Nuggets

Yes, I got Nuggets today! I finally found it buried deep in a lot I could afford. 40 tapes, mostly country, for $20 including the shipping and I got a few other cool items. Besides Nuggets, which people have been paying $20 for by itself, I got:
John Entwistle - Whistle Rymes - Track Records/Decca/MCA - 1972
The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival - 20 Super Hits - K-Tel - 1978
Dr. John - Desitively Bonaroo - Atlantic/ Atco - 1974
The Guess Who - S/T - cool looking pirate? by Damont Records and Tapes distributed by Peerless Vid-Tronic Corp. (I just love that name.) It has a really cheesey cover drawing of Randy Bachman.
*Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight and In Color
*Eric Clapton - Backless - RS0 - 1974
*Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Head On
*K-Tel - Disco Fire tape 1 & 2
*K-Tel - Out of Sight
*K-Tel - Music Power (Canadian)
*Adam VIII - Disco Party
*Discomania 2 - As seen on TV - (Canadian)
*Ronco - Star Time - 1979

I notice Ronco lists its address as Elk Grove, Ill. Anyone know if they were related to Ampex? Items with an * are things I think I have doubles of now, if you're interested.

Why does everyone want Nuggets so bad?

Prog. 1
I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)- Electric Prunes
Dirty Water - The Standells (This is the one that made this cart a must-have for me as a lifelong Bostonian and a Red Sox fan. They play this after every home game the Sox win at Fenway.)
Night Time - The Strangeloves
Lies - The Knickerbockers
Respect - The Vagrants
A Public Execution - Mouse
No Time Like the Right Time - The Blues Project

Prog.2
Oh Yeah - The Shadows of Knight
Pushin' Too Hard - The Seeds
Moulty - The Barbarians
Don't Look Back - The Remains
Invitation to Cry - The Magicians
You're Gonna Miss Me - The Thirteenth Floor Elevators
Psychotic Reaction - Count Five

Prog.3
Liar, Liar - The Castaways
Hey Joe - The Leaves
Just Like Romeo and Juliet - Michael and the Messengers
Sugar and Spice - The Cryan Shames
Baby Please Don't Go - The Amboy Dukes
Tobacco Road - The Blues Magoos

Prog.4
Let's Talk About Girls - Chocolate Watch Band
Sit Down I Think I Love You - The Mojo Men
Run, Run, Run - The Third Rail
My World Fell Down - Sagittarius
Open My Eyes - Nazz
Farmer John - The Premiers
It's-a-Happening - The Magic Mushrooms

So how many of these bands can you even get albums from on 8-track? I Have The Blues Project, The Blues Magoos, The Strangeloves and The Third Rail. I've seen The Seeds and The Thirteenth Floor Elevators and The Shadows of Knight and maybe the Electric Prunes? on eBay for a lot of money. My friend George said he got the Cryan Shames and the Knickerbockers on 4-track.

Some of My Coolest 8-Tracks


Badfinger - Airwaves
BeBop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish (in cello, but opened.)
Pat Benatar - Crimes Of Passion
- Precious Time
- Get Nervous (RCA)
- Live From Earth (RCA) (sealed)
B-52's - The B-52's
- Wild Planet
Blondie - Parallel Lines
- Eat To The Beat CRC
- Autoamerican
- The Best Of Blondie (Black)
Boomtown Rats - A Tonic For The Troops
- The Fine Art of Surfacing
David Bowie - Changesonebowie
- David Live
- Diamond Dogs
- Heroes
- Hunky Dory
- Lodger
- Low
- The Man Who Sold The World
- Peter & The Wolf
- Pin Ups
- The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
- Scary Monsters
- Space Oddity
- Stage
- Station to Station
- Young Americans
John Cale - Guts
Cars - The Cars
- Candy O
- Panorama
- Shake It Up
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
- Heaven Tonite
- In Color
- Live At Budokan
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
- This Years Model
- Armed Forces
Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Get Happy
Devo - Freedom Of Choice
Duran Duran - Rio
Fabulous Poodles - Think Pink
Go - Go's - Beauty And The Beat
Golden Earring - Moontan
- Switch
Human League - Dare (RCA)
Billy Idol - Billy Idol
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
- I'm The Man
- Night and Day
The Joe Jackson Band - Beat Crazy
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation (sealed)
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N Roll
The Knack - Get The Knack
- But The Little Girls Understand
Kraftwerk - Autobahn - Quad
- Ralf & Florian
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
M - New York-London-Paris-Munich
Madonna - Like a Virgin
- True Blue
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire
- Exodus
- Live
- Kaya (UK) (sealed - pic sleeve)
MC5 - High Time (BOOTLEG)
Men At Work - Business As Usual
Motels - The Motels
Mott The Hoople - Mott
- Live
Michael Nesmith - From a Radio Engine to a Photon Wing
- Loose Salute
- Nevada Fighter
New York Dolls - In Too Much Too Soon
The Nice - Elegy
Gary Numan - Telekon
Robert Palmer - Double Fun
Graham Parker - Heat Treatment (sealed)
Graham Parker And The Rumour - Stick It To Me
The Police - Outlandos D'amour
- Reggatta De Blanc
- Zenyatta Mondatta
- Ghost In The Machine
- Synchronicity (CRC)
Pretenders - Pretenders
Prince - For You
- Dirty Mind
- Purple Rain
Suzi Quatro - Suzi Quatro
Ramones - Ramones
- Leave Home
Lou Reed - Transformer
- Rock 'N' Roll Diary
- Sally Can't Dance
- Metal Machine Music
- Metal Machine Music (Quad)
- Coney Island Baby
Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure
Roxy Music - Greatest Hits (BOOTLEG)
- Viva! The Live Roxy Music Album (sealed)
Rumour, The - Frogs, Sprouts, Clogs and Krauts
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks It's the Sex Pistols
Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia
Patti Smith Group - Easter
- Wave
Sparks - Indiscreet
Stray Cats - Built For Speed
Talking Heads - 77
- More Songs About Building And Food
- Fear Of Music
- Remain In Light
Television - Adventure
T. Rex - The Slider
The Tubes - What Do You Want From Live
- Remote Control
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
The Vapors - New Clear Days
Velvet Underground - Archetypes

VARIOUS ARTISTS AND SOUNDTRACKS

SOUNDTRACKS:
Rock 'N' Roll High School (sealed)
Times Square

VARIOUS ARTISTS:


Live at CBGB's
Nuggets
Stiffs Live

A Dream of an 8-Track Discography

I really wish we had a site where we could start entering all our 8-tracks to create, eventually, a complete database of what was made. Discogs has exactly the set up I envision, but they focus on electronic dance music for DJs. It is a site where people can go and add listings by record label. I wonder if I can talk them into explaining how it works to me? I guess it can't hurt to ask.

It would be the bomb if I could have it at the 8trackmuseum.com domain I one day propose having. I have big dreams, but so little initiative. I want other people to come along and do all the work for me. If it was uo and running as I envision it, I would gladly sit here entering all my 8-tracks one by one, but I can hardly be bothered to try to create it myself. I guess I'm just fundamentally lazy.

Good 8-Track Karma

I musta done something right. Yesterday one guy I met on the 8trackheaven group, my home away from home, sent me a free 1975 Schwann catalog. Thanks, Larry!

Another guy, Chauncey, who is 16, I think, emailed me a while back that he was collecting 8-tracks. He asked if I could send him any I didn't need. Wanting to encourage such healthy pastimes in today's youth, I sent him a big box of tapes. Yesterday (after not hearing from him for several months, even for a thank you!) he sent me back the box, full of tapes he found that he didn't want. Mostly easy-listening, but as anyone who reads this blog knows, I'll eat anything. There was one Billie Holiday cart I didn't have and a Tommy Garrett and the 50 Guitars.

Then today, Norman brought me some 8-tracks at work. Mostly Beatles, mostly bootlegs, but still cool. I gave him $10 for these:
-The Beach Boys - Wow! Great Concert - Pickwick P8-1148
-The Beatles - A Collection of Beatles Oldies - Alpine Bootleg w/flower design
-Cher - Sound Values bootleg w/weird medieval wood-cut art. Musta been free clip art.
-John Lennon - Mind Games - British EMI 8X-PCS Cover pic is black and white and song order is completely different than my US Apple cart.
-Simon and Garfunkel - Best of - Alpine bootleg w/gold foil and funky 70s geometric shape design and two tone shell. Front is red, back is white.
-Three Dog Night - Golden Greats of - Pickwick P8-3664 Nice cover pic.
-Various Artists - Blockbuster - K-tel (Fly, Robin, Fly; Chevy Van; War, etc.)
-Various Artists - Rock Hits Vol. 31 Bootleg with the shady sounding company name "After Dark Entertainment ". May be recorded over. Hand-written "misc. shit".

2 are from an outift called Zodiac. These are " made in the style of your favorite artists by our sound-alike artists and musicians". One is all Beatles' solo work covers. The other is Rock Hits Vol. 30 w/Bungle in the Jungle.

Also got a head cleaner and 4 homemeade tapes. One is Sargent Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, another is Fiddler on the Roof. 2 are unlabeled. Blank?

Good score. Send out 8-tracks into the world and 8-tracks will return to you.

Broke as Usual
I got so broke, this time from paying my taxes, that I decided to sell 110 8-tracks on ebay. The auctions all end tonight. So far they're only going for $91 all together. I'd be sad to let so many of my beloved 8-tracks go for so little, even if they are duplicates. But I really need some cash. Sigh.

On the happier side, yesterday I got the music from Dark Shadows 8-track for only 2 bucks, in pretty good shape. It was weird because one of the guys on Dark Shadows is named Barnabas, and yesterday's reading at mass was about Paul and Barnabas. Then our awesome Priest, Father John Unni, said in his homily that there probably weren't many Barnabasses in the congregation, but later on I found the tape in a junk store. I wonder what it means? Perhaps Quentin and Barnabas shook the dust from their shoes before the left ABC?

Also today one of the nice people at the 8trackheaven message board sent me a 1975 Schwann catalog which lists all the new 8-tracks which were available then including quads. It is pretty cool. I have been pouring over it for hours. I think I'll try to update my wants list.

Al Hirt is Cool

I realize that's not a news flash to many of you, but I really like the cart I got yesterday:
Raw Sugar/Sweet Sauce/Banana Pudd'n.
Here's the songlist:
Raw Sugar, You'll Never Know, Banana Pudd'n, Why Me, Dream a Little Dream of Me, Granada, Sweet Sauce, Melody for Michelle, The Lonely Bull, Rainy Night in Georgia, Dream baby.
The order is different on the 8-track, but I can't quite figure out which song is which yet. Most of them don't have words.

The other tape I got yesterday was all covers. It's pretty funny. The people singing are good but you can tell it's not Crystal Gayle, Carly Simon, Barry Manilow, etal.

I'm flat busted broke again to the point where I'm thinking of selling some 8-tracks on ebay. I hate selling, preferring to save extra tapes for trading purposes, but I really need some money right now.

My Easy Life


This is my block. Today my sweetheart, Cathy, and I went to the doctor to have our blood test, so we can get married. It is right next door. For those of you that don't know it, I'm a lesbian. That means in Massachusetts, I can get married next month. Cathy and I have been together 5 years now and we own our co-op apartment together, so we think a civil marriage will provide us with useful benefits and protections.

Everyone at the health center was nice and kind of excited about the whole thing. I was wearing my Red Sox hat so we talked about the Sox a lot. The phlebotomist had Manny Ramirez' picture up on the wall, but she was very mad at him. She said he made some negative comments to the press. He said the Yankees are a better team than the Sox. That's likely to get him days of bad press here in Boston where we take the Red Sox pretty seriously. I'd say he can go play for that Yankees if that's how he feels, but he's so good at hitting, I wouldn't want that to happen.

Anyway, there's supposed to be a game right now against Tampa Bay, but it's raining. The ballpark is around the corner, but we usually just listen to the games on the radio. Tickets are pretty expensive.

After the blood test, I went around the corner to the used record store and bought a couple 8-tracks. They were 99 cents each. I got Al Hirt - Raw Sugar/Sweet Sauce/Banana Pudd'n and a Springboard compilation tape called You Light Up My Life and Other Great Songs, sealed.I imagine it'll be a lousy studio band playing instrumentals. The songs are I Write the Songs, After the Lovin', I Honestly Love You, My Heart Belongs to Me, How Deep is Your Love, Fascination, Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue, Nobody Does It Better and , of course, You Light Up my Life. Nowhere does it say the words 'original artists'. Even though most of those songs are prime candidates for my worst songs list, I'll probably like it. It seems apropos, in honor of my forthcoming marriage. And it has nice 70s cover art. Al Hirt is missing the back label, so I don't know what songs are on it.



Cathy and me.