my first store-bought tape was RUN D.M.C.'s Raising Hell. i loved it. before that i just recorded shit off the radio and tv, like the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" and Huey Lewis & The News (not to mention loads of other terrible "80s music").
but technically the first recording i ever owned was The Teddy Bears' Picnic record that came with the book.
Your Introduction to Music
62My Dad's Stan Kenton 45's and his copy of Telestar by the Tornadoes.
I was not quite 2 years old.
A couple years later, well, you know...
Important Beatle stuff coming up:
U.S Mono version of Rubber Soul coming out in The Beatles Capitol Lp's Vol 2 cd set.
Beatle's engineer Geoff Emerick's book Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording The Beatles will be available soon.
I was not quite 2 years old.
A couple years later, well, you know...
Important Beatle stuff coming up:
U.S Mono version of Rubber Soul coming out in The Beatles Capitol Lp's Vol 2 cd set.
Beatle's engineer Geoff Emerick's book Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording The Beatles will be available soon.
Your Introduction to Music
64shit yeah, huey lewis and the news 'fore!'
Tom wrote: I remember going in the back and seeing him headbanging to Big Black. He looked like he was raping the air- really. He had this look on his face like, "yeah air... you know you want it.".
Your Introduction to Music
68-My Mom's and my special song when I was a baby was Sunshine of my Life by Stevie Wonder.
-My sister Mary had a K-Tel comp and I remember putting it on the old hifi we had in the basement and wigging out to Foreigner's Hot Blooded while jumping on these old beds we have down there. Also the Grease Soundtrack
-My twin sisters were all into U2, INXS, and Depeche Mode when they were in junior high (3rd or 4th grade for me).
-Zach, my best friend in elementary school was obsessed w/ Prince. His dad was also a huge classical music buff, so I got a lot out of both.
-On channel 12 in Denver (public TV), they had a program on the weekends called Teletunes that would play alternative videos (REM, Chili Peppers, Sonic Youth, Pixies, etc.). I was hooked on that through high school. And then once we got cable, I also had 120 minutes.
-My sister Mary had a K-Tel comp and I remember putting it on the old hifi we had in the basement and wigging out to Foreigner's Hot Blooded while jumping on these old beds we have down there. Also the Grease Soundtrack
-My twin sisters were all into U2, INXS, and Depeche Mode when they were in junior high (3rd or 4th grade for me).
-Zach, my best friend in elementary school was obsessed w/ Prince. His dad was also a huge classical music buff, so I got a lot out of both.
-On channel 12 in Denver (public TV), they had a program on the weekends called Teletunes that would play alternative videos (REM, Chili Peppers, Sonic Youth, Pixies, etc.). I was hooked on that through high school. And then once we got cable, I also had 120 minutes.
Your Introduction to Music
69My mom wouldn't let me listen to rock music... we were at a county fair and my brother won the balloon darts game... they had t-shirt iron-ons. The kid at the stand goes, "how about one that says rock and roll--that's good music!" Mom retorts, "I don't want him to have a shirt that says rock and roll." I'd do my farm chores listening to Beethoven and stuff like that...
First day of kindergarten, standing behind future friend in line, and he starts singing "Welcome to the Jungle." So I learned to go over to my friends' houses after school, so I could listen to rock and roll.
First day of kindergarten, standing behind future friend in line, and he starts singing "Welcome to the Jungle." So I learned to go over to my friends' houses after school, so I could listen to rock and roll.
Your Introduction to Music
70One of my first music memories was going over to our neighbor's house and getting down to Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog."
I remember having the Ghostbusters 2 soundtrack, the Dick Tracy soundtrack that Madonna did, as well as Michael Jackson's Dangerous.
Living over in Bulgaria, they'd have all these bootleg cassettes, claiming to be one album, but often featuring two albums by one band. So that was how I always thought Appetite for Destruction was part of Use Your Illusions 1 and 2. That begat purchasing Prince's Diamonds and Pearls, then Nirvana and it kind of went from there.
I remember having the Ghostbusters 2 soundtrack, the Dick Tracy soundtrack that Madonna did, as well as Michael Jackson's Dangerous.
Living over in Bulgaria, they'd have all these bootleg cassettes, claiming to be one album, but often featuring two albums by one band. So that was how I always thought Appetite for Destruction was part of Use Your Illusions 1 and 2. That begat purchasing Prince's Diamonds and Pearls, then Nirvana and it kind of went from there.