This is Quo at the top of their game, they're all enjoying the fuck out of playing together, the energy is immense, the songs are great. Just magic!

Alan Lancaster 7/02/1949 - 26/09/2021 Bassist/Singer/Songwriter/ Producer/Genius of STATUS QUO fame, has died aged 72 of Multiple Sclerosis at his Sydney home, surrounded by his family. Born in London, he moved to Australia in 1976 after marrying his beautiful wife Dayle. Alan wrote and co-wrote many classic Rock songs The 9 1/2 minute Psych/Rock song "Is It Really Me, Gotta Go Home" was written by the Genius of Alan Charles Lancaster. Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon album 1970 on the Astor / Pye Label. Produced by the late / great John Schroeder. Anyone who met Nuff would know first hand what a beautiful, sweet and charming gentleman he was. I had the pleasure of socialising with Alan at a few gigs in the late 80's, at some of his gigs with The Lancaster Bombers and The Lancaster / Brewster Band and The Party Boys, the latter having 2 Chart Topping Hits. " Hold Your Head Up " by Argent and " He's Gonna Step On You Again " by John Kongos. Alan produced a multi-platinum selling album for Pianist Roger Woodward.

@spritbong5285

2 ай бұрын

RIP Nuff

What a phenomenal force they were... untouchable! Rest in Peace.. Rick and Alan.. 🤘

Quo are on fire here! They never really matched their early stuff after the Blue For You LP. Thanks so much for posting this.

Status Quo forever

Quo at the very top of the game when this was recorded. I first saw them in 72 and more times since than I can count on all my fingers and toes! They were raw, powerful and having a great time as were we standing and jumping out front. I remember taking a lady friend to see them at Wembley Empire Pool in around 75. She had never been to a Quo concert and was very in to soul music. My then girlfriend could not attend so put her pal forward to join me for the evening. Blew her sock off. She loved it. I wonder if she remembers it now? I do for sure!

😢This could very well be the best thang I ever done seen.

The Frantic Four at their absolute best. This is truly The Magnificent Status Quo.

R.I.P. Alan....and Rick....best QUO ever 👌😢🙌

Absolutely Great, that was for sure the best Decade of Quo.

Brilliant. The real proper Quo when nobody could touch them. At the top of their game, best live concerts I have ever been to. Just look how much fun they were having. RIP Rick & Alan.

Couglan was on great form , smashing the hell out them ,best drummer they ever had

@nickkatiforis9017

4 жыл бұрын

The only drummer they ever had!!!! Period!

@timmatthews773

4 жыл бұрын

'Coghlan'

@reggykortman9921

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome john.

@Signofevil_Smile4theCam

3 жыл бұрын

@@nickkatiforis9017 the ONLY drummer they ever had. Sorry to correct you. :)

@bappybumbam

8 ай бұрын

Coghlan mate

Fantastic greatest rock n roll band !

These were their best years......And mine too even if I didnt realise it back then.Thanks for the great memories !!!!

If you are old enough to have seen Quo in this period then you are truly blessed. I only started going to see them in 88 and as good as I've seen them nothing compares to this - outstanding!

The 32.05 part of this outstanding clip, just sums up for me what Quo were about. Long live The Frantic Four!

4 decades later & I still love the old Quo

Bye Bye Johnny and Alan's singing ..fantastic

John Coughlan is immense on this, as is Alan Lancaster. Proper rockers rollin.

Que gratos recuerdos. Mi primera banda favorita. Tuve la oportunidad de disfrutar de su música en Vigo con mi esposa(embarazada de mi hijo. Su primer concierto,y ya no pagó) Siempre formarán parte de mi vida !Grandes Quo! Gracias por compartir ésta joya

I just found this today, thank you SO MUCH for keeping it up !! hello from USA !!🤘🤘🤘🤘👍👍👍👍

Power House Rock band, nothing could touch Quo back then as a live band. Lucky enough to see them in Adelaide 1976. This takes me right back to that night, 21 again!! RIP Allan & Rick

They sure got the name Frantic Four after this kind of gigs back then.. !! 50 years ago.. 🥰

Amazing....these guys were on form, when they were firing on all cylinders no one could touch them. Without a doubt the best hard rock band ever in my opinion. No nonsense, footstompin, head banging rock 🤘🤘

The REAL Quo

Yeah 1975 in Madrid and I was shaking and dancing a lot in this concert !!!🤩😍🥰

@ivanchicotegarcia2363

7 ай бұрын

Yo Estaba cerca pero tenia solo cinco años 😂

1976... Status Quo, the first rock-concert I´ve ever seen, at the age of 14, in my hometown Hannover, Germany. Right and Left a few par-lights, no background, just a wall, no security, no decoration. Beerbottles flew, people fight in front of the stage. I will never forget, holy times of pure rocknroll - it changed my life.

@elisabethlapteva-stahelin1983

2 жыл бұрын

Ja, genau so ist es ! Unvergleichlich ! Einzigartig ! Mit allem Können und Energie vergleichen wir mal mit den Queen : 1. Die Bühne war nur für Freddie da. Ein bisschen noch Brian, Roger und John. Bei den SQ immer nur eine Einheit, alle waren gleichviel wert. 2. Freddie war öfters vulgär / unanständig. Bei SQ kam höchstens ein oh sheet oder fuck you. 3. Die Kostüme von Freddie ! Mein Gott, Tricothosen, wo jeder sehen musste, dass er ein Linksträger ist. Solche Extras sah man bei den SQ nie. Deswegen ein dreifaches Hoch an SQ. Einfach mega dass es sie gibt. ❤👌👍😊❗ 🎼🎶🎵🎧🎤🎸🎹🥁 P.S. Ich mag die Musik von Queen.

@ursulaschlapbach311

Жыл бұрын

Great!

@nathandodge665

Жыл бұрын

It changed your life????? Those people aren't God, they're just entertainers!!! Lighten up will ya?????

@deeman1

Жыл бұрын

@@nathandodge665 i meant the energie. At that time there was not much more than pop and schlager. I heard the live album years. Maybe its primitive, but the energy was fantastic.

@batphink2655

Жыл бұрын

@@nathandodge665 Hey these days shitty 'Rappers like Kenya West etc think they're God!

Undisputed untouchable in the mid 70s. The prototype of THE live machine. None could beat them, not even get close to their performance. Hard as fuck back then, Yet still so freaking underrated!

This was the group of guys we all loved to watch and hear play. 🙏

Where was I !?! ' When we were young ' , I was listening this ....on my radio ,"sure you don't"/ didn't waste my time ...! Can't get enough ....

70s Quo is the best - The frantic four! Greetz from germany

Oh good old days, mighty, mighty Quo, just Unbeatable

@beatricebeatrice2179

3 жыл бұрын

Subscribed

The Qou i remember, from the city hall Newcastle in the 70's, still one of the best UK rock bands, i'm still rock based but these guy's take me so far back, much enjoyed all girl friend's and that lol.................love it ..........

Hello Status Quo!Eure Musik ist unsterblich!🎸...R.I.P. Rick 🕯

Awesome Quo At Their Best.. 👍 🎸 Original Line Up Nothing No One Ever Come Close To Them And Won't Ever.. 👍 Rick And Alan Rocking Strumming In Heaven. 🎸🎸 🤘

QUO in my life for ever ...But 208 concert...DURING the 90 2000 2010....THANKS STATUS QUO AND RICK...MY FRIEND IN MY HEART..YOU MISS ME....

Lausy video, lousy sound, but this download perfectly shows the good old spirit of Quo. What a power, what a drive ! Grew up with them, miss them.

Oh yeah , Status Quo forever , and Quo fans will stay fans forever also . I never met an ex Quo fan.

@Signofevil_Smile4theCam

3 жыл бұрын

Let's say there are retired Quo Fans. ;)

Best encore ever - Caroline, drum solo, Bye Bye Johnny.

Always nice to revisit these guys and theirs powerful fast boogie rock!, :)

Absolutely loving this ol LIVE show! 🤭❤️❤️

Great bass quality.

The best drummer and verry fast. Amazing john

R I P Sir Rick, legend.

Excelente versión..hoy 2022 aquí estamos con lo mejor

Manchester Apollo 1981 first ever concert ,unbelievable , what an experience 👍👏

My favourite song of all time - Don't Waste My Time 24:40

vintage great original 4

Moja prva ploča the quo album. Prvi i pravi izbor! I danas posle 40 godina mislim isto Status quo - forever young!

Utterly fantastic, at their very best.

Thanks for sharing,.. every Quo fan, new and old, should watch this. This is how it started, it's DNA is still in the blood. BUT.. Quo evolved - and Quo survived. True, the Quo of today are not quite like Q1. but they still have passion and they have fun.

Thats Quo !!!!!

Very rare and brilliant.

Excellent the band was really smoking at the time

What a great band they where , saw them in 83 , was deaf for days lol

@ep9421

5 жыл бұрын

You don't know what deaf is until you go to an ACDC concert

@dennism5731

3 жыл бұрын

Got to disagree there friend. I have seen both bands several times and Quo in the 70's were off the scale. AC/DC, even with the mighty Bon, were always second best to 70's Quo

@redrheino

2 жыл бұрын

Don't know who you went to see in 1983, but it couldn't have been Status Quo i'm afraid. Although they released an album in 1983, Back Too Back, they never did any touring to promote that album at all. They started touring again on April 11th, being announced as The End Of The Road Tour.

La meilleure formation de STATUS QUO !... Son bien garage live !...

What a great performance and John awsome drummer. Quick riffs

What a fantastic find, Quo at their best .

If your a Quo fan you will adore this..... just stumbled on it with a tear in my eye ....Come on boys!!!!!!!!! If you don't like btw your wierd ....yea!!!!

@seltaeb3302

2 жыл бұрын

What is btw? would help & hey. I'm weird already!

@redrheino

2 жыл бұрын

@@seltaeb3302 Probably by the way....or enniewee.....😁😁😁

Brilliant Rock n´ Roll Royalty.

@onlymyopinion100

5 жыл бұрын

Magical time 😎✨🤟

Great to see this - so 'raw'! I saw them around this time when I was 15 years old...

Goghlan is a beast here 💪

@alanlake5220

Жыл бұрын

He has his own drumming style

Fuck me, '70's Quo, unbeatable.

Brilliant

America would be hard pressed to find a band in their rock n roll history that could match the drive n energy like Status Ouo has since the mid 60s. To be honest there is none. I lost them after Matchstick and was happy to find out in 75 that they were still alive n kicking. We tended back then to get music from Europe a year after a lp was released. Not knowing that Ma Kelly's n Dog2Hd came before it,, the first post Matchstick Quo lp my eyes set on was "Piledriver". It was the cover only that spelled P-O-W-E-R . I didn't hesitate bought it, took it home and over the course of 10 beers ,ganja and a 100 watt stereo I reconnected with a long lost friend. It's been always interesting to me that 3 yrs after the "Piledriver" purchase I was in that same record store and a lp named "Let There Be Rock" was staring at me as I walked into the store. Once again a album cover possessed me to buy a lp not knowing what the content was like inside. And once again the process was the same as in 75 when I bought "Piledriver" and the love affair with AC/DC never wavered as it didn't with Quo . Here's my thoughts however with the Aussies. I cannot believe they ever indicated in early interviews that they could of been influenced by Quo's music and style on stage. There's TOO many parallels in AC/DCs music to think otherwise. Has there ever been that type of talk in the UK or elsewhere in Europe regarding the similarities that I am suggesting here ? I would really appreciate ANY replies regarding my inquiry to this subject.

@rockhardrockmetalpop

8 жыл бұрын

+David Rogers Quo were always their own band my friend....ACDC were a completely different subjest...Quo has never been mentioned in the same sentence....not in England at least.....these guys are the originals of good time boogie rock n roll.

@alaninhull

8 жыл бұрын

+Adrian Trott Bands like Foghat, ZZ Top, and the Georgia Satellites have however been mentioned in the same sentence as Status Quo, and have the same 'feel' to them at times. I remember the Satellites doing a kind of Quo 'tribute' in a song at Donnington

@tonycardinal9381

5 жыл бұрын

David Rogers. Your right buddy the similarities are uncanny the difference between the two bands is Ac/Dc play in a more half time feel, at the end of the day it comes from Mr Chuck Berry, even Angus admits this, both awesome bands enjoy.

@andyhinds542

3 жыл бұрын

How could you lose a band that went on to far greater success after initial pop success to become one of the greatest rock bands in history? Where did you go between 1969 and 1975? They'd had 6 albums out by the time you had rediscovered them.

@dennism5731

3 жыл бұрын

Before AC/DC Bon Scott was in a band called Fraternity. They supported Quo on a couple of dates in the early 70's and in Bon's words "blew them away" - from that point on Bon was looking for a rock and roll band who could try and match them - AC/DC was the result. Bon took AC/DC by the scruff of the neck, threw in his other great influence (Alex Harvey of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band) and out came High Voltage. Loved them both, saw them both, but AC/DC never quite got to Quo's level live, on album, yes, but live they just fell short

In 1975 they were not the Frantic Four. They were Status Quo.

Legendary, long live the Quo!!

Unbeatable !

0:00 - Backwater 7:35 - Claudie 12:00 - Little Lady 15:05 - Most of the time 19:30 - Big fat mama 24:45 - Don't Waste my time 28:45 - Roadhouse Blues 44:15 - Caroline 48:40 - Drum solo 52:00 - Bye bye johnny

@BB-qp9ri

10 ай бұрын

Backwater , just take me , 👍🏻

@DiBiasehere

5 ай бұрын

Wasn't, Down Down.

@theSunblessed

23 күн бұрын

The best lineup, the best chemistry

This is Quo at their very best. Just how great do they sound, this 75 and the sound recording is just fantastic - why nearly 50 years on do they struggle to get this kind of sound from live shows! Nuff's bass is so loud in the mix it's great, the driving force behind the sound, where as these day the bass is just relegated to a distance rumble. Sadly never saw the original line up live as I was only 1 when this was recorded!

I love this. Thanx very much.

46.57 Rick Parfitt THE Rock'n'roll attitude!!

The boys at their at best nobody could touch them as a live band 😂

I saw them live in Germany1974

Nuff's bass is magic

Thanks so much for this without a doubt the Greatest Frantic Four Video on KZread!

Total geil , Quo forever , RIP Rick

This is the real Status Quo such a pity it's just a shadow of it's self these days

Such fucking energy 💪💪

It´s so great that Alan is so very audible in this recording. He´s invented some fantastic bass-licks in these live versions (some of which he doesn´t play on the albums). Claudie is a great example or the ending of Most of the Time :) Also John is on fire in the 70´s. Shame these two fine gentleman couldn´t live up to this standard in the reunion shows.

@ponybloke

2 жыл бұрын

i did both Manchesters shows and they definitly lived up to it.

1975...Une année charnière dans ma vie....!!

great! many thanks.... !!!! cheers from germany ;)

It would be so great to have a restored version.

@seltaeb3302

2 жыл бұрын

This is how tv was not all digital.. HD.. 4KK.. just tv. It's fine.

@Signofevil_Smile4theCam

2 жыл бұрын

@@seltaeb3302 well, the original 35mm recording exists, so this would at least allow a 4k restoration, if not more.

Awesome show..

Вот это ДА!!! Обалденное видео!!!

I was near, five years old

Amazing ❤️

72-76 they were totally unique - two more class albums with BFY and Live then all downhill from there for me - Rick and Alan - thanks for the music...

@nathandodge665

Жыл бұрын

They weren't much different than any other band back then

the bass is really prominent in this upload/recording and showcases very well how precise it was played and how important the bass lines are for each song. In the current Quo the guitars and overall sound is more prominent and even if the bass is of course there and played very well it does not stick out as much as in this early 4-piece version of Quo. (though they had keyboards also in their 1967-70 phase..

Out there somewhere is colour footage of the band live we need it found and put out there for all of us to enjoy

real Rare footage, wowh! Thanks so much for uploading! I love it❤

LOVE STATUS QUO

Este video es una joya!!! 🇦🇷

the REAL QUo at their very best

Danke für die vergleichsweise gute Bildqualität. Das Konzert hat man schon schlimmer gesehen. Quo selbst waren nie besser. Hab sie auch damals schon erlebt.

@officialmarzomccutter

4 жыл бұрын

Ich das erste Mal Februar 1978, war mein erstes Konzi, Hannover Niedersachsen Halle, ich war 10 :P ... Mein Erzeuger und Mutter waren mega Quo Fans. Habs quasi in die Wiege und mit der Muttermilch bekommen, den Rock 'n Roll :)

@jk-ct2tg

4 ай бұрын

1976 in Köln,genial,schöne Erinnerung.

rick delivered those vocals with vengeance when little lady came up. RIP mate

AWESOME! Will see them in Dublin in april!!!

Wooooww

F*ckin' marvellous

This IS Original Frantic Four Quo!! 😎😍🤭🤪