Interview with Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi from Status Quo as they talked about the album 'Aqoustic'
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00:08 So we tend to try and when we got, we had some of that I suppose,
00:12 and then with their testicles or something.
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00:15 And I'm doing this album, you suddenly realize that,
00:18 I'm not necessarily saying it's good or bad, but you have to fill up the thing.
00:23 You've got this nice piece of melody, which has always been interesting with
00:26 the Quota, it's got this cute little melody, this frigging noise, what's going on there?
00:30 And we'd done a couple of three tracks, and got in there and
00:37 we were doing Paper Plane, and again, it just couldn't change much.
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00:41 It doesn't change too much, and I thought, it's not gonna work.
00:45 Most of the ones we've tried, are all very, and by the end of the day or
00:50 whatever, and I stood in the control room, and I thought, wow.
00:53 So I've always liked Paper Plane as a melody.
00:56 [MUSIC]
00:58 And I think that's when it's kind of dawned on everybody that,
01:01 I really like Paper Plane.
01:03 I kind of like it more.
01:05 Although it's not electric in any way, it really rocks,
01:11 and the tracks like Caroline, it changes tempo three times.
01:17 And to do songs like, And It's Better Now,
01:22 We've Never Done Live and stuff, to do them on acoustic, that's so beautiful.
01:27 And For You, which is always, not just cuz I wrote it, but
01:32 just one of my favorite songs, and to get an opportunity to do that,
01:36 especially with some string sections.
01:38 I mean, there's been a lot of hair standing on a lot of arms.
01:41 Wow, it's so lovely.
01:44 And I actually started welling up when I was singing it, and
01:47 I said, I can't have any of that, do it again.
01:50 And I said, all right, I'll try, and I'm welling up,
01:53 because it brings back so many memories to me of when I wrote it.
01:57 Of the wonderful or bad old days, whichever you would want to call them.
02:03 And there are a lot of drugs around, but
02:08 I thoroughly enjoy myself in those days,
02:12 and as I am now in a much different way.
02:15 I don't think I've ever been disenfused about something,
02:18 because I don't know.
02:21 It's very difficult until we say the shit hits the fan, literally.
02:25 Blimey, I know I often say that there are various things we've done in our career.
02:29 Sometimes they look like a fantastic, it's a great move, guys,
02:34 and it's got nothing to do with us.
02:36 We're rocking all over the world, period.
02:38 People kept saying to us, that's great timing.
02:40 It's nothing to do with us, the timing.
02:42 We started three months early, the drummer broke his foot, so
02:45 things happen.
02:46 So the same with this, I might be talking to you next year,
02:49 going, Jesus, that was a mistake, wasn't it?
02:52 You know, how do we recover from that?
02:53 And then it could be the best thing we've ever done.
02:56 I think it will surprise a lot of people, because rather than,
03:01 let's put some Quo on and headbang, you can actually--
03:05 I was sitting out on the terrace, because I live in Spain now,
03:08 and it was a beautiful evening.
03:10 And just sitting out the back, listening to this album and a couple
03:13 of the tracks, just sit there with your feet up,
03:15 and they're so peaceful and tranquil.
03:18 And there's a couple of tracks on there that people are going to go,
03:21 no, surely not.
03:23 That can't be.
03:25 Don't drive my car, surely not.
03:27 That can't be Sayers Quo.
03:28 Surely it's that different.
03:30 It's so different.
03:32 Sounds like Stefan Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, you know,
03:36 if I may be so bold.
03:39 But it's just been a great experience recording it.
03:42 You know, everything's different.
03:43 And I think it throws a whole different dynamic
03:46 and a different color over the band in general.
03:49 You know, and I think a lot of people are going to be very surprised.
03:52 There's obviously going to be some people who are going to go,
03:54 what a load of shit, you know, which there always are.
03:56 But you can't please everybody all the time.
03:59 Otherwise, you'd be Madonna, wouldn't you?
04:04 Don't know what I mean by that.