Great interview. Love this podcast - always entertaining and interesting content. Nice to hear Rossi getting asked different questions and congratulations for managing to get through an interview with him when he doesn't mention being an "insecure little show off" like he does in most of his interviews!
They'd have been great at that, especially Noddy's vocals. They did a load of covers of songs and some well known songs: Martha My Dear and Get Back (Beatles, of course, Born to Be Wild (Steppenwolf) and even Nights in White Satin. There's an odd video of the early skinhead Ambrose Slade performing Martha My Dear (with violin player). I preferred them performing their own material.
Over the years I didn't like the way he treated the late Alan Lancaster. So glad the Frantic Four happened, but the others wanted for it to go on longer and Rossi was having none of it, Alan's health was failing (can see from the docs of the FF tour).
So Rossi was the only one of them who was concerned about Alan's health. That was the main reason for Francis not continuing the FF And then the old arguments started all over again. So i don't think Francis can be blamed the new rift between them.
@@MrTrolleyharry No he made comments like "After a while during a show Alan would start to shake" in a tone which annoyed him, not in anyway empathetic to Lancasters medical issues. Its a real shame, an extra on Hello Quo! shows Rossi and Lancaster visiting old haunts and its sad indeed that when Lancaster died, Rossi admits he was estranged from him again. Its well documented how after Live Aid he wrote to him via the "Status Quo" company saying his services were no longer required.
'Saturday Nite at the Duck Pond' 1963 - banned by the BBC as it used music from Swan Lake (Duck Pond) by Tchaikovsky, he almost got it right. ua-cam.com/video/JQcP8xhfjBo/v-deo.html
He seems a bit ADD imo. Remember entering a compatition on "whistle test" to win a quo guitar... A black start as I recall and is as far from being a quo-ish guitar as you can get lol. I was really peed of about that at the time as I remember lol I was twelve . Like the nob I am I entered the comp. by writing a very formal letter when it should have been a a post card. I think I saw Mark Ellen handle it b4 the the cards were chosen... Though probably not 😂😂😂
In the 70s they did that programme where that bloke we don’t mention fixed things for kids. One young fella (late teens I think) wanted to play with them. They were great with him and afterwards gave him a spanking new Travis Bean guitar, then very much the thing.
A true entertainer ❤
Great interview. Thanks guys.
Wonderful. Thank you guys
Great questions. Great Rossi
Interesting man 👍
Great interview. Love this podcast - always entertaining and interesting content.
Nice to hear Rossi getting asked different questions and congratulations for managing to get through an interview with him when he doesn't mention being an "insecure little show off" like he does in most of his interviews!
Fabulous Francis Rossi, writer of classics and needlessly self deprecating.
Crikey is he like Johnny Rotten or what? 😁
Very enjoyable, but should have asked what motivates him to still do it.
I always thought Slade should have covered Rocking all over the world it would have suited them
They'd have been great at that, especially Noddy's vocals. They did a load of covers of songs and some well known songs: Martha My Dear and Get Back (Beatles, of course, Born to Be Wild (Steppenwolf) and even Nights in White Satin. There's an odd video of the early skinhead Ambrose Slade performing Martha My Dear (with violin player). I preferred them performing their own material.
@PaIaeoCIive1684 The violin player is Jim Lea who was the bass player in Slade, talented man..
@@mikel4797 Yes,my favourite Slade track Coz I Luv You has a nice bit of violin too.
Over the years I didn't like the way he treated the late Alan Lancaster. So glad the Frantic Four happened, but the others wanted for it to go on longer and Rossi was having none of it, Alan's health was failing (can see from the docs of the FF tour).
So Rossi was the only one of them who was concerned about Alan's health. That was the main reason for Francis not continuing the FF And then the old arguments started all over again. So i don't think Francis can be blamed the new rift between them.
@@MrTrolleyharry No he made comments like "After a while during a show Alan would start to shake" in a tone which annoyed him, not in anyway empathetic to Lancasters medical issues. Its a real shame, an extra on Hello Quo! shows Rossi and Lancaster visiting old haunts and its sad indeed that when Lancaster died, Rossi admits he was estranged from him again. Its well documented how after Live Aid he wrote to him via the "Status Quo" company saying his services were no longer required.
'Saturday Nite at the Duck Pond' 1963 - banned by the BBC as it used music from Swan Lake (Duck Pond) by Tchaikovsky, he almost got it right.
ua-cam.com/video/JQcP8xhfjBo/v-deo.html
He seems a bit ADD imo.
Remember entering a compatition on "whistle test" to win a quo guitar... A black start as I recall and is as far from being a quo-ish guitar as you can get lol. I was really peed of about that at the time as I remember lol I was twelve . Like the nob I am I entered the comp. by writing a very formal letter when it should have been a a post card. I think I saw Mark Ellen handle it b4 the the cards were chosen... Though probably not 😂😂😂
In the 70s they did that programme where that bloke we don’t mention fixed things for kids. One young fella (late teens I think) wanted to play with them. They were great with him and afterwards gave him a spanking new Travis Bean guitar, then very much the thing.