Status Quo
Status Quo is one of Britain's longest-lived bands, staying together for over 30 years. During much of that time, the band was only successful in the UK, where they racked up a string of Top Ten singles that ran into the '90s. In America, the group was ignored after they abandoned psychedelia for heavy boogie rock in the early '70s. Before that, the Quo managed to reach number 12 in the US with the psychedelic classic "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (a Top Ten hit in the UK). Following that single, the band suffered a lean period for the next few years, before deciding to refa...[more]
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Status is back again with their best effort. The cover is slick and the layout is impressive. This issue has interviews with Sunny Day Real Estate, Elliot, Chamberlain, Milhouse, Dan Askew, Cave In, Ink and Dagger, Sharks Keep Moving, The Casket Lottery, and Former Members od Alfonsin.
zine $3.00
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Another knockout issue from the ever improving folks at Status. This issue has interviews with Fugazi, Blackheart Procession, Jets To Brazil, the Missing 23rd, Jen Wood, Treadwell, Jazz June, Nothing Left Zine, Countervail, Deal With It zine, Mark Andersen, Rocky Votolato + more. Plus the layout is slick and the content is deep.
zine $3.00
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Law of Inertia Issue #5, Eventide Issue #6, Skyscraper Issue #3
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Following the wake of Picturesque Machstickable Messages From the Status Quo, Spare Parts tries to imitate the psychedelic sound that was so fashionable at the time. The disc is known for being one of the less-fortunate made by the British band, and they have even despised it on some occasions. In fact, 1969 was going to be the most dismal year in the story of Status Quo. Urged by Pye's request to reach the charts at any rate, the songs in the record reflect the band's frustrated attempts to [ read more ]
CD $22.78
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Woe betide the psychedelic groover who picked up the third album by Status Quo, dreaming of further picturesque match stick messages! A mere three hits in a long three years had completely exhausted the bandmembers' patience with the whimsy of yore, and their ears had long since turned in other directions. It was the age, after all, of Canned Heat's relentless boogie and Black Sabbath's blistered blues, and when the Quo's first new single of 1970, the lazy throb of {&"Down the Dustpipe, [ read more ]
CD $14.23
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Following the wake of Picturesque Machstickable Messages From the Status Quo, Spare Parts tries to imitate the psychedelic sound that was so fashionable at the time. The disc is known for being one of the less-fortunate made by the British band, and they have even despised it on some occasions. In fact, 1969 was going to be the most dismal year in the story of Status Quo. Urged by Pye's request to reach the charts at any rate, the songs in the record reflect the band's frustrated attempts to [ read more ]
CD $17.08
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The change was going on. In 1971, while Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath were competing to be considered the genuine pioneers of the hard rock genre, Status Quo was involved in an inner struggle to find themselves and their own sound. Nobody would have said then that a few years later, Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Alan Lancaster, and John Coghlan would be fighting in the peak of European charts with the groups before mentioned. Dog of Two Head was going to be their [ read more ]
CD $9.48
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This double-CD set delivers a lot more than its title promises, containing not only all of Status Quo's 1960s vintage recordings -- all of the singles and B-sides, the mono album Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From... and the stereo mix of their second album, Spare Parts, plus odd singles and rarities (including a stereo mix of "Pictures of Matchstick Men,") but every side left behind by the pre-Status Quo Spectres and their reincarnation as Traffic Jam. Those sides make for a kill [ read more ]
CD $22.78
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The original incarnation of "the" Status Quo is properly anthologized on Castle Records' 2003 double-CD version of Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo. In direct contrast to the urban legend, the primary personnel of Rick Parfitt (guitar/keyboard/vocals), Francis Rossi (guitar/vocals), Roy Lynes (keyboards/vocals), and Alan Lancaster (bass/vocals) would remain (albeit sporadically) in the blues-boogie reincarnation, rechristening themselves as simply {$S [ read more ]
CD $22.78