1st Recording U-ever bought with your 'own' money?

[Lucidology]

Do you remember the first recording you ever mustered up the dough to buy on your own... ?
And if you do, does it still influence you to this day ..?

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My first purchase ever was West Side Story ...
It was before I ever bought a rock or soul music recording ...
& way before I ever picked up a guitar (I was 11 and a caddy on weekends & summers
at Cypress Point golf course helping to support the family ...
Every once in a while I'd get a few bucks back from my earnings to spend for myself)

Yet, to this day West Side Story remains, probably,
the most influential piece of music in my life,,.
Can sing along, by heart, with the whole score whenever I hear the music ...
(as they just did a montage on PBS and I was right there with every note ..)

Now, what about you ...?




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[michael30]

The first recording was a 45. Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love/Living Loving Maid

The first album was Black Sabbath: Master of Reality

Both huge influences to this day.

[wildschwein]

My 1st was Led Zep IV, which I got from a school fair for about $2 on LP. I went home and wore out the Stairway To Heaven solo section. I think I also wore out the grooves on Black Dog as well. I had other albums before this that I "borrowed" from my parent's collection, but LZ IV was the first I remember buying with my own cash. I just listened to it the other day - still a classic rock record.

[robelinda2]

Well, cant say my 1st purchase was anything other than embarrassing, Bananarama's WOW LP. Followed by Weird Al Yankovic's Fat, or maybe it was something by the Pet Shop Boys. Who wouldve figured I'd play guitar after that!

[Berlebster]

My first 45 was the Beatles : Day Tripper . I was 11, 12 ....Soon followed by
Good Vibrations. But my Big Step, my first Album with my "own" money was
the First LED ZEPPELIN which remains my favorite to this day. Along with the memory
of getting "experienced": it took my brain a week to cope with these incredible tones, after that i felt the need to get rid of my short pants, to stop building Heller airplanes ,& the need of girls being around. I guess it was the ultimate "rite de passage" as a teenager.

[ToneZappa]

"HOT RATS" by FRANK ZAPPA.........................
It has my name on it !!! (Dedicated to Dweezil, Bub and Gil) I bought it by mistake (a long story....) I had never heard FZ before but it turned out to be the best purchase I,ve ever made and yes I still play it.

[skinpimp]

HAHAHAHAHAHA... the first Album I bought with MY money (and I worked hard for it too man ) was POISON Flesh & Blood .. I think I was 9.... However I had a huge selection of killer Music from my dads collection that I wore out more than he did.... Still Do too.. all vinyl baby... But the poison record still inspiring??? No not so much .. HA At that age anything with a loud guitar reeled me in to listen...

[americananalog]

K-Tel : Masters of Metal compilation. (Maiden, Rush, Sabbath, Dio, etc.)
Saw the TV ad and it was the wickedest thing my 12 yr old eyes had ever seen. I bought it on cassette.

[wombat66]

Do you remember the first recording you ever mustered up the dough to buy on your own... ?
And if you do, does it still influence you to this day ..?

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My first purchase ever was West Side Story ...
It was before I ever bought a rock or soul music recording ...
& way before I ever picked up a guitar (I was 11 and a caddy on weekends
at Cypress Point golf course helping to support the family ...
Every once in a while I'd get a few bucks back from my earnings to spend for myself)

Yet, to this day West Side Story remains, probably,
the most influential piece of music in my life,,.
Can sing along, by heart, with the whole score whenever I hear the music ...
(as they just did a montage on PBS and I was right there with every note ..)

Now, what about you ...?




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cool choice, I grew up with the West Side Story soundtrack (stage version), my parents had it. Dad was really into Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis, mom liked The Weavers, Odetta and young Joan Baez, but they still collected broadway soundtracks and classical music.

My first personal LP purchase, "Having A Rave Up With The Yardbirds", 11 or 12 years old. My parents bought me my Beatles and Kinks records but for some reason I felt I couldn't ask for this one. Went to the shop with my mom who bought "Bringing It All Back Home" by Dylan for herself which I couldn't stand at the time, bought The Yardbirds with my allowance savings. Over the test of time, as much as I still love The Yardbirds, my mom had it right.

[trisonic]

My own money? Then it was "She Loves You" - the single - by The Beatles.

I'd already been enjoying my Dad's records of Django and Stefan Grappelli, Lionel Hampton etc., etc. I believe he thought I had gone mad! He came to enjoy them a little later though, The Beatles, I mean.

Best, Pete.

[Smakutus]

The first Elton John's Greatest Hits album..

Jeff

[rnm14]

My first record was The Joshua Tree by U2. I still remember that foggy day in autumn when I bought it and to this day it's one of my favourite albums.

[bluesjunior]

My first job was as a butchers delivery boy when I was 14 in 1964 and I bought the Kinks, You Really Got Me out of my first pay packet. It is long gone now but I still think what a great record it was and that is one of the great riffs of all time, Dan-Darra-Dan-Dat.

[FiveG]

Deja Vu, CSNY

[Teleman]

Twang the Thang - Duane Eddy
I had heard Rebel Rouser on the radio as a very young kid. Robbed the piggy bank and went otu a bought the LP.

[pfrischmann]

K-Tel : Masters of Metal compilation. (Maiden, Rush, Sabbath, Dio, etc.)
Saw the TV ad and it was the wickedest thing my 12 yr old eyes had ever seen. I bought it on cassette.

Dude...Me too.

[Groovey Records]

WSS? Broadway Musicals I should of known LOL

For me it was Meet The Beatles
Changed my life even when I was 7
Huge purchase with my whole allowance $2.99
He let me slide for the tax
I ended up working in that store when I was 11
Records Spectacular

Before that a 45 Joey D and the Starlighters - Peperment Twist

I said 1 2 3 kick 1 2 3 go!

[jota]

Megadeth - Youthanasia!

[PA Woody]

A 45 by the Beatles. Yesterday...flip side...Act Naturally. I was 8 or 9 at the time.

[GuitarsFromMars]

'Ball'-Iron Butterfly.

[Hamertoe]

I believe my first purchase with hard earned paper route money were a few 45's. "Venus" - Shocking Blue, "Red Rubber Ball"-The Cyrkle, Wouldn't it Be Nice"-Beach Boys. My first 2 albums a few years later was Zeppelin I and Black Sabbath's-self titled.

I dug this one too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI6ehZD-oC0

[rob2001]

First album Black Sabbath Vol. 4

First 45? Don't remember the artist or song name for sure.. "you put the lime in the coconut, call me in the morning"!!!

[zombywoof]

Probably the 45 rpm Beatles "She Loves You" on the Swan label.

As far as LPs would have been either "Introducing the Beatles" on Vee Jay or The Rolling Stones "12 X 5" on London.

The first stereo LP I ever bought was Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" - it cost a buck more than the mono version.

[matte]

history of eric clapton. it was between that and red/king crimson. 4th grade/jc penney/logan valley mall/altoona.

[Josh O]

Van Halen - 1984 on cassette.

[groutfulone]

Queen: We Are the Champions/We Will Rock You single. It still influences me.

[wingwalker]

The very first recording of any kind I ever bought was a He-Man story picture disc but with-in about a week or so I bought my first music recording...it was a tape copy of ZZ Top Tres Hombres!!! I was very young and my mother was not really excoted about it but my dad was a proud papa that day!

When I got a bit older I drifted away from music that was older than I am...after finding out about ZZ Top I moved on to other things that I heard in my dads record collectioin...Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Robin Trower, Mountian, Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac, Jeff Beck, etc but during highschool I got more into new music of the time, records that had been made since I was born but aobut 10 or so years ago I started going back to those old records...the writing was better, the playing was way better and the recordings themselves sounded better.

ZZ Top is w/o a doubt my favorite band and after 7 or 8 years of listening to modern rock, grunge, metal (of various styles) etc i've come full circle...I put on albums by Jeff Beck, Aerosmith, ZZ Top, etc then I started going back the other way and finding albums by Buddy Guy, the Kings, Albert Collins, etc...

So yea...that album still influnces me on a daily basis...it's an album I've had with me in one form or another for about 25 years now.

I've had 3 or maybe 4 tape copies, 3 album copies and Im on my second CD copy...just wore them all out!

[keninsyr]

The Beatles "Revolver" purchased at a grocery store in the neighborhood. I was 10 and I shoveled snow for $5.00 a month on my street. Still have it.

[Thwap]

The Beatles "Yesterday and Today", which ended up being one of the the "butcher" albums that had been recovered.

So not only did I get some great music, I made a tidy profit from it later.

[Jay Mitchell]

"Sergeant Pepper" in mono (stereo was a dollar more, and I didn't have the extra buck). Carried it home on my bike and listened to it for the rest of that day and that night. And a lot of days and nights since. Still have that LP.

My next two acquisitions were "Axis Bold as Love" and "Surrealistic Pillow," and I still have those records as well.

All three of the above still profoundly influence me.

[twinrider1]

Aerosmith Featuring Dream On. Birthday money. Back when Lazarus had a record section.
I was almost 6. My sister was 11 years older than me and I listened to her music.

Later, my mom bought the Stone's Some Girls for me. She told me not to let dad see it because of the cover art. He saw it and laughed.

[PRSOPHILE]

Steppenwolf Live

next was:

Steppenwolf Monster

[mikem]

"All Things Come From God"- by Tony Kosinec? in 1972-3. I was eight years old. I used to listen to the radio on my little transistor radio as I rode my bike around the neighbourhood. It had a kickass B-side called "Banging On A Nail"- fuzzed out acid rock. I wish I still had it.

Mike

[jeffh]

Led Zeppelin II when I was 10 years old. Second one was Rush "All The Worlds A Stage". Both HUGE influences to this day.

[musicman1]

Beatles...probably the blue, 2 record, 1967-1970 best of album...

[atalog]

Zeppelin IV & Aerosmith

[Hugh DaMann]

I bought 3 at the same time with money for my 10th birthday -- Paul McCartney and Wings' "Band on the Run", Elton John's "Caribou" and...gulp...John Denver's Greatest Hits.

[Dajbro]

Queen - The Game

[Tuberoast]

Abbey Road

[lcjc800]

"Share the Land" by The Guess Who
"Aqualung" by Jethro Tull
"Grand Funk Railroad Live" by GFR
all on the same day.

[elroostars]

Michael Jackson's Thriller, then Van Halen 1984...vinyl...

[shredtrash]

I bought The Beatles 1962-1966 double album and yes, it still influences me...a lot.

[2leod]

http://unbearablebobness.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/02/28/cover_large.jpg

and

http://www.headbanger.us/gallerie_b/bilder/black_sabbath_paranoid_front.jpg

I guess I was schizo even back then!

[diego]

I'm sure the first record was a 45 and I don't remember what it was, but the first album was Led Zeppelin II.

[franksguitar]

Beatles .45's Please Please Me & Want To Hold Your Hand on VeeJay and Capitol with my allowance money of 50 cents a week in 1964 and first LP was Strawberry Alarm Clock followed by 1st Hendrix album Are You Experienced

[J.H.]

The first single was: The Surfaris Wipeout. Surfer Joe was the B-side. The first LP was Tommy. I dig The Who to this day, and surf rock still rules in this house.
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr226/jhwkns_photos/dogphono.jpg

[DejavuDave]

Chicago II

[MarcJ]

I had an older sister who turned me on to alot of music, so I listened to her record collection alot. I guess the first music I bought was maybe the Who's Tommy or Meaty Beatty Big and Bouncy on cassette. I also remember my Mom driving me to the music store where I bought The Jimi Hendrix Soundtrack with money I had made mowing yards.

[scoob]

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee18/scoob_1969/cover_alive_med.jpg

Got my mom to drive me to Peaches Record store, and bought this when I was about 9 with money i had received for my birthday.

[bluesjuke]

Herman's Hermits "Henry the VIII"
follwed by "Babera Ann" Beach Boys.

45 RPM's.

[stevel]

Herman's Hermits "Henry the VIII"
follwed by "Babera Ann" Beach Boys.

45 RPM's.

The first single was "Back in Black" (yes, by AC/DC) and the first album - now here's a contrast - "ABBA's Greatest Hits".

I do remember having the Star Wars soundtrack album in 77, but it was a gift - not my own money, as was Neil Norman's Science Fiction Movie Theme Songs (forget the exact title, but I remember being pissed because it was all synth arrangements, not the original versions).

Steve

[henry_the_horse]

Pat Metheny's Bright Size Life (ECM, 1976).

Regards

[FlyingDutchman]

First CD I bought with my own money was Iron Maiden:Live After Death

First vinyl album I bought with my own money was Aerosmith:Permanent Vacation

First cassette I ever got was Men at Work:Cargo. Received it as a christmas gift. I remember my father buying me Motley Crue:Girls,Girls,Girls and Prince:Purple Rain. I have no idea what cassette was the first one I ever purchased with my own money. I did own a ton of cassettes over the years.

Edit* I think my first cassette purchase was a Whitney Houston tape that had the Greatest Love of All on it. Yikes..I remember she had a tight haircut on the front cover. While the kids across the street were cranking Van Halen on their boombox and playing street hockey I would put my boombox in the window and crank the greatest love of all to piss em off! Good stuff.

[tjmicsak]

First 45 Single- Liar by Three Dog Night
First Album- Deep Purple ~Made in Japan
First Album Won from a radio station- Bad Company ~Bad Company

[FlyingDutchman]

My first record was The Joshua Tree by U2. I still remember that foggy day in autumn when I bought it and to this day it's one of my favourite albums.


Was one of my first cassettes and I still remember listening to it a different times during my young life. Still have the cassette 20 years later as well as the cd and a Joshua tree Lithograph..I absolutely love that album and all the great memories that it brings to me when I listen to it.

[tjstrat]

"Inna Gadda Da Vida".

Then, Quicksilver's "Shady Grove"

[JSeth]

"Walk, Don't Run" by the Ventures.... around '59 or '60, I think... I had other 45's but I think that was the one I bought with my own money...
Hadn't really thought of it til the thread's question... am I still influenced by it? Yes, most certainly.... still love the sound of a twangy electric guitar and instrumental music is a deep love of mine, even though I mostly write songs with lyrics (song-songs, as a friend/mentor/dean's list grad of Berklee used to say - as opposed to "songs", intrumental pieces...LOL!).
Nice thread Joseph, good to remember where and when and how it all started... BTW, I had been playing (at) the guitar for several years by the time the song came out...

Now, what was the FIRST song you learned on the guitar? Oops! That's be another thread, wouldn't it?

[Born2Blues67]

I don't remember the exact record,but it had to be KISS.

Flame me all you want.

:hide

[TwoTubMan]

45-"Puff The Magic Dragon" Peter Paul and Mary
LP-"Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" Iron Butterfly

[JSeth]

oh yeah, I forgot! The very first LP that I bought was Dick Dale and the Deltones, the one with Miserlou and Let's Go Trippin'!!!!

[Kentano2000]

Mine very well may have been "Shadow Dancin'" by Andy Gibb:eek:.

[franksguitar]

What is really interesting observation about this thread is that just by what first songs everyone bought and the era when they were bought which determines the persons approximate age of the listener and as a guitarist most likely shaped their musical tastes likes and dislikes early on and may have evolved later. Older player like myself delved in early 60's British Invasion and some psychedlic stuff in the beginning since I was born in early 50's but generated to other stuff through the years. You then get guys born a generation later who's influences that came out of the 70's and so on and so on.

[A-Bone]

The first time I remember going out to buy albums on my own, I purchased Paranoid by Black Sabbath, Frontiers by Journey, and Kilroy was Here by Styx.

I still respect the first one, but the other two are varying levels of embarrassing. I also didn't start playing guitar for another five years from these purchases, and by then had much, much better musical taste.

[MarcJ]

Herman's Hermits "Henry the VIII"
follwed by "Babera Ann" Beach Boys.

45 RPM's.

I actually saw Herman's Hermits in concert. They played a football stadium in Charlotte, NC. My Dad took my older sister and some of her friends and my younger sister and I tagged along. I guess that was in '65 or '66.

[lanny]

The first DEVO album, around 1978 or so. It made me pine for a Tele from that point on.

[Chuck Snider]

Steely Dan " Can't Buy A Thrill"

Not really a influence just one of the songs on that album was getting heavy airplay and I liked it.. Rode my bike about 14 miles to a record store called Liquorice pizza to buy it;)

Best and most inspiring album I rode there to buy was Jeff Beck Live W/Jan Hammer:D

[Scott K]

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

[lhallam]

1st 45 = "The Monster Mash" - it was a graveyard smash

1st lp = "Fresh Cream"

[dets1]

it was either " workingmans dead" or "ginger bakers air force live". workingmans is my favorite album to this day.

[Ulysses]

"Harry The Harry Ape" was the first 45 rpm. First LP was "IntroducingThe Beatles" on VEE JAY records.

[doublee]

Love Me Do 45 payed for with 97...pennies.

[kingsleyd]

British pressing of the second Rolling Stones album.

[Lucidology]

Luv the stories of young folk traveling on their bikes or whatever,
to buy their first personal choice of music with their very own money ...

Somewhat of musical life passage 'eh ...

[mcknigs]

First 45 - Dionne Warwick - "I"ll Never Fall In Love Again."

First album - "101 Strings play Henry Mancini's Greatest Hits."

I was probably 9 and 10 respectively.

-Scott

[Ian Anderson]

Soundtrack to Star Wars. I was a total Star Wars freak when I was a kid. Probably around 1980. Shortly thereafter I bought Rush Moving Pictures.

[henry_the_horse]

oh yeah, I forgot! The very first LP that I bought was Dick Dale and the Deltones, the one with Miserlou and Let's Go Trippin'!!!!
That must have been Dick Dale and the Deltones' Greatest Hits from 1975, because Surfer's Choise from 1962 didn't have "Mirserlou" but a similar song called "Miserlou Twist".

Regards

[getbent]

the ugly bug ball (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-vzp3PW_5w)

I bought the 45 of this song... it has a cool steel guitar part on the record... gotta love Burl Ives... I was like 5...

[aeolian]

Would've been Beatles 65. For some reason I didn't buy another album with my own money until the Beatles White Album and LZ1. Friends had the various Cream and Hendrix records I listened to around that time. I picked up a few 45's at rummage sales of various things. But it was high school before I started to really buy records on my own.

[jazzandmetal?]

Michael Jackson - Bad :banana

[DaveF]

The ghostbusters soundtrack.

haha

[bwc3000]

First 45..."Hurts So Good" by John Cougar Mellencamp
First records...Go West by the Village People and Working Class Dog by Rick Springfield
First cassette...Synchronicity by The Police

My favorite record as a kid, aside from my Marvel Comics book and record sets, was a K-Tel compilation called Radioactive with hits by the Go-Go's, The Police, Genesis, Styx, Hall & Oates, The Who, and Rick James...I still have that record somewhere...!

[Jade]

Joan Jett's "I love Rock N Roll", and J Geils Band "Freeze Frame" First two things I ever bought with Paper Route money.

Jade

[Garbanzoman]

Wow. That's going back a ways. It was either...no joke... "The Cowsills in Concert".

Or "Iron Butterfly, In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida".

I'm pretty sure it was the Cowsills.

[bluesjuke]

the ugly bug ball (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-vzp3PW_5w)

... gotta love Burl Ives... ...


If he was alive today he'd be posting in the "Should Hemp be Legal?" thread.

[Ed Packer]

45: Nine More Miles (the faster faster song)
33 1/3: Doing the Twist at the Peppermint Lounge - Joey Dee and the Starlighters

[plagtr2]

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/Large/39/76639.jpg

Still a fan!:dude

[BluesForDan]

although I listened to many 45s, I do not believe I ever actually purchases any. My first album, which I got for Christmas was Don McClean's 'American Pie'. The first album I bought was Grand Funk Railroad's 'Phoenix'. I'm hard pressed to say whether I'm influenced by it or not in my guitar playing, and I've been wanting to listen to it again since it has been 20 years or more since I've last heard it.

It might be out on cd, but unless some diligent care was made with the transfer, I'm disinclined to get it unless I know it was done right. Too many old lps that were transferred to cd from multiple generation tapes have soured me on obtaining old lps that were not 'huge' hits. I refuse to dishonor the great sound of 'Phoenix' with a shabby cd.

I still have my original vinyl of that album, and it will probably be the first lp I play when I get a turntable setup going again.

[mcgriff420]

My first album was 'Kiss'

'Lick it Up' followed by

'Creatures of the Night'

I was a left-over product of my parents generation..

But if t wasn't for them I wouldn't have stumbled onto LED ZEPPELIN OR PINK FLOYD... I may have been relegated to a life of Metallica and Slayer.... don't judge me on those merits...

[KRosser]

Abbey Road by The Beatles, when it had just come out.

[dzo]

Disco Party featuring The Night Chicago Died and Don't Rock the Boat. :hide

[Bryan T]

Metallica - Metallica

[TD_Madden]

Gary Lewis and the Playboys album "In Session" (1965)....included "Count Me In" and a number of covers.

I still play a few of them.

[Jahn]

Dave Brubeck - Time Out. Still love that album. But NOT with my own money? I believe it was Pac Man Fever, and soon afterwards Dare to be Stupid. My folks got me some silly albums based on my silly requests! Seven years after Pac Man I made enough cash for my own purchases, thus the Jazz thing - and my first CD ever was in 1987, it was New Order - Substance. Blew my mind.

[nnick]

The first one I paid for was The Clash - Combat Rock

[clothwiring]

Samantha Fox!!!!

Now to recover from my fall from grace here the next were 2 Pink Floyd albums. Momentary Lapse of Reason and I believe A Collection of Great Dance Songs.

[clothwiring]

Rush's Counterparts was my first CD I purchased.

[mprvise]

All in the same week I believe.

Aerosmith - Rocks

Kiss - Rock N Roll Over

Led Zep II - I remember this one specifically because I rode my bike downtown to buy it, and had a near head on colision with another bike rider on the way home and ended up hitting a pole. The other guy asked if I was alright, but all I cared about was that the record wasn't broken. When I went to get back on my bike the forks were bent so bad the wheel wouldn't turn. :messedup

[Bussman]

Album :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fc/Rock_and_roll_over_cover.jpg/200px-Rock_and_roll_over_cover.jpg

Single:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/14/Hot_Stuff_%28Italy%29.jpg/200px-Hot_Stuff_%28Italy%29.jpg

Don't laugh, Skunk Baxter plays on that one!

[mdog114]

Hey Jude/Revolution single with the Green Apple cut in half as the center label.

Great single!

[HeyMrTeleMan]

"Sherry" by the Four Seasons

I bought the 45, my sister stole it, took it to a party, sat on it and it broke. I never forgave her for it. She ruined my life...:rotflmao

[geekocaster]

it was either Billy Joel "Glass Houses" or Hall and Oates "voices" I also remember buying Men @ Work - all of these on cassette

[JDW3]

KISS ALIVE!!!!!


On 8 track! Then the album.

[Flyin' Brian]

First Single: Elvis Presley "All Shook Up" on a 78.
First 4 LPs: The Ventures "Walk Don't Run", Duane Eddy The Twang's the Thang, Chet Atkins "Workshop" and Johnny Smith "Designed For You".

[mvd18969]

First album.......SWEET - Desolation Boulevard (still have it!)

[chrisr777]

I don't honestly know which was first. I still have some of them, like 45's with picture sleeves by the Beatles, Beach Boys and the Dave Clark Five. I'm pretty sure the first album was the first Monkees record. And yes, they all influence me in some way (even the Monkees).

[voodoochile]

Kiss Alive II had just come out... and I was deciding between that and the Star Wars soundtrack.

[Red Suede]

With my own money either "Led Zeppelin III" or "Family Affair"' Sly and the Family Stone.

[wire 247]

Kiss- Rock and Roll Over

[Rick51]

Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven

As fascinating today as it was 45 years ago.

[Deacon]

My first 45

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
"Dancing In The Streets"

[westchesterdave]

My first 45: Paperback Writer / Rain
My first LP: Disraeli Gears

[mkl13]

Foreigner: Double Vision

[Lucidology]

Amazing how many Beatles 1st purchases there are ...

[Dusty Rhodes]

Cream - Wheels of Fire

[Steve Foley]

Don't laugh -
78's "Jesse James" - I don't recall the artist - might have been Flatt & Scruggs; I was but a wee tot. I think that one started the rebel pattern.....
45's: Supremes - "Love Child"
1910 Fruit Gum Co. - "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy"

33 1/3's: Iron Butterfly "Inna Gadda Da Vida" (I used to play my little Silvertone guitar and amp on the patio full-blast along with the record player, which I'd drag out there to play along with - I thought my neighbors probably thought they were the luckiest in the world, to be blessed with my sharing...... :rotflmao
Vanilla Fudge "You Don't Really Love Me" (I'm not sure if that was the title of the album, but it's why I bought it)
Woodstock was in there, somewhere. My folks wouldn't let me go see the movie, but I had the record :D
TJ and the Shondelles - "Crimson & Clover"

El Steve-0

[jzucker]

Hendrix in the West

[BR532]

Friday on my Mind - The Easybeats

[JDW3]

although I listened to many 45s, I do not believe I ever actually purchases any. My first album, which I got for Christmas was Don McClean's 'American Pie'. The first album I bought was Grand Funk Railroad's 'Phoenix'. I'm hard pressed to say whether I'm influenced by it or not in my guitar playing, and I've been wanting to listen to it again since it has been 20 years or more since I've last heard it.

It might be out on cd, but unless some diligent care was made with the transfer, I'm disinclined to get it unless I know it was done right. Too many old lps that were transferred to cd from multiple generation tapes have soured me on obtaining old lps that were not 'huge' hits. I refuse to dishonor the great sound of 'Phoenix' with a shabby cd.

I still have my original vinyl of that album, and it will probably be the first lp I play when I get a turntable setup going again.



I do believe the entire GFR catalog has been remastered. I have 2 of the discs and they sound killer. The guy in charge was a fan, so the story goes. Very good stuff.

[mr coffee]

I can see for miles... the who first 45
meet the beatles Lp

first know purchase out of MY pocket ledzep... zozo

[mischultz]

"I Love Rock and Roll" on 45.

[scottregardie]

Hendrix in the West

same here

[grego7]

1st record bought was Blues Brother "Soul Man" 45 with "Excusez Moi, Mon Cherie" on the B side (how in the hell did I remember that?!)

1st full album was Styx "Paradise Theater" from the Bag and Save supermarket - I think I was 9 or 10.

[Dave B]

I believe it was Three Dog Night's 'Suitable For Framing'. I guess I was about 8, and my dad had their earlier albums on 8 track. Looking back, not my favorite album of theirs, but I would take one of their other LPs with me when assembling an all-time Top 10. Their main vocals, and respective harmonies, still do it for me.

[Guitar Slinger6]

My first was KISS "Destroyer", not ideal but honest.

[jbird327]

A 45 - Rag Doll by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

[pete kanaras]

junior wells' "it's my life baby"

[harryjmic]

Concert for Bangaledesh

[lamf]

credence clearwater Cosmos Factory

[haymaker]

Pink Floyd's Animals

[PosterBoy]

I remember asking for and getting Girl talk by Dave Edmunds, but bought with my actual money was Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners

[Phil M]

"Mechanical Resonance" cassette by Tesla when I was 14 ('86 or '87). Paper route money...

[jetydosa]

I bought "Renegade" on 45 when it was out. 81-83? I cant remember. I never had that many albums, but I bought Van Halen 1984 on cassette, not long after it came out.

I remember the first CD I bought was Van Halen 1. I think that was 85 or 86? I was the first person I knew of that had a CD player and I bought it at a hi-fi store in the mall that only had maybe 20-30 CDs. I remember the sales guy commented on it by saying, "Runnin with the devil" when he handed me the bag. LOL

[tele_jas]

In 1986-ish, I bought my two first "recordings" at the same time with my allowance...I was 14 years old at the time.

# 1 - Cinderella - Night Songs (on record)
# 2 - Whitesnake - Whitesnake (on cassette tape)

It was a TOUGH toss up between Poison's "Look What the Cat Dragged In" and the Whitesnake cassette, but I liked the guitar tone and playing better on the Whitesnake song I heard on the radio at the time.

[geetarboy]

Back in Black in sixth grade. I blame it directly for my troubled teenage years.

[LavaMan]

Rush - with the big explosion on the cover. Absolutely still influenced by it...bought in 1978...

[Mike Duncan]

Whatever that Monkees album was in '86-ish.

[halorealm7]

Sweet--Desolation Boulevard

[scottlr]

1st 45 was Big Girls Don't Cry - The 4 Seasons (1962)
1st LP was Meet The Beatles (1963)

[BergerMeister]

First record: Kiss - Destroyer. Does it still influence me much? Not really - never was inspired to play like them, but when I hear it now, there's that touch of nostalgia.

Second record: Rush - A Farewell To Kings. Still influences me GREATLY. Still play it a lot too.

[Kingbeegtrs]

Beastie Boys Liscense to Ill - 5th grade, cassette.

[puckhead]

Men At Work - Business As Usual. 1980, I was 10.

My dad said "that's crap, why don't you buy some ooold stuff". :argue
So I went out and bought Judas Priest's "Sin After Sin". See dad, it's from 1974!
:RoCkIn:RoCkIn

[hottub]

Kiss - Destroyer!

[Scottone]

With my own money....The Who "Live at Leeds"

[Elmer]

Wow, the first album I bought with my own cash seems to be a popular choice -

Kiss - Destroyer

:dude

I still have it, although I haven't listened to it in years.

[Hootad Binky]

Three Dog Night

[Loni Specter]

"Papa Oo Mow Mow" a 45 by the Rivingtons.

[gibsonman1006]

Grand Funk Railroad - Live Album

Recorded at Atlanta Pop Festival, 1970

[Lotis]

An RCA 78RPM of "Hound Dog" and Guy Mitchell "Singin' The Blues" at the same time. A Looooooooooooong time ago.....

[m.z.]

It was a 45........ I believe it had pink floyds another brick in the wall on one side and charlie daniels band devil went down to georgia on the other.......

[54GT]

Wheels of Fire - Cream

[Lucidology]

Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven

As fascinating today as it was 45 years ago.

Curious to how old were you when you bought it ...?

[dunara]

I was 12 years old - how could you resist a cover like this - even now?
http://therisingstorm.net/audio/electricwarrior.jpg

[violetlove]

I'm trying to think, and I honestly don't know. I do remember that I used to tape stuff from the radio and listened to whatever my older siblings had.
I'm thinking Dire Staits self titled first album may have been the first LP I bought. I never really bought singles.
It may also have been Dark Side of the Moon, Bat Out of Hell or Rocky Horror Picture Show, though I don't think so. Maybe an Angels record like No Exit too ??
Definitely influenced by all the choices there, and I still play them all regularly.

[SHM]

Just one night, Eric Clapton

[SmilingDave]

I remember riding my bike about 7 miles each way to buy "Little Queen" by Heart. Still a great album!

[mikem]

First album.......SWEET - Desolation Boulevard (still have it!)

That was the first album I went out and bought- still listen to it.

Mike

[Suproman77]

For me, I believe it was when I went halfs with my brother to buy the Led Zeppelin Complete Studio Recordings boxset. I didn't really know anything about the band at that time, but he was insistent that we buy this, so I went along with it. Little did I know that it would change my life...that's basically what started it all for me.

[mikem]

Wow, the first album I bought with my own cash seems to be a popular choice -

Kiss - Destroyer

:dude

I still have it, although I haven't listened to it in years.

This was the second LP I bought. I've listened to it recently, but I can't really say that it's held up for me. I still like Detroit Rock City.

Mike

[RobT]

My first 45 I bought with my allowance money and it was " The Ballad of Davy Crockett" by Fess Parker...geez I can still remember some of the lyrics today.
My first 45 I purchased with money from my first job...a paper route was the "Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" by Gen Pitney...another one that I can still remember a fair amount of the lyrics.
My first LP was "Meet the Beatles" Again my paper route.

[lawrencedesigns]

"$1,000,000 Worth of Twang" by Duane Eddy. I didn't yet play guitar, but I guess the universe knew which way I was going to go.
That album was probably followed by "England's Newest Hitmakers" by the Rolling Stones...

[bluesjuke]

My first LP was "Meet the Beatles" Again my paper route.

My first LP too but it was bought by my grandmother.
I could only manage to cough up the 45 cents for 45's at that time.

[splatt]

i grew up in a house filled with music:
leonard bernstein, kurt weill, wes montgomery, andré previn,
chopin, debussy, satie, j.s bach,
a very heavy dose of everything from both motown & philly,
ravi shankar & alla rakha, &
the multitude of reference "percussion" lp's
that my dad needed in order to test his current "hi-fi" amplifier designs.

i can't remember the first recordings i bought
for myself.
but, essentially, the most important recordings for me
were included in a gift from my dad.
the package included:
wes montgomery: a day in the life (arr, by don sebesky)
the doors: strange days
led zeppelin
jimi hendrix: axis: bold as love
manitas de plata: flamenco guitar
jimmy smith & wes montgomery: the dynamic duo
johnny winter
super session
leonard bernstein: symphonic dances from west side story

dt / spltrcl

[DANOCASTER]

The Osmond Bros !! ( "Down By The Lazy River !!" )

OK.. there, you made me say it - you happy now ??

[bowie3141]

definately The Beatles and i remember cutting grass for .75 an hr in 1965 to get it...man how time flies!!!

[aps]

First album I purchased was Nirvana's "In Utero"

Yea I'm young


APS

[John H]

The first LP I bought was "Meet the Beatles", in 1964 (I was in 6th grade). I think the first 45 I bought was either "Purple People Eater" or "Beep, Beep" (or, maybe, The Chipmunks).

[xk49w]

There may have been earlier ones, but the first one I remember buying was Axis Bold as Love - Woolworth's, about $3.25.

[Jbrax]

Aerosmith Live boot leg I was 9

[JoeDeCologne]

It was a single 45 - "Trambone" by The Krew Kats (Big Jim Sullivan on lead) around 1960. Still love it along with all those great UK guitar instrumentals of that era

[Lucidology]

i grew up in a house filled with music:
leonard bernstein, kurt weill, wes montgomery, andré previn,
chopin, debussy, satie, j.s bach,
a very heavy dose of everything from both motown & philly,
ravi shankar & alla rakha, &
the multitude of reference "percussion" lp's
that my dad needed in order to test his current "hi-fi" amplifier designs.

i can't remember the first recordings i bought
for myself.
but, essentially, the most important recordings for me
were included in a gift from my dad.
the package included:
wes montgomery: a day in the life (arr, by don sebesky)
the doors: strange days
led zeppelin
jimi hendrix: axis: bold as love
manitas de plata: flamenco guitar
jimmy smith & wes montgomery: the dynamic duo
johnny winter
super session
leonard bernstein: symphonic dances from west side story

dt / spltrcl

Wow ... just wow and a how wonderful ...
What a great dad indeed ...

[xk49w]

Wow ... just wow and a how wonderful ...
What a great dad indeed ...Exactly. I should have been a dad like that. Oh well.

[jbert]

dylan's 'like a rolling stone' 45rpm. first lp stone's 'out of their heads'. both from woolworth's. road my bike through 3 ft of snow to get the dylan single. worth it!

[Rick51]

Curious to how old were you when you bought it ...?

Ten years old. That would make it 1961. I saw a story on Miles in Time magazine (or Life, maybe). Epic solo journey to the record store, 2 miles walking plus a really cool trolley ride, cost a nickel each way. Picked the album at random from a bunch they had.

I played that album over and over. My mother would ask me to please play something else, why doesn't he play a tune, it sounds like he's just practicing. And I'm in the room, ten years old, in the zone. Rapt.

I'm putting that album on right now. Seven steps to Heaven.

Thanks for asking, Joe.

[roomservice]

First album was Genesis - Lamb Lies Down On Broadway in 1974 - I was 7.

First single was All Night Long by Rainbow in early 1980

[reno88]

the first record i bought was the 45 rpm of loggins & messina "your mama don't dance (and your daddy don't rock and roll)". i bought it from the record store in metcalf south shopping center in overland park, ks in '72 (?). i originally went to purchase dr hook's "cover of the rolling stone", but it was sold out. my dad fussed at me stating the money "burned a hole in my pocket". i was 8 years old.

[jumpnblues]

Duane Eddy album with "Rebel Rouser" and "Peter Gunn" on it.


Tom

[enrv]

The first LP I bought was Fresh Cream (1966). I think I bought it soon after it came out; I was 11 in 1966.

The first cassette tape was Tapestry (1971). I had a Phillips portable cassette player and remember being at a holiday camp somewhere on the south coast (England) and carrying it everywhere with me. Had a little bit of a crush on Carole King... :love:

Ian

[dharmafool]

I don't recall for certain, but my first LP purchase might have been Beatles '65 in 1965. I bought it at a Rexall drug store.

[wlalpaugh]

Disraeli Gears (Cream) Bought it in the 60's (not sure of the year - those days were very fuzzy for me) bought on 8 track , I was 16 or 17 I believe, that would make it 1966 or 1967 ? not sure
Walt

[splatt]

Wow ... just wow and a how wonderful ...
What a great dad indeed ...
yes, he is!
my dad is a strange
and amazing human being.....
..... as is my mom.
dt / spltrcl

[tophatdad]

First purchase was She Loves You/I'll Get You and a couple of months later, my first LP purchase was Something New - mono!

Best,
Mike

[Kingpin]

First single: Montego Bay...

First L.P.: Let It Be

[bostonwal]

Rush "Moving Pictures" Whoo-hoo! (First bass line learned: Tom Sawyer)

[bostonwal]

Duane Eddy album with "Rebel Rouser" and "Peter Gunn" on it.


Tom

God, we used to crank my Dad's 45 of Duane Eddy's "Rebel Rouser" all the time! That was my favorite song until I was about 12 and getting into "my generation's" music.

[bostonwal]

Rush - with the big explosion on the cover. Absolutely still influenced by it...bought in 1978...

Yeah!!!

[Blues Lyne]

First 45 - Barry Manilow Could It Be Magic

:hide

Hey, it was junior high. Pre-guitar. I was playing piano and it had piano and Chopin. Aww, nevermind.

[Lightningrt]

Led Zeppelin 3. Still my favourite album ever. Bought in January 1978 at the grand old age of 14.

[teleamp]

Blood, Sweat, & Tears "DOA"

[andyland6]

Blood Sweat and Tears. The Hi-de-ho tune...

[Prodigy]

Digital Underground - Sex Packets

[Lucidology]

Blood, Sweat, & Tears "DOA"

Blood Sweat and Tears. The Hi-de-ho tune...

:agree

They get such a bad rap sometimes..
Good to see them mentioned here ...

I too Luved B, S, & T when I was a kid ...

[datguytim]

Elton John - Crocodile Rock 7" single

[jazzbasta]

http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/artists/images/FredaPayne.jpg

Freda Payne's BAND OF GOLD. (Yowza! She's a good looking 60+...)

[SoCalSteve]

I think it was probably The Partridge Family's debut album (looks down in shame).

But I'm pretty sure Layla was the first 45 rpm I bought (redeems self).

[TimBascom]

Jimmy Smith's "Organ Grinders Swing".

[tremayne007]

Dead Kennedy's Frankenchrist.

what? I cant help it that the beginning of my financial independance happened to coincide with me entering my rebellious phase...

besides, East Bay Ray is one of few true punk guitarists to take legitimate solos...

[OOG]

don't remember the first one with my own money
but when i was 5 and heard Be-Bop-A-Lula on the radio
i bugged the crap out of my parents 'till they bought it for me

didn't have anything to play it on
but i had my own little piece of Rock-n-Roll in my hot little hands
and it meant the world to me

[sinasl1]

I have a good story about this- it was Supertramp "Breakfast in America"... I still have that copy... and recently I got to perform "Two Of Us" by The Beatles with Roger Hodgson on French TV. It's here:

http://www.mytaratata.com/Pages/VIDEO_page_video.aspx?sig=iLyROoafYxP6

So that was a thrill. I told him that the first record I bought was one of his and he just laughed, he was a nice guy.

[Jazzydave]

Michael Jackson - Thriller. One of the greatest pop albums of all time...

[Rumblefish]

Yardbirds "Over Under Sideways Down". The 45.

[Fingers]

I still clearly remember my first record purchase with my own money -- the 45 of "All Shook Up" by Elvis, 1957. I loved that old RCA label with the dog.

[ChickenLover]

I can't remember but it may have been...the 45 of Kung Fu Fighting. I'm not kidding.:dunno

[The Golden Boy]

The first record I bought was a 45 of the Star Wars theme.

The first rock record I bought was the 45 of Styx' "Renegade."

The first album I bought was Get The Knack, my Mom made me take it back- you know those rock and rollers... The first one I took home and got to keep was John Lennon's Double Fantasy- although my Mom wasn't happy about it.

[TommyMambo]

Beatles "Revolver"

[guitonit]

Def Leppard, Pyromania.

[sfarnell]

My parents had bought records by the Beatles and Bob Dylan for me, but the first album I bought was "The Doors." Back then, both monural and stereo records were available. For some stupid reason, I bought monural. I still have it.

[Franklin]

Pink Flyod's "The Wall" on 8-track! :)

[Faustine Amps]

The first album I bought would have been about 1970 or '71. It was definitely a Grand Funk album. I think it was the red "Grand Funk" album or "On Time". Shortly after that I bought Santana "Abraxas" and a Jimi Hendrix Experience "Greatest Hits" album. Also bought a James Gang album. I don't remember the order of those last three. I had only been playing guitar for about 2 years but those albums were really inspiring at the time. The first guitar solos I learned note for note were from the Grand Funk stuff. Wow... tripping through the "way back machine".

Regards,
Tim Gregoire

[leper messiah]

http://www.metallibrary.ru/bands/discographies/images/iron_maiden/pictures/86_somewhere_in_time.jpg

[musicofanatic5]

Another old guy here. A 45 of Watermelon Man by Mongo Santamaria. Don't remember what was on the flip side.

[webs]

Isaac Stern, My First 79 Years
Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue

Still have the receipt somewhere, I think.

[frmorales52]

A 45 rpm record of "Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison.

It was new.

[illini]

Def Leppard Pyromania

[ChazMania]

Kiss Alive 1- double LP. Still rock to it every now and then!

[AlChuck]

Mine was this Batman album:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/02/sun_ra_and_the_.html

http://blog.wfmu.org/photos/uncategorized/sunrabatman_2.jpg

[illini]

I have a good story about this- it was Supertramp "Breakfast in America"... I still have that copy... and recently I got to perform "Two Of Us" by The Beatles with Roger Hodgson on French TV. It's here:

http://www.mytaratata.com/Pages/VIDEO_page_video.aspx?sig=iLyROoafYxP6

So that was a thrill. I told him that the first record I bought was one of his and he just laughed, he was a nice guy.

"Breakfast In America" is one of my favorite all time tunes. About a year ago my band started playing it on occasions. Not an easy tune to pull off. :D

[jtwang]

http://www.gibson.com/Files/aaFeaturesImages/Van%20Halen%201984.jpg

[HeyMrTeleMan]

The Four Seasons were my first foray into the purchased music world, and I bought the smash hit (more on that later), "Sherry", cause it was just so right. I wished I could sing way up high like Frankie Valli! He (and high singing guys like him) were the height of cool back then (think Smokey Robinson).

My sister (with a lower case "s") TOOK my vinyl to a party she went to that night and did not bring the record home (but I bet she set a record with the boys that night [Oh! Oh! Yeah, I'm way outta line here! :Spank]). When I asked what she did with my record, she said someone sat on it and smashed it at the party. She didn't apologize OR replace the record. (BTW-I think I paid $.79 for it back in 1962.) So much for smash hits!:D

BTW-I still have not forgiven her, because it amuses me to hold this grudge. She will pay and pay and pay for that day...

Oh, and big girls do cry.

HMTM

[Yngtchie]

The summer of 1994. I was 9, and I bought The Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge on cassette. I listened to it almost every day that summer, and I memorized the lyrics as well. I still love that album.