1973

Graduated HS. listening to Steely Dan, The Who, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Ten Years After, Pink Floyd, Beach Boys on my Dual 1218, Panasonic receiver and Jenson 3-ways with 12 inch woofers. Had a console style cassette deck..forget the manufacturer. Got that system in 72...thanks to a Summer job, making a whopping $2.25/hr.
No black lights or posters...went through that stage at 13-14.
That system lasted until 79 when I got a B&O turntable, Nakamichi 530 receiver, some fancy $600 Yamaha cassette deck and Maggie SMG's.

1973 I was still dropping a deuce in my cotton diapers.

Great thread by the way!

First stereo I remember was my fathers reel to reel and 8 track player and turntable, a Sears Mca series w an old Ortofon cart. Played a lot of John Denver, Beatles, Waylon & Willie, some odd grand funk, mahavishnu orchestra, The Who, other stuff!

Then I heard an old thin lizzy LP, ....

anyway, I miss the feelings I had listening to old mom n dads tunes


 had a black light zeppelin poster, you know those black felt ones w bright colors.     I miss those days. To be young and do it all over with what we know now!

1973 I was delivering newspapers on my bicycle, then riding it to Radio Shack to buy my first stereo, which when lying on the floor using speakers like headphones I could just about get Nilsson Jump Into the Fire to sound like real drums.

There was one party I can only remember as some kind of haze of people scrunched in so tight you could hardly drink your beer without spilling and a stereo screeching out some really loud rock that might have been Rush except I think this was a year or two before Fly By Night so either it was another band or another year but either way there was way way way to many crowded into that room!😂😂Which the beer and the noise and the sweat and cheap perfume and a pungent smoke that I don't think was a cigarette made it all strangely somehow... perfect.

Not 1973, but fun nonetheless

Endless Boogie - "Back in '74"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5-xIfubiuY