Dave doesn't live here man.

In this order...

First Cassette : Twisted Sister Stay Hungry

First Record : Prince Purple Rain

First CD : Cypress Hill

First Digital Song came with my Win95 HP

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Quiet riot -- mental health

My first vinyl was Thriller. I dont recall ever buying any cassettes. Used the radio mostly. oh how its great to not be a poor kid any more lol.

The Chronic.

My parents were not pleased.

Ok, now, you gotta realize something: I learned to ride a bike late in life, around the age of 12, and my mom would only let me go somewhere if one of my older brothers was going there too. One of my brothers decided to collect 78 RPM records. Two of the places I remember well were the Rescue Army Store and Peggy's Swap Shop. That second one was a converted garage!

I started looking at the records, too, since he was going through as many as several hundred at a time and I had time to kill. I ran across this album and sort of recognized the names:



This was actually an album, too, like a photo album: it had four separate "pages" with a record in each page. It cost forty cents, too, which was cheap. That helped me decide to buy more. And I loved the music. (My dad was a reed player turned engineer and had taken us boys to see The Benny Goodman Story [a truly horrible movie] about seven years earlier.)

I still have that album. And about 2,000 more 78s.

Herbie Hancock Future Shock
Twisted Sister Stay Hungry
Quiet Riot Metal Health
Wierd Al In 3-D

Quiet Riot - Metal Health - Vinyl - still have it.
Van Halen - JUMP on 45.

Yeah, that was the first album I bought too.

The first album that I BOUGHT [not borrowed and dubbed or stole from my dad's collection] was Billy Squier, Don't Say No.

The first albums I seriously *imprinted on* were:
Neil Young, Harvest
Rod Stewart, Maggie May [Single]
Paul McCartney/Wings, Band on the Run
Peter Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive
Boston, Boston
Rush, Exit Stage Left
Rush, Moving Pictures
U2, Unforgettable Fire
Van Halen, Diver Down
Van Halen, Women and Children First

I thought he lived there, but "Dave's not here, man."

We recorded them live at The Troubadour.
By the time they were a hit, three of us had a recording company. We recorded about ten percent of the acts that were at the Whisky or the Troubadour. The recordings were in discrete quad and sounded INCREDIBLE, though we quickly learned that a GREAT live performance most often makes a mediocre playback. Something about being there makes things better.

Oh, and the four channel recordings were mixed down to mono at a local AM station, KDAY, played once, and then the tapes were destroyed. We even had someone from the Musician's Union watching us to be sure we didn't bootleg anything. Frown freakin' emoji, man.

Madonna's "True Blue" on cassette. From a yard sale around the corner and across the park. The guy was a mechanic and worked on our cars when it was something my dad could not or did not want to do. I was maybe 11. I think I may have paid $.75 for it or something close. Not my brightest moment for sure.

1st one i purchased ... J.geils band ... cassette
2nd was a Van Halen... cassette

FM Live by Climax Blues Band.

When I was about 6 years old, I used to fall while riding my bike in front of a house at the opposite corner of the block because part of the sidewalk had heaved due to a tree root and the city filled the gap with asphalt. That didn't help me, since my bike still had training wheels. I would ask for them to be removed and they would always say the same thing- "Not until you stop falling" and I would say "I only fall because of the training wheels!". One day, after falling yet again (we weren't allowed to ride in the street and that was at a time when kids didn't disobey their parents), I went home, grabbed a couple of wrenches and took them off, myself. I left the training wheels on my dad's work bench- might have been making a statement and I don't think I have fallen from a bike more than a few times since.

Might have been a horrible movie, but the guest musicians and music were great.

Are you familiar with the name John Hammond? From Wiki, "Hammond was instrumental in sparking or furthering numerous musical careers, including those of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Charlie Christian, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Big Joe Turner, Pete Seeger, Babatunde Olatunji, Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Freddie Green, Leonard Cohen, Arthur Russell, Jim Copp, Asha Puthli and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He is also largely responsible for the revival of delta blues artist Robert Johnson's music.".

Benny Goodman's wife, played by Donna Reed, was Hammond's sister.