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Still winter, still not riding so.... I thought this might alleviate some of the boredom. What was the first album you ever bought and how old were you? Mine was "I'm a Fool" by Dino, Desi and Billy. "Who the heck are they," you ask? If you have to ask you are probably too young to know or too old to remember! 
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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The first one I actually bought myself with my own money, I think, was Queen's Greatest Hits on cassette. I would have been in my early teens. Unless you were talking individual song rather than album, then it was probably the Star Wars theme on 45 by Meco in 1977.   
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Abbey Road. By some British band, the bugs, the termites, the rutles, heck I can't remember. Probably never had another hit....
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Well, if memory serves, I believe it was this rather obscure and poor selling little number here...  (...and I would've been 14 years old when I purchased it at Wallach's Music City in Torrance California)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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That's funny, I "borrowed" my parents copies of most of those...
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I think the first album I remember buying with my own money was RUN-DMC Raising Hell. Either that or David Lee Roth Eat em and smile, my memory is fuzzy, too many burned brain cells since then.
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Ooooo, and in stereo too, there Dwight. My first album was only mono... the stereo albums cost 50 cents more. 
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I think the album I bought was either Boston or Kansas Point of know return. Wow soooooo long ago. What's next name the first beer I bought?
BTW I know who Desi & Dino are....Who is Billy?
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That's funny, I "borrowed" my parents copies of most of those...
Yep John, I imagine that's probably true.
(...uh huh, 'cause I don't ever recall seein' any unborn fetuses from Hawthorne California purchasing any records at the Torrance California branch of Wallach's Music City back then!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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1961 or 62, Lawn jobs money 
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BTW I know who Desi & Dino are....Who is Billy?
Billy was a friend, and not the son of a celebrity like the other two.
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Ooooo, and in stereo too, there Dwight. My first album was only mono... the stereo albums cost 50 cents more.
What?! You couldn't mow just one more lawn that week in the neighborhood to get that extra 50 cents or somethin'???!!!
(...and here I always had you pegged as the industrious sort, ol' buddy!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Ooooo, and in stereo too, there Dwight. My first album was only mono... the stereo albums cost 50 cents more.
What?! You couldn't mow just one more lawn that week in the neighborhood to get that extra 50 cents or somethin'???!!!
(...and here I always had you pegged as the industrious sort, ol' buddy!)
Oh yeah... I was mowing lawn by summer and shoveling snow by winter to buy albums and cigarettes, but when the price of smokes went up to 65 cents a pack, I couldn't afford the stereo albums!
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My sistah and me got a 45 of Frankie Valley "Big Girls Don't Cry".
My mother hated it. Said we were going down the Road to Perdition.
....they don't cry yay yay, they don't cry.
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Kiss Alive 2 was one of the first vinyl I remember having. First I can remember buying was Ozzie - no rest for the wicked.
Had plenty of cassettes before that though.
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Soooo, basically you're sayin' here that your love of music AND your support for the primary agricultural industry of the state of North Carolina coalesced at roughly the same point in your life, eh Keith??? (...so when did you switch from supporting that far-flung American industry to the more locally based British Columbia one, EH???...wait, lemme guess...just about the time 8-tracks hit the record stores, RIGHT???)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Kiss Alive 2 was one of the first vinyl I remember having. First I can remember buying was Ozzie - no rest for the wicked.
Had plenty of cassettes before that though.
Yeah, mine were cassettes, never owned a "record" nor an 8 track tape.
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(...so when did you switch from supporting that far-flung American industry to the more locally based British Columbia one, EH???...wait, lemme guess...just about the time 8-tracks hit the record stores, RIGHT???)
Can't remember!!
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Hendrix; Band of Gypsys. Long, long ago.
Still have it. Right next to:
ELP; Welcome back my friends...
Floyd; Dark side of the moon,
The Who; Quadrophenia,
Yessongs,
Jethro Tull; Stand Up,
Then to break up the pattern forming, I went with Skynyrd; Pronounced. Still listen to them all (Tull not so much).
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(...so when did you switch from supporting that far-flung American industry to the more locally based British Columbia one, EH???...wait, lemme guess...just about the time 8-tracks hit the record stores, RIGHT???)
Can't remember!!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I think the first tape I bought was the soundtrack to Ghostbusters movie. I still prolly sing every word of that stupid thing.
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I remember buying Jan & Dean and Beach Boys singles - can't think of the first album unless it was "Hair".
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Hendrix; Band of Gypsys. Long, long ago.
Still have it. Right next to:
ELP; Welcome back my friends...
Floyd; Dark side of the moon,
The Who; Quadrophenia,
Yessongs,
Jethro Tull; Stand Up,
Then to break up the pattern forming, I went with Skynyrd; Pronounced. Still listen to them all (Tull not so much).
Stand up & Benefit still get steady rotation at my house.
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I remember driving to Tampa Stadium in '76 to see Robin Trower, Jethro Tull (Tullavision) and Johnny & Edgar Winter (cancelled  ). That was the trip of the never-ending herb. Good times!
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Now that I think about it more, I believe that Dino, Desi and Billy album was that of my friend's. I'm leaning towards my first album as being Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" back in '67 when I was 15. The opening song was "Rainy Day Woman # 12 and 35" which was the oddest name for a song. I think Bob was starting to do some tripping with his buddy Joan Baez around that time.
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It was either G I Blues by Elvis or, like Hermit, the soundtrack to Quadrophenia by The Who
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Bob Dylan "Highway 61 revisited".I went on to get another dozen Dylan Albums along with a lot of various other bands and singers.
Mine was in MONO too Keith
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I had a varied music taste in my teens (and still do!) First LPs were: Dr Feelgood, Down by the jetty Uriah Heep, Very 'eavy, very 'umble Johnny Burnette and the Rock n Roll Trio (re mastered copy!!) Eddie Cochrane Legendary Masters Series. I still listen em all in equal measure. 
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My first was the Eagle's Greatest Hits - probably bought in '76 or '77.  Ken
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My three older sisters had a pretty extensive "record" collection, but the first I ever bought was a Rolling Stones'
45, This May Be The Last Time, flip side Get Off My Cloud.
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My cash, Allman Brothers Idlewild South.
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I'm going to have to try hard to remember. What I do remember is my mom taking me to Randy's Records in Salt Lake when I was 10 and picked up a couple albums and a couple 45's, one of them was MECO's Star Wars/Cantina Theme. I'll have to try hard to remember what the other 45 and the what the albums were. I remember her not letting get Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell album.
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Mine was in MONO too Keith
Yeah but at least they were hi-fi, right? What a sound!! 
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holly cow, i can't recall but it was either an alblum by Sweet, Michael Jackson (ben) or Donny Osmond! LMAO i had eclectic taste is music even then LOL
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I'm thinking it was Def Leppard Hysteria, but I may be wrong, my memory has been "fogged" many times over the years.
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"Fogged" memory, Yes, Been racking mine on the 1st album question. My guess is that is either The Young Rascals- Collections or a Smokey Robinson & The Miracles album.
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