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We lost our way for a bit after that, in the mid-80s and 90s we lost our way, we got into drugs and everybody’s head started going off in different directions whereas before we were like one.

Download the Qobuz apps for smartphones, tablets and computers, and listen to your purchases wherever you go. The headline act was The Faces with performances also by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Striders, Lindisfarne and Chris Barber. Labels, managers, producers and stylists defined their existence and tried at every turn to corral them into the ‘pop band’ image. Quo's set featured Junior's Wailing, Someone's Learning, In My Chair, Railroad, Don't Waste My Time, Caroline, Gotta Go Home and Roadhouse Blues.When Francis Rossi (of Quo) spilt his drink as the, plane hit turbulence, he decided to take his jeans off and walk to the front of the plane, holding his wet jeans to complain to the Captain. AL: We very much played as a band, we didn’t do much of that one at a time stuff that bands do today. Denim-clad Francis Rossi’s lead vocals and Rick Parfitt’s harmonies presided over a mesh of guitars, with a sound that the band were to make their own. They’d joined the UK singles landscape with the 1968 top tenners “Pictures Of Matchstick Men” and “Ice In The Sun,” then after a quiet-ish spell, there were further hits in 1970 including “Down The Dustpipe. The group's arrangement was longer than the original, featuring another verse and three-part harmony vocals.

The power boogie is indeed there, as represented by crowd-pleasers like "Don't Waste My Time" and "Paper Plane," but so also are quieter, softer pieces with acoustic textures and progressive structures. The group heard the Doors' " Roadhouse Blues" while touring Bielefeld, Germany, in 1970, and enjoyed its 12-bar shuffle, using it as a template for other songs. I really don't recommend anything but you could listen to Cross That Bridge and Burning Bridges for a bit of a laugh. We had a crossover with managers and we were doing something similar to what we’re doing now, but Pye really didn’t see it.Francis Rossi: If you go back to ’65, we had more of a rocky thing going than ‘Matchstick Men’ at the time. Someone’s sending a message to China, do-do-do-doo-do-doo-do-do, all you’d have to do is sit down and work it out!