My Vision for the 8-Track Museum
If you're ever in Boston and you want to view the collection email me.

What it's not:
I'd like it to be a multi-media tour, where you'd walk from room to room with a tour guide pushing buttons that would run film clips or slides and 8-tracks with audio clips of different music and snatches interviews with famous people talking about what they remember about 8-tracks. I'd like to have a total 70s room display with the shag rug and lava lamps and all. And exhibits of ads for different carts and players. Maybe a classic car with a player in it. And a quadrophonic room where people could hear quad for that part of the tour. The history of 8-tracks explained. Four tracks, reel-to-reels, magnetic tape developed in WWII, etc. Muntz and Lear. And a display of head cleaner and 8-track related products. Splicers, cleaners, demagnetizers. 2xl would have to give part of the tour. Then at the end there'd be time for browsing before the next tour began. And you'd wind up in a gift shop that would sell carts and supplies for repairing them and t-shirts. I'd like to design a t-shirt with pictures of Muntz and Lear. And lots of different t-shirts with 8-tracks on them. And calendars.

Behind the scenes I'd have technicians repairing players and tapes, and acquisitions using the money we made on the entrance fee to buy stuff we didn't have, and creative production types planning new exhibits and attractions. Tonight at the 8-track Museum: Mandrill or Tom Jones or whoever. I live near Berklee College of Music so hopefully I could get them involved and use the Performance center for concerts if they were going to be too big.

Alas, I'm a Saggitarius, full of grandiose schemes and no follow-through. I hate work and obviously it would take a lot of work and money. I want someone to come along and say "That's a great idea!" and do all the work for me. Actually I'd like to be in charge of acquisitions. I'd surf ebay all day spending the museum's money. Now that would be a job!