viza
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Post by viza on Dec 19, 2017 22:40:14 GMT
To me it sounds very much like the leftovers from Just Supposin'. The songs are undeveloped, there's too little guitar, the sound is drenched with synthy keyboard stuff that jars rather than complements - & Rossi seems to sing everything! Was it meant to be his first solo album? Not sure why AL didn't take the lead on anything but it was recorded just after the tragic death of Rick's young daughter. But it was recorded at the same time as Just Supposin' and both RP and AL did lead parts on that album.
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viza
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Post by viza on Dec 19, 2017 22:59:00 GMT
To much harmony vocals, almost through all songs. Not a single guitar solo on side two. Still this is better than later albums but not a classic Quo album to me.
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Post by thepiledrivergorilla on Dec 21, 2017 20:41:50 GMT
One of my favourite albums. All the more special for me as the NTL tour was the first time I saw the mighty Frantic Four in the Glasgow Apollo. I was 16 at the time. I'm 52 now and still remember it quite clearly....
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Post by Detroit on Dec 21, 2017 20:52:02 GMT
One of my favourite albums. All the more special for me as the NTL tour was the first time I saw the mighty Frantic Four in the Glasgow Apollo. I was 16 at the time. I'm 52 now and still remember it quite clearly.... plus one?
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Post by thepiledrivergorilla on Dec 21, 2017 21:03:42 GMT
Yes!! Plus 1... No offence to Andy but I hardly took any notice of him!
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Post by Quoincidence on Dec 21, 2017 21:59:00 GMT
It's definitely a drum machine on Riverside... comparing the drum sound with the rest of the tracks on the album and the snare sound makes it obvious it's a synthetic sound. However I do enjoy that track.
Falling In, Falling Out is another good one
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Post by dennis on Dec 21, 2017 22:13:52 GMT
According to "Status Quo Song By Song", "...... though the backing tracks for for both albums were laid down ......, Just Supposin' was dubbed mixed, and essentially finished before they turned their attention to the Never Too Late repertoire ......when the Dublin recording sessions finished they were a bit light on material, so Eden & Rossi knocked some of Never Too Late together themselves ......"
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Post by americanquo on Dec 24, 2017 4:47:58 GMT
I like the album a lot. Like others have said, it's not Quo, but it's not In the Army Now, either. It's good some damned good tracks.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Jan 29, 2018 15:30:13 GMT
Just to try to clear this up (bucket of water and a mop please) JC had put down drums on the basic album tracks. On Riverside Francis and John Eden later added snare and tom fills using sampled sounds but played manually. Though still sounded machine like and had no natural room ambience.
Last album with John Eden and Quo went on to produce 1982 themselves. Idea I think was to return to their original recording ethos. Perhaps Alan felt Francis and John were getting a bit too close in the studio and losing some control over things.
Though 1982 turned out a mixed bag and JC picked up his P45 and drum machines were not ruled out so hardly a return to the old days but stuff like Resurrection were head and shoulders above some of the songs that came later on.
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