4 New Quadio releases coming in June!

[DuncanS]

I have thought about all of these. I believe there are enough quads by Seals and Crofts and The Spinners to do boxes, if the label decides to go there again. I do find it odd that there does not seem to be a quad release for The Spinners' Mighty Love. their second for Atlantic. And I think Red Octopus would be the logical choice for Grunt, though I would love to see Dragonfly or Spitfire. While going through Cashbox archives, I noticed Spitfire reached the top of the album chart (but not in Billboard). That album seems to be mostly forgotten these days.

My favourite is Spitfire, then Dragonfly, then Red Octopus, but I'd take any, and hopefully we'll get them all!

 

[GOS]

Rhin-oid is playing hard to get man......just...no...more...info...

 

[GOS]

I have spent exactly $633 at Rhino.com and I deserve to know. lmao They owe me big time for paying their checks....hahaha...ahem.

 

[edisonbaggins]

I'm hearing no Joni, this time.
But her stuff is in the works!
I somewhat trust the source!

 

[sjcorne]

I do find it odd that there does not seem to be a quad release for The Spinners' Mighty Love. their second for Atlantic.

These kinds of odd gaps in the discography weren't uncommon during the quad years. Carly Simon's debut and No Secrets got done, but no Anticipation (though two cuts did make the Best Of comp in quad). Deep Purple is another example, after Machine Head they skipped Who Do We Think We Are? (which had "Woman From Tokyo", one of the band's biggest songs) and Burn - the MK III lineup's first and most successful (I think?) album - in favor of Stormbringer.

It wasn't just WEA, the trend shows up at CBS as well. Sly & The Family Stone's Greatest Hits and Small Talk were done in quad, but the two albums in between - There's A Riot Goin' On and Fresh - were skipped. Same for Blood Sweat & Tears: after the self-titled second album and Greatest Hits were done (but not III & IV), there were no quad releases until Mirror Image (though we found out recently from the Sony 360RA releases on Tidal that 1972's New Blood was mixed and left unreleased).

 

[Chronic Quadraphonic]

The Spinners are about to be inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. They have one surviving original member, Henry Fambrough who is 84.

 

[fizzywiggs41]

I like @gvl_guy 's list , but I'm hoping they pick James Gang instead of The Spinners for the Atlantic title.
James Taylor Gorilla is very good especially given the guitar appearance of the late Lowell George on one of the best tracks.
Black Sabbath -Sabotage would be a welcome surprise.
(or even Deep Purple -Burn)
Red Octopus, is my pick for Grunt.


But regardless, I'll most likely take all 4 upon release.

And the best part is that @ForagingRhino says he's already working on the next releases!

 

[fizzywiggs41]

I'm hearing no Joni, this time.
But her stuff is in the works!
I somewhat trust the source!

Well there's always the next batch .

Her 2 Asylum albums are incredible in quad (and maybe "Blue" )

I'd also want to see the release of Jackson Browne -Late For The Sky . Kinda timely with the passing of his cohort David Lindley.

 

[fredblue]

These kinds of odd gaps in the discography weren't uncommon during the quad years. Carly Simon's debut and No Secrets got done, but no Anticipation (though two cuts did make the Best Of comp in quad). Deep Purple is another example, after Machine Head they skipped Who Do We Think We Are? (which had "Woman From Tokyo", one of the band's biggest songs) and Burn - the MK III lineup's first and most successful (I think?) album - in favor of Stormbringer.

It wasn't just WEA, the trend shows up at CBS as well. Sly & The Family Stone's Greatest Hits and Small Talk were done in quad, but the two albums in between - There's A Riot Goin' On and Fresh - were skipped. Same for Blood Sweat & Tears: after the self-titled second album and Greatest Hits were done (but not III & IV), there were no quad releases until Mirror Image (though we found out recently from the Sony 360RA releases on Tidal that 1972's New Blood was mixed and left unreleased).

odd indeed! it was a rather interesting time and while it's easy for us with the gift of hindsight to see it a certain way nowadays, there's the curious phenomenon at CBS during that time; a recurring situation whereby a hit Stereo-only album was followed by a flop in Quad.

CBS were seemingly hedging their bets once they came to be more selective about Quad, i guess due to the law of diminishing returns as much as anything; factoring in on the one hand the added overhead of mixing in Quad and on the other the lack of sales.. and so forth.

then you have that instance where Steve Hoffman said on his own forum that for as many Quads that saw release back in the day, the same again were mixed but never released.

i think in time he will have been proven to have been pretty much spot on.

for a host of reasons, projects and releases get shelved and i suspect a fair few Quads were far from unique in suffering that fate in the 70's.

ah well.. we shall see.. maybe! or maybe we won't i dunno!

 

[edisonbaggins]

Well there's always the next batch .

Her 2 Asylum albums are incredible in quad (and maybe "Blue" )

I'd also want to see the release of Jackson Browne -Late For The Sky . Kinda timely with the passing of his cohort David Lindley.

I have Court and Summer Lawns on CD-4. Both enjoyable!
Any previously unreleased Joni Quads, like in a Quadio box, would absolutely RULE.

 

[fizzywiggs41]

I have Court and Summer Lawns on CD-4. Both enjoyable!
Any previously unreleased Joni Quads, like in a Quadio box, would absolutely RULE.

Yes, I think we lucked out at the time (early mid 70's) when quad was catching on , that she made two excellent albums with a great quad mix.
Here's hoping we see them them next batch.

And Jackson Browne's Late For The Sky , I bought it on a whim only because it was quad.....and what a great album and mix.
That album grew on me fast, very fast.

 

[Owen Smith]

then you have that instance where Steve Hoffman said on his own forum that for as many Quads that saw release back in the day, the same again were mixed but never released.

I think if that were true and they were genuinely finished mixes we would have seen a lot more of them by now. I suspect a fair number were part finished and then stopped, like Pink Floyd Echoes for example. Also given how poor a job the industry has done looking after the master tapes of quad mixes that were actually released, how good a job do you think they've done with ones that never saw the light of day, finished or otherwise? Half of them were probably thrown out with the trash, or the expensive tape re-used for something else given the mix was clearly thought to have no value at the time.

 

[fizzywiggs41]

I think if that were true and they were genuinely finished mixes we would have seen a lot more of them by now. I suspect a fair number were part finished and then stopped, like Pink Floyd Echoes for example. Also given how poor a job the industry has done looking after the master tapes of quad mixes that were actually released, how good a job do you think they've done with ones that never saw the light of day, finished or otherwise? Half of them were probably thrown out with the trash, or the expensive tape re-used for something else given the mix was clearly thought to have no value at the time.

I'd gladly like to take a tour of their vaults to find out for myself.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

I'd gladly like to take a tour of their vaults to find out for myself.

Oh, I bet you would fizzy LMAO

 

[fizzywiggs41]

I'd gladly like to take a tour of their vaults to find out for myself.

Oh, I bet you would fizzy LMAO

I'd do it in a blink . And even sign an NDA .

 

[Owen Smith]

I'd do it in a blink . And even sign an NDA .

And you think all the tapes in the vaults are correctly labelled and can be found in the location the catalogue says they're in? Assuming there even is a catalogue? And then if you actually manage to find the tape you are looking for is it actually in a usable condition and if not how much is restoration going to cost?

Given how many things the labels would like to find but either can't or turn out to be in poor condition, I suspect the cast offs that were never released are in an even more precarious state.

 

[fizzywiggs41]

And you think all the tapes in the vaults are correctly labelled and can be found in the location the catalogue says they're in? Assuming there even is a catalogue? And then if you actually manage to find the tape you are looking for is it actually in a usable condition and if not how much is restoration going to cost?

Given how many things the labels would like to find but either can't or turn out to be in poor condition, I suspect the cast offs that were never released are in an even more precarious state.

Your being too pessimistic . I used to do something similar for a living once.
And I'm not being modest when I say I got pretty good at finding lost or misplaced things., such as boxes of tape.

So yes I think I could .

 

[kfbkfb]

Doobie Brothers Quadio type EQ? - I hope not, I don't see the justification for doing additional EQ to the Quad masters.


Kirk Bayne

 

[key_wiz]

Does it matter which titles? I’m buying them all!

 

[JediJoker]

Doobie Brothers Quadio type EQ? - I hope not, I don't see the justification for doing additional EQ to the Quad masters.


Kirk Bayne

I think Craig Anderson's mastering was actually worse and more noticeable on the Chicago Quadio set.