National eig-----(click)--ht track day

Listening to local classic rock FM station today. "Unchained" by VH is playing - stops, pause/click, continues.

Since I had Women & Children First on 8-track, it didn't register as odd until DJ mentioned it is Nat'l 8-track day.

My only experience with 8 tracks was when I was a child and we had a Dodge van in the backyard with a Foghat 8 track stuck in the player.

I had an 8 track recording deck. It was pretty nice for the time. The problem being that every 8 track cartridge would eventually wear out and not play anymore. Some little wheel in there or something. Teh Intr4w3bz, y0, probably have it solved today. I eventually converted the deck into a high speed Morse Code calling loop.

I listened to Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues so much as a child (he mentions trains, and I loved trains) that she "accidentally" tossed the 8 track out the window of the 77 Cutlass.

We had an 8-track in our '73 Cutlass.

In reply to Dr. Hess:

It's the pads that support the tape to keep it against the head.

In the immortal words of Skee Lo, from the song "I Wish"...

I wish I had a brand-new car
So far, I got this hatchback
And everywhere I go, yo, I gets laughed at
And when I'm in my car I'm laid back
I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat, but that's flat

My mom had every 8 track John Denver, Glen Campbell, Tammy Winette, and the Oakridge Boys ever put out I'm certain.

No 8-track experience here. Just stopping in to appreciate the thread title, good job. Thanks for the laugh,took me a sec.

Yup! I remember seeing 8 tracks as a kid but we never had one in the house. Just cassettes and records, and then a CD player when I was 14... about 1994 or so

Sort of related, when I DJ'ed in college, we used carts--basically 8-tracks--for promos and some local music. They were quick and easy.

When they stopped working you could pull a bunch of tape out, hold the media and toss the case over power lines. In a rainstorm it would dance and "sparkle" a bit.

David S. Wallens wrote: Sort of related, when I DJ'ed in college, we used carts--basically 8-tracks--for promos and some local music. They were quick and easy.

some carts could hold a LOT more music than an 8 track. Hours worth.

mad_machine wrote:

David S. Wallens wrote: Sort of related, when I DJ'ed in college, we used carts--basically 8-tracks--for promos and some local music. They were quick and easy.

some carts could hold a LOT more music than an 8 track. Hours worth.

I can see that. We had a rack of them, and they made that distinctive sound when you jammed one into the machine.

Plus, no rewinding.

before we went computerised, the last radio station I worked out, one of my jobs was to put an entire evenings worth of commercials onto several long carts. we were a network station, so the network's tones would set them off. took me 2 hours a day to set that all up

All I've got to say is we're getting awfully desperate to name national (insert whatever) days.

Matt B wrote: All I've got to say is we're getting awfully desperate to name national (insert whatever) days.

National Insert Whatever Day - that's a holiday I could really get behind!

*edit - on second though, nevermind. Most likely I would be the insertee. PASS