Also, Blue Oyster Cult’s “Agents of Fortune“ Quadraphonic mix exists or once did.
I had a very rare SQ record of it, that had the gold label. I only saw two copies of it. I bought one of them. It was bought at Warehouse Records when the record first came out, at the Willow Pass Road, Concord location.
I regret selling this record. But, there is hope as it seems Columbia records have maintained the Quad Masters well. I only ask that it be looked for.
The Dave Mason titles would make for a nice release.
I think you might be suffering a bit of the Mandela effect on this one (or you owned some kind of pirate/bootleg fake) because
Agents of Fortune definitely wasn't released in quad. Columbia stopped using the gold border design on their quad LPs partway through 1973, and
Agents of Fortune was released at the end of May, 1976. Furthermore, a quad version of the album doesn't appear in either the
1976 or
1977 US Catalogs of Copyright Entries, which it would if it was released - anything bearing the Phonographic Copyright (p) symbol is collected in these catalogs, without exception, and every single CBS quad is in there including the faked ones like Santana's
Amigos and
Festival and Herbie Hancock's
Secrets.
That's not to say the possibility doesn't exist that it was mixed for quad - 1976 puts it in the wheelhouse for the last quad hurrah from CBS - but in that era there are plenty of big name titles in the '76/'77 timeframe that should have (but didn't) get the quad treatment, including this one, Bruce Springsteen's
Born in the USA, Return to Forever's
Romantic Warrior, and Boston's self-titled debut album. I think the fact that BoC's 1975
On Your Feet or On Your Knees live album didn't get the quad treatment either suggests that the quad sales of their two previous albums probably had CBS believing that they didn't merit quad remixing anymore, and by the time
Agents of Fortune took off, it was probably too late to go back and remix it for quad since it was all but dead by that point.
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