A couple of questions

[ericcoleman]

Since I am in this sort of a mood.

What was the first record you bought?
What was the first concert you went to?

My answers in comments

Comments

[rsmit212.livejournal.com]

Elton John's Greatest Hits Vol. 2

Kiss - Animalize Tour.

[tanac.livejournal.com]

The first record I *owned* was a Blondie record, one of the little ones. That would play on my plastic record player. :)

My first concert was Styx, the Kilroy was here tour. At the Joe Louis arena, in Detroit.

[ericcoleman]

Record: I'd like to say that it was something cool like Rubber Soul by the Beatles, or something like that, but no, the first record that I think I actually bought with my own money was a Ray Stevens record, Gitarzan ... I'm not proud of it.

The first concert I saw was an outdoor show headlined by Elton John. I think I was 14. The only other band that I definitely remember was Sutherladn Brothers And Quiver, but there were 4 or 5 total. That may have been the show where I saw Steely Dan as well, on tour for their first record.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

The first record I bought for myself with my own money was (the shame) Deep Purple: Fireball. But the first record ever bought for me some two years previous by an indulgent parent was 'Abbey Road'.
Even though tone-deaf, the old man took good advice.
First rock 'n' roll/pop gig....Led Zeppelin Earl's Court '75. But many Classical things prior, including stuff I played in. (Brass section, Youth Orchestra thingy.)

[ericcoleman]

I think that it's possible that I saw Stan Kenton play before I saw Elton, but time has never been my strong point. My Dad is a big Kenton fan, and I saw a bunch of shows over several years.

I know I saw various classical concerts, but I can't remember specifics. The first concert that I went to because I wanted to was Elton.

[alymid.livejournal.com]

I think the first record was was Men at Work

The first concert that I went to that was when I was an adult was The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam, the first one that I actually wanted to go to, was John McCutcheon.

[rose1thorn.livejournal.com]

The first record I bought was Styx Grand Illusion, and yes it was on real vinyl. I'm pretty sure the first concert I went to was Styx in maybe '90 or so unless you count the numerous classical concerts I went to during childhood, none of which I remember very clearly.

[budsharpe.livejournal.com]

First albums: Madonna - Like a Virgin, DeBarge - Rhythm of the Night

First concert: The Jets with Limited Warranty at the Minnesota State Fair

[devospice.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't remember what album I first bought with my own money. I know the first album I owned that I made my parents buy was the Fat Boy's self-titled debut album.

The first concert I remember vividly. It was Run-DMC's Raising Hell tour. Timex Social Club, LL Cool J, Whodini, and Run-DMC. Killer line up!

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

The first album I remember buying with my own money was "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" at the Cavern Club while I was in Liverpool, England.

Unfortunately concert isn't as cool. I thing it was Air Supply at Chicagofest.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

The first record I remember bugging my parents to buy me was the 45 of "It's A Small World", from the NY World's Fair (and not available since). The first record I remember buying with my paper route money was the the Robert John 45 pressing of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". There were probably others in there, but that's what I come up with at the moment.

My father was chairman of the local Arts Council, and I went to various classical concerts/Broadway road shows as a kid. Van Kliburn came to our house, as did Paul Tripp (of "Tubby the Tuba" fame, playing Ben Franklin in "1776"). The earliest ones I remember were Pete Seeger (often with Up With People).

[controuble.livejournal.com]

First record (yes, vinyl) purchased with my own money was probably Goat's Head Soup and I still have it.

I never went to a concert until I was an adult (except for school field trips to see CSO) and IIRC, it was Yes at Poplar Creek.

[artpaulrocks.livejournal.com]

The first record I owned was on the back of a cereal box of Super Sugar Crisp called Sugar Sugar by the Archies.

And the first concert I went depends on whether you count local bands or bands on a label.

When I was a kid the Catholic Church festival had a battle of the bands contest and I remember I liked the winner because thay did a cover of Light My Fire but I can't say who they were.

But the first band I went to see that I bought tickets for was Cheap Trick who at the time I thought was great but I'm not sure I would go see them now.

[starstraf.livejournal.com]

I got bobby sherman's bubblegum and braces from I think my honeycones cereal box

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

That *I* bought? I don't remember. I do know that the first album I ever asked the Mother to go get me was a recording of Rhapsody in Blue (Andre Previn and Andre Koselanetz). The first thing I remember buying myself (and I know that it wasn't the first, just the first I remember) was an 8 track of The Eagles "The Long Run".

Oh, and show... probably Chicago, in 1984/85.

[awfulhorrid.livejournal.com]

The first record (45 RPM, actually) I bought myself was Barracuda by Heart. Here around 30 years later, I still actually like the song!

My first concert ... well, I'm a bit more nebulous about that. I know it was a country singer that I won some tickets for, but I can't really remember who it was. I think it was George Jones. I remember enjoying the show, although unlike Heart above, I'm not really a fan of the music at this time.

I'm not counting the classical concert that I can just barely remember being taken to by our grade school nor the various "band in the park" where we just happened to be type of events. I just don't remember enough about them and I'm considering the question from an active participant view point.

[gundo.livejournal.com]

First concert? Probably Dallas Holm.

First album that I bought with my own money? I think it was Petra "Back To The Street"

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

The first album I ever bought with my own money was Billy Joel's "The Nylon Curtain".

The first concert I went to was The Monkees 1986 reunion tour, which featured Herman's Hermits, The Grass Roots, and Gary Puckett and the Union Gap as openers. (My second concert was Genesis, and my third was Pink Floyd. Even then, I had eclectic tastes in music. *grin*)

[chasophonic.livejournal.com]

First 45 I bought. Fun, fun fun, The Beach boys.
First LP, Peter, Paul, and Mary.

Fist concert, Jimi Hendrix Experience.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

*envy*

[lukeski.livejournal.com]

I think the first album I purchased myself was "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Dare to be Stupid".

First concert is hard to determine. I did see a lot of Stand-ups in High School at Summerfest in Milwaukee.

[mike46.livejournal.com]

The first record I bought with my own money was Black Sabbath - Paranoid.

My Dad took me to local Big Band/Swing concerts when I was growing up. The first Rock concert I went to was Grand Funk, but the first concert I bought my own tickets to was The Guess Who.

[wyngarde.livejournal.com]

I think the first one I bought was probalbly one of those "Power Records" of "The Six Million Dollar Man" as I followed the story. I wanted to buy "Flash Gordon", but it ended up being a Christmas gift.

I wish it had been "Dick Jensen: Giant Of Hawaii", but that's another story...

First Concert: Iron Maiden. And it was awesome.

Concerts, records

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

I think my father took me to an evening of the United States Marine Band playing mostly Sousa marches when I was about 6 1/2. After that, I did not go out to hear live music for a couple of years (thus skipping the entire period of time when I lived in Brazil) but variety shows are quite common in my next city, Rosario, Argentina, and I went out to hear just a *lot* of these, with all kinds of music (though my special music was Argentina's folk music, which is zambas, not tangos as you might have guessed). The first concert I went to with my own money was Peter, Paul and Mary, with Jesse Fuller (filling in for an absent Odetta) and Bud and Travis for warmup acts. This was on my 13th birthday, August 11, 1962.

I went out with a whole lot of allowance money and bought a whole lot of Spanish language 78s (mostly Los Chalchaleros, the thrushes) while living in Rosario. I still have most of these. I can't remember the first English language album I got, at all.

Nate Bucklin

[darkwing830.livejournal.com]

Record: Look Out for the Batman
Concert: Beach Boys

[mplsfish.livejournal.com]

My first obsession was the sound track to Cabaret (movie). Which I tell you to make up for my first album I purchased, Motly Crue, Home Sweet Home.

Forst concert was Pink Floyd at the Metro dome. I camped out overnight in March for tickets and then it didn't even sellout.

First records, first concerts.

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

First LP is bought for myself was A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles. It was a Christmas gift from me to me in 1964. Albums #2 and #3 were bought together, Gitarzan by Ray Stevens and The Thorn in Mrs. Rose's Side by Biff Rose, at the Sears store in Lincoln Park, MI with the money from my paper route. Biff Rose was being seen on Johnny Carson and heard on Detroit underground stations Keener FM (WKNR-FM) and Crazy Wabix (WABX-FM). The 45 collection was started with one I got for Christmas when I was 8 -- I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas by Gayla Peevy. With it came the portable record player to play it on, as the only previous record players in the house only played 78s. Well, actually, my LP was one I won when I was 5 or 6 -- the first Elvis Presley album. Mom took it back to the store that offered it to the contest and got me some children's 78s, including Mr. I. Magination. I never replaced that first Elvis album, but I would like to get copies of the Mr. I Magination records again.

As for first rock concerts, I might have seen Bob Seger or Mitch Ryder at Camp Dearborn, MI in 66 or 67 on a rather small stage, it was just who was there, and I did not keep a good memory of the event. For Junior Achievement, in my high school senior year, a few companies got together to put on a Battle of The Bands. I might have gone roadie work, as we had the 3 bands all load up the stage to start, with first band playing their stuff, then getting it off stage to reveal the next band's gear. Down time was minimal. This was in a Catholic School's gym and I recall that it was a cover group that did MC5's "Kick Out The Jams", using "Mother Superior" instead of the more controversial "mother f'ers" heard in the uncensored version of the song.
For me to pay for a concert, three from college at Michigan Tech come to mind, Ides of March, Chase and Jim (& Ingrid) Croce. I forget the order I would have seen them in.

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

First record: The Cars - Heartbeat City
First concert:
With parents: Beach Boys
Without parents: Iron Maiden with Anthrax

-=ShoEbOX=-

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Record: Single - "Light My Fire" by the Doors. LP - "Georgy Girl" by the Seekers.

Concert: Kickapoo Creek Rock Festival, Heyworth, IL, Memorial Day Weekend, 1970. B. B. King, Country Joe & the Fish, Frijid Pink, New Colony Six, Butterfield Blues Band, Fuse (featuring even-then-an-old-fart guitarist named Rick Nielsen), Canned Heat, and some local bar band called REO Speedwagon. Several more acts whose names I don't remember.

[ericcoleman]

Fuse (featuring even-then-an-old-fart guitarist named Rick Nielsen),

AND Tom Petersson, who is just a couple of years younger than Rick (unless I am much mistaken, most of the bios I have read say that Tom was in Fuse as well)

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Yep, Tom was in there too. Delaney & Bonnie & Friends (with Eric Clapton) were scheduled but did not show. There was a band called Smith which had a current hit with a Lennon-McCartney cover called "Baby It's You". Also listed on the poster was a band I do not remember seeing which went by the name of Genesis; I have no idea whether that is the one which later became famous. I do know that Phil Collins was about 16 at the time and was appearing on George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" as an uncredited tambourine player.

[ericcoleman]

Genesis didn't tour the US till around 73.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Mike Bloomfield in the Butterfield Blues Band? Or had he left by that time?

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

He left Butterfield in 1967 to form The Electric Flag.

[ericcoleman]

beat me to it ...

[shadowcat48li.livejournal.com]

first record bought: An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
first concert I paid for tickets: Statler Brothers, Braden Auditorium at ISU
first concert I worked: Grateful Dead, Horton Fieldhouse at ISU

I spent 32 years working concessions at ISU, so I got to see a ton of concerts for free over the years

other shows I worked:
Charlie Daniels Band, Marshall Tucker[twice] Marilyn Manson, Bob Dylan/Bryan Setzer, Outlaws/38 Special, Weird Al Yankovic, Village People, Michael W Smith/Jars of Clay/3 Crosses, Jefferson Airplane, ELO, Loretta Lynn, Kingston Trio, Don Mclean[twice] Country Joe Mcdonald, Phish, John Mellencamp, John Conley. I know I am forgetting a few

I think the best shows I remember were Weird Al and Charlie Daniels,

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Best show I saw at Braden was John Prine & Steve Goodman. This was about a month before Steve died.

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

The first album i remember owning is Toto IV.

My first not-a-CSO-or-Ravinia concert was Jethro Tull. (And i remember going, "Hey!! That's Ian Anderson! He's like a professional flautist! He's in a rock band?"

[stagger-lee77.livejournal.com]

first record? see icon.

first concert? the lemonheads at duke.

[coburnsteeth.livejournal.com]

First record: Raiders of the Lost Ark Audio Record.
First Concert: (1989) fIREHOSE at First Avenue

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

The first one I can remember is Miami Sound Machine 'Primitive Love'.

A kinda 'so-so' rock group playing in a club in Oceanside, CA. I have no idea who they were.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

You are so going to laugh at me.

Record: Lily Tomlin comedy album, THIS IS A RECORDING. Music record: probably Carole King's RHYMES AND REASONS, the followup to TAPESTRY which my parents already bought me the previous year.

Concert: mall appearance by Steven Stills. I'm not kidding.

[bobolium.livejournal.com]

First Album I bought with my own damn money: NWA - Straight Outta Compton.
First Album I stole: Cyndi Lauper.
First Album from parent: I dunno, but it seems to me that the world went Huey Lewis for no reason for a while in the mid 80's. Janis Joplin also featured prominently in my parental home.

First concert with parent: Moody Blues and ELO
First concert without parent: DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince with Run DMC and Public Enemy when I was 13. I got in trouble for walking home after the concert because there was an ambulance out front and my mom didn't know where I was when she was trying to pick me up.

[philady.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the first record I bought with my own money, but when I got my first CD player, the CDs that my parents got me to go with it were Paula Abdul and Roxette (eeeeeeeek). The first CDs I asked for them to buy me were They Might Be Giants' self-titled album, and Pink Floyd's "The Wall."

The first concert I went to was They Might Be Giants. It was at an outdoor alefest thingy in Minneapolis or St. Paul (I can't remember). It rained, and it was awesome.

[starstraf.livejournal.com]

My first Album (vs 45)
1975 K-Tel Music express - hits it had Chevy Van, Run Joey Run,
AHHH - you can still get this
http://www.amazon.com/K-Tels-Music-Express-Various/dp/B000MNK4J2/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1200926064&sr=1-12
My second was Aerosmith Toys in the Attic

First concert was Meatloaf