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JOHN COGHLAN’S DIESEL

FLEXIBLE FRIENDS: 3CD REMASTERED BOXSET
Label HNE
Catalog HNEBOX103
Format CD
Discs 3
Category ROCK/POPS
Street Date 2018-06-29
Description
• Drummer John Coghlan originally came together with Francis Rossi and Alan Lancaster in 1962. A couple of years later, they hooked up with Rick Parfitt, and in 1967 became Status Quo. After initial forays into psychedelia, by 1972 the Quo had settled on their trademark blues and boogie fuelled hard rock, soon becoming household names with a string of hit singles and hit albums.
• By 1976, with Quo taking a well-earned break, John put together Diesel, a loose group of his musician mates, including Micky Moody, Bob Young and Jackie Lynton, among others, and often joined by his Quo bandmates, Rick Parfitt and Andy Bown, to play a show at London’s legendary Marquee Club. After Coghlan’s departure from Quo following 1981’s Never Too Late, he was able to concentrate on outside musical ventures, including the short lived Partners In Crime project. Diesel would record a whole studio album, but only the single ’River Of Tears’ backed by ’No Moon Shines’ would see the light of day, and even then as a limited Swedish release on the Västfront Produktion label in 1992. The album was subsequently shelved, but it didn’t seem right for this collection to languish in the vaults unreleased, so now we have Flexible Friends, named after the fact that by its very nature, the line-up of Diesel had to remain flexible, dependent on who was around at the time and available to join in. As well as the aforementioned single, the album features covers of Frankie Miller’s ’Ain’t Got No Money’ and Jimmy Reed’s ’Baby What You Want Me To Do’, and includes revisits to Quo’s ’Living On An Island’ and ’Mean Girl’.
• But Diesel were first and foremost a live band, and this set has been augmented with the soundtrack from a July 1985 gig at their regular stomping ground, Wardour Street’s Marquee Club. The highlight has to be a surprise guest appearance from Status Quo’s Alan Lancaster and Rick Partfitt.
• Remastered from the original tapes, John Coghlan’s Diesel has been overseen by l
tracklisting
DISC ONE
FLEXIBLE FRIENDS
1. TURN ME LOOSE
2. RIVER OF TEARS
3. MEAN GIRL
4. NO MOON SHINES
5. CHAINED TO LOVE
6. LIVING ON AN ISLAND
7. A LOVE LIKE YOURS (DON’T COME KNOCKING EVERY DAY)
8. AINT GOT NO MONEY
9. CRY TO ME
10. BABY WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO
BONUS TRACKS
11. RIVER OF TEARS (SINGLE VERSION)
12. NO MOON SHINES (SINGLE VERSION)

DISC TWO
LIVE AT THE MARQUEE - PART 1
1. DONE SOMEBODY WRONG
2. BAD BOY
3. I SAW HER STANDING THERE
4. TULSA TIME
5. BLOW ME AWAY
6. GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY
7. SLOW AND EASY
8. LOSING GROUND
9. JACK’S AD LIB
10. MARQUEE BLUES
11. MAKE NO EXCUSES
12. HEDGEHOG SONG
13. LET IT ROCK

DISC THREE
LIVE AT THE MARQUEE - PART 2
1. JOHNNY B GOODE / WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN’
2. BYE BYE JOHNNY
3. ROADHOUSE BLUES
4. CAROLINE
5. A MESS OF BLUES
 

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