8 TRACK TAPE Blue Cheer VINCEBUS ERUPTUM / white cart PC-8 600-264 TESTED

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8 TRACK TAPE Blue Cheer VINCEBUS ERUPTUM / white cart PC-8 600-264 TESTED

yep, this is one of those "almost doesn't exist on the resale market" late 60's carts
(issued only once in 8 Track)
NOTE:  the top of the back (of the cart) (see my scan, which is not a crummy lazy "cell phone photo" -- i hate cell phones and refuse to own one even if tried to bribe me with 1,000's of dollars to be another idiot zombie starting at my "i-phone screen" -- ain't gonna happen!  RoNNiE VaN ZaNDT on the ouiji board is my "life coach," and ronnie says "free bird, man, if they can't chain you down, you WiN, man!" and that is just how it is.  anyway it's a real scan, with the amazing little HP printer/xerox/scanner combo that i can reach just by standing up from the PC-screen's chair/input desk)

so the back of the Vincebus Eruptum cart reads = PC8600264 1458 1438

i have no idea what the "1458 1438" means (nor does Discogs)

anyway someone needs it more than me, i've got 50 or 60 other "early-mid 70's heavy metal / hard rock" 8tks in my "heavy metal" rack to keep me happy.  altho Paul Whaley's drumming on summertime blues is batshit great, then and now.  THANK YOU blue cheer for jacking the song from the Who's live Fillmore set, 1967, and going cray cray with the song that keith moon's drumming never could have approximated in a million years.  oh yea that's some BADASS ALL TIME DRUMMING, and if you are saying all "yeah, whatever" uh uh, no -- check the (lipsync) clip from Beat Club TV whoa whoa ho, and a bottle of vodka to chase it down.  YOU CANNOT KICK ASS AT 'HARD ROCK' DRUMMING BETTER THAN THAT.  i mean it's insane.  insanely great.  16 on a 10 scale.  that's my grade.  yea if you've got a problem with that, i'll take away your best condition (orig pressing) copy of Master of Reality, and you'll be all "waaaaaah" and yea, you deserved it man, you talked crap about the late great Paul Whaley!  

good lord was Leigh Stephens an awful guitarist though.  (like i said, i've got his sub-remedial playing on the actual orig pressing of the album, with a 10c Manny Aron's Hollywood sticker still on the cover, so what do i need it on 8 Track as well for?  "and that is why you're selling it."  yea, something like that.  i got "mortagage payment money" banked up for like forever, it'd take 30 years for me to "burn down the estate," buying up every good 50-cent record album in the world (or at least northern california), because try as hard as i can...this is kind of pathetic actuallly...i can never clock more than $600 - $700 in a years' time with all the thrift store $1 albums and $1/50-cent Rasputin's "understock," so hey.  just back off with the "you have totally failed to turn around your share of the economy, buddy" New Great Depression brain police.

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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memo to ms. B.C. in LA koreatown:  quit bugging me about the "bootleg beatles bedsheets."  THEY'RE ALL GONE.  you didn't want any, then you changed your mind, then you were all "i'm really busy at the neighborhood kpop noraebang karaoke machine this weekend, i'll let you know later, kay?"  no, not ok.  they're gone, G O N E.  and you didn't get any.

i'll make sure you get your usual bag of coals for christmas though, i'm real tight with santa's helpers this year.  (they just discovered the last fourteen years of girl group 2nd gen / 3rd gen kpop, and are all "your four comp tapes are f'n awesome, can you make any more dupes of the one that is on a D-60 cassette/analog format?"  yes definitely.  (the other three which were painstakingly manually dubbed onto 120 min TDK VHS-tape "master copies" are a little tweakier on their request list, since there's always a "backlog" of requests  to get around to dubbing copies for each fortnight's "new converts to this strange new musical religion you have turned me on to."  uh duh, it's called "crazy good dancing choreo" and "exCELLent pop-tune rapping, even in the crap nugu (rookie) groups."  true, true, and more than true.  

oh, and the one out of every ten to twenty songs issued that are REALLY GOOD to GREAT to WHOA THE BEST THING I'VE HEARD IN TEN YEARS (official statistics on the success % percentage, be it year to year, or c/y (current year) over p/y (prior year), are hard to come by when your staff consists of the high-turnover local unpaid imaginary interns (during their Cal State Hayward drinking hour or other "dead time).   and DuLY NoTeD:  with thirty to forty new rookie kpop gg groups every year, that (the nugu groups who clock in at somewhere between hopeless and its close cousin, hapless) always accounts for a big percentage of "the songs that really stink, please make them stop."   EVERGLOW, THAT MEANS YOU (last year 2019, continuing into this year).   but whatevs. i don't like their dancing/choreo either.  white boys from arkansas got their standards.   (180 deg the other way, two singles/videos in already, 2020 rookie group Cignature is f'n the awesome sort of shit (tunes, lyrics, choreo / dancing and rapping) that you just can't grow on trees, love it love it (an actual digital cd or cd-r of debut song/single, the Nunnu Nanna song, is #1 on my "wish list" (since it is something that doesn't exist on CD format yet) (i just collect en masse, via the magic of VCR "dubbing" to VHS analog tape, anything/everything that i like off of regional Bay Area cable TV Ch 32's ten hours daily of kpop and kpop TV shows (Pops in Seoul, After School Club, Rolling with Kpop, Simply Kpop, and something new called PromiSinger (i.e. groups), plus half of the programming that is the endless "one hour blocks" of any MVs since the "ground zero 2nd Gen big bang" year of 2007 (for the weird-sounding world of "kpop boy groups" it was year 2006).  it's not beatlemania level (musically), but man is it a cultural monster the size of ten elephants.  with umpteen different real TV shows (lots of them, from the Airang korea cable channel worldwide network, i.e. all with "english language hosts"), right here in oakland/bay area cable, daily!  man is this the greatest place to live or what.

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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 4 / $19.98 (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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