What was your first vinyl purchase? I'm not talking about kiddie records but the first serious album you bought as a teenager. For me it was The Rolling Stones...Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass). This album was key in my making the transition from bubble gum to rock n' roll. It's still a good album.
Scorpions "Love At First Sting" 1984 from Record World in TSS in Elmont NY, I will never forget that day. I bought the record and my dad bought me my first rack system. Remember those all in one units. LOL I use to point the speaekers out the window in a nice quiet Suburban Long Island neigborhood blasting "Rock You Like a Hurricane". Funny thing is I still do that today :)
Either Johnny Winter, "Second Winter", or Savoy Brown, "A Step Further", cannot recall which was first, though they were the first two. $3.99 at the Woolworth IIRC. Of course, that's if you paid retail. My friend's sister worked the cash register and HEAVILY discounted all album purchases for me. (Bar code scanning was yet to be used.)
Cheap Thrills - Big Brother and the Holding Company. That one record that I bought for $1.99 at the K-Mart in Brighton, MA in 1969 age 12 started this whole long journey into the netherworld of guitars, amps, hifi equipment, vinyl, CDs, etc, etc, and untold $$$ and one's-that-got-away later.
Alan Parsons Project Pyramid in 1978 from The House of Guitars in Rochester NY. Everything prior to that was Kiss, Aerosmith, and Bay City Rollers 45's. s-a-tur-day...hey. I'm so ashamed of myself.
Mama's and the Papa's "If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears" (I had an adolescent's crush for Michelle Phillips) and Herman's Hermits "On Tour" (their second album).
I think this is right. Bought with my "allowance" savings. I still have both Lps.
It's interesting that after 52 posts in this thread, and probably upwards of 100 performers mentioned, by my count there are exactly 0 female groups and 2 female soloists mentioned (Connie Francis, Joni James), and exactly 1 mixed group that had prominent female members (Fleetwood Mac). And there are 0 classical recordings.
I don't know what all of that signifies, if anything, but the statistics certainly seem striking.
Mine was the double live 'Around The World With Three Dog Night' that my grandmother couldn't resist buying me on a shopping outing when I was 11 . Still remains my favorite of the group and the sleeve is perhaps one of the most nicely packaged in my collection. Never get tired of this one. The live performances of these tracks totally blow away the studio versions - great stuff.
Wow you guys make me feel old, well at least older. The first vinyl I bought for myself was a Henry Mancini album "More Music from Peter Gunn". Hey Shelly Mann on drums and probably other notables. I played it on my folks Magnavox Stereo in the rec room. It was the late 50s. Jump ahead 10 years and I bought my first stereo (Fisher AR Dual). I still have the album and it still sounds good.
Back in the mid to late 70s there was a chain of record stores in the Philadelphia area called "The Listening Booth". They not only sold records and 8 tracks but dope related paraphernalia as well. I clearly remember buying Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps and a pack of Zig Zags. Those were the days....
I believe my first LP was also the Stones "High Tide and Green Grass" I had several 45's before. The first of those being the Beatles "I want to Hold Your Hand"
wow!! thats a tough one to remember back that far.I just looked at some of my old albums and I have a Jan and Dean Dead Mans Curve(Liberty label)still lurking around.. I also remember going to a store with a few friends and picking up Basie Meets Bond Jazz album...
You guys at 6 years old listening to the Stones... even buying it for yourselves... now THAT's precocious. I don't think I had enough saved up for a record until I was at least 8. And I certainly did not have the worldly knowledge of who the Stones were until a couple of years after that.
11 years old, Lowell Massachusetts, Garnick's Record Store, 1972, Steely Dan's Can't Buy a Thrill. Still own it. Still love it. Just listened to both sides the other day.
Followed almost immediately by New Riders of the Purple Sage, Panama Red & the Elton John Greatest Hits album with him wearing the white suit. Still have them both as well. Haven't listened to the New Riders in some time. Played the Elton album for a friend so he could hear what a high end rig sounds like on the music of his youth.
Rush A Farwell To Kings with my own money at the record across the street from the high school that I began attending soon after the purchase. I already had 2112 on 8 Track. I had received a number of albums including Black Sabbath Paranoid, Frampton Comes Alive, Fleetwood Mac Rumours, and Led Zeppelin II from my neighbor when her daughter went away to college sometime around my 13th birthday in 1977. My first record player was a direct drive Akai and it was Consumer Reports top choice. I thought that it could not get any better than that.
Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends-Ladies and Gentleman: Emerson Lake and Palmer. It'a live triple album (still have it) of one of the best prog rock band of all time. I had friends who were a cover band of ELP (they were called Tryad) and were amazing. Glorious if a little bit hazy memories.
Kiss Alive II...at Roses dept store...here in NC. I'll never forget that feeling. I was just a kid, about 13 or 14 I guess. Grandma took me to the store in her minty Buick Electra 225. Great thread...deep in memory at the moment. I need to get back into vinyl.
Still have the first six albums I bought at the same time I bought my first turntable. Led Zeppelin I, Pink Floyd Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Moody Blues Days of Future passed, The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet, Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde, and The Doors first lp. Cheers
Yes Fragile was the first LP I ever bought, remember that day like it was yesterday.... Ironically I spent more to buy it used than I did new then the other day....
"Meet The Beatles" I was 6 years old and crazy about the Beatles.Then I heard The Stones cover of "Little Red Rooster" and all of a sudden "I Want To Hold Your Hand" seemed so lame!!!!!!!!
My grandmother and I walked to the music store about a mile from my childhood home I was about 8 or 9 yrs old. I bought "The Best of Bread" LP, it must have been 1971 or so. She liked music also. We would go there when she came to town, just her and I. She passed 4 years later when she was 84. Found memories indeed.
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