Looking more closely at Mark's quad listings:
+1 for both of these, although Fantasy is owned by Concord these days so that could be a hard, fast “no” to Rhino.
In one of the other recent quadio threads, we were told the only unreleased 5.1’s that Rhino has are Chicago X and the soundtrack to High Society.
They are touchable most certainly, but by Universal who now control his Reprise recordings, as well as the Capitol era masters.
Quasi-Quad unfortunately from what I've read. I have a conversion from Q8 and it's pretty horrid.
There were two big separate fires that took plenty of master and multitrack tapes. Luckily quad masters for the most part seems to be not what went up in flames for either of them. Many quad titles from Universal owned labels have appeared on silver discs mastered from beautiful first generation tapes. Quad masters from Warner, Atlantic, Elektra, and Asylum appear in good condition and order. Sony/BMG (RCA) appear to be mostly there in good condition when they can be found. Reports from a few years back at Sony were that the library organization leaves plenty to be desired, with several search attempts often required to locate basic things.
Frank Zappa claimed in an interview that he retained the rights to this album when he and his manager spilt up and the Straight and Bizarre record label catalogs needed to be divided up between them in the settlement. Frank apparently wanted that album which he produced strictly so he could prevent it's reissue from ever happening. No love lost between him and Fisher. Both of the two CD issues of this album (UK and Japan) are unofficial needle drops.
And Deep Purple, how could you forget.
Atlantic has been a good source for Quadio releases recently. I can think of several more very strong titles expected, Jazz and R&B in particular, but more Rock and a Pop singer or two.
Deeper as in Asylum, Elektra, and Grunt, yes I hope so. Maybe Harvest, Parlophone or/and Chrysalis will reveal something quad as well.
Some of the multitracks went up in the 2008 fire; but they were backed-up onto digital for the 1969-1981 "Singles" DVD. I actually have a copy of the multitrack for "We've Only just begun" and it features both the original and a new stereo keyboard track. A&M was absorbed by Universal so, who knows what's happening with their stuff.
there's still plenty of WEA Quads i'd love Rhino to give the Quadio treatment, if possible, including any and all Joni Mitchell, any and all James Taylor, any Bread/David Gates, James Gang "Miami", Deaf School "2nd Honeymoon", Robert Mason ft Stardrive "Intergalactic Trot", Sergio Mendes S/T, Spinners "New & Improved" & "Pick Of The Litter", Herbie Mann "Reggae", Bette Midler "Divine Miss M.", Donny Hathaway "Extension Of A Man", Roberta Flack "Killing Me Softly", Dionne Warwick(e) "Then Came You", both SHF Band Quads and both Graham Central Station Quads.Didn't forget about The Purple. Are they under the Rhino umbrella? Was kind of under the impression that they were off the table and it had been confirmed that "Burn" was never actually done.
Looking at the list of Quad Atlantic stuff, I'm unimpressed by what I see. The Spinners and AWB are about all I'd spend money on.
Grunt is Airplane and Hot Tuna and a single album by Papa John Creach. Again, nothing that lights my loafers on fire.
I have different tastes I guess than the average Quaddie. I'd like to get the Paul Simons, the Edgar Winters, the Johnny Winters, the Aerosmiths, The Eagleses.... I could live a very happy life without ever having Duke Ellington, Herbie Mann or Peggy Lee in Quad.
Curiously though, I do like the notion that more Project 3 albums might could be in the works from D-V. Comci, Comca.
That is good news though that more is in the pipe. I hadn't heard a peep since the announcement of this last batch.
If I could only pick one from this batch....a tough choice for sure....I think it would be Rod Stewart. I'm not sure Rod had any quad releases back in the day. So this would be a nice get!
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there's still plenty of WEA Quads i'd love Rhino to give the Quadio treatment, if possible, including any and all Joni Mitchell, any and all James Taylor, any Bread/David Gates, James Gang "Miami", Deaf School "2nd Honeymoon", Robert Mason ft Stardrive "Intergalactic Trot", Sergio Mendes S/T, Spinners "New & Improved" & "Pick Of The Litter", Herbie Mann "Reggae", Bette Midler "Divine Miss M.", Donny Hathaway "Extension Of A Man", Roberta Flack "Killing Me Softly", Dionne Warwick(e) "Then Came You", both SHF Band Quads and both Graham Central Station Quads.
of those you most desire, it's really only the Eagles-es that are the holdout's'es!
2 of the 3 Paul Simons-es (plus S&G's'es BOTW), all bar 1 of the 5 Edgar Winters-es, all 3 Johnny Winters-es and all 3 Aerosmiths-es (catalogue since moved to UMG and the Quads now removed from streaming services, sadly) got either Dolby Audio-ized on Apple Music and/or given the Sony 360 RA treatment on Tidal.. and the latter, properly decoded, when you ditch the extraneous synthesized Height channels etc and get to the core 4-channel Quad mixes, all those Quads are all there in all their (mostly) unvarnished discrete mastertape glory
ok, those Sony owned Quads are streaming only at this point, i'm sure most of us would prefer SACDs/Blu-ray's but for now it'll have to do. while not on Dutton Vocalion, Audio Fidelity or even Rhino levels, for my money most are leaps and bounds better sounding than the old SQ LPs or Q8 tapes, so i'm happy
