![]() Among the treasures I saw at Warrenton last weekend was this 8-Track. They have taught me a lot in the last 24 hours, including this link: What’s the story on 8-Track porn? In case you’re at work, I clicked through (it was just business) and, well, the Internet is not in any danger.Ĩ. ET If you’ve never held a massive garage sale to unload all of your 8-track tapes and other outdated technology, take a moment before just getting rid of. Among the many fascinating 8-Track enthusiast sites on the web is 8-Track Heaven. Or for $795, you can get a nice David Bowie “The Man Who Sold the World.” On the other hand, you can get this Bee Gees “Spirits Have Flown” tape for less than $3. This Madonna “Like A Virgin” tape is yours now for $499. A few eBay highlights: This Genesis Trespass tape is not $9,000. Sure, your dad’s shoebox of well-used 8-Track tapes aren’t gonna make you rich, but if you have a mint copy of, say, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Texas Flood,” that’s a winner.Ħ. Did I say no love? It turns out, the 8-Track is a highly collectible item. ![]() There was once an Eight Track Museum in Dallas, but - appropriately, I guess - it has closed down. ![]() I don’t know if the 8-Tracks or the player are still there - I’ve had a mess of kids since then - but it’s worth checking out.Ĥ. It took everything I had not to call in sick to work right there from the bar. About a dozen years ago, I went into Ginny’s Little Longhorn to buy a T-shirt as a gift one afternoon before work and they had an 8-Track player cranking out Willie and Waylon songs. 1988 “Greatest Hits” album is said to be the last major-label releases on 8-Track.ģ. The format started to decline in the early 1980s, but 8-Track tapes were still available from major labels and through record clubs well toward the end of the decade. The 8-Track got its first big break when Ford Motors offered 8-Track players in its 1966 models.Ģ. Post your pictures of 8-track tapes, 8-Track players both home and auto and any other 8-Track tape related stuff Pictures and videos are a plus, but not required for posts. A metal sensing strip connects the ends of the strip of inch tape thus forming the loop. The 8-Track was invented by William Powell Lear, the man behind the Lear Jet - although it was really a refinement of the 4-Track tape, which had existed since 1956 and was itself refined by Earl “Madman” Muntz in the early 1960s. The tape heads will play two tracks at a time, 4 in stereo. Let’s celebrate this holiday with 8 facts about 8-Tracks …ġ. We’re looking back, because today is National Eight Track Tape Day and my particular mid-life crisis is 1970s nostalgia. (Robert Earl Keen would clear that up for me a decade-and-a-half later.) I recall clearly, hearing the Oak Ridge Boys sing “Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight” and asking the old man if the highway did go on forever. I never owned an 8-Track tape, but I remember clearly listening to them - a fact that sets me squarely in the midst of Generation X.ĭad’s truck had an 8-Track player, and when it wasn’t jammed all to hell (his words), we were jamming to Crystal Gayle and Waylon Jennings. ![]()
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