@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.
@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”.
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.