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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ElC4UwYVuA
    The world is Just a Great Big Onion . Motown.
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    After the Gold Rush....Neil Young
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    Default Re: What's the first piece of music you spent your own money on?

    For singles, I Want To Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, and Twist and Shout all by the Beatles.
    For albums, Rubber Soul (Beatles), Disraeli Gears (Cream), Electric Ladyland (Hendrix).

    First Pop song I ever danced to:
    Quote When A Man Loves A Woman
    Percy Sledge

    First Rock Concert: Jefferson Airplane.

    OBTW, Rubber Soul cost $2.97.
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    Brenda Lee: I’m Sorry.

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    Im not proud of my bid to pay $40 for one song on ebay. It was a song that shows up in a movie and was not on youtube at the time. It wasnt my first time to pay for music but it was the most pricey..


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    Purchased from the bargain bin at Wooden Nickel in Fort Wayne IN.
    Cost $2.97
    Mid to late 70's It was issued on vinyl.
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    1969: I was 14, overly idealistic and a rebel at heart. I had just announced to my mom that I would no longer go to church on Sundays, because I was not a cannibal (for the few who might not know, the Catholic Church teaches that in the Eucharist, the communion wafer and the altar wine are truly transformed into the body and blood of Jesus Christ).

    But back to the music... "Québécois", by then short-lived Québec band "La révolution française", was playing a lot on the radio and it became the very first piece of music that I bought (a 45rpm).

    It is a patriotic anthem for the French speaking people of Québec, a song stylistically influenced by The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But it is not the strong political message of the song that had primarily captured my interest, but rather the melody, the singing and the music with its odd break in midsong (an ominous sounding siren followed by an enthralling bass line).



    I was not aware of it at the time, but the band also recorded an English version of the song that very same year, under the title "Americas". It was an adaptation rather than a translation, with lyrics that are strangely suited for the times that we are currently in:
    America
    God bless America
    America, you're great
    America, have faith


    Within the following year, I bought several LPs, the first of which were:
    The Beatles — The Beatles (White Album)
    King Crimson — In the Court of the Crimson King
    Léo Ferré — Amour Anarchie
    John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
    Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
    Pachelbel's Cannon (arranged and directed by Jean-François Paillard)











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

    Quote Posted by Anchor (here)
    Rush - 2112

    My first concert was Rush, March 16th, 1980 at the Eugene fairgrounds. They opened with the entire side of 2112.

    Here's the set list if anyone's interested:

    https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rush/...-73d97a31.html
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    I never went specifically to see Rush in concert. But...Rush is the band I've seen the most in concert - 6 times! They either were opening for for others, or I was there to see the opener. Bad Company and Max Webster come to mind as two bands I went to see where Rush was the other band. They always put on a great show!
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    It was either a Cat Stevens album or the Doors first. But had Elton Johns "your song", that my brother bought, was on my Dads fisher stereo record player whenever my parent were out

    That fisher only saw the grooves of classical or show music otherwise.

    sneaky kids! lol

    great days

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    First concert: Siegel-Schwall Blues Band w/ Howlin Wolf at the State Fair



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    I think the first record album I bought myself was ABBA's "Super Trouper".

    The first record I know I bought myself was ABBA's "Gracias Por La Música". This stands out because I was so excited to have found a new record of theirs, and because of the reaction of the sales lady when I went to pay for it: "Oh, wow! You speak Spanish?" I replied no...and was confused because I was quite young and living in an area where I hadn't been exposed to Spanish. I wasn't entirely sure what she was talking about. Ha! I found out when I got home and played it...and then just memorized the words, anyway. I had no idea what I was singing, but had fun doing so!

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    Pink Floyd - Wish you were here, but on CD 10/12 years ago ^^

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

    Well, that was back in 1965, I think, when I was fifteen. It was an epochal rendering of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto by David Oistrakh and the Philharmonia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy’s baton. Tchaikovsky often figured as the concerto chosen by the finalists of the Queen Elisabeth Concours in Belgium, which in those times used their four-year cycles for violin, piano, composition and then a leap year for nothing.

    You can hear it here, as it sounded then – delightful and masterly, I guess, for the lovers of classical music, and also... for those who are open to listening to it:


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    Quote Posted by Michel Leclerc (here)
    Well, that was back in 1965, I think, when I was fifteen. It was an epochal rendering of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto by David Oistrakh and the Philharmonia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy’s baton. Tchaikovsky often figured as the concerto chosen by the finalists of the Queen Elisabeth Concours in Belgium, which in those times used their four-year cycles for violin, piano, composition and then a leap year for nothing.

    You can hear it here, as it sounded then – delightful and masterly, I guess, for the lovers of classical music, and also... for those who are open to listening to it:
    One of my all-time fave violinists, but not one of my fave pieces though.

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    Thank you DaveToo. Over the years my “hearing” Tchaikovsky has changed – but I now think that he is indeed one of the greatest. It took a very great artist to write something like the 6th Symphony. Through all his seemingly light-hearted music I now always hear the tragic undertone. His is not one of those sad musics that make you happy – as Chopin could be framed to be, bur rather one of those merry musics that make you sad – and then, after everything has sunken in, grateful. (Truth is meant to make us grateful.)

    But maybe you meant something else: that this is just not one of the composer’s greatest pieces.

    If you, as I, value highly the artist David Oistrakh, may I then ask you: what would be the concerto or concertos that you consider more deserving of his talent?

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    Quote Posted by Michel Leclerc (here)
    Thank you DaveToo. Over the years my “hearing” Tchaikovsky has changed – but I now think that he is indeed one of the greatest. It took a very great artist to write something like the 6th Symphony. Through all his seemingly light-hearted music I now always hear the tragic undertone. His is not one of those sad musics that make you happy – as Chopin could be framed to be, bur rather one of those merry musics that make you sad – and then, after everything has sunken in, grateful. (Truth is meant to make us grateful.)

    But maybe you meant something else: that this is just not one of the composer’s greatest pieces.

    If you, as I, value highly the artist David Oistrakh, may I then ask you: what would be the concerto or concertos that you consider more deserving of his talent?
    I agree with you about the emotions a well-played Tchaikovsky concerto or symphony can elicit.
    There's certainly always that tragic undertone that you mention, and what better musician to reveal it than a virtuoso Russian compatriot?

    I simply meant that to me, Tchaikovsky's violin concerto is not the most moving in terms of melodic brilliance.
    There are too many cliched phrases to my ear. I can certainly understand though why it became very popular for the masses.

    One of my favorite concertos that Oistrakh has played is the Sibelius violin concerto.
    I never get tired of watching/listening to it.
    The piece is certainly not for the faint of heart. The first time I heard it, I couldn't make heads or tails of it,
    and I'm a musician. But it just grows and grows on you the more you take it in.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T5fctRsBLY

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

    First concert I bought a ticket and went by myself: John Entwistle's Ox w/ J Geils Band



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    memories!
    With this first song I discovered my hips/pelvis.
    :-)

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