Firsts
Play along with me. I may go somewhere more with this later, but for now, do you remember:
Your first album (LP, cassette, 8-track, CD)?
Your first radio ("transistor", stereo, console hi-fi, desktop radio)?
Your first car (motorcycle, truck, scooter)?
Your first house (apartment, home, dive, shack, pad) of your own?
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Okay so my very first album that I BOUGHT MYSELF was Madonna by Madonna and Howard Jones' Human's Lib. I bought them together both in the form of cassette. And I played them both until the tape became too muffled to understand the lyrics. :)
Yes, yes, yes and yes.
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What's that? Oh, you want me to list them? Oh sure.
First album, vinyl: Sgt Pepper's. It was quite a bit more than twenty years ago today.
First radio: shirt-pocket transistor (AM and FM!) with the cheap little ear piece. Looked like the UN building in NYC (which they used to describe as looking like a transistor radio). Christmas present in elementary school.
First motorized vehicle: Honda CB100, bought with paper route money before I could legally ride it. I pushed it two miles on the sidewalk to a vacant property that local kids used for motocrossing. Once attempted to ride it from Monterey down to Big Sur on Highway 1, but the rain and wind literally drove me back.
First apartment: on Ramona in Monterey CA, where my 1st wife and I essentially eloped to.
The first record I remember buying with my own money was the single of Come On Eileen.
My first radio was the Panasonic component system (complete with tower speakers) I got for my 12th birthday....the same one my 11 year old son now uses (with the add on of a CD player). They don't make 'em like they used to. That thing have more bass than anything you can buy today on a normal salary.
First car: I had an Audi 100LS, when I was 18. It ran all of 3 months, then rolled over in the yard with it's wheels in the air.
First "place": We rented a duplex from my grandparents when we were first married. It was 350 sq. feet.
cj, Aaron, and Erin, thanks for commenting. Always fun to compare notes on life experiences.
And funnily enough, since Aaron and Erin both commented, we have an Erin at home, too, and we constantly have to say "double-a Aaron" or "this Erin" when talking to disambiguate the two. :-)
For the record:
First album (that I bought myself, as cj was astute enough to realize I meant) - I bought both the Guess Who's "American Woman" and Three Dog Night's "It Ain't Easy" (the album with "Mama Told Me Not to Come") at a garage sale for 25 cents apiece (LPs obviously). They were probably each less than a year old at the time and I was probably 12, so that dates me.
First radio - I had a white plastic table AM-only top tube radio I inherited from my parents when I was about 11. That thing was GREAT - it had a very sensitive dial and at night I could pull in stations from all over the country, to the point where I started keeping a log book of places I had successfully picked up the call letters and city. Of course, with AM, you'd be sitting there and the station break would come and the DJ would say, "this is KA..." and the AM signal would fade into the aether.
First motorized vehicle - a 1963 Oldsmobile Cutlass F-85 two door hard top with a 215ci V-8. Bought in 1976 for $135 whole dollars. Literally drove it to death.
First apartment - the furnished top floor of an old lady's house. Lived there for only about a month.
1st album: can't remember... maybe Live or Aerosmith? CD. I've never owned that much music...
1st radio: remember a somewhat high-end stereo (multi-component setup) ... my brother liked it a lot :) I held onto it for many years but I think donated it to Goodwill a few years ago.
1st car: 93 lumina. Had it until a few years ago...
1st house: rented a room in a shared house with people I didn't know for my first summer at college.
Album: Fleetwood Mac- Tusk
Radio: transistor (that's all I can remember)
Car: 1979 bright aqua Volvo. oxidized paint. No A/C. Seat guts coming out- left a constant layer of yellow dust on every interior surface.
Apartment: across from Huntingdon College. 1 Br. 1 Bth. no A/C (remember it's Alabama) I couldn't come home until after dark during the hot months. Plenty of mice.
Chris, whaddya MEAN you can't remember your first album? Man, that's almost blasphemy! :-) And luckily I've avoided the living-with-people-I-don't-know thing my whole life, other than a brief period during my first college experience (and what a six weeks THAT was! :-)
Cindy, no A/C in car and dwelling. I see a theme here. So, do you still have that hardy pioneer spirit, or do you require A/C along with servants waving palm fronds now wherever you go? :-)
I just have to say to Cindy - Tusk is AWESOME!
Agreed. We're big Fleetwood Mac fans from WAY back (pre-Buckingham/Nicks days) in this house. "Oh, Well" or "Hypnotized" or "Bare Trees", anyone? "Tusk" is a good album. I also still play "Tango in the Night" occasionally just to remember what a great pop-smith Lindsey Buckingham is (and perhaps still is, although I don't follow his work now - http://www.myspace.com/lindseybuckingham).
Jim, somewhere between 18 and 42, I lost the ability to exist w/o A/C. I believe it was at the ripe old age of 20. I'm still working on the palm fronds, though. Any day now my daughter will comply.
And, er, I need to make a correction. I think it was a '69 rather than '79 volvo. memory fails in the winter years, you know. :-/
and erin, thanks. surprised you didn't I?
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