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PROGMAN
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Topic: Status Quo (1960s) Posted: May 12 2005 at 08:11 |
OK that is settled then Prog they are not,but we have to admit that they are one of Britain's most loved bands.
Funnily enough around 3 days ago me and my mate was talking about Rock N Roll, he was talking about how much he wants to grow Long Hair and all that and somewhere along the line Status Quo popped up, and he said "Status Quo's music sounds the same only the words are different".
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Posted: May 12 2005 at 06:02 |
The closest that Status Quo ever got to Prog was on Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon,Dog of Two Head and bits of Piledriver.I wouldn't go as far as saying they played Progressive Rock but Progressive Blues maybe. A sort of hybrid between Fleetwood Mac Mk1,Savoy Brown and TYA.
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Posted: May 11 2005 at 23:15 |
I am curious about early Quo, I think Pictures Of Matchstick Men is a stunning moment of psychedelic rock (and I've always been intrigued by the title of Black Veils Of Melancholy) but I know they got really boring by the early 1970s when they got stuck in bar band boogie mode.
I read somewhere that Dog Of Two Head was Status Quo's attempt at prog (then again I have even heard Semisonic described as prog-rock!!!) ... AMG is pretty vague about it, and I haven't got much info on this album elsewhere, but it seems cuts like Railroad, Umleitung and Gerdundula were among their best recordings ever ... anyone know if Dog Of Two Head did stray into prog territory?
As for the prog compilations, I've even found got a Humble Pie boogie track on one of mine!
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Posted: May 11 2005 at 17:33 |
Status Quo prog?
Roll Over Lay Down!
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Posted: May 11 2005 at 16:52 |
Dick Heath wrote:
*Anybody else own a copy of Never Mind The Originals, Here's The Heebie Bee Geebies (aka Phil Pope and Angus Deaton)?
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Yeah, I have to admit to that one Dick. I think my favourite track is the "Last Walz" type spoof, featuing Neil Dung if I remember right. I believe the Bee Gees tried to sue the Hebeegeebees, I don't think they got the joke (same as they didn't when Clive Anderson interviewed them!)
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Posted: May 11 2005 at 15:58 |
I don't think Status Quo have ever resembled prog rock at all; their early psych pop stuff was mostly just ersatz and redundant copies of their own 'Pictures Of Matchstick Men' and 'Ice In The Sun', or Vanilla Fudge-ian covers of 'The Price Of Love', 'Shiela' et al.
Status Quo became a great boogie rock band though, which I am a big fan of, and remain one of the most loved groups in Britain.
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Posted: May 11 2005 at 11:30 |
The January release from Castle Communication Records, Ars Longa Vita Brevis: A Compendium of Progressive Rock, is one of the best multi-Cd albums released in the last 3 years dealing in a fairly serious way with rock releases from the period approx 1967 to 1975. The box set's title is imprecise because it more broadly covers early British rock - that is some prog, some heavy, some main stream, some blues rock. Two representative Status Quo tracks are included that finds them between Matchstick Men and the endless boogies which the Heebie Bee Geebies*so successfully took the piss. One is a cover of Steamhammer's Junior's Wailing - btw Steamhammer made much the superior version.
*Anybody else own a copy of Never Mind The Originals, Here's The Heebie Bee Geebies (aka Phil Pope and Angus Deaton)?
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Posted: May 11 2005 at 11:28 |
They did a track called Big Fat Mama (back in about 1971) which has a number of changes of musical direction in it... lasted about 7 mins, then there was the 10 mins 'Roadhouse Blues', but that's only about as proggy as Led Zep's Kashmir, really. I don't think Pictures, Ice In The Sun or Paper Plane (all hits from 1968/9) can be remotely considered to be prog in any form, rather early forms of AOR rock; catchy little tunes all the same.
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Posted: May 11 2005 at 11:04 |
Progressive rock compilations are curioous things. I've got one called the Age of Enlightenment. it's an excellent album and includes a lot of psychedelia and hard rock. I particularly like the Quintessence track - although they were not a conventional progressive rock band.
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Posted: May 11 2005 at 09:52 |
I know this is a bit Over The Top but is Status Quo in the Psychedelic Years of their career the most Proggiest moment for them, I'm asking as I have a Progressive Rock compilation CD that features various artists like:
Caravan
Yes
ELP
Utopia etc
it also include Status Quo and Gary Moore (not joking)
"Ice in the Sun" and "Pictures of Matchstick Men" era.
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