Your First Music Purchase
Back in early July, Jambands.com posted an article entitled “Used with Derek Trucks”, which opened up with the following:
Much can be learned about someone from the first album that they bought with their own money. For Stanton Moore, the eccentric and outrageously talented drummer for New Orleans funk gurus Galactic, it was the Grease/ movie soundtrack. Dan Fogelberg’s “Leader of the Band” inspired Jim James of My Morning Jacket to the point of tears as a kid. John Bell’s first album was fittingly George Carlin’s Class Clown. Vince Herman grew up in Pittsburgh listening to Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy. And an early influence on guitar maniac Eric McFadden was the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bullocks. For Derek Trucks, the 26-year-old guitar virtuoso for the Allman Brothers Band, the first music he remembers purchasing as a kid was a blues compilation tape at a truck stop. “It was one of those five-dollars, truck-stop blues compilations that you get at the cash register,” Trucks remembers. “Those were the first record shops I hit up. My music shopping started out on the road.” Howlin’ Wolf, Bobby Blue Bland and B.B. King made up much of that first compilation tape that Trucks bought, but he eventually became interested in the musicians that inspired those artists, leading him to the blues music of the Mississippi Delta and the songs of Son House, Bukka White, Blind Willie Johnson and Skip James. … - Click here for the complete story.
This got me to wondering about some of the first music purchases TMNS.net listeners/readers might have made.
For me, I’ll break mine up into two areas. The first music I ever received, that was of my own asking, was two 8-tracks purchased by my mother along with a portable 8-track player for my birthday. The two tapes were KISS/Love Gun and Steve Miller/Book of Dreams.
The first music purchase I ever made on my own was Styx/The Grand Illusion purchased on vinyl.
So there’s a lil’ insight into my early music psyche. So what was your first music purchase? [Ed]
Cross-posted on TMNS.net
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