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Post by smokie on Jan 24, 2018 8:42:27 GMT
Ever since I criticised Rhino and his sandals and white socks combo, we are all turning into fashionistas!!
In time, just about everything comes back into fashion at some point but probably not that canary jacket. Never.
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Post by mortified on Jan 24, 2018 9:28:28 GMT
....not that canary jacket. Never.
Its funny, because my spouse and I went to see Quo pick up an award at the Dorchester Hotel in London in 2010. Some chariddy do with all manner of c-list celebs kicking about. Anyway, Francis was wearing a yellow dress jacket that day as well. I think it was a little darker - bordering on mustard. But still.... ....never say never say never say....
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Post by mortified on Jan 24, 2018 16:51:20 GMT
@inna , you have a real bee in your bonnet about this one The song, the dress code (apart from Rick ) and maybe just 1986 in general. Take a look at the audience. Quo were not alone! These were foppish, peacock strutting times Just as a bit of trivia to deflect from your embarrassment, did you know that the CD single containing the "wet mix" of Dreamin' was only released in Germany and was Quo's first ever CD single? You did? Oh well, never mind then I'm just trying to picture you with a perm, mortified . Spikes, Highlights and Earrings. Sounds just like the title of a book about the 80s.... Had it been "high heels" maybe. But that was my special weekend club and I don't like to talk about it. Not after the police raid. I had a perm for quite a long time. Early 80's right through to the time we're talking about. All long and loose. Like my morals at the time A lot of us had perms, particularly heavy metal fans. It went with the biking jacket. Despite the fact that I've never even sat on a motorbike How did we get on to this devil wears Prada tangent? Was that me or was it you? Love the sound of the shoes though. Right up my dandy street
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Post by smokie on Jan 25, 2018 9:05:24 GMT
Another digression..........
I'm not surprised that we've talked about clothes on here.
Go to a Quo gig and how many people will you see wearing white Granddad shirts? White Reeboks? Target T-Shirts? Fans are interested in what the band wear, aren't they?
I can't remember the brand that Rick latterly wore, Studa-something( ) but look at the interest that generated when a link was posted on here for that website.
I've bought Reeboks in the past, I even had one of those Reebokin' All Over The World tees. It's harmless enough though, isn't it?
Personally, I've always had a notion for one of those brown Schott leather jackets that they wore around the time of RTYD.
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Post by mortified on Jan 25, 2018 10:48:19 GMT
And they say Quo are never fashionable The target t-shirts were quite the thing for a while (Ben Sherman and maybe Lambretta I think). Had a couple myself. I'm back to the red Coke t-shirt these days. Retro man
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Post by gav on Jan 25, 2018 19:58:05 GMT
Wet and dry in modern music-production terms often refer to the level of reverb/echo a track is given.
The more reverb, the wetter it is. A dry track can mean no reverb at all.
I've not heard the 'wet mix' of Dreamin' so can't comment. But given it was the 80s and the times were awash with synthetic production techniques, it might be the case. The ITAN album was drenched in reverb and all sorts eg.the verses of Overdose, for one.
Or maybe they were just trying to be sexy.
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Post by frozenhero on Feb 14, 2018 14:08:18 GMT
(...) I don't personally think Dreamin' is all that different in terms of a composition for Quo. It's still a 12-bar shuffle. It just has a bit more going on and a more multi-layered production. But take End Of The Line for example. The track that immediately followed it. A song that does go in a different direction. Just not the one Francis probably wants? Cake and eat it perhaps? Hmm, I'm really not sure here, mortified . I've always thought shuffle is the rhythm you can hear in rock music, blues and also jazz. What category is Dreamin' in, then? Don't know about it being "multi-layered", either. But then I'm no musician. End of the Line is something completely different, I agree. It rocks, but in a different way again. You see, I've dug ITAN the album out, and I intend to give it a spin tomorrow. It might just be that some of the tracks I've more or less forgotten about will appeal to me now that I'm wiser and older... Dreamin' is neither 12-bar nor a shuffle. But what is true is that at its core, it's typical poppy Quo in the same vein as Runaway or Lies: Poppy melody over a chugga-chugga rock rhythm. What hurts Dreamin' compared to those older songs is the arrangement... Save Me and Calling are shuffles though.
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Post by frozenhero on Feb 14, 2018 14:13:16 GMT
Thankfully mid-80s Quo completely escaped me, including any peacock looks and wet mixes. What's that supposed to mean anyway .. ? Wish I had never seen (if only in decades later) that video with Francis wearing that canary yellow suit. Now that was embarrassing ! "Wet" means that reverb and/or delay have been added to a recording. The single version as featured on the Whatever You Want 2CD comp is actually an edit of the Wet Mix if I'm not mistaken. It certainly has a LOT more reverb than the album version and is a few seconds longer. Gary Moore released a single in the 90s called "Story of the Blues" (a great song btw) and there was a single containing "The Dry Mix", which, unsurprisingly, sounds "drier" than the album version. Edit: I see gav has already explained it - but I have the different versions to compare... here is the long wet mix:
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Post by snakelady on Feb 15, 2018 9:14:39 GMT
frozenhero Thanks for explaining. I actually love the cover of the single - much more than the song in any case .
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