I’m grounded at the moment so a buddy brought over a bunch of 8 tracks for me. Most are not to my liking but there are a few. A couple Zeppelin's, couple Beach Boys, double album Elvis (mine broke a few years ago), Three dog night, Cars, A complete anthology of the Beatles as well as Abbey Road. CCR, Average White Band, Hendricks, BTO, Grand Funk, Stepen wolf and iron butterfly. and this one for you movie buffs. some are new, some are used, I need a home player. Rock and roll never dies, but the labels get a bit ragged.
Don't ignore Steely Dan. You may just find you can enjoy their music too. That's how I was turned on to them back in the 70s. 8track tapes, on sale at Bradlees, played through my Kraco 8 track player hanging under the dash of my 67 Imapala. It's good music.
Man I have a large vinyl collection, but never dug 8 tracks... I honestly don't remember listening to sound quality as I was a kid at the time when dad played um. Is the sound quality unique like a record? Good? Or is it purely nostalgia?
Some great stuff there, Endless Summer by The Beach Boys is a great collection, Led Zeppelin, Three Dog Night and the first album by CCR.
I figured it was to avoid copyright infringement? Several of these were brand new. Hall n Oats, Boz Scaggs, Rod Stewart, Sadaka, Olivia, BeeGees, Fleetwood Mac and a couple head cleaners. I'm pretty sure I still owe Columbia House some money come to think of it.
Three Dog Night, Boz Scaggs, Steely Dan, yes, yes, yes. For Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs,, and Micheal McDonald fans, search Dukes of September on YouTube..
Craig 8 track under the dash. Doobies, Black Oak Arkansas, Grand Funk, Stones, James Gang, Jethro Tull, The Doors, Hendrix, Cream, Creedence, The Byrds, Savoy Brown, Allman Brothers, the Animals, Van Morrison, Sly, Janis, Steppenwolf, Procul Harem, Paul Butterfield, Santana, CSN&Y, Joe Cocker, The Band and on and on.
My first 8-tracks, the cars (luv em), Ted nugent Amboy dukes, beach boys, reo speedwagon... I prefer my vinyl to all forms of music, and my go to on a new record player/stereo system is Billy thorpe-children of the sun. That song has so much separation and multi-tracks that it will test just how good your stereo system is. ....
I'll trade you a Bee Gees (wifes) for an In-A-Godda-Da-Vida. For you "soft rock" geeks that's by Iron Butterfly. Please, no offers of Free Bird!
Jumped from vinyl at home to cassette tape by 72. Never had any sound systems in my cars back then. Couldn’t hear ‘em over the exhaust and ignition static… but at home! I could make the windows in the house rattle on the first floor, and my bedroom was on the third floor.
You beat me too it, I just open the thread and thought Columbia House. My time was 11 cassettes for a penny, I couldn't even find 11 cassettes I liked on their list, let alone the ones you had to buy at full price later.
Whenever I see a young kid with a Pink Floyd prism shirt on, I feel like telling them I had that album on 8-track. How many would know what I'm talking about. Gary
depending on age, how many would know a CD at this point? I still have loads of cassette tapes. 8 track was just before my time.
8 tracks, in Janurary of 1969 I was on my way from here where I live now to Fort Hood Texas and had taken an extra long route down through California and Vegas to Tucson and El Paso then to Fort Hood to avoid the snow storms going the route I should have taken that was probably 600 miles shorter. I had picked up a GI from Fort Bliss who two gals had let out at the gas station I was filling up at in Tucson and headed to Fort Bliss to drop him off and got out in New Mexico and stopped for gas at about 3 AM in some little wide spot with an all night gas station and when we walked in the gas station there was a full length wall behind the counter full of 8 track and 4 track tapes. I asked the kid at the station about it and he said it was because they couldn't get any radio stations out there and all the local folk were buying 8 track players and tapes. I bought an under dash unit that I still have and put it in my car after I got married in Augest 69 because my wife wanted to listen to tapes. That thing got moved around to three or four cars before it got stuck in a box that it is still in today. I've got some old tapes somewhere but they have probably suffered the ravages of time.
Nostalgia's great, but I hate 8-tracks. After a certain period of time or a certain number of plays, they WILL self-destruct. I remember in the seventies, driving north on 35W into downtown Minneapolis and the sides of the highway were literally covered with the tape from them.
I had a reel to reel when I was a lot younger, I spliced together a bunch of 8 track tapes that had failed in one way or another and made a couple big reels of music. I think it was an 8 channel pioneer, if I recall correctly the 8 channel would play in stereo. I wish I still had it.
Never had a lot in my collection. My girlfriend supplied many. First bought for my Craig, was Cream Disreali gears. Country Joe and The Fish. Can't forget Dylan. Slight problem,,, Living in "The City Of Brotherly Love", aka Philly Out of three different cars three different players, vanished in the night. Hate thieves BUT,,, lost enough that I had to learn not to care. Playin' with cars was a hobby,,, for fun. Not something to get angry sick over. Love where I live now My neighbor is a corn / soy bean field
Easy on the volume, don’t crank it up to much. To much vibration could bust the welds holding your speakers in...
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