a famous artist are they that artist? If someone deigns a building in the style of a famous architect are they that architect. I don't think so. I am not at all interested in what Ritchie, Leon, Andy or for that matter what Rossi do. If they do something my only hope is that they do not do it under the name as Status Quo. It might be good, who knows, but no matter what quality it is not Status Quo. I doubt very much I would personally like it. Ritchie was not that impressive in the pub band he played in and I doubt his partnership with Rossi, Leon, and Andy will mount to anything more than playing Status Quo covers in a clinical business like manner. Status Quo are no more, apart from their recordings and memories, end of the story. If you read the OP and most of the following posts there have been repeated qualitative disclaimers about the past, the FF and the comparisons with the past. Also if you have read enough of my own posts in general you would know very well where I come from and have come with Quo. I've done plenty of my own critique and it shouldn't be necessary to have to justify this with every post that is made.
So, to repeat once more, this thread is deliberately set-up to take any future possibilities on their own merits for those who are prepared to be objective about it and forget (for purposes of this thread) the golden hey-day which, like it or not, has gone, finito, not to return) Its fine to have the belief you have and with that in mind I've repeated endlessly my own thoughts about the past vs the present, but already written a book on this thread as to why I'm done with repeating it.
I also think its time to leave this mb vs mb stuff well and truly behind. Being a Quo fan is a broad church and lets just let people have their opinions and preferences without stirring them up.
I'm going to personally give this band one more chance to see if they can show some innovation and appetite to break the same old. Nothing whatsoever to do with the past, which is gone and can't be changed. It is what it is. Just what they might (or might not) do on their own merits.
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Post by gav on Aug 17, 2017 8:57:15 GMT
Does anyone have a link to the interview with Rossi, Ritchie and Leon? Ta.
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Post by rockonquo on Aug 17, 2017 9:30:12 GMT
Does anyone have a link to the interview with Rossi, Ritchie and Leon? Ta.
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Post by freewilly on Aug 17, 2017 9:33:21 GMT
Nah sorry.
Francis Rossi has alienated me, to the point where I don't care anymore. It's not Status Quo and never will be and I don't really care what the others do, with the exception of Andy.
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