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[uwe]

Status Quo live are unbeatable. Their music is primal, folksy and samey, true, but they build a communion with the audience like very few other acts can. I saw them in 1976/77, darn was it memorable and Francis Rossi even adressed me personally from the stage!

Uwe

[Chris P.]

What did he say? 'We won!' ?

[Freuds_Cat]

nah he said "Hey You!.....I mean Uwe!"   

[nofi]

i think uwe is pronounced 'oova' . i have a german friend who lives in bad b and that's how he pronounces his name.

[Dave W]

i think uwe is pronounced 'oova' . i have a german friend who lives in bad b and that's how he pronounces his name.

That's how I've always heard it pronounced.

bad b?

[Chris P.]

It's 'Oova' indeed.

[Freuds_Cat]

Ah yes us Australians are shocking for  bastardizing other languages. I speak schoolboy French and make a concerted effort to get the pronunciation correct. I remember some people in my refresher class just before I went to france in the 90's....

Merci beaucoup and  s'il vous plaît   translated to: Murky bucket, silver plate.  Therefore Uwe = You...right?   

[nofi]

bad b is Bad Blankenburg.

[Chris P.]

I didn't new that Blankenburg was that bad;)

I think I call Uwe 'Huey' from now on.

[uwe]

It's more "Ooohwuh!"

What did Herr Rossi say to me? It's firmly embedded in my memory. I was standing in the front row and it was after their opening song, Junior's Wailing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smw1UuK4SXs&feature=related

(performance starts at 0.52)

Status Quo were only my second rock gig after I had seen Rainbow a few months earlier. Rainbow had been great, but Quo were magic. I was wildly headbangig. To such an ecstatic degree that the people around began to look puzzled. And I noticed that eventually, stopping dead in my tracks. Looked up to the stage and there I met Francis Rossi's friendly gaze and he smiled at me, bowed down a little and said: "You can keep on going son, that's alright!"

I get goosebumps even writing it today! 

Uwe

[ramone57]

that's a good story, Uwe! 

[Chris P.]

Great story, Ooohwuh.

[Dave W]

Next he'll tell us about the time he was in the front row at an Elvis concert, and Elvis looked at him and said "Thank Uwe, thank Uwe very much." 

[Chris P.]

Uwe showed me the scarf Elvis threw at him.

[Freuds_Cat]