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Goodwill store 60's gold-Clear Light-The Frost-Cold Blood-Michael Parks-Wes Montgomery-Strawberry Statement-Zabriskie Point-Marmalade-Blues Project-AWESOME FIND
sometime last summer I stopped by the local Goodwill and bought out
their 8-track supply, as usual. Just can't risk them tossing the little buggers out for lack of a sale- so for 25 cent each I take the whole box- and sort through them when time allows well time allowed this weekend- they sat in storage for nearly 4 months until I got to them- in this one bunch was about 10 early Ampex and Electra carts, all with the usual gummy roller- but these soft rollers still retained their shape, not all cracked apart- hmmmm...these tapes had an easy life. All have decent labels- titles being: Clear Light S/T The Frost-Frost Music Antonioni's Zabriskie Point-Original Soundtrack Marmalade-Reflections of my Life Flanders, Kalb, Katz, Kooper, Kulberg, Blumenfield of the Blues Project The Strawberry Statement Soundtrack Michael Parks-Closing the Gap Wes Montgomery- California Dreaming Cold Blood S/T I didn't recognize any of the titles, except the Wes Montgomery and Marmalade- those 2 seemed vaguely familiar in a household name type of way...after robbing replacment rollers from Christmas and Country Readers Digest sets, I got these Ampex carts rolling and started sampling the contents my first impression was perhaps the rollers were better off left in the Digest carts ! The Wes Montgomery music came off like elevator to me, and Clear Light sounded plain weird, like a cheap version of Pink Floyd that never cut it. Michael Parks sounded like a wannabe country star. Cold Blood raised my eyebrow- sounded a lot like Janis Joplin. Strawberry Statement soundtrack had a lot of CSNY and Neil Young on it. The icing was Antonioni's Zabriskie Point Soundtrack-featuring Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, and Jerry Garcia solo. hmmm...wow, where were these tapes all my life ? I looked through the remainder of the tapes in that box- and up popped Marmalade Reflections of my Life along with Flanders-Kalb-Katz-Kooper-Kulberg-Blumenfield of the Blues Project then it struck me- I happened across a complete vintage 1960's Viet Nam era tape collection- but whoever this guy was, he preferred more obscure progressive music to the mainstreams Beatles-Stones-Led Zeppelin stuff. By what I can glean, practically all these tapes were released in the 1966-70 period. as if the guy was buying new carts like crazy when the format first came out, then in 1970, he just stopped buying 8-tracks cold turkey. interesting collection, interesting find. My curiousity lit, did some net searches on these bands- the Michael Parks search turned up "Then Came Bronson" TV series history- and a big following actually- I'm not a fan but turns out this guy is a fairly successful and popular actor in movies and TV. They all have colorful histories- Cold Blood being one of the first R&B acts signed in San Francisco by Bill Graham- and Wes Montgomery being a JAZZ LEGEND. yet another fine 8-track moment that could never have been experienced for $2.25 total cost, if I had given up on analog and went CD digital- try to find these titles at your local Walmart or Sound Gallery. back to Cold Blood rocking the house via Telex-Akai tube amp- life is good ! |
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