Golders Green Hippodrome Quad recording

Those of you who are STILL debating whether or not the Golders Green Hippodrome recording was ever aired in quad for some reason, listen to this :

http://www.surrounddiscography.com/quaddisc/Queen-BBC%20Presents.mp3

HUGE thanks to Mr. Kurgan for sharing the link

According to page 32 of the November 24th 1973 issue of Billboard, $7.97 would get you Queen's debut album Q8 8Q75064 (a Quadrasonic 8-track cartridge).

Well, the quality of these presentor speech is excellent.
It's interesting, is there a recording of the followed Golders Green gig in such quality...

It was taken from a discrete 4-channel quad reel tape featuring Randy Newman & Queen.
It's listed here (March 2nd 1975 entry) titled BBC Presents Live From London.
http://www.eclipse67.com/kbi.htm
There was a WMMS radio broadcast that same evening at 9pm featuring Randy Newman & Queen titled BBC Presents.

Great find Kurgan! Interesting that the 1977 BBC Session is also noted as being in quad, would that broadcast have been one dubbed with audience noise?

Now THOSE could end up in a fantastic surround release, either on SACD or Audio DVD.

I can dream, can't I? *singing One Vision: "I had a dream... when I was young... a dream of sweet illusion...".

Cheers,

Ogre-

Sadly it's not likely that QPL will ever release the quad debut LP, not the 1977 BBC session (otherwise you'd have thought they'd had included a separate disc in the boxset)

Sad, but true, Brians Wig!

Cheers,

Ogre-

Also, BBC session 6 was broadcast in quad matrix H on Radio 1 FM in the UK on Jan 2nd 1978.
Program Title - Jonathan King Rules (produced By Dave Tate)

The Kurgan wrote:

Also, BBC session 6 was broadcast in quad matrix H on Radio 1 FM in the UK on Jan 2nd 1978.
Program Title - Jonathan King Rules (produced By Dave Tate)

I always thought that was an Alan Freeman broadcast.

The Kurgan wrote:
It was taken from a discrete 4-channel quad reel tape of the Golders Green Hippodrome concert on September 13th 1973.
The quad broadcast by WMMS radio in Cleveland was on March 2nd 1975.

Is there an off air reel to reel stereo recording of the FM broadcast? If there is I have a friend that can do an excellent quad SQ decode of it. Or does the discrete 4 track quad reel still exist?

None of this Queen stuff in quad will become available unless someone tracks down some tapes or transcription discs. I have tried. The Golders Green transcription discs I have seen for sale have not been marked as SQ, and the BBC transcription service was very good at correctly marking things.

OwenSmith wrote:

The Kurgan wrote:

Also, BBC session 6 was broadcast in quad matrix H on Radio 1 FM in the UK on Jan 2nd 1978. Program Title - Jonathan King Rules (produced By Dave Tate)

I always thought that was an Alan Freeman broadcast.

I have the track listing now, and it appears that the four tracks played on the Jonathan King Matrix H broadcast are different and may be from the NOTW album and not session 6.

- We Will Rock You
- We Are The Champions
- It's Late
- Get Down, Make Love

Source: - http://www.eclipse67.com/bbch.htm

I've seen the first album come up on REGULAR 8 track ET-85064 but not that quad. interesting to hear about this. gonna keep my eyes wide open for this one

Surely someone here could potentially track a copy down (*if it's not extinct). If I find one I'll mail it to someone who could do the work to separate the tracks. Cause I don't have the specs

I did ask the guy who owns this one to check if it was quad, no reply as yet.

^ Shouldn't have asked. should've just offered to buy it cause "I'm a queen geek" ... now the fella might research the relative obscurity of it and add a big ZERO to the price ;-)

all the ones I've seen are black cassettes. Can't clearly read the catalogue number there but it looks like it begins with an 8. that's it