8 TRACK Def Leppard PYROMANIA (tan cart, "club issue" S170402) / TESTED

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8 TRACK  Def Leppard PYROMANIA (tan cart, "club issue" S170402) / TESTED!

this is the "club issue" = S170402, in a tan cart
(( the discogs "want list" database info says:  "17 have it, 83 want it" / and their dealers' database says one of that particular pressing (tan club, club issue) has never been sold on the discogs site, i.e. "never sold" ))

tested on my Pioneer R-99 deck (see further below), and sounds good

hold on, the gracious host of this page, mr metal midget "ted nugent is not my dad" mike is now woken up from his "where's baseball season" deep slumber, and is going to entertain us all by taking on some of the knottiest questions of the last century --

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YOUR HOST ANSWERS IMPORTANT QUESTIONS  

("so answer the question, mike.  who killed rock and roll?"  A:  you mean like related to MTV or the MTV era?  Q:  "yes.".  A:  easy answer, man!  that dork named Rikki who hosted that godawful MTV Headbanger's Ball late night show.  Q:  "Rikki Rachtman killed rock and roll?"  A:  yep, that's him.  he and Taime Downe murdered it in the dead of night, and they buried it fifty feet under the ground at the Cathouse.  well that's my story, and i've stuck by it since i dunno, 1995?  the year that grunge music (which did not kill rock and roll, although it might have finished it off if it dead-man-spasm twitched a couple times before the coroner came and dusted its remains up) finally sputtered out and removed itself from any intelligent discourse of Merseybeat vs 70's Heavy Metal vs 60's/70's Bubblegum (spoiler alrert:  black sabbath always wins.  a l w a y s.)  Q:  "i thought you said a hundred times over the last twenty years that it was MoTLeY CRuE that killed rock and roll?"  A:  nope, it was Rikki Rachtman.  Scout's honor.  i wasn't there, but more than one hollywood spandex girl who was there, grew up since then, discovered their "conscience" or "moral compass navigation" or whatever, and has testified under oath that yep, they had to wait outside in the cold september rain while Rikki and his idiot pal Taime took care of the burial hole).

and that's where rock and roll is buried, at the corner of La Cienega and San Vincente, fifteen yards underneath the old "Osko's Disco" building.  that's right, underneath a 70's disco.  whether or not the Cathouse pipeline to hell still works, you'd have to ask Riki.  or Taime.  or maybe the other four dorks that were in Faster Pussycat, i bet ya.  they were all on satan's payroll, it's a fact, you can look it up on the internet.          

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HEAVY METAL 70's AND ETC --

should anyone want to throw feedback at my "f'd up opinions" (from way back in the ground zero of "early 70's heavy metal," published in print during real time, back in 1971 1972 and 1973 (about any/all of the early 70's acts cited above, from Sabbath to Zeppelin to the greatest live hard rock/metal band of all time circa 1973, BLuE OYSTeR CuLT, duh.  (just c.f. their 4-cut 12" "Live Bootleg" promo 12" pressed up by CBS and sandy pearlman in late 1972),
here are some links collecting (or commenting on) alla the both brilliant and dunced-out stuff my college soph/junior/senior mind at play (said in the national music print media of the time)
("what is your point exactly, mr two-time state university graduate from arkansas and then texas?" THAT LED ZEPPELIN V houses of the whatever IS THE WORST CRAP I EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE and i got to say so in nationally-distributed print, ha.  "therefore it obviously must be true."  well, like, duh.  JUST LOOK AT OUR DIRTBAG HAIRCUTS OF 1972, the saunders brothers showing off their 71-72 sabbath store poster (from the floor piles at hollywood Tower Records).  be it MC5 roadie-trainee or wannabe hard rock guitarist (the "Dust t-shirt onstage" photo), THAT HAIR IS 2 QUIT 2 LEGIT and if you can't judge a rock band (in our case, the saunders' brothers' Angry Samoans thing which was kinda sort of super hard rock, played a bunch faster and minus the guitar solos) then every thing we know is wrong, right back to musical gravity and the hippie-musician flat earth theory of 1967.

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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19401159.2013.846655
Just So Stories:  HOW HEAVY METAL GOT ITS NAME —A Cautionary Tale
by Deena Weinstein, Phd
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http://fastnbulbous.com/the-birth-of-metal
THE BIRTH OF METAL by A.S. Van Dorston
a long, funny article about 70's heavy metal as a genre (by someone in the UK who was age 14 around the time Def Leppard formed) -- which originally (per their theory) "originally existed only in metal mike saunders' head" (as a genre in 1971-1973).  what?  DUST fans are not amused!  and the band isn't either!  their 1971 9-minute "From a Dry Camel" was METAL TILL YOU PUKE and then again, x 2.  damn right, yeah!
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http://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/6020/1/Brown%20-%20Explaining%20the%20naming.pdf
(plod through this headsplitter of a Phd paper and your head will explode.  it's a long Phd paper on you know what -- and dissects (via their microscopic amoeba-splitting "analysis of methodolgy") DOZENS of the things i wrote in the newsstand rock press (magazines) during 1971 - 1973.  METAL, dude!  there ain't no method to the labeling. it either is or it isn't!) --
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http://iaspm-us.net/the-rocks-backpages-rewind-mike-saunders-1973/
PRM Heavy Metal history cover story, April 1973 / metal mike
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http://www.metal-archives.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=80629
heavy metal site's thread that cut/pastes the entire PRM article
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http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/definitive-poll-black-sabbath-heavy-metal-or-not.443456/page-14
Steve Hoffman board "Black Sabbath -- Metal or not?" long thread, that reprints both the Circular feature/sabbath and the PRM The State of Metal Music Today may 1973 feature
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http://www.alicecooperechive.com/articles/feature/prma/730400
partial reprint of the april 1973 PRM "a brief history of the state of metal music today"
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/nov/15/black-sabbath-rocks-backpages
(best copy of the CIRCULAR feature)
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/rock-critic-mike-saunders-black-sabbath-kings-of-heavy-metal-1972.478788/
Black Sabbath CIRCULAR feature, summer 1972
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NOTE:
 the additional scans here (attached) of about 120 "$5 tapes" (a few of them in the scans have disappeared/sold).   I will probably wind up posting them up (all of them) as a "quantity discount" listing --  
  "4 for $14.98" or "5 for $19.98"
(in other words, which = buy three (or four) for $5, and get one more free =
 which =  buy 5 / $18.98 (means that the fourth tape is one dollar off, at $4, so = $5 + $5 + $5 + $4 + one free = 5 for $18.98)
 or  BUY 3 / $14.98 (buy three at $5, and get one more free)  

AGAIN, NOTE: I CAN PUT TOGETHER A pre-arranged fixed-price (that only the buyer will recognize in its disguised format, i.e. a pre-arranged set-sale total that's they can punch in as a "best offer," i accept it, ding dong, transaction completed on the day that they tell me to post it up) (any size of three tapes or more, plus the free one for each three or four) --
 for anyone that needs three or more of them (in any quantity of them, with the same discounts 'rolling forward').  selling just one or two of them at $5 -- nah.  people with bigger 'want lists" or "i want this" lists will get serviced first!

SO HERE is the example of how that works.  hahaha!  i even hide a picture(s)/scans of the ones they're buying, some ten deep into the Starday trucker-comp and kpop gg (girl group) photos (counting the K-Pop Gang from Trolls World Tour, who were, duh, in real-world time the super popular 3rd-biggest gg since their 2015 rookie year, Red Velvet)  -- in this case, the buyer's big item, a $40 super clean copy of the Ramones' End of the Century album plus four more tapes from the $5 tapes) --

https://www.ebay.com/itm/A-BUNCH-OF-8-TRACK-TAPES-THAT-MY-DAD-S-TRUCK-RAN-OVER/174311141093?hash=item2895c0eee5:g:OUUAAOSwBGJe3w4W

sub-footnote:  there's also $2 tapes (about seventy different titles) on the "getting rid of these too" ), which would get discounted, like what,  6 FOR $10?  yeah, i'm pretty sure that's it -- oh right, "buy 5, get one more FREE" = 6.  (for $10).  duh!   

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the last picture here (if i remember to load it) is kinda-famous-finally actress/musician Brie Larson (captain marvel, remember?  the one who saves Iron Man and basically by that act sets "saving the Marvel Universe" in motion) (if you do not remember her fairly-awesome indie-rockstar frontman/lead-singer-ex-girlfriend-from-hell role in Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, then i will have to remove your semi-clueless name from the year 2022 never-ending house party  guest list) -- (this picture) back at the age of 17 or 18  (a writer friend of mine did a looong interview with her back then --

 http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/pop_playground/sugar-shock-013-bunnies-traps-and-slip-n-slides-an-interview-with-brie-larson.html

 (after her major-label 1st album which had tanked, but also talking about the 2nd one which was 'stalled' in the "rejected demos" stage that she was writing/recording/demo'ing and sure enough it never did happen -- anyway that super-long interview  being not just about her literary-fanzine ("Bunnies and Traps") but also in depth about her super-fan music fan background and her (stillborn, basically, as far as the major label couple of years went) "MUSICAL" career that hadn't quite hit the abort point yet -- it probably still comes up (ED -- it did, see above) re his column "Sugar Shack" on the stylusmagazine.com music website,  where he was in the process of eventually writing about long fifteen columns and 100,000,000 words about the years 1999 - 2006/07's "teenpop" genre, until (dave bailed on the genre after) radio disney and their in-house label Hollywood Records just castrated it (big-picture-wise and especially per the genre's market age-demographics) --

just in time (did i say the year 2007?  i did) for -- wait for it -- literally hundreds and hundreds and still more hundreds (since 2007 on out, ramping crazy from 2009 into infinity) -- of --

KPOP GIRL GROUPS TO TAKE OVER THE POP MUSIC WORLD  good songs, bad songs, everything inbetween  (gaga made a flailing attempt for 'musical cred' by inserting herself into the recent new Blackpink single and MV, and oh jeez, it's just embarrassing (lady gaga's half of it, esp in the MV).  the B/P half just stinks, same as their last single Kill This Love but what would i know?  i hate almost 100% of all american-based pop music (save billie elish and her brother, duh) since like 2012, so whatevs.  (the first four Blackpink singles were "perfect 10's," perhaps the first such in post-1964 pop music history, but Du-Du-Du-Du was ehhhhhh nowhere near a "10," and man i just H A T E D their Kill This Love stinkbomb.  love the group, love Teddy Park (when he's on his game) (c.f. Jean Somi's post-I.O.I. debut solo single/MV "Birthday," which very disappointingly peaked out at only #22/Kor, but damn if it wasn't awesome (about a year ago), but i hate on lots of songs and the last two Blackpink singles are right in there.  (the gaga 'collab' is so awful in the MV, you seriously never ever ever want to see it, if you ever enjoyed even 1/2 of the "arguably the greatest dance/pop album ever made," i.e. the Fame/Fame Monster 2lp debut.  just really realllly HORRIBLE.  i almost threw up it's so bad.  almost as bad as early 90's?  Madonna when her "i'm so sexy, ooh look i'm half naked" trope was way past a "didn't you do this a dozen times before?" stale date.

in conclusion:  buy this nifty (sounds really good) 8-track and help turn the American New Depression economy around!   

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NOTE: THE "TESTING" routine that i use for anything in 8tk that gets posted/ebay, etc --

"TESTED" = means = i use a Pioneer H - R99 deck, which is the runnerup (to a Pioneer H-R100) for the supposed "gold standard" of great sounding, mass-produced mid-70's name brand 8tk stereo-component decks (per audio) (mine is too snotty to associate with the mis-mash of thrift store 80's name brand components over in the amp / cassette deck / speakers (big Altec floor speakers, $20 back around 1986?  at the old long-gone livermore Salvation Army.  and with "that 70's show" type Sony "bookshelf " speakers stacked on top of them, like giant mid-range-y tweeters).

soo -- to test any 8Tks (like these here), i'll put the 8tk into the deck with the Play function on PAUSE.  then let it go, and play Tk1 for bout 10 seconds, then ka-ching "program" move it to Tk 2 for its 10 second test, ka-ching into Tk 3 repeat/same, and finish the test with ka-ching into Tk 4 repeat/same.  then hit PAUSE and pull the 8Tk out.
 (depending on the manufacture/era of any particular 8tk cart, some 8tks' audio can "wobble" a little bit and i have no way of telling whether that is the occasional real-time occasional vagarities of this Pioneer deck's loading angles (as opposed to the tape itself).  anyone who's dealt with numerous different makes/brand of 8tk playback decks will be well familiar with this sub-phenomenon)

duly noted:  i dunno if other Pioneer R99's or R100's are like mine, but my Pioneer R99 is ReALLy tempermental when it comes to any Tk8 cart(ridge)s that are a little "tight" (meaning the space between the roller-wheel and the cart).  soo if i hear anything "weird" in the first three seconds of "play" (in testing) after i've unlocked the deck (from "pause") into the play function -- i'll hit the PAUSE button again, and pull the 8tk tape right out.  and the tape gets a "fail / not for sale."  

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POSTAGE!  $2.98 media mail (for 2 lbs).  actual cost only, no markup, and can combine with any other orders like always (ebay doesn't seem to be able to do this, so i just "correct" the postage cost via paypal or cash-back into the cardbox mailer full of 8 track tapes

also note: DOMESTIC MAIL ONLY, can't ship anything overseas that weighs this much.

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