Whoa nice. One thing I've wondered, are the UK Q8's extremely rare in the UK? Q8's are rare in the US, but are they even more rare in the UK? I just wonder if it would be possible to find something such as the UK DSOTM or Atom Heart Mother cheap in a UK thrift store or record store.
Did stereo 8-Tracks even catch on in the UK? Were they popular equipment for automobiles? It doesn't really seem like 8-Tracks did well at all in the UK from what I've seen so far. It would be helpful if there were UK Q8 sales statistics somewhere. For all those in search of the elusive UK Q8's, it would at least let us know how badly the cards are stacked against us.
compact cassette ruled the roost here. 8-Track had a fairly brief window where it was available in UK music stores (around '73-'75) but it never caught on sadly.
People in the UK were way smarter than those in the US. They never bought into 8 tracks. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: an absolutely LOUSY FORMAT! Q8 was the only reason I got into 8 Tracks. They were the only format all the labels could agree on, they were discrete, and there were many titles only available in Quad that way. I bought over 200 of them. Though the fidelity may be a bit better than stereo 8's, Quad 8's sound like shit, like all 8 tracks. Prerecorded cassettes sound pretty bad, too. That's not the least of it, they've always been highly unreliable. LP's, 7 1/2 ips" reels and homebrew cassettes are the great sounding analog formats.
I know the story on the PF UK tapes, but is the UK Deep Purple any different from it's US counterpart?
68 New Yorker! Wow. You don't see those much anymore. I'm a big fan of gas guzzling land yachts too.
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