Status Quo - Forty-Five Hundred Times (First reaction)

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@maskofsorrow 2 ай бұрын

Another brilliant masterpiece from Quo.

@gordyhydro5774 10 ай бұрын

4500 times is the greatest driving tune of time from the best live band of the 70's period!!!!!

@jb-ox2ro Жыл бұрын

They used to do a 20 minute version in their live gigs. Absolutely brilliant.

@GodlessScummer Жыл бұрын

This is one of the most underrated Quo songs.

@wingchun-simplekungfu7584 Жыл бұрын

I remember the first time I heard this song. I played drums and a friend from school told me he played guitar and wanted to jam. I bought the album soon after. I was about 13 years old and we had a great duet happening. Nearly all Quo songs with harmonies. We thought we were fantastic 😂. I’ve probably listened to this track 1,000 times. Or possibly even 4,500 times 🙏❤️🔥. FANTASTIC LIVE 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@davidkettell6236 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for playing this ,i had almost forgotten this one, i am 70 and grew up with THE QUO, yes that is how they should be addressed . you are correct there was a lot of head banging to the boys back in the early seventies.

@balticstain7150 10 ай бұрын

No other band can play such boogie like the great status quo !!!!!

@j0hnf_uk Жыл бұрын

Quo had a period during the early 70's of being quite an instrumental group. Sure, they'd release the usual 3 minute songs as singles, but when it came to their albums from the early to mid 70's, you were guaranteed quite a bit of instrumental work, especially in the closing song. It was a trend that a lot of bands did, back in the day, and Quo were no exception. 'Roadhouse Blues', was the one from Piledriver a year earlier and, 'Slow Train', the one from a year later. The album version of this song is just shy of 10 minutes long, but the live versions go on for much longer. They do a revised version of this song in 1991 on the, 'Rock til You Drop', album that was more in keeping with the live version, which was always a fan favourite. The worst part of this song is that it has to fade out when it does. Which is why the live version is so popular. I've always been a bit of an all-rounder when it comes to Quo. I can listen to any period of their music simply because I'm in the frame of mind that, whatever they're doing was of it's time. It's where they were at any given juncture of their musical career. Once you bear that in mind, then you've a better understanding of what they were doing, (or trying to do), at the time. The early 70's was when they were proving themselves, (more to themselves than anyone else), that they could make a success of it by playing the kind of music they wanted to write/perform. Luckily for them, it fitted like a glove for the time period. Once the late 70's came along with music trends changing, they felt the need to adapt to a more, 'mainstream', way of playing, but still with the same signature trademark. They didn't always get it right, and in retrospect, you often find yourself wondering what they were thinking by releasing some of their work, but again you have to think about it in the context of what popular music was doing at the time, with them trying their best to stay somewhat relevant to the music scene. One great thing about Quo was that they never really took themselves too seriously, (other than perhaps, during the early 70's), and enjoyed what they did. Their songs, generally, had a, 'feel good', factor to them than was kind of universal. You knew it was them as soon as you heard the song start.

@gpreactions3194 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, great write up x

@billmorris8358 Жыл бұрын

Any real Quo fan if they go back that far, will admit that 4500 Times is a fan’s favourite. Quo were a performance band, first and foremost. The closest anyone could hear Quo the way Quo were meant to be heard is LIVE! So the 1976 Live album is the closest to being at the Frantic Four live.

@Signofevil_Smile4theCam 11 ай бұрын

Trve dat! Quo was the prototype of a live band! Especially if one considers that from 'Ma Kelly's.. ' to 'Live' all records have been recorded live! RAOTW was the first record they used multiple channels. And the result sounds horrible

@nickferriday788 8 ай бұрын

This track is best listened to or watched live. I have been a fan of Quo since the beginning of the 70's. Also listen to the Quo album.. Backwater and just take me.

@charleigh195 5 ай бұрын

So chuffed you liked this song I myself have just found this song recently I absolutely love it x

@iangillon6981 Жыл бұрын

Quality. Big Up x :)

@glasgowgaysoulfan8856 Жыл бұрын

This was a big favourite of mine and for months drove family nuts playing the Hello album 😁

@gpreactions3194 Жыл бұрын

Just a bg thank you for all your comments, just finished reading them all. Always interesting to read xx

@winkingwolf Жыл бұрын

my holy trinity of live quo songs, big fat mama, 4500 times and roadhouse blues all on the quo live album 1975

@adriankent603 Жыл бұрын

Great to know your reactions have returned and your problems are resolving, this is a great Qou number but i honestly think "slow train" is their best extended song, i also agree with the view that Blue for you was their last really good album.

@iangillon6981 Жыл бұрын

Watching again.. So Cool. Happy New Year.. :)

@gpreactions3194 Жыл бұрын

Happy new year x

@stevenpurves3266 Жыл бұрын

Love your reaction when it kicks in...the smile on your face

@johnfloyd4166 Жыл бұрын

Great reaction ❤❤❤

@spacemunky8164 2 ай бұрын

We rocked so hard at the liverpool Empire in the 70s that the seats collapsed. The quo were never invited back, but wotta nite!

@gpreactions3194 2 ай бұрын

That sounds like it was an awesome night x

@spacemunky8164 2 ай бұрын

@gpreactions3194 it was it was boss! Saw them again fourty yrs later at the liverpool Arena. I did it purely for nostalgic reasons, thinking my music likes had changed, but after those quo chords started, my knee was going and I was bopping with the rest of the oldies no seats fell this time only my trousers trying to do the quo dance shoulders side to side haha lol

@lordlockdown64 Жыл бұрын

Hey, sorry to hear about your laptop and your back problems, glad to hear things are improving. This track is a good old rocker from Quo, nice one!

@GeertVanDamme-q4i 3 ай бұрын

If only we could bring the 70's back...

@MikeWebb-j5y 10 ай бұрын

Only just ‘found’ you by chance. Huge follower of Quo since the very beginning. Loved your reaction to Forty Five Hundred Times. So many great tracks from those 70’s albums. A list as long as your arm. If I were to pick one right now that I’d like you to react to. It’s already been mentioned here, I’d go with Slow Train off the album ‘Quo’. Never understood why that was never performed live. I certainly never saw them perform it. So, if you get the time, Slow Train, PLEASE. You have another ‘follower’ 👍🏻😊

@alanwilson8117 9 ай бұрын

By the end of the 70s they’d extended and perfected this into a 22-minute live monster. You’re right about the transitions- that’s what makes many of the earlier Quo tracks so great.

@McCaf-1962 Жыл бұрын

You need to listen to the 76 live version if you want the best 4500 times there ever was !

@trevorhollyoak712 4 ай бұрын

Total class track

@barriehull7076 Жыл бұрын

The first released live version is extended to 17 minutes on 1977's Live!, recorded at the Glasgow Apollo. A 20-minute version was performed at the NEC Arena in 1982 at a charity concert for The Prince's Trust, with Coghlan's replacement Pete Kircher reinterpreting the original drum parts. Have the album and cd so no problem sound wise, for me any way.

@alanstrom2221 Жыл бұрын

It's actually 16' 43' long version..

@Signofevil_Smile4theCam 11 ай бұрын

@@alanstrom2221 you have to include the fans and introduction as well!

@andyhinds542 5 ай бұрын

If you think that version is good then you should really check out the 1982 version at the NEC Birmingham because that version version is 21 minutes long and blows this version away. To me, it is the definitive version and has never been improved.

@alanstrom2221 Жыл бұрын

Turn up the volume.

@McCaf-1962 Жыл бұрын

The only way to listen to 4500 times !

@Signofevil_Smile4theCam 11 ай бұрын

Put it to 11!

@jb-ox2ro Жыл бұрын

Quo had 3 vocalists, all great. Parfitt took the lead on this track.

@sidscrote7570 10 ай бұрын

Is that "Bagpuss" in the background ??? LOL!

@gpreactions3194 10 ай бұрын

It is. I won it on one of them grabber machines in an arcade x

@markusjentzsch7932 9 ай бұрын

Quo was imo the best live boogiewoogie rockband of the 70s/early 80s. After like 85, they were still good, but almost a tribute coverband of themselfes. Stick to the "Frantic Four" original linup and you got steamhammer rock from the highest grade.