BOOM-BOX Ruled the 80s!!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2020
- Remember When the most important thing you owned was a boombox? You would record songs off the radio, or blast it all over town. Good Times. Let's backpedal about it.
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Boombox was a must for most kids.
I never had a boombox, but now I WANT ONE!
Do it!
The panasonic one's make excellent radios.
Both FM and AM never sounded so good.
You can order them on line used.
🤗old is gold try national Panasonic
Jvc, panasonic, and hitachi are the best brands
I was in the 7th grade and my parents wanted to get me one of these boomboxes for my birthday and I had said no, what would I need something that big at a young age like that. So instead of getting me that they got me a AM/FM radio cassette player Walkman six cassette tapes plus two pack of batteries. the cassette tapes were of iron maiden,Tiffany, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper poison and Lita Ford. What a birthday I had back then. Great video, like seriously. I enjoyed watching
Thank you!
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At least you listened to good music!! Did you have a Disco Sucks T shirt!! Ha. Those were the days. Now. Rap sucks. Hah
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Your parents had eclectic tastes in music, to say the least...
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Cool story
Cheers
found your channel on r/80s ! glad I did. I had a sweet boombox, but broke it one day at the beach.
Love r/80s! Great community.
Did Johnny Lawrence throw it on the ground?
I sure did. Carried it with me everyday on my paper route. 70s Punk and Heavy Metal followed me everywhere. Guess thats why I never got those holiday tips. Bring back the Box!! Bust the buds!
Randy delivering papers with a boombox strapped to the handlebars is the most metal thing I've heard all week.
I miss my boom box and the walkman. Taking bottles back to the store with mg friends, getting lots of candy then hanging out in the woods or something or by the creek with the boom box with music and just chilling
Agreed. Good times indeed!
I used to have a factory assembly job, long ago. I just had to sit at a table and assemble stuff, but we were allowed to bring our boomboxes (as long as we wore headphones).....so I recorded loads and loads of music off the radio. I still have them, but no boom box. I was lucky in that the town had a college with its own radio station so the music was cutting edge at the time, and all sorts of genres and things that weren’t mainstream. I still don’t know where half the music is or who were the artists because I didn’t record the chatter. Over the years I figured out some, but only about 20 percent at best. I used to love making mix tapes for friends. Once for a girlfriends birthday, I made her a tape in which every song had the word “woman” in it and the very first song and the very first word was woman (Joe Walsh James Gang Rides Again album). Damn, I was good. I couldnt afford a car stereo, so my boom box would just sit on my backseat...worked for me!
HA! Amazing story. My friend used to do the same, boombox in the back.
@ Gowensbach. I used to do the same. I’d listen to those tapes over and over so that I knew what song came next. Even heard the key in my head so I would sing in tune to the song from the get go. As years went by I went crazy trying to find a song that was on one of those tapes but I had no clue about the song. I thought maybe I imagined it. The song had a wicked guitar riff. But I couldn’t remember exactly how it went. Years. Many years went by. Like 40 years. I’m a barber I’m sitting in the shop last year and a song comes on the radio. Not THE song. But at the end of that song. I had a flashback and remembered a word or two from the lost song. I googled those words and the song popped up. Sung by someone named Kim. I’m thinking that CANT be it. A guy sings the song. I clicked on it anyway , it being the only clue to a 40 year lost song that I wasn’t even sure really existed. Well, it WAS the song !!! After 40 years. The song was. Go For a Soda by Kim Mitchell. I just learned the song on guitar after thinking I’d never know any more about the song than just a maybe memory. Well the memory was real. I just thought I’d Never find that song. It’s weird too because the song before it on the tape. Played many times on the radio since 1980 but 40 years later I hear the song one day. And the song , the lost song Finally popped in my mind!! It’s funny how the brain works. Kim Mitchell used to play in a band called Max Webster. Got a good song called Hangover. Just learned that fact After finding Go for a Soda. He’s a Canadian dude. Even Jammed with Rush on occasion. I believe there’s even a TH-cam video. I think I’m gonna pop in an old cassette and carry my boom box today!! Aggravate the block. Ha
@@elliottnunez1057 Awesome story! I will look up those tunes as well. Not heard of them before. I need to bust mime out and begin searching too. I have this one fragment in my head and no clue who it is. Im sure its a British band, probably not obscure. The song has a march like cadence or battle hymn type. Thats all I can recall. I recently bought an acoustic drum set so mostly I have been researching drumless music to play along with. Great message my friend.
@@gowensbach2998 Yes ! Check them out and let me know what you think. Don't forget this is 80's rock. LMAO. Kim Mitchell s Go for a soda video, there's one live video that I found and another I guess studio video where he's playing inside a refridge, lol but its typical 80s rock and roll
@@elliottnunez1057 Wow, I cant believe that one got past me! I liked it. Simple arraignment but well crafted with some great technical stuff. I like how the bass comes in after the guitar initially. Great beat too. Thanks again.
my boombox took 6 d batteries, and it lasted pretty long as long as you didn't turn it up all the way. Good times.
Those big batteries were weapons
First, I need that shirt! Second, i have so many boombox memories. so many hours trying to record songs off the radio.
My fav shirt!
I ordered a boombox because of you!
**add maniacal laugh here**
I have37 Boomboxes.
AND THEY ARE ALL MINE I TELL YOU ALL MINE HA HA HA EVIL LAUGH.😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
I just wandered over here after seeing your comment on a What Were You Watching video, and man...this is amazing.
I'm 47, so I grew up right in the boombox era -- and the Christmas I finally got one was like the greatest Christmas ever until I saw my buddy got one with four speakers and two tape decks. :p
This video was a lot of fun and a trip down memory lane. Will definitely check out more of your stuff.
Oh nice! Thank you for stopping in! (I told my kids about boomboxes and they thought it was such a crazy thing to have something so big to listen to music with. HA!)
@@NerdOutWithMe It's funny -- the bigger the boombox, the better -- but these kids want all their technology to be tiny. :p
Thank you for the walk down memory lane when times were much simpler and more fun.
I always wanted a boombox back in the day when I was a flat broke little kid but my parents never got me one. They would let me use my allowance to buy a headphone cassette player though since that was much quieter for them. My grandfather gave me a boombox for Christmas though later on when I was about 12 years old. It was stolen out of my dad's truck about a year later but the insurance company replaced it with a Hitachi TRK-6700 boombox, which I still have today and it still works. I use it to listen to sports (NFL, NBA, and MLB) broadcasts in my home office.
I always wanted a huge boombox but I could never afford one back in the day. I got more into home audio systems and in my college days I got into building custom car audio systems. I even got into home theater a little bit when that started to become popular. I wouldn't call myself an "audiophile" but I have always enjoyed listening to music on a nice sounding stereo system.
Today I've come completely full circle and I've been collecting vintage boomboxes for the past two years. The covid-19 pandemic kind of put some of my other hobbies on hold so I picked up another hobby and lately I have been buying and restoring classic boomboxes from the 1980s. I really wanted some nice boomboxes when I was a kid so now I have many of the ones that I lusted for back in the day. It just took a really long time to get them.
My collection is currently up to twenty eight boomboxes. It is a very addicting hobby to say the least! If anyone wants to start collecting boomboxes, just be aware that many of them have really gone up in price since the 1980s. Some boomboxes that were in the $300 - $400 range when I was a kid are literally selling for $2000+ today if they are in really good condition.
Thanks again for the great video.
Glad you enjoyed, and thanks for watching!
slow opening boom box tape decks were the cream of the crop!
Agreed
I owned many and I now am a collector I love it. For the record the larger the better. Also not one person I know that carried them put them on their shoulders😏🤔
That's awesome. Do you have them on display?
I was born in 1991, but I love old school boomboxes and the small community that revolves around it. I have about 4 of them. I have a couple videos posted of them if you want to check them out.
I was born in 1989, unfortunately I never got to see her in her glory days. It must have been wild. I picked up a beautiful boom box from the thrift store for $30. I grew up very poor. Finding this thing makes my inner child squeal with glee. I wish TH-cam would allow me to attach a video or photo to this comment. She’s truly a beautiful piece of art.
Would be awesome to see!
I need a boombox
Loved this episode. I had one like yours and I used to get inside my mom's car, put a rap cassette I borrowed from a friend and record it through the microphone. At the time I didn't have a double cassette so that was the way to do it.
Ha! I remember doing stuff like that.
Chad Muska was the king of boom boxes.
LOL Fair enough
the Boom Box ; the Ghetto Blaster (that took a ton of batteries) ; before portable Walkman's (cassette tapes) (with small foam headphones)...
boombox memories!
I had one of the detachable speaker guys. And yeah I never called it a boombox. It sat on my dresser my entire childhood. But I did use it to record songs from the radio, and to play "Kokomo" from the Cocktail soundtrack 10,000 times or so.
HA! Oh man, that Kokomo song. I used to play that all the time.
That was my first boom box, a Sanyo from Service Merchandise. 1985 at a cost of about $30. My brother and I had both of those Transformers.
This video is DOPE mang 🤘
Just saw my JVC boomer with the one 8 inch woofer and dancing LEDs
I did but I’m not nostalgic for it. My favourite was the little candy-coloured Panasonic I owned (you showed it in the intro). To be perfectly honest, getting my first iPod in 2006 is my best music technology memory. I LOVE making playlists and being able to listen to music in whatever order I want, to suit whatever mood I’m in. Not to mention you can listen to podcasts and audiobooks as well. iPod wins it for me 🙌🏻
iPods def make life more enjoyable.
Greate video !,
Thanks!
Of Course,My man!! Mine had woofers and a sub-woofer that embarrasses even home entertainment systems sold now. I wish I hadn't sold it for so little back then...and was able to hang onto it.
4,000 D batteries. 😂
Seriously. And remember how expensive those batteries were?!
Imagine John Cusack holding a portable bluetooth speaker out in his hand in Say Anything. The scene can't work these days. Bring back the boombox so we can have more iconic movie scenes!!
Ghetto Blaster - Added to my Netflix watch list....
Let me know how that goes.
i had a big conion c-100f i bought in 1984 sounded awesome and looked great with the disco lights. i remember in the early 70s i had to record music from the radio by placing a cassette player microphone in front of a radio speaker. it worked but it sometimes picked up background noises like doors slamming and my dad yelling.
LOL. I was just talking to a friend about how - when I hear certain songs - I often still hear the imperfections of the old taped versions in my head. They end up becoming part of the song.
I had a boombox in the 1980s...
First a Toshiba RT 80S
Then a Toshiba RT 140S, with Auto Reverse !!
I now own (counts) 3....
Sharp QT89
JVC PC-W100
Philips D8644
I used to have one back in the 90s, which my parents gave me as a kid. It was both a radio and cassette player. I don't remember what brand it was, but it looked very similar to the one in the video.
Very cool.
Had the JVC PC 55 but as you stated they weren't considered a boom box because it had detachable speakers I never removed the speakers and I took it everywhere I went it was considered a high end boombox and guess what I still have it today 40 years later lol
Ha! That's awesome.
Ghetto box dog. I had a few in the Ghetto with my friends. The best was JVC and Panasonic
Man I love the boombox😂🎉
I played it tell the speakers 🔊 poped lol
My panasonic has their "ambience" thing which tweaks the equalization to increase the stereo effect. Really nice.
Also, the radio is decently sensitive. Got a wiff of KNX one night all the way here in the eastern united states. FM stereo is a _little_ finicky though. The radio receiver also runs down to about 5v, well past the end of charge point for standard D cells.
Wish it had shortwave and an audio in though. Atleast I can use a car cassette adapter. Also, when plugged in AM is noisy.
I owned three of those in the 80s! Good times!
Nowadays the spirit of boomboxes lives in Bluetooth speakers. I see them everywhere. As for me, I own two boomboxes from the early 2000s, one's a Philips and the other one is a Panasonic. They both have working tape decks but unfortunately they are sitting stationary in my small apartment just because bringing your boombox outside just isn't deemed "cool" anymore because of the overabundance of annoying JBL speakers and their knockoffs.
Hell yeah, and I was /am Hard Rock fan. The prize was my Magnovox with the built-in CD player. That was a game changer! And $$$ think it was $400 in 1987-88. Getting all my stuff on CD was cool.
Memories!😂
Boombox was, now mobile phone is inseparable .
Bring'm back!
I had a boombox! It was either a Sanyo Sony or Panasonic brand.
Boombox memories
My grandma has the same Sanyo but in black. Works nice
I had this Pioneer Boombox which included Dolby stuff, metal tape capability and rewind stop and play automatically. She was My pride and joy.
I have a Boombox! It's a Panasonic RX-4850!
I had a bunch from the 80s into the 90s and even in the 2000s. They make much an smaller and better sound quality speakers that are Bluetooth now than those big boxes. No comparison actually.
Fun fact: the fotage from 22 may is my birthday
Me Like Boomboxes Very Mucho!
I did not know they outlawed Boombox with signs .
Yeah, it was pretty wild
Retired people are the most vocal in politics. Some old farts probably petitioned city hall.
I use to use a wire hanger 😂 for my boom box
Heck yeah! Worked like a charm.
used to use a boombox at my job every day when i was a plumber. good times. miss it.
Sounds like a good time indeed
Def had all those tapes as well, minus Robin Hood. LOL. Boombox memories indeed.
Prince of Thieves is a National Treasure!
right know i got 7 lasonic trc 931 and 975 👍👍👍
G&R is 90's. Never in my rotation. Ever.
Do you have Prince, the Batman sound track?? Now I have bluetooth cassette and 📀 box
where can i buy that model of a boombox? (the one you were carrying)
I'd guess ebay
ok thanks
Reli approved
Which is best bombox Panasonic ,Philips or Pioner please tell me
More a personal preference than anything else.
Philips suck, they are cheap and lightweight. Panasonic, Sharp, Sony, and JVC are the best-built.
O ya I did
Hello, From 3:35 to 3:40 is it a movie or a music vidéo ?
A mix of both and a news report that I tossed a song over.
@@NerdOutWithMe Thank you for your answer, you will have the link to this video or the source
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I have a more modern boombox
The JBL boombox 3
Just googled it. Looks pretty sweet
And you thinks putting a huge smartphone against your ear was funny….
Shit yeah I had a BoomBox. And yes it changed my life in a gr8 Positive way. It was a birthday gift from my first girlfriend. 🎶 We danced to it after sex. And It was HUGE. As AMOF, it was the ones with the Speakers tht detached. And it was Fly.
Cellphones seem to have kinda become the new "boombox nuisance" except now people are blasting their awful music from the tiniest and worst speakers ever.
You actually make a good point. It's def true. Like mini boom boxes.
Try telling the Sharp hk-9000 that it isn't a real boombox because it's got detachable speakers to its dual cassette with 10 band equalizered face lol. That was a giant boombox.