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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2014 12:04:26 GMT
BRILLIANT...... end of.....
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Post by snakelady on Mar 30, 2014 13:20:57 GMT
BRILLIANT...... end of..... Thanks, Mac, that says it all. That's one way of putting it - lazy git would've been another
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Post by LOZ on Mar 30, 2014 17:41:34 GMT
BRILLIANT...... end of..... what he said. :rr-hbg:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2014 17:53:46 GMT
And to top it all off I got a meet and greet with Loz............
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Post by Quocaster on Mar 30, 2014 18:13:03 GMT
Of all the many gigs I have been - simply the best. Just brings home why I got into this band way back when. Nobody beats them live. An awesome weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2014 18:17:25 GMT
And to top it all off I got a meet and greet with Loz............ And Quocaster.............. :bwave:
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Post by Quocaster on Mar 30, 2014 18:23:37 GMT
Good to finally meet you Mac!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2014 18:48:19 GMT
Me and my new mate..........
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Post by ADMIN MB on Mar 31, 2014 8:20:47 GMT
I can concur with Mac's initial review. It's difficult to describe the Hammy weekend. The real deal. I even got a few slaps off Lozza. :lolflg:
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Post by LOZ on Mar 31, 2014 9:24:50 GMT
I can concur with Mac's initial review. It's difficult to describe the Hammy weekend. The real deal. I even got a few slaps off Lozza. :lolflg: AND well diserved !!!
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Post by johnnymain on Apr 1, 2014 9:07:42 GMT
Looking forward to my Glasgow gigs next week more than ever now.
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Post by snakelady on Apr 1, 2014 9:10:03 GMT
Come on guys - if two German girls can do it .. What about you native speakers come up with some decent report as well ?? :bwave:
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Post by quodlibet aka granny on Apr 1, 2014 11:33:37 GMT
Come on guys - if two German girls can do it .. What about you native speakers come up with some decent report as well ?? :bwave: Here is a good report from the Guardian newspaper
Status Quo: Britain's most underrated rock band
Status Quo … Back in denim, at Hammermith Apollo on Saturday night
I went back in time on Saturday, to 30 years ago, which was the last time I saw Status Quo play live. I was a kid, and went to Milton Keynes Bowl on 21 July 1984 to see what was billed as the last ever Quo show. It turned out it wasn't; they were back together for Live Aid within a year, and recommenced a career that continues to this day. I always felt cheated by that; I wouldn't have gone had it not been the last ever show.
But on Saturday night – as part of my continuing to campaign for force Guardian music writer, pop historian, and Saint Etienne band member Bob Stanley to embrace heavy rock – I was down at Eventim Apollo (or the Hammersmith Odeon, as pretty much everyone there would have known it) for the return of the Frantic Four, the original Quo line-up. Or, rather, the second return of the Frantic Four, since they first reunited this time last year for the first time since 1981. Never let it be said Quo don't have a pretty good eye for an opportunity, because this line-up is alternating with the actual current line-up, the Frantic Four playing the deep cuts, the current line-up doing the end-of-the-pier hits set.
Recent years have seen some extravagant claims made for Quo. A big Mojo feature posited their single-mindedness as a precursor to punk, and Bob suggested to me they had plenty in common with Krautrock, in their own peculiar way – making Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt the Norwood Neu! – and that the guitar pattern that introduces Caroline has rather more in common with the systems music of Steve Reich than with, say, Foghat.
I can't go that far. And I doubt Quo would be likely to make those claims for themselves. But, equally, to paint them as the world's most limited band is to do them a grave disservice. They are used a byword for predictability: I saw a review earlier of the Cure that took this usage, saying they had "turned into a formulaic, Goth rock Status Quo". And that's simply unfair, probably on the Cure and certainly on the Quo.
For a start, it isn't all heads-down no-nonsense mindless boogie. Alan Lancaster's Is There a Better Way is a song that provides some justification for the proto-punk argument; the guitar intros to Oh Baby and Blue Eyed Lady venture into near baroque territory; and Rossi, as everyone who's seen him live knows, is a genuinely excellent blues guitarist, while Parfitt's frantic downstrokes on rhythm were the blurry twin of Johnny Ramone.
But I can't deny it. Quo are at their most thrilling – and thrilling is the right word – when they bring on the boogie. Rain was astoundingly heavy, Down Down as fabulous as ever (and as lyrically puzzling: "I want all the world to see/ To see you're laughing and you're laughing at me." Why? Who would want that?). Small wonder the Apollo/Odeon was as packed as I've ever seen it, with an audience as fiercely partisan as I've ever encountered. This was the first time I've ever entered that auditorium and been physically unable to make more than a couple of steps into the crowd.
So why are Quo so dramatically underrated by those outside their fanbase? It can't just be that people think they do one thing and one thing only – look at AC/DC, whose range is equally limited, but who are now regarded by anyone with half a brain as a treasure. I think it's more to do with their lack of any hint of rock star mystique. Now, you might say AC/DC lack that, too, but they do it by being more or less invisible when they're not touring, and by doing so few interviews. By staying silent, they make themselves more interesting than they actually are. Quo, by contrast, have no problems putting themselves out there – Rossi and Parfitt have told their war stories a thousand times – to the extent that they even starred in their own crime comedy last year, Bula Quo! There's no hint of mystique about them: Rossi and Parfitt are evidently a pair of genial south London fellas who do exactly what they want, which makes them appear a bit naff (though it surely contributes to the fierce loyalty they attract from their fans). Pair that with records like the execrable Margarita Time and it's not hard to argue that if a big part of rock'n'roll's appeal is about creating an image of excitement, then Quo fail dismally. On Saturday morning, I was telling a friend I was off to see Quo that night. "For pleasure?" he asked. Yes. He looked aghast. And I got that reaction time and time again from different people.
That's probably the way I'd feel – possibly wrongly – about the official, current Quo line-up, which groups the hit singles into medleys, and which I associate with the band's transition from rock group to family entertainers. But the Frantic Four? That's one of Britain's defining rock groups, and they deserve to be treated as such
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Post by snakelady on Apr 1, 2014 18:24:46 GMT
Oi, age is but a number, Inna - and Micheal said we were young when we met in Heilbronn .. He knows how to talk to a girl obviously (or it must've been the mini-dress - my first one in three decades ) Thanks for the report, Ann - I had already seen it on imb as well. It's a good one insofar as he does the FF gig justice. I don't think though, it's fair towards the band Status Quo in general. He's judging the current line-up without having seen it really, same as a lot of the guys do on imb, who last saw Quo in 84/86/.. and still pass judgment on the band. If fans don't respect them, is it any wonder all those prejudices are repeated time and again from people who have never seen the band. And to say the range of Quo is limited same as AC/DC is just plain wrong IMO and going along with those prejudices. I can't think of any other band whose albums have been as diverse as Quo's. I'd call every single Quo album unique in its sound - whether I like it or not - but there isn't a single album where I don't like at least one song. Err .. straying from the topic, sorry
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2014 18:38:45 GMT
Oi, age is but a number, Inna - and Micheal said we were young when we met in Heilbronn .. He knows how to talk to a girl obviously (or it must've been the mini-dress - my first one in three decades ) Thanks for the report, Ann - I had already seen it on imb as well. It's a good one insofar as he does the FF gig justice. I don't think though, it's fair towards the band Status Quo in general. He's judging the current line-up without having seen it really, same as a lot of the guys do on imb, who last saw Quo in 84/86/.. and still pass judgment on the band. If fans don't respect them, is it any wonder all those prejudices are repeated time and again from people who have never seen the band. And to say the range of Quo is limited same as AC/DC is just plain wrong IMO and going along with those prejudices. I can't think of any other band who's albums have been as diverse as Quo's. I'd call every single Quo album unique in its sound - whether I like it or not - but there isn't a single album where I don't like at least one song. Err .. straying from the topic, sorry Yes you are.............
Mini dress eh...............
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2014 20:12:19 GMT
No, let`s get serious again. Here`s the real deal.
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Post by snakelady on Apr 2, 2014 7:08:36 GMT
Oi, age is but a number, Inna - and Micheal said we were young when we met in Heilbronn .. He knows how to talk to a girl obviously (or it must've been the mini-dress - my first one in three decades ) Thanks for the report, Ann - I had already seen it on imb as well. It's a good one insofar as he does the FF gig justice. I don't think though, it's fair towards the band Status Quo in general. He's judging the current line-up without having seen it really, same as a lot of the guys do on imb, who last saw Quo in 84/86/.. and still pass judgment on the band. If fans don't respect them, is it any wonder all those prejudices are repeated time and again from people who have never seen the band. And to say the range of Quo is limited same as AC/DC is just plain wrong IMO and going along with those prejudices. I can't think of any other band who's albums have been as diverse as Quo's. I'd call every single Quo album unique in its sound - whether I like it or not - but there isn't a single album where I don't like at least one song. Err .. straying from the topic, sorry Yes you are.............
Mini dress eh...............
Boys You don't react to us girls discussing the band in detail, but as soon as a mini dress is mentioned ..
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2014 14:25:04 GMT
Yes you are.............
Mini dress eh...............
Boys You don't react to us girls discussing the band in detail, but as soon as a mini dress is mentioned .. Kathrin, I thought it was only me that teased and flirted with boys on mb's? I wouldn't wear a mini dress/skirt to a Quo gig though
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2014 17:21:25 GMT
Yes you are.............
Mini dress eh...............
Boys You don't react to us girls discussing the band in detail, but as soon as a mini dress is mentioned .. Boys.!!!!!!!!!! :haha: :haha: :haha: I am a wee bit older than a boy but thanks anyway.............
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Post by snakelady on Apr 3, 2014 7:20:04 GMT
Boys You don't react to us girls discussing the band in detail, but as soon as a mini dress is mentioned .. Boys.!!!!!!!!!! :haha: :haha: :haha: I am a wee bit older than a boy but thanks anyway.............
That's just because the male part of the species rarely ever grows up at all
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Post by curly and the model on Apr 6, 2014 18:16:58 GMT
Oi, age is but a number, Inna - and Micheal said we were young when we met in Heilbronn .. He knows how to talk to a girl obviously (or it must've been the mini-dress - my first one in three decades ) Thanks for the report, Ann - I had already seen it on imb as well. It's a good one insofar as he does the FF gig justice. I don't think though, it's fair towards the band Status Quo in general. He's judging the current line-up without having seen it really, same as a lot of the guys do on imb, who last saw Quo in 84/86/.. and still pass judgment on the band. If fans don't respect them, is it any wonder all those prejudices are repeated time and again from people who have never seen the band. And to say the range of Quo is limited same as AC/DC is just plain wrong IMO and going along with those prejudices. I can't think of any other band whose albums have been as diverse as Quo's. I'd call every single Quo album unique in its sound - whether I like it or not - but there isn't a single album where I don't like at least one song. Err .. straying from the topic, sorry Kathrin,,,,,,Thank you for the compliment.
The mini-dress, you said that was our secret
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Post by snakelady on Apr 7, 2014 10:44:30 GMT
Oi, age is but a number, Inna - and Micheal said we were young when we met in Heilbronn .. He knows how to talk to a girl obviously (or it must've been the mini-dress - my first one in three decades ) Thanks for the report, Ann - I had already seen it on imb as well. It's a good one insofar as he does the FF gig justice. I don't think though, it's fair towards the band Status Quo in general. He's judging the current line-up without having seen it really, same as a lot of the guys do on imb, who last saw Quo in 84/86/.. and still pass judgment on the band. If fans don't respect them, is it any wonder all those prejudices are repeated time and again from people who have never seen the band. And to say the range of Quo is limited same as AC/DC is just plain wrong IMO and going along with those prejudices. I can't think of any other band whose albums have been as diverse as Quo's. I'd call every single Quo album unique in its sound - whether I like it or not - but there isn't a single album where I don't like at least one song. Err .. straying from the topic, sorry Kathrin,,,,,,Thank you for the compliment.
The mini-dress, you said that was our secret
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Post by curly and the model on Apr 7, 2014 13:08:32 GMT
Me and my new mate.......... Which is which, Mac i thought you would have your teachers hat on :lolflg:
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