Francis Rossi, Alan Lancaster and Rick Parfitt were 21 (Parfitt turned 22 a few months later), John Coghlan was 23 and Roy Lynes was the oldest at 26. Bob Young was the harmonica player here, he was 25
Bob Young on harmonica. Bob was Status Quo's Roadie and unofficial member of the band, he played the harmonica on several of their recordings. Bob was also a writer and co-writer of Status Quo's material, he was involved in the writing of :- In My Chair, Gerdundula, Mean Girl, Paper Plane, Break the Rules, Mystery Song, Living on an Island, Caroline, Down Down, Roll Over Lay Down and Don't Waste My Time.
Look up the Young and Moody Band - Micky Moody on lead guitar and Cozy Powell on drums! Amazing performance of “Don’t do that” featuring the unlikely pairing of Lemmy on bass and the Nolan Sisters on backing vocals!
I'm 67 and it's the first time I've seen this video. I love d the Quo and must have seen them live more than a dozen times during the 70's and early 80's. This takes me back to those days - much better than today's horrible world.
ALAN CHARLES LANCASTER otherwise known as NUFF, has passed away in Sydney, his home for 45 years. The founding member and the backbone of STATUS QUO had been suffering from Multiple Sclerosis for many years. Alan battled on bravely, performing at QUO's Reunion gigs in 2013 and 2014. Even though he had MS, Alan's performance and his vocals were the strongest of the three. My favourite member of QUO is Alan Lancaster. I had the pleasure of having a beer and a smoke with Alan at a Sydney pub gig, in Five Dock, when he had The Lancaster Bombers and The Lancaster/Brewster Bands in the late 80's. We had a longer chat at The Lewisham Hotel as well. These were dirty, grungy hotels, though this didn't phase the great man of the people. Alan was the most beautifil man, very humble, down to earth and a great guy to talk with and have a laugh. Vale Alan ( Nuff ) Lancaster RIP mate, you were one of the greatest Rockers of all time.
You're right except there's nothing simple about QUO I like to think of myself as a life long musician but I can't quite crack this amazing code. Long may they rock 🎸🎸🎸🎸
Ahh! The Original Quo line-up. Frank Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan on Drums. Nobody gives these guys the credit for their longevity. Purple just had their 50th anniversary, yet I think this lot have been around just as long... if not longer. Always had a soft spot for the Quo since I was 7. That's (God help me) 50 years ago too! Good old school 12 bar chug. Love it. Thanks for this makellys
Rubbish, what is this underrated or 'credit' that social media puts out. Of course they got credit, they were huge in the 70s, started out '67 or '68 with Pictures of Matchstick Men. Can't go wrong with Quo. Credit, well money in the bank.
The early days of Status Quo are brilliant. The had to be a succes, and indeed they did! The LP "Ma Kelly's greasy spoon" is in songs and name of the album a way of making music that will never be copied! Just love it!
@@KingpinTBM yeah ok I will admit most of them are great bands but personally I can't stand Pink Floyd and never bothered to listen to Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath
@@grahamturner7759 I myself have never listened to Black Sabbath or Pink Floyd but they're still great and I acknowledge what they did for rock music, and I'm gonna pretend you didn't say you never listened to Zeppelin.
Remember buying this on a secondhand scratched 45 in about 1975 when I was getting into them. I played the scratched single that much, I still hear the scratches even on a CD version! They're ingrained into my brain.
What's incredible is that they are playing live and you see no difference with the record. They are great musicians that do not cheat, they really can play what you hear.
Heard Down The Dustpipe th first-time back in 1970. Been a massive Quo fan after all these years and now my grandkids love quo. Sad day when Rick passed away.
Its Funny,but looking at Roy Lynes...(Great musician) i have often thought that if anyone didn`t know,he could actually have been mistaken for Andy Bown,in his much younger days.....Just my take on it...
Now this is the true quo, followed them since 1971 R I P Rick and thanks mate for some truly great memories of all the venues I visited following status quo, the halcyon days of the seventies when the Rick, Francis, Allan, John where at there rocking BEST🎸🎸🎸🎸🎤
This take's you back. Listen to this as a little kid in Sweden... My favorite band.. And now.. almost 50 years later listening to this. Still the same three chord sound. Still so beautiful basic. Pure Rock' roll
Mine too Sally! I remember my mate and I singing this at work whilst carrying a 30 foot long 4-inch wide pipe on our shoulders to get welded...amazing time. Think I was about 19 or 20?
Emma jb: I was wondering how far down I'd have scroll down before I got to the obligatory and ridiculous "underrated" comment🙄. And you didn't disappoint.
I like that song very much♡ Quo always seems totally eased and kind during her appearances. They have apparently understood themselves by each other also well. No evil looks or gestures. RIP. Rick! Thank all of you that you have accompanied me with your music for so many years. 🎵🎸🎤
19.6.70, played in my Dad's barn in Mid Wales. They turned up in the afternoon and I played football with them before Mum did tea. This song was in the charts so cost the organisers a few extra quid. They were double booked that night and drove out as people were still coming in.
ive been a quo fan for 38 years and even though i listen to blues music mainly clapton i still dip back into quo for a change love their early stuff from the 70's first quo album i bought was blue for you
I was a 9 year old in 1970 when I first heard this and at the time was loving the Beatles. Quo became my favourite since then and 50 years later I still love the Frantic Four as the original 70's Quo are called as do my three sons, two granddaughters and 5 grandsons. Two other grandsons don't, but you can't win them all. 😘 Spinning Wheel Blues, Juniors Wailing and Down The Dustpipe are three of the greatest early Quo songs I still love to this day. Rick Parfitt, you are A Legend.
some exceptions, hold you back, again and again, whatever you want, Dear John and just before 2000 I also liked 20 wild horses. But in fact it stopped immediatly after wild side of life
@@389383 he is Bob Young. at the time, he was their chief roadie, then became tour manager. but was more than that - a musician & poet in his own right and he would co-write with rick, francis & alan. left the organisation in the late-70s when certain people caused friction between him & the band
I got the crap stirred out of me in Australia for being 'Quo-mad' as a teenager in the '70s. First album I got was On The Level and then I managed to collect all the others up to the one with the penguin on the cover ( can't remember the name) My old man dug up an original pressing of Picturesque Matchstickable Messages which changed a few of my mates' minds about 'Quo ( positively,) however the album that got the most play for me was Hello - too many classics on that one. Piledriver was a ripper too. Pity about the Coles ads...
Patrick, I grew up in Sydney in the 70's as well but was never ever teased for the music my mates and myself enjoyed. We were all into rock until the Disco music arrived when we would give it to each other, that disco sucks or rock sucks in a friendly way. But everyone knew that myself and a great bunch of friends to this day were and still enjoy the music of Status Quo. Like my wife says "you're stuck in the 70's", yeah I am because the music has not been as good since then. And then this 60 year old man found UA-cam and to see videos of how good Quo were is incredible. Seeing Down the Dustpipe brought back good memories as it was back then I took up learning the bass. Not a massive fan of Quo since the death of Rick Parfitt. My favourite line up is what they now label as The Frantic Four including Andy Bown and Bob Young. So mate hope you are still enjoying the music from our era. PS. Still have all my Quo vinyl albums from Ma Kelly's greasy spoon, dogs of two heads, blue for you, hello and my favourite Quo Live from 1977 just to name a few.
My god they were so young ! i was a teen head banging to their music every chance i could ,rock and roll never ages,i am still doing it at 71
I reckon they are 20 to 21 years old here.
@@doggod07 considering they were born '46 - '49 you're about right
Francis Rossi, Alan Lancaster and Rick Parfitt were 21 (Parfitt turned 22 a few months later), John Coghlan was 23 and Roy Lynes was the oldest at 26. Bob Young was the harmonica player here, he was 25
Bob Young on harmonica. Bob was Status Quo's Roadie and unofficial member of the band, he played the harmonica on several of their recordings. Bob was also a writer and co-writer of Status Quo's material, he was involved in the writing of :- In My Chair, Gerdundula, Mean Girl, Paper Plane, Break the Rules, Mystery Song, Living on an Island, Caroline, Down Down, Roll Over Lay Down and Don't Waste My Time.
Sadly he doesnt get any credit
Good ol bob
Look up the Young and Moody Band - Micky Moody on lead guitar and Cozy Powell on drums! Amazing performance of “Don’t do that” featuring the unlikely pairing of Lemmy on bass and the Nolan Sisters on backing vocals!
ua-cam.com/video/LczdjBhMOaw/v-deo.html
Best songs ever Rossi/young
Watching this brings tears to my eyes. They were so young, but then again, so was I. At 67 I'm still loving this.
Me too Phil at 65yrs old, absolutely the best band ever ❤
I am 80 now, and still a performing musician. I always include Dustpipe in my set! Lovely grub! Quo Rocks!❤❤❤❤❤
I'm 67 and it's the first time I've seen this video. I love d the Quo and must have seen them live more than a dozen times during the 70's and early 80's. This takes me back to those days - much better than today's horrible world.
ALAN CHARLES LANCASTER otherwise known as NUFF, has passed away in Sydney, his home for 45 years.
The founding member and the backbone of STATUS QUO had been suffering from Multiple Sclerosis for many years.
Alan battled on bravely, performing at QUO's Reunion gigs in 2013 and 2014.
Even though he had MS, Alan's performance and his vocals were the strongest of the three.
My favourite member of QUO is Alan Lancaster.
I had the pleasure of having a beer and a smoke with Alan at a Sydney pub gig, in Five Dock, when he had The Lancaster Bombers and The Lancaster/Brewster Bands in the late 80's.
We had a longer chat at The Lewisham Hotel as well.
These were dirty, grungy hotels, though this didn't phase the great man of the people.
Alan was the most beautifil man, very humble, down to earth and a great guy to talk with and have a laugh.
Vale Alan ( Nuff ) Lancaster
RIP mate, you were one of the greatest Rockers of all time.
Thank you for this comment.
Agree - always liked Alan's vocals on their early stuff.
I always thought he was Alan bomber Lancaster
Agree ! He was my favorite member of the band, having said that the original 4 man band were the best !!!
You were priveleged, my friend.
I hadn't heard that he had passed.
Quo from 70-75 were simply amazing.
Saw them live at Manchester Kings Hall, 1974. The blew the place apart. Best gig I ever went to.
Too true. My favourite band when I discovered rock…always felt they went a little too pop for me
John Coghlan on drums...........so underrated......
How can anyone not like a bit of simple foot tappin' head noddin' boogie like this? Just brilliant!
This is one of the better Status songs.
Good music with great beat, old rock n roll style like chuck berry, great stuff!
yes it does not need to be complicated 👍
You're right except there's nothing simple about QUO
I like to think of myself as a life long musician but I can't quite crack this amazing code.
Long may they rock 🎸🎸🎸🎸
I was lucky enough to be aged 11-16 between 72 and 77, the Quo were guaranteed to make you smile. Great times.
Remember rocking to this in my bedroom with my tennis racket happy days
Ahh! The Original Quo line-up. Frank Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan on Drums. Nobody gives these guys the credit for their longevity. Purple just had their 50th anniversary, yet I think this lot have been around just as long... if not longer. Always had a soft spot for the Quo since I was 7. That's (God help me) 50 years ago too! Good old school 12 bar chug. Love it. Thanks for this makellys
The Original band line-up had Roy Lynes on Keyboards.
Real QUO fans respect and love Roy Lynes and his amazing contribution.
@@alanstrom2221 The frantic 6
Rubbish, what is this underrated or 'credit' that social media puts out. Of course they got credit, they were huge in the 70s, started out '67 or '68 with Pictures of Matchstick Men. Can't go wrong with Quo. Credit, well money in the bank.
Love how the harmonica player steps back after his solo like, "Yep, that was badass and you know it."
The early days of Status Quo are brilliant. The had to be a succes, and indeed they did! The LP "Ma Kelly's greasy spoon" is in songs and name of the album a way of making music that will never be copied! Just love it!
Probably my favourite Quo song and I still believe one of the best bands England ever produced
England has produced far greater bands lol Beatles,Stones,Zeppelin,Kinks,Queen,The Who,Cream,Pink Floyd, The Clash, Black Sabbath etc....
@@KingpinTBM yeah ok I will admit most of them are great bands but personally I can't stand Pink Floyd and never bothered to listen to Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath
@@grahamturner7759 I myself have never listened to Black Sabbath or Pink Floyd but they're still great and I acknowledge what they did for rock music, and I'm gonna pretend you didn't say you never listened to Zeppelin.
Is right mate
My all-time favourite Quo song. Reminds me of the best years of my life.
Great track, always a favorite. Bless you Rick Parfitt for the joy you brought us fans.
I agree with you 💯 👍
Sleep well Rick
Needs to be played at 5 AM in a lorry as day is dawning in mid summer. Superb!
Written by my mate Carl Groszmann from Millmerran Qld Aus.....RIP.
Danced many evenings at the youth club to this some of the best years of my life.❤
One of their best in my opinion. the start of great things. for the Quo.
Spud keeping it all together........under rated drummer
People forget early Quo was brilliant !!!
R.I.P RICK !!
Rite. No
Yes, yes, yes!!! The older songs are pure Quo! LG
Absolute Gold bro 👍
Nothing's in vain !
Neither was his contribution to the Mighty Quo . Brill !
True Quo fans never forget
Remember buying this on a secondhand scratched 45 in about 1975 when I was getting into them. I played the scratched single that much, I still hear the scratches even on a CD version! They're ingrained into my brain.
I'm the same with a Steve Hillage album, there was a scratch on the vinyl that I still hear now on the CD 😀
So long Rick,you lived your dream and will be remembered as a legend in the Quo army.
What's incredible is that they are playing live and you see no difference with the record. They are great musicians that do not cheat, they really can play what you hear.
It's not too challenging to be fair ...
@@deFunkyMofo classic armchair critic
@@sdarryg3413 working musician actually...
@@deFunkyMofonae bother clown
@@deFunkyMofofunny how nobody knows you 😂
Sad that no-one has mentioned the original keyboard player - Roy Lynes - is playing on this video
Loved the early stuff ❤🎸🥁🎹
What a song, and to quote Francis Rossi, he could've been serving Ice cream all over London!
RIP Rick Parfitt, Thankyou for the music!
Wow that's fantastic too hear and see happy happy days classic always love this song it's fantastic too hear love it 👍👍👍💎❤️☀️🍷
12 Gold Bars.
Heads down boogie with the Quo.
Yes I know this song wasn't on the album 12 Gold Bars so shut up
Hi vor everRock n Roll i love this Band since i was zwelf
Years old, but i will see them This Year in rostock ,greetings Helmut From germany
John Coghlan's drumming: It doesn't get any better. EVER!!!
Heard Down The Dustpipe th first-time back in 1970. Been a massive Quo fan after all these years and now my grandkids love quo. Sad day when Rick passed away.
The Original band line-up had Roy Lynes on Keyboards.
Real QUO fans respect and love Roy Lynes and his amazing contribution
Its Funny,but looking at Roy Lynes...(Great musician) i have often thought that if anyone didn`t know,he could actually have been mistaken for Andy Bown,in his much younger days.....Just my take on it...
@@adrianandkatrinadove203 May be if you'd taken acid first.
@@alanstrom2221 Ha Ha Ha....Well,there is that to it..maybe i shoulda gone to spec savers....ER,actually i do..Refund ???Lol
Right on mate! Good call! I saw them many times. Always do this one at my gigs!
Absolutely loved this song as a kid. Love the hair!!
This is where they found their sound. the song pumps along nicely ....just like so many more of their classic song would go in the coming years.
Now this is the true quo, followed them since 1971 R I P Rick and thanks mate for some truly great memories of all the venues I visited following status quo, the halcyon days of the seventies when the Rick, Francis, Allan, John where at there rocking BEST🎸🎸🎸🎸🎤
This take's you back.
Listen to this as a little kid in Sweden...
My favorite band..
And now.. almost 50 years later listening to this.
Still the same three chord sound.
Still so beautiful basic.
Pure Rock' roll
Bra musik dör aldrig!
My favourite Quo track. RIP Rick Parfitt :( :(
Sally Roberts .
MINES TOO AND MAYBE BLUE FOR YOU
Mine too! :)
You are kidding me? Please.
Mine too Sally! I remember my mate and I singing this at work whilst carrying a 30 foot long 4-inch wide pipe on our shoulders to get welded...amazing time. Think I was about 19 or 20?
Bloody good times back then!
My favourite tune by quo is forty five hundred times
I might play it now after I've listened to down the dust pipe
Het publiek vond alles in die tijd gewoon, nu is er geen band die deze energie muziek maakt.We dachten toen dat goede muziek er altijd zou zijn...
I think Quo are incredibly underrated. SO MANY FANTASTIC SONGS.
Emma jb: I was wondering how far down I'd have scroll down before I got to the obligatory and ridiculous "underrated" comment🙄. And you didn't disappoint.
In the 70s....since 1990 all.they did was Medleys and album fillers
Not underrated in the UK, we loved them here.
lovely, saw them live on the last time they toured, Superb
The old songs are the best! But the listeners seem to have been glued.
My introduction to Quo at the age of 9. Loved them ever since
I like that song very much♡ Quo always seems totally eased and kind during her appearances. They have apparently understood themselves by each other also well. No evil looks or gestures.
RIP. Rick! Thank all of you that you have accompanied me with your music for so many years. 🎵🎸🎤
My Dad Milky, my Uncle Rocky and my awesome stepmum Annette love this song and taught me to sing it 😄
I remember status quo from 1967 it was hard to play like them
Still Fantastic playing here by Rockstar, the duplication is exemplary and Rick would be V impressed......Loved it, Thankyou
Favourite Quo track. If you can't dance to this, you can't dance to anything. Brilliant
Classic Quo! Saw them do this at The Marquee after the release of Dog of Two Head. Then with Piledriver they really exploded.
seen em live in Germany twice. Sound the same as on records. amazing.
I love the mouth organ and the fiddle on Rye Coder songs too.
Brilliant clip, clear in image and sound.
Still have the original vinyl single I bought when I was still a nipper back at school.
19.6.70, played in my Dad's barn in Mid Wales. They turned up in the afternoon and I played football with them before Mum did tea. This song was in the charts so cost the organisers a few extra quid. They were double booked that night and drove out as people were still coming in.
Coughlan playing the shuffle. Brilliant!
ive been a quo fan for 38 years and even though i listen to blues music mainly clapton i still dip back into quo for a change love their early stuff from the 70's first quo album i bought was blue for you
It's just incredible harmonica solo! 1:09
makellys Fantastic picture quality of this clip. Thanks for the old, terrific song.
Great stuff from a top band (especially LIVE) who have not always been appreciated (by some).
I was a 9 year old in 1970 when I first heard this and at the time was loving the Beatles. Quo became my favourite since then and 50 years later I still love the Frantic Four as the original 70's Quo are called as do my three sons, two granddaughters and 5 grandsons. Two other grandsons don't, but you can't win them all. 😘 Spinning Wheel Blues, Juniors Wailing and Down The Dustpipe are three of the greatest early Quo songs I still love to this day. Rick Parfitt, you are A Legend.
simplemente los mejore!!! desde mi niñes los escucho y me traen miles de recuerdos gracias por esa hermosa musica....
La generacion de hoy no sabe divertirse,esto si era marcha,y todos entendiamos de musica.
Paráda, to byly zlaté časy
Is it only 53 years since i saw them play this at The Park Hall Hotel , Wolverhampton ?😄😄
Very tight sound, nice!
loved quo back then , i was 10.
JC on drums is so tight.
Great Band.
Brilliant! Thank you for posting this great footage - never saw this, even at the time! :-))
R.I.P. Rick, life won't be the same without you. 💔xx
It never gets old!
ALWAYS LOVED THIS SONG.
Get well Soon Rick..Legend,along with Francis. Great song...School Days.
A great heads down boogie band.
But then came rocking all over the world......oh dear
some exceptions, hold you back, again and again, whatever you want, Dear John and just before 2000 I also liked 20 wild horses. But in fact it stopped immediatly after wild side of life
Yeah, they lost me at Rockin All Over The World too...
@@philturner1242 And in fact Rocking all over the world was not a very good cover from a great John Fogerty song
Świetna kapela,jak tu nie lubić takiej muzy.
One of the only videos with Bob Young playing harmonica. He also co-wrote many of their songs with Rossi.
@clairwilliams5982. And he still does today.
Early Quo - love it!
Bob Young the fifth unofficial member on harmonica here. He wrote Caroline, Down Down, Mystery Song, Mean Girl and Paper Plane, not a bad CV.
Thank you for the education
Yep, but he co wrote them with Rick and Francis.
There were 6 on stage. All members but for harmonica player?
@@389383 he is Bob Young. at the time, he was their chief roadie, then became tour manager. but was more than that - a musician & poet in his own right and he would co-write with rick, francis & alan. left the organisation in the late-70s when certain people caused friction between him & the band
50th year of this,and still their best work....
My favorite Band ever!!!!
But not the same without Rick😥
We miss You All over the World!!!!
RIP Rick💗💗💗
The only true quo lineup .
Stomp rock from the Quo, nobody played the shuffle like them at their peak
Great stuff from the early Quo.
Rollin back the years......fkn brilliant !!
British band singing about New Orleans. Great band and still going strong!
Rick's harmony is sooo nice on this.
luv this song just brill like quo
Total classic tune I don't do the dust and don't agree with that stuff but I still love the song and the band long live quo x
Real music right here
How is it possible that an audience can remain immobile with the Quo playing Live???
I think a few defibrillators are need to bring that crowd back to life!....where was this gig?...(maybe the morgue)?..
Good old Ricky, no one rocked and lived the lifestyle like him.
placid renegade . er yeah they did. thats why theyre dead. cocaine. im suprised actually that eric clapton is still with us.
placid renegade . no but theyre all dead cos they snorted or injected drugs in themselves.
Europe
@@tinajaneoxnam8132 This kind of rock never dies, it just gets better and better. Hope you're doing well, greetings from England :)
You gave us good time songs Rick RIP
I got the crap stirred out of me in Australia for being 'Quo-mad' as a teenager in the '70s. First album I got was On The Level and then I managed to collect all the others up to the one with the penguin on the cover ( can't remember the name) My old man dug up an original pressing of Picturesque Matchstickable Messages which changed a few of my mates' minds about 'Quo ( positively,) however the album that got the most play for me was Hello - too many classics on that one. Piledriver was a ripper too. Pity about the Coles ads...
You weren't alone brother. Theres an army of Quo devotees still out there in OZ!
The album with the penguin on the cover is what ever you want, a brilliant raw album, released in 1979.
And this song was written by an Australian Carl Groszman.
Although the mixing is bad, Rockin all over the world has great songs.
Hello is best tho.
Patrick, I grew up in Sydney in the 70's as well but was never ever teased for the music my mates and myself enjoyed. We were all into rock until the Disco music arrived when we would give it to each other, that disco sucks or rock sucks in a friendly way. But everyone knew that myself and a great bunch of friends to this day were and still enjoy the music of Status Quo. Like my wife says "you're stuck in the 70's", yeah I am because the music has not been as good since then. And then this 60 year old man found UA-cam and to see videos of how good Quo were is incredible. Seeing Down the Dustpipe brought back good memories as it was back then I took up learning the bass. Not a massive fan of Quo since the death of Rick Parfitt.
My favourite line up is what they now label as The Frantic Four including Andy Bown and Bob Young. So mate hope you are still enjoying the music from our era.
PS. Still have all my Quo vinyl albums from Ma Kelly's greasy spoon, dogs of two heads, blue for you, hello and my favourite Quo Live from 1977 just to name a few.
Who dare dislike it??
People with no taste that's who.
John MacCoghlan Not Me That's for sure
Bloody superb
i do, im glad young people like this music
Never ever heard this before , first time .
danced to this in the 70s magic
yeah ... damn good old live stuff
Good old memories
My cousin Carl Groszmann wrote this song.