Awesome interview with a true legend and jolly nice chap! :) I was lucky enough to meet Francis a couple of years ago when he was doing his book tour - great guy. I remember, rather than doing the usual "fan stuff", we chatted about Vox amps. Just two old gits chatting about gear ;)
That’s the best interview with Francis I’ve seen in many a year.I would loved to have asked him what it was like with the beach boys,esp what Brian & Carl were like,& the controversy over the single fun fun fun,when radio 1 refused to play it.
Francis talks so much sense. If he wants to chat for hours or play his favourite music, I'll happily listen. My Dad introduced me to Quo as I grew up and there are so many gems that need more exposure from the 70's and 80's!
Well that was nice. I am a lifelong lover of the Quo. One of the tightest and fun live bands. I have seen them many times. Real music played with real passion. Thank you Francis, for adding to the soundtrack of my life.
I like the way you let your guests express themselves. The worst thing to hear is when an interviewer interrupts with some pre-arranged list of questions that they feel they have to tick off. Francis is so entertaining and interesting, with all his digressions, that you can just let him be himself. That's great.
I particularly like how the segments are tagged so you jump to the topics that interested you most. In terms of the Quo they ceased to be interesting to my ear after 1981 but Rossi himself is always interesting to listen to - open, honest and philosophical.
In the 70’ I was at our local bowling alley and fun parlour jumping around on trampolines with my mates. In walked Rick & Francis and they started jumping around smashing the volley ball over the net. They got pretty pissed when our ball went into their trampoline. I was shit scared of them then at 13 years old. I went to every concert in Adelaide each time they toured Australia. I got their autographs when I waited outside their motel. I got one of Johns drum sticks after a gig. Definitely my favourite live act to see. Thanks Francis. May you rock on mate 👍🏻
Great interview. Some very different and interesting questions from the normal run of the mill. Great level of knowledge and music appreciation from the interviewer and Rossi's thoughtful honesty and extended meandering answers were a treat as always.
Yes. He’s WAY better than critics would have us believe. Best not to listen to critics. We can all have our own opinions. Just because someone has said something in print doesn’t make it valid or true.
Amazing you done an interview with Rossi and Brock, my two favorite Bands in the 70s, I was the only person in the school who liked Hawkwind, when Bob done the Marc show I paid for that the next day lol. I have to say my favorite Quo songs involved alan, great voice, my favorite song "Is there a better way", best Hawky song is "Steppenwolf" Calvert was a total genius and guided Hawkwind, great interview
Watch the wall behind Francis. A little reminder of his career: Rocking all over the world. The world map means something special when you are one of those mucisians who played for anyone everywhere.
My dad was a very saught after jazz saxophonist and clarinetist . And he dug status quo , he swung like a pendulum and every record the quo brought out he'd be playing it and transposing it , giving it a bit of swing and bugger me they sounded good . So I got them both ways 👍
"Backwater/Just Take Me" is written by LANCASTER / PARFITT as most of the QUO ALBUM was. "Backwater/Just Take Me" was sung by the Mighty ALAN LANCASTER. I wouldn't be surprised if THE ANTI-QUO ( Rossi ) didn't like it. ROSSI, the "insecure show-off" only likes it when he's Front n Centre. Like this interview, he's jibbering and jabbering away, faster than he can think of what to say. The YOUNG Rossi, would cringe with embarrassment if he heard and saw this interview.
@@ronaran8420 I still have my copies of Ma Kelly and Dog of Two Head both of which I bought when they were first released. I saw them live around the same time as Dog of Two Head was released.
Lovely interview! I grew up listening to Quo, always admired their music. As for the question, "Is rock music dead?" The answer is no. On the Spotify question, back in the day we used to have cassettes and as teenagers we'd always record compilations of our favourite songs and share them round our friends. So things may have got digital, but it's still the same thing. The biggest problem with today's music is the cost of going to gigs. When I first saw Quo in 1982 the ticket price was £5, the month before I saw Iron Maiden for £4. Bearing in mind 'Run To The Hills' was in the charts at the time. Obviously inflation has hit in and what with the pandemic etc., people have less money in their pockets these days. However there's really no reason any show should cost over £40 these days. That's why I didn't go to watch Genesis on the Last Domino tour. I couldn't justify paying all that money for a gig. Lower the prices and more people will go.
Back then bands lost money on tours, particularly in the UK where there were very few large venues, but they made their money through album sales. Reputations and credibility could be built on playing live, so it made sense. Now the reverse is true, but bands have to put on big shows to fill big venues, so the economics constantly drive the prices up. I'm done with arena shows now, but it is still possible to see smaller bands in clubs or local venues for a reasonable price.
Further evidence of the burgeoning success of your channel. Aside from Rossi's constant swearing (in direct contract to the marvellously erudite Bill Bruford) a very interesting interview and great questions re the Pink Floyd and Human League references.
This guy has a super interviewing style: very gracious, good level of knowledge, but most of all he managed to keep the focus on what he wanted to get to - (interviewing Rossi can be a bit like herding cats). Problem with interviewing people like FR is that we have heard 90% of it all before, but there are some fresh moments that are found here. Good work.
@@sjuelva Simple. Because many people consider that they are sharing comments upon the content as opposed to posting personal messages to the channel owner. In exactly the same way that you have posted the question in general terms, rather than asking me directly. :-)
can always remember in the army now 1986, followed them from 70's long hair and everything, i joined the army in 1986, hair short going to the armoury to draw a gun out and in the background in the army now was playing on the radio, i knew it was the quo from the sound, kind of ended my quo era
Also ref. managers and the US it was Pete Grant that got Led Zep so big there through bully boy approach and billing them top.If you told the yanks these were top bill they took it.In england we formed very much our own choice which is what he implied I think?
Great interview… Francis talked about a show in Holland.. I guess he was talking about last friday, I was there.. Great (sweaty) show… The band and Francis nailed it… 🤘🏻
Great interview, he’s a good bloke speaks the truth and is very honest. Got a lot of time for him and a lot of their music despite what some haters will say of them. 👍🏻👍🏻
What a brilliant interview. Great questions, fascinating answers. I'm not a Quo fan, don't own any of their records, and could probably only name 2 or 3 songs. Don't know how I ended up here, but glad I did.
Same here, lived through the mid to late sixties and seventies music scenes. Quo were not as sophisticated as some bands maybe,but they never disapointed.Still remember the response to live aid opening in the eighties great live band.Really enjoyed listening to Francis,great bloke,brought back loadsa memories learning to play guitar not least.
Alan gave my mate a load of stuff from live aid like the all access pass and things only the performers got it's been especially framed and autographed my friend received it less than a year before Alan passed away
Should have realised there was small faces influence on early status quo the hair styles ect both great underated bands Marriott one of the greatest vocalist
Nice to hear him give Alan a little credit for once (I thought he was vile toward him in his book), but he's still overdoing the Francis/Rick Love Story bit. I always got the impression that Rick Parfitt felt bad about Alan Lancaster's dismissal from the band and only stuck around himself because he was in a bad way financially at the time and knew which side his bread was buttered, which was perfectly understandable.
Top bloke and very upfront and honest. I'm a fan of early Quo and enjoy listening to him ramble on lol. Came back to me that he played Citar on Graham Bonnets Night Games when I saw him at the Academy in Manchester last Sunday
Quo were never like the Everlys as Rossi would like to think, they've were only really successful once they embraced the Rock or as Rick used to say Let's ROCK.
I believe that the name which escaped both Francis and Barry early on in the interview, is Steve Ellis (singer of the Love Affair). Otherwise OK, but slight over-use of the f-word (as is the norm for Mr. Rossi)!
Tony Yeatropoulos Tony Yeatropoulos 2 weeks ago "Backwater/Just Take Me" remains one of favorite, regularly played rock songs of all-time. 14 Alan Strom Alan Strom 1 second ago "Backwater/Just Take Me" is written by LANCASTER / PARFITT as most of the QUO ALBUM was. "Backwater/Just Take Me" was sung by the Mighty ALAN LANCASTER. I wouldn't be surprised if THE ANTI-QUO ( Rossi ) didn't like it. ROSSI, the "insecure show-off" only likes it when he's Front n Centre. Like this interview, he's jibbering and jabbering away, faster than he can think of what to say. The YOUNG Rossi, would cringe with embarrassment if he heard and saw this interview.
Rossi and Quo don't get the respect they deserve......70's Quo was pure quality.....Songs, riffs and solo's.....piss all over anything the Stones did then, yet "Keef" always seems to make these "greatest guitarists of all time" lists.....laughable really.
There was no market for a new studio album from the Frantic 4? and then after Rick died, made a new studio album with his own Quo lite tribute band; I think that says more about him than all his chat .
What a load of total bollocks - people really need to get their head out of the sand when it comes to the "FF" - JC couldn't play shit, AL thought it was the 70's again and so did Rick - the FF tour is what killed him - he went back to his old ways and his body couldn't handle it. All this BS about "Quo lite" - there's more "softer" songs on Piledriver than there is heavy songs - and the "country" stuff they did was mainly credited to Alan... and yet who gets all the blame - always Francis...What it says about him is that he is in the music business and is trying to make a living.
Well said. I loved the melodic elements of earlier quo, fantastic ' tunes'. Add a bit of shuffle and interesting arrangements and boom, worked for me! When the shuffle is removed they are fundamentally country songs. Add some genuine reflective tunes in , (usually Parfitt before he became inward looking ) and you've got a whole other side
. Usual rossi meandering waffle. At least he admits it. One or two little interesting bits but it's sad that no one will ever get Francis to talk in depth about the classic quo years.he rarely if ever talks nuts n bolts about how he got those tones. The gear he used. How they recorded the classic stuff. Stuff musicians would like to hear. There's tons of that stuff about most legendary bands but hardly anything on quo. He should be proud of those great 70s records. And give more credit to the other guys including Bob Young . It was a shock to hear him actually say something positive about Alan.. Be it grudgingly before criticising him. Most of what came after is uninspring dross . Cringe inducing at times. Hard to believe it's the same guy who played those incredibly inventive Melodic solos with an amazing telecaster tone. Bit insipid the interviewer really I'm sure rossi has a good in depth interview in him somewhere. I think all the bullshit he comes out with is a defense mechanism.. He was an incredibly under rated guitarist though I don't think he's come up with a decent solo in 50 years.. Wtf happened rossi.. To your head . Your integrity. Still he's got lots of money which seems to be his primary incentive.
There is really no Status Quo anymore! he should respect his legacy and call it the Frances Rossi band from now on everything else is an insult in a joke … sorry
I'm sick of reading all the sycophantic comments below. How do you know if FRANCIS is a 'great bloke ' he could be the opposite. After all, he destroyed THE GREATEST ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME. The Band were roaring down 'life's highway' in top gear, with LANCASTER at the wheel, when ROSSI woke from a having a snooze, then ROSSI reached across from the passenger seat and grabbed the wheel and drove the vehicle into a ditch. ROSSI is a narcissistic, grumpy, curmudgeon. He hates anything good about QUO, yet he loves MARGUERITA TIME, which is one of the worst songs anybody has recorded. Every time he plays " Wildside of Life " he says "I like this one " He thinks he's so cute and adorable. Yet, I just want a bucket to spew in. The Cabaret QUO play it with one millionth of the energy and power it should be played. I wish I was the Magistrate in Court on that dark and sad day in the mid-80s. I would've ruled in favour of ALAN LANCASTER.
We get the point. I'm hoping you can defend I like rock and roll and Big Man with the same venom you throw at Rossi or ROSSI. They were greater than the sum of their parts , we loved them and we all heard them at different stages and ages and they gave us great pleasure, then and now. My era of pure excitement was 79,80,81. Each to their own.
When were you in the band? Don't remember seeing you on stage with Status Quo so how do you know what was going on? Remember there are always more sides to a story.
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Awesome interview with a true legend and jolly nice chap! :) I was lucky enough to meet Francis a couple of years ago when he was doing his book tour - great guy. I remember, rather than doing the usual "fan stuff", we chatted about Vox amps. Just two old gits chatting about gear ;)
That’s the best interview with Francis I’ve seen in many a year.I would loved to have asked him what it was like with the beach boys,esp what Brian & Carl were like,& the controversy over the single fun fun fun,when radio 1 refused to play it.
Francis talks so much sense. If he wants to chat for hours or play his favourite music, I'll happily listen. My Dad introduced me to Quo as I grew up and there are so many gems that need more exposure from the 70's and 80's!
Well that was nice. I am a lifelong lover of the Quo. One of the tightest and fun live bands. I have seen them many times. Real music played with real passion. Thank you Francis, for adding to the soundtrack of my life.
I like the way you let your guests express themselves. The worst thing to hear is when an interviewer interrupts with some pre-arranged list of questions that they feel they have to tick off. Francis is so entertaining and interesting, with all his digressions, that you can just let him be himself. That's great.
Always enjoyable to listen to Francis. He's very natural, open and spontaneous. Great enthusiasm too. Thanks Barry.
I particularly like how the segments are tagged so you jump to the topics that interested you most.
In terms of the Quo they ceased to be interesting to my ear after 1981 but Rossi himself is always interesting to listen to - open, honest and philosophical.
Thanks Barry and Francis - great to hear Francis chat like this, he's a very interesting guy.
In the 70’ I was at our local bowling alley and fun parlour jumping around on trampolines with my mates. In walked Rick & Francis and they started jumping around smashing the volley ball over the net. They got pretty pissed when our ball went into their trampoline. I was shit scared of them then at 13 years old. I went to every concert in Adelaide each time they toured Australia. I got their autographs when I waited outside their motel. I got one of Johns drum sticks after a gig. Definitely my favourite live act to see. Thanks Francis. May you rock on mate 👍🏻
Great interview. Some very different and interesting questions from the normal run of the mill. Great level of knowledge and music appreciation from the interviewer and Rossi's thoughtful honesty and extended meandering answers were a treat as always.
Emphasis on the MEANDERING.
ROSSI is all over the shop, like he'd forgotten to take his medication.
Great interview Barry indeed one of your best , yes it takes two and Francis is on form. Long Live the Quo 👏😉
Glad you enjoyed it
It must have been, becuase as far as I know Quo weren't in the USA until 1973
Fantastic. Thank you.
Always a great character, mighty fine meandering interview 😆👍🎶
Glad you enjoyed it
Great to see Francis still a amusing as ever, he always was and is a brilliant guitarist.
Very good guitar player. Underrated. Has done some classic riffs and a quite a few good solos
Yes. He’s WAY better than critics would have us believe. Best not to listen to critics. We can all have our own opinions. Just because someone has said something in print doesn’t make it valid or true.
@@gudgengrebe sure but even in guitar chats hes not often mentioned. I think caroline is one of the greatest riffs of all time.
Great interviewer, great interviewee.
Great listening...
That has to be the best interview ever. Francis was like the guy next door talking over a pint at the local. Loved it.
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great interview, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great interview, our Franny always has a lot to say, bless him
Thanks for this, I used to be a Quo back in my teenage years, I must check out some of those albums again. Rock on Francis.
Quo played my local pub/venue a few years ago. Ruskin Arms. The Small Faces, Iron Maiden played there in their early days. Huge respect !!
Francis should have a radio show
That would be brilliant totally agree
Amazing you done an interview with Rossi and Brock, my two favorite Bands in the 70s, I was the only person in the school who liked Hawkwind, when Bob done the Marc show I paid for that the next day lol. I have to say my favorite Quo songs involved alan, great voice, my favorite song "Is there a better way", best Hawky song is "Steppenwolf" Calvert was a total genius and guided Hawkwind, great interview
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed them
Very funny. Keep on rocking in the FREE world! :)
Watch the wall behind Francis. A little reminder of his career: Rocking all over the world. The world map means something special when you are one of those mucisians who played for anyone everywhere.
I love listening to Francis Rossi. He has so many interesting stories and take on people. More please.
Good interview, and I got the impression that Francis enjoyed answering some different questions for a change.
I hope so, I certianly enjoyed chatting with him
Oh yeah Francis has a very low tolerance for stupid questions and dumb journalists.
If he likes you then you're doing something right.
Awesome
Brilliant!
Great to hear him say this horrendous noise as my dad always said that when I put their records on.
My dad was a very saught after jazz saxophonist and clarinetist . And he dug status quo , he swung like a pendulum and every record the quo brought out he'd be playing it and transposing it , giving it a bit of swing and bugger me they sounded good . So I got them both ways 👍
"Backwater/Just Take Me" remains one of favorite, regularly played rock songs of all-time.
i think Parfitt and Lancaster were brilliant as co writers on the Quo album. my favourite quo album.
remember putting just take me lyrics in a card to a bird and she loved it and thought i was a poet, got my leg over at 16
"Backwater/Just Take Me" is written by LANCASTER / PARFITT as most of the QUO ALBUM was.
"Backwater/Just Take Me" was sung by the Mighty ALAN LANCASTER.
I wouldn't be surprised if THE ANTI-QUO ( Rossi ) didn't like it.
ROSSI, the "insecure show-off" only likes it when he's Front n Centre.
Like this interview, he's jibbering and jabbering away, faster than he can think of what to say.
The YOUNG Rossi, would cringe with embarrassment if he heard and saw this interview.
Would rather listen to my own bones snapping
Really interesting stuff.
Magical love frame just a lovely guy thank you for that mate
"Dog of Two Head" is a great forgotten album that deserves to be better regarded in the Quo catalogue.
Yep! And Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon👍, which I waited for such a ridiculously long time before I discovered it!
@@ronaran8420 I still have my copies of Ma Kelly and Dog of Two Head both of which I bought when they were first released. I saw them live around the same time as Dog of Two Head was released.
Great album wouldn't say it's forgotten tho
Spare parts great l.p. not sure about the art work a bit down market .
Lovely interview! I grew up listening to Quo, always admired their music. As for the question, "Is rock music dead?" The answer is no. On the Spotify question, back in the day we used to have cassettes and as teenagers we'd always record compilations of our favourite songs and share them round our friends. So things may have got digital, but it's still the same thing. The biggest problem with today's music is the cost of going to gigs. When I first saw Quo in 1982 the ticket price was £5, the month before I saw Iron Maiden for £4. Bearing in mind 'Run To The Hills' was in the charts at the time. Obviously inflation has hit in and what with the pandemic etc., people have less money in their pockets these days. However there's really no reason any show should cost over £40 these days. That's why I didn't go to watch Genesis on the Last Domino tour. I couldn't justify paying all that money for a gig. Lower the prices and more people will go.
Back then bands lost money on tours, particularly in the UK where there were very few large venues, but they made their money through album sales. Reputations and credibility could be built on playing live, so it made sense. Now the reverse is true, but bands have to put on big shows to fill big venues, so the economics constantly drive the prices up. I'm done with arena shows now, but it is still possible to see smaller bands in clubs or local venues for a reasonable price.
Can anyone tell me when this interview was done?
Totally. Ridiculous prices for tickets now.
1st of August
@@classicalbum Thank you very interesting interview.
Further evidence of the burgeoning success of your channel. Aside from Rossi's constant swearing (in direct contract to the marvellously erudite Bill Bruford) a very interesting interview and great questions re the Pink Floyd and Human League references.
Great bloke, clever, personable, swears like a sailor, he doesn’t need to…
This guy has a super interviewing style: very gracious, good level of knowledge, but most of all he managed to keep the focus on what he wanted to get to - (interviewing Rossi can be a bit like herding cats). Problem with interviewing people like FR is that we have heard 90% of it all before, but there are some fresh moments that are found here. Good work.
Thank you
He must get a bit peeved.
@@sjuelva Simple. Because many people consider that they are sharing comments upon the content as opposed to posting personal messages to the channel owner. In exactly the same way that you have posted the question in general terms, rather than asking me directly. :-)
Fuckin lovely!! My Dad would say` Got the new Thin Lizzy Album. Id say Na MATE.. I got Status Quo LP
Ha, a lots of info and news there in the answers open and between the answers slipping through I think...? Greetings from Sweden! 😀
can always remember in the army now 1986, followed them from 70's long hair and everything, i joined the army in 1986, hair short going to the armoury to draw a gun out and in the background in the army now was playing on the radio, i knew it was the quo from the sound, kind of ended my quo era
Loved his take on "prog rock".So accurate.
Also ref. managers and the US it was Pete Grant that got Led Zep so big there through bully boy approach and billing them top.If you told the yanks these were top bill they took it.In england we formed very much our own choice which is what he implied I think?
Great interview… Francis talked about a show in Holland.. I guess he was talking about last friday, I was there.. Great (sweaty) show… The band and Francis nailed it… 🤘🏻
It's ALAN LANCASTER that I love and respect.
It was ALAN's Band and ROSSI destroyed it.
So you've said many times, not sure why you would tune into a Rossi interview?
Great interview, he’s a good bloke speaks the truth and is very honest. Got a lot of time for him and a lot of their music despite what some haters will say of them. 👍🏻👍🏻
Love Rossi's shirt. My parents had wallpaper in the bathroom identical in the 70s.... Love it 👍
What a brilliant interview. Great questions, fascinating answers. I'm not a Quo fan, don't own any of their records, and could probably only name 2 or 3 songs. Don't know how I ended up here, but glad I did.
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Same here, lived through the mid to late sixties and seventies music scenes. Quo were not as sophisticated as some bands maybe,but they never disapointed.Still remember the response to live aid opening in the eighties great live band.Really enjoyed listening to Francis,great bloke,brought back loadsa memories learning to play guitar not least.
Alan gave my mate a load of stuff from live aid like the all access pass and things only the performers got it's been especially framed and autographed my friend received it less than a year before Alan passed away
It's ALAN LANCASTER that I love and respect.
It was ALAN's Band and ROSSI destroyed it.
Great interview
Should have realised there was small faces influence on early status quo the hair styles ect both great underated bands Marriott one of the greatest vocalist
I like the interviewers t-shirt.
Nice to hear him give Alan a little credit for once (I thought he was vile toward him in his book), but he's still overdoing the Francis/Rick Love Story bit. I always got the impression that Rick Parfitt felt bad about Alan Lancaster's dismissal from the band and only stuck around himself because he was in a bad way financially at the time and knew which side his bread was buttered, which was perfectly understandable.
Yes Steve, what you've said here is accurate. Well done.
You are a true QUO supporter.
It's ALAN LANCASTER that I love and respect.
It was ALAN's Band and ROSSI destroyed it.
Nicest bloke in rock
Top bloke and very upfront and honest. I'm a fan of early Quo and enjoy listening to him ramble on lol. Came back to me that he played Citar on Graham Bonnets Night Games when I saw him at the Academy in Manchester last Sunday
Quo were never like the Everlys as Rossi would like to think, they've were only really successful once they embraced the Rock or as Rick used to say Let's ROCK.
I believe that the name which escaped both Francis and Barry early on in the interview, is Steve Ellis (singer of the Love Affair). Otherwise OK, but slight over-use of the f-word (as is the norm for Mr. Rossi)!
SQ single handedly kept the Colombian economy afloat in the ‘80’s
Yes and it destroyed THE FRANTIC FOUR!!!!
Tony Yeatropoulos
Tony Yeatropoulos
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"Backwater/Just Take Me" remains one of favorite, regularly played rock songs of all-time.
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"Backwater/Just Take Me" is written by LANCASTER / PARFITT as most of the QUO ALBUM was.
"Backwater/Just Take Me" was sung by the Mighty ALAN LANCASTER.
I wouldn't be surprised if THE ANTI-QUO ( Rossi ) didn't like it.
ROSSI, the "insecure show-off" only likes it when he's Front n Centre.
Like this interview, he's jibbering and jabbering away, faster than he can think of what to say.
The YOUNG Rossi, would cringe with embarrassment if he heard and saw this interview.
Rossi and Quo don't get the respect they deserve......70's Quo was pure quality.....Songs, riffs and solo's.....piss all over anything the Stones did then, yet "Keef" always seems to make these "greatest guitarists of all time" lists.....laughable really.
Love Quo and the Stones
@@classicalbum Stones are over-rated,
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That’s very wierd that you are talking about the small faces as I’m just reading Ronnie Woods autobiography.
Remember it must always be written as "Teh Quo"
There was no market for a new studio album from the Frantic 4? and then after Rick died, made a new studio album with his own Quo lite tribute band; I think that says more about him than all his chat .
What a load of total bollocks - people really need to get their head out of the sand when it comes to the "FF" - JC couldn't play shit, AL thought it was the 70's again and so did Rick - the FF tour is what killed him - he went back to his old ways and his body couldn't handle it. All this BS about "Quo lite" - there's more "softer" songs on Piledriver than there is heavy songs - and the "country" stuff they did was mainly credited to Alan... and yet who gets all the blame - always Francis...What it says about him is that he is in the music business and is trying to make a living.
Well said. I loved the melodic elements of earlier quo, fantastic ' tunes'. Add a bit of shuffle and interesting arrangements and boom, worked for me! When the shuffle is removed they are fundamentally country songs. Add some genuine reflective tunes in , (usually Parfitt before he became inward looking ) and you've got a whole other side
So its not just me who doesn't like that Pink Floyd track with the squealing woman then...?
no there is two of you
@@stevenaustin8274 I'm in good company .
Oh no, not just you. I can not listen to "The Great Gig in the Sky" because of the vocals. It's like having a knitting needle shoved in my ear.
@@xuyunfeng4903 unfortunately some people were born with cloth ears and no musical soul ! for these people Status quo was created 😂
@@stevenaustin8274 Were you born with Bionic ears then ?
. Usual rossi meandering waffle. At least he admits it. One or two little interesting bits but it's sad that no one will ever get Francis to talk in depth about the classic quo years.he rarely if ever talks nuts n bolts about how he got those tones. The gear he used. How they recorded the classic stuff. Stuff musicians would like to hear. There's tons of that stuff about most legendary bands but hardly anything on quo. He should be proud of those great 70s records. And give more credit to the other guys including Bob Young . It was a shock to hear him actually say something positive about Alan.. Be it grudgingly before criticising him. Most of what came after is uninspring dross . Cringe inducing at times. Hard to believe it's the same guy who played those incredibly inventive Melodic solos with an amazing telecaster tone. Bit insipid the interviewer really I'm sure rossi has a good in depth interview in him somewhere. I think all the bullshit he comes out with is a defense mechanism.. He was an incredibly under rated guitarist though I don't think he's come up with a decent solo in 50 years.. Wtf happened rossi.. To your head . Your integrity. Still he's got lots of money which seems to be his primary incentive.
There is really no Status Quo anymore! he should respect his legacy and call it the Frances Rossi band from now on everything else is an insult in a joke … sorry
It’s a business, and businesses change staff … Do you refuse to shop somewhere because a long serving member of staff left ?
It's up to him to do what he wants. If you're not intersted in Quo anymore, stop following them. Simple. Everybody happy.
I'm sick of reading all the sycophantic comments below.
How do you know if FRANCIS is a 'great bloke ' he could be the opposite.
After all, he destroyed THE GREATEST ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME.
The Band were roaring down 'life's highway' in top gear, with LANCASTER at the wheel, when ROSSI woke from a having a snooze, then ROSSI reached across from the passenger seat and grabbed the wheel and drove the vehicle into a ditch.
ROSSI is a narcissistic, grumpy, curmudgeon.
He hates anything good about QUO, yet he loves MARGUERITA TIME, which is one of the worst songs anybody has recorded.
Every time he plays " Wildside of Life " he says "I like this one " He thinks he's so cute and adorable.
Yet, I just want a bucket to spew in.
The Cabaret QUO play it with one millionth of the energy and power it should be played.
I wish I was the Magistrate in Court on that dark and sad day in the mid-80s.
I would've ruled in favour of ALAN LANCASTER.
We get the point. I'm hoping you can defend I like rock and roll and Big Man with the same venom you throw at Rossi or ROSSI. They were greater than the sum of their parts , we loved them and we all heard them at different stages and ages and they gave us great pleasure, then and now. My era of pure excitement was 79,80,81. Each to their own.
You sir, do exactly the same with your comments yourself about Alan Lancaster!
Rossi ruined quo. He fell out with spud, nuff and towards the end even Rick. His ego is massive. Complete control freak.
When were you in the band? Don't remember seeing you on stage with Status Quo so how do you know what was going on? Remember there are always more sides to a story.
Pink Floyd is boring? Kkkkkkkk
I can take or leave pink Floyd. Some of it is a hard listen imo
Mental. Artistry yer man could only dream of.
He sounds very old now....has he got a new set of false teeth that don´t fit properly ?
It's called aging, happens to people who are lucky enough not to die young.
False teeth that don’t fit properly … see Billy Idol and David Coverdale
the talk tour was nice paid great tribute to Rick
he has good memory for 60s stuff