Interview with Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi from Status Quo as they talked about the album 'Aqoustic'
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00:00So you tend to try and when we got, you know, we had some of that I suppose, men with their testicles or something.
00:14And doing this album you suddenly realise that, I'm not necessarily saying it was good or bad, but you have to fill up the thing.
00:23You've got this nice piece of melody, which has always been interesting with Quola, this kind of cute little melody.
00:28This friggin' noise, what's going on there?
00:33And we'd done a couple of three tracks and got in there and we were doing Paper Plane and again it just couldn't change much.
00:41It hasn't changed too much and I thought, it's not going to work.
00:45Most of the ones we've changed are all very...
00:49And by the end of the day or whatever and I stood in the control room and thought, wow, because I've always liked Paper Plane as a melody.
00:58And I think that's when it's kind of dawned on everybody that I really like Paper Plane.
01:03I kind of like it more.
01:05Although it's not electric in any way, it really rocks and the tracks like Caroline, it changes tempo three times, you know.
01:17And to do songs like, and it's better now, we've never done live and stuff, you know.
01:24To do them on acoustic, they're so beautiful.
01:27And for you, which is always not just because I wrote it, but just one of my favourite songs.
01:34And to get an opportunity to do that, especially with some string sections.
01:38I mean, there's been a lot of hair standing on a lot of arms.
01:41You know, wow, it's so lovely.
01:43And I actually started welling up when I was singing it and they said, I can't have any of that, you know, do it again.
01:50And I said, all right, I'll try and I'm welling up, you know, because it brings back so many memories to me of when I wrote it, you know, of the wonderful or bad old days, whichever you would want to call them, you know.
02:03And there were a lot of drugs around and, you know, but, you know, I was thoroughly enjoying myself in those days.
02:12And as I am now in a much different way.
02:15I don't think I've ever been this enthused about something because, I don't know.
02:21It's very difficult until we say the shit hits the fan, literally, you know.
02:25Oh, blimey, that's, I know, obviously I say that the various things we've done in our career, sometimes they look like a fantastic,
02:32it's a great move, guys, and it's got nothing to do with us.
02:35We're rocking all over the world period.
02:37People kept saying to us, that's great timing.
02:40It's nothing to do with us, the timing.
02:42We started three months earlier, the drummer broke his foot, so things happen.
02:46So the same with this, you might, I might be looking, talking to you next year, going, Jesus, that was an mistake, wasn't it?
02:51You know, how do we recover from that?
02:53And then it could be the best thing we've ever done.
02:55I think it will surprise a lot of people because, you know, rather than let's put some quotes in it,
03:01and let's put some quote on, and head bang.
03:04You can actually, I was sitting out on the terrace, because I live in Spain now,
03:08and it was a beautiful evening, and just sitting out the back, listening to this album,
03:12and a couple of the tracks, just sit there with your feet up, and it's so peaceful and tranquil.
03:18And there's a couple of tracks on there that people are going to go, no, surely not, that can't be.
03:25Like, don't drive my car, surely not, that can't be, stay as close, surely it's that different.
03:30It's so different.
03:31It sounds like Stefan Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, you know, if I may be so bold.
03:37But it's just been a great experience recording it, you know, everything's different.
03:43And I think it throws a whole different dynamic and a different colour over the band in general, you know.
03:49And I think a lot of people are going to be very surprised.
03:52There's obviously going to be some people who are going to go, what a load of shit, you know.
03:55Which there always are, but you can't please everybody all the time.
03:58Otherwise, you'd be Madonna, wouldn't you?
04:02Don't know what I mean by that, but...