1973

[jamoke]

 

[Bill B]

What a great year,,,,

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/albums-turning-50-in-2023/

 

[barfle]

That was the only full year I worked at Altec-Lansing as an engineering tech. i started there in ‘72 and got laid off just before Christmas in ‘74.

The engineer I most worked with was an audiophile, and he taught me a lot about what “listening to music” meant. We often went to his house and listened to an album during lunch. Many great times, but the industry isn’t noted for longevity of employment.

 

[humprof]

What a great year,,,,

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/albums-turning-50-in-2023/

Amazing to see how many chart-topping artists were still releasing two albums in the space of a year.

 

[humprof]

Familiar albums, a little more context:
https://www.ocregister.com/2023/01/...-albums-of-1973-and-a-few-other-classics-too/

 

[steelydave]

1973 was really (in retrospect) the peak year for quad - at least commercially. The quality of mixes got better from 1974 onward, but I doubt there was a year when more quad product was released than 1973.

A few highlights:
Warner/Elektra/Atlantic released their first CD-4's, a batch of 25 titles, in September
Stax released their first quad product on Q8 and LP (four Isaac Hayes albums and a Staples Singers album)
United Artists/Blue Note released nearly a dozen Q8's
RCA went full bore with their CD-4 program, even trying to go single-inventory for the first half of the year

..and other major labels really hit peak quad production, including Columbia/Epic, ABC/Impulse, and A&M to name a few.


Musically, I think it's also worth noting that 1973 is really the year that all of Miles disciples kind of "graduate" and jazz fusion comes of age:

Herbie Hancock's Headhunters
Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire (and Between Nothingness & Eternity Live)
Return to Forever's Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
Billy Cobham's Spectrum
Weather Report's Sweetnighter

 

[Doug G.]

I know "In Too much Too Soon" was 1974 but hey, it's the same band.

 

[jamoke]

I know "In Too much Too Soon" was 1974 but hey, it's the same band.

But this one WAS recorded in 1973, released in 5.1 DVDA in 2002.

 

[humprof]

https://www.discogs.com/release/2411217-Al-Green-Call-Me

50 years old. (@Clement!)

 

[Quad Linda]

In #17, Puppo instructed us not to forget Quad albums. Evidently, he didn't read (my) post #8. Just for that, no puppy treats this week! :

Some of my most played Quads were both released on 2ch and Quad in '73:

Full Sail
Rhymin' Simon
Countdown to Ecstacy
Intergalactic Trot - Stardrive
I Got a Name
Best of Doors (Quad only comp)
Overnight Sensation
Jarrett
Klemmer
Angel Clare
Deliver the Word
Bartok: Concierto
Why Don'tcha
Headhunters
Live/Evil
Dark Side of the Moon
Bonnie Koloc
Double Dirty Mother- Roosevelt Sykes
Santana/McLaughlin
Welcome
Chapter VII - Buddy Miles
Head to the Sky
Between Nothingness

2ch:
Innervisions
Band on the Run (Q in '74)
Excursions- Eddie Harris
El Chicano
Yellow Brick Rd (5.1 later)
Wovoka
Soaring - Don Ellis
Evolution- Malo
Quadrophenia (5.1 later)
Bright Moments - Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Much more as I have time.