April, Spring, Summer And Wednesdays (1970)

[breffnipark]

What a track !

Quo forever !

[Mr7171551]

Young Francis trying to grow a beard & moustache-very 70's!! Yes indeed, Quo at their best in my view 1970-1973/4

[SKYSWEEPER11]

Why does this sound like the American Woman riff thru the entire thing.I love it.

[buldic]

Listen Status Quo were relevant and important up until Rockin all over the world,after that they became Chas and Dave!

[freefallnick]

it's been said already, but... "Fucking Awesome"

maybe we should try to get it as the UK's Christmas No. 1 for 2010 !!!

we did it last year with Rage Against The Machine, so it could actually be possible...

and it would also be the 40th Anniversary of this song - what do you think ???

[Pighood]

Guess Who, anybody?

[eb3be66]

This is great,made my day,many thanks...oh nice backline, original Orange gear...!! Miss their Sound City gear..mine always sound different every time I stitch them on...new noise/hum etc... :)

[MrLambourne280]

Cracking video, for a very early quo, I love their, what I call experimental stage shows a different side to them, they really ought to put these tracks from Ma Kelly's album back into their live sets, this one along with someone's learning is awesome, well done to quotime for putting a high quality early Quo on board!! Much appreciated!

[peakhouse]

fucking hell Quo Time this is the bollox.looks like same session as orange amp spinning wheel blues...stool in background stage left for bob young harp use nuffs mic.this orange amp thing is stunning.....i always prefered their early sound city less pre amp distortion.it is so common to get addicted to distortion but it only makes you think it is better at high volume levels.thank you so much for a very special post. you rule.

[QuoTime]

@peakhouse: Aye...this is indeed the canine's testicles.

It's such a pity that Quo don't write songs like this any more.

[BloodyBrain4]

One of the best Quo Songs. The album this is from is their best album in my opinion.

[SuperFluffyg]

still a  class tune agree wiv u lemsip

[onlymyopinion100]

Awsome not heard in ages *****

[arthurreijgers]

AWESOME STUFF !!!!

[quofan73]

Even funnier seeing them play with Sound City amps! Years before The Wall of Death backline.

[carpoid58]

1970 Ma Kelly, '71 Dog of two Head,'72 Piledriver, '73 Hello, '74 Quo, '75 On the Level, '76 Blue for You, '77 Live.

Nuff said.

[cygnusxl5]

@carpoid58 Yes,Yes,Yes,Fuckin' Yes! - Couldn't Agree More Man!

What Happened To This One-Time Great Band Of My Younger Years?

.............And By The Way This Clip Is Fuckin' Spot-On!

[musicfreak1967]

Pye Records would have seen status Quo with pleasure as a band which surrounded itself poppy and with velvet and silk. Cannot introduce to me that this rock sound which us all like in such a way was so surely after the taste of the bosses of the record company. A reason more to change to Vertigo after "Dog of two head". Rockin' greetings from Germany.

[frizzlefrap]

never listened to much of their music except "pomm" .... this song is pretty decent ... very talented group .... not too heavy ..... just right!

[frizzlefrap]

does anyone know if all these guys were in the same video as "pictures of matchstick men"? ... recognize lead singer though

[bkpenta]

Brilliant, always loved this song........thanks Quotime!!

[Donnerkopp95]

Absolute absoluteley!

[SonicSurf3r]

I nailed a filthy pair of white plimsolls onto my bedroom wall in homage, much to my Gran's horror ... roll on Guilfest ...

[burns1961]

Great band been following them since the early 70s.Super sound from those ORANGE speakers.

[lemsip7]

FUCKIN' CLASS

[QuoTime]

Absolutely!

[TheChrischi1981]

fucking great! I LOVE THE QUOO

[FAULPELZ86]

Ist der Ausschnitt nicht aus einer Beat Club Folge vom 26.09.1970

[williamgeorgefraser]

Ma Kelly's is also my favourite Quo album. I often get in the car, listen to it all the way through and go back to the start. This came out at the time between their first bout of fame (Matchstick Men, Ice in the Sun) and the real takeoff with, Hello, Piledriver and Quo. You get the feeling they were doing stuff they liked rather than the later commercial stuff.

[lemsip7]

Would love to hear them play this live now.

[atimbrown]

Oh YES!!!!!!

[gilljoy]

Class!!

[jjwesley2525]

WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GET THIS CLIP MAN?!!!!!!!! i know its from beat club but didnt know it was available. shit - what a great band this was. early quo was something else. total class

[fritzthedog007]

Also again, ( I can't stop watching this clip ) how many unintentional 6th chords can you make out when Frame hits top E...or do I mean bottom E...you know, the thin one...man I love this song...it's VICIOUS, it has ATTITUDE, it...is that how you spell vicious? I want some peanuts. Oh, also, it's ENIGMATIC, something for which Quo are not exactly reknown. Yeah they were heads down no nonsense etc but this is that rare blend of earlier far out-ness with the coming storm of brutality. So good....

[fritzthedog007]

Also, how long do you think it took them to come up with that ending? My guess is under a minute....Pye years were the best...some early Vertigo stuff is great too...then again, sometimes I think "Blue for You" is their technical peak....I'd like to hear Foo Fighters cover "Is there a better way"...can you hear it?

[fritzthedog007]

aaarrgggh that is completely fantastic, proper quo. Rossi's guitar just sounds LOUD. The song is WONDERFUL. Disagree with DadaMungo, Rockin All Over the World was the first of the terrible albums, anything since pretty lame, some decent stuff on Whatever..sigh...

[maik2713]

Bestbesetzung!

[AffinityStrat]

Awsome Track that I've never heard before. Mind u its a bit funny seeing Quo playing with Orange Amps

[QuoTime]

This is REAL Quo.

How I wish they would get back to basics.

[fuzzleredmenn]

You are so right! Useta cover this one a few years ago, and people my age (31) and younger thought it was fantastic and were surprised to hear it was a Quo track. I always try to turn them on to the classics. Their work in the 70's was as good as any band from the Stones to Motorhead. I first heard em when I was 4 or 5 and I loved em, couldnt believe it was the same band when I saw them do their new (at the time) stuff in the mid-late 80's, but I listen to the 70's albums religiously now.

[DadaMungo]

Too right. I regard Rockin' All Over the World to be their last good album. And their early stuff is just fantastic...

[tarotkaren]

totally agree re ROTW - early stuff is amazing

[pump35]

Great sound tho! good old fashioned dirty, wailing blues!

[FastEddieNelson]

Yeah but great sound!!!

[stblacklock]

One of the best quo songs of all and this is a choice version. It could stand a re release

[d4j3b]

I haven't heard this for 30 years forgot how good it was. thanks for the posting

[AspiringSanta]

This is the kind of rocking Status Quo I like.... Bands that sound like this are the embodiment of something real, good & rough yet classy

[jimbo620ti]

Exactly! Very well said!

[SYRUSBOO]

Stated Quo do a great version of this.....

[willjay91]

This is awesome, thanks for posting!

Btw does anyone know about the telecaster Rick is using? Its been in all there early footage and later had the bridge changed to the tune-o-matic the same as Rossi's Greenie. Be cool to know what happened to it.

[pump35]

I dont think its the same one as the famous white one(there are two white ones btw). with the rosewood neck, it could have been the basis for one of the other two of Rossi's teles(used on D.D. and WYW). ????

[willjay91]

I was thinking that actually. But the down down guitar is the other sunburst tele with a bigsby seen on the totp vid of the song. The wyw tele has a really odd bridge similar to the tune-o-matic pre-g&l

[pump35]

Right, got you! Wonder what happened to Parfitt's ovation viper? quite liked that guitar

[willjay91]

Didn't he sell it? I'm sure i remember something about Parfitt and Rossi selling their vipers in a charity auction or something =s I may be wrong..

[brok328]

Remembere the red one with the sunburst scratchplate, humdinger clickups and autistic recorders?

[jimbo620ti]

Bloody brilliant!!!!!!!! God i wish they would do it on the set nowadays, such a get ya head down and boogie/nod ya head track!!!!! Brilliant!

[Quo9tele]

I cant leave but i wont stay here

if i stay i still wont be here

i am the grass upon which she lay

April spring sumer wendays:D

Lovee it!

[ThisCatsGotSkin]

So wonderfully raw and bare-boned, nascent boogie at its best, and belted out through - unusually a Orange backline. Great stuff!

[maisonsurladike]

Great!!! Never seen this one. In fact I didn't know the song. I've got all Quo albums from "Dog of two head" until "In search of the fourth chord" and this track is from Ma Kelly's greasy spoon", which is a bit earlier. My God, they are so young here, our heroes!!

[8787776]

ma kellys greasy spoon fucking awesome album

[jimbo620ti]

Brilliant album, i wish they would do this live nowadays though! great track!

[sladerecords]

AAWWEESSOMMEE!!!! Just about the coolest Status Quo track I have ever heard!!!

[jimbo620ti]

I totally agree! brilliant track!!!!!!! Rock on my friend

[breffnipark]

awsome track !!!!!

[jimbo620ti]

QUO AT THERE VERY BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They should do this in the live shows today

[oonlymusic]

Exactly groovearmada made that sample !

but they have ! credited status quo !

Groovebox album I think—

[gilljoy]

Check the groovarmada mix guys!!

[jimbo620ti]

Hey! whats the groove armada mix called? is it a mix of this track?

[gilljoy]

it is a sample called purple haze its on youtube

[jimbo620ti]

cheers mate, have you read the 40th anniversary book with the bit written by groove armada?

[gilljoy]

Hey jimbo620ti, yes mate i did. and the metallica bit. really cool dude.

[quomex]

COOLLLLLLLL

[muzzpiledriver]

Fuckin ace....

[bluesbrother37]

SWEET!! QUO AT THEIR BEST!!!

[bluesbrother37]

Great tune!!!!!!!!!!!

[GallantJohnJoe]

excellent stuff !!

have all this on old 4 track tapes..

Thank you QuoTime for posting all these tracks

[QuoTime]

My pleasure sir! Glad you enjoyed the video.

[RetroGuy5000]

now your talking this an awsome quo track!

[babeth83]

génial cet effet d'image!! et évidemment G&nial Status quo!!

[hadji40]

uuccckk man wat a great clip xxx

[musicfreak1967]

Status Quo in their early years.... so very awesome!!!

[musicfreak1967]

so very awesome!!!!!! Thanks for posting it!!!

[musicfreak1967]

Quo at their best times... absolutely awesome!!!!! Thanks for posting!!!

[PAULLONDEN]

Statuscaster Telequo

[lannykaster1]

wow! never seen this clip before! :O

[Stew1974]

Anybody else reckon the kings of leon listened to the Quo of that era, Classic Stuff!!!

[bryemycaz]

Are you Quoting if not do you know that Bob Young himself said Ma Kelly Era Quo reminds him of Kings Of Leon.

[HardRock9410]

no,  2nd best band ever

[stoberto06]

whos no.1 4 u ?

[Razor61289]

Wooooo, Play this loud in the car!!!!!!!

[gilljoy]

lol, love your comment!!

[Razor61289]

You could just imagine kids on the street going "huh" thats Groove Amarda. You say nah its Quo haha

[mremile72]

Early quo :D

[sirlordwhitman]

This song was from my favorite Quo album - Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon. 1970

[stoberto06]

i here wat ur sayin but they dont beat led zeppelin and the beatles

[stoberto06]

3rd best band ever

[QuoTime]

No way! Quo are THE best ever lol.

[P4KC1]

Yep thee best!