RARE EARTH GET READY RARE EARTH CD4W-7105 Japan OBI 4Channel Vinyl LP

Same here, on all counts!

GOS said:

I love BTO! They were very popular in the midwest US during the 70's. Everybody I knew had BTO playing in their cars. A nice clean Quad SACD of them would be an instant purchase for me.

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fizzywiggs41 said:

Well let's just hope-Gene !

Hope for Mercury Records to wipe the dust off the Quad Multi's in decaying storage and surprise us with (likely) Blu-rays of all Five Quads of BTO...........Hell I'd settle for a Best of BTO Quads , they do have a lot of AM and FM hits , so you never know.

Had all five of their Q8'S and now it's time for Mercury to upgrade. There is surround activity from that label after all..

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BTO was perhaps bigger in Canada than The Guess Who in the mid seventies. I was one of those that wasn't really a fan at first, I felt that the music was too simple.
Randy Bachman had formed a group called Brave Belt along with Chad Allan right after leaving The Guess Who. Those two (Brave Belt) albums where more folk and country flavoured rock but both are excellent! I recommend Brave Belt II to all BTO fans, many tracks are pure BTO, the harder edged sound caused Chad Allen to leave the group. Brave Belt II was re-released as Bachman Turner Bachman, to capitalize on Bachman Turner Overdrive's success.
As for the Quads, that's when I really started to love BTO, every one is excellent all channels are equally busy at all times, as I recall the vocals are all full centre which sounds great if the speakers are placed more traditionally. To me stereo versions are unlistenable after this. I have the DTS CD of Not Fragile, good sound but could of been better. I like the first album the most but my favourite BTO song is "She's A Devil" from Four Wheel Drive, released as a single but barely charted.
I would snap up a Blu-ray or SACD set for sure.

Just won a NM CD4 Rare Earth on eBay for 135.00 and a NM BTO CD4 Not Fragile on Discogs. Found NM Bark CD4 and 2 NM Moody Blues CD4 that way. I am so happy!

amontass said:

Just won a NM CD4 Rare Earth on eBay for 135.00 and a NM BTO CD4 Not Fragile on Discogs. Found NM Bark CD4 and 2 NM Moody Blues CD4 that way. I am so happy!

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Very nice!! :banana:

ArmyOfQuad's rip of this is a killer. It is of note that the title track GET READY does not include the fake crowd sound as on the stereo version and it makes it a 100,000 times even better.