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First 45 (or track) and LP (or CD) you bought
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RE: First 45 (or track) and LP (or CD) you bought
(October 27, 2016 at 2:10 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: In '76-'77 I bought Kiss Destroyer and thought it was the shit. I was ten. The Kiss infatuation didn't survive much past 5th grade, but my taste didn't really improve until I hit high school and came under the wing of this burned out hippie who owned the local record shop that practically became my second home and who schooled me on some really good stuff. However, I must say that I still don't understand his fascination with The Grateful Dead's "Truckin'".

I should also credit my high school band teacher, who gave me my first real taste of jazz. Thanks, Mr. Piehl.

But some things never go away, no matter how embarrassing they may be. I must confess: if I'm driving alone and "Rock and Roll All Night" comes on, I'll crank it up. Judge me if you will.

Oh, I went through a Kiss phase. I still think Alive! is a solid album.

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#42
RE: First 45 (or track) and LP (or CD) you bought
(October 27, 2016 at 2:39 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(October 27, 2016 at 2:10 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: In '76-'77 I bought Kiss Destroyer and thought it was the shit. I was ten. The Kiss infatuation didn't survive much past 5th grade, but my taste didn't really improve until I hit high school and came under the wing of this burned out hippie who owned the local record shop that practically became my second home and who schooled me on some really good stuff. However, I must say that I still don't understand his fascination with The Grateful Dead's "Truckin'".

I should also credit my high school band teacher, who gave me my first real taste of jazz. Thanks, Mr. Piehl.

But some things never go away, no matter how embarrassing they may be. I must confess: if I'm driving alone and "Rock and Roll All Night" comes on, I'll crank it up. Judge me if you will.

Oh, I went through a Kiss phase. I still think Alive! is a solid album.

Yeah, it really is. Their early stuff was good meat and potatoes rock.

I was rather crestfallen as a kid when I learned the extent to which they resorted to studio overdubs to clean up and 'correct' the actual performance recordings. To hear Alive! without that knowledge is to think they were a really good live band, instead of a decent bar band with a catchy gimmick.
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#43
RE: First 45 (or track) and LP (or CD) you bought
(October 27, 2016 at 1:13 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote:
(October 27, 2016 at 12:30 pm)Whateverist Wrote: No, no.  No need.  My motto is it's never too late to have a happy childhood and I'm far from through.

Start from the begenning. Wuthering Heights.

Though that being said, The man with the child in his eyes off the same album (her debut) is probably her best song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAj8suae...js&index=8
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#44
RE: First 45 (or track) and LP (or CD) you bought
Styx - The Grand Illusion - I was 12 and bought it at the Musicland in Fort Dodge, Iowa
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RE: First 45 (or track) and LP (or CD) you bought
(October 27, 2016 at 2:53 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:
(October 27, 2016 at 2:39 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Oh, I went through a Kiss phase. I still think Alive! is a solid album.

Yeah, it really is. Their early stuff was good meat and potatoes rock.

I was rather crestfallen as a kid when I learned the extent to which they resorted to studio overdubs to clean up and 'correct' the actual performance recordings. To hear Alive! without that knowledge is to think they were a really good live band, instead of a decent bar band with a catchy gimmick.

You should get on YouTube and find their Wnterland concert from January 1975. They could throw down without overdubs, as that concert shows. They hadn't hit big, they were clearly hungry, and they were pretty much on fire that night. Set list drawn from the first two albums.

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