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Francis Rossi

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'' Hardcore Quo fans will also have noticed a recent guitar change on stage, as Rossi explains: “I suddenly started to get serious tuning problems with the green Tele. Rick plays a lot of route and fifths and I put a lot of thirds into the chords, which can sound really sour if it’s not bang in tune. It’s back at Fender with Mark Preston, their custom guy. “John (Rhino) Edwards has always been happy with his Status Graphite basses, made by Rob Green, and said why not ask him to make me a guitar? Then the old-school thing kicked in and I was being told by some folk, ‘no, it should be wood instead of graphite’. I had one made in a Tele shape with a grey finish, but I couldn’t take to it. Then he came to rehearsals with another finished in green.

“I started talking through my teeth, saying, ‘I don’t need another guitar, let alone a green one’. I plugged it in and went, ‘oh’, and I’ve been playing that ever since. He makes lovely guitars. I call them donkey’s knob guitars, if you know what I mean, I can’t talk highly enough about them. It feels a bit odd sometimes when I look down and it’s not my original green Tele, which I’ve been playing since I was 19.” '

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