reader's poll

[Ian Derby <csc2imd@cabell.vcu.edu>]

> 
> Michael asks:
>      >what was your first album purchase?
>      >what was your first exposure to the who? 
>      >what was your first concert?
> 


1) at the age of seven, I took my hard earned allowance and bought
(yes I did) Saturday Night Fever.  Looking back on it I laugh,
especially since the age of three I was brought up on a steady diet
of The White Album, Simon and Garfunkel, Nashville Skylike, and the
Mama's and Papas.  


2) After a short flirtation with disco, I came back to my sences.
Around the summer of '78 I kept hearing this 'who who who who' song
on the radio not knowing what it was.  A year later I heard at what
the time I thought was the greatest song every written.  It turned
out to be I Can See For Miles.  Finally in '81 I bought Face Dances
thanks to a friend and the rest is history.


3) Emerson Lake and Powell '86.  I was deep in my progressive rock
phase during this time.  This was following my Zep-Pur-bath years.



Through all of those phases, only the Who and Beatles have
remained.  But the Who eclipsed the Beatles as my favorite band 12
years ago.