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Post by dennis on May 4, 2024 21:55:24 GMT
It means re-route or detour in German. Who knew?
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Post by dennis on May 3, 2024 17:21:09 GMT
I can probably get down to a shortlist of 20, or 30
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Post by dennis on May 2, 2024 21:28:15 GMT
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Post by dennis on May 1, 2024 13:08:41 GMT
I'd have prefered it, or almost anything else, to the execrable Come Rock With Me / Rockin' On
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Post by dennis on Apr 29, 2024 19:07:28 GMT
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Post by dennis on Apr 26, 2024 21:05:47 GMT
seems topical
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Post by dennis on Apr 26, 2024 20:21:53 GMT
So, Johnny Cash has a new single out, over 20 years after his death. He had recorded vocals for a number of tracks a decade before his passing, but began working with Rick Rubin and left the tracks unfinished ... until now. This is one of them, Well Alright... made me think of this :-
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Post by dennis on Apr 26, 2024 19:24:12 GMT
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Post by dennis on Apr 26, 2024 19:17:50 GMT
Browsing a vintage shop in Keswick today. Thought both needed to be more prominant, so gave them pride of place. A fiver got you the classic Quo album and a whopping 28 quid for Piledriver! Surprised they haven't slipped out of those boxes!
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Post by dennis on Apr 26, 2024 18:03:33 GMT
Deeside Leisure Centre, 30th May 1981. Alan covering for Rick's vocals. If I remember rightly, Alan covered for Rick on the last 2 gigs of the tour at Southampton Gaumont 2/3 June, which was John's last gigs with the band until the reunion. according to the excellent quogigography.net site: "There were several dates where Alan Lancaster had to cover Rick Parfitt's vocal parts during the second batch of UK dates in May. Wembley Arena 26.5.1981 was one of the gigs that Rick had no voice and Alan had to sing all his songs in the set."
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Post by dennis on Apr 26, 2024 16:49:17 GMT
I see what you mean though
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Post by dennis on Apr 26, 2024 16:48:02 GMT
dunno, but the inner sleeve shows his right arm just after a sling has been removed
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Post by dennis on Apr 24, 2024 20:08:16 GMT
22 March 1973. Edinburgh Caley Cinema. The set list will have been the same as the BBC Paris Theatre gig plus Is It Really Me/Gotta Go Home. A life-changing event. As the first Quo gig was and has been since for so many. 60p 😂 We really are old aren’t we!! 12 bob in real money!
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Post by dennis on Apr 23, 2024 19:12:32 GMT
If this praise for dreadful Quo tracks continues then I'm sorry, we'll just have to close down the messageboard. Tommy, another look by RR007 A much overlooked and maligned song that actually captures the eternal struggle. The lyrics reflect this "Heavens above, his mother would say My Tommy's in love, he's moody all day He's out of his mind, suspended in time" The use of the word "Heaven" reflects the matriarchal despair of his Mother. Only a religious deity can help Tommy who is suffering from depression and hanging from the ceiling in his room, is he dead? We don't know. Further verses reveal a much more disturbing image. "And he tries little lies then he tries to refrain, sayin' Let me go, let me Let me go, let me go, let me go, let me go" It's now obvious that Tommy is a prisoner of some Evil twisted cult that has restrained him in his room and Tommy is prepared to lie to be set free. But is that really the case? Have we stumbled on the writers knowledge of or indeed being a witness to the exorcism of a Demon? "tries to refrain"? obviously another example of Rossi's fixation with masturbation
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Post by dennis on Apr 23, 2024 19:08:13 GMT
Can't remember the specific date but I thought to myself "I have the programme somewhere, I'll go and have a look". The bloody programme isn't dated but there's a picture of the band inside, towards the back, of them recording the new album "As It Happens". That turned out to be "Whatever You Want" didn't it? Presumably then my first Quo gig was 1977 on the RAOTW tour. It was definitely at the NEC. A magic day. Strange how I can lay my hands on that programme from 1977 but I'm buggered if I can find my pension statement from last week.............! Could be talking nonsense here thinking about it. The Heat tour maybe? Sounds like your first gig was the same one as mine, 12th May 1979. 1. Caroline 2. Roll Over Lay Down 3. Backwater 4. Rockers Rollin' 5. Is There a Better Way 6. Hold You Back 7. Little Lady 8. Like a Good Girl 9. Rockin' All Over the World 10. Oh, What a Night 11. Dirty Water 12. Forty-Five Hundred Times 13. Big Fat Mama 14. Don't Waste My Time 15. Roadhouse Blues 16. Encore: 17. Rain 18. Down Down 19. Bye Bye Johnny This was before the modern venue had been built at the NEC. The tour was promoting Pye's Just For The Record compilation & a free flexi disc was distributed around the venue. The Heat tour in '78 only featured Quo at Reading in the UK due to those "Tax Years" they were doing
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