First Time

Quail Whale · Post by **Quail Whale** » Friday Mar 03, 2006

I was just sitting here listening to Calling Doctor Love thinking "This is the first song I ever owned." I still have the Kiss cassette anyway, but I haven't tried to play it in a long time...I was 6 years old when I got it. The only reason I liked it is because Peter Criss looked like a cat, and I liked cats hahaha. Anyway, it made me wonder what everyone elses first owned album/cassette/8 Track/CD was, and what your memory is now when you listen to them.

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

The first 45 I ever purchased was "Tragedy" by the Bee Gees. Still have it and all my other 45s and 33s.

r:>)

SavageHeart · Post by **SavageHeart** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

The first album I remember buying was a K-Tel album!!! I remember that it had Frank Zappa on it. I still love listening to it and yes....still have it!!!

Baceman Spiff · Post by **Baceman Spiff** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

Nazzereth Hair of The Dog. I was four. But I remeber jammin out to the 8track over and over. I love it to this day. Ms MIsery!

Post by **Jim Price** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

Some JP "firsts:"

First 45 RPM record purchased: "American Pie" by Don McLean. The song was 8 minutes long, so they split the song up on the A and B sides, which sucked!

First album I ever owned: Madman Across the Water by Elton John. I asked for it as a birthday gift, because I thought the title song was actually "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" by Paul McCartney (I was only 11 or 12 at the time and was new to rock'n'roll). Obviously that song wasn't on the album, but I took a liking to "Tiny Dancer," "Levon," the title song "Madman Across the Water," and "Rotten Peaches." I got rid of the album when I was in college, but I plan to buy it again sometime soon.

First album I ever bought with my own money: Led Zeppelin's fourth album, with "Stairway to Heaven" on it. I still have the original copy. It was made out of sturdy vinyl, too, and has weathered the years well - it is still in playable shape!

First album I ever won off a radio station: Slayed? by Slade, which I won from a blind deejay, Hap Ritchey, on WVAM-AM way back when it was a rock'n'roll station in the early 70's. I still have this album, too, and it is mostly still in playable shape (the last song is screwed up on it).

Bag · Post by **Bag** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

First album I ever bought was Kiss Alive. I got it because I heard Rock and Roll All Night on the radio and loved it. I had no idea what they looked like or anything. I was about 12.
Pretty sure the pictures and liner notes caused me to experiment with drugs and alcohol!

THE BASTARDS!

Day · Post by **Day** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

My Dad has always been a DJ so when I was just a tot in the early 70's I always had a bunch of records to play with. I always had a bunch of Elvis and The Beatles with some Bob Seger, Paul Simon, Beach Boys, and Motown thrown in there. But the first album I ever begged for was Queen "News of the World" with "We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions" on it. I was 7 in 1977 and I remember standin' in front of my stereo with my Dad's old acoustic pretendin' to rock out the the end of "We Are the Champions".
So when I listen to it now, I always remember that that was the moment that I decided that being a guitar player was something I wanted to be.
The first album I ever bought myself was a cassette of Paul McCartney's "Give My Regards To Broadstreet". I wish I still had it. It had the coolest extended orchestra version of "Elanor Rigby" on it.

Geetarzz · Post by **Geetarzz** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

The first album that I bought was KISS Rock & Roll Over. My aunt took me to Mason's because I had some money burning a hole in my pocket from a birthday, and instead of letting me just blow the money, she talked me into buying an album. She had, and still has one of the most impressive album collections that i've ever seen.

Punkinhead · Post by **Punkinhead** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

The first piece of music that was mine was a tape of Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet that my babysitter gave to me when I was in 3rd grade.

SATAN · Post by **SATAN** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

My first tape I can remember having was Quiet Riot (Mental Health). I still like listening to them every once in awhile. Love's a bitch is my favorite song by them.

SATAN

jangel · Post by **jangel** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

My first album I bought was the Rolling Stones first. I heard the song
"I'm a King Bee" and bought the album the next day.....and the next one and so on. Actually that first week I bought 4 albums and had no record player to play them on. They were and I still have them...Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, Stones.

bsaller · Post by **bsaller** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

My First record I bought was TELSTAR by The Ventures. Bought it at Gables downtown Altoona. I still have it.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

I can't remember my first cassette (think it may have been a Wierd Al tape), but my first CD was Dire Strait's On the Night live album. You have to hear the live version of Calling Elvis to believe it.

HarleyRo1 · Post by **HarleyRo1** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

KISS Destroyer....and I played it over....and over....and over....

SpellboundByMetal · Post by **SpellboundByMetal** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

ahahahahahaha, i started with BLACK SABBATH in elementary school. Obviously followed by METALLICA. i can remember jamming out to "And Justice for all" with a buddy of mine at his house in 4th grade!!!
Metal wasnt accepted in my house when i was growing up, so it was a very covert operation. God bless headphones!

ToonaRockGuy · Post by **ToonaRockGuy** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

Well, let's see...

First 8-Track (yes, I'm that old...): "Machine Gun" - The Commodores

First 45: "I Can Hear You Calling/Joy To The World" - Three Dog Night

First LP: "Pieces Of Eight" - Styx

First Cassette: "Caress Of Steel" - Rush

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

First 45 was, I think, either Knock on Wood by Amii Stewart, or Instant Replay by (who was that guy, he was from Harrisburg, and had another hit on Dirty Dancing soundtrack... died awhile ago of cancer). First album owned, Live Sky, by Crack the Sky (although I got Kiss' Rock & Roll Over around the same time). First album I spent my own money on, soundtrack to the movie Heavy Metal, followed very closely by about 400 more cassettes and 8-tracks. I got a job, and that's what I spent my money on.
BTW, I'm noticing a pattern: I always hear Kiss described in the media and by some musicians as a novelty act, but so many people here were moved to become musicians by them (me too, Hard Luck Woman, on AM Radio). In a way, they were my generation's Beatles. Many, if not most musicians in their early 50's cite seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan's TV show as a watershed moment in their careers. For me, it was comic-book style superheroes playing loud music and spitting blood and fire. It was aimed at 12 year old boys, and I was a 12 year old boy.------>JMS

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

bassist_25 wrote:I can't remember my first cassette (think it may have been a Wierd Al tape), but my first CD was Dire Strait's On the Night live album. You have to hear the live version of Calling Elvis to believe it.

Bassist, having Wierd Al as one of your first, well that explains alot.

rreihart · Post by **rreihart** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

The first thing I ever walked into a store and bought with my own money was Kix - Cool Kids on Cassette. I think I was in about 3rd grade? It was right around the same time as Michael Jackson's Thriller album. And yes, I was in grade school and everyone I knew had that record, including me. Up until that point I mostly listened to my parents old Rolling Stones, Thin Lizzy and Roy Orbison records (on one of those briefcase record players with the speaker built in) and whatever stuff my sister was listening to. I also used to listen to a lot of old gospel and country 8-tracks (Patsy Cline, Kenny Rogers, Charlie Daniels, etc.) of my Grandparents.

The first CD I ever bought was the s/t Skid Row.

It's kinda funny how you remember these things. Great thread!

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

For my 8th grade graduation (catholic school) my aunt gave me one of those old siutcase record players (only available in mono....wow does that age me). She also gave me the Mommas and Poppas ablum "California Dreaming"

I then probably bought Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World" album.

Around the same time my mom bought me Neil Diamond "Kentucky Woman" album, which BTW is still great.

Soon after I bought Iron Butterfly "InnaGoddaDivida" or however its spelled and Lep Zep I and II. I also had Buffalo Springfield around that same time.

slink · Post by **slink** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

First EP - Jail House Rock - Elvis

first 45 - Locomotion - Little Eva

first Album - Meet the Beatles

Victor Synn · Post by **Victor Synn** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

First cassette I ever had was The Final Countdown from Europe. My parents got it for me to sing for a talent show in 2nd grade. I didn't make the cut.

James Musselman (From Driven fame) and I used to sit in my room and play that tape front to back so many times I had to buy a second cassette.

Staceman · Post by **Staceman** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

First 8-tracks - I received Tom Petty - Damn The Torpedoes and AC/DC - Let There Be Rock, at the same time. I was probably 5 or 6, I don't really remember who got them for me.

First album - Black Sabbath - Master of Reality - 2nd or 3rd grade. OK, that's not quite correct. It was the first one I chose and bought myself. Before that, I'm pretty sure my parents got me "Mickey Mouse Disco" LOL ("he's a macho macho duck")

First 45 - Billy Squire - The Stroke

RobTheDrummer · Post by **RobTheDrummer** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

First CD I ever owned...STP Core...

drums=life · Post by **drums=life** » Saturday Mar 04, 2006

the first LPs i heard was KISS - Destroyer and Cheap Trick - Live at Budakan. The First one i bought Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil, all to which i still listen to

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