4 more Quadio titles coming in January 2024! (Titles Announced)

[JediJoker]

...Spyro Gyra...

Not a Warner artist, and with no quad mixes.

 

[fredblue]

Having recently finished the Sly Stone book, I wondered about Graham Central Station. I didn't listen to them much back in the 70s, but listened a bit on Apple Music today. They certainly have a bit of the Family Stone sound.

there are two Graham Central Station Warner Brothers Quads Rhino could reissue on Quadio Blu-ray; "Graham Central Station" & "Ain't No Bout A Doubt It", the latter has a really active Surround mix with cool effects and panning

 

[beerking]

A HUGE shout out for the Average White Band.

Now that would really get my quad juices flowing.

I'll repeat that, Average White Band, please

 

[Tres Discrete]

Having recently finished the Sly Stone book, I wondered about Graham Central Station. I didn't listen to them much back in the 70s, but listened a bit on Apple Music today. They certainly have a bit of the Family Stone sound.

I made a connection I hadn’t thought about when I visited Paisley Park a couple of years ago.
One of the walls had paintings of artists that inspired Prince.
One of them was Sly & the Family Stone.
Makes sense when you think of integrating not only types of music, but genders & races within the band - crossing all sorts of “barriers”…
Prince would also go on to do quite a bit of work with Larry Graham as I recall.
Pretty cool

 

[--Moe--]

Having recently finished the Sly Stone book, I wondered about Graham Central Station. I didn't listen to them much back in the 70s, but listened a bit on Apple Music today. They certainly have a bit of the Family Stone sound.

I have been a big Fan, and LP & CD buyer, of 'Sly & The Family Stone', 'War', 'Tower of Power', 'EW&F', etc.. for decades.

How in the heck have I never heard of 'Graham Central Station' before ?!?
I did some online listening this morning, and eventually put in an order for the 'The Best of Graham Central Station: Vol.1' CD.

I'd like to see both 'Graham Central Station' Quad albums I just learned of get the Rhino Quadio treatment.
Graham Central Station - s/t
Graham Central Station - Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It

 

[MIDIQ]

Grahram central station would be great, especially Ain't no doubt.

 

[sunra]

Need Bark
Need Bark
Need Bark

Hot Tuna America’s Choice would be great too

 

[shakti]

I muld be very much up for Graham Central Station. Hope this lot brings some titles that get me off the fence. I waited out the previous bunch but really want to get Mingus Moves, and would probably try Sundown as well. Just need to add up to a little bundle.

The jazz cat here could also be Gil Evans. Svengali is a terrific album.

 

[4-earredwonder]

For R & B how 'bout Aretha LIVE at Fillmore West. Fredblue, how's the discrete mix? Worthy of release?

 

[fredblue]

For R & B how 'bout Aretha LIVE at Fillmore West. Fredblue, how's the discrete mix? Worthy of release?

it's a long time since i played it, i can't remember how it pans out, sorry Ralphie. although i do recall it was one of the WEA Quad 8-track tapes i had to reassign the channels on. i'll dig out my files tomorrow and report back

 

[mandrix]

Could Jackson Browne truly be a possibilty? I don't recall any Quad issues. (corrected: except for Late For The Sky)
Would almost give a small body part for "The Pretender". Don't understand why his one (modern) mch release did not inspire more? Even his one BD (that I know of/own) was stereo.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Could Jackson Browne truly be a possibilty? I don't recall any Quad issues.
Would almost give a small body part for "The Pretender". Don't understand why his one mch release did not inspire more? Even his one BD (that I know of/own) was stereo.

Late for the Sky was released in CD-4 back in the day, an excellent album and mix by the way, and Running on Empty was released as DVD-A

 

[mandrix]

Yes, I misspoke. I have a digital grab of Late For The Sky from CD-4. also have Running on Empty DVDA.
Still would like to see The Pretender in some mch format.

 

[kfbkfb]

Actually, my other post in this thread was partially a kind of indirect way of asking if the J. Geils/Bloodshot quad mix would be released as a Quadio (maybe in the group after the 2024-01 group).

(it's puzzling that a quad mix would be made and not released [even just as a Q8 tape, which was probably less hassle than making a CD-4 LP])


Kirk Bayne

 

[user 15634]

I would love to see War's "The World Is A Ghetto" & "All Day Music" get the Quadio Treatment.

 

[himey]

War's "The World Is A Ghetto"

Have you heard the quad mix?

 

[steelydave]

For R & B how 'bout Aretha LIVE at Fillmore West. Fredblue, how's the discrete mix? Worthy of release?

I actually mentioned this one as a favourite in a thread about the best live quad mixes back in 2016 - a the risk of falling in to "only narcissists quote themselves" territory, allow me:

"Aretha Franklin 'Live At Fillmore West' (1971) What I really like about this quad mix is it makes use of all 4 of the stereo soundfields available in a quad mix, ie stuff in stereo across the front and back, but also stuff in stereo across the side walls too. Aretha's in the front (along with drums and bass), horns are along the left wall, backing vocalists along the right wall, and keyboards, guitars etc are dotted around the room, and the crowd is all around you. It's a really immersive mix and King Curtis' band that's backing Aretha is Hot with a capital H, including the great Bernard Purdie on drums, one of my favourite drummers of all time. Because Aretha was playing the Fillmore she was playing a lot of 'crossover' material including Eleanor Rigby, Love The One You're With, Bridge Over Troubled Waters and I Wanna Make It With You in addition to her usual repertoire and she owns it all, but that isn't even the best part - there's a true 'hairs stand up on the back of the neck' moment toward the end where she pulls Ray Charles out of the audience to duet with her on Spirit In The Dark. I guess Rhino didn't have much success with the Quadio disc of Aretha's Greatest Hits, but I'd love to see AF do a SACD of this one - it's a remarkable performance and listening to it in stereo is like watching it on TV while the quad mix makes you feel like you're actually in the crowd."

Just to add to that, I now believe that the "side wall" material I was referring to are actually diagonal pans, ie material panned between front left and rear right, and front right and rear left. This album was mixed for quad in either late 1971 or early 1972 (before WEA had committed to a quad LP format) and was only initially released in quad on Q8 as part of their distribution agreement with Ampex - I think the diagonal pans were for compliance "just in case" they decided to go with a matrix quad format, as Warner Japan had already done some QS releases by that point. It's also interesting to note that these gigs were filmed pretty much in full by the Fillmore West's in-house black and white camera system (and are available on the Wolfgang's Vault YouTube page) - it's probably out of the scope of the Quadio program (not to mention prohibitively expensive to license the footage) but it would be a cool project to sync the quad with the video, should this album be re-released digitally.

there are two Graham Central Station Warner Brothers Quads Rhino could reissue on Quadio Blu-ray; "Graham Central Station" & "Ain't No Bout A Doubt It", the latter has a really active Surround mix with cool effects and panning

Completely agree, Ain't No Bout a Doubt It is one of my favourite of all the WEA quads, and at the risk of saying something blasphemous, I think it's a better and more consistent album than any of the studio albums that Sly and the Family Stone put out, though I'll concede it will never be as historically significant. I don't think there's a clunker on the whole album - Your Love is really reminiscent of Hot Fun in the Summertime, and the cover of I Can't Stand the Rain is arguably better than the original, but the real standout is the leadoff track, The Jam, which gives each member of the band a chance to showcase themselves around a killer riff that borrows a bit from Don Nix' Going Down. Prince was a massive fan of this song and performed it regularly with his band when Larry Graham was a member in the late '90s and early '00s.

As fredblue mentions, the surround mix, done by Mallory Earl (who also did the quad mixes for Hot Tuna's America's Choice and Yellow Fever) is great and very active featuring lots of swirling around the room pans, something that was becoming something of a rarity in the later era of quad. In fact, this album might've been the very last Warner Bros. quad release (Elektra/Asylum did a few more, Joni's Hissing in late 1975, and Tony Orlando's To Be with You in early 1976) at least in terms of chronological catalog number order.

 

[Quadkid]

Actually, my other post in this thread was partially a kind of indirect way of asking if the J. Geils/Bloodshot quad mix would be released as a Quadio (maybe in the group after the 2024-01 group).

(it's puzzling that a quad mix would be made and not released [even just as a Q8 tape, which was probably less hassle than making a CD-4 LP])


Kirk Bayne

Had Bloodshot in the special “red vinyl” LP issue back in college!

 

[kwd kwd]

Finally. It's about time.

Looking forward to the guessing game for the new batch.

I'm not, Just tell us , what are they ?

 

[Raysdeathmachine]

Any love for Phoebe Snow SECOND CHILDHOOD? iirc, her only Quad and on the Columbia label.