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8 tracks (Old people only)

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Rastus

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Anybody here ever had one?

Remember putting a matchbook under the older (two weeks) tapes to keep them from double tracking?

Did you take the tape apart every once in a while to loosen it?

My favorite 8 tracks were:

Yes: Fragile
Deep Purple: Machine Head
Kiss: Destroyer
Steve Miller Band: The Joker

Those were the days.
 
I still have a box of them somewhere.....and my dad has a 8 track changer in the garage with a box of old tapes too.

My favorites were all the Styx, Foreigner, and The Cars albums of the day.........
 
Had a Jimmy Hendrix 8-track and an old Pink Floyd - Ummagumma(?) maybe.

Also had a tape of a Traffic concert when they were a trio. I wish I could find that on CD.
 
We must have wore out a copy of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, I used have one by Norman Greenbaum, Sky Pilot, ....



The original One hit wonder
 
We used them for commercials when I first started at the radio station that I'm still working for. Of course we've moved on to computers....
 
Black Sabbath, Three Dog Night, and the 8 track kings: Credence Clearwater Revival!

Now do you rember the precursor to the 8 track? The original open top deck 4 track!!
 
when i was younger my dad used to buy them at garage sales and let me take them apart to 'fix' them and stuff.

he used to record his own 8 tracks.
 
We had a bunch when I was a kid, but I remember the sountrack to Grease the best. That and some instrumentals.
 
I have you all beat. My first in car player was a 4 track, mounted under dash of my 2 door metallic blue 1960 cadillac with 390 tri power.. Sweet memories of low riding, being the only one with Areatha Franklin blaring out big rear deck speakers and side door speakers singing "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" and "Heard it Through the Grapevine", crusing bellflower blvd, Harveys, and Whittier mall, then up to Hollywood cruising Sunset blvd, Hollywood Blvd and Sunset and Vine, stoned on MJ and Vitamin A, listening to the Doors "light My Fire' and Jimmie H "Are you EXperienced?"

The 60's, hot damn, what a time I had growin up.😉
 
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
I can go you one better, I had a four track player in my 1963 MGB.
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I can do better than that:

I still have my 8 track/4 track deck that came with my 1979 Chrysler Lebaron. It was part of the Premium Sound Package - 4 speakers and the AM/FM/8Track and cost about $800 back then.
 
I remember Mom had one, one of those panasonic ones with the plunger... hehe

Speaking of old tape formats, has anyone ever seen what looks like a cassette tape, but is enlarged about 3 times? What the heck is that thing called?
 
Anyone remember vacuum tube radios in cars? They didn't have switching power supplies, they used vibrators. (um, not the pleasure types...well perhaps if you touched the transformer's secondaries to your...) Nothing like hearing the hum from those...

On the subject of tapes, isn't it funny how you can hear stuff in the music before it's played back when you have the volume high? (Because of how the tape is stored) It seemed like 8 tracks had this problem worse than ever. Cassettes do, but not nearly as bad. It's nearly absent on my Nakamichi Dragon due to Nak's head gap but tapes recorded on this awesome deck sound kind of sh!tty on other equipment.

-DAK-
 
Yep. I was a kid, but I remember 8-tracks and had a many.

I remember my mother ordering those cheap TV K-Tel compilation tapes and it would change tracks in the middle of a song.
 
I have a friend who until just last year had one with hundreds of tapes still working in there 1972 motorhome. Thank gawd that he just moved up to cassettes. 😉
 
"Speaking of old tape formats, has anyone ever seen what looks like a cassette tape, but is enlarged about 3 times? What the heck is that thing called?"

That was called the "elcassette" and was sold by sony. It featured higher tape speeds
and wider format and was a sonic improvment over a standard cassette. It's downfall
was no pre-recorded material available...
 
I had them during the last couple of years they were around. I had an 8-track BOOM BOX! 😛

In my collection...

Pat Benetar
Rush
Styx
The Alan Parsons Project

Sigh.
 
I had them during the last couple of years they were around. I had an 8-track BOOM BOX!
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I had one of those. Elgin Tri Power. Ran on AC/12V Cig lighter or 8xD cells. (Hence Tri Power). Folded up and you could open it and put the speakers up to 7 feet apart with extension cable! It was nearly identical to this one. Mine did have AM/FM.

-DAK-
 
8 tracks. Was there ever a worse medium for recorded music? I had hundreds of 8 tracks now long in the dustbin of history.
Edit: I'll tell you this though, just thinking about 8 tracks brings me back to my teen years. They were such an integral part of my everyday life back then.
 
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