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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.

00:13 [MUSIC]

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.

00:40 [MUSIC]

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.

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