8 track art @ Red Robin

[Dude111]

Sad.... All those tapes ruined....... But not surprising seeing the mentality of the sheeple morons today!!

I say we bring 100 audio and video CDs in front of a red robin and with a hammer SMASH THEM ALL TO HELL!!!!!!!! (Thats garbage worth ruining)

[Electronic M]

Looks like all they did is paint some and glue them to a board...As long as they did not rip the magnetic tape out or paint the tape inside there are still ways to play them....I've seen various restaurants and record stores do FAR worse to records in the name of decoration...

Hopefully they used tapes of musicians and styles that nobody likes....I'd guess that almost no one collects Christmas music or classical on 8-track.

I kill 8-tracks with garbage music on them regularly to obtain the parts I need to keep my tapes with good music alive, and have something to record music I can't readily get on 8-track onto.

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Hopefully they used tapes of musicians and styles that nobody likes....I'd guess that almost no one collects Christmas music or classical on 8-track.

You're probably right. I doubt they'd bother getting any from eBay, and that kind of crap music is about all I see on 8-track at thrift stores, if they even bother to put them out.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Looks like all they did is paint some and glue them to a board...As long as they did not rip the magnetic tape out or paint the tape inside there are still ways to play them....I've seen various restaurants and record stores do FAR worse to records in the name of decoration...

Yes I hope the tape WAS still there buddy!


I didnt ever see these but I would have been pi$$ed if I had!!

[Dude111]

Well thats understandable (Using parts from ones you dont like TO SAVE ONES YOU DO)

Yes hopefully thats all they did!!! (Would be nice to think the tape is still inside)

[Findm-Keepm]

Slim Whitman's greatest hits? By golly, go ahead and destroy them....

Zepplin, Steppenwolf, Skynrd, Croce, Boz, Seger, Three Dog Night? Please don't.....

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm

Slim Whitman's greatest hits? By golly, go ahead and destroy them....

Zepplin, Steppenwolf, Skynrd, Croce, Boz, Seger, Three Dog Night? Please don't.....

+1
Add Zappa, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, the Beatles, the Doors, ELO, and several others to the preserve list in no particular order.
A friend of mine has Iron Butterfly's "A-Godda-Da-Vidda" on original 8-track, and hearing it on the player in my 78 Lincoln Mark V is making me want to find or make a Copy real bad...That is some good road music!

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

+1
Add Zappa, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, the Beatles, the Doors, ELO, and several others to the preserve list in no particular order.
A friend of mine has Iron Butterfly's "A-Godda-Da-Vidda" on original 8-track, and hearing it on the player in my 78 Lincoln Mark V is making me want to find or make a Copy real bad...That is some good road music!

My dad used to have a country medley of hits 8-track tape - and it had Minnie Pearl on it, twice. Funniest lady I've ever heard - clean jokes, but damn funny:

"Old Maid Fundy called the operator the other night screaming "Get me the Fire Department - there's a man trying to break in my bedroom window!"
The operator told her "Ma'am, you don't need the Fire Department, you need the Police!" Old Maid Fundy answered back "No I need the Fire Department - he needs a longer ladder!"

Sure wish I could find that tape again..

[centralradio]

This bad as those idiots that cut up console TV/Shereo's to make fish tanks or bookshelves plus those people that plaster their walls with 45's and albums.NO I dont want to see my 8 track collection or cassette collection or anything else glued together on a wall somewhere.People dont have any respect for the older generations stuff .

[Dude111]

No they dont..... THEY THINK THIS CRAP NOW IS SO GOOD WHEN ITS PURE UTTER TRASH!!!!!!!!!

[Dude111]

I went to the store in my area last week and they didnt have any 8 tracks up but there was a board of cassettes up on the wall.... To me thats not as bad!!! (I looked inside a couple of them but the tape was gone)

[Sandy G]

Never much cared4 8-tracks. Thought they more often than not, sounded AWFUL, they'd ALWAYS change tracks in the middle of the one tune I liked..And sooner or later, the player WOULD eat the tapes. Buddy of mine, there was one he'd ordered, it was pretty obscure, & he hadn't played it in a car at all. His dad came to pick him up for Thanksgiving break, he had a brand new 1975 Lincoln, Jack took a chance & put the tape in &- You guessed it- tape player ate well for lunch that afternoon...

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Never much cared4 8-tracks. Thought they more often than not, sounded AWFUL, they'd ALWAYS change tracks in the middle of the one tune I liked..And sooner or later, the player WOULD eat the tapes. Buddy of mine, there was one he'd ordered, it was pretty obscure, & he hadn't played it in a car at all. His dad came to pick him up for Thanksgiving break, he had a brand new 1975 Lincoln, Jack took a chance & put the tape in &- You guessed it- tape player ate well for lunch that afternoon...

That one seems to be the exception to the rule. I have stereos identical to those installed in those Lincolns and others very similar and I don't think they've ever eaten a tape while I've had them. I don't think my Panasonic RS-806US ever has either. Nice big flywheels in all of those, cuts down on wow and flutter. There are some well-programmed tapes that don't change programs during a song. The RCA/MCA carts are among the best but are a b!**h to open, but that rarely needs to be done anyway.

[centralradio]

Originally Posted by Jon A.

That one seems to be the exception to the rule. I have stereos identical to those installed in those Lincolns and others very similar and I don't think they've ever eaten a tape while I've had them. I don't think my Panasonic RS-806US ever has either. Nice big flywheels in all of those, cuts down on wow and flutter. There are some well-programmed tapes that don't change programs during a song. The RCA/MCA carts are among the best but are a b!**h to open, but that rarely needs to be done anyway.

My late sister had a Panasonic RS-806US recorder with a Panasonic receiver and had no problems with it.I have it here with a few other RS-806US's.I recorded her Elvis Christmas albums on it back in the 1970's and she played the daylights out of it around the holidays.I got the Elvis tape here somewhere. Most of those car units had the munchies eating tapes.The same with the car cassette counterparts.Maybe its the temp change and the pounding around from the moving car.

[Electronic M]

The Quad 8-track in my 78 Linkn Mark V has eaten ~6 tapes (out of probably ~100 tapes I've put through it and ~200 plays)...Most were not it's fault though, and most survived. Many tapes are having splice glue failure these days and I've tested a good number of 'new to me' tapes in it*. When the splice lets go if there is enough stick left on a loose end to cling to the capstan things can go down hill before you know it...
The radio in mine has only 3 mount points + antenna needed to wiggle it out of the dash, then I can unbolt the bottom and manually spin the capstan to unwrap the tape without damaging it. A little smoothing and splicing after that, and often one can't tell from playback that anything bad happened to the cart.

One or two of the victims (and IIRC the only ones to 'die') were 'extended' home made mix tapes....You see I've got enough Disco on vinyl I like well enough that it would fill more than a couple 90 Min tapes....I decided I wanted to add another ~albums length to that and added about as much as the reel could still hold, on to it (apparently I wound it too tight). The result: my recorder with a BIG motor could record and play it, but other decks and my Mark could not spin it well and all wanted to eat it...After a couple of fix cycles I gave up on that one. The part that irks me worst is that before I 'extended' that tape it was fine in the Mark and elsewhere.

With how many 8-Tracks are experiencing foam rot, splice failure, etc. You gotta know how to fix the tapes to safely retrieve/revive them from dormancy....I've gotten to the point that if the center/ends become too unwrapped to rewind the spool by hand, I simply wind the end onto a temp reel with belt drive RTR, then use the RTR to rewind the tape on the 8-track spool with the temp reel held on a screw driver as a pivot to minimize wrap tension/tape tension in the final product....I Have saved many a basket case tape that way.

8-tracks can sound VERY good...If the tape was not poorly made, is in good condition, and you have a quality player. I have among my home decks a 3M/Wollensak component deck that has built in Dolby noise reduction...That unit sounds real nice!

*When you find that tape you've wanted for a while and the car your taking it home with has a player, it is hard to resist.