Castle [Navarre]
2003
Picturesque Matchstickable Message From The Status Quo
About This Album
The original incarnation of "the" Status Quo is properly anthologized on Castle Records' 2003 double-CD version of Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo. In direct contrast to the urban legend, the primary personnel of Rick Parfitt (guitar/keyboard/vocals), Francis Rossi (guitar/vocals), Roy Lynes (keyboards/vocals), and Alan Lancaster (bass/vocals) would remain (albeit sporadically) in the blues-boogie reincarnation, rechristening themselves as simply Status Quo. In addition to a monaural and "proper" stereo mix of the 12-song long-player from 1968, this collection traces the band back to its pre-psych roots. Although known primarily for "Pictures of Matchstick Men," a Top 15 single stateside, the Status Quo's earliest influences came from the pop music charts on both sides of the Atlantic. The pre-Quo are captured on half a dozen vintage BBC Radio sessions. Chronologically, the Spectres are up first from their September 1966 visit to Brian Matthew's Saturday Club program. Their set consists of a handful of well-known covers, such as "Neighbour, Neighbour," which is strikingly similar to the concurrent and respective renderings by Graham Bond and the Spencer Davis Group.
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Disc 1 (try tracks 3,6,9,11,14,17,18,19,20 and 22)

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