Back in Black ~ AC/DC
It was 1980 and I working in a big supermarket and making great friends. I was already an AC/DC fan from the 70’s and was still ‘high’ on Highway to Hell.
One of my then crazy friends Chris who seemed to be always blowing up his cheap crappy 12th hand British cars, the most recent being a dirt-box Exorcist-vomit-green Talbot Horizon… invited me back to his parents place over lunch to listen the new AC/DC album ‘Back in Black’. I was in state of mourning Bon Scott’s death and was convinced this new piece would be a complete pile of crap.
Chris had bought the album, on vinyl of course, from a record shop of course, Our Price Records of course, in the morning, on release day, arriving late for work, and he hadn’t heard it.
His parents had one of those “music centre” abominations. Those piece of s*** pseudo-aspirational sideboard a-topping meter-wide slabs with a turntable, a built-in cassette player and a sort of radio tuner.
Chris peeled off the cellophane from the jet black mournful cover and slid out the black vinyl, lifted the huge plastic lid of his Dad’s music centre, mounted the disk on the turntable, turned the volume to max and lowered the needle onto the record.
The first toll of the bell chimed as Hells Bells opened, and we were two hours late back to work.
@divegeester
it feels like the first time
foreigner
when this song would play, i would tell my date that i was a virgin and i was ready to change that status
that and smokin, boston, set me on the path to perdition
great thread
@fmf saidWow yes, the first experience of stereo headphones, in 1974 at 18 for me. A friend took me to her mate’s flat, we were sharing a little smoke and he put his headphones on me. It was a musical explosion in beautiful colours and 3D … Stairway to Heaven 🪐
The first time I ever heard music through stereo headphones was in 1977 in a booth in Cloud Nine record shop in the High Street: it was "Heroes" by David Bowie. It created a tingling sensation throughout my body. I literally almost wet myself.
@divegeester saidSongbird, by Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac. I was 19, this came on my car radio late at night. I drove an extra 4 miles on the interstate just to hear the whole song!
What are your memories of moments when you first heard THAT track from the new album of your favourite band?
Or maybe the the time you heard a track which got you into a band or artist?
Or something similarly related.
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In around 1959/60 I got a portable stereo, with detachable speakers, for Xmas and with it came a classical LP (William Tell Overture, if memory serves me well). Up until then any records we had 78s, 45s and 33s were played on a big piece of furniture that was our “Hi-Fi”.
@great-big-stees saidMy first boyfriend had one of those big fancy sideboards in his mums ‘best room’. It all looked very posh to me. I remember my sister having her first record player. At 6 the turntable was level with my nose, I used to stand there watching Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen going around, excitingly inhaling the smell of the brand new plastic.
In around 1959/60 I got a portable stereo, with detachable speakers, for Xmas and with it came a classical LP (William Tell Overture, if memory serves me well). Up until then any records we had 78s, 45s and 33s were played on a big piece of furniture that was our “Hi-Fi”.
Track which got me into Led Zeppelin.
Circa 1985 I was late into Zep, as I’m often late into bands and sounds. My long-term flat-mate and then best friend and I had dropped acid and were kicking back in his room, talking and listening to stuff we mutually liked. He said “dive, it’s nuts that you aren’t into Zeppelin, can I play you some?” Him asking me in that way was I feel a sort of respect for the vibe we were both experiencing. So anyway he set up Physical Graffiti and opened with “In the light”.
It was one of those musical “wow” moments for me and we listened to much of the Zeppelin catalogue over the several hours of envibement.
Been a huge fan ever since.
Edit: a song about friendship and relationships…FMF’s headphones are required!
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@divegeester saidI told you to wear depends. 😛 🙂
“Light light light… in the light…”
Gonna listen to the album now, and also admit I’m a teeny bit pissed.
Happy Saturday evening!
-VR
The first time I heard the Mahavishnu Orchestra's "Visions of the Emerald Beyond" in 1983 was also the first time I ever took LSD. It was a memorable experience indeed, in no small part because of the extremely powerful and evocative music. The environment was also rendered stranger than it perhaps should have been. A standard lamp was laid on the ground so all the shadows in the room were 'wrong' and some hamsters were released from their cage. As we lay there, on our backs, on the carpet, completely gripped by Michael Walden's unbelievable pyrotechnic drumming, Jean-Luc Ponty's demented shrieking violin, and, of course, John McLaughlin's psychedelic/soaring guitar... every now and then, the hamsters would scuttle out from the vaguely hideous shadows, and skidaddle across our bodies and faces, shockingly, and yet neither of us was able to remedy the disturbing set of circumstances because it simply seemed more than enough to try and cope with listening to such a fusion of muscular and emotional music.
@fmf saidSounds far out man 🙂
The first time I heard the Mahavishnu Orchestra's "Visions of the Emerald Beyond" in 1983 was also the first time I ever took LSD. It was a memorable experience indeed, in no small part because of the extremely powerful and evocative music. The environment was also rendered stranger than it perhaps should have been. A standard lamp was laid on the ground so all the shadows in th ...[text shortened]... ed more than enough to try and cope with listening to such a fusion of muscular and emotional music.
@fmf saidBlimey that’s awesome!
I'm listening to it now on this overcast Sunday morning. It brings it all back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=440won1IOmM