Status who?

/just kidding

He could have convinced me too since I have no idea who Francis Rossi is, but that doesn't mean I'm giving him free stuff because of it.

Meet Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton:

I saw them live in Portsmouth.

I call it "Dad Rock", cause everyone's Dad seems to like Status Quo.

Don't think they did very well outside the UK though.

Wait, you know Sergio?

Approves also.

Doc_Gerbil: Status who?

THIS!

Wasn't this a 'Vicar of Dibley' episode once? Kylie Minogue showed up and saved the day with her pop-pixie skills?

/nothing is obscure on Fark.

If you're going to pretend to be someone else, like a long-haired guitar-player, you should probably have long hair and be able to play the guitar.

// cue that "obvious news" guy

Who the fark is Francis Rossi?
Status Quo is my favorite Asian band.

necropoultryac: Who the fark is Francis Rossi?

No idea, but I heard her sister Janice is a whore.

LeroyB: If you're going to pretend to be someone else, like a long-haired guitar-player, you should probably have long hair and be able ability to play the guitar is optional.

FTFY

necropoultryac
Who the fark is Francis Rossi?
Status Quo is my favorite Asian band.

Look above at the Picture(s) of Matchstick Men.

/2007 version



/1st album 1968

/unimpressed

The man who impersonates Randy Meisner is very impressed.

Eat_Cress:

Don't think they did very well outside the UK though.

Actually, they seem to have done well EVERYWHERE (more or less) outside the UK, with the exception of the USA. When I went to see one of their 3 North American shows at Irving Plaza in the 90s, I was one of the few caucasian gentlemen there. The vast majority of the crowd was Mexican.

Much of their early stuff is big influence on my own attempts at music making...

"Pictures of Matchstick" Men is of course iconic.... They also did a great version of the Everly Brothers "The Price of Love"

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It's good to know that the REAL lead singer of some obscure band is entitled to free rides in the mayor's limousine. Yay democracy!

The status is NOT quo.

To be fair: The most Status Quo songs really doesn't sound like the guys can play more than two or three keys on their guitars.

Dog Food: necropoultryac: Who the fark is Francis Rossi?

No idea, but I heard her sister Janice is a whore.

And she lives in apartment 2R - tell everyone

Doc_Gerbil: Status who?

/just kidding



I'm not. Who the hell are they?

rustylite: Doc_Gerbil: Status who?

/just kidding



I'm not. Who the hell are they?

HUGE band in the UK, pretty big everywhere else in the world but the USA. They've had over 60 chart hits in the UK. Best known to non-fans as the first band that played at Live Aid. (They opened the show with "Rockin' All Over The World".) Also, if you lived in the Northeast in the 1980s (and possibly 1990s), their song "Whatever You Want" was used in TV commercials for the Mandee's clothing store.

Addendum: They wrote and performed "Pictures Of Matchstick Men," which was later recorded by Camper Van Beethoven, as well as Ozzy Osborne (the latter, I believe, was for the soundtrack to Howard Stern's film).

bluorangefyre,

I actually ran into the Randy Meisner imposter several years ago in Biloxi. He had the entire staff of Grand Casino Biloxi conned.

See? Even Status Quo fans don't know who the hell they are. I've always suspected as much.

They covered the Beatles' "Getting Better" song. I think that charted in th US.

This is what happens when you don't use Charisma as a dump stat.

Who else was on Cadet Concept?

/not a fan of "Matchstick Men"...opening melody reminiscent of Yoko Ono

you think a little jail time might be what they're proposing?

DJ El Macho: you think a little jail time might be what they're proposing?

Boo! Boo!

/Actually, very well done.

Lumber Jack Off: Status Quo farking suck.

and are GAY.


ContactMusic.com is reporting that STATUS QUO guitarist Rick Parfitt misses the days when the entire band use to masturbate together on one big bed - as it formed a special camaraderie between the rockers.

Parfitt insists collective episodes of self-pleasuring was de rigeur in the 1970s, although he admits such antics would be frowned upon by todays' clean-cut chart-toppers.

He recalls, 'We'd project pornos onto the side of a white building. And we'd just lie there on the bed, collectively wanking.

'It didn't help when you were in your vinegar strokes if someone told you a joke.

'But that's part of being mates in a rock band. Well, it was in those days. I don't know if people do it now. It might be a bit uncool.'"

I'm just gonna say... Look at your Fark handle. That is all.

They also did the theme song to the Manchester United FC "Come on you Reds" (Which I think refers to the communists that are all over the UK, or it could be the Red Devils, I don't rightly know).