I was just given a new toy.

[Richard King]

An older friend/customer of mine just gave me the toy below. It's an Akai X-1810 reel to reel/8 track combo deck with built in "speakers". I don't know yet what I am going to do with it. Looks like I can sell it for $1475. :lol: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0012QZSDK/ref=dp_olp_2

 

[dementedchord]

if ya can get @$1.5k for this.... kiss'em and run....

 

[Richard King]

The fellow who gave this to me has a much more interesting history than that machine does. He's a 92 year old guitar player and still gigging every weekend. He's a buddy and contemporary with Les Paul and called Les on his 93rd birthday. He played on a ton of songs that many people would recognize. I really need to get an interview with this fellow on tape... soon.

Played guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCh2dXwOpS4&feature=related
Wrote the charts, played guitar and produced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cfz33QIsdY
Wrote the charts, engineered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWswwBbRe70

 

[Vintage Texas]

Not a bad looking deck, and the history about the previous owner, WOW

 

[Richard King]

Not a bad looking deck, and the history about the previous owner, WOW

The history I listed is just scrapping the surface. He's really quite amazing and still having lots of fun. :lol: I really don't need the deck though since I have a couple of quarter track machines here (need to fix my Revox though).