YOUR FIRSTS

[brutus76]

Be it concert/CD/vinyl/cassette/muscial experiences

 

[brutus76]

The first vinyl i bought was ALIVE II
The first cassette tape i bought was THRILLER
The first CD i bought was HYSTERIA

 

[the_interloper]

First cassette: TMNT soundtrack ha ha
First CD: Pearl Jam Vitalogy
First concert: RHCP in 1996 (funnily enough with a future Grammy winner in Gotye)

 

[CURVE]

My first Vinyl: Blondie's Parallel Lines and Devo's Q: Are We not Men in December 1978.
My first Cassette: I'm not 100% certain but I think it may have been Blondie's Parallel Lines in about 1980.
My first CD: The Best Of Blondie in about 1985/86.
My first Concert: Heart at the LA Forum in August 1980. I did sneak into a Go-Go's gig at the Whiskey A Go-Go about 9-10 month's earlier but my friend and I were kicked out after 4 songs.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

My first musical purchase is too embarrassing to say

Spoiler: But if I must

Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby single on cassette

 

[Macca19]

First CD: Regurgitator - Unit
First Single: The Prodigy - Firestarter
First Concert: John Farnham @ Thebby Oval 1990ish (I was 8yo)
First concert I paid for: The Prodigy @ Thebby Theatre 1998

 

[Mofra]

First cassette: 7800 Farenheight - Bon Jovi
First CDs: Pearl Jam Vitalogy & Green Day Dookie (bought at the same time)
First concert - Spiderbait, Body Jar & Snout at the Prahran Skater's bowl

 

[revival_mode]

first cd: americana by the offspring
first concert: the living end regional gig
first big city concert: foo fighters
first festival: big day out the year tool & muse headlined

 

[stax on the mull]

First Concert*. Norman Gunston Live at my local high school gymnasium. Birthday present ticket from my older brother.
First Cassette. Dance Crazy or Dance Craze?. Live Ska compilation album featuring UK bands from the late 70's. It was awful - but I liked a song i'd seen by "The Specials" on TV and they were one of the bands on there.
First LP - Rubber Soul - Beatles. Music store in 1982 had a bunch of Beatles reissues for $4.99 and most of them had an equal amount of songs that I knew, which was about 3 per LP. Lucky pick. Didn't have a turntable at the time.
First CD - I was reluctant to make the change to buy a CD player. I got a double CD compilation of Gil Scott Heron. CD player purchase came later.

*Actually, the first band I saw in concert would have been the support band who were touring with Norman Gunston called "Cheetah". Two female singers dressed in denim jeans and tight t-shirts, lots of hair - one dark, one blonde, playing a kind of artless hard rock/blues rock that had no memorable choruses or riffs like your typical AC/DC song would. I had no preferences in music at that age and was just wanted to see Norman Gunston so "Cheetah" went on too long for me, but I do remember how normalized it was, even the setting of a high school gym with husbands and wives and teenagers for blokes to be shouting out "show us your t*ts" and "get your gear off" between songs.

 

[WireHawk]

First Concert: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
First LP: Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits
First CD: Brian Eno-'Thursday Afternoon'
First Music Festival: Sunbury 73(as a 17 year old) Lobby Lloyde & The Coloured Balls were the best.

 

[revo333]

First CD - Metallica - and Justice for All
First Concert - Oasis @ Livid Festival

First concert was going to be Motley Crue in 2000 but it got cancelled

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

After looking through the posts on here I've realised just how old I am.
1st 45 - Telstar - The Tornados - I didn't actually buy this myself, but I did put in a lot of effort nagging my parents to buy it.
1st Album - Jools - Julie Driscoll and the Trinity. It was released In Australia under the name JOOLS, overseas it was called OPEN
1st and only Cassette - Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison. I bought this when I was travelling throughout WA because I wanted some new music in the car. I had/have hundreds of cassettes I recorded, much better quality of sound than pre recorded cassettes. They are stored away but most likely have deteriorated since then.
1st CD Whispering Jack - John Farnham
1st Concert - 1971 - Deep Purple, Free, Manfred Mann and Pirana - Deep Purple were plagued by sound issues and 15 minute drum and guitar solos. Free were the standout band on the night, instant favourite band. Manfred Mann was also very good.
1st MP3 player -2017 - Sony Walkman NW-A35 - Bloody expensive at the time, but still going strong, great sound quality and easy to use. Prior to this I used my phone, but I listened to music so much that it was almost always flat when I needed to make or receive a call.

 

[Norwegian Blue]

First concert: Cliff Richard on the 'Wired for Sound' tour.

I was a guest contestant on RockWiz once - at the Enmore, not filmed - and Julia Z LOVED bagging me out for that. She even apologised up front about it, said it was too good a first concert to pass up.

 

[screech]

First Record: Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
First CDs: East 17 - Walthamstow, Nirvana - Nevermind & Spiderbait - Frogstomp (just got first CD player for birthday).
First Live Show: The Superjesus & Def FX
First Festival: Vans Warped Tour 1998 (Gawler Racecourse)
First Big Day Out: 2000
First Multi-Day Festival: Falls Lorne 2008

 

[screech]

1st 45 - Telstar - The Tornados - I didn't actually buy this myself, but I did put in a lot of effort nagging my parents to buy it.

Stellar choice!

 

[DIG]

First Vinyl - New Order:
Bizarre Love Triangle

First Cassette - John Cougar Mellencamp: The Lonesome Jubilee

First CD - Belinda Carlisle: Runaway Horses

First Concert - Billy Joel

 

[Vincent Hanna]

First record (LP): Private Dancer - Tina Turner (1985)
First 45 (single): Call Me - Blondie (1984ish)
First cassette: Cher - Cher (1987)
First CD (album): Live - AC/DC (1992)
First concert: Tina Turner - What's Love Tour (Rod Laver) / Madonna - Girlie Show (MCG) (Oct/Nov 93)

 

[Im New]

First cassette: smash hits 86
First CD: Michael Jackson Dangerous
FIRST Concert: INXS Dirty Honeymoon tour 1994 Melbourne

 

[IMCat]

First concert, Queen, The Works Tour in 1985 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

 

[sherb]

After looking through the posts on here I've realised just how old I am.
1st 45 - Telstar - The Tornados - I didn't actually buy this myself, but I did put in a lot of effort nagging my parents to buy it.
1st Album - Jools - Julie Driscoll and the Trinity. It was released In Australia under the name JOOLS, overseas it was called OPEN
1st and only Cassette - Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison. I bought this when I was travelling throughout WA because I wanted some new music in the car. I had/have hundreds of cassettes I recorded, much better quality of sound than pre recorded cassettes. They are stored away but most likely have deteriorated since then.
1st CD Whispering Jack - John Farnham
1st Concert - 1971 - Deep Purple, Free, Manfred Mann and Pirana - Deep Purple were plagued by sound issues and 15 minute drum and guitar solos. Free were the standout band on the night, instant favourite band. Manfred Mann was also very good.
1st MP3 player -2017 - Sony Walkman NW-A35 - Bloody expensive at the time, but still going strong, great sound quality and easy to use. Prior to this I used my phone, but I listened to music so much that it was almost always flat when I needed to make or receive a call.

Tell me about it!

To the best of my recollection:
First single - Daydream Believer (Monkees)
First vinyl LP - 20 Chartstoppers Volume 1 (released 1971)
First cassette - Hot August Night (Neil Diamond)
First concert - Sherbet, Launceston, 1975

The Sherbet concert was memorable. Daryl Braithwaite was due to fly over after taping the King of Pop in Melbourne to join the band for the show. Problem is his flight got significantly delayed due to fog. The support act played and played and played and played. Sherbet eventually hit the stage at 12.20am and played until 2am. They were very committed to their live performances.

 

[TheGoatBaron]

The first vinyl i boight was ALIVE II
The first cassette tape i bought was THRILLER
The first CD i bought was HYSTERIA

My first vinyl was Thriller. Can’t recall the first CD though. May have been Appetite for Destruction

 

[deck]

First Cassette - AC/DC - Who Made Who
First CD - Dr Dre - The Chronic
First Vinyl 12 inch - Hi-Gate - Pitchin
First Vinyl Album - Brad Strut - The Authentic LP
First Concert - Public Enemy at The Palace

 

[Plugger35]

First Cassette - 1982 Out of the Blue
First CD - Eagles - The Best of Eagles
First Single - D-A-D Sleeping My Day Away
First Vinyl Album - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
First Concert - U2 Rattle and Hum featuring BB King

 

[Del65166]

First single - Led zep ~ misty mtn hop/black dog
First vinyl LP - Little Feat 1971

First concert - ACDC, support by Mississippi later LRB. St Theresa's Hall Essadon 1975.

Cassettes were C90 mixed tapes. I think I bought Maryanne Faithful. Lou Reed Rock N Roll Animal in Broome. 81 or so.

 

[Zim^zuM]

First cassette: metallica 1st 3 recorded on tape for me.

First cd + Vinyl: pearl jam 10

First show: pearl jam 1998

First time singing in a singers microphone: killswitch engage.

First guitar pick: Pantera

First drinking wine from a singer: pearl jam 2006

First abroad concert: pearl jam 2006

First time guitar pick specifically aimed at me until I caught it: Mike McCready 2006