Quad 8 Track Collections

[DennisMabry]

NICE! A very impressive collection!

[Arnold Layne]

I'm new to the forum. So far I have a small collection of 9 tapes

[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:

[ArmyOfQuad]

Any Colour You Like is an interesting choice for a sampler. Reminds me of the juke box in the dining hall at college, it would play a random track every so many minutes, and there was a 45 of that in there. It was kind of strange to have that start out of nowhere while eating.

[Q-Eight]

Cool Sampler!! I wish more of those had come out - I think they would have HELPED Quad sales! Rather than buying multiple tapes just to get one hit song, you buy one tape with multiple hit songs. It only makes sense.

[winopener]

What's hard to understand is why split a song in a demo tape... just rearrange to fit!

[Arnold Layne]

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:

Thanks for putting it up for sale I enjoy that cart quite a bit. Though my favorite is the WYWH quad. The discrete mix is just wonderful. My tape is a bit worn out, the high frequencies are practically gone on the first program. Trying to find a better copy.

[JakeMiller21]

I know I only have a handful, but I wanna show them off anyway. Just getting into Q8.






CAPITOL:

1. Mandingo - "Mandingo III" Q8W 6420

COLUMBIA:

2. Garfunkel - "Angel Clare" CAQ 31474
3. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - "Climb Every Mountain" MAQ 30647

LONDON/OVATION:

4. Paul Horn & The Concert Ensemble Q8. 109
5. The Quadraphonic World Of Broadway LEQ. 66001
6. Ronnie Aldrich - "Top Of The World/Two Pianos" LQN 77203

RCA/NIMBUS 9:

7. The Guess Who - "Best Of Volume II" APT1-0269
8. The Guess Who - "Flavours" APT1-0636
9. Danny Davis' Nashville Brass - "Bluegrass Country" APT1-0565
10. Harry Belafonte - "Belafonte At Carnegie Hall" OQ8-5002

My hunt continues, Cheers!

[66Grandeguy]

I just counted 300 with about 15 doubles. They all get played regularly.
Most are Canadian releases if that means anything. I'll have to get around to listing them.

Still looking for a few more!

[JakeMiller21]

I've only got a handful, but I wanna show them off anyway. Just getting into the 8-Track side of Quadraphonic.

CAPITOL:

1. Mandingo - "Mandingo III" QAW 6420

COLUMBIA:

2. Garfunkel - "Angel Clare" CAQ 31474
3. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - "Climb Every Mountain" MAQ 30647
4. Percy Faith - "Black Magic Woman" CAQ 30800

LONDON/OVATION:

5. Paul Horn & The Concert Ensemble Q8. 109
6. The Quadraphonic World Of Broadway LEQ. 66001
7. Ronnie Aldrich/Two Pianos - "Top Of The World" LQN L 77203

RCA/NIMBUS 9:

8. Danny Davis' Nashville Brass - "Bluegrass Country" APT1-0565
9. The Guess Who - "The Best Of, Volume II" APT1-0269
10. The Guess Who - "Flavours" APT1-0636
11. Harry Belafonte - "Belafonte At Carnegie Hall" OQ8-5002

I have replaced/reinforced every splice and foam pressure pad to ensure healthy lives. Wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing that I killed a Quad 8.

[Quad Linda]

Here's where a good chunk of my paychecks went from '73 - '76. Q8 heaven.

Linda

Atlantic/Embryo
Mann, Herbie - Push, Push
- Hold On, I'm Comin'
Modern Jazz Quartet - Plastic Dreams
Santamaria, Mongo - At Montreaux

RCA:
Bennett, Robert Russell - Rogers: Victory at Sea Vol 1
Creach, Papa John
Denver, John - Poems, Prayers & Promises
Fiddler on the Roof
Guess Who, The - Rockin'
- Best Of (Volume 1)
Hirt, Al-Best of
Hot Tuna
- Electric
- Burgers
Jefferson Airplane - Worst Of
- Bark
- Volunteers
Kantner, Paul & Grace Slick - Sunfighter
Mancini, Henry - Best Of
- Brass on Ivory
Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Ormandy, Eugene & Philadelphia - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
- Copland: Appalachian Spring/Billy the Kid
Rich, Buddy-A Different Drummer
- Live in London

Columbia / Epic:
Argent - In Deep
Azteca
Beck, Jeff Group
- Rough & Ready
- Beck, Bogert & Appice
Bernstein, Leonard - Mass
- Haydn: Concert in Time of War
- Strauss, R: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Biggs, E. Power - Bach Organ Favorites, Vol 5
Blood, Sweat & Tears - (2)
- Greatest Hits
Blue Oyster Cult
- Tyranny & Mutation
- Secret Treaties
Boulez, Pierre - Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
- Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin
Buddy Miles Express - Booger Bear
-Chapter VII
Carlos, Wendy - Switched-On Bach
Chase
-Pure Music
Chicago - X
Derringer, Rick - All American Boy
Earth, Wind & Fire - Open Our Eyes
- Head to the Sky
- That's the Way of the World
Edgar Winter Group - They Only Come Out at Night
- Shock Treatment
Garfunkel, Art - Angel Clare
Hancock, Herbie - Sextant
- Head Hunters
Joplin, Janis - Pearl
Keating, John - Space Experience
Lewis, Ramsey - Upendo Ni Pamoja
Loggins & Messina
- Full Sail
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
- Between Nothingness & Eternity
Mason, Dave - It's Like You Never Left
MFSB - Love is the Message
Michaels, Lee - Nice Day for Something
Minnelli, Liza - the Singer
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Panama Red
Partch, Harry - World of
O' Jays - Ship Ahoy
Ormandy, Eugene - Tchaikovsky: 1812
Billy Paul - 360 Degrees
- Live in Europe
- War of the Gods
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Poco - Deliverin’
- Crazy Eyes
- Seven
Raiders, The - Indian Reservation
Redbone - Message from a Drum
Santana - Abraxas
- III
- & Buddy Miles Live
- Caravanserai
- Love, Devotion & Surrender w/John McLaughlin
- Welcome
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon, Paul
- There Goes Rhymin' Simon
-Still Crazy After All These Years
Sly & the Family Stone - Greatest Hits
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Streisand, Barbra - Funny Girl
-Stoney End
-Barbra Joan Streisand
-Live Concert at the Forum
-The Way We Were
-Lazy Afternoon
Super Session - Bloomfield, Kooper & Stills
Subotnick, Morton - Touch
- Sidewinder
Ten Years After - A Space in Time
Various - Bach's Greatest Hits
- Beethoven's Greatest Hits
- Haydn's Greatest Hits
- Mozart's Greatest Hits
- Strauss' Greatest Hits
- Tchaikovsky's Greatest Hits
West, Bruce & Laing - Why Doncha
- Whatever Turns You On
- Alive & Kicking
Winter, Johnny - Still Alive & Well
- John Dawson Winter III
- Saints & Sinners

CTI/Kudu:
Deodato - Prelude
- 2
- & Airto in Concert
Hammond, Johnny - Higher Ground
Turrentine, Stanley - Don't Mess With Mr. T
Washington Jr, Grover - Soul Box

GRT:
Croce, Jim - You Don't Mess Around with Jim
- Life & Times
- I Got a Name
Grass Roots, The - 16 Greatest Hits
GRT Quad Sampler
Jamal, Ahmad - Heat Wave
James, Tommy & Shondells - Greatest Hits
Mountain - Best Of
Ohio Players - Honey
Purim, Flora - Stories to Tell
Ramsey Lewis Trio - Best Of
- Movie Album
Mountain - Best of
Rufus - Rags to Rufus
Severinsen, Doc - Fever
Steely Dan - Can’t Buy a Thrill
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

Mercury:
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Four Wheel Drive
Kraftwerk-Autobahn
Ohio Players - Honey


Asylum/Elektra:
Bread - Best Of
Collins, Judy - Colors of the Day - Best of
Doors, The - Best Of
Mitchell, Joni - Hissing of Summer Lawns
Simon, Carly - Best Of
- No Secrets
Stardrive with Robert Mason - Intergalactic Trot

Warner Bros. / Reprise:
Seals & Crofts - Diamond Girl
James Taylor - One Man Dog
Zappa/Mothers - Overnite Sensation

Apple/Capitol/Harvest:
Babe Ruth
Burdon, Eric - Sun Secrets
Lennon, John - Imagine
McCartney, Paul & Wings - Band on the Run
Reddy, Helen - Long Hard Climb
- Free & Easy
- I AM WOMAN!
- Love Song for Jeffrey
Steve Miller - Fly Like an Eagle

A&M/Ode:
Alpert, Herb & The Tijuana Brass - Greatest Hits
- Whipped Cream
Bacharach, Burt - Reach Out
- Make it Easy on Yourself
Baez, Joan - Come from the Shadows
Captain & Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together
Carpenters
- Now &Then
- Close to You
- Horizon
- A Song for You
Cocker, Joe - Joe Cocker! (1969)
- Joe Cocker (1973) w/ High Time We Went
- With a Little Help from my Friends
Humble Pie - Smokin’
Jones, Quincy – Walking in Space
- You've Got it Bad Girl
King, Carole - Tapestry
- Music
-Rhymes & Reasons
-Fantasy
Mendes, Sergio & Brazil '66 - Greatest Hits
Montgomery, Wes - Greatest Hits
Stevens, Cat - Catch Bull at Four
- Teaser & Firecat
- Foreigner
- Tea for the Tillerman
Tommy (orchestral)
Wakeman, Rick - Six Wives of Henry VIII

Sire:
Focus - Moving Waves
- Live at the Rainbow

United Artists / Liberty:
Byrd, Donald - Street Lady
- Black Byrd
Canned Heat - Future Blues
Buddy Rich - Best of
War - Deliver the Word
- the World is a Ghetto

Stax/Enterprise:
Hayes, Isaac - Joy
- Tough Guys

Groove Merchant:
Rich, Buddy - Roar of '74

Family Prod:
Mama Lion

London
Open Circuit - Claude Denjean
Hayward, Justin & John Lodge - Blue Jays
Moody Blues - Days of Future Past
- To Our Children's Children's Children
- On the Threshold of a Dream
- A Question of Balance
- Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
- Seventh Sojurn
Savoy Brown - Jack the Toad
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres

Vanguard:
Baez, Joan - Hits, Greatest & Others
Country Joe & the Fish - Greatest Hits

Ovation:
Koloc, Bonnie
Horn, Paul & Ensemble
Schory, Dick - In Concert
- Movin' On

220 Total

[Q-Eight]

No Bloody Way!! Quad Linda: Do you REALLY have a copy of Canned Heat's Future Blues? Please post a pic! After many discussions around here, we were almost ready to declare that one 'vapourware' as nobody's ever seen a copy! We must have pics! And incidentally, would you lend it out to be converted???

[bmoura]

Quad Linda - that's quite a Q8 collection.

[jefe1]

Quad Linda, you will shortly be receiving several marriage proposals from the gentlemen at QQ. "Hey, look at her quad collection!" is the new catcall here.....

[Doug G.]

Hey, I saw her first!

Anyway, the sole Q8 I have is a purple DSOTM I recartridged back in the late seventies - early eighties when I worked at Telex and we were making decks for Ford.

The tape jammed and cartridge broke when I tried to get it apart to fix it. So I put it in a white RCA test tape cartridge which is much better quality anyway.

We used to play that on the quad system we set up at work using the completed electronic Ford quad deck/radio I smug....er...ah...brought back with me from Toronto with full permission of the Ford company personnel. Actually, that last part IS true. I would never have taken anything out of their factory without prior OK. That would be bad.

Recently, when I decided to persue Q8 reproduction again, I got out the old deck and hooked it up but it wouldn't run and I smelled something getting hot. So, I took it apart assuming the deck motor had seized. It wasn't that (I should have known better - our decks NEVER malfunctioned, well, hardly ever). The deck still works fine. It's something else and I just haven't taken the time to troubleshoot it. It's kind of a compactly made little devil. Advanced for 1979.

I guess I'll have to buy a more home stereo type player or adapt my deck from the ford radio to an external amp.

Doug

[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

[THX1136]

Here's a list of what little I have.

ALLMAN BROS. - LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST
AMERICA - HOLIDAY
HEARTS
ART GARFUNKEL - BREAKAWAY
BERSTEIN - HIGHLIGHTS FROM MASS
BILLY PRESTON - MUSIC IS MY LIFE
CAT STEVENS - TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN
CHOPIN’S GREATEST HITS
CONCERT HALL - CQ10705
DOOBIE BROS. - CAPT. & ME
STAMPEDE
EAGLES - ON THE BORDER
EDGAR WINTER GROUP - THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT
ERIC CLAPTON - 461 OCEAN BLVD.
FOCUS - MOVING WAVES
FORD - A KALEIDOSCOPE OF QUADRAPHONIC SOUND
FRANK ZAPPA - APOSTROPHE
GEORGE BENSON - BODY TALK
GUESS WHO - ROAD FOOD
IGUANA - THE WINDS OF ALAMAR
JEFF BECK - BLOW BY BLOW
JOHN KEATING - 250 YEARS OF FILM MUSIC
JONI MITCHELL - COURT & SPARK
THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS
KOOPER/STILLS/BLOOMFIELD - SUPERSESSION
LOHN LENNON - WALLS AND BRIDGES
MELISSA MANCHESTER - MELISSA
MOODY BLUES - 7TH SOJOURN
DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED
QUESTION OF BALANCE
NILSSON - SCHMILSSON
OZARK MTN. DAREDEVILS - IT’LL SHINE WHEN IT SHINES
PAUL HORN & THE CONCERT ENSEMBLE
PINK FLOYD - DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
POCO - DELIVERIN’
RICK DERRINGER - ALL AMERICAN BOY
RICK WAKEMAN - KING ARTHUR ALBUM
6 WIVES OF HENRY THE VIII
SEALS & CROFTS - UNBORN CHILD
SIMON & GARFUNKEL - BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
SOUTHER HILLMAN FURAY BAND - 1ST
STEELY DAN - CAN’T BUY A THRILL
TOMITA - THE PLANETS
FIREBIRD
KOSMOS
SNOWFLAKES ARE DANCING
WEATHER REPORT - MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER

I only bought stuff I liked - or could afford. I saw Volunteers on someone's list. I have the LP and always wanted to get that in quad, but never did. Also saw the Guess Who's #10 which my brother-in-law had the quad LP of on someone's list (but I never heard in quad). Always thought "Musicione" would have been cool in quad. I was the only one in my area - and age group - I knew of that was even buying quad. It would have been nice to have some of you folks close by back then. Oh, I always stored mine alphabetically for those keeping track.

[Quad Linda]

cool collection

Linda

Here's a list of what little I have.

ALLMAN BROS. - LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST
AMERICA - HOLIDAY
HEARTS
ART GARFUNKEL - BREAKAWAY
BERSTEIN - HIGHLIGHTS FROM MASS
BILLY PRESTON - MUSIC IS MY LIFE
CAT STEVENS - TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN
CHOPIN’S GREATEST HITS
CONCERT HALL - CQ10705
DOOBIE BROS. - CAPT. & ME
STAMPEDE
EAGLES - ON THE BORDER
EDGAR WINTER GROUP - THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT
ERIC CLAPTON - 461 OCEAN BLVD.
FOCUS - MOVING WAVES
FORD - A KALEIDOSCOPE OF QUADRAPHONIC SOUND
FRANK ZAPPA - APOSTROPHE
GEORGE BENSON - BODY TALK
GUESS WHO - ROAD FOOD
IGUANA - THE WINDS OF ALAMAR
JEFF BECK - BLOW BY BLOW
JOHN KEATING - 250 YEARS OF FILM MUSIC
JONI MITCHELL - COURT & SPARK
THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS
KOOPER/STILLS/BLOOMFIELD - SUPERSESSION
LOHN LENNON - WALLS AND BRIDGES
MELISSA MANCHESTER - MELISSA
MOODY BLUES - 7TH SOJOURN
DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED
QUESTION OF BALANCE
NILSSON - SCHMILSSON
OZARK MTN. DAREDEVILS - IT’LL SHINE WHEN IT SHINES
PAUL HORN & THE CONCERT ENSEMBLE
PINK FLOYD - DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
POCO - DELIVERIN’
RICK DERRINGER - ALL AMERICAN BOY
RICK WAKEMAN - KING ARTHUR ALBUM
6 WIVES OF HENRY THE VIII
SEALS & CROFTS - UNBORN CHILD
SIMON & GARFUNKEL - BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
SOUTHER HILLMAN FURAY BAND - 1ST
STEELY DAN - CAN’T BUY A THRILL
TOMITA - THE PLANETS
FIREBIRD
KOSMOS
SNOWFLAKES ARE DANCING
WEATHER REPORT - MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER

I only bought stuff I liked - or could afford. I saw Volunteers on someone's list. I have the LP and always wanted to get that in quad, but never did. Also saw the Guess Who's #10 which my brother-in-law had the quad LP of on someone's list (but I never heard in quad). Always thought "Musicione" would have been cool in quad. I was the only one in my area - and age group - I knew of that was even buying quad. It would have been nice to have some of you folks close by back then. Oh, I always stored mine alphabetically for those keeping track.

[Q-Eight]

If I were to post my collection now, the Board would implode. 300+ cartridges and climbing. Even got some of the ridiculously rare (or at least, hard to find) 34xxx series albums from 1976 and 1977!

[8trackman]

Anyway, the sole Q8 I have is a purple DSOTM I recartridged back in the late seventies - early eighties when I worked at Telex and we were making decks for Ford.


We used to play that on the quad system we set up at work using the completed electronic Ford quad deck/radio I smug....er...ah...brought back with me from Toronto with full permission of the Ford company personnel. Actually, that last part IS true. I would never have taken anything out of their factory without prior OK. That would be bad.

Recently, when I decided to persue Q8 reproduction again, I got out the old deck and hooked it up but it wouldn't run and I smelled something getting hot. So, I took it apart assuming the deck motor had seized. It wasn't that (I should have known better - our decks NEVER malfunctioned, well, hardly ever). The deck still works fine. It's something else and I just haven't taken the time to troubleshoot it. It's kind of a compactly made little devil. Advanced for 1979.

Doug

cool Doug, I remember this story but I couldn't remember which forum member worked at Ford, now I do

how long did you let your radio sit on the shelf before trying it out? the 1979 Ford quad 8 track player was the black digital one correct? they only made them for one year before moving onto the silver colored radio's when the new 1980 Lincoln models got introduced

I am surprised that you didn't actually use a ford Demo quad tape for testing purposes, I thought that intro was specifically designed for playing in the car - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq-Sh...eature=related

anyways here's my collection

1. Ford "A kaleidoscope of contemporary sound" DPT1-0197
2. Ford "A kaleidoscope of contemporary sound" DAT2-0249
3. Kraftwerk "Autobahn"
4. Pink Floyd "DSOTM" (USA)
5. Pink Floyd "AHM" (USA)
6. Pink Floyd "WYWH" (USA)
7. Deep Purple "Stormbringer"

8. Deep Purple "Machine Head" - note to anyone else who has this - does your cardboard case have a misspelling (Quadriphonic)- mine does- will take a pic when I get a chance


9. Duke Ellington "New Orleans Suite"
10. Q8 Demo "Radioshack"
11. Q8 Demo "Panasonic"
12. Q8 Demo "Pickwick"
13. Rick Wakeman "The Six wives of Henry the VIII"
14. Rick Wakeman "The myths and legends of king Arthur and the Knights of the round table"
15. Fiddler on the roof & the Great new love themes
16. Blue Oyster Cult "Tyranny and Mutation"
17. The Best of the Guess Who
18. Jefferson Airplane "Volunteers"
19. Jefferson Airplane "The worst of"
20. The Doors "The best of"
21. Joan Baez "Diamonds and Dust"
22. Moody Blues "A Question of Balance"
23. Moody Blues "Seventh Sojourn"
24. Moody Blues "Days of Future Past"
25. Carnegie Hall Concert "Shirley Bassey Vol. 2"
26. Black Oak Arkansas "Raunch n' Roll"
27. Charley Pride "Songs of Love"
28. Charley Pride "Pride of America"
29. Henry Mancini "Hanging out with"

no rare ones-----wish I had the guts to buy the Zeppelin cover band Q8 when it was last on ebay,

[Disclord]

8. Deep Purple "Machine Head" - note to anyone else who has this - does your cardboard case have a misspelling (Quadriphonic)- mine does- will take a pic when I get a chance

That's not a misspelling. Back in the day, no one could decide on the proper spelling of Quadraphonic and the IHF (Institute of High Fidelity) finally issued a statement that Quadriphonic was the correct term since the prefix "Quadra" is not of Greek or Latin origin and is thus, garbage - Tetraphonic would be the most correct name for four-channel sound, so it would be Monophonic, Biphonic, Triphonic, Tetraphonic, Quintaphonic, etc... Companies called thier receivers and software Quadriphonic, Quadraphonic, Quadrophonic, etc... all of which were 'correct' for the time. Long after quad was dead it was kinda decided - by general usage or osmosis, I guess - that "Quadraphonic" was the correct spelling.

[Cyber 1]

man that bums me out in away, Trying to build a Q8 collection now is seriously hard, I've got 11 Q8's and ebay is crazy. How many here are bidding on Q8's at the moment? I'd hate to be bidding against other here because some are going for crazy money.