Do You Remember Your First Music Purchase?
Oh - and Seandtaylor99 (way back up in response 2) - of course this fellow (sort-of) Brit remembers the Wombles ... I womble free all the time, and am pretty common... For s... and giggles, you can relive your past with the womble title clip. |
The first album I bought with my own money was Santana III in 1971. Still have the original wax, which is surprisingly playable but would only rate a solid VG by current used record industry standards. This was the record from which I learned to play hand drums, and a better tutorial doesn't exist to this day. The band had the opportunity to really stretch out and develop that thick, juicy ensemble sound that the band had back then. I had seen them a year and a half earlier and this record had that "sound", which the first record and Abraxas, somehow, missed. |
I wish I could say something cool like the Beatles or Stones (I did buy a 45 of 'Angie' quite early, as I recall), but to the best of memory, my first music purchase was an album by the Partridge Family, probably because I had seen the television show and had a crush on Susan Dey. Plus, I saw how all the girls went crazy over David Cassidy. Later, I bought 'Frampton Comes Alive' because I saw how all the girls went crazy over Peter Frampton. The first time I remember being utterly captivated by the music itself was Blue Oyster Cult's 'Don't Fear the Reaper', which I played over and over and over and still love to this day. |
