Do you remember the first record or album you bought?

Do you still have it as well?

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When I was maybe 11, asked a friend who had an older brother (maybe 18-20) what a good rock album would be to buy. So, my first album was Ummagumma by Pink Floyd. Okay, that is not what I would consider a good primer for a kid, I failed to realize his bro was something of a burnout hippy. I appreciated it more later, and yes, I still have it.

ArtieKat · M

@BrewCityBarfly I've still got my vinyl copy of Ummagumma. The Floyd were the first band I saw live in 1968/9

BrewCityBarfly · M

@ArtieKat I went back to my friend that the album wasn't a fave, and then his bro recommended Black Sabbath Paranoid. That is still one of my favorite albums. Ironically, I started collecting Floyd albums when I was older.

ArtieKat · M

@BrewCityBarfly I saw Black Sabbath touring "Paranoid" - I only went because their specials guests were "Curved Air", whom - at the time - I thought were brilliant.

BrewCityBarfly · M

@ArtieKat Awesome. By the time I started going to concerts, Ozzy was gone. I was supposed to see him a few years back, but his health issues belayed the concert. I saw Pink Floyd in concert, was without Waters. That was fine with me, I was a more of a Gilmour fan.

ArtieKat · M

@BrewCityBarfly I used to see Ozzy quite regularly at one time - he lived just across the road from the pub where I was working at the time (1981) in Wimbledon. So different in real life to his stage persona