#statusquo #downdown #slade Francis Rossi Status Quo - Quo Album, Colin Johnson, Down Down @statusquocom @UnofficialStatusQuo Matchstick Men, Publishing, Songwriting @OfficialStatusQuo
I’m so glad the internet wasn’t around back then. We would have had the Quo album come out with all of Francis’ camp innuendo and negative thinking. Instead we got a marvellous Quo album which means a lot to me. I’m going to stop listening to Francis. He was a boy who got mixed up with a few actual rockers, and couldn’t see his way out, until later when he took over the band and forced them to play softer rock. He still can’t forgive Rick and Alan for growing as musicians and people, and not staying the way they were when he first met them 50, 60 years ago. Francis you really are the odd one out. You’re the one who was playing music he didn’t like. I’m just glad I didn’t know it at the time.
Not sure if it's a bit of 'professional jealousy' talking or just genuine personal dislike, but when Francis seems to 'write-off' the Quo album as a somewhat laughable heavy album, he is forgetting that loads of the old Quo-Army loved its light and shade. Break the Rules, Fine Fine Fine and Lonely Man are not teeth-clenching heavy rock tracks, but they work perfectly alongside what was their heaviest studio material on the rest of the album. The album is a masterpiece. They lost the 'light and shade' as they became more pop than rock, and that's what saw off a good propotion of the Quo Army. I know that Francis knows that, and I know that he doesn't care.
i think hes a nervous twitchy guy so tries to be funny a lot .which sound strange for somone so in the limelight ...on this particularly awkward interview he comes across as quite creepy at times . in contrast to say paul mcartney who always bigs up the contribution the other beatles made to their classic output and speaks about those records with great pride . francis seems almost like .. those swines made me play that nasty macho heavy rock against my will but i just wanted to be in bucks fizz .. why he cant just admit those classic quo records were great and acknowledge the parts played by them all . ive never once heard him mention how great alan john and rick played on them .as did indeed francis . plus those 70s records wernt all heavy rock not by a long chalk . ballads and country stuff softer blues ,it wasnt cheesy lite corny cringey pop the recorded output after alan left was mostly embarrassing . hero to zero for me francis like .
An amiable geezer, although sometimes with an acid tongue, but there are large sections where you really have no idea what he is talking about! It makes sense in his head but not by the time it comes out of his mouth! Legend.
My mam use to say I could talk all day, and say absolutely nothing, Francis like me just witters on, and on, and on, and on, deeper down, down, down...
