Addy does Billy - Episode 42: Can he take it, or will she break it?

[rayheinrich]

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I still have my 8 tracks.   Sadly, I seemed to be heavily into Donny and Marie.

I remember taking 8-track cartridges apart and fixing them (or trying to).
Usually you'd have to cut out a few feet of tape and splice it back together.
The decks were crappy pieces of junk, but I loved them. I remember destroyed
cartridges (mostly from user anger, but occasionally girl-friend) strewn along the
shoulders of the highway, their 185* feet of tape flapping in the gusts of wind
from passing cars.

And I remember stuffing a cart of the Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed into the
8-track deck duct-taped to the top of my dashboard, dropping acid, and driving a few
hundred miles somewhere or other listening to it over and over. There was this
technicolor movie on the screen in front of me and I was amazed that I could
telepathically make it pan left and right.


*The standard was 185 feet (my electronic-technician soul leaks through), but the long-plays had more (and got snarled much more often)

While the Days of Future Passed was on the 8, the Jefferson Airplane albums 2-5 not 1,
Muddy Waters, Country Joe and the Fish, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Lightnin' Hopkins,
et al were on 1/4" reel. I finally rigged up an inverter (12vdc to 117ac) and started using 1/4"
on the road. But 8 was cool..

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I still have my 8 tracks.   Sadly, I seemed to be heavily into Donny and Marie.

That is sad.

Tragic.

(Though, from what I've heard recently, your taste has risen a couple levels above mine, or, wait...
maybe it's those young'uns of yours, maybe they got you some musical religion, god of jazz, that sort.)