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?
tireguy
First LP I remember listening to a lot was Danny Kaye: "Hans Christian Anderson" on one side and "Tubby the Tuba" on the other. First LP I bought was "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Or, could it have been the Monkee's first album? If it was the latter, the evidence is long gone, so I'm sticking with "Sgt. Pepper's." I believe my first 45 was "Downtown," Petula Clark. I got into CDs late. First purchase was k.d. lang's "Absolute Torch and Twang," but years after it was first released.
DoWah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do was my first 45, played by a fine sewing needle and paper "horn" held by a 10yr old human "arm" on my folks broken Phico console.
I was hooked! Next came my very own Hammond B!
I believe that Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow and Cream Disreali Gears were two of my first. Guess that puts a distinct time and flavor to my late adolesence (probably a junior in high school at the time, ca. 1968).
My first 45 was Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson and Clover. It was on Roulette records and I listened to it "over and over". :)
Dekay: Country Joe and the Fish... And it's one, two, three what are we fighting for, don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam, and it's five, six, seven, open up Pearly Gates, well I ain't got time to wonder why, whoopee we're all gonna die!!!

Wow!!! I have not thought about or heard that song for at least 30 odd years.