The first record I got was The Rolling Stones "NOW" with Little Red Rooster on it. Not so unusual until you consider that I didn't have a record player. But I said to myself, "when I get a record player, this is what I will listen to." So I used to carry it with me, to the language laboratory at Rhode Island College, and between studying French on the turntables that were available there, I would listen to The Stones. O.K. O.K. make that I would study French in between listening to The Stones...It was Mono and wonderful. I played it so much that it wore out. So I had to get another copy, but that was in Stereo. Not as good. Some of the raw power of the mono got lost.
Everything prior to was on an 1960 Emerson radio. One of the first transistor radios, which I still have. Before that a 50's GE radio modded with an external car speaker so I could get "Stereo". Before that it was a crystal set. Oatmeal box, crystal, needle, headset, wired to the plumbing. Got New York from Rhode Island. Comparable to a lunar landing when you are 8-10 years old...
But that first Stones record got me started in the Blues. That and all the Classic Rock&Roll(a lot with a country blend) from 1953 to the dawn of the 60's...
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