Case in Point: The Grass Roots 16 Greatest Hits Quad 8-track
I now have, 3 copies of this tape. Two are identical in both covers and song mixes. The other is slightly different. All three are blue cartridge GRT/ABC tapes.
To start, I'll describe the two identical ones that I have. Both are identified by having WHITE Q(Quad)8 symbols on both the face and spine. Catalog number is C 7023-50107. These tapes have alternate versions to some songs that are quite easily recognized. "Temptation Eyes" has a different guitar solo, and "Things I should have Said" has Warren Entner on lead vocals as opposed to Rob Grill. This take has been much talked about by us Grass Roots fanatics as this is clearly a "Quad Only" release. It's never been seen anywhere else. It's also funny because you can quite clearly hear Warren completely blow a verse, laugh and then pick it up again on the next verse.
This tape is also the one that has the left channels swapped front to rear.
The other tape I just received today. It can be identified by have RED
Q(Quad)8 Symbols and by the catalog number 7023-50107 H. This is the interesting one! The mixes are all the proper stereo mixes with the exception of "Sooner or Later" which is a misprint take with Rob's "Soul shouting" coming in too early. Other than that, they're all the songs we're used to. The difference is in the mixes!! Whoever mixed this album LOVED using echo. There's tons of it. Lead vocals jump from front to back depending on the song, or lead comes out of all 4 with backup vocals in the rear. There are also some additional instruments added that aren't in the stereo versions - like a Moog Synthesizer added into "Baby Hold on" that plays along with the trumpet!
All in all, it's pretty interesting! Just wondering if anybody else noticed this? hehe
I now have, 3 copies of this tape. Two are identical in both covers and song mixes. The other is slightly different. All three are blue cartridge GRT/ABC tapes.
To start, I'll describe the two identical ones that I have. Both are identified by having WHITE Q(Quad)8 symbols on both the face and spine. Catalog number is C 7023-50107. These tapes have alternate versions to some songs that are quite easily recognized. "Temptation Eyes" has a different guitar solo, and "Things I should have Said" has Warren Entner on lead vocals as opposed to Rob Grill. This take has been much talked about by us Grass Roots fanatics as this is clearly a "Quad Only" release. It's never been seen anywhere else. It's also funny because you can quite clearly hear Warren completely blow a verse, laugh and then pick it up again on the next verse.
This tape is also the one that has the left channels swapped front to rear.
The other tape I just received today. It can be identified by have RED
Q(Quad)8 Symbols and by the catalog number 7023-50107 H. This is the interesting one! The mixes are all the proper stereo mixes with the exception of "Sooner or Later" which is a misprint take with Rob's "Soul shouting" coming in too early. Other than that, they're all the songs we're used to. The difference is in the mixes!! Whoever mixed this album LOVED using echo. There's tons of it. Lead vocals jump from front to back depending on the song, or lead comes out of all 4 with backup vocals in the rear. There are also some additional instruments added that aren't in the stereo versions - like a Moog Synthesizer added into "Baby Hold on" that plays along with the trumpet!
All in all, it's pretty interesting! Just wondering if anybody else noticed this? hehe