![]() ![]() The 8-track started to get attention in 1965. "Everybody remembers Dark Side of the Moon, but how many people have it on a quadraphonic purple 8-track? That's pretty cool." "I have a lot of Pink Floyd 8-tracks," he says. Wearing a Pink Floyd T-shirt, Burnett brushes his long, stringy grey hair out of his face and sits down on the museum's teal floor to thumb through the clear plastic boxes that hold his tapes. He displays between 500 and 1,000 tapes, as well as an example of every type of physical recorded music from the wax cylinders of the 1800s to the iPod. More than 3,000 8-tracks later, Burnett's collection is so large he opened the 700 square foot Eight Track Museum ( take a video tour). Where you gonna find another one?' And I gave him $7." Why is this 8-track $7?' And he said, 'It's the Beatles. "And so I'm thinkin' 'I'll get this for 50 cents.' And I said, 'How much for the 8-track?' And the guys says, '$7.' And I said, 'No, the 8-track? How much for the 8-track?' And he said, '$7.' I said, 'Will you take five?' He said, 'Put it back in the box.' I said, 'OK, wait a minute. He caught the 8-track bug when he was rummaging through bins at a garage sale in 1988 and something caught his eye: the Beatles' White Album on 8-track tape. Now, a museum devoted to the obsolete format is open in Dallas, Texas.īucks Burnett is its proprietor. Remember 8-track tapes? In the 1960s and early '70s, they were the way that millions of Americans took their music with them. So, if you're old enough, cast your mind back 40 years or so. Today - when you can literally take your music anywhere - it's hard to imagine a time when that wasn't possible. Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL via Getty Images Our instructor was a drummer, commercial music producer and a skilled TELEPHONE LINEMAN.Old-school: Excerpts from Wagner's The Ring cycle on 8-track. Then the community college sorta proved they were useless. I had some ASSOC degree classes in music theory in the hope of becoming a recording engineer. Use AM radio with a 'wide' sound as a main example. In the range above 8-10,000 Hertz human hearing is a mixed bag and what matters is how it's EMPHASIZED. 5 years along I was pleased to see that the roses were thinking of him and put on a show. I fondly recall asking for a couple nice roses for mom or some girl and now and then I got some nice ones. The H-R100 was actually his son's as I said but I didn't know that and he gave it to me because he saw how I prized it. He had an Akai AM/FM 8 track with a round dial but it had to be sold. ![]() When he died I got some galvanized ~1" pipes and a topper from when he had a tubed Lafayette. I bought an early 50s? Wards Airline table set that had been his mother's and got the RF up enough (with some help) so that he could hear it one more time. ![]() On top of that it was a gift from the son of a man who ran my favorite burger place for years who sadly developed a dementia disorder. I have enough CBS releases alone to cover the worth of it. Video on the left side, audio on the right, computer table between. 8 track tape recorders plus#One has a lamp assembly (and a door that is hinged at the bottom, plus three big drawers each. I have two used Thomasville entertainment centers, each just over 6 feet high. ![]()
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