This should be fun.
Me first: 1st single-- Surfer Joe b/w Wipeout The Surfaris
1st album-- Chuck Berrys Golden Decade
followed by Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
East West-- Paul Butterfield Blues Band
If you're not hip to East West Check it out. It was the record that spawned the whole jam band thing with 2 extended cuts that were jams.
The East West title refers to the Indian modes that Mike Bloomfield brought to what was basically the first mixed race Chicago Blues Band.
All the SF cats from Garcia on down cite East West as a primal influence.
Bill Graham brought the Butter band to the Fillmore on Garcia's urgeing. And it was his rebooking of them that caused the Chet Helms-Graham schism.
That would be megadeth's countdown to extinction, was a major headbanger back then. I had had other metal albums I had borrowed from friends but was the first I purchased. Was total forbiden fruit, mother was a fundalmentalish christian, would even go into my room and change my radio back to the christian station when I was out.
Thanks Luc, for getting the ball rolling.
well, we had a cd burner in my house. so buying CDs wasn't always necessary, plus my older brothers and people let me borrow CDs.
but if i had to guess, i'd go with MetallicA ! ! !
yo guys,
I just climbed the attic and had a glimpse at tons of dusty jewel cases housing yellowed booklets.
my first CD was ice-t's "power" album - http://www.discogs.com/release/205719 (http://www.discogs.com/release/205719)
... and it's still working *g*
soph.
Great topic.
Black Sabbath -"Paranoid," was the first album I bought.
Deep Purple - "Fireball," the first 8 track I scored.
"Crimson and Clover," was the first single gifted to me but then taken back after my uncle broke up with that particular de-gifting girlfriend.
lw
The second set of 8 tracks I bought was Superstar's of the 70's comprised of the tunes below when I was 11 or 12. Matter of fact, I went to sleep listening to these tunes through headphones every night for a long spell. Looking back, I'm guessing I bought this set because of the deep purple and black sabbath tunes that were included. But I ended up really appreciating most of the artists.
A1 Alice Cooper School's Out
A2 Seals & Crofts Summer Breeze
A3 Beach Boys, The Surf's Up
A4 Randy Newman Sail Away
A5 Judy Collins Both Sides Now
A6 Doors, The Tightrope Ride
B1 Bee Gees Lonely Days
B2 James Taylor (2) Fire & Rain
B3 Grateful Dead, The Truckin'
B4 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway Where Is The Love
B5 Stephen Stills Love The One You're With
B6 Yes Roundabout
C1 Doors, The Light My Fire
C2 Jefferson Airplane White Rabbit
C3 Crosby, Stills & Nash Marrakesh Express
C4 Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze
C5 Bee Gees To Love Somebody
C6 Kinks, The Lola
D1 Carly Simon Anticipation
D2 Guess Who, The American Woman
D3 Todd Rundgren We Gotta Get You A Woman
D4 America (2) Ventura Highway
D5 Jo Jo Gunne Run, Run, Run
D6 Rolling Stones, The Tumbling Dice
E1 Otis Redding (Sitting On) The Dock Of The Bay
E2 Deep Purple Hush
E3 Gordon Lightfoot If You Could Read My Mind
E4 Roberta Flack The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
E5 Jimi Hendrix Foxy Lady
E6 Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love
F1 Eagles Take It Easy
F2 America (2) A Horse With No Name
F3 Byrds, The Cowgirl In The Sand
F4 Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi
F5 Guess Who, The These Eyes
F6 Van Morrison Domino
F7 Judy Collins Amazing Grace
G1 Doobie Brothers, The Listen To The Music
G2 Joni Mitchell Woodstock
G3 Wilson Pickett In The Midnight Hour
G4 Arlo Guthrie City Of New Orleans
G5 Jackson Browne Doctor My Eyes
G6 Black Sabbath Paranoid
H1 Allman Brothers Band, The One Way Out
H2 Aretha Franklin (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
H3 Faces (3) Stay With Me
H4 Graham Nash Chicago
H5 Rolling Stones, The Happy
H6 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Lucky Man
Harry Nilsson's "The Point," was also a major influence in my musical and maybe even social development. This was released as a soundtrack to an animated tv special in 1971. I was blown away bought the 8 track a year or two later. After dredging this up, I'll have to look for the cd. Btw, I just read that HN came up with the idea for the story and songs while high on acid, according to his bio.
"Lime in the Coconut," was another of Nilsson's songs that earned a spot in me heart early on.
All music and lyrics by Harry Nilsson
"Everything's got 'em" â€" 2:25
The town (narration) â€" 1:31
"Me and my arrow" â€" 2:04
The game (narration) â€" 1:49
"Poli high" â€" 2:41
The trial & banishment (narration) â€" 2:11
"Think about your troubles" â€" 2:49
The pointed man (narration) â€" 2:42
"Life line" â€" 2:21
The birds (narration) â€" 1:58
"P.O.V. Waltz" â€" 2:12
The clearing in the woods (narration) â€" 1:53
"Are you sleeping?" â€" 2:17
Oblio's return (narration) â€" 3:08
Stories - "Changes - About Us" - was another early favorite of mine. (W/ cover of "Brother Louie.")
lw
Thank you, now we better understand the orgins of the super hero known only as laughing willow.
My brother gave me the first Blues Project record, Live at the Cafe A Go Go for Hannuka 1966, so that may have been my third LP. Another early one was an Elektra compilation called "What's Shakin" if I remember right. It had more Butterfield, John Mayhall with Eric Clapton and some other artists. Good stuff!
1st tape, (used) hero hero by judas priest
1st album we sold our souls for rock and roll.... black sabbath (still one of my favorites.)
This is really embarrassing, but the first tape I bought was... New Kids On The Block :oops:
My uncle returned from Georgia in 1973 or so after a stint in the service and moved into our house, sharing my bedroom and maybe paying a little rent to the parents. I stopped buying albums at that point for the most part due to the wide array of music that came into my life along with his stereo. Southern rock ruled the roost for the most part. ZZ Top, Little Feat, Lynard Skynard and the likes became daily staples. And for NW Iowa, that was about as far out as it got back then for an eleven year old.
Nights were spent in the tv room watching "Don Kirchner's Rock Concert," "In Concert" or "The Midnight Special".......
Later, "K-A-A-Y," Little Rock, Arkansas...... Man, I used to tune in to that channel late night, when the am radio signal made it all the way up to our corner of the prairie. I remember getting turned onto Uriah Heap and Mott the Hoople that way, lying on the living room floor around midnight, ear close to a speaker. (mono still ruled. hehe)
lw
Nothing like those old clear channel stations. My introduction to the blues was when my brother discovered Wolfman Jack on pirate station XERB. "The Big 1090, 50,000 Watts of Soul Power" That's when Wolfman was still underground, before his post Anerican Graffitti days as an oldies but goodies pimper. Back then he just played the most spaced out blues he could find, lots of Elmore James, Howlin Wolf, Lowel Fulson. And the station had weird stull like horse race results, Reverend Ike's Church of Money.
At first bro would tape the Wolfman on our old Wollensack(same as the one Brian Wilson grew up with) and play em for me the next day, then after a couple years, me and my buddies would drive around smoking weed and tuning in to the big X.
The great ZZ Top song "Heard It On the X" was about a similiar radio station they could hear in Texas!
What do you call a single on vinyl? My first one of these old fashioned thingies was Spitting Images 'Chicken Song'. The B was 'Ive never met a nice south african' - satire was a huge thorn in apartheid's side.
First LP = Monty Python live at the Hollywood Bowl. My folks were OK with posh peeps making jokes about albatross ice cream being fucking albatross flavor but heavy metal is bad mkay?
I only ever bought these two records - what a gay format!
First tape = whatever Now Music compilation contained 'Let Them Know Its Christmas'. Now 9 I think - late 80's anyway.
First CD = Metallicas black album - if only this pirate was aware of their attitude to their fans then - I wouldnt have bought it.
First minidisc - OK I had a minidisc recorder but I never bought a commercial disc - I just made what were then HUGE mix tapes.
First DVD - never bought a music DVD.
First MP£ download - I bought NINs last album online - £5 for a FLAC album was cool with me ;)
Aside from NIN none of this relates to my musical tastes at all - what does this say about peer pressure and advertising to the young?
I'm pretty sure they were called singles.
What did they call the little plastic discs that fit in the middle of the singles allowing them to be played with the smaller diameter spindle used for Lp's?l
w
1966...3 am cruising to Ensenada, smoking Mex weed and barely keeping the old chevy panel van on the winding inland "Libre" road, listening to Wolfman Jack on the Big X.
A memory...
Actually, from '65 on we listened to the X most of the time in LA.
I still spin "East-West", saw/heard Butterfield live at the Golden Bear in '67. Great sounds...
first single
"Poor Boy" and "Raunchy", I was like 13.
First album
For Sale and Yesterday and Today
followed by Rubber Soul and Revolver as they manifested.
oh, and 12X5 and RSNow...
Quote from: "laughingwillow"I'm pretty sure they were called singles.
What did they call the little plastic discs that fit in the middle of the singles allowing them to be played with the smaller diameter spindle used for Lp's?l
w
I know but at 31 I love winding up you old-uns ;p
I had to use those odd inserts so my nan could listen to her Des O'Connor singles. She bought an Amstrad music center in the late 80s that almost didnt cater for the old schoolers like nan but also needed a bit of re working for us new kids so we could copy our video games (then on tape) for each other. It seemed odd to me then that the hardware peeps would be so out of touch with the end users but having grown up a tad I decided to become a pirate and ever since I see / hear / play what I want on what I want where I want - for free if you cant provide the same.
After all we should only yield for excellence not laws ;p
I love this thread.
We got an original Atari for christmas the year they came out and that is the only video game I've owned in me life.
And if I could move a little faster I'd shove this cane right up that young whipper-snapper's ass. Kids on the interweb these days......
lw
First single: Moon River :? -- First Album: The Soundtrack to Music Man :? :shock: --- Uh,,, maybe some would contend I was a sorta strange child :wink: :wink: -- 2nd album, Sandy Nelson House Party, 2nd single, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, by Gene Pitney....
Speaking of strange children..... My youngest sister's first album was Donny Osmond's "Puppy Love." That wasn't the strange part. The fact that Donny O became an invisible friend of hers that she chatted with for a couple of years was the odd part, imo.
I remember going through my parents albums when I was pretty little grooving to "The Mommas and the Poppas."
lw
My love of music started with my parents folk music obsession. Pete Seeger was a favorite. I think the defining moment of my childhood was seeing a Pete Seeger childrens concert at about 5. Several years later, my folks were part of a club that put on folk concerts and we did one with Pete. He came over to our house for dinner!! I got to hang with my hero!!
The concert was a success and Petes cut was $1000(in 1960 money) which immediatly tried to give back. But they made him keep it, it was during his blacklisted years when all his work was at college concerts and the like.
I still think he is a hero. I heard on NPR today that he is the most recorded american artist of all time with 180 albums to his credit.
I remember buying a 45 of Cheech and Chong's "Basketball Jones," when I was prolly still a pre-teen. I forget the B side. Maybe "Sgt. Stedanko." While I don't think the lyrics/rap were real explicit, I'm now sort of surprised it flew with my parents.
lw
Amazing and fun thread 'fer sure. Pete Seeger at 'yer house :shock: ...How cool is that!!!???... My Dad had a pretty large collection of Jazz on '78's... That's where I first began 'hearing' about social issues such as poverty, racism, sexism, and the like... Question::: Did music propel and or direct anyones 'social consciousness in their 'early awareness years'??? (I'm with JRL in that I accept and agree that Folk has pretty much always done so) The first time I remember getting into a 'political/anti-war discussion' and citing something someone should listen to and think about, I suggested the guy listen to that 1st album by Paul Revere and the Raiders... Now, after all these years, I can not remember the name of the song, but to me, it was obviously anti-war and a swipe at the absurdities of US political powers and directions... Most folks easily caught on to something like "Eve of Destruction" etc, but if one had an ear, there was a fair amount of earlier stuff that was sounding the warning ....
I was raised by leftist folksingers. It goes way back before Barry McGuire(though Eve of Destruction still sounds topical) and continues on today.
The obvious root is Woody Guthrie, but he was schooled by people like Cisco Houston, who showed him how to organize at labor camps and get his head kicked in by company goons.
It continues: check out my dear friend and client Dave Lippman //http://www.Davelippman.com and labor singer Anne Feeny.//http://annefeeney.com/
"Raised by Leftist Folksingers" 8) --- I mean really now!! Where's it gonna end?? Why, If'n 'ole Joe McCarthy wuz here by gum...He'd sure enough take you to task... :lol:
At the moment I don't remember what my first was, though, I do remember listening to all of my father's 8-tracks in the Monte Carlo and 45s in the house. I haven't bought much of anything personally but it was most likely a CD.
My first 45 RPM was by harry Balefonte and it was Chiminey smoke and my second was the Everyly Brothers, Wake Up Little Suzie.
The first 78 RPM record I bought was Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel.
The first LP 33 RPM I bought was the soundtrack for the movie, The Ten Commandments. I had a gift ticket for the World Premier at the Mcvickers Theater in Chicago. I was 15,
boomer2
Later in the 1960s and 1970s I bought every English group ffrm the Beatles, stones, dave clark five, peter and gordon, chad and jeremy, Gerry adn the Pacemakers, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Hermans Hermits, the yardbyrds, and then all of the Haight Ashbuy and LA groups because I was there to see them all, over and over and over, live for abiut four years or so, a concert a night. In the Haight -Ashbury there were 7 concerts a night at $20 to $3.50 and three bands played form 8 pm til 2 am in the morn, and in between sets, guitarists from other groups playing at other theaters would come and jam with a group and then go back for their 2nd set. for instance, John Cippolina was 40 minutes late one night at the Avalon and Carlos Santana was there before he was suppose to play at the Carousel Ballroom so he got up on stage and played with Quicksilver for almost 30 minutes. Hendrix, Joplin, Airplane, Santana, It's a Beautiful Day,The Greatful Dead, It was awesome. many concerts were like that and usually a lot of free acid was passed around at those shows.
The LA groups like the Doors, Strawberry Alarm clock, even the Buffalo Springfield came tot he coast and 13th Flood Elevator from Texas. and the New York groups, Sex pistols, Lou Reed and the Velvet underground, David Bowie, Jim Kweskin and the Jug band. John Fahey, Steve Miller and Corky Segal from the Segal Schwall Blues band from Chicago. Bought all of their albums. Sorry did not mean to get off track. Dylan was awesome but he only really became famous after the Byrds, Cher, and other groups recorded his songs. He was more popular at coffee houses on the east coast and at protests than his records were at the time people became aware of him. Then Donovan, A lot of folk singers led to Dylan's beginnings.
But I went music crazy. I had to have everything I heard on the air.
Back then when a group made an album, every song on the album was a hit. Now today we have more one hit singers and one hit album people and then you never hear from them again.
I liked blue cheer and frigid pink, aldmond Joy before they became the Allman Brothers. Ten Years After. That is a group I have not heard in years.
My biggest music event in my life was a free press card to the Monterrey Pop Festival.
I was about two feet in front of the stage when Pete Townsend smashed his guitar with a screaming m------ F------. in front of face when my camera flashed on him.
Hey Dendro, I also bought Poor Boy and Raunchy, had the Venturas and Ramones California Sun.
boomer 2 again
I was in junior high (now known as "middle school" I guess) when portable CD players became suddenly very popular and I still remember the first two albums I bought because the store clerk (who had just sold my parents the CD player for me) had expressly warned my parents in regards to the PARENTAL ADVISORY warning label. The albums were "Use Your Illusion I & II" by Guns N' Roses.
I don't remember my first cassette, but I'm sure it was something embarrassing. Just as my first CD was: LL Cool J.
I can't remember the first tape that I bought. But I can remember the first 2 cd's I got for a birthday present from my aunt. They were the Meat Puppets 'Too High To Die' and Soundgarden 'Superunknown'.
Remember Your a Womble
Even back then as a kid I was concerned about the environment
:mrgreen: .
Heh. Ghostbusters soundtrack. Ray Parker, Jr. Yeah.
After rereading this thread, I'm so happy to note that someone else (Boomer) has had the pleasure of hearing Segal Schwall Blues Band... I bought a cassete of theirs within the first couple of months that cassetes were available.. Other than my small circle of conspirators, I've never known anyone else that listened to them... Great blues band imho.... Good on you Boomer....
My big bro brought the first Seigal Schwall record home.(like he did so many others, from Stevie Wonder to the Blues Magoos)
One or the other of them is touring doing blues-classical fusion(!)
Blues Magoos....! Ha, I got to hear them live doing a visit to the music shop that my mom bought my first drum set from.... That was a few years before I'd ever had the chance to hear a real concert....
My First single was The Everly Brothers, Bye, Bye, Love.
My second single was Harry Balafonte's Chiminey Smoke.
My first thre Haight-Ashbury Albumns were Wuickseilver messenger Service, Steve Miller's Children of the Future, and The Animals, Love - Is Double albumn.
4th and 5th album Haight-Ashbury/
It's a Beautiful Day and the Door's Strange Days.
mjshroomer