I’m writing a book and was just working on a scene where the hero, after getting dumped by his girlfriend, wants to wallow in his heartbreak by listening to Black Sabbath on his 8-track player in his 1977 Monte Carlo. The car and 8-track are based on a friend in high school who bought a used ‘77 Monte Carlo that came with an 8-track player. At that point it was obvious 8-tracks we’re on their way out, but one of the record stores at the local mall had a bin of 8-tracks. If I remember correctly, they were priced at the consumer friendly $2.99. We were Genesis fans and would listen to Supper’s Ready off of the $2.99 Foxtrot 8-track. Plenty of fades up and down on a 23 minute prog tune. I would love to borrow your 8-track collection and go back in time. Cruising around in my friend’s Monte Carlo listening to The Osmonds, Rundgren, Jones (both Davy and Tom) would be a blast!
Fun Video! Do you still have a 8 track player? Your collection fascinates. I have never had an 8 track, but they were always fun to find in friends cars. Love that you share it all with us😅
I love these early week solo shows that you do its a fun little appetizer for us viewers to tide us over until the big Thursday shows that all of us fans of the channel such as myself look forward to every week
Nicely done! Great concept. Makes me wonder how difficult it is these days to get a functioning player. Heck, makes me wonder how many plays those things'll do before they fail! So many questions! Enjoyed! Cheers to you! 😁
This was so fun and nostalgic to watch. I remember my much older siblings having 8-track tapes of soul music in their cars back in the day. Thanks for this great video.
I found the Sex Pistols 8 track at a yard sale -- way way back in the 1980s ! Had NO IDEA it had any value. Paid like 50 cents - it was in perfect shape .
Whenever I come across 8-Tracks without fail among them will be, Three Dog Night, Barry White, and Charlie Rich… Great video👍 - I think DeFranco Family “Hearbeat, It’s A Lovebeat” is actually a pretty terrific song..
This is great thanks. A real prize would be Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music on 8-Track. I still cherish my Joni Mitchell Court and Spark 8-Track. It's a beautiful shade of blue.
I was thinking about making an 8-track video... how they work, how to tell which ones are record clubs, why they fade out/in, why the songs are in different order than the record, the foil piece, etc. Now it will look like I'm copying off of you again! lol BTW, your Kiss "Alive" and "Dynasty" are from Columbia House. Your Temptations tape is a bootleg 8-Track. Those were apparently really common in the late 60s/ early 70's. They would usually have really generic covers with "soul" and "rock", etc on them. The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper" has a looped part in one of the songs to make it time out properly. That custom Redd Kross 8-Track is awesome! I need to get a couple more 8-Tracks that I want in my collection, then I will make that video, so it take awhile. Maybe next year. lol
Rip off! ;-) Leave it to Sgt Pepper to have a suitably psychedelic solution to 8-track time issues. Ah, makes far more sense that the "Soul" tape would be a bootleg. As I said in the video I imagined those being truck stop tapes. Actually they still may have been. The 70s were the Wild West, so it wouldn't be far fetched to have straight up bootleg tapes being sold at truck stops.
Beatles Revolver with Paul's head cut off on the cover. Obviously, another Paul is dead clue. And I wonder if there was a line of Alice Cooper's School's Out on 8-Track with a mini pair of panties fitted over the cartridge. ;)
All my record club cd's have always been extremely good sound quality. 8-tracks should be no different. I have a few Iron Maiden, Scorpions and Styx Columbia house cd's and they're all great! Good Artwork quality too. I used to have a Pat Benatar 8-track, a KISS platinum, and a bunch of others I bought at Goodwill. I used to have a corvette and didn't want to take the old 8-track player out, so I bought a bunch of them. I wish I could remember all of them because I had some good ones!
I still record on 8 Track XD I’m not even old enough to see the format in cars or stuff like that I’m from 2003 but I found a bunch like a box filled with blank 8 T at my grandmas house this box was huge but they had nothing in them 90min tapes so I was like “ don’t worry old pals I’m gonna record stuff on you and make you happy lol “ Rolling Stones , Barbara Streisand, Linda Ronstdant , Uriah Heep , Black Sabbath, Mahogany Rush , Rush , Tom Petty , Dier Staits , Gary Wright , Eagles , STYX, Todd Rundgren, Fierfall , Judas Priests, April Wine , Triumph, Ted Nugent , The Alan Parsons Project , BTO, ZZ Top , Nazareth, Mountain, Grand Funk , Yes, Moody Blues, King Crimson ,
Man i got alot of 8 tracks, love thos things. Got that ram 8 track got a lot of plays out of that thing. one of my favorites I got is probably Rainbow, Rising album. That's a good one
Once upon a time, when the world and I were young, I had a copy of Muscle of Love on 8-track. I was mystified by the tape because I had no clear recollection of how I came by it. I didn’t buy it, and as far as I knew, it wasn’t left in my car by a friend. (No one claimed it, anyway.) I like to think it was a miracle, albeit a fairly bush league miracle.
@@AsItShouldBePodcast oh no. It was lost in one of my periodic purges of obsolete titles during my college years. Miracles are nice and all, but I much preferred credit at the used books/records store at that time.
Out of all the formats, I only enjoyed 8 tracks that I heard in my friends cars. It doesn't mean I never possessed any . The ones I got years later I would add to collages on my walls and ceilings of album covers and 8 tracks as 3-D adornments. I'm curious do you have an 8 track player ? Thanks again Paul. A nice side trip.
Hi, personally i don`t collect 8-tracks or regular cassettes but i can understand why people do collect them because of nostalgia , artwork , etc. I only collect vinyl , especially 12" singles and cds. This is completely unrelated question but i`ve seen in some of your videos the Banana Splits figurines. I love The Banana Splits and have been trying to purchase those figurines, Can you please tell me which company made them. It would be much appreciated Thanks from England.
For the figures, google: "funko banana splits wacky wobblers". Those were made sometime in the later 2000s and might be a bit pricey now but worth a look.
@@AsItShouldBePodcast I believe in you! Just saying, that was pretty, pretty cool that you cared that much about the Partridge Family to include that in your collection. My campfire version of "Only a moment ago" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sdkzlODYCac.html
I found the Sex Pistols 8 track at a yard sale -- way way back in the 1980s ! Had NO IDEA it had any value. Paid like 50 cents - it was in perfect shape .
