Your Firsts...

[Tray73]

Thought it would be interesting to see what a few of your 'firsts' in music were, eg first singles bought, first albums, first concert...
So, please share what your firsts were (fill in as many or as few as you like ):

Vinyl single:

Vinyl 12" EP:

Vinyl LP:

Cassette single:

Cassette album:

CD single:

CD album:

Downloaded single:

Downloaded album:

Music Video/DVD:

Concert attended:

 

[Sox]

Vinyl single: "Roll Over Lay Down" Status Quo

Vinyl 12" EP: "Couldn't Get Ahead" The Fall

Vinyl LP: "In Rock" Deep Purple

Cassette single: ?

Cassette album: "Signals" Rush

CD single: "Are You Gonna Go My Way" Lenny Kravitz

CD album: "Imagine" John Lennon

Downloaded single: ?

Downloaded album: ?

Music Video/DVD: "A New Day Yeaterday" Jethro Tull

Concert attended: Slade

Nice one Tray.

 

[Travelin' Man]

Vinyl single: Band On The Run (the B side was Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five and I played the HELL out of it!) ~ Paul McCartney and Wings

Vinyl 12" EP: N/A

Vinyl LP: Honky Chateau ~ Elton John

Cassette single: N/A

Cassette album: On Through the Night ~ Def Leppard

CD single: N/A

CD album: Journey's Greatest Hits (it was a gift, not an actual purchase)

Downloaded single: Of the illegal type, I don't recall. My first legally downloaded single was Jenny Take a Ride ~ Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels

Downloaded album: **, **, Hoey ~ Gary Hoey

Music Video/DVD: Queen and Paul Rodgers: Return of the Champions

Concert attended: KISS

 

[That 70s Guy]

Vinyl single:Billy Squier "The Stroke/Two Days Gone"

Vinyl 12" EP:Cheap Trick "Found All The Parts"

Vinyl LP:KISS "Alive II"

Cassette single:"Forever"-KISS

Cassette album:"Unmasked"-KISS

CD single:"Someday I'll Be Saturday Night"-Bon Jovi

CD album:"Smashes Thrashes & Hits"-KISS

Downloaded single:n/a

Downloaded album:n/a

Music Video/DVD:VHS:"KISS Animalize Uncensored"
DVD:"Bon Jovi:The Crush Tour"

Concert attended:Alice Cooper with Motorhead

 

[LG]

Nice thread Tracey, I'll have to think hard on that one...been a long time since I thought about some of those moments.

 

[Groovy Man]

Vinyl single: My older sisters and older brother used to buy them, so I listened to theirs. I can't remember which 45 I bought first.

Maybe it was ''Convoy'' BY C.W. McCall?

Vinyl LP: Beach Boys - Surfer Girl (Pickwick Records)

Cassette album: I used to buy blank cassettes (TDK and Maxell) and record my albums and friend's albums onto cassettes through my equalizer, making them better sounding than store bought cassettes.

CD album: Lynyrd Skynyrd - ''One More From The Road ''
and...The Rolling Stones - ''Exile On Main St.''

Music Video/DVD: The Woodstock Movie

Concert attended: Charlie Daniels Band with the New Riders of the Purple Sage, as the opening band.

 

[LG]

Vinyl single: Smokin' in the Boys Room and Radar Love bought the 45's the same day.

Vinyl 12" EP: None, never bought any EP's.

Vinyl LP: Machine Head, Deep Purple

Cassette single: None, did the same as Groovy though made some of my own tapes.

Cassette album: Kansas "Point of Know Return" and it was a deluxe cassette recorded on CBS's half speed mastered series on CRO2 tape.

CD single: None.

CD album: It's hard to remember, it was either Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume One, or America History, both compilations though.

Downloaded single: None(Legally...)

Downloaded album: Only Human - Amon Duul II

Music Video/DVD: Pink Floyd "Delicate Sound of Thunder" on VHS.

Concert attended: Jethro Tull.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Vinyl single:

Vinyl 12" EP:

Vinyl LP: Nirvana In Utero (Albini Mix)

Cassette single:

Cassette album:

CD single:

CD album: Nirvana Nevermind

Downloaded single:

Downloaded album: Megadeth Peace Sells

Music Video/DVD: Rush in Rio

Concert attended: Bruce Springsteen (first country concert was Zac Brown Band. Probably my favorite show I have been to in a while.)

 

[METALPRIEST]

Vinyl single: I think.... Resurrection Shuffle ~ Ashton Garner & Dyke

Vinyl LP: Dressed To Kill ~ KISS

Cassette album: Can't remember

CD single: Tori Amos ~ Silent All These Years

CD album: The Beatles

Music Video/DVD: KISS ~ Animalize Uncensored... I think...wayyy back in the early 80's.

Concert attended: I think it was KISS

 

[Tray73]

Vinyl single: I was about eight and it was an Abba single but I can't remember which

Vinyl 12" EP: Fire Woman - The Cult

Vinyl LP: Remember saving up my pocket money to buy it as soon as it was released - Voulez Vous -Abba

Cassette single: I think it was Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - U2

Cassette album: Back to 1980 and it was Super Trouper - Abba

CD single: Hey You - The Quireboys

CD album: Empire - Queensryche

Downloaded single: Classical Gas - Mason Williams

Downloaded album: Garage Inc. - Metallica

Music Video/DVD: S&M - Metallica

Concert attended: It was either The Quireboys or Little Angels, saw them around the same time and can't remember which was first.