What's the Latest QUAD TAPE Added to Your Pile? Q8, Q4

[Bob Romano]

Excellent! Have you had a chance to listen to Sunfighter yet? I'd love to hear that one. How cool...

I can make that happen

 

[sjcorne]

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

 

[bigbillquad]

Hi. All

I have a big back log of Quad stuff I`m starting with some Q4 Tapes.

( Odeon EMI. Q4 EOA-5502Z (Japanese) -''Carnival'' Manuel and The Music Of The Mountains )-
( Warner Bros. Q4 RSTQ-2177-QF -Gorden LightFoot "SunDown" )-
( London. Q4 SPO 4407-QF -The Fantasy Film World Of Bernard Herrmann )-
( Alshire International. Q4 ASQ-QC -Hit Songs Written By Bacharach & Webb )-

 

[bigbillquad]

MORE FROM ABOVE.......

There was a Tape Catalog that came with the Japanese Q4 Tape but its all in Japanese ??????

 

[winopener]

Scan the entire japanese catalogue and post it somewhere, it is a very important informaation font on the hard-to-document japanese quads.

 

[bigbillquad]

Scan the entire japanese catalogue and post it somewhere, it is a very important informaation font on the hard-to-document japanese quads.

I will do so, and I`ll see if steelydave can come up with something??

 

[J. PUPSTER]

MORE FROM ABOVE.......

View attachment 51996

There was a Tape Catalog that came with the Japanese Q4 Tape but its all in Japanese ??????
View attachment 51997View attachment 51998

The numbers of the Reel release are English, so searchable- looks like maybe some of those Toshiba Pro-Use titles in there ie XA-1503 Z
Toshiba anyway
https://www.discogs.com/Count-Buffa...he-World-Of-Bacharach-Sounds/release/10744532

 

[steelydave]

I will do so, and I`ll see if steelydave can come up with something??

Yes definitely, send me a private message and we can arrange transferring the scans via email or wetransfer or something, and I can turn it into a PDF etc.

 

[bigbillquad]

Yes definitely, send me a private message and we can arrange transferring the scans via email or wetransfer or something, and I can turn it into a PDF etc.

Hi. steelydave

I will get in touch with you when I have taken a photo of each page unfortunately its a small catalog book with small print I`ll try my best today.
Bill....

 

[steelydave]

Hi. steelydave

I will get in touch with you when I have taken a photo of each page unfortunately its a small catalog book with small print I`ll try my best today.
Bill....

Take the photos with as much light available as possible, and at the highest possible resolution your camera allows - I can zoom/crop/etc. to get as much out of them as possible.

 

[sjcorne]

Carly Simon - Carly Simon

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Hi. steelydave

I will get in touch with you when I have taken a photo of each page unfortunately its a small catalog book with small print I`ll try my best today.
Bill....

Take the photos with as much light available as possible, and at the highest possible resolution your camera allows - I can zoom/crop/etc. to get as much out of them as possible.

Any progress on this or did I just miss it (not trying to be pushy) just the anticipation as to what could be discovered in there has my attention?

 

[steelydave]

Any progress on this or did I just miss it (not trying to be pushy) just the anticipation as to what could be discovered in there has my attention?

The catalog had little quad info of interest, it only lists the four Japanese quad reels we already knew about (XA-1501Z to XA-1504Z) so I kind of de-prioritized it on my "to-do" list.

It does however have a mostly-complete list of the stereo reels from the same series (you can see the list of ones I dug up on my own here) so I'll eventually add the missing ones which should give a pretty complete list. It also looks like it has a list of EMI Angel classical stereo reels as well - not sure if I'll ever get around to making a list of those or not because the process of transcribing japanese kanji by hand is tedious and time consuming, and people don't seem to care much about the Japanese-market quad stuff, let alone stereo reels.

I will post the catalog however in my Toshiba-EMI thread eventually, it just requires some photoshop work first to make it a bit more legible before I convert the 30+ jpegs that Bill sent me into a PDF.

 

[Q-Eight]

They finally arrived!! 50 days in shipping - I can't believe that. (and I paid for Priority!)
Highly Distinct nearly self-destructed. It was the first I popped in and was met with silence.... so I let it play until music started and then it started to speed up!!!
Luckily, I yanked it out in time before things got too tight. Somehow, I got lucky and the only damage was two small creases near the beginning where there's no music. The other four all played fine without any surgery.

Now I have all the early PQFT "Grunt" tapes, and only need two more Friends of Distinction: "Love Can Make it Easier" and "Real Friends". I had "Love Can Make it Easier" years ago, but sold it off. What a silly bunt I can be.

 

[DuncanS]

They finally arrived!! 50 days in shipping - I can't believe that. (and I paid for Priority!)
Highly Distinct nearly self-destructed. It was the first I popped in and was met with silence.... so I let it play until music started and then it started to speed up!!!
Luckily, I yanked it out in time before things got too tight. Somehow, I got lucky and the only damage was two small creases near the beginning where there's no music. The other four all played fine without any surgery.

Now I have all the early PQFT "Grunt" tapes, and only need two more Friends of Distinction: "Love Can Make it Easier" and "Real Friends". I had "Love Can Make it Easier" years ago, but sold it off. What a silly bunt I can be.


View attachment 53526

They look immaculate! were they still factory sealed?

 

[bigbillquad]

They finally arrived!! 50 days in shipping - I can't believe that. (and I paid for Priority!)
Highly Distinct nearly self-destructed. It was the first I popped in and was met with silence.... so I let it play until music started and then it started to speed up!!!
Luckily, I yanked it out in time before things got too tight. Somehow, I got lucky and the only damage was two small creases near the beginning where there's no music. The other four all played fine without any surgery.

Now I have all the early PQFT "Grunt" tapes, and only need two more Friends of Distinction: "Love Can Make it Easier" and "Real Friends". I had "Love Can Make it Easier" years ago, but sold it off. What a silly bunt I can be.


View attachment 53526

Great purchase there Q-Eight they look pristine.
BBQ....

 

[Q-Eight]

They look immaculate! were they still factory sealed?

Nope, not sealed. But they may have been until quite recently. They have that funny white powdery coating on the labels and that (to me, anyway) is an indication they spent quite a while sealed up.

 

[BILLION$BABY]

They finally arrived!! 50 days in shipping - I can't believe that. (and I paid for Priority!)
Highly Distinct nearly self-destructed. It was the first I popped in and was met with silence.... so I let it play until music started and then it started to speed up!!!
Luckily, I yanked it out in time before things got too tight. Somehow, I got lucky and the only damage was two small creases near the beginning where there's no music. The other four all played fine without any surgery.

Now I have all the early PQFT "Grunt" tapes, and only need two more Friends of Distinction: "Love Can Make it Easier" and "Real Friends". I had "Love Can Make it Easier" years ago, but sold it off. What a silly bunt I can be.


View attachment 53526

If they came from the USA it has to go PRIORITY...there are no other options except for EXPRESS. Had they been sent FEDEX or UPS you would have gotten them in 7-10 days. All Foreign bound packages leaving the USA thru the Post Office are now taking approx. 2-3 months. Only use FEDEX/UPS until this COVID Crapola is gone.

 

[Q-Eight]

I can't comment on the Friends Q8's. Never heard them.

They are typical early RCA Quad mixing style. Bass front center, drums rear - sometimes off in one corner, sometimes not. "Highly Distinct" is the lesser discrete of the pair, having very obvious front and rear sound stages, but being in a very narrow stereo mix. "Whatever" has an interesting mix with drums in Back Left and other percussion (such as congas or tambourine) in Back Right. I don't mind that style of mixing. "Whatever" has instruments appearing in the front corners as well as the back, which is nice. Nothing mind-blowing, other than hearing The Friends of Distinctions' take on The Guess Who New Mother Nature. It's not bad.

 

[Q-Eight]

Today's win. I was beginning to doubt the existence of this tape as in over 20 years of collecting, I'd never seen it. (or if I have, Oldtimers kicked in and I forgot). But I've seen the LP and lost top bid on the Q4 Reel that came around earlier this year. But, since I'm Q-Eight, now I have the appropriate version.