Remember 8 Track?

Yanktar · **Joined:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:08 am **Posts:** 250

ROFLMAO!

Claude Gallichand · **Posted:** Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:05 pm

OK guys, here's the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgRZLd6j ... re=related

Claude.

jayro · **Joined:** Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:59 pm **Posts:** 395

hahahaha ahhhh the memories! I actually still have a player :lol:

and I bought some 8 tracks about a year ago at a thrift store... :lol:

Why??? IDK :oops:

I actually remember using a reel to reel :oops:

pappawookee · **Posted:** Mon Apr 25, 2011 6:08 pm

I remember my folks had one when I was young and I was fascinated by the thing!

I actually broke it because I decided to 'post' things in it............like coins, parts of action man(gi-joe for our Trans Atlantic friends...) and I believe the killer object may have been a toasted marmalade sandwich............ :oops:

Yanktar · **Joined:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:08 am **Posts:** 250

What the heck is a "toasted marmalade sandwich". I know what toast is, I know what marmalade and I sure know what a sandwich. I even know what marmalade on hot toast is (yum!) But...how (and why) would you toast marmalade?

Still, you probably improved the sound of the thing!

Sunburst Blues · **Posted:** Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:19 pm

This stuff is really too funny. I remember having a home stereo (outdated word there, but that was what it was called) with an 8 track. Now mind you, I didn't know anyone else with an 8 track, so my expectation was that it was a good thing. I remember taping an LP and realizing that, of course, the track breaks came right in the middle of a song. So I came up with this idea where I literally spent hours trying to tape the LP so that the breaks would fall between songs and I could switch tracks and start at the beginning of a new song (a good idea, in theory). And, of course, this was absolutely, positively impossible. After that I never used the thing again. Whoever invented 8 track owes me a couple of hours of my life back for all that taping, no doubt.

SB

pappawookee · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:53 am

Yanktar wrote:

What the heck is a "toasted marmalade sandwich". I know what toast is, I know what marmalade and I sure know what a sandwich. I even know what marmalade on hot toast is (yum!) But...how (and why) would you toast marmalade?

Still, you probably improved the sound of the thing!

A toasted marmalade sandwich is one of two things...........

Think PAddington Bear (a 70s/80s brit made animated/stop motion kids programme about a stuffed bear that arrived in the UK from Peru.................... :shock:

he loved two slices of toast with marmalade in the middle

or the 'dangerous' version............

Get one of those old toastie machines - like a George Foreman grill but 'seals' in the filling - and place your first slice, then add butter and marmalade, then the second slice and close till the machine says it is ready.................then leave it for about year and a half for the marmalade to cool down enough to even think about trying it!!! Eat it too soon and it WILL remove the inside of your cheeks and probably the outer layer of your tongue as well as frying the inside of your throat!!! :shock:

THat, Yanktar, is a toasted marmalade sandwich..................staple diet of Peruvian stuffed bears, a rite of passage that even Jackass would struggle to attempt and also a convincing 8 track killer!! :wink:

Yanktar · **Joined:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:08 am **Posts:** 250

pappawookee wrote:

Yanktar wrote:

What the heck is a "toasted marmalade sandwich". I know what toast is, I know what marmalade and I sure know what a sandwich. I even know what marmalade on hot toast is (yum!) But...how (and why) would you toast marmalade?

Still, you probably improved the sound of the thing!

A toasted marmalade sandwich is one of two things...........

Think PAddington Bear (a 70s/80s brit made animated/stop motion kids programme about a stuffed bear that arrived in the UK from Peru.................... :shock:

he loved two slices of toast with marmalade in the middle

or the 'dangerous' version............

Get one of those old toastie machines - like a George Foreman grill but 'seals' in the filling - and place your first slice, then add butter and marmalade, then the second slice and close till the machine says it is ready.................then leave it for about year and a half for the marmalade to cool down enough to even think about trying it!!! Eat it too soon and it WILL remove the inside of your cheeks and probably the outer layer of your tongue as well as frying the inside of your throat!!! :shock:

THat, Yanktar, is a toasted marmalade sandwich..................staple diet of Peruvian stuffed bears, a rite of passage that even Jackass would struggle to attempt and also a convincing 8 track killer!! :wink:

ROFLMAO! Thanks Pappawookie!

jaknzax · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:57 am

My first 8 track I remember as being Jefferson Airplane my uncle got me for Christmas. I don't care what anyone says, to me the music of that era was the greatest music ever! Even if it was played on those crummy 8 track players.

yodacaster · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:28 am

Nevin1985 wrote:

My first vehicle had an 8 track player so of course I used it even though the technology was far out of date by then. I had Van Halen on 8 track and was the least popular kid in my class. :lol:

Was it a 76 Camero?

jaknzax · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:40 am

I had a 1966 Dodge Polara with a 383 V8. Man I had that 8 track shaking the back window with those 6"x9" Jensens. Thank God gas was about 29 cent a gallon cause my first job paid $1.65 an hour.

ddeaton107 · **Joined:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:21 am **Posts:** 239

This brings back to me what I believe now to be the most fun time of my life....
I installed the 8-track in my new 75 Mustang II. Got most of my tapes at a store called "The Tape Man" - most were bootlegged but the price was right. They were surprisingly good quality...and the technology for the time was ok for me. The Ka-chunk....tracks changing in the middle of the song...all that stuff was there but it still put the music I wanted to listen to in my car. I also joined the Columbia 8 track club and got 8 tapes for 99 cents. Santana, Eagles....Beach Boys and a lot more. Oh yeah, I had one of those suitcase type things for storing all those tapes. I know most of the replies on this have been pretty negative but like I say...that time for me was a pleasant one and the 8 track made it better.

Dan

jaknzax · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:31 am

I totally agree Dan

fendermandan · **Posted:** Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:59 am

fjbass wrote:

Do you remember 8 Track? If you do, do you remember where the tracks changed in a part of a song on that 8 track tape? The two of mine I most remember,
Iron Butterfly, Metamorphosis album, the song Butterfly Bleu. And of course in the middle of the drum solo of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. TRACK CHANGE!

Nope, I started with the cassette, which was not that much better. I bet there are million stories when the tape gets caught in the player and it chews it up. Yaiiikees there goes my two hours of recording....

Yanktar · **Joined:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:08 am **Posts:** 250

Dan,
Just shows ignorance CAN be bliss!
Who knew any better?
Those WERE good times and we thought rock'n'roll would save the world!

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