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  • Ich will auch mitmachen........

    Warum bin ich sooooo spät geboren worden???

  • saw them pub south london, black prince bexley, about 72, they were great, about 150 people, they blew the roof off, never a band for big stadiums in my view, everyone to their own, after about 78 they got boring

  • Thanks Chuck.

  • Francis Rossi wrote a very honest book about their drink and drugs taking, Francis and Rick no longer drink/drugs, I love this band....

  • i lol for the two guys on the stage at the beggining!!!the party just started....Status know's how to do it!!!yeaaahhhhh!!!!!!

  • como se extraña a alan lancaster el grupo cambio desde su salida

  • Perfect rock'n'roll!!!

  • Putisimisima Rock N Roll.....

  • top quality guitar boogie

  • tip top

    

  • Grandissimo Alan Lancaster.

  • I love lancaster @ 0:12..always up for a row!

  • Status Quo..... in qualsiasi salsa tu li senta saranno sempre i Number One....!

  • Was that Bob Young that got a sore head at the start? ;)

  • JUST CLASS' IM FAMOUS AND DIPPED INTO THE DARKSIDE OF ROCK OTHERWISE ID SING IN CHURCH. LOVE IT.GOD WONT KILL US FOR LOVING OUR MUSIC. WHAT MAKES US HAPPY IS THE MAIN THING THATS IT

  • Pity Rossi became such a drug addict. He had so much tallent.

  • @Thankkkk you Craggers!! This is so gooood & rare. My name is by the way Jonny.

    Bye Bye!

  • Never the same after Alan left! Pete Kircher was a top man too!

  • Its the easy way out for all concerned to be stubborn and not to reunite. It says a lot more about your character if you are willing to set your stubborness aside and to give at the least the people /fans that made you a multi millionaire what they would love to see: the frantic four ,with andy bown of course also there, reunited. Greatest band ever by the way. A unique sound. No match on these guys.

  • Quo were better in the early days,with Lancaster and coghlan .

  • I didn't want to sound harsh, I just said what I heard. And yeah, Quo turned indeed soft in the 80's, but they never abandoned their boogie roots and their music was never ever crap. They wanted to do some different kind of stuff instead of becoming monotonous like AC/DC, for exemple. And Rick and Francis being on coke? I don't believe that. And like it or not, they are the heart of the band and they are the ones who kept the band together, unlike Lancaster who refused to appear in RAOTW video.

  • @PurpleInTheDeep Have to say, it's well documented and admitted by the guys themselves, Quo were HEAVILY into drugs from the early 70's onwards. Weed till '75, speed from '76 then coke massively from the late 70's till the very early 90's. Weed and Speed bought about their best music lol.

  • @craggers Wow, being for more than 2 decades on so many drugs? No way, you missed something. Perhaps they were on drugs for a while, but not for such a long while. If they were on drugs like you said, the Quo wasn't still around after all these years.

  • @craggers I even saw Francis put a handkerchief in his one nosehole and getting it out of his other nosehole on tv to show what coke can do to you haha

  • @craggers Ok, let's say it's true what you said. But the only thing that matters is that the Quo are still around. They will record a new album in 2011. Can't wait.

  • @PurpleInTheDeep Another popular misconception, Lancaster never "refused" to appear in the RAOTW video. It was one appearance on Top of the Pops, and he had to fly back to Australia to be with his wife Dayle, who was having a baby. Bear in mind that incident was 1977, Eight years before he left Quo! Also, Lancaster stayed with Quo until the "End of the Road" which was supposed to be it, so you can understand why older fans are loyal to the Frantic Four and not just Rossi/Parfitt.

  • @jaffax1 I, for one, am loyal to all past and present members of the Quo. And ok, Francis fucked up the band. But why is so overlooked the 5th of the Frantic Four, Andy Bown?

  • @PurpleInTheDeep At a concert Francis said they did coke :P I don't mind it though, every band has done it at some time

  • @DanishThrasher

    Yeah, the definatly did, I've read their autobio. But the Stones were probably hooked on it for most their lives. Its just really tradition, not a good one, but I don't really care, as long as their brillant like Quo and The Stones.

  • @PurpleInTheDeep CHECK OUT A KID CALLED CALLED STAT QUO AKA STATLANTA HE'S SIK

  • Pwoppa quo!..and not a 'ponced up barn dance' in sight!...I sort of agree about Lancasters music...but e was also responsible for some of the shit like 'I love rock and Roll'...awful song...and probably their worst up to then...now we are lucky if they manage two stormers per album.

  • Lancaster was kicking ass, no doubt. Unfortunatly he had to fuck things up with Parfit and Rossi. Not to mention that he was the one who fired Coghlan from the band. Eventually, in 1985, Rossi and Parfit had enough and they got rid of him. The same way Richie Blackmore fucked up with Deep Purple, or Roger Waters with Pink Floyd, like there was some kind of fashion.

  • @PurpleInTheDeep That's a bit harsh, Nuff left because he didn't like the direction Quo was going. He was a rocker who wanted to play rock, not pop music. Spud left for the same reason, hence his project with Diesel. If anybody fucked up The Quo, it was Rick, Francis, the management and their coke dealer!!

  • @jaffax1 2 right mate.. this is the real quo.. not the girl band that they. call quo 2 day

  • Quo were fucked up by the direction Francis wanted to go in........his need for "speed" and anything else white and his love of country music. Rick didn't have too much input into the split, He was devastated when Francis wanted to call it a day in 84.

    Drummers come and go as do bass players and the sound of the band rarely changes to be honest. Anyone think AC/DC sounded shit with Simon Wright on drums instead of Phil Rudd?.....No is the answer. Change the singer and it's a different ball game

  • @Syze1 Yeah, that's true to a point, but even AC/DC said that their sound lacked something without Phil Rudd. That's why he's back in. Also there is something to be said for chemistry. The Frantic Four had something special, Nuff and Spud added something no-one else can copy. Same for the original Kiss, Saxon, Dr Feelgood etc.

  • AWESOME!!!!

  • LONG LIVE QUO

  • @MrFulhamDan the real quo died 84.. there a pop band now,, not a rock an roll band

  • LONG LIVE QUO

  • NO-ONE!!! I REPEAT!!!! NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!(maybe AC/DC circa Bon Scott period) CAN MATCH IT!!! JUST TOO FUKKIN' HEAVY!!!!!!!!

    METALLICA & UR MATES!! DO SOME HOMEWORK!!!!

  • @bunniman1908 spot on bunniman!!! Maybe some Rose Tattoo?? Something to mull over - Quo and Acca Dacca (circa Bon) doin a 'duet'. Shit, I wonder how 'Baby, Please Don't Go' would have sounded?? Woulda been a smash I reckon!!

  • love it how the other three don't but an eye when lancaster gets the mic knoed down .

  • (sing) bye bye, bye bye (sing) bye bye, bye bye (sing) bye bye, goodbye Johnny B Goode. They were very loud and awesome.

  • R-O-C-K-I-N  !!!!!!!!

  • I lost the hearing in my left ear because I was stupid or smart enough to enjoy this group at a concert in Seattle. I'll say this: I still crank up their stuff. It IS the way it should be played. They never were concerned about impressing anyone. But they did play loud and proud.

  • @changethismf That must have been something to have seen them on American Soil. Wish they'd come to this side of the pond again one day!

  • c'est une sorte de reprise de Johnny be good

    mémé riff même solo^^

  • aint this Johny B Goode?

    

  • Unity, energy, a real band

  • what a party band

  • If anyone can rock like Quo, I've yet to hear them.

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  • Rock perfection!! Have to fly from Canada to see them live before me or the band cease to exist!

  • Ahhh memories - I'd rather forget.

  • excellent vintage quo

  • Almost forgot about the days of corded guitars on stage

  • Dese CockerneyClowns is 'bout as much Chuck Berry as Boiled Beef & Carrots !

  • @DougPatton1 and your about as funny as a dose of the clap

  • @theslice2: Slicey, You're about as Rockin as a dose of Quo - never better than on Rossi's early ORIGINAL 'Pictures Of Matchstick Men' also their ONLY U.S. hit.

    LOL.

  • @DougPatton1 Slicey ? slicey ? thats no good..... its a bit like putting a y on the end of Idiot..... see what I mean

    I take it you mean that Pictures of etc is a good example of how Quo simply do not rock...... well I saw them live last year and there was a lot of people there that would disagree with you.... I personally think their music turned to shit around 1975 but for old fellas they still rock in a light hearted zimmer framey sort of way

  • @theslice2 theslice-ey ? Rossi Parfitt & co are musical OK but it's all lost when they just try to copy Berry & Fogerty & co. LOL.

  • Took me back to when  I first saw them live at Empire Pool Wembley in 75.

    Many thanks for this craggers.

  • Dog of Two Head to- Rockin' All Over The World is Quo at their best.. After that it's hit or miss, mostly miss!

  • classic line up, classic quo, crap sound

  • I want to play with status quo !

    Greetzzz from Holland

  • Sheer class!

    We need Quo in Italy!!

  • That's how rock n' roll should be played.

    Tight as a camels arse in a sandstorm!

  • @btj1960 HAHAHA! Well said! :D

  • @btj1960 Yeah, that's the best version ever....after Stones '72 version ...D

  • brilliant

  • So...what's the problem with that? Quo found what they were best at and stuck with it! where's the problem in that?

  • Are you going to be able to put albums out in 35 years, alandavid48?

  • Surely at worst it'd be that they did this 20 years ago (actually 35) and now they sound similar after so much time? You no like? You don't watch. :D

  • Slade could you prick! You don't know you history musical or otherwise

  • This is definatly good shit

  • There is NO doubting that QUO are one of the best bands the world has ever seen.

    They have more hits than both the Rolling Stones and the Beatles put together.

    I've been a fan for 12yrs now ever since I was 5!!

    and last year I'd got my QUO tattoo.....score.......

  • you rock !

  • lol beginning

  • aww bless, Snuff was in 2 minds as to whether to restart the song or play a drum solo on the head of the guy who moved the mic with his bass

  • He was lucky not to have a right hander from Alan!

  • I loved Quo back in the day but come pretend that all this is real - listen to the bass from say 3:05 - its over-dubbed and it is in the wrong key. Now that's wrong!! If you are going to over-dub a live recording you have all the time in the world to get it right and don't forget that Quo were relegated to support band on Slade tours - now there was a band that could rrrrrrrrrawk & rrrrrrrroll!!!!

  • Quo supported Slade in Australia 1973 get your facts right says Slade were booed off stage after following Quo. Any band following Quo at there peak including ZEP ACDC and THE Stones couldn't match QUO 's high energy rock and Roll.

  • Arsehole!!

  • Saw them 3 times in their original lineup - Alan always underated as singer - but clearly as good as Francis.......................­Not arf.

  • What the fuck with the 2 douchbags in the beginning?

  • Possibly one of the greatest UK rock bands of all time! If not in the world.

    BYE BYE JOHNNY!

    BYE BYE JOHNNY BE GOODE!

  • Did you ever hear the Stones version ?... "Ladies & Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones"...

  • ROCKERS !!!!

  • DYNAMITE!!

  • They always show so much passion on stage!!!!

  • great performance - even if a few fans got a bit 'overexcited' at the start!

  • da gings noch richtig ab

  • Guitar hero stuff ..

  • man what a hassel those guitar cords used to be.

  • Status Quo is the best! Every year I got to see them in Wembley Arena. wish i could every month! ;P i want to get front row seats, and i think they should make a contest and the person who wins gets 2 front row seats. who was the guy that got thrown of stage in the beginning?

  • hey same here every Dec i am there !!! love the band to death i had forth row tickets last Dec the 14th , what a band eh !!!!

    keep on rockin

  • i was on the left top side of the stage. my dad is friends with the boss of the recording company of status quo or something, so we get free tickets, and thats the guest section. i went to see them dec 13th last year. they played on the 14th too?? their songs just never get annoying like most songs now a days..

  • CLASSIC!!!!!! Let's see today's bands perform like that@!

  • they'd be sweating just by thinking about it ;)

  • I saw Quo in 78 in Hannover when I was in the medics working at the military hospital. They were fuckin' awesome. One of the best bands I've ever seen

  • Saints prserve us!

  • I saw Status Quo about the same time ie. 1975 at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. Lancaster married an Aussie girl shortly after and left the band.

    I saw Quo for the 2nd time in late 2006 at the same location. They played with Deep Purple in a 2 for 1 concert.

    DP were good but Quo eclipsed them with a slick professional performance demonstrating that they have lost nothing, except some hair, in 30 years.

  • ... and a few nasal membranes, lol  ;OP

  • Greatest band ever in this line up. Classic Quo. Alan gave Qua that rougher edge. Rick is the Best rhythm guitarist ever. Saw them in november in amsterdam...awesome.

    Still this was easily THE best line up. CLASSIC !

  • Alan with short scale 30'' Mustang bass - YES, the different sound!!! 10 centimeters shorter strings have better power. And drums.... the best drummer ever!!!! YES, the real Status Quo - THIS. ******************

  • Fecking YES YES YES

  • Classic blues rock and roll! Long Live Quo!

  • drummer looks like lemmy

  • Status fuckin' Quo is a great band. They're very good live & they just relentless... they have the same neverending buzz like Motorhead. The same un-compromisin' Rock N Roll attitude... like a train rumblin' on the track. Very good. I lis'n to 'Quo for a long long time and can't get enough of it. In this video is funy that the bass guitarist was singin' nowadays (and actually classic Quo songs as well) Rossi / Parfitt sings...

    Good job, well done,

    long live Status Quo!

    POMY COLLINGWOOD

  • Can someone please pm me a video on youtube which has better sound quality than this? I can only find these live versions of the song, I want a normal sounding version. =\

  • Yep, Alan could be a bad tempered cnut!!!

  • classic quo - for all the criticism - three chords etc - noone can sound like that

  • the old quo , with alan lancaster and john coglan

  • Werent they great? Not sure what happened but Alan was a great singer

  • i cant understand people who knock this band, they realy know how to play, they are very very good live, they have allways been the best live rock band too see, keep rockin and long live the quo

  • Love how when they're ripping it up, they're all in a circle.

  • Thanx craggers, that brough back excellent memories... Ahh my misspent youth :)

  • classissíssimo

  • nice to see a the headbanging!

  • Parfitt and Rossi headbanging in sync looks extra cool.

  • This is vintage stuff..I loved them when they were The Frantic Four.

  • Hair or no hair,still the best 12 bar rock band ever.

  • haha status quo with hair

    takes some getting used to

  • i must be a real stupid person, i always taught it was rick singing this song,

    Instead it's Lancaster.. damn :p

  • I must to be real stupid number 2 , because I did not realize  Lancaster sang.

  • Well, stupid number 3 here then! :D

  • same here 1st time

  • Love the voice...the guy reminds me of Jim Morrison.

  • to me he sounds like the singer from The Stranglers

  • Genius!

  • these boys know how boogie

  • i agree i saw him spank a bloke at southend on sea who got on stage he never got back up there

  • You didnt want to mess with Alan, from waht ive read he could mix it no bother

  • It's a good job them guy's fell off stage, or Mr Lancaster would've probably punched them off stage!!!

  • Nice and heavy, but why not listen to ex Quo drummer Pete Kircher singing this song in 1964 with his then band, 'Neil Landon and the Burnettes'

  • Rock and Roll can't never die!

  • they rock every generation

    the best part of the video are those guys in the beginning that punch the mic in the face of the singer and then fell of the stage

  • they fuckin' rock!!! never stop rock'n'Roll

  • this is the real quo that i cant get enough of

    still be at wembely xmas though find another live band to make you go home feeling half your age plus (-:

  • FETT !

  • from a 60 + year old bloke they still keep my joints supple keep going boys!

  • Thank you for the guy who invented electricity

    and Thank you Youtube

  • great stuff

  • they played some great blues as well get your self a copy of dog of two heads

  • Got it on vinyl already ;)

  • Fantastic version. I wish it could be possible to see this vid in colour :(

    O well.

    Long Live Status Quo !

  • Man, oh, man! Da Quo at their best! Any effort to show stuff like this to rap-infected brains, today, woulda be like offering some good shot of JD's 15 years to a goat.

  • lol there fighting those two guys in the begging

  • the original and best line up shit hot!

  • well said brother

  • Classic line up....classic sound

    Todays Quo still going but sound has become cabaret quo

    They need another On The Level after last effort Heavy Traffic was 7/10

  • Yes indeed - THAT'S why I learned to play guitar....!

  • Status Quo was best on the 70s, with Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan. Then they played rock'n'roll. Now they play schlagermusic >.>

  • Four guys, equal part to play and equal enjoyment in doing so.

  • o.O Who was that guy on the stage? Lol, he felt down xD Nice rhythm playing by Rick there^^

  • Rick the human metronome!

  • I lvoe the quo.. their live performances are amazing...

    with that reverberated opening "f" chord.... and then the massive opening riff of caroline - BRILLIANT

  • Honest teenager country ball orchestra ;-)

    Go and see the Rolling Stones 1972 STP version...

  • If only Jagger wouldn't put on his pretend American accent and dance like a prat! Apart from that The Stones were the best rock 'n' roll band back in late 60s early 70s.

  • ... and they still are the best ! Yeahh !

  • Jagger faking his accent?? the hell ur sayin, he's totally bri-ish

  • From what ive read, u didnt want to mess with Alann Lancaster. bit of a tough customer

  • wasn't that Les Battersby jumping up on stage ?

  • lmfao you watch too much of that program... "you know the one i mean" lol

  • Col Joye once went after a guy on stage with his guitar, and as it was solid wood and an old one, it would have brained him if he'd connected! Alan lives in Sydney these days, BTW.

  • Lancaster was immense. Fuckin Geezer getting in the way!!

  • alan was gonna nock that gezzer out.

  • Damn! Having to play AND defend yourself...are these guys GOOD, or-WHAT!

  • i got this gig on DVD! great stuff... i like the way Alan was gonna go for that punter before he got off the stage himself!!

  • awesome and rare as fuck!

  • Raw Quo energy almost like a punk band except they could play better.

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