8 Track Tape Collection

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:31 am

I am packing up and moving to Scottsdale, AZ w/ mein schatzie.

She has started another business that has grossed over 100 Large in it's infancy, and is sure to be another hit. She is magical, a modern day female King Midas.

@ any rate I am packing all of my antiques, and decided to play my old 8 tracks through my old Alpine 8 track car stereo that was in my first Mach I 302 Boss Mustang, which doesn't run, but my 8 track tape player sounds great, and still uses the 6 by 8 Jensen coaxial speakers. I just love the sound of 8 tracks still, especially for Overdriven stuff.

I am currently listening to Black Sabbath Paranoid, Grand Funk Railroad, and R U Experienced by my childhood idol, Jimi Hendrix. I even still have some old Country & Western tapes of Hank Williams, and George Jones w/ Tammy Wynette. That old style country is so pure, and beautiful. But the power rock stuff sounds so fat, I forgot how thick it is compared to CD's / DVD's and their " perfect Mixes". They pale in quality, seriously, I just proved why I will always carry these with me to the grave, as they have no equal other than the master being played through some big old Urei monitors, on a big console.

I Won't Be Surprised If They Make A Comeback, They Sound So Big,
I have 361 tapes of yore, and had one for every day of the year. I shall find 4 more on ebay. I even had the Monkees !! God they sucked, I must have been experimenting w/ LSD when I was 10 or something.

Crickstone · Post by **Crickstone** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:15 pm

I remember my older cousin had Aerosmith Toys in the Attic and Endless Summer by the Beach Boys on 8 track, my first introduction and I still remember being blown away sonically...don't remember if it was the enthusiasm of an eight year old violin student...But I'm sure I remember 8 track sounding very rich and nothing quite made the grade since and I have often thought about picking up an old player and those two tapes to see if I remember correctly.....probably closest thing to listeing to a stereo master tape.

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:28 pm

I have an Aria 8track tape delay box at home, it's an amazing thing, I remember myself doing "ante litteram" trancey Jungle tunes with a Korg Minipops drum box at high speed, with bossa nova, samba and slow rock buttons pushed together and doing crazy speed sweeps on the delay speed knob....one of the first live gigs I made in '81 or '82 was with a Tascam 144 4 track portastudio filled with that stuff and spacey voices as a background for electric guitar (me) and my friend Enzo torturing a saxophone through a crybaby...

.We were in an underground disco and had a very big success, stuff like that had not been invented yet...

What's sure is that that Aria box is magic. I've lost the patience to use it though...and it's impossible to find a replacement looped 8track tape.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:33 am

I want one. That sounds like 8 Celmo Tape Sims.