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Post by pothos on Mar 29, 2017 22:51:43 GMT
After going through a box of vinyl I found I own a copy of the Beatles Rock and Roll Music vol 1 with the white cover. Odd that my first Beatles purchase was that LP.
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Post by brewmaster on Mar 30, 2017 9:28:54 GMT
I bought Sgt Pepper when it first came out. At the time I was living in an apartment and my [cheap] record player packed up. So I spent quite a while just reading the album sleeve and looking at the cover. Sad, I know; but when I actually got to play the album I appreciated it so much.
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Post by Amadeus on Mar 30, 2017 13:33:31 GMT
The first Beatles lp I ever bought, in fact the 1st lp ever that I bought was one of the many many repackaging of the Star Club stuff. The Beatles Early Years vol 2.
The second one was a hammered copy of The Beatles Second Album. Number 3 was Hollywood Bowl. After that it becomes a bit hazy.
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Post by lovelyrita1 on Mar 30, 2017 14:42:50 GMT
my first Beatles album is quite an interesting story. The music scene was going through a dull period, 73 to 76 and i was in a record shop(remember them) and noticed The Beatles section, i remembered when i was a little boy i liked them. In particular when i was 6 I absolutely loved I Feel Fine, especially the intro of feedback that always gave me a happy tingle, so i looked at both 62-66 and 67-70 and weirdly i recognised more songs on the red album than i did the blue one,unbelievably i didn't recognise "I Am The Walrus or Strawberry Fields Forever" even though it was more recent, so i purchased the Red Album 62-66. A month or two later i went with my youth club to our annual camp in Deal and i hung out in the Sgt Mess where they had a record player and a copy of 67-70 so put it on, wow , hearing Walrus and Strawberry Fields was like a light going on. I was completely blown away , maybe i was too young when these came out for my brain to get the complexity of these songs. Then later i came to another all time favourite , Hey Jude(of course i knew that one)the climax is sensational, possibly my all time favourite clip of the Beatles is the climax on the Frost programme where the audience climb on stage and greeted them as musical messiah's, and that's what they were. So anyway as soon as i got back home, i said to my brother , you have to get 67-70, and praise the lord , a miracle, he'd bought it whilst i was on holiday, however, one sad footnote on Hey Jude as we approached the climax , "better better"...it jumped to the Ahhs and the Na Na Na's so we had to put a little weight on the stylus to cack-handedly fix it so there was a smooth transition to the climax. It was from buying 62-66 onwards that my passion for the Beatles grew and grew and shows no sign of stopping or slowing down.
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Post by Amadeus on Mar 31, 2017 15:24:56 GMT
Lovelyrita 1 is a boy???
A school friend sold me the Red album on cassette and like you I knew more songs on it than the Blue album which he sold to me as well, and it was a revelation. Then he sold to me (bloody capitalist) the white album on cassette and my mind was officially blown.
THEN I started buying vinyl.
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Post by ROCKY on Mar 31, 2017 19:36:26 GMT
Ha! I don't know if I should be admitting this or not, but my first Beatles LP purchase was 'Meet The Beatles' in mono on Feb.10th, 1964 and I still have it and play it every once in awhile. I bought every other one of their LP's in mono on the release date after that. I think my first stereo purchase was 'Magical Mystery Tour' only because mono had been phased out by then.
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Post by lovelyrita1 on Apr 1, 2017 9:11:44 GMT
Lovelyrita 1 is a boy??? A school friend sold me the Red album on cassette and like you I knew more songs on it than the Blue album which he sold to me as well, and it was a revelation. Then he sold to me (bloody capitalist) the white album on cassette and my mind was officially blown. THEN I started buying vinyl. yes, as the Who Sung, "I'm a boy i'm a boy but my ma won't admit it" ha ha . My actual name is Sam. I just quickly chose Lovely Rita as my forum name as it's one of my favourite Beatle songs, that piano intro with those heavenly Aahhhs always gets me.
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Post by henryj on Apr 1, 2017 11:03:36 GMT
Speaking of Beatle records skipping...when we first got the white album in 1968, it had a skip in the intro to "Birthday."
You know how that guitar lick is played on the tonic chord twice, then the subdominant, then the tonic, then the dominant, then the tonic. Our copy skipped at the end of the subdominant lick to the C#-B-E.
We thought that was how the song went until we heard it on the radio for the first time. The skip was right in rhythm.
AAC#EGF# EA count 2 3 C#BE.
And if Lovelyrita is a guy, maybe I should change my name to Martha My Dear, because of the piano intro on THAT song.
But I'm not gonna do it.
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Post by lovelyrita1 on Apr 1, 2017 13:24:19 GMT
Speaking of Beatle records skipping...when we first got the white album in 1968, it had a skip in the intro to "Birthday." You know how that guitar lick is played on the tonic chord twice, then the subdominant, then the tonic, then the dominant, then the tonic. Our copy skipped at the end of the subdominant lick to the C#-B-E. We thought that was how the song went until we heard it on the radio for the first time. The skip was right in rhythm. AAC#EGF# EA count 2 3 C#BE. And if Lovelyrita is a guy, maybe I should change my name to Martha My Dear, because of the piano intro on THAT song. But I'm not gonna do it. Martha my dear also has a great intro. I only chose Lovely Rita as that was my favourite Beatle song that day, on another day it could have been many others. I had an elongated battle to log in on the forum so Lovely Rita popped into my head. At work we have to change passwords every couple of months, i always use Beatles songs and albums but have used so much. I was about to change one of the passwords to Elementary Penguin until i realised this was a bit too long to do this every day, so settled for Lady Madonna1. In Hindsight Elementary Penguin would have been a more macho forum name ha ha .
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Post by ROCKY on Apr 1, 2017 13:28:08 GMT
A boy named Sue. I believe pothos may be the only woman amongst us. We do have that doo-hicky in the avatar for gender if that means anything. But nowadays that doesn't even get you into the right bathroom anymore.
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Post by lovelyrita1 on Apr 1, 2017 14:16:14 GMT
A boy named Sue. I believe pothos may be the only woman amongst us. We do have that doo-hicky in the avatar for gender if that means anything. But nowadays that doesn't even get you into the right bathroom anymore. great last line ha ha . There seems to about 8 different categories to describe your sex nowadays.
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Post by Amadeus on Apr 1, 2017 14:21:58 GMT
Lovelyrita 1 is a boy??? . yes, as the Who Sung, "I'm a boy i'm a boy but my ma won't admit it" ha ha . My actual name is Sam. I just quickly chose Lovely Rita as my forum name as it's one of my favourite Beatle songs, that piano intro with those heavenly Aahhhs always gets me. So, by saying Sam you mean Samantha. I was thrilled the day I found the white album on white wax. I was 15 so it felt like a bigger deal than it actually was.
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Post by lovelyrita1 on Apr 1, 2017 14:27:59 GMT
yes, as the Who Sung, "I'm a boy i'm a boy but my ma won't admit it" ha ha . My actual name is Sam. I just quickly chose Lovely Rita as my forum name as it's one of my favourite Beatle songs, that piano intro with those heavenly Aahhhs always gets me. So, by saying Sam you mean Samantha. I was thrilled the day I found the white album on white wax. I was 15 so it felt like a bigger deal than it actually was. yes i think the great pop philosopher , Cliff Richard tackled this issue in his epic hit, Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha.
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Post by Amadeus on Apr 1, 2017 16:20:08 GMT
Bloody hell!
In 1985 I lost out on a chance to get a half decent butcher sleeve for 900 Canadian dollars. I had loads of money, that wasn't the issue. I just thought that when I looked back at my life, spending a fortune like that on a record would have been an extravagant waste and I should be embarrassed.
Welp,,, here I am poor now......
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Post by pothos on Apr 1, 2017 16:25:05 GMT
Surely I am not the only women on the forum. The male friend of mine who was looking at my records last week used the word eclectic about me. I genuinely cannot recall a time when I did not like music and it is only lack of finances that has stopped me having many more lp's I am now and will always be officially a weirdo.
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Post by ROCKY on Apr 2, 2017 16:34:51 GMT
I am now and will always be officially a weirdo. That's why you fit in here with the rest of us weirdos pothos. We travel in bunches.
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Post by Fiendish Thingy on Apr 2, 2017 20:05:17 GMT
Bloody hell! In 1985 I lost out on a chance to get a half decent butcher sleeve for 900 Canadian dollars. I had loads of money, that wasn't the issue. I just thought that when I looked back at my life, spending a fortune like that on a record would have been an extravagant waste and I should be embarrassed. Welp,,, here I am poor now...... Is that a riches to rags story Amadeus?
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Post by Fiendish Thingy on Apr 2, 2017 20:20:45 GMT
Surely I am not the only women on the forum. The male friend of mine who was looking at my records last week used the word eclectic about me. I genuinely cannot recall a time when I did not like music and it is only lack of finances that has stopped me having many more lp's I am now and will always be officially a weirdo. I don't think so Pothos - the law of averages would dictate. Wasn't there someone called Nancy (She could have been a boy though!) on the Shoutbox a few weeks ago asking about this year's Beatle Week in Liverpool? Maybe her name was Magill but she called herself Lil . . . . . .
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Post by lovelyrita1 on Apr 3, 2017 10:30:09 GMT
Surely I am not the only women on the forum. The male friend of mine who was looking at my records last week used the word eclectic about me. I genuinely cannot recall a time when I did not like music and it is only lack of finances that has stopped me having many more lp's I am now and will always be officially a weirdo. It's something that has puzzled me for years , why is that guys seem much more passionate about music, knowing bands , tracks and are always on the look for the holy grail , a girl that likes the "correct music " , it's a rarity to find girls with a passion for music in the same way we guys obsess about these things. When i'm quiet at work i invariably play music on youtube, sometimes watching concert footage , what continually i'm asking is "where are the girls? it's all blokes, one was The Stranglers at the roundhouse ,30th anniversary of Rattus, and another was The Prodigy in Russia, just a sea of blokes(never used to be like that at Prodigy gigs when they first started. Here's what i mean from The Stragnlers.
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Post by Amadeus on Apr 3, 2017 12:39:08 GMT
It's true. BUT I found the Holy grail. My wife is passionate about music. Not in the knowledge of track variations or catalogue numbers etc but in the sheer variety of stuff she likes to listen to. Our tastes pretty much line up. We both have no idea what goes on at the Grammy awards. No idea who's hip.
My tastes go from extreme to extreme. From 60s pop to prog to metal to punk to noise to hillbilly music and all points in between. And shes just as into it all even before we met. We've NEVER said to each other "could you take that bloody racket off".
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