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defrogIf I was doing a music series like bedsitter23 ’s Raised On Radio, one of the first entries might be Quarterflash.
You remember Quarterflash – “Harden My Heart”, Rindy Ross and her saxophone, and if nothing else the first band you'd heard of from Portland, Oregon before it became a hip indie scene.
I had their debut album, and I played it a lot, though usually I never got past the first two songs – “Harden My Heart”, and “Find Another Fool”, the latter of which was my favorite track on the album.
Here it is – with gratuitous Solid Gold Dancers and very gratuitous Andy Gibb and Marilyn McCoo interrupting the electric violin solo.
I wonder how Quarterflash felt about that.
FUN FACT: I saw Quarterflash live in 1983, you know.
They played at the University of Tennessee at Martin – which, incidentally, is probably an indicator of how small-time Quarterflash still were despite having a few big radio hits. Still, I was 18, and thought it was cool that a band I liked would come to my university to play. As I remember, they were pretty good live.
The opening act? DFX2.
You remember DFX2 … well, no, maybe you don’t. They were from San Diego, had a hit on MTV and sounded like this:
I remember them mainly because they were getting pretty much no reaction from the audience – not even boos or tomatoes. They played well, but I guess the Quarterflash/DFX2 fan overlap was close to zero. I felt bad for them – it was painful to watch, especially when they tried to get a call and response going during a cover of Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel”, in which they expected us to shout “HOT TRAMP!”
The first time, everyone was caught off guard. Every time after that, I was the only one who played along. Which possibly made it worse for them. I dunno.
Spare change you can count,
This is dF
bedsitter23 ’s Raised On Radio, one of the first entries might be Quarterflash. You remember Quarterflash – “Harden My Heart”, Rindy Ross and her saxophone, and if nothing else the first band you'd heard of from Portland, Oregon before it became a hip indie scene.
I had their debut album, and I played it a lot, though usually I never got past the first two songs – “Harden My Heart”, and “Find Another Fool”, the latter of which was my favorite track on the album.
Here it is – with gratuitous Solid Gold Dancers and very gratuitous Andy Gibb and Marilyn McCoo interrupting the electric violin solo.
I wonder how Quarterflash felt about that.
FUN FACT: I saw Quarterflash live in 1983, you know.
They played at the University of Tennessee at Martin – which, incidentally, is probably an indicator of how small-time Quarterflash still were despite having a few big radio hits. Still, I was 18, and thought it was cool that a band I liked would come to my university to play. As I remember, they were pretty good live.
The opening act? DFX2.
You remember DFX2 … well, no, maybe you don’t. They were from San Diego, had a hit on MTV and sounded like this:
I remember them mainly because they were getting pretty much no reaction from the audience – not even boos or tomatoes. They played well, but I guess the Quarterflash/DFX2 fan overlap was close to zero. I felt bad for them – it was painful to watch, especially when they tried to get a call and response going during a cover of Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel”, in which they expected us to shout “HOT TRAMP!”
The first time, everyone was caught off guard. Every time after that, I was the only one who played along. Which possibly made it worse for them. I dunno.
Spare change you can count,
This is dF
