What that 'level of quality' is or was is purely subjective and different for everyone.Īfter Spud left in 1981 may be they needed to take a break from recording, re-group and gather their thoughts. I would never want them to make another PILEDRIVER, or any of their albums, though did expect a certain level of 'quality ' to be adhered to. I'm sure there were women crying as well. Status Quo are different to all the other Bands in history and I do feel they that they needed to maintain a certain level of Rock, not only for their own dignity, but for all those hard core ' tough ' guys who were seen to be crying uncontrollably at The Frantic Four's Reunion Gigs in 2013/14. When you play in a group / band there are multiple people that need to be considered.Īlan was disregarded and not considered on many issues, Rick would've jumped off a cliff if Rossi had told him to. The first people they had to please was themselves.Ĭlick to expand.Yes, it's correct that artists have to please themselves first, whether they are sculptors or painters or musicians. I can't imagine them saying to themselves, "Oh let's make another version of Piledriver." I also imagine that they were never going to let the fans tell them what to do either. It is obvious that bands have to evolve and grow a bit and Quo did move more towards lightweight pop as they got older.
It was massively successful and while you can't fault his logic for sniffing out a big hit, Lancaster and a lot of the fanbase were incensed. Marguerita Time was put to Alan Lancaster as being for a Rossi solo album and he decided to submit it for the Quo album instead. It just didn't have the same guts as their previous stuff, no matter how well they played.ġ982 was a solid set of songs, played properly, but the sound had very little grit to it. All of a sudden, they went for a clean mix - around the time of If You Can't Stand the Heat and Rocking All Over The World.
Quo used to make these great hard rock albums where there was little or no separation of the instruments.
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