Speaking of 8-Tracks...

[Holy Zoo]

Ya gotta check out the packaging for this 6 CD box set from Rhino titled "Can You Dig It? The 70's Soul Experience":

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005Q469.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005Q469/qid=1005718836/sr=1 -1/ref=sr_1_14_1/104-8522490-0434307 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005Q469/qid=1005718836/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_14_1/104-8522490-0434307)


Ok, ok... so sometimes their mastering sucks, but you gotta give their art and packaging department kudos!

:D :D :D

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[Dave]

Now that's totally cool Zoo. http://ubb.fanasylum.com/smiles/alien.gif

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[pigmode]

Hey rub it in, I used to be into 8-tracks. They were designed to self-destruct. Ouch! And the best was when they went click to change track and the song would fade back in at a point a few seconds earlier.

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[Dave]

Aaaaahhhhhhh.........The teenage years :D

[Doug Hess Jr.]

Hey all...
I loved 8-tracks too. Back when I used to play "radio DJ" at my house, I played songs on record and 8-track pretending my 8-tracks were my "carts" like the two-track cartridges stations used to use for commercials (most are on computer now).
I had a great laugh when K puts in an ELVIS 8-track and cranks up "Burnin' Love" in the movie "Men In Black" as they fly through the tunnel upside down...
Doug

[BradOlson]

My uncle was into 8-tracks big time and still has his 8-track recorder but not hooked up. Check out this site at www.8trackheaven.com (http://www.8trackheaven.com)

[Sckott]

The 8 track is the backbone to how a lot of us remember the music the 1st time we heard it (or radio).

I still remember those huge yard sales done in the middle of Drive In Theatres, and the vendors made some pretty impressive counterfit 8's. That was my first listen into "Cheech & Chong; Big Bamboo". Nope, no glamour shot or rolling papers! Just a weird, colourful label that looked yellow and trippy, like you see in the above link @ 8 track heaven, under Bootleg 8 Tracks :)

[pigmode]

Originally posted by Sckott:
The 8 track is the backbone to how a lot of us remember the music the 1st time we heard it (or radio).




Till this day whenever I listen to Boston's More Than A Feeling I get thrown off a little when half way through it doesn't stop-skip-retrace. :rolleyes:

I used 8-tracks strictly for the van since the early cassette players had lousy shock resistance. Plus they were easier to manipulate when, uh, having a good time. :cool:

Any comments on that boxed set?

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[J Epstein]

I went to a gathering of audio DIY geeks one time and a guy brought his 8-track machine, which he had modified to use all vacuum-tubes in the audio circuit. No lie. Sounded great!

-j

[CM Wolff]

Just a quick message to mention that this box was discussed in a thread a week or two ago, and IMHO is a very worthy purchase, especially if you don't have much of this material. Picked it up on sale for about $78 or $79, with the list price being around $100. The packaging is indeed really cool and is a nice complement to the related "Beg Scream and Shout! the Big Ol' Box of Sixties Soul", although it doesn't have the artist trading cards that the Big Ol' Box had.

[Grant]

Aw man, I saw that new soul box in the record store last week from a distance and I think everyone stopped and looked when I let out a big, sarcastic groan, "OH NO! 8-tracks are back!"

[Gary]

That's what I thought too, Grant. ;) "Ahhh, man who is going to buy THAT?"

'smatter of fact I followed the link to confirm they WERE CDs! Well, I'd better go take another look at it!