Miscellaneous Your first LP

jools · Mar 12, 2008

hahah. I know, I know. Give me a break here, I was 17. I knew no better.

:laugh:

philthd · Mar 12, 2008

"when i was 17
i drank some very good beer...."

jools · Mar 12, 2008

-genius

...old "blue icy back"

Bobby G · Mar 12, 2008

When I was 17 it was cider, barley wine and gin :x :x and Rory Gallagher, bless 'im

RedBottom · Mar 12, 2008

Erm ... this one:

http://images.donnymedia.com/discography/a_time_for_us.jpg

:blush:

andrew_sanders · Mar 12, 2008

with the beatles (we must be of a similar age mike)
Best of Bob Dylan.
Also had Bumpers (still have it but it sounds like they are all eating crisps) Great cheapo album with Free, Nick Drake, Cat Stevens.
First jazz album Inner Mounting Flame. God it freaked my mum and Dad out.

Bobby G · Mar 12, 2008

I have the set of those Island samplers, nearly - Bumpers, Nice Enough To Eat and El Pea. Nearly everything I liked when I was about 14/15 seemed to be on Island and I liked nearly everything on Island.... still have a lot of time for Dr Strangely Strange, John (& Beverley) Martyn, the Fairports and Nick Drake...

peter_fitton · Mar 13, 2008

Bobby G wrote:
I have the set of those Island samplers, nearly - Bumpers, Nice Enough To Eat and El Pea. Nearly everything I liked when I was about 14/15 seemed to be on Island and I liked nearly everything on Island.... still have a lot of time for Dr Strangely Strange, John (& Beverley) Martyn, the Fairports and Nick Drake...

Not to mention You Can All Join In. I was exposed to that at a very young age courtesy of my other sister. Meet on the Ledge was on that along with a load of great stuff. Even a really good Jethro Tull track - Song for Jeffrey. Superb.

Peter

Bobby G · Mar 13, 2008

I am almost ashamed to say that my first real LP as opposed to Island samplers would have been Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick". I loved that record, and still drag it out once in a while, and still enjoy it.

Jules · Mar 13, 2008

Bobby G wrote:
I am almost ashamed to say that my first real LP as opposed to Island samplers would have been Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick". I loved that record, and still drag it out once in a while, and still enjoy it.

Nowt wrong with appreaciating Jethro Tull- great band!

jools · Mar 13, 2008

Heck no... Tull can still cut the mustard after all these years. Glad to have seen them live a few times way back, and still present on my iPod. I reckon it was down to the ingredients that the 'proggers' used to bake their respective 'concept-cakes' from. Jethro Tull used: blues, rock, folk and film-score like avante garde orchestral - all good solid favorites. More importantly they looked 'grungy' (like 'regular' blokes you'd see down the pub) and the lyrics were very sound 'reportage' storytelling classics. Not like Greg Lake's wittering about pre-historic androids taking over the world. Ha.

Great story from a friend of my brother's. When he was at Leicester Uni he was a mate of Ian Anderson, and they both had bands at the time. My brother's mate had a gig in Leeds and asked Tull to support. His pride and joy is a framed poster: "The Derek Bentley Blues Experience. Supported by Jethro Tull". Still, who'd have known back then - they were all unknown.

Bobby G · Mar 13, 2008

I still have a memory of seeing Jethro Tull billed somewhere as Jethro Toe. I only saw them the once, when they debuted the Passion Play album (which I loathed upon hearing it) but the second half was much better, containing Thick as a Brick and other good tunes. Support was Robin 'no, listen, I sound like Hendrix, no really' Trower.

Ian Anderson's a bit of a multi-instrumentalist isn't he? As well as the flute and guitar, he's also known to play violin and saxophone. Apparently he only took up flute as an alternative to lead guitar playing as he felt he wasn't good enough.

jools · Mar 13, 2008

hahah, yeh. If you can get hold of a copy of "Aqualung" the anniversary 're-mastered' CD, there's a lengthy interview at the end in which he describes how he was dis-satisfied with the sound of the band and wanted some different 'colours' (combined with the fact, like you say, that he just wasn't confident enough to play guitar AND sing) he wanted a small instrument that was more of a 'prop' on stage. Apparently, he went into his local music shop and just saw 'this shiny tube thing' and said "I'll have one of those" Necessity being the mother of invention and all... amazing that he went on to give the instrument it's 'defining' image as a rock instrument.

Mikec · Mar 13, 2008

Andrew Sanders wrote:
with the beatles (we must be of a similar age mike)
Best of Bob Dylan.

Undoubtedly. My second LP was also Best of Bob Dylan. Many of my purchases since have been Bob Dylan, though I grew out of the Beatles. Having said that, I played the White Album recently, and it sounded pretty good.

Also had Bumpers (still have it but it sounds like they are all eating crisps) Great cheapo album with Free, Nick Drake, Cat Stevens.
First jazz album Inner Mounting Flame. God it freaked my mum and Dad out.

That was the main point, right?

😉

Bobby G · Mar 13, 2008

IMF freaked me out, never mind the parents! There was a whole slew of so-called 'jazz-rock' that I never got at at the time (Return to Forever, Isotope, Larry Coryell etc) as to me it seemed to be at the widdly-widdly end of the larger umbrella of progressive music. Undoubtedly excellent musicianship, but I always preferred the more 'mess-with-your-head' music or the strange hybrid big-band Brit jazz of the time like Centipede, Mike Westbrook and Neil Ardley - Kaleidoscope of Rainbows is a wonderful and sadly much-overlooked album.

sassysax · Mar 13, 2008