Bucks Burnett bought his first eight track—The Beatles' "White Album"—at a garage sale in 1988. He now owns over 2,000 eight tracks, including an extra rare Beatles promotional box set (one of the 100 ever made) and the first Velvet Underground album decorated with the Andy Warhol stamp. His collection at home became so large, that he decided to open up the world’s first eight track museum in Deep Ellum.
Bucks showed The Feast around his quirky museum and its accompanying gift shop, appropriatly called Cloud 8. The name also belongs to his record store inside of vintage den Dolly Python as well as his new eight track label, on which both the O’s and Tom Tom Club (former members of the Talking Heads) will be releasing limited edition EPs.
We sat in the museum's retro future chairs and chatted with Burnett about his ambitions of opening another store in Brooklyn, NY, winning an Alice Cooper look-a-like contest and what it's like to become friends with your favorite rockstar.
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