Blue Öyster Cult - Long Island, New York[King Biscuit Flower Hour 1975]

The second in a series of new decodes of live recordings quad encoded for radio broadcast.

Blue Öyster Cult was touring in support of their fourth record, the live album “On Your Feet or on Your Knees” when this performance was recorded for the King Biscuit show. Their unique blend of metal and occasional prog made them a concert favorite across America and Europe during the 70’s and 80’s, and their music has been hugely influential on modern metal. They are still touring to this day.

This conversion features fours songs recorded on 17 May 1975 at the Island Music Center in Commack on Long Island, New York and broadcast on the King Biscuit Flower Hour show on 8 June 1975 as part of a double bill with a Black Oak Arkansas performance recorded at a different venue.
Source: Pre-FM SQ encoded broadcast reel

Converted to: DVD-A PCM 24/48

Procol Harum - Golders Green, London [BBC Radio One - The Concert Programme 1974]

The first in a series of new decodes of live recordings quad encoded for radio broadcast.

Procol Harum are an English rock band formed in 1967, notable for their baroque and classical influences as well as for having a non-performing official band member, lyricist Keith Reid.

On 30 March 1974, Radio One's The Concert Programme broadcast the nine songs featured here out of the total of eleven recorded by the BBC on 22 March 1974 at The Golders Green Hippodrome in London.
Source: Post-FM SQ encoded CD

Converted to: DVD-A PCM 16/48 & 16/48 FLAC

The O'Jays - Ship Ahoy[SACD rear channel configuration corrected]

The eighth album by Philly soulsters The O'Jays is an interesting blend of the romantic with the politically and socially conscious.

Although it was "tweaked" for 5.1 surround, the SACD was based on the original quadraphonic release. From repeated listening to the mix as presented on the SACD it appeared that like the SACD release of Deep Purple's Machine Head the rear channels of the original quadraphonic mix had been reversed. This channel reversal was most evident in the opening sound effects on Track 2 and the bass guitar on Track 5 which when properly aligned travels in a circle.

This conversion has been "untweaked" back to the original four channels with the rear channels as presented on the SACD swapped over to restore the original quadraphonic mix configuration.
Source: SACD

Converted to: DVD-A MLP 24/88.2, DVD-V DTS 24/48 & Dolby Digital 24/48

The O'Jays - Ship Ahoy[Original SACD channel configuration]

The eighth album by Philly soulsters The O'Jays is an interesting blend of the romantic with the politically and socially conscious.

Although it was "tweaked" for 5.1 surround, the SACD was based on the original quadraphonic release. From repeated listening to the mix as presented on the SACD it appeared that like the SACD release of Deep Purple's Machine Head the rear channels of the original quadraphonic mix had been reversed. This channel reversal was most evident in the opening sound effects on Track 2 and the bass guitar on Track 5 which when properly aligned travels in a circle.

This conversion has been "untweaked" back to the original four channels with the rear channel configuration as originally released on the SACD.
Note: This is the same conversion that was originally posted in November 2014 and has not been changed.

Source: SACD

Converted to: DVD-A MLP 24/88.2, DVD-V DTS 24/48 & Dolby Digital 24/48

Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music

Released in 1975, the fifth solo album by Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed is considered to have been either a joke, a fulfillment of a contractual obligation, or an early example of noise music. The album features no songs or even recognizably structured compositions, instead consisting of just over an hour of modulated feedback and guitar effects, mixed at varying speeds.

Originally released on vinyl as a double album, it may potentially have been intended to meet a contractual obligation as artists at that time were sometimes contracted to release a specific number of recordings, and double albums would usually count as two releases. Although the original release showed the running time for all four sides as exactly 16 minutes and 1 second the actual times vary, although the total time does add up to 64 minutes and 4 seconds. It certainly wasn't a farewell release to end his contract with RCA as Lou would release Coney Island Baby on that label the following year.

In response to claims the release was a joke, Lou has insisted in interviews that he was serious when he created the work - but that he was also very stoned. The fact that there was a quadraphonic version released suggests that the record label supported the release at the time. I have read reviews that have claimed the work is largely in the key of B but I am not musical and not able to confirm this claim.
Source: Blu-ray

Converted to: DVD-A MLP 24/96, DVD-V DTS 24/48 & Dolby Digital 24/48