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All Things Must Beat. Share Anything Beatles!!
- Thread starter Rumble Thunder
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Maybe the Rick is too heavy and she is helping support him.
That's what I thought, too, Elec. Although, my friend had a small portable 8-track recorder as early as '68, and I later skipped 8-track and went directly to some cheap-o home and car cassette systems as early as '71 or '72. So, I googled the others and it verifies the dates shown!
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That's what I thought, too, Elec. Although, my friend had a small portable 8-track recorder as early as '68, and I later skipped 8-track and went directly to some cheap-o home and car cassette systems as early as '71 or '72. So, I googled the others and it verifies the dates shown!
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I trust the technology part. Just not the likelihood of regular use.
While the cartoonist is trying to be cutesy and ironic, they’re ignoring reel to reel(considered superior to vinyl, but fussy)…
…plus current download tech and streaming.
8-track players hit the market in ‘64, and were in cars by ‘66. The Cassette, introduced circa ‘66/‘67, was in widespread use by ‘68. I got a Panasonic CS/AM/FM, recording in mono, in December, 1969. By 1972 labels (primarily Columbia)were dropping the hint that they wanted the Cassette to completely replace the LP.
In addition… “Meet The Beatles”(as opposed to “With The Beatles”)is now available on CD, for the first time.
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So cool! It bares repeating. B.B. King talks about John Lennon.
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Hmm. My filthy rich friend in the late 70s used to play 8 tracks at his house on his dad's stereo.
I knew all about cassette tape recorders but never saw a cassette of an album until 1981. I know this is just my one personal anecdote though.
The 8-track experience was primarily in an automobile, not exactly a prime environment to fully listen to music. It was just there to be a distraction from being cooped up in a car for any length of time. And the interruption was temporary, not like having to sit through endless commercials between songs while listening to radio. I found it less annoying than having to turn an LP over after 20 minutes at home.
Yes. Our family took long road trips and they were a marvelous wonder. I'm just surprised they lasted as long as they did when cassette should have been available.
At least with 8-track you had a choice of 4 different songs at any one time, which was impressive for the '60s! But, since cassette recorders were more common, and cheaper, I went that way even though I could only choose between 2 songs (4-track) at a time. I hardly ever bought an album on cassette. Instead, I recorded my vinyl onto cassettes for the car. And, since the car was not the quietest listening environment, I did not go for the highest fidelity (read: expensive) equipment! Plus, Capitol Records may have butchered The Beatles' Parlophone albums, but I really sliced and diced 'em up trying to fit the run times of whichever bargain basement cassette blanks I had bought at the time!
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I always had this thing with 8 tracks of being able to hear a different track than the one selected softly playing under the selected one. I got that ball shaped 8 track player with the AM radio in it for Christmas one year, probably 1975 or 1976. I never really bought a lot of 8 track tapes, though. I was more into albums with their artwork.
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That was fairly common. The most likely explanation is either the tape mastering recorder, or the playback device, have misaligned heads.
