"Gold Dust Woman" - 8-Track Version?

[UndoingTheLaces]

Pot hallucinations notwithstanding, how do more than one person have the same memory of the rolling bass and all the other stuff? Could there have been different editions of the 8-Track? I'd still love to hear this version.

[estranged4life]

I found a similar to version that was described originally on the 2009 Vinyl release of Rumours, Maybe this is the one people were looking for??

It is in .wav format

http://www.mediafire.com/?btffrdo827iipe6

Gold Dust Woman (45 rpm 180g Double LP Warner Reprise Records 517787-1 From the Original Analog Master Tapes)

Mastered by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman at AcousTech Mastering
Pressed in Germany by Pallas (2011)
Limited to 3,500 copies in the U.S.

VINYL 24-bit/96kHz FLAC (Burned to 44.1kHz from 96kHz)


Now, Back to my underground...

[fumidesigns]

Originally Posted by mikebise

When I was first getting into Stevie in Early 1982, a friend gave me her copy of Rumours on 8-track which I could play in my Blazer. Loved, loved, LOVED "Gold Dust Woman"!!! Well, a year and more later in May 1983, I bought the cassette of Rumours to play in my new car. Imagine my surprise at then hearing a significantly shorter "Gold Dust Woman" compared to the 8-track version I was used to!!!

Has anyone else heard the 8-track version of "Gold Dust Woman"? It has the slow fade intro that some of the other mixes do, but the ending is the killer. There is NO fade at all, Stevie has all her wails, the chimes are chinking, the "wolf" is howling... As the instruments stop playing in a natural ending, and the clanking stops and one final "wolf howl", there is a finality to the song: one long bass roll. It's still VERY clear in my head: Bum, bum bum bum bum BUM...

It ENDS. No fade or even kinda fades.

Now, I've heard many other mixes that almost get there, but not quite. None ever make it to that bass roll ending the song.

Has anyone else heard this and does anyone have it?

DAMMIT! y is it that us kiddies always get jipped w/ the GOOD music!!!? i wanna hear this! Gold Dust Woman is one of my FAVOURITE Mac/Stevie song!!!!!!!

[AnthonyMI]

Yes. That is exactly how the 8 Track version ends. But there is really nothing major about it other than it end rather than fades out. Notable, but not huge difference. Again, most of the extra stuff people were talking about was likely from the pot they were smoking in the late 70's. HAHA.

Good find! Much better than the 8 Track transfer went.

[UndoingTheLaces]

Originally Posted by AnthonyMI

Yes. That is exactly how the 8 Track version ends. But there is really nothing major about it other than it end rather than fades out. Notable, but not huge difference. Again, most of the extra stuff people were talking about was likely from the pot they were smoking in the late 70's. HAHA.

Good find! Much better than the 8 Track transfer went.

I've been thinking about this. I had almost forgotten about the sound quality of the old 8-track players. Do you guys remember how horrid they sounded? Especially the cheaper brands. I don't think it was pot smoke that made any of these nice people remember the song as being that much different. It was probably just the type of muddled sound that 8-tracks usually had coupled with low quality speakers. People used to buy stereo equipment based on how well they matched their decor rather than how good they sounded, and if you were a kid in the 70's and your parents had crappy speakers, I'm sure a lot of things sounded vastly different then. Remember those record players that were part of a table??? You opened the tabletop to access the record player and the speakers were part of the cabinet. I'm sure at the time they sounded fine but when I see someone who's parents still have them and you try to play them they sound terrible.

[UndoingTheLaces]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

I found a similar to version that was described originally on the 2009 Vinyl release of Rumours, Maybe this is the one people were looking for??

It is in .wav format

http://www.mediafire.com/?btffrdo827iipe6

Oh, I almost forgot. Thank you so much for posting this and solving this months long mystery.

[MacMan]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

I found a similar to version that was described originally on the 2009 Vinyl release of Rumours, Maybe this is the one people were looking for??

It is in .wav format

http://www.mediafire.com/?btffrdo827iipe6

Gold Dust Woman (45 rpm 180g Double LP Warner Reprise Records 517787-1 From the Original Analog Master Tapes)

Mastered by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman at AcousTech Mastering
Pressed in Germany by Pallas (2011)
Limited to 3,500 copies in the U.S.

VINYL 24-bit/96kHz FLAC (Burned to 44.1kHz from 96kHz)


Now, Back to my underground...

The beginning of this Gold Dust Woman with Lindsey screaming 1,2,3.. is the exact same as the beginning of the Gold Dust Woman (Rough Outtake) from the 2 cd remastered version...

[Macfanforever]

I got more then a dozen copies of 8tracks and also the player that works.I got to check the tapes out.I get them from the local fleamarket for about a buck.

[UndoingTheLaces]

I haven't listened yet, does this one have the breaking glass sound effect in it?

[Old Man Wise]

Thank you, estranged4life !
I always remembered GDW with NO FADES, as on the 8-track version back in 1977.
The version you posted is wonderful. Thank you... you've made an "old man" happy!
A final note: THIS VERSION MUST BE PLAYED LOUD!!!!

[Spoinny]

Was just re-watching this again today. Always loved this (on vhs!), love how they show each song actually broken down by instrument and how it was layered for the final product. Some of the instruments/screams in GDW are freaky!! Lindsey listening to Stevie's screams "I'd say we were under diress"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BREwn...eature=related