VHS tapes were taking over the home-video market from Betamax. It was sort of a ritual," Burnett remembers - not so fondly.īy the late '70s, format wars were being fought on multiple fronts. Wait 'til the click and then go back at it. "Typically, you would - just for two or three seconds - you would stop making out. First it would fade out then you'd hear a click that indicated the program change.īurnett says the dreaded click could be a mood killer, depending on, well, the situation. If the songs could not be split up evenly, a song might be cut in two.
8-track tapes typically divided up a two-sided LP into four programs.
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Say it's 1977 and you're listening to the newest David Bowie song through your girlfriend's portable 8-track player. I'm going to stop at the store and I'm going to buy the new Beatles record, the new George Jones record, and, oh, there's a compilation of stuff on this particular label.' And be able to listen to just what you want and not twist around on the AM dial trying to find music."īut 8-tracks did have their limitations. "It allowed you to say, 'I'm going to go on a trip. "It gave people mobility for their music collections," says Howard Kramer, the Curatorial Director for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. When Ford Motor Company began to offer 8-track decks in its 1966 model cars, the format took off. Cassettes were pitched as at-home recording devices. The difference is that 8-tracks were marketed to play music. That's almost exactly when cassette tapes where introduced to the market. 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.
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