The greatest live band of the 70'S seen them all including Zep , Purple , ACDC nobody came close. People See Them as pretty limited but ACDC have produced the same album all there career. Listen to 4500 from the hello album one of the greatest tracks ever put down on record. Long live the QUO
My Rick Parfitt Telecaster was my first ever electric guitar and to this day is my pride and joy and one of my favourite guitars to play. i don't get to play it on stage much anymore because it is a bit beaten up (16 years of heavy use will do that) but every so often I bust it out and still use it regularly for recording.
Whatever you want has to be up there in opening riffs. I was lucky enough to have supported Quo a few years back and was literally a few feet away from Rick doing this. Amazing sound and an amazing band!
Epic. This takes me waaaaay back to my very beginnings on guitar. Me and my mate across the street started our first band doing Quo covers because both our parents had loads of Quo albums and we knew the songs. Great show guys
thank you so much for this, as a long life quo fan, ive been going to see quo nearly every year since i was 6 with my dad and my brother, and im now 25, so that a fair few shows, ive always loved them no matter what, and now ive just gotten in from work to see youve done this, thank you, loving it!
Good job guys. Saw quo in the early 70s at Hammersmith Odeon. They had a cliff face of Marshall cabs and amps on both sides of the stage at full volume. I was deaf for three days afterwards. All I could hear was ringing in my ears :)
@@martinobrien4164 Me too! 1= Motorhead (Bomber & Ace of Spades tours), 2= AC/DC (Highway to Hell & Back In Black), 3= Quo (Liverpool Empire late70's). My ears are STILL ringing!
@@philgallagher1 1. Hamworthy engineering - 400 lathes running at once. 2. A club called The Vibe in Bournemouth, where the bass was so loud that my breastbone was actually moving. 3. Quo
@@philgallagher1 :-/ ...to me that's like saying: I stared into the sun during an eclipse once years ago. It was so awesome! I'm still partially blind from it!"
Bea & Matt, you truly have made a simple man from a far away land happy. Quo is my childhood and by far my most loved band in the entire world, and being from a newer generation, I almost never hear anyone talking about them. This video absolutely took me by supprise, and hearing all these old tunes immediately sent me way back to a simpler time. You very literally brought a tear to my eye. Thank you
Great stuff guys. Just a quick tip (uh oh...old Quo fan alert), Rick often preferred to play bar chords using the bass string for the root note (much meatier), whilst Francis' rhythm is in a somewhat "looser" style. The two together created that typical Quo sound. It was funny watching you choose the guitars - Rick once said that his '65 Tele cost him the price of a ham sandwich ;) Also, just a fun fact, Francis' '57 Tele wasn't green to start with. He sanded all the paint off and started to put a green primer on but after (roughly) doing the top he got bored and left it! Classic! ;) Anyway, great job guys and excellent playing (great rythm and lead) - very authentic, and this is coming from a die-hard Quo fan! :)
Ruiseart Alcorn Almost correct, he didn't get bored, he had a gig to go to a gig, there is some question as to whether it is a 1957, some say it's a 1959, because it's a maple cap neck! And it was originally sunburst. Inither case it sounds awesome. Rick's is 1965 he bought it in Glasgow in 74' he'd had the bridge changed to a bad ass bridge about 1975/76
Rick also used heavy gauge strings 56 on the bottom E. The Caroline riff was with the root note on the bass string. F above the octave. Only way to replicate that sound is like that. Most people get it wrong.
I love this show and really appreciate Status Quo, while not a huge fan of the band, they represent a nice spot on the full spectrum of guitar based music that I thank you guys for including. It doesn't always have to be metal, blues, heavy rock. Now on to Radiohead and My Bloody Valentine; both of which, would be great challenges.
YESS! AT LAST! And you did a great job of it too guys - good ol' rock 'n' roll that makes you grin from ear to ear and gets your head bouncing up and down! Cheered my day up no end.
wow u guys really got such good tones out of that rig. Phenomenal playing guys, awesome clean tones and Matt really had such a good rhythm tone. Hats off to Mathews.
Hey guys! I really enjoyed this video! Please do these videos in the future: 1. Jerry Cantrell by busting the bank 2. Slash on 500£ 3. Kirk Hammett by busting the bank 4. Buddy Guy without busting the bank 5. Joe Bonamassa without busting the bank 6. Dimebag on 500£ 7. EVH without busting the bank 8. Slash on 500£ 9. Zakk Wylde by busting the bank 10. John Petrucci without busting the bank Thank you!
Made me smile this one. Great guitars and sound. Two really good players Rabea and Matt. However it just shows how good the boys from The Quo actually were/are
Nice to see a tribute like this to Quo. Well done guys. Only thing I would add in is that this is more how Quos "studio sound" was. Clean-ish. Maybe that was the goal. But live they never really were this clean. Anyway great job! :)
Sounds like Robert Fripp. I'd say for this a Katana 100 to perhaps model his Roland Jazz Chorus. That or a British sounding amp for his Hi-Watts. Then a single cut guitar, maybe a PRS SE 245 or an Epiphone. Then a big muff style pedal of some sort, a delay and perhaps a low gain drive instead of solid state gain. Maybe a synth pedal of some sort as well but his sound is very distinctive and would involve a MIDI pickup so eh probably not Also Radiohead, Primus, Fu Manchu, Free, Jeff Beck, Bloc Party and At The Drive-In.
Hats off to you guys you really nailed this one and the Mimiq pedal sounds awesome on that lead!! You guys fancy trying Yngwie Malmsteen since I'm going to see him in August!! I FEEL THE RISING FORCE!
Finally, some standard tele's. I love the combination of a Tele with a VOX AC 30, so I bought a Tele and a 30 something (which I didn't know existed until I saw your show). Classic sound guys, you did it again!
Oh...you gents are getting SO CLOSE. PLEASE do Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers!! They are almost the Quo of America... Glad to see a return to the Marshall DSL series for this video. The 15 and the AC15 sounded fantastic together and those TELES! Nice to see you guys share my weakness for Olympic White and any shade of Blue guitar. I'd have em both if my quota for Teles wasn't already filled. Well, if you do decide to do TP and the Heartbreakers there are a LOT of nice Olympic White Strats out there to go with that Blue Tele!!(And dont forget a nice White Falcon if you do a BY busting the bank...) Cheers
First of all, this video introduced me to a new amazing band, so thanks guys!! Second of all, re: Lee's message at the end, I love that idea of splitting up the videos on separate channels!! It will make navigation much easier when finding videos of different genres to watch! Great idea!
I was'nt expecting Quo and well played Guys..... em what about the first Stratocaster player in Britain Hank Marvin....... Come on Guy's I know It's a difficult challenge but I think you do it!
Gonna re-request the sames as last time plus a few others: Gojira Orange Goblin Clutch Kyuss Fu Manchu Truckfighters Radiohead Electric Wizard Slo Burn Mayhem Burzum Alcest Devin Townsend Strapping Young Lad High on Fire Sleep Cattle Decapitation Slayer Megadeth Deicide Sepultura Meshuggah Entombed Kvelertak (since they have 3 guitarists, it would be fun having a guest if you ever do that one) Possessed Morbid Angel God is an Astronaut Solstafir Death Beyond Creation Obscura Sodom Testament Bloodbath Obituary Paradise Lost Suffocation Opeth Dream Theater Behemoth Carcass Pentagram Candlemass The Pixies Red Fang Nile Sex Pistols Batushka And a few lesser known bans that can be fun to do since you have less info on their gear: Mars Red Sky (surely the most challenging one considering their bass player has a pedalboard the size of a regular gitar player's pedalboard and their guitar player has two massive pedalboards completely filled) Hypno5e Trepalium Hacride Carpenter Brut (if you do it with guitar AND synth, I'll marry both of you) Klone 7 Weeks Jumping Jack Duckhunters Der Weg Einer Freiheit Déluge The Great Old Ones Year of no Light Last Barons Fogwax Gorod Black Fast The Midnight Ghost Train Psykup Cult of Luna OniZ King Hiss President Evil Thrashback Igorrr (only the guitar tone, no need to replicate the whole madness) The Algorithm (same here) La Dispute Now, of course you don't have to do 75 episodes to have each of those sounds, you don't even have to do one, those are just leads, and well, if along the way I made you discover a few awesome bands, well I'll consider this a win.
"Allthough it's not a rosewood board" No, and Francis did also use a maple boarded Tele (although he has retired it now, and uses a Status Graphite model these days)
My first rock concert was Quo in the mid 70's at Festival Hall in Brisbane Australia. They had the biggest rig in the world at the time using about 17 semi-trailers to haul it around. No noise restrictions back then and the music shook your whole body as it passed through you, it felt great :) My ears didn't stop ringing for 2 days though :-0 Nice video well done.
I am an original Quo fan. Their early, correct sound was based around Sound City, Hi-watt and Marshall. Indeed, something of a Mish mash on stage. In the mid/late 70's Quo consolidated their back line and used Solid State Vox AC30SS, which I saw and heard at Hammersmith Odeon and Empire Pool Wembley...'77/'78. Their early sound, including the AC30SS does not contain a lot of preamp distortion. As the years rolled on Vox took a manufacturing dive and Quo started using Marshall JCM900. Every year, Quo incrementally added a bit more buzzy preamp distortion. In their live rig Rossi/Parfitt had a miked up Vox AC30 in a sealed box backstage. I doubt if this was the long out of production Solid State version. You lads have done a stellar job capturing the essence of the early (NOT TOOOO MUCH preamp distortion, Quo Sound. I salute you. 😊😊😊😊
Do kids today really want to sound like the Quo? I enjoyed it though, Quo were a gateway band for me as a kid leading to Zep, Floyd and Purple so they did good! 😎🎸
Thanks for your work! My list is not important, but I think it could be interesting: 1)Queen - possibly p90s or "fat"-sounding singles, like on new Bea's strat. 2)Periphery - These guys' stuff is expensive! So, mayby u could take a challenge and... deal w/ pickups =) 3)Nothing But Thieves - 1 of my favourite bands. Keep my mind working after brain'melting ProgMetal. Btw, have an interesting guitar duo. 4)Motorhead - 'And the justice for Bass' =) 5)Devin Townsend - 'GearWhore on a budget'! Good luck, guys!
Not really a Quo fan but I've gotta say there's nothing quite like the sound of gunned Marshal. Love pedals and all the variety they can bring but there's something so pure and exciting about this setup that makes it really powerful!
Fantastic! What about more Quo. Some of the cracking track off their 1970s albums would be something else. 4500 times, roll over lay down, that sort of thing
If you're going really classic Quo, you're also talking Sound City. Francis Rossi used a Sound City amp on the earlier classic era Quo albums. There are some Marshall emulator pedals out there that can help you get a Quo-like sound. The Tech21 British and its Joyo copy will give you a bit more of the trebly side of a Marshall like tone if you turn the character/voice knob to the left, and adjust the other controls to fit. So the tone is fairly achievable to anyone with a decent single coil and a decent Marshally dirt box.
I must be out of the loop, living on the west coast of the USA .........hadn't even thought of Status Quo since " Pictures of Matchstick Men" in the 60's ........didn't even know they had covered John Fogerty.............
@@kentishmale1969 I grew up in the middle east and got the best music of both worlds. I was listening to both Status Quo and Van Halen before I hit my teens.
Sorry to be a geek here,Rick's tele has a stacked single coil in the bridge to give him more power and Francis' tell has a set of strat noiseless pick ups in. I really enjoyed this video,although it could have been a lot longer!
HELLO GUYS. I am a French huge fan of your videos, specially "sound like" that help me building my pedal board. I have one challenge for you guys: why don't you listen to a band you've never heard of (e.g. I know French bands are not traveling well in your country) just listen to a few songs and try to guess and mimic the equipment they're using. call it the "sound guess". what do you say? try this one for a start : a band called "telephone" songs "argent trop cher" or "hygiaphone" (old band from the late 70's-80's) I love you guys, please keep going!!
early Bloc Party telecasters hot rod deluxes dd-3s and dd-6s and then various fuzzes and distortions, would be a great episode actually they'd have most of the gear at the shop fairly cheap. The latter bloc party stuff is a bit harder
It always amazes me how hard it is to get a Brian May tone considering the fairly basic set up (on the surface). But it's all the tiny little things brian does, from the setup of his amps to his playing style that make that sound his. I would love to see them try though.
Ricks white strat was a ‘62 - beautiful sounding guitar, had the springs and everything taken off the guitar too so the strings go straight through the guitar! Wrap around job basically 14/56 gauge strings too! Crazy to think he played hours every night on those strings!
This made me even more pleased I've just bought a MIM Tele! Great feeling and sounding guitar, boxes well above its price. +1 for Townshend. Tommy through to Quadrophenia. Good luck!
This definitely was a kickass old school rock sound. I love that you guys used the AC-15 (because I have one, and I LOVE my amp!). Just so people know... those AC-15s aren't always as treble-ly as it appears in the video. They are very full sounding amps and are incredibly versatile. I've played everything from glassy delayed cleans right through to heavy driven rock and it never once falters in sound. Best amp for the bucks in my opinion. :)
Very nice. I'm a big fan of Status Quo but they are relatively unheard of here is the USA, (except for "Pictures of Matchstick Men"). You never talk about strings to get the sound. Rick Parfitt used very heavy strings to get that power sound. I'm not sure what string gauge Francis uses but the 1st and 2nd strings sound very clear and almost thin. Great job guys!
Absolutely brilliant, love the way you get the sound and playing very accurate. Would it be possible to still get the quo sound using a smaller amp, still using the pedals as you explained, I mean does the larger amp just provide volume, or is it necessary?
Good job on this one guys, Status Quo don't have a complex tone but its one rooted in 70s gear so its easy to overdo the gain and such with modern gear but this sounded great, didn't realise the DSL's clean channel could do that edge of breakup classic Marshall tone (I don't think the older JCM2000 DSLs could).
My only criticism is that with your remaining budgets you could of covered early Status Quo with the wahs, fuzzes and phasers like When My Mind is Not Live and Pictures Of Matchstick Men and songs of Spare Parts like Face Without A Soul which is fuzz central. Not what they were huge for but cool songs.
Sound like Jeff Williams, not many people know about him but he has some good songs and some amazing solos! some of his songs include This Will Be The Day, Die, Red Like Roses II, Dream Come True and loads of other songs if we can get a sound like of him that'd be amazing
Alexi has a signature ESP (they might be able to get it for £445, with a Marshall DSL40C, a Kirk Hammett Wah cos he uses one of those and maybe a chorus pedal cos i think he has a CE7 or CE5 in the rig)
I have a couple ideas for the series! Sound like [insert genre] - by/without busting the bank. You could make a flexible rig focussed on certain genres that have special needs like post-rock and such one-man-band without busting the bank - assign a budget and collect all the gear you need to record an album on your own (free VST's allowed or not), (so guitar, bass, interface, cables, mics? DAWs? software?, ...)
The greatest live band of the 70'S seen them all including Zep , Purple , ACDC nobody came close. People See Them as pretty limited but ACDC have produced the same album all there career. Listen to 4500 from the hello album one of the greatest tracks ever put down on record. Long live the QUO
My Rick Parfitt Telecaster was my first ever electric guitar and to this day is my pride and joy and one of my favourite guitars to play. i don't get to play it on stage much anymore because it is a bit beaten up (16 years of heavy use will do that) but every so often I bust it out and still use it regularly for recording.
Whatever you want has to be up there in opening riffs. I was lucky enough to have supported Quo a few years back and was literally a few feet away from Rick doing this. Amazing sound and an amazing band!
Epic. This takes me waaaaay back to my very beginnings on guitar. Me and my mate across the street started our first band doing Quo covers because both our parents had loads of Quo albums and we knew the songs. Great show guys
thank you so much for this, as a long life quo fan, ive been going to see quo nearly every year since i was 6 with my dad and my brother, and im now 25, so that a fair few shows, ive always loved them no matter what, and now ive just gotten in from work to see youve done this, thank you, loving it!
Good job guys. Saw quo in the early 70s at Hammersmith Odeon. They had a cliff face of Marshall cabs and amps on both sides of the stage at full volume. I was deaf for three days afterwards. All I could hear was ringing in my ears :)
Agreed. Quo concert is the third loudest place I have ever been.
@@martinobrien4164 Me too! 1= Motorhead (Bomber & Ace of Spades tours), 2= AC/DC (Highway to Hell & Back In Black), 3= Quo (Liverpool Empire late70's). My ears are STILL ringing!
@@philgallagher1 1. Hamworthy engineering - 400 lathes running at once. 2. A club called The Vibe in Bournemouth, where the bass was so loud that my breastbone was actually moving. 3. Quo
@@martinobrien4164 Wow, I don't think any of us can beat 400 lathes all running at once!! That must've been LOUD!
@@philgallagher1 :-/ ...to me that's like saying: I stared into the sun during an eclipse once years ago. It was so awesome! I'm still partially blind from it!"
Bea & Matt, you truly have made a simple man from a far away land happy.
Quo is my childhood and by far my most loved band in the entire world, and being from a newer generation, I almost never hear anyone talking about them.
This video absolutely took me by supprise, and hearing all these old tunes immediately sent me way back to a simpler time. You very literally brought a tear to my eye.
Thank you
Holy shit that was AWESOME! 'Whatever You Want' was honestly perfect! Great job once again guys!
I love this video. The gear sounded great (perfect Status Quo!), and I realized how much I've missed listening to Quo.
Great stuff guys. Just a quick tip (uh oh...old Quo fan alert), Rick often preferred to play bar chords using the bass string for the root note (much meatier), whilst Francis' rhythm is in a somewhat "looser" style. The two together created that typical Quo sound. It was funny watching you choose the guitars - Rick once said that his '65 Tele cost him the price of a ham sandwich ;) Also, just a fun fact, Francis' '57 Tele wasn't green to start with. He sanded all the paint off and started to put a green primer on but after (roughly) doing the top he got bored and left it! Classic! ;) Anyway, great job guys and excellent playing (great rythm and lead) - very authentic, and this is coming from a die-hard Quo fan! :)
Ruiseart Alcorn
Almost correct, he didn't get bored, he had a gig to go to a gig, there is some question as to whether it is a 1957, some say it's a 1959, because it's a maple cap neck! And it was originally sunburst. Inither case it sounds awesome. Rick's is 1965 he bought it in Glasgow in 74' he'd had the bridge changed to a bad ass bridge about 1975/76
Rick also used heavy gauge strings 56 on the bottom E. The Caroline riff was with the root note on the bass string. F above the octave. Only way to replicate that sound is like that. Most people get it wrong.
@@1963johndaly Yes, very true!
I love this show and really appreciate Status Quo, while not a huge fan of the band, they represent a nice spot on the full spectrum of guitar based music that I thank you guys for including. It doesn't always have to be metal, blues, heavy rock. Now on to Radiohead and My Bloody Valentine; both of which, would be great challenges.
I've been watching a lot of the older Andertons videos recently, Wow Rabea has lost a lot of weight!
A while ago you could tell the order videos were filmed in because of Rabea's weight 😂
Solo Gaming Yeah, 8 stone (50.8kg) so far...!
YESS! AT LAST! And you did a great job of it too guys - good ol' rock 'n' roll that makes you grin from ear to ear and gets your head bouncing up and down! Cheered my day up no end.
wow u guys really got such good tones out of that rig. Phenomenal playing guys, awesome clean tones and Matt really had such a good rhythm tone. Hats off to Mathews.
Hey guys! I really enjoyed this video! Please do these videos in the future:
1. Jerry Cantrell by busting the bank
2. Slash on 500£
3. Kirk Hammett by busting the bank
4. Buddy Guy without busting the bank
5. Joe Bonamassa without busting the bank
6. Dimebag on 500£
7. EVH without busting the bank
8. Slash on 500£
9. Zakk Wylde by busting the bank
10. John Petrucci without busting the bank
Thank you!
Made me smile this one. Great guitars and sound. Two really good players Rabea and Matt. However it just shows how good the boys from The Quo actually were/are
I love Status Quo, one of my favorite bands.
Well guys, you really nailed that one - superb playing and tone there - thanks!
Possibly the best one yet and im not even a quo fan! I want a tele and this didnt help the matter
Nice to see a tribute like this to Quo. Well done guys. Only thing I would add in is that this is more how Quos "studio sound" was. Clean-ish. Maybe that was the goal. But live they never really were this clean. Anyway great job! :)
"small" overdrive. Or crunch (Not like Slowhand) Clean channel.
Sounds like Robert Fripp.
I'd say for this a Katana 100 to perhaps model his Roland Jazz Chorus. That or a British sounding amp for his Hi-Watts. Then a single cut guitar, maybe a PRS SE 245 or an Epiphone. Then a big muff style pedal of some sort, a delay and perhaps a low gain drive instead of solid state gain. Maybe a synth pedal of some sort as well but his sound is very distinctive and would involve a MIDI pickup so eh probably not
Also Radiohead, Primus, Fu Manchu, Free, Jeff Beck, Bloc Party and At The Drive-In.
Wow, the rigs compliment each other very well. Well played!
Hats off to you guys you really nailed this one and the Mimiq pedal sounds awesome on that lead!! You guys fancy trying Yngwie Malmsteen since I'm going to see him in August!! I FEEL THE RISING FORCE!
Finally, some standard tele's. I love the combination of a Tele with a VOX AC 30, so I bought a Tele and a 30 something (which I didn't know existed until I saw your show). Classic sound guys, you did it again!
Oh...you gents are getting SO CLOSE. PLEASE do Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers!! They are almost the Quo of America... Glad to see a return to the Marshall DSL series for this video. The 15 and the AC15 sounded fantastic together and those TELES!
Nice to see you guys share my weakness for Olympic White and any shade of Blue guitar. I'd have em both if my quota for Teles wasn't already filled. Well, if you do decide to do TP and the Heartbreakers there are a LOT of nice Olympic White Strats out there to go with that Blue Tele!!(And dont forget a nice White Falcon if you do a BY busting the bank...)
Cheers
The greatest rock and roll band in the land... holy never thought you'd do the Frantic Four!!!
First of all, this video introduced me to a new amazing band, so thanks guys!! Second of all, re: Lee's message at the end, I love that idea of splitting up the videos on separate channels!! It will make navigation much easier when finding videos of different genres to watch! Great idea!
imgonnagetbanned I thought everyone knew the mighty Quo, they've been going so long (or at least they had been)
Keef they are still going mate
Great job as always guys!!! Been waiting for this one for ages and it didn't disappoint. Peace. 🤘🏻✌🏻
Sound like EVH, Joe Bonamassa or Eric Johnson :))
yes to Eric Johnson
Thomas Højberg Bonamassa would be an interesting challenge due to the crazy amount of vintage gear (And just the variety in his rig) that he uses
Thomas Højberg yes to joe bonamassa!!
I was'nt expecting Quo and well played Guys..... em what about the first Stratocaster player in Britain Hank Marvin....... Come on Guy's I know It's a difficult challenge but I think you do it!
Buddy Holly played his strat in the U K before Cliff got the one Hank used
Gonna re-request the sames as last time plus a few others:
Gojira
Orange Goblin
Clutch
Kyuss
Fu Manchu
Truckfighters
Radiohead
Electric Wizard
Slo Burn
Mayhem
Burzum
Alcest
Devin Townsend
Strapping Young Lad
High on Fire
Sleep
Cattle Decapitation
Slayer
Megadeth
Deicide
Sepultura
Meshuggah
Entombed
Kvelertak (since they have 3 guitarists, it would be fun having a guest if you ever do that one)
Possessed
Morbid Angel
God is an Astronaut
Solstafir
Death
Beyond Creation
Obscura
Sodom
Testament
Bloodbath
Obituary
Paradise Lost
Suffocation
Opeth
Dream Theater
Behemoth
Carcass
Pentagram
Candlemass
The Pixies
Red Fang
Nile
Sex Pistols
Batushka
And a few lesser known bans that can be fun to do since you have less info on their gear:
Mars Red Sky (surely the most challenging one considering their bass player has a pedalboard the size of a regular gitar player's pedalboard and their guitar player has two massive pedalboards completely filled)
Hypno5e
Trepalium
Hacride
Carpenter Brut (if you do it with guitar AND synth, I'll marry both of you)
Klone
7 Weeks
Jumping Jack
Duckhunters
Der Weg Einer Freiheit
Déluge
The Great Old Ones
Year of no Light
Last Barons
Fogwax
Gorod
Black Fast
The Midnight Ghost Train
Psykup
Cult of Luna
OniZ
King Hiss
President Evil
Thrashback
Igorrr (only the guitar tone, no need to replicate the whole madness)
The Algorithm (same here)
La Dispute
Now, of course you don't have to do 75 episodes to have each of those sounds, you don't even have to do one, those are just leads, and well, if along the way I made you discover a few awesome bands, well I'll consider this a win.
Excellent stuff. Love Quo. Appreciate you exposing the younger audience to quality straight rock n roll boogie.
"Allthough it's not a rosewood board"
No, and Francis did also use a maple boarded Tele (although he has retired it now, and uses a Status Graphite model these days)
Vid is 2 years old but best sound a like I've watched. Superb stuff !
SOUND LIKE JIMI HENDRIX BY BUSTING THE BANK!!!
Francisco Camerini im not sure they would be able to beat their last one. it was great
Indeed
Loved the Rocking all over the World solo. Great job
IV'E BEEN WATING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG OMG THANK YOU!
My first rock concert was Quo in the mid 70's at Festival Hall in Brisbane Australia. They had the biggest rig in the world at the time using about 17 semi-trailers to haul it around. No noise restrictions back then and the music shook your whole body as it passed through you, it felt great :) My ears didn't stop ringing for 2 days though :-0 Nice video well done.
Sound like Muse, Royal Blood BY busting the bank
I am an original Quo fan. Their early, correct sound was based around Sound City, Hi-watt and Marshall. Indeed, something of a Mish mash on stage. In the mid/late 70's Quo consolidated their back line and used Solid State Vox AC30SS, which I saw and heard at Hammersmith Odeon and Empire Pool Wembley...'77/'78. Their early sound, including the AC30SS does not contain a lot of preamp distortion. As the years rolled on Vox took a manufacturing dive and Quo started using Marshall JCM900. Every year, Quo incrementally added a bit more buzzy preamp distortion. In their live rig Rossi/Parfitt had a miked up Vox AC30 in a sealed box backstage. I doubt if this was the long out of production Solid State version. You lads have done a stellar job capturing the essence of the early (NOT TOOOO MUCH preamp distortion, Quo Sound. I salute you. 😊😊😊😊
Do kids today really want to sound like the Quo? I enjoyed it though, Quo were a gateway band for me as a kid leading to Zep, Floyd and Purple so they did good! 😎🎸
Gary Casey mate I'm 16 and I'd love to be in a quo tribute band
Thanks for your work!
My list is not important, but I think it could be interesting:
1)Queen - possibly p90s or "fat"-sounding singles, like on new Bea's strat.
2)Periphery - These guys' stuff is expensive! So, mayby u could take a challenge and... deal w/ pickups =)
3)Nothing But Thieves - 1 of my favourite bands. Keep my mind working after brain'melting ProgMetal. Btw, have an interesting guitar duo.
4)Motorhead - 'And the justice for Bass' =)
5)Devin Townsend - 'GearWhore on a budget'!
Good luck, guys!
Sound like Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple/Rainbow. Either era
Me too. It's just amazing and pulse is increasing immediately if I hear these riffs!
Great sounds! Proof that everyone needs a Telecaster in their collection!
You not only nailed the sound, you also played them spot on fellas. Take it from a Quo fan. Well done.
I never heard of Status Quo before but I'll have to check them out... which is why I love this video!
Tracy check out 4500 times from the Hello album
Tracy Street
Start at piledriver and go through to never to late the best era.
WHAT
joy of Quo is listen to one song and you've heard them all lol
@@pauljameskenney2955 that's discrimination
Not really a Quo fan but I've gotta say there's nothing quite like the sound of gunned Marshal. Love pedals and all the variety they can bring but there's something so pure and exciting about this setup that makes it really powerful!
NUNO NUNO! common Bea know you are a fan :)
And why no Van Halen?
Fantastic! What about more Quo. Some of the cracking track off their 1970s albums would be something else. 4500 times, roll over lay down, that sort of thing
Smashing pumpkins!!
If you're going really classic Quo, you're also talking Sound City. Francis Rossi used a Sound City amp on the earlier classic era Quo albums. There are some Marshall emulator pedals out there that can help you get a Quo-like sound. The Tech21 British and its Joyo copy will give you a bit more of the trebly side of a Marshall like tone if you turn the character/voice knob to the left, and adjust the other controls to fit. So the tone is fairly achievable to anyone with a decent single coil and a decent Marshally dirt box.
I must be out of the loop, living on the west coast of the USA .........hadn't even thought of Status Quo since " Pictures of Matchstick Men" in the 60's ........didn't even know they had covered John Fogerty.............
dave late you missed out on their 40 year career then - loads of absolute classic tracks to discover :)
@@kentishmale1969 I grew up in the middle east and got the best music of both worlds. I was listening to both Status Quo and Van Halen before I hit my teens.
Sorry to be a geek here,Rick's tele has a stacked single coil in the bridge to give him more power and Francis' tell has a set of strat noiseless pick ups in. I really enjoyed this video,although it could have been a lot longer!
R.I.P Rick
HELLO GUYS. I am a French huge fan of your videos, specially "sound like" that help me building my pedal board.
I have one challenge for you guys: why don't you listen to a band you've never heard of (e.g. I know French bands are not traveling well in your country) just listen to a few songs and try to guess and mimic the equipment they're using. call it the "sound guess". what do you say? try this one for a start : a band called "telephone" songs "argent trop cher" or "hygiaphone" (old band from the late 70's-80's)
I love you guys, please keep going!!
Sound like Bloc Party / Franz Ferdinand
shifmeindaxx yesss!
shifmeindaxx agreed
early Bloc Party telecasters hot rod deluxes dd-3s and dd-6s and then various fuzzes and distortions, would be a great episode actually they'd have most of the gear at the shop fairly cheap. The latter bloc party stuff is a bit harder
JimijaymesGuitarist they use a DD 5, not a DD 6
Nathan From Scotland that's the one I meant just got my numbers wrong, boss avoiding 4s always confuses me.
grab an amp grab a guitar 12 bar blues and there you go lol
managed to see Status Quo the last electric tour they did in the UK, fantastic live
sound like brian may
Dror Sefer Cohen Considering Brian's gear (down to the six pence) and how unusual it is it would be a very cool thing to see. Can the boys get close?
It always amazes me how hard it is to get a Brian May tone considering the fairly basic set up (on the surface). But it's all the tiny little things brian does, from the setup of his amps to his playing style that make that sound his. I would love to see them try though.
Ricks white strat was a ‘62 - beautiful sounding guitar, had the springs and everything taken off the guitar too so the strings go straight through the guitar! Wrap around job basically
14/56 gauge strings too! Crazy to think he played hours every night on those strings!
Guys, this was fucking epic. Sounds great, i love quo!
Well done lads..took me back 35 years...great stuff! Rick P RIP.
Sound like Beatles
yesss
c'mon, it wasn't that bad.
James Wright I'd rather have cancer than listen to the beatles and thats coming from a cancer survivor
Lukestersim :3 hey man you may want to spell it right first hey
Lukestersim :3 thats a bit fucking extreme, be sure not to cut yourself on that edge man
The new thumbnails are awesome! Whoever did that, nice work!
Sound like Gojira would be fun
xXBantamCatXx EVH + Charvel/Jackson, pretty straight forward actually..
They don't have a lot of stuff so it wouldn't be too hard. For effects a OD and a Whammy for the lead player and that's about it.
moheuropeanassult yeah ig your right, we need some bands that use a lot weird shit, like sleep or Kyuss or some shit
xXBantamCatXx Stephen Carpenter used a crap ton of effects back in the day, now it's all axe fx
moheuropeanassult oh they did him already
Been waiting for quo for so long. Brilliant band, brilliant video.
sound like coheed and Cambria
Coheed and Cambria would be awesome.
Josh Berg yesss, I've been asking for this forever
You guys nailed it, great job!
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN WHEN
This made me even more pleased I've just bought a MIM Tele! Great feeling and sounding guitar, boxes well above its price.
+1 for Townshend. Tommy through to Quadrophenia. Good luck!
Foals or Radiohead next pleas. I can do in peace after these
Spot with this one boys. Perfect. Nailed the playing too.
Status Quo opening up LiveAid
Thanks for doing Quo - epic Tele sound
Enjoyed watching Matt doing Rick's rhythm parts like he was playing an acoustic ;-)
Early Dead Kennedys, please.
This definitely was a kickass old school rock sound. I love that you guys used the AC-15 (because I have one, and I LOVE my amp!). Just so people know... those AC-15s aren't always as treble-ly as it appears in the video. They are very full sounding amps and are incredibly versatile. I've played everything from glassy delayed cleans right through to heavy driven rock and it never once falters in sound. Best amp for the bucks in my opinion. :)
Can we get a 'Sound Like Scott Ian of Anthrax'?
I have a vox ac15 and run a Baja tele through it.some slap back delays, a boost and some verb and trem. It's honestly sonic bliss to my ears.
Sound like classic deep purple.
Very nice. I'm a big fan of Status Quo but they are relatively unheard of here is the USA, (except for "Pictures of Matchstick Men"). You never talk about strings to get the sound. Rick Parfitt used very heavy strings to get that power sound. I'm not sure what string gauge Francis uses but the 1st and 2nd strings sound very clear and almost thin. Great job guys!
You sure that wasn't a Fender Stratocaster in arctic white?
SporkMartial ....maybe a Mustang in Vintage White
Really enjoyed this one. Sounded great. Tele + tube amp and a couple pedals is my kind of rig.
status. Now its time for slade. Feel the noize!!!
Tommy Andersson oh yes - a very much underrated heavy rock sound!!
Absolutely brilliant, love the way you get the sound and playing very accurate.
Would it be possible to still get the quo sound using a smaller amp, still using the pedals as you explained, I mean does the larger amp just provide volume, or is it necessary?
RIP the tag 6:39
TreyWLP he RIPped the tag!
My favourite sounds like so far! so close sound wise!
Sound like the legendary Paul kossoff from free
TR10Plays no one could sound like Koss, only the man himself could....my all-time favourite guitarist :)
Keef Bea would do a great job of it though!!!
TR10Plays not enough love for kossof so let's do this!!
Good job on this one guys, Status Quo don't have a complex tone but its one rooted in 70s gear so its easy to overdo the gain and such with modern gear but this sounded great, didn't realise the DSL's clean channel could do that edge of breakup classic Marshall tone (I don't think the older JCM2000 DSLs could).
My only criticism is that with your remaining budgets you could of covered early Status Quo with the wahs, fuzzes and phasers like When My Mind is Not Live and Pictures Of Matchstick Men and songs of Spare Parts like Face Without A Soul which is fuzz central. Not what they were huge for but cool songs.
Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead Please
Sound like Jeff Williams, not many people know about him but he has some good songs and some amazing solos!
some of his songs include This Will Be The Day, Die, Red Like Roses II, Dream Come True and loads of other songs
if we can get a sound like of him that'd be amazing
i second this!
Hell yeah, This Will Be The Day is such a badass song
do sounds like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Rick Parfitt played with 15 gauge strings....have you got some of those? And a phaser on Rain .... Love this.
Sound like Children Of Bodom!!!
Alexi has a signature ESP (they might be able to get it for £445, with a Marshall DSL40C, a Kirk Hammett Wah cos he uses one of those and maybe a chorus pedal cos i think he has a CE7 or CE5 in the rig)
He uses a different wah the last time I knew.
I have a couple ideas for the series!
Sound like [insert genre] - by/without busting the bank. You could make a flexible rig focussed on certain genres that have special needs like post-rock and such
one-man-band without busting the bank - assign a budget and collect all the gear you need to record an album on your own (free VST's allowed or not), (so guitar, bass, interface, cables, mics? DAWs? software?, ...)
You need to do the Beatles
Ioan Will
Sounded like Quo boys. Caroline lead at the end was great.Great work guys.
Sound like Eric Johnson, both by busting the bank and without busting.
There's something great of two right arms pumping up and down in unison on guitars! 🎸🎸🤘🏻
sound like metallica by busting the bank
David Kerns they made that video
they made one "without busting the bank"
Those outtakes though. Had me in tears!