Final fling

Almost there now.

After a bit of break, not having been too good I've been getting on with writing Christmas cards here and sorting out presents although arrangements are bit less straightforward than usual this year.
Pretty much last purchases before Christmas were a couple of special editions of favourite albums of mine.

1974's On The Border was the first album by the Eagles to had been issued in Quadraphonic surround sound on both Q8 tape and CD-4 discrete quad lp which contained the songs James Dean and Already Gone.
The album showed a move toward hard rock rather the the country rock of the first two albums and was remixed for Quad which even if you don't own a suitable cartridge and CD-4 demodulator to extract the four channel sound.

I also picked up shorty afterward the CD-4 version of the follow up, 1975's One of These Nights  which apart from the title track includes the songs Lyin' Eyes and Take It to The Limit.
1976's Hotel California was mixed for Quadraphonic but by this point it had been decided to ditch the format.

1973's The Captain and Me by the Doobie Bros is a longstanding favourite of mine from borrowed tapes to the MSFL super audio cd I currently have, meandering seamlessly through R&B, country and hard rock.
This was mixed and issued on Q8 and CD-4 discrete quad also in 1974 so it has different mixes that emphasize more of the left and right channels, being mixed more for effect.

Both discs were used to demonstrate the CD-4 system and featured in a magazine article I read as young child in Popular HiFi to explain what it was like and probably persuade folks to buy new systems  although you could convert your existing one with the CD-4 Demodulator, a second amplifier and matching speakers.

Playing these versions has been fun this week.