I used to sit in the basement with one of those cheap tape recorders, pressing the microphone up to the 2" speaker on my clock radio to get recordings off the radio of some of my favorite tunes, (I actually still have a couple of those tapes laying around in boxes of debris I think...a window into the past). One of those songs was Billy Thorpe's "Children of the Sun", and I dug it so much that it was officially the first album I ever bought with my own hard-earned cash. Some friends and I started joking about that tune recently and it got me to thinking about it enough that I made a point of picking up a used copy (on vinyl of course) for a buck at the local record shop. Fond memories resurfaced of cranking up those sound effects on the beginning to near-clipping volume.
I don't remember much, but I remember......
Not sure about you guys but it seems to me that things are getting a little tense here again and we need to have a little bit of fun! I was enjoying an evening of listening to my rig and then I saw it...my first CD(sorry guys too young for LP's!). I remember everything about the day I got it, the weather, the time, where it was purchase, even the price! The CD was U2's "Achtung Baby" I put the CD in(I have not listened to it in years)and was brought back to a time not too long ago when things seemed.....well, simpler. Then I got to think what a profound impact that one event had on my life, the joy of music. Does anyone else remember there first CD or LP? did it have as much of an impact on you as mine had on me?