Birthday 8-tracks!
My dad sent me some birthday money and I got a bunch of 8-tracks at In Your Ear Records. I tried a lot of new groups I haven't heard before. I love to be able to do that because 8-tracks are so cheap. (The links are mostly to an annoying, but useful site called Fuzz, Acid and Flowers that will NOT let you press your browser's back button to get out of it, so be warned.) Here's what I got:
Gregg and Duane Allman - S/T
The Blues Magoos - Never Goin' Back to Georgia
Brand X - Livestock
Brotherhood of Man - United We Stand
Brooklyn Bridge - S/T
Odell Brown - Plays Otis Redding
Al Caiola - The Power of Brass
Walter Carlos - By Request
Cold Blood - Lydia
The Cuff Links - S/T
Daddy Dewdrop - S/T
Lou Donaldson - Live Fried Buzzard
The Electric Flag - The Band Kept Playing
Herb Ellis and Joe Pass - Two For the Road
Bill Evans - Trio, Duo w/Paul Motian on drums, Gary Peacock on bass and Jim Hall on guitar.
Gil Evans & Gary McFarland - The Great Arrangers
Gil Evans - There Comes a Time
Family - Fearless
Ferreante & Teicher - Dial M for Music
Ella Fitzgerald - The History of Ella Fitzgerald
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
Urbie Green - The Fox
The Best of Herbie Hancock
The Happenings - Greatest Hits
Harper's Bizarre - The Secret Life of Harper's Bizarre
Eddie Harris - The Exciting Eddie Harris Vol. 1
The Hello People - Fusion
The Jazz Crusaders - Lighthouse '68
Wes Montgomery - Down Here on the Ground
The Youngbloods - This is the Youngbloods

So far I have listened to the Allmans and the Hello People. The Allman album is so poorly produced, it sounds like a scratchy record, but I like it. The Hello People is fantastic. Very eclectic, cool flute playing. I had to replace the pads and respool some tape. These audiopak late 60s carts have weird spools. They are two separate pieces. The small ring in the middle is just resting lightly on the big round base. I think as a design it didn't work well, because I always find they need to be respooled a lot. The tape slips up onto the top ring and spools around up there instead of going back around the outer edge of the tape on the bottom where it's supposed to go. Anybody who followed all that and knows what I mean, you are a true 8-Tracker!