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    8 track Tapes

    Where old enough to own one? If so what was the last tape you bought.

    I bought a Kenny Rogers "The Gambler" at 12yo. Was totally stoked for that 8 track. Possible the last one I got was a Simon and Garfunkle But I think it was Kenny.
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    I didnt own or buy them my parents had them but I remember , ELO , the Knack , Elvis and maybe there was Kenny Rodgers too. My Sharona was the shit when I was 5 .

    In high school my friends parents were gone for a week and the pool room had a 8 track and the only one we listened to was Hendrix Axis Bold as Love , over and over and over .

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    sure ,they would be tapes like exile on mainstreet or deep purple but I couldnt remember a specific title

    8 tracks they always fucked up ,some cartridge cases played better than others ,usually the cartridge case that had a bigger rubber wheel SO I would pop open the case and swap the loop to a case that did work well

    jamming a paper wad in the player beside the cartridge helped to keep them running at the right speed ,when the tape got eaten I was good at pulling apart the tape and fixing the loop with scotch tape if the tape broke and rewinding with the right amount of slack in the continuous loop

    8 track sound was pretty good actualy because the tape speed was double the speed of cassettes for a better sound cuz there was no such thing as sound enhancement

    A buddy of mine bought an old chevy van with shag carpet,dingle balls and an 8-track back about 8yrs ago ,he found some 8-tracks at a garage sale ,the player worked at least until the tape came to the splice in the loop ...where the piece of tape splicing the loop togetehr had disintegrated from old age

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    I am old enough to have owned 8-tracks, but I never have. I don't think either of my parents had an 8-track player - just turntables. I think the first LP I had was Rock and Rollover. I was in the Kiss Army.

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    I am old enough but I never owned any. I did jam out to my parents though and my first car had an Am/Fm/8-track in it.

    I think my favorite back then (of my parents 8-tracks) was Jim Croce or S&G.

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    1st EVER album I bought was an 8Track AC DC BACK IN BLACK!
    soon followed by Beatles Sargent Peppers LHCB
    Then graduated to tape and LPs
    Scorpions Black Out and Def Leppard High and Dry!
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    I had a little Pioneer 8-track that fit in the fresh-air vent of my rusted-out Pinto. It tended to change tracks right in the middle of the best songs. Somebody pried apart the rusted-out door skin, rolled down the window from inside the door, and swiped the damned thing . . . with my favorite tape in it:

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    Dire Straits Love Over Gold. I wore it out.
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    Jackson Browne's The Pretender was probably the last 8 track I actually purchased (1976?). I got an RCA stereo for Christmas 1976 that recorded 8 tracks (pre-cassette tape days) directly from vinyl, so I almost always bought the record then recorded it onto 8 track blanks from KMart so I could have my own custom tunes while I tooled around Montana in my truck. I switched to cassette by 1979 because 8 tracks just sounded like shit. I do recall trying to buy my Dad a Moe Bandy 8 track at Budget Tapes and Records in Gillette, WY about 1980, for his birthday. They'd phased them out, so I had to talk the old man into buying a cassette for his propane-powered oil field truck.
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    Eagles........
    And IIRC something from the Doobie Brothers

    If I check the attic, they may still be there.
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    Had too many to remember. Jethro Tull's Songs From The Woods was probably one of the last I bought. I remember knowing exactly where the "click's" were in each tape and which ones needed a match book to play right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lingcod View Post
    I do recall trying to buy my Dad a Moe Bandy 8 track
    Mo Bandy's Hillbilly Porn?

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    I had a 73 Nova with an 8 track in it when I bought it in 84 (?) as a junior in high school. I had a few tapes but cannot remember what they were. I yanked it and put in a tape player/radio.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZGjethro View Post
    I had a 73 Nova with an 8 track in it when I bought it in 84 (?) as a junior in high school. I had a few tapes but cannot remember what they were. I yanked it and put in a tape player/radio.
    LOL... mine was a 76 with 8-track

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    Bought a '63 Impala from my neighbor for $400 when I was in high school and it had an 8-track deck in the dash (he threw in snow tires too!). Pretty sure the last tape I bought was Arrowsmith "Rocks".
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    I had a little portable 8-track player - predecessor to the boom box. Last tape I bought was AC/DC Let There Be Rock in the late 70's.
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    I had an 8 track, say 76-78 or so, I was 12-14 really into what I would have said was 1st gen skateboarding and had a hammee down "home sterio" from my sister. Tape I remember most was Ted Nuget Cat Scratch Fever knowing exactly which of the four channels was the best. Kiss Rock & Roll over but I don't think it was my tape. My buddy recorded aerosmith 1st album and rocks on a single clarion 90m tape once, the channels were long as shit. Anytime I hear Lick and a promise I instantly remember my powerflex 5s. I was too young to have a car and vynl ruled in the day. Now splicing with scotch tape and havin to change channels, now that brings back some memories.

    on a related note WTF do kids clean seeds out on these days? Does ju ju even come with seeds anymore?
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    I had a few in the day. Cant' recall exactly - I was young. Prolly some gay shit like Simongarfunkel eltonjohn and neildiamond.

    But, my first ski trip ever was in a beat up rust bucket with a molly hatchet 8 track tape loop.
    . . .

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    KISS Double Platinum.

    I always liked Billy Joels 52nd Street...thought it soo funny that "Zanzibar" ran so long it needed to span tracks..tooo funny...

    I had an 8 track boom box that i rocked out like a mother when i was like 10-14....we also had one in our tiny Honda Civic CVCC....amazing..

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    Only 8track album I ever bought. Our only player was in the car, my dad took one listen to it and chucked it out the window on I81. 2 months later he sold that car and bought one with a cassette deck.

    He must have really hated that album.

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    I'm older than almost everyone here, except splat, but I got out of 8 tracks as soon as I could get a car cassette player. I think the last 8 track I bought was "Volunteers" - Jefferson Airplane. The sound was shitty.

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    first 8-track purchase was saturday night fever
    last track purchased was steve miller band, livin in the USA
    lots of blondiejourneyreospeedwagonforeignerjoewalshac/dc along the way

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    I inherited some when I got my first car from my grandparents.
    I only remember two of them, a Tijuana Brass one, and the great Jerry Vale singing the great Italian hits.

    I listened to them every now and then in the car. I got the car in 2002...
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    My first car was a Datsun 510 and it came with a Craig 8 track.

    I listened to Emerson, Lake and Palmer. A lot.
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