Surely, all the stereo a 15 year old would ever need? I never bought 8-Tracks, but made the occasional "mix 8-Track " just because I could. 1978 AM/FM, crappy turntable and cassette recorder with an 8-track player/recorder. But my first stereo was an all-in-one from Sears ca. I was a vinyl snob as a youth always buy the best quality "master." I only bought about a dozen pre-recorded cassettes (all tape only releases) ever. I never really bought into 8-track too much. I once sold some Quad-8 tapes to a guy in Japan ( Isao Tomita, of course!). I bet people sell them to enthusiasts on eBay. So, let’s remember the humble 8-Track tape. Suzuki last November – and I finally got a CD player in my car – familiar story – it’s “in-dash” and would cost a small fortune to get my MD put into Mr. And, for me, Sony Mini-disc replaced cassette (in my car) – until I got Mr. If it was a reverse-able deck, you can bet one of the directions would no longer work, after a few years. I think I kept the Can one…and the Zappas…īut car cassette players weren’t all that amazing, either. He asked, and it didn’t look possible to replace it with a then-popular cassette deck…so he offered to buy all of my weirdo 8-Track tapes off of me. Once of my friends got a great big American car used – in the mid-80’s. Phil at Starship in Oklahoma asked us something like, “None of that Ryuichi Sakamoto comes on 8-Track, does it?” In the early 80’s, when I changed jobs and worked for an early importer / exporter, I remember people asking us for 8-Tracks. My first record store job, starting in ’76 – the 8-Track tape was still being stocked and sold at the hippie record store. When the 8-Track started going away, it was possible to find them as “cut-outs” for $2 - $5 in record stores, towards the end of the 70’s. I had even found some oddball 8-Track tapes: The Soft Machine, some Frank Zappa titles etc. After the 8-Track recorder quit functioning properly, we had moved on to Sony cassette decks in the house – TC-161SD! But for the car? 8-Track seemed like a good choice. ![]() My first car came in ’76 or shortly thereafter – and I first went for 8-Track tapes instead of cassettes. But the Panasonic recorder definitely got hooked into dad’s ‘hi-fi set-up’. ![]() We may even have had another ‘home deck’ to play 8-Track tapes on – the forerunner of a ‘bookshelf stereo’. It didn’t take long before I (we?) talked my dad into buying a recording 8-Track machine – probably about 1970 or so. OK, the sound quality wasn’t tops – but it was easier to handle than the reel-to-reel deck. It is a neat idea – a small loop of tape with numerous ‘tracks’ on it, where you can switch almost effortlessly to 4 different ‘programs’. I think she liked Mick Jagger – maybe just his hair style of 1968? Or perhaps she thought that “Mother’s Little Helper” was amusing? Mom always liked the Stones. We got an 8-Track tape of “Flowers” by The Rolling Stones, and mom drove around listening to that (she would’ve been almost 50 years old then). 1968, when my mother’s new car had an 8-Track tape player in it.
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