#8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats #HomeTapingIsKillingMusic

This home taped #OtisRedding & #JimiHendrixExperience #8TrackCartridge eBay-find initially had me stumped. Where oh where had I seen those long legs on the original tape label peeking out from underneath at the bottom? Then I flashed on it: it's the Fool On The Hill album by #SergioMendesAndBrasil66, that easy-listening warhorse of conservative household music collections all across the US in the early 70s.

Finally, Sergio M. is going to good use.

(Also note: this taper went and split both "Satisfaction" and "Like a Rolling Stone" across programs - proof he/she was a truly sensible 8-track listener)

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Imagine the creepy version of "Hand Of Doom" this 60s female folk-singer might've given us

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Jaime Sommers aka The Bionic Woman could break out of any prison you built for her . . . except the 1970s

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There was nothing reassuring about finding this staring back at me from the bottom of a mildewy box of 8-track tapes

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Chose your #avatar, ca. 1970

She's now talking about getting the 8 Track Cartridge machine out of the loft to see if it works!

No, just no!
(Apart from the probability that the glue on the tapes has degraded, and I don't think I've got a standalone amplifier)

#8track #8trackcartridge

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#8TrackMind was a neat zine started in the early 90s by #RussForster, ostensibly to bring together the #8TrackTape community in all it's eccentric, nostalgic, and perverse varieties. For years it was a regular resource for information about 8-tracks, and was the only place that jokes about that dreaded KER-CHUNK! sound could reliably be grokked. The initial run ended in 2000, but a lo-budge film documentary followed, and I understand Russ revived the mag proper a few years back. An entire 1994 issue can be ogled here: https://archive.org/details/8trackmindmagazi00fors/

#NowPlaying #Americana #TexasMusic

Shout-out this #8TrackTuesday to #OmnivoreRecordings who recently reissued #JimmieDaleAndTheFlatlanders beautiful 1973 debut album, All American Music, released only on #8TrackCartridge at the time. While this has been reissued before, here it's extended with bonus tracks and with the original cover artwork restored - hence definitive. Truly, this is my/your/our #Texas.

https://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/all-american-music/

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Someone left the tape out in the rain

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In the broad wake of #Deodato's 1973 smash-hit "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)", STAR-PHASE was one of many studio groups (made up of "Tommy, Steve, Carolyn, Ron and Stephanie") who tried to cash in with disco-fied, instrumental versions of sci-fi movie themes from the day. They weren't at all successful and only ever got released on #8TrackTape. This means even today, grizzled hip-hop beat hunters haven't plundered their recordings. Yet.