Yesterday was National 8-Track Day – IOTW Report

Yesterday was National 8-Track Day

Wednesday, 12 April 2017, 22:00 BFH Uncategorized 68

“Why” is the first question.

The second question is, what tape would most likely be playing in your car in the 1970s?

The third question is, do you still have an 8-track?

68 Comments on Yesterday was National 8-Track Day

  3. Allman Brothers Jethro Tull.
    I have been a picker and Ebay seller
    for 20 years and have never seen 8 track
    tapes or players take off and run.There is
    one hippy-dippy player that looks like a UFO
    and has orb detachable speakers in orange or yellow.
    It sells because of it’s “mod” design.

  4. I hard a 4-8 track player with FM radio on it. Where’s Craig when you need them?
    Beatles 68-72
    Nope, some fag stole it from my 72 Nova. YOU FAG! I’m still looking for you! And I’ll find you! 😂 👍

  5. Did anyone else have They Only Come Out at Night by the Edgar Winter Group?
    The eight track fade and track change landed smack dab in the middle of Winter’s most famous song, Frankenstein, right in the worst possible spot.
    Even today, when I hear that song, I kind of wait for the fade.

  6. Tomorrow is “Coin Operated Phone Booth Day.”

    I had Elton John’s Madman Across the Water and Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. Tabletop stereo and ugly speakers. I think they are still in a corner of my parents basement.

  15. I had a pretty good Homer & Jethro tape, but I had to play it in the house. No 8-track in the car. Still have a cassette player in my current car, though. One reason I’m reluctant to trade it in.

    🙂

  18. Almost forgot to answer the questions:

    1. Because nostalgia.
    2. Probably BeeGees “Odessa”.
    3. Got two or three up in the attic, I believe. Right next to the Atari 2600s, probably.

  19. Sony 8 track plunger player with gene tracy truck stop tapes. Oh that guy was rude and funny. Glad those days are over, gimme mp3’s and I’ll tourn them into graphic equalizer GOLD!

  20. I had a player that looked sort of like an old fashioned detonator box, you pushed down on a “T” handle to change tracks. One speaker in front, tape went in the side, and a head phone jack. I think it was a Panasonic. It got me through a Med Cruise in ’77. I also remember the inappropriately timed fades and track changes.

  21. Zeppelin, Credence, Cream, Black Sabbath, Cat Stevens (“mood” music), Mountain, Tull. Beyond that I can’t remember. 8 track tapes had a short life, especially if the car was parked in the sun!

  22. pirated 8 tracks were all the rage and had plenty of blank spots.

    1. cuz ya gotta remember 8 tracks, right?
    2. Steppenwolf or led zep
    3. no, but i know 2 people that do.

  24. Reading the comments above took me back to high school in a flash. God bless Vincent Furnier.

    I have an 8 track in the dash of my ’78 New Yorker. Damn shame it eats the tapes.

    – 4 Way Street
    – Blind Faith
    – Steppenwolf 7

  25. “Harvester of Eyes” – BOC
    “Bridge of Sighs” – Robin Trower
    “Best of Steppenwolf” Der Vulf

    All played on a Tenna Ranger (best 8 track deck ever made) at 100dB from my 68′ GTX 426 Hemi.

  27. Yes, and the answer to “why” is that the 8-track came before car-reliable cassette players. The main tapes I remember were three or four Moody Blues albums that I didn’t like that much but I had because I was trying to get in the pants of a lady who had the hots for Graeme Edge. Young and stupid, I was.

    And thirdly, no. I dumped 8-tracks by the late 70s.

  28. I was an eleven year old kid listening to my brother’s copy of High Tides And Green Grass by the Rolling Stones in the living room – always liked the four different colored lights – red, blue, yellow, and green if I remember correctly. It skipped in the middle of 2000 Light Years From Home. Listening to The Who Sell Out on the old big box stereo player was an obsession too.

  29. At the time of the 8 track I had a 340 Mopar that was turning 11 second quarter miles. Snap third gear and the Craig Power play in the slide in mount landed in the back seat. And the rear view was right up against the liner. Good times. I’m fortunate that I lived through them.

  32. Never owned an 8 track. My ’61 Studebaker Lark station wagon was a basic model. Bought it used for $100.00. No wipers, no brakes.

    The music would have been: Jethro Tull, Zeppelin, Heart, Fleetwood Mac (Bare Trees), Stevie Wonder (Songs in the Key of Life), Elton John (Tumbleweed Connection)

  34. 8 track and quadraphonic. Sold the stuff in 1981 or ’82 to someone who wanted it for step-kids.
    Steeleye Span and Steely Dan, The Doors, Cream, It’s A Beautiful Day, Jefferson Airplane, maybe some Elvis

  40. olfactory memories are long and vivid. I’ll go to sleep tonight smelling beer, whiskey, weed and patchouli oil…..with Bad co. playing in the background…maybe Robin Trower….

  49. Had an 8track deck with an amp and four
    car speakers mounted in an old B&W TV cabinet
    in my bedroom as a young teen. I know I had
    Queen, Kansas, CCR, Kiss, and a few others.
    Never used one in a car.
    Haven’t had one since the early ’80’s.

  50. DH would have none of the 8 track stuff. Through the decades we went with LPs to cassettes and then to CDs. Also burning I tunes to CDs. I vaguely remember a reel to reel somewhere in our history, but not sure. There were a lot of Saturday nights dancing to live bands at local and some distant bars back in the seventies. We “followed” a few bands.

    Did we miss out on anything without the 8 tracks?

  52. I never met an 8 track player that I didn’t hate. Damn things ate tapes like there was no tomorrow and 1 or 2 tracks were always playing over the of one another. They put the P in POS, thank you Mr. Lear of Lear jet fame for your worthless invention, they sucked.

  54. I still have my high end Panasonic cassette deck that I bought when I was in the Navy overseas in 1974, that I will keep. It’s down in the basement somewhere along with a Quadraphonic 4 channel stereo receiver (only one radio station ever broadcast in Quad, FM radio station KGB in San Diego) that I bought as well when I was in the Navy.

  55. Didn’t do 8 track, too bulky. Maybe would have had Ted Nugent? I had a crush on him when I was young. He’s not my type now. Not because of his age but just not my type. Felt the same about cassettes but still had a player and about 20 cassettes somewhere in the house. I was always waiting for something smaller to be invented. Now I just stream. Still have a record player but very few albums, love the sound. Agree with reel to reel, great quality. Somewhere there is an audio recording engineer with about 15 of my own original songs on them. So happy I asked him to burn me a CD of it all. Now if I could only figure out how to load them to the you tubes.

  57. “Crystal Blue Persuasion!!” til the day I die running around in a plymouth fury.

    Also loved Firesign (“I’m high on the real things in life…”)

    What times they were pre-growing up in that place in SE Asia?

  58. I had a 71 Torino with only an AM radio. I put an under the dash 8 track and had an FM converter in the hole where the ash tray was. Meat Loaf on 8track, album, CD and in my head forever. Thanks for the memories. This day may turn out alright.

  59. My Grandparents had an 8-track player but all their music was old old old school country that this little rocker at heart could not stomach. But oh how I would love to listen to all of it with them now…

  62. My boss (now in his early 60’s) owns a 1970 Nova SS. A couple of years ago we broke into it and INSTALLED an 8 track player. We inserted the Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever Album. We set it up so that “Stayin’ Alive” was blasting at volume 10 we he cranked the car. We thought it was funny. He called it vandalism. But he did keep the 8 track and managed to find some of his old classic country tapes to play on it.

  64. I never had a mobile eight track player as cassettes were superior. I had a Pioneer KP-500 under-dash FM tuner/cassette player with Jensen coaxial speakers (in the parcel shelf) and Pioneer TS-=22 tweeters (mounted on the dash) of my 69 Plymouth Satellite. I do have a combination 8 track/cassette deck (Soundesign) and open reel as part of my domestic stereo system.

  65. My first car was a 58 VW panel van, I put a duel eight track and cassette player in it and It had a reverb. I lost the player when I sent it in to have the head to be aligned, I’m still waiting for it get back from the shop.
    I think I had a Sam and Dave tape that I wore out.

  66. Never had an 8 track. A friend had one in his Pinto. When I heard Quadrophenia fade out in the middle of a song and fade in in the next tape section, double up on a certain songs’ section, and cut out another section altogether, my mind was made up that 8 tracks suck. And that to me is the history of 8 tracks.

  67. Before football games my senior year, we would all listen to “tunes” on “Toad’s” eight track player. Our two cassettes were Guess Who’s Greatest Hits and Who’s Next by The Who. Yeah, our musical palettes were so refined we couldn’t distinguish between run-of-the-mill pop cheese and one of the greatest albums in rock history

    Of course, we used “Toad’s” cassette player because he was going out with Robin M, undoubtedly the hottest chick to ever grace a gender-segregated Catholic school with her cornea-scorching gorgeousity. We all thought that if we caught some of the vibe from Toad’s 8-track player, we’d have some of his luck.

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