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First 45 (or track) and LP (or CD) you bought
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First 45 (or track) and LP (or CD) you bought
October 26, 2016 at 9:52 pm
Bonus points if you remember the year, how old you were or other details around that time in your life.
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October 26, 2016 at 9:59 pm
What's a 45?
















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RE: First 45 (or track) and LP (or CD) you bought
October 26, 2016 at 10:01 pm
Somewhere between 1966 and 1968 I bought my first 45's: Can't Get No Satisfaction by the Stones and The Letter by the Box Tops.  Bought them the same night at Sears store in Maryland.

https://youtu.be/HIWY8UyW9bw


https://youtu.be/NEjkftp7J7I


The next one was by the Loving Spoonful.

https://youtu.be/N9vbu8sfaBM
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RE: First 45 (or track) and LP (or CD) you bought
October 26, 2016 at 10:02 pm
(October 26, 2016 at 9:59 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: What's a 45?
















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October 26, 2016 at 10:06 pm
1976, ELO, A New World Record. I was eleven, and skateboarding in a park in Teheran when the single from that album came through the speakers. I damned-near wrecked -- the guitar just sounded amazing. As I wrote another time:

Quote:It wasn’t long after that that the same DJ, Ted Hawkins, played the song that was to change my life forever: “Do Ya” by the Electric Light Orchestra. In those days before Walkmans®, we carried our music around on what came to be called “ghetto blasters” or just “blasters”; and I was doing so one day in the park with our huge Sony, grinding my skateboard on the stair-rails when I heard this incredible sound pouring out of my speakers. I immediately stopped my riding, in fact, I almost fell, and I gave the radio the attention it commanded. The sound was unaccompanied electric guitar, three simple chords, and to this day it sends chills down my spine. It sounded like a thousand sheets of paper being ripped, in tune, like the fabric of the world itself being torn apart, this guitar did, punctuated by dead silence. It was the sound of my ears being yanked open.

That afternoon I made up my mind that I was going to take up guitar. I had to make that sound.

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October 26, 2016 at 10:07 pm (This post was last modified: October 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm by brewer.)
8 track exclusionist.

5th Dimension, Age of Aquarius LP, summer of 1970, trying to get the attention of the hot girl two cabins down who had a thing for the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE
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October 26, 2016 at 10:09 pm
I was eleven, it was on cassette, and it was a classic...


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October 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm
Oh man...I think it would've been a 3-CD Bob Marley greatest hits, probably about 1998-2000. So I would've been about 4-6. I was a MASSIVE Bob Marley fan when I was little, I loved that album Big Grin
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October 26, 2016 at 10:14 pm (This post was last modified: October 26, 2016 at 10:14 pm by Whateverist.)
My just younger brother had an 8 track player and I remember loving the one he had by the Animals, which included:

https://youtu.be/LUpBSvN1a50

and of course

https://youtu.be/wDlrRQ6Yzis
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RE: First 45 (or track) and LP (or CD) you bought
October 26, 2016 at 10:14 pm
(October 26, 2016 at 10:09 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I was eleven, it was on cassette, and it was a classic...



Yeah, I lol'ed.

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