8 Track!

I still have a player in my room, still have about 3 dozen cartridges.

Is an 8-track?

You avatar made me sad. :<

He'll be fine, cartoon characters get a great health care plan:b

I meant because he was looking at my above comment and saying "Boring." XD

Ya know, I never noticed before it looks that way.

LOL! That's what I first though...so I could say: "Today was a sunny day." and your reply would be "Boring."

I would be kinda funny if somebody said something like "a meteor just hit my car" and I replied to it:b

Looks like an 8-track tape to me.

wow -- the inside of an 8-track??

and..everyone above me including myself just showed the grey in their muzzles/scales/etc :p

XD I'm only 24. I'm just a hippy who appreciates 45s and things. X3

XD Don't feel bad, I knew it was an 8-track and I'm only 19 =D

im 17 and i knew. My grandmother still used one til she died xD

8 track most def

8trck

LOL, kids... 8-track, of course. Played in the only machine ever made that throws itself out of alignment 4 times per album.

8 track :p i kind of accidently blew one up before

Well its obviously a Trans-Proton Field Projector. Probably operating between 7.2 to 7.8 wave frequency and having an effective radius of 3/10ths Gigawatts.

it's a Heart eight-track

do you have any T'Pau? XD

Didnt they release thier first album in the late 80's?? The 8-Track was a dead format by then.

DON'T PUSH TOO FAR YOUR DREAMS ARE EIGHT-TRACK IN YOUR HAAAANNND

It might have been a club-only 8-track - T'Pau's first album (T'Pau aka Bridge Of Spies)came out in 1987, and club-only 8-tracks weren't discontinued until the next year (the last one allegedly being Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits).

Having grown up in Terre Haute, Indiana, the home of the now-defunct Columbia House, I was well aware of club-only 8-tracks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greate.....d_Mac_album%29

Some plastic and rust in a interesting arrangement. ;)

8-track ftw

Oh boy, 8-track! Probably one of the most faulty of all tape formats next to Betamax (well, maybe not Betamax, but anyways). In fact, I have quite a collection of them in my basement, including maybe an early Elvis Presley compilation (it appears to have been manufactured at RCA's Smiths Falls plant, where a lot of Canadian RCA mastered records were pressed, including the Canada-only Beatles albums for Capitol, even though the lacquers were cut in Toronto) and "The Best of Spike Jones".

I've seen those Canadian albums, they were better compiled than the USA versions...and no Duophonic mess.

BTW during Beatlemania RCA's plants in the USA pressed several Beatles albums and also the "Hard Days Night" 45 for Capitol.

I've seen those Canadian albums, they were better compiled than the USA versions...and no Duophonic mess.

Yes. I think these albums were released in mono only. They had to decrease the bass on those ones so that it would play without skipping on a cheap "teen's" record player that you could buy at Eaton's for around $30, according to the Capitol 6000 website.

Another plus about the Canadian Beatles records is that they were mastered from tapes and release copies of the singles which came directly from England (at least the compilation albums were mastered from tapes sent by EMI in the UK to Capitol Records of Canada). It's a good thing they said yes to the Beatles since day one.

And another cool thing was that Capitol Canada kept most of the big EMI acts from the mid 60's. It was a little shock to see 45's from the Hollies and Dave Clark 5 on the classic Swirl label instead of Imperial and Epic.

It's amazing that the "old men in the Tower" (I think thats a Brian Wilson quote) didn't do what their Canadian branch did. They could have easily dominated the mid 60's with all those UK acts on one a couple of subsidiary (Tower) labels.

Instead Capitol USA allowed these groups to go to other USA labels and kept "safe" acts like Peter & Gordon, Cilla Black and the Seekers.

Yep. In fact, I even have a 45 of "Look Through Any Window" on the Capitol label. It's a shame that acts like Herman's Hermits were passed to MGM even in Canada, where the MGM label was distributed by Quality Records Limited (they have, in fact, served as a Canadian distributor for many US labels throughout the 1950s-1980s). But yeah, I think it all started to sift off in the late 60s, early 70s, when EMI groups like Deep Purple and the Scorpions (after they left RCA and got signed to EMI's "Harvest" label in 1979) were passed on to Tetragrammaton (in the US), Polydor (in Canada) and Mercury, respectively. Iron Maiden made it to Capitol, though.

Some artists prefer not to sign worldwide contracts with a company, trying to get the highest bidder in each country for their music.

The Hermits and Animals both had Mickey Most as their producer, and I think he was the one that made a deal with MGM. Iron Maiden's first couple of albums were on Harvest records here in the USA. In 1983 EMI folded that label and they along with Duran Duran and Thomas Dolby were merged into Capitol.

Tetragrammation was distributed by Warner Brothers, and that's probably how Deep Purple wound up there.

I spy a date stamp... what is it? Cretaceous period?

did you know if you open an iPod it's just an eight-track tape inside, serious

Ooohs, 8 track!

Have any carts from your radio days?

I've have a couple somewhere...

Oooo, an 8-track cartridge... and i think it could be Dreamboat Annie, amirite?

No it's "Dog and Butterfly" I wanted to keep it furry!

An 8 track! I remember albums being sold on TV, K-Tel or something and you had to specify album, 8 track or cassette! I also had an 8 track in my 74 Nova. I ran a cassette adapter in it and a CD cassette adapter through that!

Never seen the inside of one before, yet I knew right away that's an 8-track!

Back in the seventies I had to repair them... a lot!

I remember them when I was a kid. We had a player in the car! I also remember Laser disks and tapes! Walkman ruled!......I am old... :(