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I don't remember much, but I remember......

Not sure about you guys but it seems to me that things are getting a little tense here again and we need to have a little bit of fun! I was enjoying an evening of listening to my rig and then I saw it...my first CD(sorry guys too young for LP's!). I remember everything about the day I got it, the weather, the time, where it was purchase, even the price! The CD was U2's "Achtung Baby" I put the CD in(I have not listened to it in years)and was brought back to a time not too long ago when things seemed.....well, simpler. Then I got to think what a profound impact that one event had on my life, the joy of music. Does anyone else remember there first CD or LP? did it have as much of an impact on you as mine had on me?
tireguy
adsal7e18
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frogman
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The first record of my very own was a 45 of "Sugar" by The Archies that came free in a box of Applejacks, I was nine; that was played on an Army green Sears stereo with detachable speakers and a handle.

My first record of music was Benny Goodman's Brussels concert, that I "forgot to return" to my best friend's father. On that record Benny plays "Poor Butterfly", the first jazz solo that I ever learned. When I listen to that record today, that particular band is almost unplayable, I played it that many times on the Sears.

The first record that I paid money for was The Allman's Brother's "Live At The Fillmore East". Wish I still had it.

Nice thread.
rgd
656 posts
 
First album received was a K-Tel 33 1/3(Canadian co. who produced compilations of top 100 songs) - wore it out on my parent's Electrohome console stereo. First album purchased with paper route money was Black Sabbath's Paranoid... After the first 30 seconds my Dad advised me that it was only to be played when he was out of the house! Funny thing is I do enjoy hearing the cuts again but can't take the whole thing at one time. Sinatra on the other hand can play all day long... the apple actually (within time) doesn't fall very far from the tree...
creeper
251 posts
 
My first record was a 45 of Patsy Cline - "I Fall to Pieces". It was 1977. I was 8 and played it on my first stereo, a Garrard suitcase type portable record player with two detachable swing-out speakers.

My first full LP was the soundtrack to "2001: A Space Odyssey" remastered into quadrophonic to replace the my father's two-channel version. It was 1979. My father's rig was a Fisher Quadrophonic system with four HUGE 4-ways and power-o-plenty. It boogied.
stereokarter
185 posts
 
It was in Ottawa, Ontario and I bought Buffy Saint marie's first album...it awed me with the mouth-bow instrument that she played...along with her "In Piney Wood Hills" song!

Followed that by Donovan "Catch The Wind"...Eric Burden & The Animals"...and so many more...
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