My Mum never walked away from a Staus Quo gig - she was in a wheelchair. Last gig she went to she was well into her 80s. I went along as 'escort' and was utterly converted by the end of it!
In the UK everyone over a certain age likes the Quo. They started in the 1960s and my dad would play their music and sing along when I was a kid. Leaves an ever lasting good memory. My favourite is Down the dust pipe.
OMG, ANDY I FIRST HEARD " DOWN THE DUSTPIPE " IN 1970 WHEN I WENT TO A MATES 9TH BIRTHDAY PARTY. MY MATE GOT AN ALBUM CALLED '20 RED HOT HITS', WHICH WAS A COMPILATION OF HIT SONGS OF THAT YEAR, 1970. TRACK 3 ON SIDE 2 WAS 'DOWN THE DUSTPIPE' by STATUS QUO. ANDY, I PLAYED 'DOWN THE DUSTPIPE' 4 or 5 TIMES UNTIL SOMEBODY STOPPED ME. 'DOWN THE DUSTPIPE' IS 2 MINUTES OF BOOGIE BLISS. LOVE IT WITH A PASSION.
You'll notice one very unique thing about The Quo, there's nobody on the planet who dislikes them, or their sounds, because they do their 'thing' for the best reason, they enjoy it! Well, so do WE!! 🎸🎸🎸🥁
Being English and old, i got to see the mighty Quo many times live, they were always on the road. Ultimate "bouncy" music, no frills good time rock n roll. The world needs more of this genre, music can just be fun!!
Grew up with this band. Saw them in LA at the house of blues On sunset before it closed. It was packed! The next day they played in front of 40,OOO people in Mexico. One of the best rock bands on the planet.
"Down Down" was Status Quo's only #1 single in the United Kingdom, The Quo never cracked the American market, they became a cult band on the other side of the pond. Status Quo were huge in the UK, they've appeared on BBC 1's "Top of the Pops" more than any other recording artist.
I didn't know that was a Fogerty tune, but it was my first memory of them from Rock '74 on Toronto's Centre Island, and my best- musical- memory of the show! Flyin' on Window Pane, lmao.
Djamel the 70's were the Best years in the history of music: Sound, creativity, variety, .....We Will never have years like this! Status Quo was a hell of a great Boogie Rock british band.
Grew up with this band in the seventies. Was a big fan. Have seen them around ten times live. At a fanclub day in the early eighties in the Netherlands Rick Parfitt was there too. The best memorie is the concert in 1979 in the Netherlands with the frantic four. Seen the in 2014 Réunion tour of the frantic four also. Always Goosebumps with this band. My alltime favourite is 4500 times from the live album.
This is my favourite Quo song. This is the first time I`ve heard this slightly extended version though. A few years ago the original band as you see here reformed for a last tour under the banner The Frantic four. The band still tours but with only the Singer/Lead guitarist from the original band (Francis Rossi). Rip Rick. Great reaction
All of AC/DC are British born,Scotland,but emigrated to Aus when they were young. Brian Johnson is from Newcastle in the frozen extreme north of England.
Jamel gets to The Quo - Yay! (you need to understand the British way of pronouncing ‘status’ to get their name right 😉) - fabulous, good honest boogie band
Hi Jamel! This is one of your subscribers from Down Under! Thank you SO much for reacting to this! My brother and I LOVED listening to this in the seventies when we were teenagers! Take care and stay safe! From Australia.
I have loved Status Quo for over 50 years now. They actually began as a psychedelic band, with songs such as Pictures of Matchstick Men, Black Veils Of Melancholy, Ice In The Sun, Green Tambourine etc, before all the fantastic rocking songs. And I agree, reacting to Pictures of Matchstick Men would be a great idea.
What?! I’ve never heard of this band and they did the original Pictures of Matchstick Men? I’m going to have to go look up if the song I know and love is a cover.....
@@genevieveking8819Yes, Status Quo did it in the 60s. But I didn't know that Camper Van Beethoven did a cover of it, and its good, I love how they use the violin for the guitar riff. ty for telling me.
It's funny really, they weren't particularly much into psychedelia to begin with. When they were still called The Spectres they were a kind of garage rock band. Then Francis tried to write something in the vein of "Hey Joe", although his Italian heritage was also creeping in. The phasing was a studio accident/gimmick and suddenly everyone expected them to do more songs like that! Took 2-3 years (and declining success) to get free of that and arrive at what you see above. Another curio: The verse melody of Down Down is very similar to the "Pictures" guitar riff!
I listened to a music professional discussing the band who were often disparaged. What we're hearing, he said, is the result of countless hours of practise and playing live stages big and small in front of audiences. Irreplaceable band. Quick edit- Bass at the end!
Formerly a Pop Band, as you know, they started really "paying their dues" in the early 1970's and I saw them 5 times in 1972. On one memorable occasion they played 5 Encores and the last encore was a 7 part medley. Croydon, S E London :)
Like most Americans I only knew them from "Pictures of Matchstick Men", their only top 40 hit in the US, which reached #12. That song was played a lot on oldies stations when I was growing up but it wasn't until the internet that I found out what a massive success they were in the UK and elsewhere. I've checked out a few of their other songs and this is definitely a catchy one. Like Slade, I really have no idea why they never made it big in the US. Then again I have no idea why English bands like The Zombies and The Struts aren't appreciated more in the UK as they are in the States. The British invasion from the 60s is my favorite genre so I've checked out some of the bands that didn't make it over here from that time and some are quite good like The Sorrows and The Equals. I'm sure a lot more goes on in hit making than just talent, experience, and the public's taste because there's no other way to explain these differences.
A lot of the Quo's tracks sounded much the same , i would recommend 2 of their best , 'Living on an island' and 'Rock-n-roll' which are more melodic and laidback , this shows how versatile and talented they were and not just the running joke that they are just a 3 chord band !.
I have seldom seen such a likeable person as you and enjoyed the watching :) I was born 64 and a 70's and 80's boy and I love this music :) Mostly funk, soul, house and disco :) Many greetings from Germany!!!
The ONLY advantage to being old is that we were there for ALL this awesome music. We had it all babe. Disco. Abba. AC/DC with Bonn Scott RIP. Suzi Quatro, the godmother of Rock, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones. The Rocky Horror Picture show (which was shocking back in the day lol). Meatloaf said the parents didn't get it, but the kids did and he was right. Then he had his own career. It was the bomb. It was ALL happening. SO GLAD I was there for it. I LOVE the way you young folk react. Our music was the BEST then and the BEST now. Good times, my friend. Respect to you for exposing your gen to it. Thanks from an old hippy. Peace out.
The clip is recorded at Top Pop, the number one pop music programme on Dutch tv in the '70s. They experimented a bit with camera effects and this was one of them.
Ahhh, Status Quo. I was raised on the Quo, the first record my dad ever bought with his own money was Wild Side Of Life in 1976 when he was 14. He had one of their concerts on video tape that we used to watch as kids, and I’m pretty sure Francis Rossi was my first crush as a kid. Ive had a weakness for guys with long hair ever since.
My younger cousin Mark went to school with Francis's son, so I'd always hoped to be getting to meet him when I visited family but never happened, but Mark said they're a lovely bunch
This comment made me sad James. I’ve seen them 66 times ( some I know have seen them 100s of times) and never a bad gig. Even today’s line up put on a good show so if you do get chance I recommend you go for it.
that’s the original lineup i saw when i was in the military overseas. I was in holland at the time. Rocked the shit out of the crowd ! outdoor concert! we used to call them Bar party rockers!
I am so glad I was a product of the 60's. Look at all the brilliant music I would have missed out on in the moment. Fifty plus years at the top proves beyond a shadow of the doubt that they did something right. ;)
This is the lineup that I met, and worked with, in San Diego, in the early '70's! Talk about the British Press, how many time can you give a sincere answer to "what's your favorite color!"?
British national treasure " The Quo". Ive had the pleasure of seeing them live many times, they do exactly what it says on the tin. Caroline, Mystery song please. Great to see you bopping along. Keep up the good work Bro.
Quo were just huge in the UK in the 70s but this was their only number1! They have released around 100 singles and have spent over 400 weeks in the UK Singles Chart ...
Their only No.1 to date. A fantastic song. 'Caroline', 'Big Fat Mama', 'Forty-Five Hundred Times', 'Paper Plane', 'Mystery Song (album version)' We're lucky to have a single Quo reaction in a month on RU-vid, then all of a sudden, we get about 6 in the space of 3 days!! PLEASE, keep it up! Quo need the recognition they deserve.
grew up with Quo, evenn served Rick P with a pint when I working at pub in Birmingham many years ago.....they still smash it live....you know what you're going to get and they deliver...a brilliant live band
The first record I ever bought was the Quo box (tin) set, and the first rcok concert I ever went to was Status Quo, on their "End of the Road" fairwell tour, in 1984. I saw them several times more, but have missed seeing them ever since I moved to the US in 2001.
Hey Jamel great to see your into Quo, they were 1 of the most popular live bands around. I've seen them a quite a few times, one of my favourites is Rain off the Blue for you album.
Formerly a Pop Band in he 1960's,they started really "paying their dues" in the early 1970s and I saw them 5 times in 1972. On one memorable occasion, they played 5 Encores and the last encore was a 7 part medley. Croydon, S E London :)
I hope this is your poor attempt at humour mate. Otherwise, You are a shame and embarrassment to the name, ALAN. I know that FRANCIS, RICK AND ALAN could play all the chords, all 96 of them. I'm sure Andy and Rhino could as well. These musicians are Masters of their instruments. A female journalist, thought she was funny one day when she asked Francis if he could play more than 3 Chords, silly girl, Francis tore her to shreds. 12 times 8 is 96. Right? Right. There are eight chord types in a guitar, each having 12 different chords corresponding to the various musical notes. Most people start to learn the guitar with the most basic chords on the root note C. The eight major chord types that you can find in all 12 keys are the following: A Major Bb Major B Major C Major C# Major D Major Eb Major E Major People that say QUO could only play 3 Chords are ignorant morons. They are people that struggle to walk and chew gum at the same time. They are low life idiots. Prog Rock is awful and boring anyway, look at RUSH & ELP etc., absolute rubbish. STATUS QUO are the best and greatest of all time because they entertained people on all levels. They were unpretentious, genuine, sincere and down to earth, the Band of the people. They weren't pompous twats like Queen, with plums in their mouths and a stick up their arse. The Sex Pistols loved THE QUO, because of QUO's " We don't care what you think " attitude. Long LIVE The QUO.
Reminds me of a stunt my mates and I had at 17.It was the early 90s we had just passed our driving tests and had no sense!! The idea was to have the car stationary and at the 3.35 mark the accelerator was pushed to the mat as Francis went into the riff. We wanted to see what speed you could reach when the drums kicked in! This was fine and dandy until I ran out of driving talent and put my mother's car end over end into a field when I didn't make the corner!! I've often wondered what Francis and the late great Rick would have thought! When the riff kicks in it takes me back to being upside down in a wrecked car! Another song for the trick was Caroline when Rick hit the first down stroke until Francis hit his first note. Pardon my long comment!
It's good seeing these Americans getting into QUO, now. I got hooked on Quo as a 9 year old in 1969 when I first heard Down The Dustpipe. The (5) , yes I said 5 Quo members, the 5th being Andy Bown are still the best. Rossi, Parfitt, Lancaster and Coghlan. The 70's Quo music is still the best. Great British Rockers
A proper '70s UK headbanger (type of dance move) song by a Great Heavy Rock group. A warning went out about the dance may cause brain hemorrhage if repeated constantly, for long or to hard & fast.
This what you get when you play the standard Blues Shuffle used old Blues and Rock & Roll numbers to make the song sound like a train going down the track at 5 times the speed... it sounds like a Japanese Bullet train going at 200 miles per hour.
Several years ago a supermarket chain ( Coles ) here in the land of Oz used this tune for promotional purposes and even used the band for the first round of promotions. I think Rick and Francis were even out here for the launch. All I can say they changes the lyrics a little to refer to prices..... Lol..
the Quo were my favourite band growing up, they were mega stars here in the uk mainly in the 70a, but they for some reason never made it in the usa .... the comment about the lyrics are correct , lead singer francis rossi said in an interview "when writing that song i was thinking about my ex wife and our relationship, i was also thinking about the press and their attitude towards the band" he also said about the song title/chorus ..." it doesnt mean anything, for months we were trying to find a chorus and words to fit the music and the only thing we could think of to match the melody line was "down down , deeper and down" but it means nothing "
When this record came out, everyone wanted to play it, myself included. It took me to the RU-vid days until I realised its played in Open G tuning, the same tuning Keith Richards uses. When you know that, it's a piece of cake.
its just gone 3am and im supposed to be editing a video due for Thursday, tried holding off subscribing (worried id get addicted) well i had to give in lol, great channel bro, great selections of songs not many other people are doing reactions to!
Do more helmet!! Best band ever im 18 and im addicted to em playing their riffs along to the music is the best feeling you MUST do “FBLA II” one of their best songs
when the wrote the chorus for this, they couldnt come up with anything , but in a rehearsal , they just started singing , "get down deeper and down" .......so they just went with it .
The ONLY band that could beat Status Quo on stage was Queen. Seen them both in concert, and Queen just edged out the Quo thanks to Freddy's stage-presence
