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Seeing some Status Quo related posts in the current 'Slade on the BBC' thread, has prompted me to start this.
Surely it is about time that Quo-love was cool again. B)

Headbanging to this at the Burway Rowing Club discos was one of the joys of my teenage years!;

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=IKe2OfXLxuc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=IKe2OfXLxuc[/url]

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[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1355164451' post='1894902']
Seeing some Status Quo related posts in the current 'Slade on the BBC' thread, has prompted me to start this.
Surely it is about time that Quo-love was cool again. B)

Headbanging to this at the Burway Rowing Club discos was one of the joys of my teenage years!;

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=IKe2OfXLxuc"]http://www.youtube.c...B&v=IKe2OfXLxuc[/url]
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Down Down has to be one of the greatest singles of all time by a British band . People think of Status Quo as a bit of an institution and a bit of joke nowadays , and have done for a long time , but around the mid to late seventies they were a massive cult band in Britain . They were the choice band of kids from council estates wearing Doc Martens and denim jackets with hair past their collar and ready for a ruck at the school disco . Yobbos had better taste in music back then , I suppose . Who could be cooler than Status Quo ? I'm off down the off licence to get 10 Embassy Regal and a bottle of cider so I can enjoy this properly .

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Lord yes, I first saw them when the album Piledriver was released, around the time of Paper Plane as a single. 1972 +/-. Queens Hotel in Westcliff - there was a vacant spot in front of the left hand PA stack that I stood in. Rob Young's harmonica did things to my ears from which they have never recovered! I saw them maybe 5 or 6 times in the next couple of years - the entire Kursaal in Southend was bouncing up and down - the floor, the seats, the balcony, everything. They were bloody good back then - a fresh new sound full of energy.

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Count me in. Around the Quo Live period I loved it all. I well remember bouncing off the walls at Sheff City Hall at that time. I played a fair bit of Quo in bands in the early 80s and have just this last year started again. We were doing a Mustang Sally/Shout/Enter Sandman (Yes...I know !!!!) combination and it morphed into Down Down at the end. It brought the roof down so we kept it as a separate song and combined it with Caroline as a set ender with the band intos in the middle. A bit of Barry White sneaked its way in for a while but we haven't done that for a bit !

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[quote name='YouMa' timestamp='1355170255' post='1895017']
The guitar parts played properly for the 70s stuff are actually trickier than you think,i had a go one night and it was very addictive playing these huge power chords in alternate tunings.
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Here's one they've been doing since forever. Francis is a bit nimble on it too.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=NEC_CjQwHUI&NR=1"]http://www.youtube.c...EC_CjQwHUI&NR=1[/url]

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[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1355168599' post='1894988']
Lord yes, I first saw them when the album Piledriver was released, around the time of Paper Plane as a single. 1972 +/-. Queens Hotel in Westcliff - there was a vacant spot in front of the left hand PA stack that I stood in. Rob Young's harmonica did things to my ears from which they have never recovered! I saw them maybe 5 or 6 times in the next couple of years - the entire Kursaal in Southend was bouncing up and down - the floor, the seats, the balcony, everything. They were bloody good back then - a fresh new sound full of energy.
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I would have loved to see Status Quo back in those days !

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A thread to bring tears to my eyes :)

Always been a huge Quo fan, before rocking all over the world and the numerous covers that followed they were hugely original, great albums. Some good stuff after that but more patchy and poppy and the dark period after Nuff left. Seen them loads of times all through the years and I've yet to see a bad gig and have seen some blinders by them as well.

Also have tickets for both nights with the fanatic four reunion at hammersmith, something I've been hoping for so many years.

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