AFree8
 

*drool*

AFree8
 

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:03:47 -0500, (lennon fan)
wrote:

*drool* snip

Mine has a bubbled label, but pristine tape :Þ

Sorry, but the LP sounds a lot better.

dB

AFree8
 

AFree8

Group: alt.collecting.8-track-tapes Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2005, 8:57pm
(EST-3) From: (DeserTBoB)
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:03:47 -0500, (lennon fan)
wrote:
*drool* snip
Mine has a bubbled label, but pristine tape :Þ
Sorry, but the LP sounds a lot better.
dB

Oh, I can believe that. There's also a break between songs, always an
annoyance, and I've never found broken up songs to be the -least- bit
charming.
I had the chance to buy a Muntz 4 track of We're only In It For The
Money for $40 but passed...still kicking myself over that....
..but just the idea of early Zappa on 8-track just seems
so...appropriate.

AFree8
 

broken songs- I'd rather have a decent home recorded tape that goes
right through the track switch, then the laborious fade in/fade out
with replaying a piece of the music on the fade in.

Some, but very few, factory fade out/in track switches were done well,
though. It depends on what part of the song they do it in.

i.e. you wouldn't want to fade out for channel switch, at the beginning
of the grandiose guitar lead on Stairway to Heaven- it would just
destroy the entire song.

AFree8
 

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 07:50:12 -0500, (lennon fan)
wrote:

Oh, I can believe that. There's also a break between songs, always an
annoyance, and I've never found broken up songs to be the -least- bit
charming.
I had the chance to buy a Muntz 4 track of We're only In It For The
Money for $40 but passed...still kicking myself over that....
.but just the idea of early Zappa on 8-track just seems
so...appropriate. snip

That's because he loved "cheapness!" Interestingly, my Canadian copy
of "Orchestral Favorites" is sonically great, with Dolby "B" and
really strong and clean top end. My "Free" cart has muddled top end,
and as you say, those annoying chopped up tracks. "Free" was probably
one of the first "concept albums," what with sequed tracks that were
supposed to be played in a specific order to "tell the story". The
hacking caused by 8 track just doesn't work all that well.

I agree...$40 for ANY cart in any format is out of bounds. 8 track is
all about getting music on the cheap-cheap, so spending a lot of money
for a rare cart seem counterproductive to me.

dB

AFree8
 

AFree8

Group: alt.collecting.8-track-tapes Date: Fri, Nov 4, 2005, 8:17am
(EST-3) From: (DeserTBoB)

I agree...$40 for ANY cart in any format is out of bounds. 8 track is
all about getting music on the cheap-cheap, so spending a lot of money
for a rare cart seem counterproductive to me.
dB

Well, I confess to these extravagances, only because it was a dearly
loved album only available in quad with different mixes in the 8track
format:
ZZ Top Tres Hombres sealed quad $70
Kraftwerk-Autobahn Quad - 40
Al Green greatest hits quad - 60
lennon - imagine UK quad - 80
Blood sweat and tears s/t -40
and sadly a few more....but I regret it not, all of these were ab fab,
unique versions of albums I'm always happy to listen to....I have about
500 quad 8's, fortunately most were had for a coupla bucks...but as I
got serious about quads, I hit a phase where I had to have every great
one....and lemme tell ya, the quad versions of the Chicago albums
positively SMOKE the stereo versions!

AFree8
 

but if someone offered you $40 each for all your carts, you'd take it
mighty quick, right ?

gee, if you hit the lottery for a million, would you accept it ?

c'mon, who ya tryin' to kid ? realistically- if you bought a car for
$10K, and 10 years later someone thought it was a cool antique and
offered you $20K, you'd be a fool not to accept the money !

You're only looking at it from the "buy" perspective- someday you may
want to sell to- so keep that in mind

AFree8
 

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:04:29 -0500, (lennon fan)
wrote:


AFree8

Group: alt.collecting.8-track-tapes Date: Fri, Nov 4, 2005, 8:17am
(EST-3) From: (DeserTBoB)

I agree...$40 for ANY cart in any format is out of bounds. 8 track is
all about getting music on the cheap-cheap, so spending a lot of money
for a rare cart seem counterproductive to me.
dB

Well, I confess to these extravagances, only because it was a dearly
loved album only available in quad with different mixes in the 8track
format: snip

Q8's a whole different ball game, to me, anyway. Its fans are very
dedicated and source material is quite scarce. That neatly explains
why crooks like Charlie Nudo tried to fill the market with homemade
frauds...well, until he got caught, anyway.

ZZ Top Tres Hombres sealed quad $70
Kraftwerk-Autobahn Quad - 40
Al Green greatest hits quad - 60
lennon - imagine UK quad - 80
Blood sweat and tears s/t -40
and sadly a few more....but I regret it not, all of these were ab fab,
unique versions of albums I'm always happy to listen to....I have about
500 quad 8's, fortunately most were had for a coupla bucks...but as I
got serious about quads, I hit a phase where I had to have every great
one....and lemme tell ya, the quad versions of the Chicago albums
positively SMOKE the stereo versions! snip

It's pretty obvious that a lot more care went into Q8 releases than
the usual stereo, from what I've heard. Does it justify the price? I
think so, since the format was never all that popular or that big a
seller in the first place, thus making good quality carts a rarity.
Common stereo 8 tracks, except for the usual suspects, are still a
50¢-$1 item.

dB

AFree8
 

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:04:29 -0500, (lennon fan)
wrote:

Well, I confess to these extravagances, only because it was a dearly
loved album only available in quad with different mixes in the 8track
format snip

I heard the toilet flush after I picked up your post, so I figure that
Noodles is after you with some of his infantile drooling again. So
nice to have him killfiled! :D

Now, if we could only get eBay to give him the deep 6, life would be a
dream!

dB

AFree8
 

some people just can't discuss 8-tracks in a friendly manner, I guess !