Quad LP/Tape Poll Stone, Sly: High On You [SQ/Q8]

[sjcorne]

High On You was Sly Stone's first solo album and final quad release, issued on SQ matrix-encoded LP and quad 8-track in December 1975. The follow-up to Sly & The Family Stone's 1974 release Small Talk, High On You featured the US #3 R&B hit "I Get High On You" alongside the singles "Le Lo Li" and "Crossword Puzzle".

Epic PEQ 33835 [SQ LP] EAQ 33835 [Q8]
Discogs links: Q8 / LP
Wiki for the album: High On You
Quadraphonic remix engineer: Roy Segal, Tom Lubin
Quadraphonic remix supervision: Sly Stone
Quadraphonic mastering: George Horn

Side 1

1. I Get High On You
2. Crossword Puzzle
3. My World
4. Who Do You Love?
5. Green Eyed Monster Girl

Side 2

1. Organize
2. Le Lo Li
3. That's Lovin' You
4. So Good To Me
5. Greed

 

[castironshore]

I'd love to read people's thoughts about this quad mix. Anyone?

 

[humprof]

I'd love to read people's thoughts about this quad mix. Anyone?

Haven't listened to it often enough/carefully enough to say much, though I bet @sjcorne has. I've heard good conversions of both the SQ LP and the Q8. My rough notes give the mix 4 stars out of 5 and say that even the Q8 has better-than-average sonics and even the SQ LP has a lot of good channel separation. I'll put it back in the queue.

 

[sjcorne]

I'd love to read people's thoughts about this quad mix. Anyone?

Haven't listened to it often enough/carefully enough to say much, though I bet @sjcorne has.

It's been a while since I've listened too, but I remember it being a fairly-typical mid-70s CBS mix with the rhythm section arrayed across the front speakers and various isolated horns/strings/backing vocals in the rears. I think I preferred the music on Small Talk to this one.

 

[humprof]

It's been a while since I've listened too, but I remember it being a fairly-typical mid-70s CBS mix with the rhythm section arrayed across the front speakers and various isolated horns/strings/backing vocals in the rears. I think I preferred the music on Small Talk to this one.

I'd confirm your memory--although you know "typical" better than I do. Lead & backing vocals plus bass & drumkit (and sometimes percussion) across the fronts, horns (and sometimes strings) in stereo across the rears. Organ either in the fronts or split across left front & rear, rhythm guitar usually left rear, guitar accents usually right rear, call-and-response vocal accents from Sly alternating between left and right rear. Gloriously loud and busy and fonky--it's Sly, after all--but I'd say there's a lower percentage of genuinely catchy or distinctive tunes compared to Small Talk. "Le Lo Li" is especially nice, though. And there's nothing sloppy or tossed-off about this album. If Dutton reissued it, I'd be all over it. I vote an 8.