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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Dec 27, 2016 12:01:24 GMT
Rick will live on in my house forever thanks to the massive back catalogue of music by the mighty Quo. I am hoping the band re-release a single as a tribute and it gets to number 1. My choice would be Rock Til You Drop. What would you choose. Not sure it would be a good idea to release a single. It would look like they're cashing in on Rick's death IMO. With their connection to BBC2 maybe they can come up with a 1-2 hour special of Rick songs - and not just sometime in the middle of the night. That's what I'd prefer at least .. Radio 2 are apparently repeating the interview Johnny Walker did with Quo this Thursday at 5pm. Unfortunately I have a feeling that in the media Rick will be usurped by George Michael now. I just hope they don't forget about Rick.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2016 20:06:37 GMT
I just had to join and share my condolences to all and especially the Parfitt family.
I also hope me old mucker from the FF board Ivey is bearing up as I suspect this would have hit him very hard.
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Post by Quoincidence on Dec 29, 2016 23:28:17 GMT
Always loved the track 'Halloween', but the longer version off Ricks solo album is far better
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Post by Quoincidence on Feb 10, 2017 0:54:05 GMT
There are some good tracks on his solo album... Lonely Nights is another great track
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Feb 11, 2017 19:32:10 GMT
There are some good tracks on his solo album... Lonely Nights is another great track It's very 80's and very produced. If Quo had done this they'd have got massively slagged for it. I think it's average; don't dislike it. I always wonder why Rick, Alan and John wanted to return to the Frantic Four style and sound, yet when they got the chance to do their own stuff they didn't go back to that era? Not a criticism, just a genuine question.
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Feb 11, 2017 21:11:52 GMT
There are some good tracks on his solo album... Lonely Nights is another great track It's very 80's and very produced. If Quo had done this they'd have got massively slagged for it. I think it's average; don't dislike it. I always wonder why Rick, Alan and John wanted to return to the Frantic Four style and sound, yet when they got the chance to do their own stuff they didn't go back to that era? Not a criticism, just a genuine question. I think that Rick and Alan were kind of chasing the American Dollar in the 80s. For me their stuff from that period has that sound that the Americans liked.
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Post by snakelady on Feb 12, 2017 9:42:55 GMT
It's very 80's and very produced. If Quo had done this they'd have got massively slagged for it. I think it's average; don't dislike it. I always wonder why Rick, Alan and John wanted to return to the Frantic Four style and sound, yet when they got the chance to do their own stuff they didn't go back to that era? Not a criticism, just a genuine question. I think that Rick and Alan were kind of chasing the American Dollar in the 80s for me it has that sound that the Americans liked... and they simply weren't able to. Their talents as songwriters had simply dried up. After all they were both heavily into drugs too, which tends to cloud the judgement.
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Feb 12, 2017 16:27:21 GMT
For me their stuff from that period has that sound that the Americans liked. Really ?! and in what exact way would that be then ? Well it reminds me of the Bruce Springsteen sound from that time.
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Post by snakelady on Feb 13, 2017 7:29:32 GMT
.. and they simply weren't able to. Their talents as songwriters had simply dried up. After all they were both heavily into drugs too, which tends to cloud the judgement. Yup & the biggest drug addict,( the one who destroyed his nose,) went through the same thing, as proven by many of his recent efforts in recent years I've said it many times before - the whole band wrote mainly under par stuff from the end of the 70s on and throughout the 80s. There wasn't a 'biggest drug addict' the three of them all were heavily addicted. The only difference is, that Rick and Francis admitted to it, while Alan these days pretends he was sober and level-headed, despite Rick writing in his biog that Alan was just as drugged up as him and Francis. IMO once Francis stopped drinking and taking drugs at the end of the 80s his songwriting improved again. Rick didn't stop, he probably was physically stronger and didn't felt the physical impact as much as Francis (and that includes his nose ). In consequence maybe it's no surprise though that Rick contributed as near as nothing to the band throughout the 90s. And talking about songwriting in recent years - simply look who wrote the songs that lead in the QPQ poll .. .
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Post by viking55 on Feb 13, 2017 10:49:00 GMT
Francis writing on QPQ on those opening tracks is outstanding. You can only judge a persons current ability as a songwriter by their latest output and Francis more than redeemed himself on that album ! But I've thinks it was too long ago now and doesn't count....lol.
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Post by mortified on Feb 13, 2017 11:26:16 GMT
Personally, I think the best stuff from Rick's solo album was taken up by the band (or record company) and released as extra tracks with singles. And these tracks are largely pretty good. They do (or did) have a very 80's feel to them; very heavily produced and multi-layered but it fitted back in the mid to late 80's. That's Alright from the Rossi/Frost album also made it, of course. As did I Wonder Why when the remasters were done. The bottom line is, no one covered themselves in glory during that period and thank goodness they remained a superb live act. It probably saved them from extinction. We're not privy - and probably never will be - to the whole truth and nothing but the truth about what went on and each one of them would have had a different perspective. If they can remember at all
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Post by snakelady on Feb 17, 2017 7:07:27 GMT
Francis writing on QPQ on those opening tracks is outstanding. You can only judge a persons current ability as a songwriter by their latest output and Francis more than redeemed himself on that album ! But I've thinks it was too long ago now and doesn't count....lol. I wish I could so easily forget much of the c.r.a.p he inflicted on us on earlier albums, & the excuse that he was the only one songwriting don't work at all with me, I would have preferred nothing rather than the spew he often wrote But then, nobody forces you to listen to albums/songs you don't like and had Quo folded back then due to lack of output, you'd never have had the chance to get the better stuff from later - including songs from Rick ..
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Post by smokie on Sept 22, 2017 8:31:27 GMT
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Post by mortified on Sept 22, 2017 8:51:26 GMT
Nice pic that. Ta for sharing, Smokester. But how annoying is that site???? I had to mute my PC! Talk about 20 things going on at once
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