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Status Quo - Paperplane - Live at the Marquee
Posted by John McCaughan on 3 March 2010 - 10:18pm.
Imagine how this looked and sounded in 1972. I know they are a joke now, but this was new and fresh, and exciting. Just look at the effort they are putting in.
Still a great riff in this no matter what came after.
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There's inflation for ya
a three-grand Deutsche car, indeed
they were good at Glasto last year. Rossi's still got the guitar chops.
This was the B-side of Paper Plane, and every bit as good.
great stuff
they were seen as a bit of a one trick pony in the 70s but they never considered themselves high art and didn't seem to take themselves too seriously. I don't think they are a joke now, in fact I think they are handling the ageing rock band thing quite well all things considered.
Now, the Stones on the other hand, don't know whether to laugh or cry.
take themselves too seriously
Got to disagree,Steve. remember they way they behaved after Radio 1 wouldn't play Fun Fun Fun.They tried to sue The BBC .The Quo's argument seemed to be that they were a very important band and should be playlisted what piece of C*** they put out. Radio 1 told em to get stuffed and told them Fun Fun Fun was garbage. The Public agreed.
can't say I do remember that
but I'm sure you're right. Until the advent of the internet and satellite TV a lot of things in the UK passed me by.
Well, maybe they went through a bit of a "up their own" phase as I guess most bands do but they seem to have come out the other side OK, at least in comparison to many of their peers.
Clever PR
...is what that was. Look back over recent years and you'll see how many times Quo have managed to keep themselves in the public eye through various newsworthy events or announcements - eg Rock 'Til You Drop, playing on a naval ship, even Rossi cutting off his pony tail.
I still have the ticket from their first "farewell tour" at Hammersmith Odeon - and that was 1983!
First saw them in their Paper Plane era and they were just magnificent. Quo Live has to be one of the seminal live albums. Even last year at Glastonbury, they were far from a joke and these seasoned veterans could show the more upstart acts of today how to really play an early festival slot - never taking themselves too seriously.
Agree though that Fun Fun Fun was not their finest hour...!
One problem.
The video clip might be live at The Marquee.
The audio is the original version dubbed over.
Still a fine song, though.
You're right...
...but to show how tight they were as a live band, the drummer's cymbal crashes are always in time with the audio; bang on the money. I saw them with the proper 4 and they were top drawer.
Good spot.
And, OK there's been a bit of knowing editing but there's no click track going on there.
I saw Quo the once on the End Of The Road tour in 1983/84 time. No support, just two and a half hours of head-down boogie. Still one of my finest gigs and certainly one of the loudest. I was deaf for a week.
One of my mates told me about the odd open tunings Quo use. I'd never spotted this listening to them. Their website says: "The gauge of the strings Rick uses are: .14 .17 .26w .36w 46w 56w.
He also uses an original Gibson SG which is tuned to an E chord. Both Rick and Francis use a number of open tunings and capos in the Quo set, between them they have 18 Guitars on the road and they are all looked after by Tonto, their long standing guitar tech.
Apart from the famous two Telecasters, They also use a 1981 Zemaitus for 'Forty Five Hundred Times' tuned to a B tuning with a .60 gauge bottom E string, a Schecter, a Fender Esquire that Rick uses on the medley tuned to G,G,D,G, B, D with a capo on the second fret, a Giffin and a Chet Atkins Acoustic used for 'Gerdundula'.
For 'Whatever you Want' Rick and Francis use a normal tuning but with the bottom E string tuned down to a D."
Those strings are mighty heavy. I did realise WYW was in dropped 'D', though.
For The Prosecution
While the defence's case is admirable. Come judgement day we'll play this and for this crime alone they deserve to go Down Down deeper and down.And if you are still not convinced i have access to " Something Bout You Baby I Like"
This manages to be even worse...
I wonder what circumstances reduced them to being so desperate for a hit that they prostituted one of their own songs?
Just as good in 1968
A clip introduced by Dave Hepworth & Mark Ellen!
If it wasn't for the smiling
You could almost mistake Rossi for Paul Weller in that clip!
Lovely
First band I loved. I think Francis Rossi is still playing the same green Tele. The older stuff was really good. I remember in the late eighties playing a bit of Quo Live to one of my mates. He couldn't believe, after all the jokes, it was the same band.
I always used to scan the songwriting credits looking for Rossi's songs when their new albums came out. They really had... boogie. The other writers not so much.
Francis Rossi: one of the most underrated English songwriters?
Unspoken Words
This is probably my favourite Status Quo tune. Wonderfully bluesey.
I'll see them for the first time this year
They're headlining the Thursday night at Cropredy, which I think is inspired casting, but you should see some of the reaction from Fairport fans.
Should you want to se them go to http://www.fairportconvention.com/cropredy_news.php#news2 and click on 'comments'. Here's the first one:
Maybe Rossi and Parfitt should grow beards
wouldn't that be fun?
The comments are a great read
And some are so unfair - after all, who could forget Quo's reworking of the folk classic "All Around My Hat".....
Piledriver
Great album.
And don't forget Caroline either...a great single...rock floating in a sea of disco and glam.
Couldn't agree more
And it shows that they were more than a 3 chord trick.
'ver Quo
Great run of albums through the seventies. If they'd have stopped in 1979 there would be no debate about their greatness. For all the well-rehearsed criticism, 3 chords, heads-down boogie, actually they had great pop sensibilities and were remarkably consistent up to about 1980.
Some great country-rock stuff on their albums. Some Beatle-y tunes. An absolutely rock-solid run of hit singles. They are the the British Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Got to agree with all the above...
That run of Vertigo albums still stand up.
Quo Live *is* one of the top 10 live albums of all time.
Before the initial split (i.e. when Coghlan and Lancaster were still in the band) they were a peerless live band.
Saw 'em many times in the 70s; always gave value for money.
A workmate shuffled towards me on his chair
using his feet in that way some like to do a few days ago and confessed to downloading a few Status Quo tracks the previous night before shuffling away again.
They do have an image problem.
They get my vote
Saw them loads of times back in the day and they were always great. Pity the albums got progressively worse after Blue for You, but I still have a soft spot for them.
Blue For You was the last decent album they made
'Twas all downhill from there
Spot on
And the production on the later albums are crap as well.
agreed
but when they were good......