OH.... MY....&@<&ING... WORD...!!!!!!!!! :yikes
WOW...!!!!!
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WOW...!!!!!
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I'm glad I never pulled the trigger on the DVD-A! Was always priced-out. Patience is a virtue (so they say).
... any quad we wanted were available in the format of the day, hi-8 tape. So they have had the catalog digitized for a while.
One of the best stories i chat about is a fellow who has several hundred titles he mixed from doing radio shows as the sound engineer. Yep about every big artist but stones and beatles. We wanted to do some of them and Brad said let's just do the dead guys to start, less chance they will chase us down! One or 2 made it out as underground reels, but we never got anywhere as Brad got ill soon after, and shop closed up. Now if we can just convince him to let go of these! Just glad someone is doing the sony stuff, plenty of it. Lots of great titles left.
Jazz freaks rejoice!
AFZ5-234 - Billy Cobham - SPECTRUM (UNRELEASED QUAD MIX!!!!)
AFZ5-223 - Herbie Hancock - THRUST (QUAD MIX)
Marshall has given me the go-ahead to announce these. I bet you will soon see a lot of Jazz fans selling their Spectrum DVD-A's. Especially the surround jazz fans. The SACD is a TOTAL REVELATION!! It's about as good as a jazz surround disc can get. If you have the UK Quad Demo from WEA, you already know how good "Quadrant 4" sounds in quad. The rest of the tracks are just as good.
Can we get a "Woo Hoo?"
So, Herbie Hancock is cool, so far. The closest artist I can compare him to is George Benson. Is that fair? Or maybe Tower of Power? Very cool stuff. Me likey.
WHAT????? Ex Squeeze me? Bolin....Tommy...Tommy Bolin? Whoa.....
I love it when 1970s quad tapes are in stunningly perfect condition - and that reveal sound in such high quality. It's like they were sleeping beauties just waiting for the time when technology caught up for quad playback - like it was always meant to be.For those that do not know the unreleased quad mix, it's totally discrete. The guitars are planted in each rear speaker, with the drums and bass in the stereo fronts.
These guitars are clear as a bell and you would think the dude was standing next to you playing the guitars. I went and got my DVD-A to compare and it was no contest (for me). The DVD-A has the drums and guitars in the fronts, with ambient echos mostly in the rears. It's front-centric, IMHO.
The SACD is not. It's pure quad, and if you are a guitar player or guitar fan, you will LOVE listening to these two guys (Tommy Bolin being one of them) playing their guitars. I know I did. And will.
Tower of Power, Isley Bros, Dave Mason, Charlie Rich, Mountain, Raiders (lots of never released material), Santana, Johnny and Edgar Winter, Earth Wind & Fire. All CBS sony. Then the Motown guys were always hot to trot, hence Ohio Players and Marvin Gaye folks as i remember approached us. There is lots more worth finding.
I am under the impression that AF are going back to original analog tapes and not using previous digital transfers for their current line of surround layers on SACDs.Wow , very impressive. These are titles that will sell, and jazz guys are always willing to do this type of release. just a different ego and outlook. But as i remember, the list of titles Sony had to ask permission to release, was very few artists. Dylan, Streisand, Floyd, Simon and Gar were the ones i remember. And any quad we wanted were available in the format of the day, hi-8 tape. So they have had the catalog digitized for a while.
One of the best stories i chat about is a fellow who has several hundred titles he mixed from doing radio shows as the sound engineer. Yep about every big artist but stones and beatles. We wanted to do some of them and Brad said let's just do the dead guys to start, less chance they will chase us down! One or 2 made it out as underground reels, but we never got anywhere as Brad got ill soon after, and shop closed up. Now if we can just convince him to let go of these! Just glad someone is doing the sony stuff, plenty of it. Lots of great titles left.
George Benson -- whom I like a lot -- never got near the frenetic funk fest that is Thrust.So, Herbie Hancock is cool, so far. The closest artist I can compare him to is George Benson. Is that fair? Or maybe Tower of Power? Very cool stuff. Me likey.
I guess Loggins and Messina - "Sittin' In" has been pushed to the back-burner for now.
You mean your back burner...or the actual release date has been pushed back...because I don't see any indication of the release date being changed..
You mean your back burner...or the actual release date has been pushed back...because I don't see any indication of the release date being changed..
Oh, I never saw a official release date to begin with. Just Amazon links and rumors. Perhaps it's just simply forgotten about since there is no 4.0 to be included. Not important on this site's radar.
wow - well that Herbie Hancock should be a stunner in Quad. I don't know much about Billy Cobham.....
Oh, I never saw a official release date to begin with. Just Amazon links and rumors. Perhaps it's just simply forgotten about since there is no 4.0 to be included. Not important on this site's radar.
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