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 enlarge | Artist: Status Quo
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Category: Music
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 5274
Format: Box Set, Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602498259726
EAN: 0602498259726
ASIN: B00076NYGY
Release Date: January 31, 2005
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Junior's Wailing | | • | Backwater / Just Take Me | | • | Is There A Better Way | | • | In My Chair | | • | Little Lady / Most Of The Time | | • | Rain | | • | Forty-Five Hundred Times |
Disc 2
| • | Roll Over Lay Down | | • | Big Fat Mama | | • | Don't Waste My Time | | • | Roadhouse Blues | | • | Caroline | | • | Bye Bye Johnny |
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| Customer Reviews:
 When Quo were at their peek June 5, 2007
J. M. F. Hill
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I originally bought this album on vinyl in the early eighties and always thought that it was very good. If you are a hard rock or metal fan then this is the era of Quo that you want to hear with the more raw and brash sound along with bassist Alan Lancaster providing some of the vocals too which all helped give them a definite undiluted hard rock sound back then.
Since being into this album as a kid some 25 years ago I`ve been through the musical mill being into Metal ,House , Thrash , death metal , hardcore , cybermetal , Trance , goth metal , Nu-metal , metalcore etc and currently my fave bands apart from my own are Opeth Onslaught and Children of Bodom !
I wouldn`t normally recommend Quo to a rock/metal fan of today but their work from the early/mid seventies is surely worth a look and this album is the best one to go for
Good stuff !
A Quo masterpiece. September 22, 2006
T. G. S. Roads (Edinburgh)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
There is not much to say about this album other than it is very good.
It is really enjoyable to listen to whether you are into hard rock or pop/rock and surely that defines how good an album is.
For a comparison I rate it up there with 'Whitesnake Live in the Heart of the City'and Deep Purple's 'Made in Japan' althought it is not quite as good as 'Black Night in Denmark: Deep Purple at the K.B. Hallen 1972' but better that Led Zeppelin's 'How the west was won'.
All in all this is a good live album that is worth owning.
Loud, honest and a stomper all the way through! July 24, 2006
David Wright
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
As a believer that you can only tell a really great band by the strength of their 'live recorded' material, this puts the Blue Boys in a class of their own. At the time, Quo were building up their fan base and wanted to record an album that reflected this - it was no surprise that they chose Glasgow and The Apollo to strut their stuff. I guess I'm a little biased on this as I was one of the lucky ones to be there and hearing it 30 years on still gives me a buzz. As far as actually reviewing 'Quo Live' is concerned, all I can say is that it was summed up at the time by the late John Peel on Radio 1 as brilliant, commenting that 'Bye Bye Johnny' was the best cover version of C.B's classic that he'd ever heard....and to all those who say the Quo are 'one dimensional', I say, 'Go see em' live and if you don't tap your feet and leave with a smile on your face, then you got no pulse!'
The magnificent Status Quo March 28, 2006
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
The racous intro from the Apollo Galsgow's MC says it all. "Will you welcome the number 1 rock and roll band in the land, the magnificent Status Quoooooo!" In 1976, Quo were the number one R&R band in the UK, Europe, Australia and NZ. Quo had swept aside the early 70's pop culture that had filled the charts after the Beatles demise and had avoided slipping into the super heavy Sabbath/Purple/Zepplin scene. They could rock, but they still seemed like 4 lads who'd stumbled on a good idea and were just having a good time. Lots of people critisize Status Quo as a one dimensional 3 chord band, but when you actually listen to their songs, at their raw best on LIVE, they are complicated and sharply arranged rock classics.
This album is almost like a time capsule. I wasn't at the Apollo but listening to this I feel like I was. From the balcony swaying under the weight of the crowd to the rip-tearing tightness of the live arrangements, it's all there. If you never buy another Status Quo album, buy this one. Your collection of greatest rock albums to hear before you die will now be complete.
The dividing line between the old and the new December 12, 2005
D. J. H. Thorn (Hull, UK)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
After five stone classic studio albums Quo released this double set, recorded in 1976 at the Glasgow Apollo. Though, like all live albums, it only offers a glimmer of the experience of being there, it's a worthy record of what Quo were doing in those halcyon days. The rapport between band and audience is unmistakeable.The track order as listed by Amazon is somewhat awry, though this remastered issue does contain a reordering of the tracks on the original LP. "Rain" has been brought forward to track 6 while "Caroline" and "Bye Bye Johnny", having originally ended side 3, now finish the CD behind "Roadhouse Blues". "Roll Over Lay Down" is however still well down the order and never was track 3 as listed here. Putting all that aside, the material presented here was the staple of Quo's live act, including lengthier versions of "Forty Five Hundred Times" and "Roadhouse Blues" which took on a life of their own in concert. Many of these songs remain in Quo's live act today, though the Alan Lancaster ones have not surprisingly been dropped. This is a shame, as "Junior's Wailing" virtually started Quo's boogie phase, albeit a cover sung by Lancaster. This is one of the best live albums you'll ever experience and is much better than "N.E.C." and "Live Alive Quo". Buy this and the previous five studio albums and you'll own all the essential Quo material (but don't forget "Whatever You Want" and...and so on...and on).
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