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Subject: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Zella on 05/20/02 at 00:33 a.m.
What was your first 8-track tape?
Mine was Joe Walsh's "The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get." I don't even remember how I ended up with it. I didn't ask anyone to buy it for me.
I wanted the Stones' "Sticky Fingers" album, but was afraid my mom would object to the cover, so my friend bought it for me for my birthday on an 8-track, which was a disappointment as I really wanted the album (the track switched right in the middle of "Can't You Hear Me Knocking?"). :P
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Indy Gent on 05/20/02 at 00:56 a.m.
I never bought an 8-track tape for some reason. But the first one my dad bought was, I believe, a Seals & Crofts album. It totally got tangled up in the 8 track deck, so he exchanged it for another S & C album, the one with "Diamond Girl" and "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)" on it. Other 8-track we had included Boston,John Denver, Dolly Parton, and Bread.
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Cat_Lover on 05/20/02 at 06:11 a.m.
IS too bad 8 tracks didn't last very long, because they could have become sought after collectors! Anyway, as far as 8 tracks go, there was only one artist I ever had on 8 track! Can't remember which one came first, but if I found it on 8 track, I grabbed it! Which artist? Well, THE CAT, of course!
Peace,Cat Lover
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Crazy Don on 05/20/02 at 06:41 a.m.
I only bought three new 8-track tapes in my life, simply because I preferred records. They were a British copy of Elton John's "Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy" plus American copies of the Knack's "Get the Knack" and the (Bay City) Rollers' "Elevator", both of which I bought at a flea market still sealed in their original packaging.
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 05/20/02 at 07:06 a.m.
I remember hearing about them here in Australia, but honestly don't remember them ever taking off.
I think we called them 'Cartridges'.
I suspect that we lagged behind, and by that time cassettes had come along...
I'm happy to stand corrected though.....
FBVP
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: RockandRollFan on 05/20/02 at 07:43 a.m.
My first was "Life And Times" by Jim Croce-1973....My parents purchased a Record Player/Cassette/8-Track/AM-FM combo in '76 and I used to make my own 8-tracks. My favorite memory of them though was in 1982. My 2 best friends and I went down to Pueblo in a van to see "Loverboy" at the state fairgrounds. We arrived the night before and there was some dog show going on, so we just pulled up next to a big bus and parked for the night. During the evening as we were all pretty drunk my friend had brought along his 8-track player. All he had was Van Halen II, so it played ALL night! Because of the batteries running down by morning David Lee Roth sounded more like Barry White :D In the morning we discovered that the bus next to us was indeed Loverboys tour bus! We were able to wave to the band before security happened along and chased us out.
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Arcfire on 05/20/02 at 08:55 a.m.
The 2 that I had (I didnt buy anymore since my 8-track tape player busted 3 times after getting warrenty service on it so I got it fixed and sold the stereo (it was an old Marantz) and got a Pioneer 50 watt seperate component system!!!! (well 50 watts was killer for the day) but the ones that I had were Billy Squire's first album and AC/DC's Back in black
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Yusufscat on 05/20/02 at 11:04 a.m.
Would you believe (click) I never owned an 8-track or an 8-track player. (click) My sister's husband had them and I used to love the clear sound, (click) but that blasted click that came in when the tracks were changing somehow put me off.
Look, who wants to hear, "Peace train sounding....click" when you can just get vinyl. If you took care of vinyl it sounded great as well.
The first 8-track I heard though was by Led Zeppelin. (click) I think it was 'LZ 4'.
Peace,
A'isha
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Fett69 on 05/20/02 at 12:15 a.m.
The only 8track I owned was Kiss "Double Platinum". But I used to listen to my Mom's Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, Supremes (all greatest hits), My Dad's Kiss "Hotter Than Hell" & Grand Funk Railroad, (forget the name. The one with "Gimme Shelter" on it.)
A friend had a portable player and we'd listen to "Double Platinum", his Kiss "Alive" & "Love Gun", and Boston "Don't Look Back".
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: OlDsKoOl_fAiRy on 05/20/02 at 12:36 a.m.
~ ???8 tracks? Ive heard of them but don't know what it looks like. Is it one of those big square things that kind of look like Vhs cassettes. ???
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: RockandRollFan on 05/20/02 at 01:00 p.m.
Quoting:
~ ???8 tracks? Ive heard of them but don't know what it looks like. Is it one of those big square things that kind of look like Vhs cassettes. ???
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They were more of a rectangle really....and yes like a vhs tape but not quite as big ;)
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Crazy Don on 05/20/02 at 01:28 p.m.
Quoting:
They were more of a rectangle really....and yes like a vhs tape but not quite as big ;)
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Reminds me of a Beavis & Butt-Head episode where they cleaned Van Driessen's (the hippie teacher) house and they tried to put one of his beloved 8-tracks into a VCR. They managed to destroy the entire collection…
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Yusufscat on 05/20/02 at 03:57 p.m.
I love that episode.
How did you get that little emoticon to explode?
Did you type bomb or something?
Peace,
A'isha
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: spdracr on 05/20/02 at 06:34 p.m.
I don't recall having my very own 8-track tapes, but my Dad had some. I think he mostly had Elvis, but my parents did have a Moms Mabley 8 track! :o
(I was never allowed to listen to it LOL)
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: spdracr on 05/20/02 at 06:36 p.m.
Quoting:
I love that episode.
How did you get that little emoticon to explode?
Did you type bomb or something?
Peace,
A'isha
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They got it from this site http://www.clicksmilies.com/
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Yusufscat on 05/20/02 at 10:16 p.m.
Thanks for the link. I will give it to a friend of mine who has a Cat site with message boards like these. She loves to add those cute little things.
Peace,
A'isha
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Cat_Lover on 05/20/02 at 10:36 p.m.
And what about that dancing banana! Or that rose that opens and closes! SUPER COOL! Hey A'isha, I think Christine will LOVE those!
Peace,Cat Lover
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Headshop on 10/03/02 at 05:15 p.m.
I think my first was Tom Fogerty. My brother(older) asked me which tape I'd like for christmas, I Told him Foghat. I hated those plastic display cases in the stores( with the round holes to stick your hand in) you had to pry the door wide enough to slip it through ,in order to shoplift a tape.
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Dude on 10/04/02 at 02:19 a.m.
I don't remember the very first one. Probably Doobie Bros. or GFR. I do remember my first 8-track player in my first car. I had to have a book of matches to hold the tape in or it would drag something terrible. :D What was even crazier was we would sometimes be so messed up that we couldn't tell the difference anyway. 8) ??? 8) ???
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Jonman on 10/04/02 at 12:45 a.m.
My first 8-track was April Wine "Stand Back"...I got it for my 11th birthday along with tickets to the concert! Woooooo Hooooooo!!
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Race_Bannon on 10/05/02 at 06:23 a.m.
My first was Kiss Alive! Used to air drum that long Peter Chris solo.
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Steve_H_2002 on 10/06/02 at 00:25 a.m.
There's a guy at work who buys 8-tracks whenever he can get them. Most of the ones are from the early 70s. He buys them for about a buck apiece at garage sales.
Why didn't 8-track tapes become collectors' items, like beanie babies and baseball cards?
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Jonman on 10/06/02 at 04:43 a.m.
Quoting:
Why didn't 8-track tapes become collectors' items, like beanie babies and baseball cards?
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I think that they didn't become collector's items because you have to have a special player to use them unlike Beanie Babies that you just need to own...you don't need any special equipment to enjoy them......
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: MMarkM63 on 10/06/02 at 06:53 a.m.
My first was Jackson Browne's "Running On Empty".
http://us.ent2.yimg.com/album.yahoo.com/images/muze/album/080/85966.jpg
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: the_OlLine_Rebel on 10/09/02 at 08:05 a.m.
I never had my own. Honestly I hardly recall them being around, altho' I know they were. Guess that's how briefly they hit the scene.
Anyway, we had a few from my sister and we still had a player in the 80s until that cheap system went bust. I think we still have the Sat Nite Fever floating around the house, but the others Barb had seem to be gone. The others I recall distinctly are Abba and Loggins&Messina; don't recall which albums but I know Abba had "Dancing Queen" on it, and L&M the "Mama Don't Dance".
Incidentally, I (we, back then) still have 2 record albums of SNF. Should find that 8-track to make it more pathetic! ;D
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: RockandRollFan on 10/09/02 at 09:14 a.m.
Van Halen II-1979
http://gs.cdnow.com/graphics/COVERART/local/L/54/16/00385416.jpg
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Rita on 03/23/03 at 02:12 p.m.
:D
My first 8-track tape was a boot-leg copy of Chicago's Greatest Hits.
Rita
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: CatwomanofV on 03/23/03 at 03:42 p.m.
My mother went out and bought a "family" stereo with an 8-track tape player (I think she still has it even though she never plays it). She bought most of the tapes and the first I remember her buying was "Fiddler on the Roof." Mostly what she bought were musicals or Ed Ames.
Cat
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: kimmers on 03/24/03 at 11:54 a.m.
When my dad bought our first 8-track player he got me:
Donny Osmond!! Yea!! And he got for himself The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
I think I also acquired Shawn Cassidy and then Queen II. That's about all the 8 tracks I remember owning. Oh wait, I think my parents had Don Williams, Crystal Gayle, Charlie Rich and CW McCall. That made for a fun car trip when we had the 8-track installed in the car. :)
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: bokuks on 04/04/03 at 11:52 a.m.
I absolutely wore out my parents' 8-tracks of:
1) Very best of the Everly Brothers
and
2) Beach Boys - Endless Summer
*One more play and they both would have disintegrated into thin air.
However, the first one I purchased: "Kiss - Alive II" (2 tapes).
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Hairspray on 04/04/03 at 08:55 p.m.
Frampton Comes Alive
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: LurkBudget again on 04/04/03 at 09:08 p.m.
Quoting:
Frampton Comes Alive
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Aha :D Another small piece falls into the confusing puzzle that is HS :P ;)
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Hairspray on 04/04/03 at 09:21 p.m.
Quoting:
Aha :D Another small piece falls into the confusing puzzle that is HS :P ;)
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LOL! Why's that?
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 04/04/03 at 10:09 p.m.
Quoting:
LOL! Why's that?
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Oh you know....Just trying to fill in the blanks - there's nothing better than a good mystery ;)
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Dude on 04/05/03 at 03:56 a.m.
Quoting:
Frampton Comes Alive
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I'm pretty sure "Frampton Comes Alive" and Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" were standard issue for anyone who grew up in the 'burbs in the '70s.
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 04/05/03 at 04:05 a.m.
Quoting:
I'm pretty sure "Frampton Comes Alive" and Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" were standard issue for anyone who grew up in the 'burbs in the '70s.
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Agreed Dude :)
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: princessofpop on 04/05/03 at 05:56 a.m.
I remember being very young & having a Bee Gees & a Boston 8-Track tape. I used to play those in my parents stereo and rollerskate around on our concrete basement floor. :P
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Stadawim on 04/05/03 at 10:10 p.m.
Actually, i'm just not old enough to have experienced 8-tracks fully. But i did inheirit my dad's stereo with player after he got a new one in 1985, so i received the cartridges en-masse.
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The Beatles - Hits 1962-1966 (carts 1 & 2)
The Beatles - Hits 1967-1970 (carts 1 & 2)
The Moody Blues - This is the Moody Blues (carts 1 & 2)
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
The J. Geils Band - Freezeframe
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
The Commodores - Three Times a Lady
Boston - Boston
Derek & the Dominoes - Layla
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: sunshinecutie on 07/07/03 at 11:22 p.m.
i only had a few 8-tracks
led zeppelin 4
jefferson starship-red octopus
blue oyster cult-mirrors
and i had some that i recorded myself from friends albums and casettes.
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: DaisyJane on 07/08/03 at 06:39 a.m.
Donnie and Marie
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: clementine1986 on 07/14/03 at 10:05 a.m.
My first 8-track was Donny and Marie "The New Season" and I also had "Goin' Coconuts" and "Songs From the TV Show" by Donny and Marie. I had a huge crush on Donny Osmond!! I don't have the 8-tracks anymore but I do have everyone of my old LP's of theirs and there in pretty good shape too!!
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Race_Bannon on 07/18/03 at 00:18 a.m.
Kiss Alive! Was my first 8-track and thankfully one of my last. Rememeber Peter Chris's 12 minute drum solo? Thank god lengthy drum solo's aren't around much anymore.
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Mordor on 07/18/03 at 09:57 p.m.
Oh god,I think it was both America-self titled and Bread.
I have tons of em.Lots of the ones you guys mentioned.NO theyre not for sale....I still have a player/radio and a panasonic(plunger thingy)one.They both work and I use em.You should see ppl freak!!!Specially ones whove never seen an 8 track before LOL ;D ;D ;D
Hair of the dog wouldnt sound the same without the 'K-lunk"
Neither would a lot of albums ;D
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: MAMA on 07/23/03 at 02:01 a.m.
MAMA's first 8-track was Roy Clark, only cuz it came with car MAMA bought
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Abix on 08/07/03 at 04:08 p.m.
Quoting:
My first was Kiss Alive! Used to air drum that long Peter Chris solo.
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that would be Peter CRISS.. :)
Subject: Re: first 8-track tape?
Written By: Abix on 08/07/03 at 04:10 p.m.
My first was Foghat LIVE.. and my mother gave me her old Harmon Kardon Stereo..with the 5foot speakers.. It was a great old system. :) for a 13 yr old.