Quo were just a PHENOMENAL band in the original line up, I was pretty obsessed with them as a 10 year old, them and Sabbath were the first two of what you would call proper 'rock' bands I ever loved, every album they made from 'Ma Kelly' ....through to 'Blue for You' in I guess around 1976 ....were about as good as rock 'n roll gets at that time, but then I thought they started to go downhill and sound far less rock, and more pop, and started using keyboards and brass and stuff, which to me ruined their unique guitar and drums sound that was their whole signature. I hope when they do these gigs they play lots of the old stuff and throw all their more recent bubblegum pop music out of the set list, and of course they better film the show for DVD release so that the millions of us ancient Quo fans around the world, who won't be able to get to the gigs, can see the original line up back again. I don't usually think a lot of these reunion things with bands work, but this is different as they were such an important band for me when I was growing up, in the early 70's they were pretty much the only 'denim and long hair' band around the single charts who were selling just as many millions of records and tickets as all the glam rock poseurs and retards, at least back in the UK. I still think Dog of Two Heads, Piledriver, Quo, Hello, On the Level, and Blue for You was as consistently good a quality back-to-back sequence of albums as ANY band from that era ever produced...kinda got me thinking about digging a couple of them out later from those 5 or 6 boxes of old 33rpm that I have in the basement that follow me around the world!!
