The Eight Track Museum in Dallas has announced Valentine's Day as its grand opening, with a reception feeaturing The O's and the Tom Tom Club.
Created by “formatician” Bucks Burnett, the museum will be open for visitors on a regular basis starting Wednesday February 16, including the Cloud 8 Gift Shop offering Eight Track Museum shirts, vintage LPs, 8 tracks and CDs for sale. Burnett’s Earotica Music record store located on Haskell Avenue within the Dolly Python complex at 1916 N. Haskell Avenue has been renamed Cloud 8 as part of the Museum’s retail division.
The grand opening February 14, will beging at 7 p.m. and include an in-Museum performance by Dallas’s The O’s whose new album, Between The Two on the Idol, will be released in a limited 8 Track edition on that day. The band will sign copies while they last. Also on hand will be Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, one half of the Talking Heads and leaderrs of Tom Tom Club
. The just-out Tom Tom Club album, Genius of Live
is being released on 8 track through Cloud 8, Burnett's "dead format" label by arrangement with Frantz and Weymouth's Tip Top label and Nacional Records which has released it in other (non-dead) formats through a licensing agreement with Tip Top. Frantz and Weymouth will also sign copies of their band’s 8 Track purchased at the event numbered and limited to just 30 copies, a reflection of the 30th anniversary of the band’s founding.
The Eight Track Museum’s inaugural exhibition "Conceived In Cars / Birth Of The Eight Track 1965" looks at the mobility the format decades the era of the iPod. Hundreds of 8 track cartridges including all Beatles albums released in the format will be displayed as works of art as well as the super-rare and folding 8 track.
From Thomas Edison's wax cylinders of the 1800's, to Steve Jobs' iPod in the 2000's, all formats are represented in a permanent museum setting. The Eight Track Museum collection is centered around a display of over 2,000 8 track tapes, assembled by Museum founder Burnett. Other obscure tape formats are included, such as the 4-track tape, the 2 track Playtape, and a sampling of quadraphonic formats including LPs, 8 Tracks, Reel-to-Reels, and even quadraphonic 45's.' The Museum's motto: No Track Left Behind.
Location: 2630 E. Commerce Street, Dallas, TX 75226 in the heart of the Deep Ellum Community Arts Building, just west of downtown.
Phone: 469.867.4074
Shop online at The Eight Track Museum's Cloud 8 Gift Shop:
Hours: Wednesdays 2 - 6 PM; Sundays 2 - 6 PM (8 hours per week) and by appointment
Admission price: $10 / Valentine’s Day reception: $20.00
The grand opening February 14, will beging at 7 p.m. and include an in-Museum performance by Dallas’s The O’s whose new album, Between The Two on the Idol, will be released in a limited 8 Track edition on that day. The band will sign copies while they last. Also on hand will be Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, one half of the Talking Heads and leaderrs of Tom Tom Club
. The just-out Tom Tom Club album, Genius of Live is being released on 8 track through Cloud 8, Burnett's "dead format" label by arrangement with Frantz and Weymouth's Tip Top label and Nacional Records which has released it in other (non-dead) formats through a licensing agreement with Tip Top. Frantz and Weymouth will also sign copies of their band’s 8 Track purchased at the event numbered and limited to just 30 copies, a reflection of the 30th anniversary of the band’s founding.The Eight Track Museum’s inaugural exhibition "Conceived In Cars / Birth Of The Eight Track 1965" looks at the mobility the format decades the era of the iPod. Hundreds of 8 track cartridges including all Beatles albums released in the format will be displayed as works of art as well as the super-rare and folding 8 track.
From Thomas Edison's wax cylinders of the 1800's, to Steve Jobs' iPod in the 2000's, all formats are represented in a permanent museum setting. The Eight Track Museum collection is centered around a display of over 2,000 8 track tapes, assembled by Museum founder Burnett. Other obscure tape formats are included, such as the 4-track tape, the 2 track Playtape, and a sampling of quadraphonic formats including LPs, 8 Tracks, Reel-to-Reels, and even quadraphonic 45's.' The Museum's motto: No Track Left Behind.
Location: 2630 E. Commerce Street, Dallas, TX 75226 in the heart of the Deep Ellum Community Arts Building, just west of downtown.
Phone: 469.867.4074
Shop online at The Eight Track Museum's Cloud 8 Gift Shop:
Hours: Wednesdays 2 - 6 PM; Sundays 2 - 6 PM (8 hours per week) and by appointment
Admission price: $10 / Valentine’s Day reception: $20.00
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