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    Responding to Akashas video of Centerfold by J Geils band. Wow we must be around the same age. I was nine and had just moved to the city from a small country town. I bought this single and Pat Benetar Fire and Ice Album. I remember feeling very sophisticated. I also had no idea the real story of Centerfold until a few years later. I was quite shocked when the penny dropped.
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    I bought this 45, and my 2 sisters and I would sing along and act it out. Such drama!
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    Default Re: What's the first piece of music you spent your own money on?

    But I think it was another album cover.


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    The very first vinyl album I purchased with my own money was: Cosmos Factory, Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1971, I was about 13 at the time

    This resulted in my attending a CCR concert in February 1972, the band was on its decline at this time with Tom Fogerty the rhythm guitar player and older brother of John Fogerty, having left the band.
    The band performed brilliantly, it had a huge influence on my musical development.
    I had loved a lot of different music up to this point, being a child in the 1960's I was very taken with the cultural explosion of Rock and Blues music, which no doubt had a profound influence on my developing mind
    and sensibility. Because my family had moved to Australia from England in 1970, I had the opportunity to experience a form of the 1960's 'revolution' all over again as a teenager in Australia.
    It is a remarkable feature of Australian society, that it tends to respond to major shifts and changes in popular culture at a slower rate than is the case in the northern hemisphere, this was definitely the case
    during the 1970's at least!
    So the developments in the 'counter culture' manifested at a rate equivalent to a 5 year lag in Perth (approximately), where I was living. I see this as being a huge benefit to me personally, because I always felt a bit envious of my older siblings
    being able to participate with the developments of 1960's England. One of those little curiosities in life.

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    Remember it like it was yesterday: wore this album out on my record player
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    Default Re: What's the first piece of music you spent your own money on?

    IMO this is actual time travel




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    Default Re: What's the first piece of music you spent your own money on?

    Quote Posted by Bluegreen (here)
    IMO this is actual time travel



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    Responding to Akashas video of Centerfold by J Geils band. Wow we must be around the same age. I was nine and had just moved to the city from a small country town. I bought this single and Pat Benetar Fire and Ice Album. I remember feeling very sophisticated. I also had no idea the real story of Centerfold until a few years later. I was quite shocked when the penny dropped.
    Of all things in the world from around the same age, Centerfold is the only thing I can think of that a bunch of guys would start singing like at pickup basketball games. I mean, guys just don't sing like that, it is a complete aberration. I cannot be positive if this was happening since we knew what it was getting at, since I didn't know the difference of what any other way would be, and everything was happening all at once, like the fact I am not that good at basketball.

    Pat Benatar was one of those where, if you had a pulse, you obeyed everything she said, metaphorically, of course, because you were too young to experience it. Even though you gladly offered yourself on a personal crusade to fulfill her every lyric, her limelight wound up being too brief to actually construct your complete future from the foundation up.

    Most of these songs were ground into our brains repetitively at the weekend cat-and-mouse game called the skating rink. Since there are really none left, there may not be such a thing as an establishment that would actually play Pat Benatar. At this point, since there is nowhere left to go, and probably never will be, I suppose we will have to confide in ourselves the nostalgia that there was such a thing. Rock will never die! It is only the society that seems to.

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    Default Re: What's the first piece of music you spent your own money on?

    Time traveling with Ivanhoe


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    I always loved Santana's guitar solos. They were composed, not improvised.

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    Quote Posted by Mike Gorman (here)
    The very first vinyl album I purchased with my own money was

    First album – This one Mike

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    I really don't remember. I was a late bloomer when it came to music. Most of the music I'd listen to I'd record off the radio via cassette or listen to a vinyl from my parents archive. Later in life, Napster showed up... so everything was free. That being said, I do remember buying Audioslave in high school.
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    Default Re: What's the first piece of music you spent your own money on?

    My first was probably the Stones' Between the Buttons


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    Offtopic: How many albums do you folks own? Hard copies only, digital doesn't count!
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    None . . .

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    Quote Posted by Strat (here)
    Offtopic: How many albums do you folks own? Hard copies only, digital doesn't count!
    I've got somewhere between 100-200.
    As for the first music I spent money on...
    I don't really remember, but it was probably a Beatles 45 rpm.

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    All I have left is my Black Sabbath albums. All of them up to Sabotage.

    I had all their tunes up to present digitally but I now boycott them and erased all their music - because they allowed the scalpers to rip us off at the door. I had to listen to the concert outside the venue from a bridge - will never forgive them for it.
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    Slim Harpo, on offer from local quirky record shop, along with loads of Chess labelled artists.
    Still have all these 45s in original paper sleeves.
    Dimples, John Lee Hooker etc etc. Finally saw JLH live at a small bar in Bloomington Indiana, utter magic.
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    The first piece of music I spent my own money on for listening, was Uncle Meat by The Mothers of Invention, because my older brother had just played Apostrophe(') and Over-Nite Sensation for me. I couldn't find either, so I bought this instead because the cover was weird.



    Before that, the first piece of music I spent my own money on for playing (fife) was The Company Music Book - Vol. I published by The Company of Fifers and Drummers.
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