Is this legit? 'Monkey Grip' quad on CD

[boojidad]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bill-Wyman...732743?hash=item1cd66fc247:g:Y8MAAOSw7fVdQH-0

Either this is a low budget stereo release that used the CD-4 cover art, or this has snuck by all of us but leaves a ton of questions unanswered, like how do you decode the quad mix?

 

[Quad Linda]

As I recall, Sequel is a reissue label. So, it's probably not a boot/counterfeit. As to the cover, it is probably all they had to use.

Can you decode it? No, even if you have all the Quad decoders ever made. It was a CD-4 LP, which would require a special phono cartridge (for the LP), low capacitance cables, and a CD-4 demodulator. Compact Disc format is INCAPABLE of storing the high frequencies & carrier of CD-4 (compatible discrete 4 channel LP.)

I have a legitimate RCA Spain CD from the late '90's of Mancini/Severinsen Brass, Ivory & Strings which is marked as "Quadradisc," another name for CD-4 LP's. It is only stereo. This is not to be confused with the Quad reissue on Vocalion/Dutton multichannel SACD of the same title, WHICH IS the Quad mix.

 

[winopener]

"low budget stereo release that used the CD-4 cover art".

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Well, the small print at the bottom says: All rear channel information will sound in the front speakers when played in stereo!
I guess we don't have a choice -stereo it is.

 

[JonUrban]

I remember when that came out. It's a CD with the Quadradisc cover art, which they modified to remove the Quadradisc Logo, but the art guy didn't know what the CD-4 QUADRADISC banner at the top meant, so he left it. (S)He probably thought it was part of the original cover art.

This album, quad or not, was never a highlight, quad or stereo - to me anyway.

 

[sjcorne]

So it's a legitimate release? I was thinking some enterprising individual did a stereo needle-drop of the CD-4 LP and made nice cover art for it.

Some stereo collectors are interested in CD-4 albums for perceived higher fidelity (when played back in stereo) or for mix differences (extra screams in Alice Cooper's "Unfinished Sweet", missing telephone call effect in Jethro Tull's "Aqualung", etc).

 

[winopener]

So it's a legitimate release? I was thinking some enterprising individual did a stereo needle-drop of the CD-4 LP and made nice cover art for it.

Yes, legit. Castle Communication UK is a reissue label, by its own name brand (early cd era) or also with other acquired labels (Sequel, for example, in this case)

 

[halbroome]

IIRC, Castle Communication put out some very nice T. Rex reissues. . . .

I was sent the Monkey Grip vinyl ahead of release back in my teen newspaper music coverage days. Played it once, and didn't review it. Guess that says it all.

 

[~dave~~wave~]

This album, quad or not, was never a highlight, quad or stereo - to me anyway.

... Played it once, and didn't review it. Guess that says it all.

The original LP immediately went into cutouts, so I got it cheap, much the same experience.
Still on my shelf, a reminder of the weird vain showbiz system that produced such junk.

 

[Quadzilla]

I remember when that came out. It's a CD with the Quadradisc cover art, which they modified to remove the Quadradisc Logo, but the art guy didn't know what the CD-4 QUADRADISC banner at the top meant, so he left it. (S)He probably thought it was part of the original cover art.

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This album, quad or not, was never a highlight, quad or stereo - to me anyway.

The Rolling Stones are living proof that even ugly guys can get chicks.

 

[winopener]

IIRC, Castle Communication put out some very nice T. Rex reissues. . . .

Not only that... on the eighties the only CD release for Santana Welcome was a twofer fatbox from CC backed with Santana & Buddy Miles Live

 

[halbroome]

Not only that... on the eighties the only CD release for Santana Welcome was a twofer fatbox from CC backed with Santana & Buddy Miles Live

And they also re-issued some Black Sabbath, no?

 

[J. PUPSTER]

What's strange to me, is with the personnel on this album it should have been much better; me thinks Bill should have had a different producer other than Bill.

 

[Quad Linda]

They did: Paranoid, (self titled), Vol. 4, Milestones (2 CD comp), Greatest Hits, Sabatoogie (nyuk, nyuk), We Sold Our Soul, and Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath. Also a 2 CD Bloody Sabbath/1st.

And they also re-issued some Black Sabbath, no?