What is the first record/tape/cd that you bought??

[dendro]

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...

[dendro]

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...

[Glandmaster]

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
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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

[laughingwillow]

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

[senorsalvia]

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....

[laughingwillow]

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

[JRL]

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.

[laughingwillow]

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

[senorsalvia]

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 ....

[JRL]

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/

[senorsalvia]

"Raised by Leftist Folksingers" ---  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:

[Syd]

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.

[boomer2]

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

[caulfield]

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.

[Veracohr]

I don't remember my first cassette, but I'm sure it was something embarrassing. Just as my first CD was: LL Cool J.