Quad 8 Track Collections

[Q8Repair]

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Average White Band
Brecker Bros- Back to Back
Bachman Turners Overdrive- Four Wheel Drive
Carly Simon- No Secrets
Carole King- Fantasy
Carole King- Rhymes and Reasons
Concert Hall (?)
Doobie Brothers -Stampede
Doobie Bros- What were once vices are now habits
Eagles- One of these nights
Gordon Lightfoot- Sundown
Jethro Tull- War Child
Jeff Beck- Blow by Blow
John Lennon- Imagine
Jim Croce- Don't mess around with Jim
Paul McCartney & Wings- Band on the Run
Paul McCartney and Wings- Venus & Mars
Steve Miller- Fly like an eagle
War- Life is a Ghetto

[Q-Eight]

RCA:

The Guess Who - Wheatfield Soul
The Guess Who - Canned Wheat
The Guess Who - American Woman
The Guess Who - Share the Land
The Guess Who - Artificial Paradise
The Guess Who - Rockin'
The Guess Who - Best Of (Volume 1)
The Guess Who - Best Of (Volume 2)
The Guess Who - Road Food
The Guess Who - Flavours
The Guess Who - Power in the Music
Youngbloods, The - Best Of
Jefferson Airplane - Worst Of
Denver, John - Poems, Prayers & Promises
Reed, Jerry - The Uptown Poker Club
Presley, Elvis - From Elvis in Memphis
Presley, Elvis - On Stage, 1970
Presley, Elvis - Live at Madison Square Garden
Presley, Elvis - Live Aloha from Hawaii
Presley, Elvis - Promised Land
Presley, Elvis - Today
Presley, Elvis - That's the way it is
Jefferson Starship - Dragon Fly
Philadelphia Orchestra - Love Story
Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Pure Prarie League - Two Lane Highway

Columbia / Epic:

Joplin, Janis - Pearl
Raiders, The - Indian Reservation
Cash, Johnny - Live at San Quentin
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water
Loggins & Messina - 'Self Titled'
Simon, Paul - 'Self Titled'
Simon, Paul - There Goes Rhymin' Simon
Essex, David - Rock On
Santana - Abraxas
Ten Years After - A Space in Time
Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Sly & the Family Stone - Greatest Hits
Edgar Winter Group - The Only Come Out at Night
Edgar Winter Group - Shock Treatment
Streisand, Barbra - The Way we Were & All in Love is Fair
MFSB - Love is the Message

GRT (Abc/Dunhill, Chess, Fantasy, Paramount, etc):

Croce, Jim - You Don't Mess Around with Jim
Croce, Jim - Life & Times
Croce, Jim - I Got a Name
Croce, Jim - Photographs & Memories (Greatest Hits)
Grass Roots, The - 16 Greatest Hits*
Walsh, Joe - The Smoker you Drink, The Player you Get*
Three Dog Night - Hard Labour
Three Dog Night - Coming Down Your Way
Rufus - Rags to Rufus
Berry, Chuck - The London Sessions*
Love Story (Original Movie Soundtrack)
GRT Quad Sampler
Randolph, Boots - Homer Louis Randolph III
Mountain - Best Of


Mercury:

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - I
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - II
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Four Wheel Drive
Ohio Players - Fire
Ohio Players - Honey

Asylum/Elektra:

Bread - Best Of
Simon, Carly - No Secrets
Doors, The - Best Of
Eagles - On the Border
Eagles - One of these Nights

Project 3:

Light, Enoch - Four Channel Demonstration
- Spaced Out
- Charge!
- Big Hit Movie Themes
- with the Brass Menagerie '73
- Four Channel Dynamite

Warner Bros. / Reprise:

Doobie Brothers, The - The Captain & Me
Lightfoot, Gordon - Sundown
Seals & Crofts - Diamond Girl
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper - Muscle of Love

Apple/Capitol:

McCartney, Paul & Wings - Band on the Run
McCartney, Paul & Wings - Venus & Mars
Lennon, John - Walls & Bridges
Starr, Ringo - Goodnight Vienna
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle
Grand Funk Railroad - Shinin' On
Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
San Fernando Brass - New Brass Sound of the Hits
Righteous Brothers - Give It to the People

Misc:

"Shaft" Movie Soundtrack (Tape 1 & 2)
Big Band Moog
Bacharach, Burt - Reach Out
Cocker, Joe - Joe Cocker!
Ventures, The - Hawaii Five-O


The * on some of the GRT tapes denotes I have two versions of the same tape, ones containing the left channel swap error and others without the error.

[JonUrban]

Nice! We should do pictures here too!

[Q8Repair]

Wow. Nice collection! How do the ohio players sound in Q8?! Oh man, that'd be sick!

[Q-Eight]

Wow. Nice collection! How do the ohio players sound in Q8?! Oh man, that'd be sick!

*sheepish grin*
Thanks! The Ohio Players tapes sound really good. Honey sounds identical to the DTS CD that was also released. Fire is also good, though I don't play it all that often.

Pictures can be done!

[Q-Eight]

I could probably rattle off the sealed/never opened tapes that I've also opened:

Steve Miller - The Joker
Eagles - One of these nights
Guess Who - Canned Wheat, Share the Land, Road Food, Flavours, Power in the Music
Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna

But I'm also more into collecting for the music, not just to show off that I have all these tapes. Every one gets played. Heck, I even had a Q8 player in my AMC Hornet for a few years.

[Bob Squires Jr]

*sheepish grin*
Thanks! The Ohio Players tapes sound really good. Honey sounds identical to the DTS CD that was also released. Fire is also good, though I don't play it all that often.

Pictures can be done!

I'd love to see first BTO album be converted... My BTO II was done a little bit ago and
the first two albums are my favorites.

-B

[Quad Linda]

The first BTO is my vote for their best. Does anyone have a Japanese CD-4 of this? I never acquired a Quad of it. The CD has been OOP for years, though I own one and a 2ch LP.

Linda

I'd love to see first BTO album be converted... My BTO II was done a little bit ago and
the first two albums are my favorites.

-B

[JonUrban]

I love how everyone stores them by label. I do the same thing.

[Lucanu]

Here's my little collection.

[Dylan Berichon]

My lone Q8 is a still sealed copy of Curtis Mayfield's "Roots".

I have another Q8 that came in a large 8-track collection I bought a few years ago, but I can't remember the name of the album for the life of me. (It was a live album, that I do remember... One of the songs on it was called "You and I").

[Floyfn]

I have a small collection, but I've given up on the format since most titles I want are now availible on disc anyways. my Carly Simon "No Secrets" has gone AWOL.

[quadgdiaz]

hi

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have more but those will have to take pictures later thanks Gerardo

[Q8Repair]

I love how everyone stores them by label. I do the same thing.

I don't.

[JonUrban]

Here's the pile I used for the QQ Q8 background:

[DaneelOlivaw]

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[dr8track]

Mine are all in boxes. Still packed away from a recent divorce. Will get settled and haul them out again at some point, but here is my list;

http://http://keepontrackin.bravepages.com/qtrade.htm


My apologies in advance for all the annoying pop-ups. It's a free website and I made my web pages back in the late 90's. Just have not gotten around to transferring it over to another server.

[Q-Eight]

Impressive List Dr8track!!

I think my collection just crossed the 150 tape mark. Catching up to my stereo 8-track collection!

So how does Cosmic Slop by Funkadelic sound??

[roundhousequad]

some poor pics of mine

[JonUrban]

Sweet. Anyone remember going into a store and seeing that many Q8's? There was a store I went into off of Times Square once that had a huge Q8 case filled with them. I can't remember the name of the store, but they went out of business years ago. I think the chain was bought by Sam Goody.

[Philip Spinner]

Sweet. Anyone remember going into a store and seeing that many Q8's? There was a store I went into off of Times Square once that had a huge Q8 case filled with them. I can't remember the name of the store, but they went out of business years ago. I think the chain was bought by Sam Goody.

It was called King Karol Records. They had a few stores including their main store on 42nd street as well as the one in times square that you mentioned. I purchased many quad tapes there myself as well as Wally's Tape World on the west side.

[JonUrban]

It was called King Karol Records. They had a few stores including their main store on 42nd street as well as the one in times square that you mentioned. I purchased many quad tapes there myself as well as Wally's Tape World on the west side.

That was it! King Karol Records. Wow. I hadn't thought about them for years. A great store. They had shelves of albums all stacked way up high with a ladder to access them (employees only of course), and I remember scanning the spines from far away looking for the occasional COLUMBIA QUADRAPHONIC at the bottom instead of COLUMBIA, then asking if I could go up and see which one it was. Of course, that's back when I could see small things from a distance.

[JonUrban]

Welcome "Arnold Layne"! Nice set of tapes there. The Canadian Capital sampler is very rare, and one of the best sounding Q8's I've ever listened to. (The EMI PF's are not too shabby either! )

[ArmyOfQuad]

what's on the sampler?

[JonUrban]

It's a great sampler!

Actually, "Arnold" bought that Q8 from me back in November 2002! (eBay item 921238231)

Here's the scan I used in the eBay ad: