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Date Posted: 07:09:22 02/28/12 Tue
Author: bill
Author Host/IP: 70.111.98.187
Subject: Re: It's Funny What Comes Back To You...Dow Plays
In reply to: Craig 's message, "Re: It's Funny What Comes Back To You...Dow Plays" on 19:50:05 02/27/12 Mon

8Tracks are a nice collector market these days. you need the player of course so not a big market ( still have my lear 8 track player from back at college that was in the last VW I owned but not the good speakers but the new ones are better now even than those.
The main problem with the 8 track was the tendency for the tape to get sucked into the innards of the player if it was not kept clean enough and the tendency for the heads to get misaligned so you had overlapping tracks playing at times. the main problem with the cassettes now is the little foam pads inside deteriorated over time so the tapes often cannot be played.
My old Fisher stereo had an 8 track player built in so I could play them at home but the cassettes went bad so some are useless unless rebuilt.
Smarter to just get new digital copies on new media instead since the cassettes are all digital in any case.

I DO have a nice reel to reel tape of hours of music I recorded while visiting my cousins in florida back in the early sixties but nothing to play it on. Most of it is top fourty I think and recorded on the slow speed so may not be of the best quality but should be interesting to listen to some day and includes some voices when people came into the room where I was recording it off the radio.

Got tons of 4 tracks both my own and from my parents with all sorts of collections as well as some albums and some stuff that a friend recorded off of fm radio back in the 80s I think....

The vinyl is mostly what I have left from back in the day and just after I came back down here in the seventies. Also have many LP collections from the rents as well as their 78s going back to my grand parents time.
Harry and I got into a discussion about the 78s once because they used to scratch the identifying numbers on the vinyl near the label and when the labels went bad and disappeared you could identify the tune and aretist if you had the istings of the recordings from the various makers but do not know where to get those from at this time.

A lot of my old 33s got wet and the covers went bad but the recordings are still good so they can be played but there are no album covers for them which is too bad snce there was often a lot of info on them and on the slipcovers as well.
I found out that one of my neighbors had sold a large number of their LPs a while back when I was not around. they were from england so many of the albums they had were the english versions which would have been great to have aquired. some were different from the US versions or earlier releases. Oportunity missed....

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