Since two weeks I have a highly motivated, young guitar student. To offer her a little variety between theory and practice, and also a sense of achievement, I have once again searched deep down in my musical treasure chest for playable pieces. Thereby I came across an old Status Quo piece: Gerdundula.
I like this ‘good mood’ song. Here is a live version (2004):
Oh yes, this number was played up and down on the radio back then.
Later, when the band focused on their boogie rock, they were always the party crashers. When the party was falling asleep, all you had to do was put on a record of theirs and everyone was flipping around again.
I also had the pleasure of accompanying my two younger sisters to a concert in Berne (CH) (Dad’s condition).
Of course, their music was not as extremely complex as the prejudices often spread at the time by the so-called ‘musician police’. But they were and still are: mood makers.
Even as an old sock I still like to listen to their old records
I can imagine it being a challenge to play a studio album live, but I would have expected that if anything, there may have been a tape of Wright’s organ track mixed with his live piano track. Is that not so @Yeager ?
no, I don’t think Status Quo every charted in the US, and certainly not their big hit “Rockin All Over the World”. That song is only know in the us by music nerds who go find the video of the performance from Live Aid.