It's possible he did have it, but Joe Walsh recorded for ABC, so it would have been QS. On the other hand, I think any of those Capitol albums, allegedly in unmarked quad, would have been SQ. Capitol did release a number of Q8's that didn't make it to vinyl in the US, but the rest of the world was another story.
I'm with you, Fizz. They could have done that, but didn't. All we got in quad, on LP from Capitol, were those sampler albums. They weren't awful, but they didn't really spotlight their mainstream artists as they could have.
This is wildly off-topic and I will accept the wrath of the mods, but you reminded me of something I just learned this week: We sci-fi nerds have always known that you can connect "Star Trek" to "2001: A Space Odyssey" via Gary Lockwood, but it turns out there's an even older connection. The 1957 Canadian film version of "Oedipus Rex" which inspired Tom Lehrer's "theme song" has a cast that includes Douglas Rain and...William Shatner!
Depends on your tolerance for classical theater. It's pretty much just a filmed stage play with very broad performances. It's interesting, though my puny brain had the same problem with it that I have with Shakespeare: I spent so much time simply trying to process the words that missed major plot points.
That should never have happened! They were single-inventory compatible releases that should not have been singled out! they were expected to be placed in with the stereo and mono LP's. I had expected that all new releases would be coming out that way. I never understood why not! Usually such releases would not have overly obvious quad markings anyway. In many cases they would have simply been labeled as stereo, with a note about encoding on the label or cover.
We have to remember who was putting the records in the bins: Hired employees. They probably were just told to fill the bins according to simple rules. So if the word quadraphonic was on the record, it went into the quadraphonic bin. Otherwise, it was filed according to artist.
I remember my father getting a hi-fi stereo system (we went down to London to Tottenham Court Road [was the Hi-Fi centre of the capital] with him to buy it) and he stuck on a Mantovani LP he had and got a shock that it was stereo!
Actually I remember being in a record section of a department store in the late 1950s and there was a bin "New Stereo Records"
I remember record stores, back in the late 50's and 60's, having entirely separate sections for mono and stereo records. One store, in particular, had a sign, advising record buyers who didn't yet own a stereo record player, to look at the monaural records. The sign went on to say that mono records could be played on stereo record players, but stereo records had to be played only on stereo record players, to avoid damage.
The best advice would be to get people to replace their mono cartridge with a stereo one, then they would be able to play anything without problems. Many people didn't bother with stereo LP's anyway, they were $1.00 more expensive!
Yes those were Ovation's last quad albums , they had nothing on the front to indicate quad but on the back a little blurb known as "Sector 4".
By that time, it became known that the high sales of Q4 reel recorders was due to people building home studios instead of quadraphonic systems. Some company heads got so mad that the company threw out everything quadraphonic they had.
