A Great Hard Drivin' Rock N' Roll Album
Guitar Guy 5,000,000,000 | Ont,Canada | 07/18/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I saw Status quo on TV a year ago for the first time at the Concert for Princess Diana and I loved their performance. I had never even heard of them before! I checked them out on Youtube and found a ton of their songs that I really liked. And was surprised to know that they never had any North American success but are actually one of the most successful UK acts of all time! I tried looking for their CDs at the local record store but I couldn't find anything. This got me to look on Amazon where I bought their albums "12 Gold Bars", this Piledriver album, On the Level, and the outstanding live album, "Live!" All were really solid and full of great songs. This album has 4 great songs and a few ok songs. The really great songs are:
Don't Waste My Time: a brilliant song with lots of sprit and a great guitar melody,
Big Fat Mamma: AWSOME guitar solo; and Rick's vocals are great on this. A fantastic hard rock song.
Paper Plane: this was their first top 5 single. It's a really fast cool song.
Roadhouse Blues:The classic Doors song covered brilliantly, and more raw than ever. Great guitar solos,great vocals from bassist Alan lancaster, and I just love that harmonica in there. The version of this on the "Live!" album is incredible.
So make no mistake, Piledriver was one of Quo's best studio albums get this and all of the albums they did in the late 60's and 70's, and you will have the true best of Quo. The album cover features the band infront of the drumkit onstage just hamerring away on the guitars and headbanging away; and that's what this album is all about."
Awesome Remaster of a Great Rock Album
Mark | Australia | 11/04/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I grew up with Status Quo being my number 1 band. Their music encouraged me to learn to play guitar. They were just one heck of an energetic melodic rock and roll band.
I had all the records and as time rolled on and i got older i moved on to other things musically.
Recently i saw this remaster and thought id buy it for old times sake and to remember my younger years and what a great move that was. This remaster rocks and they sound absolutely as exciting and fresh today as they did then.
I challenge anyone to find a better boogie R&R album than this and the ones Status Quo released in this part of their career.
Its just an awesome sounding CD."
Status Quo's First Great Album
The Footpath Cowboy | Kingston, NY United States | 03/08/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"PILEDRIVER was Status Quo's first great album. Freed from a creatively stifling recording contract with Pye, the Quo gave up pop for a hard-driving blues-boogie sound that really rocked as few others could. This album proved that the band could have hit singles without really trying to, as "Paper Plane" went Top 5 in the UK. The band members' belief that the young Australian tourist jailed in Indonesia since last spring on drug-smuggling charges was unjustly convicted makes this CD an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience."
Track Listings (9) - Disc #1