I remember they used to break often and even doing a good splice job, they never really sounded good as you mentioned. It bugged me when it blipped during some of Blackmore's solos on the Deep Purple ones!

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........music, music, music music,...fade out, fade out.......kachunck......fade in, fade in, music, music, music...........

Did I get it right?

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one of my first cars had an 8-track player in it but we didn't have any music. Me and my friends used to drive around with 2XL 8-tracks playing. They were teaching the metric system and other wacky stuff. then the car died so that fixed the problem. Good times

I had forgotten the track changes
When I was in high school in the '60s and still had to ride with the family on trips,I had to listen to 8 tracks of Tom Jones for hours.."Why,why,why...Delilah?"

My brother got his start in crime stealing 8-track tapes and players out of the trade-in cars at one of the local lots. He tried to get me to put one in my 56' Chevy, but I never did. I knew better technology was coming.

My father started and owned the second recording studio in Iowa in the 60s - the only studio that was willing to record the devil's own Rock & Roll music. Dad made commercial 8-track tapes for the local radio stations and guess who got to sit there splicing all those bad boys together - yep, me. And don't forget to put a 180 twist in the right side before you splice it!

Geez, the good old days...

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Dennis in CR
Rockin' since 1963

I remember listening to The Cream, Led Zep and of course Iron Butterfly. I knew the technology was changing so I opted for a $200 dollar cassette for my first car - a $40 dollar '57 Beetle. Ah, good times!

Gridlok

yes, my older sister had a guest bedroom with a little 8 track and speakers as part of the headboard of the bedroom furniture in that room, so, when ever I would stay over I would go to sleep listening to the Experience or the Beatles and do remember the track changes mid-song just not exactly were in those songs.

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When my mother and stepfather sold their Minnesota resort a few years back my stepfather tried to get me to buy his big old record player console as he knew I still had a big vinyl collection. When I looked at it (with very little interest) I noticed that alongside the turntable was an 8-track tape player. He opened one of the side doors and showed me about 80 old 8-track tapes and said he'd throw them in if I was interested. I passed and I think he ended up giving it to one of his old neighbors. No regrets.

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Dennis in CR
Rockin' since 1963

I remember a crowd of us piled into my buddy's Ford Maverick with the windows rolled up,a big bag of Alcapulco's finest and Jimi's Greatest Hits blasting out of the Mind Blower Speakers on the 8-track which at the time were the loudest thing in car stereo but sounded terrible.I don't know how my brain and ears survived it.

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Nope.

It went "ka-CHUNK".

And it really took the wind out of Peter's sails in the middle of "Do You Feel Like I Do" on the Frampton Comes Alive 8-track.



Arjay

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Wow I added an 8 track Craig aftermarket to my '69 Nova SS350. I think everyone had Iron Butterfly, I had a lot of Motown too. I remember taking it out and hooking it up to an old train transformer and speakers so I can have music in my dorm room.

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+1 Ka-CHUNK...yep and always in the middle of a EC solo on Derek & the Dominos Live in Concert...I miss that 66 Oldsmobile Toranado but not that 8 Track...It had front wheel drive, a 425, 385Hp V8 and a HUGE front seeat...for doing the Drive In Mombo!
T2

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8-Track...... Ah yes, the memories of fishing out the chewed up favorite tape, having to straighten it out, and snap it so it would wind itself back up to be usable again. Or taking one apart to put the tape back in the right way, or maybe it got chewed so bad, I had to cut out about a foot of tape and splice it with scotch tape. I was able to revive a lot of them. Or the suitcase sized tape holder in my '68 Dodge Dart, that was always in the way. I used to enjoy listening to a Quadraphonic version of Aerosmith Toys In The Attic on regular Stereo 8-Track. It really separated all the instruments in the mix. Lots of Fun.

I remember fixing a favorite tape for my college freshman roommate. He couldn't believe I did it (I have NO idea anymore what it was--probably Allman Bros). I think he didn't let me buy a single drink for a week (18 was still the drinking age then)!

My mom had the last 8track I saw... We yard-sale'd it about a year ago. It was one of those cheapies with record player (can't call it a "turntable"), analog tuner, and masonite speakers that sounded like tin.

Cassettes were SO much better than 8 tracks! Smaller, ran longer, no track jump, and the sound could rival reel-to-reel. There never was a true high-end 8 track the way there were cassette decks.

Nope. I was born in 1983 and I have never even seen one.

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