Status Quo - The Frantic Four - Live in Madrid 75 HD

[@StatusQuonald]

This is Quo at the top of their game, they're all enjoying the fuck out of playing together, the energy is immense, the songs are great. Just magic!

[@bennburslem8788]

Couglan was on great form , smashing the hell out them ,best drummer they ever had

[@nickkatiforis9017]

The only drummer they ever had!!!! Period!

[@timmatthews773]

'Coghlan'

[@reggykortman9921]

Awesome john.

[@Signofevil_Smile4theCam]

@@nickkatiforis9017 the ONLY drummer they ever had. Sorry to correct you. :)

[@bappybumbam]

Coghlan mate

[@Mick_Aus]

What a phenomenal force they were... untouchable! Rest in Peace.. Rick and Alan.. 🤘

[@alanstrom2221]

Alan Lancaster 7/02/1949 - 26/09/2021 Bassist/Singer/Songwriter/ Producer/Genius of STATUS QUO fame, has died aged 72 of Multiple Sclerosis at his Sydney home, surrounded by his family. Born in London, he moved to Australia in 1976 after marrying his beautiful wife Dayle. Alan wrote and co-wrote many classic Rock songs The 9 1/2 minute Psych/Rock song "Is It Really Me, Gotta Go Home" was written by the Genius of Alan Charles Lancaster. Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon album 1970 on the Astor / Pye Label. Produced by the late / great John Schroeder. Anyone who met Nuff would know first hand what a beautiful, sweet and charming gentleman he was. I had the pleasure of socialising with Alan at a few gigs in the late 80's, at some of his gigs with The Lancaster Bombers and The Lancaster / Brewster Band and The Party Boys, the latter having 2 Chart Topping Hits. " Hold Your Head Up " by Argent and " He's Gonna Step On You Again " by John Kongos. Alan produced a multi-platinum selling album for Pianist Roger Woodward.

[@spritbong5285]

RIP Nuff

[@PurpleUnicorn212]

Brilliant. The real proper Quo when nobody could touch them. At the top of their game, best live concerts I have ever been to. Just look how much fun they were having. RIP Rick & Alan.

[@yvoheaton6402]

Quo at the very top of the game when this was recorded. I first saw them in 72 and more times since than I can count on all my fingers and toes! They were raw, powerful and having a great time as were we standing and jumping out front. I remember taking a lady friend to see them at Wembley Empire Pool in around 75. She had never been to a Quo concert and was very in to soul music. My then girlfriend could not attend so put her pal forward to join me for the evening. Blew her sock off. She loved it. I wonder if she remembers it now? I do for sure!

[@donenrico2020]

R.I.P. Alan....and Rick....best QUO ever 👌😢🙌

[@eddysgaragerockperformance2362]

Absolutely Great, that was for sure the best Decade of Quo.

[@anastasiospapandreou147]

These were their best years......And mine too even if I didnt realise it back then.Thanks for the great memories !!!!

[@deeman1]

1976... Status Quo, the first rock-concert I´ve ever seen, at the age of 14, in my hometown Hannover, Germany. Right and Left a few par-lights, no background, just a wall, no security, no decoration. Beerbottles flew, people fight in front of the stage. I will never forget, holy times of pure rocknroll - it changed my life.

[@elisabethlapteva-stahelin1983]

Ja, genau so ist es ! Unvergleichlich ! Einzigartig ! Mit allem Können und Energie vergleichen wir mal mit den Queen : 1. Die Bühne war nur für Freddie da. Ein bisschen noch Brian, Roger und John. Bei den SQ immer nur eine Einheit, alle waren gleichviel wert. 2. Freddie war öfters vulgär / unanständig. Bei SQ kam höchstens ein oh sheet oder fuck you. 3. Die Kostüme von Freddie ! Mein Gott, Tricothosen, wo jeder sehen musste, dass er ein Linksträger ist. Solche Extras sah man bei den SQ nie. Deswegen ein dreifaches Hoch an SQ. Einfach mega dass es sie gibt. ❤👌👍😊❗ 🎼🎶🎵🎧🎤🎸🎹🥁 P.S. Ich mag die Musik von Queen.

[@ursulaschlapbach311]

Great!

[@nathandodge665]

It changed your life????? Those people aren't God, they're just entertainers!!! Lighten up will ya?????

[@deeman1]

@@nathandodge665 i meant the energie. At that time there was not much more than pop and schlager. I heard the live album years. Maybe its primitive, but the energy was fantastic.

[@batphink2655]

@@nathandodge665 Hey these days shitty 'Rappers like Kenya West etc think they're God!

[@helgepetersen559]

The Frantic Four at their absolute best. This is truly The Magnificent Status Quo.

[@Vie568]

Fantastic greatest rock n roll band !

[@dennism5731]

John Coughlan is immense on this, as is Alan Lancaster. Proper rockers rollin.

[@brendanjones528]

Amazing....these guys were on form, when they were firing on all cylinders no one could touch them. Without a doubt the best hard rock band ever in my opinion. No nonsense, footstompin, head banging rock 🤘🤘

[@DiBiasehere]

😢This could very well be the best thang I ever done seen.

[@tropicoutopico1]

Yeah 1975 in Madrid and I was shaking and dancing a lot in this concert !!!🤩😍🥰

[@ivanchicotegarcia2363]

Yo Estaba cerca pero tenia solo cinco años 😂

[@tatum6727]

Oh good old days, mighty, mighty Quo, just Unbeatable

[@beatricebeatrice2179]

Subscribed

[@stuarthopkins1308]

If you are old enough to have seen Quo in this period then you are truly blessed. I only started going to see them in 88 and as good as I've seen them nothing compares to this - outstanding!

[@kennymaclaurin3683]

4 decades later & I still love the old Quo

[@ianwilliam3811]

Quo are on fire here! They never really matched their early stuff after the Blue For You LP. Thanks so much for posting this.

[@chrisnott6146]

The 32.05 part of this outstanding clip, just sums up for me what Quo were about. Long live The Frantic Four!

[@Signofevil_Smile4theCam]

Undisputed untouchable in the mid 70s. The prototype of THE live machine. None could beat them, not even get close to their performance. Hard as fuck back then, Yet still so freaking underrated!

[@dischargesummary8794]

The REAL Quo

[@bingrasm]

Always nice to revisit these guys and theirs powerful fast boogie rock!, :)

[@ramonvillar2360]

Que gratos recuerdos. Mi primera banda favorita. Tuve la oportunidad de disfrutar de su música en Vigo con mi esposa(embarazada de mi hijo. Su primer concierto,y ya no pagó) Siempre formarán parte de mi vida !Grandes Quo! Gracias por compartir ésta joya

[@onlymyopinion100]

Absolutely loving this ol LIVE show! 🤭❤️❤️

[@annettegeorge209]

Status Quo forever

[@AMXTomzo]

I just found this today, thank you SO MUCH for keeping it up !! hello from USA !!🤘🤘🤘🤘👍👍👍👍

[@officialmarzomccutter]

70s Quo is the best - The frantic four! Greetz from germany

[@blowbyblow57sr]

The Qou i remember, from the city hall Newcastle in the 70's, still one of the best UK rock bands, i'm still rock based but these guy's take me so far back, much enjoyed all girl friend's and that lol.................love it ..........

[@spanishpeaches2930]

Bye Bye Johnny and Alan's singing ..fantastic

[@andrewdownward7483]

Power House Rock band, nothing could touch Quo back then as a live band. Lucky enough to see them in Adelaide 1976. This takes me right back to that night, 21 again!! RIP Allan & Rick

[@martinwalthert1709]

Hello Status Quo!Eure Musik ist unsterblich!🎸...R.I.P. Rick 🕯

[@hemmohoving2558]

Oh yeah , Status Quo forever , and Quo fans will stay fans forever also . I never met an ex Quo fan.

[@Signofevil_Smile4theCam]

Let's say there are retired Quo Fans. ;)

[@grahamcharlton9704]

Great bass quality.

[@wingchun-simplekungfu7584]

This was the group of guys we all loved to watch and hear play. 🙏

[@beatricepeter995]

Where was I !?! ' When we were young ' , I was listening this ....on my radio ,"sure you don't"/ didn't waste my time ...! Can't get enough ....

[@rockhardrockmetalpop]

Brilliant Rock n´ Roll Royalty.

[@onlymyopinion100]

Magical time 😎✨🤟

[@reggykortman9921]

The best drummer and verry fast. Amazing john

[@stickyvicky100]

What a great band they where , saw them in 83 , was deaf for days lol

[@ep9421]

You don't know what deaf is until you go to an ACDC concert

[@dennism5731]

Got to disagree there friend. I have seen both bands several times and Quo in the 70's were off the scale. AC/DC, even with the mighty Bon, were always second best to 70's Quo

[@redrheino]

Don't know who you went to see in 1983, but it couldn't have been Status Quo i'm afraid. Although they released an album in 1983, Back Too Back, they never did any touring to promote that album at all. They started touring again on April 11th, being announced as The End Of The Road Tour.

[@rockerrob61]

R I P Sir Rick, legend.

[@nels3881]

Awesome Quo At Their Best.. 👍 🎸 Original Line Up Nothing No One Ever Come Close To Them And Won't Ever.. 👍 Rick And Alan Rocking Strumming In Heaven. 🎸🎸 🤘

[@davidrogers2085]

America would be hard pressed to find a band in their rock n roll history that could match the drive n energy like Status Ouo has since the mid 60s. To be honest there is none. I lost them after Matchstick and was happy to find out in 75 that they were still alive n kicking. We tended back then to get music from Europe a year after a lp was released. Not knowing that Ma Kelly's n Dog2Hd came before it,, the first post Matchstick Quo lp my eyes set on was "Piledriver". It was the cover only that spelled P-O-W-E-R . I didn't hesitate bought it, took it home and over the course of 10 beers ,ganja and a 100 watt stereo I reconnected with a long lost friend. It's been always interesting to me that 3 yrs after the "Piledriver" purchase I was in that same record store and a lp named "Let There Be Rock" was staring at me as I walked into the store. Once again a album cover possessed me to buy a lp not knowing what the content was like inside. And once again the process was the same as in 75 when I bought "Piledriver" and the love affair with AC/DC never wavered as it didn't with Quo . Here's my thoughts however with the Aussies. I cannot believe they ever indicated in early interviews that they could of been influenced by Quo's music and style on stage. There's TOO many parallels in AC/DCs music to think otherwise. Has there ever been that type of talk in the UK or elsewhere in Europe regarding the similarities that I am suggesting here ? I would really appreciate ANY replies regarding my inquiry to this subject.

[@rockhardrockmetalpop]

+David Rogers Quo were always their own band my friend....ACDC were a completely different subjest...Quo has never been mentioned in the same sentence....not in England at least.....these guys are the originals of good time boogie rock n roll.

[@alaninhull]

+Adrian Trott Bands like Foghat, ZZ Top, and the Georgia Satellites have however been mentioned in the same sentence as Status Quo, and have the same 'feel' to them at times. I remember the Satellites doing a kind of Quo 'tribute' in a song at Donnington

[@tonycardinal9381]

David Rogers. Your right buddy the similarities are uncanny the difference between the two bands is Ac/Dc play in a more half time feel, at the end of the day it comes from Mr Chuck Berry, even Angus admits this, both awesome bands enjoy.

[@andyhinds542]

How could you lose a band that went on to far greater success after initial pop success to become one of the greatest rock bands in history? Where did you go between 1969 and 1975? They'd had 6 albums out by the time you had rediscovered them.

[@dennism5731]

Before AC/DC Bon Scott was in a band called Fraternity. They supported Quo on a couple of dates in the early 70's and in Bon's words "blew them away" - from that point on Bon was looking for a rock and roll band who could try and match them - AC/DC was the result. Bon took AC/DC by the scruff of the neck, threw in his other great influence (Alex Harvey of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band) and out came High Voltage. Loved them both, saw them both, but AC/DC never quite got to Quo's level live, on album, yes, but live they just fell short

[@leiper72]

They sure got the name Frantic Four after this kind of gigs back then.. !! 50 years ago.. 🥰

[@tigermane8251]

vintage great original 4

[@reggykortman9921]

What a great performance and John awsome drummer. Quick riffs

[@AndyMartin401]

Very rare and brilliant.

[@bernardmeyre]

Excellent the band was really smoking at the time

[@dennism5731]

Best encore ever - Caroline, drum solo, Bye Bye Johnny.

[@alaninhull]

Great to see this - so 'raw'! I saw them around this time when I was 15 years old...

[@SQ773]

Goghlan is a beast here 💪

[@alanlake5220]

He has his own drumming style

[@wilhelmgeorg6716]

Lausy video, lousy sound, but this download perfectly shows the good old spirit of Quo. What a power, what a drive ! Grew up with them, miss them.

[@doesgodcareanymore]

Utterly fantastic, at their very best.

[@alertbox]

My favourite song of all time - Don't Waste My Time 24:40

[@seanmcgoldrick4870]

Brilliant

[@davidwainwright701]

If your a Quo fan you will adore this..... just stumbled on it with a tear in my eye ....Come on boys!!!!!!!!! If you don't like btw your wierd ....yea!!!!

[@seltaeb3302]

What is btw? would help & hey. I'm weird already!

[@redrheino]

@@seltaeb3302 Probably by the way....or enniewee.....😁😁😁

[@jorgevillegas3182]

Excelente versión..hoy 2022 aquí estamos con lo mejor

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:00 - Backwater 7:35 - Claudie 12:00 - Little Lady 15:05 - Most of the time 19:30 - Big fat mama 24:45 - Don't Waste my time 28:45 - Roadhouse Blues 44:15 - Caroline 48:40 - Drum solo 52:00 - Bye bye johnny

[@BB-qp9ri]

Backwater , just take me , 👍🏻

[@DiBiasehere]

Wasn't, Down Down.

[@theSunblessed]

The best lineup, the best chemistry

[@stojsicm]

Moja prva ploča the quo album. Prvi i pravi izbor! I danas posle 40 godina mislim isto Status quo - forever young!

[@pascalfayemendy7282]

QUO in my life for ever ...But 208 concert...DURING the 90 2000 2010....THANKS STATUS QUO AND RICK...MY FRIEND IN MY HEART..YOU MISS ME....

[@user-vl6lg4vv7n]

Thats Quo !!!!!

[@mattbooker1035]

Thanks for sharing,.. every Quo fan, new and old, should watch this. This is how it started, it's DNA is still in the blood. BUT.. Quo evolved - and Quo survived. True, the Quo of today are not quite like Q1. but they still have passion and they have fun.

[@WolfgangLXoXo]

I saw them live in Germany1974

[@alanlake5220]

What a fantastic find, Quo at their best .

[@cobohall1975]

Fuck me, '70's Quo, unbeatable.

[@frankleclercq9182]

It would be so great to have a restored version.

[@seltaeb3302]

This is how tv was not all digital.. HD.. 4KK.. just tv. It's fine.

[@Signofevil_Smile4theCam]

@@seltaeb3302 well, the original 35mm recording exists, so this would at least allow a 4k restoration, if not more.

[@maxquinn3103]

The boys at their at best nobody could touch them as a live band 😂

[@beatricepeter995]

Unbeatable !

[@rolandpouilloux7153]

46.57 Rick Parfitt THE Rock'n'roll attitude!!

[@hoegis]

I love this. Thanx very much.

[@lancastrian1917]

Manchester Apollo 1981 first ever concert ,unbelievable , what an experience 👍👏

[@cardoun]

La meilleure formation de STATUS QUO !... Son bien garage live !...

[@aurelianday2223]

Awesome show..

[@kevinjames7012]

Such fucking energy 💪💪

[@FUSCKEK]

Legendary, long live the Quo!!

[@ep9421]

In 1975 they were not the Frantic Four. They were Status Quo.

[@swan-senpai]

I burst out laughing "this next song is called, Down Down" and the opening chord blasts of "Big Fat Mama"

[@francislaw63]

That's because Down Down is cut out. You can see that Rossi was holding a strat (!) while he's announcing Down Down and then he's back on his tele. I'd really like to see that version of Down Down. Anybody?

[@CatfoodandSkidmarks]

and wasnt a guitar player

[@timmatthews773]

@@francislaw63 I'm guessing it was cut because it the was right length to get it all down to an hour for broadcast? (But cutting the intro too would've left it too short! haha)

[@francislaw63]

Maybe the original tape was in bad condition. Or...the Down Down footage was used separately to promote the single in Spain. In those days you literally had to cut out the physical tape, remember?

[@antennamondox2603]

great! many thanks.... !!!! cheers from germany ;)

[@brunolonlois2812]

Merci pour cette vidéo,le bon temps du Quo 👍

[@FredrikBlid]

AWESOME! Will see them in Dublin in april!!!

[@GedTheRed]

Amazing ❤️

[@toneoverdrive]

What a great concert..why they ever decided to get a replacement Bass player who played with his fingers ?..was never the same , you need that PICK plectrum on the strings for that driving sound , always buged me as was never the same..what a super band they were ...awesome power....rock on...peace..

[@bowelrupture]

It went down south after John Coghlan left. Alan's departure was the final nail.

[@StatusQuonald]

It´s so great that Alan is so very audible in this recording. He´s invented some fantastic bass-licks in these live versions (some of which he doesn´t play on the albums). Claudie is a great example or the ending of Most of the Time :) Also John is on fire in the 70´s. Shame these two fine gentleman couldn´t live up to this standard in the reunion shows.

[@ponybloke]

i did both Manchesters shows and they definitly lived up to it.

[@donofthedead1980]

Thanks so much for this without a doubt the Greatest Frantic Four Video on KZbin!

[@beatricepeter995]

Tribute to the drummer he was !

[@ep9421]

Still is

[@RodRollingStone]

Excellent stuff, whoever made it.

[@technocracylao]

This is Quo at their very best. Just how great do they sound, this 75 and the sound recording is just fantastic - why nearly 50 years on do they struggle to get this kind of sound from live shows! Nuff's bass is so loud in the mix it's great, the driving force behind the sound, where as these day the bass is just relegated to a distance rumble. Sadly never saw the original line up live as I was only 1 when this was recorded!

[@DieUnendlichkeit1]

Total geil , Quo forever , RIP Rick

[@tonyjohn1395]

Strange they never made it big in the states.

[@nathandodge665]

Because they weren't really unique. They were good but not unique

[@1954surya]

Danke für die vergleichsweise gute Bildqualität. Das Konzert hat man schon schlimmer gesehen. Quo selbst waren nie besser. Hab sie auch damals schon erlebt.

[@officialmarzomccutter]

Ich das erste Mal Februar 1978, war mein erstes Konzi, Hannover Niedersachsen Halle, ich war 10 :P ... Mein Erzeuger und Mutter waren mega Quo Fans. Habs quasi in die Wiege und mit der Muttermilch bekommen, den Rock 'n Roll :)

[@jk-ct2tg]

1976 in Köln,genial,schöne Erinnerung.

[@martindalton5894]

Out there somewhere is colour footage of the band live we need it found and put out there for all of us to enjoy

[@marcelolarocca8531]

Este video es una joya!!! 🇦🇷

[@Bluecray]

Wow That's an old one! Great to see Rossi flicking his hair back like he used to!!!!!

[@ivanchicotegarcia2363]

I was near, five years old

[@ursulaschlapbach311]

Sounds great!

[@rogeralosio1863]

1975...Une année charnière dans ma vie....!!

[@spritbong5285]

Nuff's bass is magic

[@alertbox]

F*ckin' marvellous

[@wyssmario6055]

Wooooww

[@zubimarta]

que disculpas vas a pedir.......gracias mil que lo compartes con nosotros....que lo sabemos apreciar!!!!! LONG LIVE ROCK ROLL