Help! MY 8-Track was struck by Lightning!

[koda6966]

Beta was to VHS what HD-DVD is to Blueray.

Except Sony (betamax) only lost to JVC (VHS) because there wasn't beta-porn. I wrote a paper on that for my digital electronics class.

 

[skippy]

SWEEEEEEET!



Let me know how much and what tapes you have.

I can remember my freshman year .......Friends Galaxy 500 4 door.....390 2 barrel.........a blond named Yvonne in the backseat,bottle of Boones Farm Kountry Kwencher and Meatloaf Bat Outta Hell playing Paradise by the Dash board Light as I rounded 3rd base !

I dont remember witch song........but right in the middle........Ku Klunk....changes tracks..................

My freshmen year the girls were into the rolling stones "Hot Rocks" or the Best of the Guess who,like you said Boones Farm and the back seat was rockin. My car always had Boones Farm Stawberry hill,my treasured 8-tracks were best of the James Gang,Led Zepplin 2,Creedence Green River,American Woman by the Guess Who and Abbey Road by the Beatles.

 

[COPPERHEAD85]

ZZ Topp Fandango
Nazerath Hair of the Dog (love hurts)
Credence ....Dont remember the title........Hell.........any CCR!
Allman Bros.
Ted Nugent LIVE!
The last tape I bought was Kiss Alive II.
and Richard Pryor greatest hits.

 

[4x4junkie]

Beta was to VHS what HD-DVD is to Blueray.

Can't say I agree with that... Beta was vastly superior to VHS from just about any angle you looked at it.

As for why it died (or more properly, was snuffed out by VHS), JVC didn't put licensing restrictions on the format like Sony did (basically the same thing as what IBM did for the PC). Too bad the format was so limited in quality.


Great thread though. I remember the days of decorated freeway fences too lol. Can't say I ever personally owned an 8-track, but have used them at friends houses when i was a kid, so the memories are there.

I got reel-reel, vinyl, cassettes, CDs, and of course quite a bit of digital now too. However I pretty much stopped buying new music since about 1995 or so because of the shitty mastering the record companies use, it all sounds like garbage to me.

 

[COPPERHEAD85]

Memories are what its all about junkie!

A little CCR video..........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAVhKjsImeI

 

[DCarey515]

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[fastpakr]

A couple of years ago my dad threw out a mint condition Lear branded 8 track player that Bill Lear had personally given to my grandfather. I don't really blame him for it, as it's quite possible my grandfather had never actually told him the story of how he got it, and to my Dad it was just an ancient 8 track that had no real day to day value. Still, it was a huge loss to me. Would have loved getting it.

 

[AllanD]

Beta was to VHS what HD-DVD is to Blueray.

Except Sony (betamax) only lost to JVC (VHS) because there wasn't beta-porn. I wrote a paper on that for my digital electronics class.

There was beta porn, but it was the tape rental buisness that decided the format war.

Frankly the Beta machines were better in virtually every way they responded to commands almost witout delay (compared to VHS)

But Beta machines were slightly more expensive to produce...

I'm old enough to have seen many working 8track decks but I didn't like them mechanically and my first tape player was a cassette... cassettes wern't as good at first but that didn't last long.

the fact that inside an 8-track tape the tap must RUB against itself guarantees that the tape will "wear out" or jam.



AD

 

[Psychopete]

LOL, a console w/ 8-track and record player (hidden in the bottom drawer) came included with my house, not sure if the receiver can be divorced. It's down in my retro '70s basement/bar. I don't own any 8-tracks, or albums, and there's no inputs for anything else.

 

[adsm08]

so go get some.

 

[4x4junkie]

There was beta porn, but it was the tape rental buisness that decided the format war.

I think they were simply catering to the format more people owned. Without the licensing restrictions, VHS machines were cheaper to buy, so more people had them.

 

[COPPERHEAD85]

Sweet set up pete!
Give us a shot of the whole room....lol!

I just need a AM/FM tuner with 8-Track or just the 8-Track player for home.

 

[88_Eddie]

party at pyschopete's house this weekend

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Dad has three 8-track players and all still work. One is integrated into an ancient stereo receiver, one is a stand alone player and the other... well... IIRC it's still installed in dad's '79 F-150.

Dad transferred all of the 8-tracks he has onto cassette years ago, but he keeps the players and the tapes, don't think he'd get rid of any of them.

I gave up on cassettes years ago, I still have a bunch of them but I don't even know if I have a working tape deck anymore, lol. All the stuff I listen to is in digital format (mp3 and the like) or on CD. I do have a few records that I've picked up and wouldn't mind having a few more just for the heck of it. But my record player needs a needle and Sony discontinued them, go figure.

I've actually been sorely missing the stereo I had in my Ranger lately. But my Ranger is parked because I need to replace the core support, exhaust, radiator, and put the front clip back together. And both my subs are blown.

 

[COPPERHEAD85]

party at pyschopete's house this weekend

Ill bring the 8-Tracks!And!

Retro 70's Party..........!

We will help you clean up the next day pete.......WE PROMISE !