so back in the day when you first got your first boombox

[jaetee]

Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force (which, IMHO, is the GREATEST Hip Hop song of all time...), Scorpio by GM Flash and the Furious Five, lots of Kraftwerk, I'm Ready by Kano.... various hits off of my hometown R&B station, WBLZ (no longer in existence...)

Dude, we are so on the same page... That was pretty much my style at the time, too... But that was more second generation stuff for me. Just prior to your playlist I was pounding out some Jacksons, Diana Ross, Cameo, Earth Wind & Fire, early Prince, Parliament, Commodores, Slave, Sugarhill Gang, Brick, Queen, Dazz Band, Mass Production, Kurtis Blow, Lakeside and Con Funk Shun.

Between Poindexter's list and mine, you have the makings of several of my first mixtapes...

...damn, we are on the same page too!!...my first boombox was a Panny 5150 and the first cassette I bought for it was Gap Band III, I wore that tape out I played it so much....I will add Evelyn "Champagne" King to jaetee's list of great artist's from my era. My alltime favorite tape was the Many Facets of Roger...a great boombox tape.

Wow... How could I possibly have forgotten to add the Gap Band to my list. And before there was Roger, he was part of Zapp! And I has was blasting Funkadelicv and Raydio too... I actually still have all of those albums. Just flipped through them again and saw Twennynine & Lenny White, Donna Summer, Rick James, Lipps Inc, Chic... It's an endless list!!! Long live the Funk and Disco!!!

Keep it thumpin' guys!

 

[ford93]

That was a long time ago -but I remember it like yesterday. The Brothers Johnson were my favorite, Ray Parker Jr., Earth Wind and Fire, Commodores, Brick, Con funk shun, Barkays, Yarbrough and Peoples, Gap Band. We thought it was cool to listen to old Smokey Robinson stuff, too. The Cars, J.Geils Band, & Billy Squier had great records out at that time that got played alot too on my GF-8686.

Ahhh yes Appleknocker the Brothers Johnson and what about Crown Heights Affair.

 

[oldskool69]

What about Narada Michael Walden, Gwen Guthrie, The Whatnaughts, Keni Burke, Sunburst Band, Kleer, Tyrone Brunson, Tom Browne, or D-Train, Dayton, Dynasty, Slave, Tanna Gardner, Bernard Wright...

and let me not forget...RJ's Latest Arrival, S.O.S. Band, Lakeside, Midnight Star, Atlantic Starr, Kashif,..

(Whew...this could go on all night!)

 

[Ghettoboom767]

What about Narada Michael Walden, Gwen Guthrie, The Whatnaughts, Keni Burke, Sunburst Band, Kleer, Tyrone Brunson, Tom Browne, or D-Train, Dayton, Dynasty, Slave, Tanna Gardner, Bernard Wright...

and let me not forget...RJ's Latest Arrival, S.O.S. Band, Lakeside, Midnight Star, Atlantic Starr, Kashif,..

(Whew...this could go on all night!)

Wow-freddie-got everything you said & more!! Except Dayton.
I just love the old soul & funk!!
Man don't forget BRICK!!
Have a great one-GB.

 

[Ghettoboom767]

Alright-Buying my brand new M9970 in NYC Manhattan-May 1980'.
Went into the music store-musicland maybe or FYC? But bought for the boombox-A Night At Studio 54 cassette -rare! great disco music!
Also Madeline Kane, & more disco.
David Bowie "Heroes"
Pink Floyd to!
This was some of my earlier purchases.But had some before this to-before my first stereo boombox.
The Brothers Johnson,& one of my favorites-SLAVE!!
Great thread man-GB.

 

[blah blah]

so one thing we know for sure, even if the music was diverse, the boxes were blasting EVERYWHERE

funk
rap
metal
punk
ska
reggae

all sounds better on a box except my toshiba. that thing sucked.

 

[Master Z]

The first tapes I owned I got by jackin' some older kid at an arcade in the mall in 84'.
Dude was hogging a game with his buddy not letting others get a turn and he had a bag from the record shop that he set on he game next to him. Well I guess he was really into the game and wasn't paying attention so I just snatched it and took off running.
The brand new tapes were Whodini - Escape, FatBoys - FatBoys, Run DMC - RunDMC and something that was treasured for years, a copy of Too $hort - Dont stop rappin'!!! Thats $hort's first album that was released only locally in the bay area, so how this kid in Toledo got it, I have no idea, but it was mine now. He had some blank tapes too, probably to record the Too short album, LOL.
3 tapes and 2 blanks would have cost a lot back then, I remember trying to return them for cash because I had the receipt, the clerk grilled me a bunch of questions like who sold them to me cause they had explicit lyrics and I wouldn't have been able to buy them.
The situation was getting out of hand so I just grabbed the bag of tapes and said I didn't want to return them and jet.
Man, I was a little bastard!

Fired them up in my JVC PC-11 for all my friends to hear, and I was hooked.
Before those tapes, I had tons of vinyl my Uncle left me mostly Funk and R&B, Midnight Star, Rick James, The Commdores, GAP Band, Earth Wind and fire, Sugar Hill, GMF and the Furious 5, Bootsy, some funkadelic. and a bunch of pop singles that I'd play on the old man's HiFi. but that's another story.
Good Times and great thread!

 

[bill]

thats a pretty cool story master z.
ahhh the arcade man what a different world this is now.
i mean i think i would kill to be able to experience the first time i walked into a full blown arcade for the first time again.
i remember the smell so well. the smell of hot electronics and the sound of old analog bleeps bloops and drones.
i am reminded of it every time i switch on the old electronics in my studio.
your right too tapes werent cheap i mean if you think about it prerecorded media has not really gone up in price compared to other things.

what a wierd state this world is in now.

 

[ViennaSound]

Queen, Roxette, REOspeedwagon,Eurythmics, .....

 

[2steppa]

Oh in 1985 a pre-recorded cassette of the Paul Hardcastle album on Profile records promo that a mate of mine stole out the sound-room on the USAF base BX

Used to cane that album heavily on the Sharp 8989, and now I own a minty vinyl copy, happily

 

[MasterBlaster84]

That was funny MZ, you were a bit of a thug weren't you?

 

[Master Z]

Nope, just a little punk ass kid(around 7y/o) that was mad at a teenager who didnt let me play an arcade game.
I remember it so vividly, because it was the first time I actually did something wrong, knew it, and didnt care. I was a little hoodlum, but that was a rare occasion, I was a good kid, at least from what they tell me.

 

[MasterBlaster84]

I was a good kid, at least from what they tell me.

They said that about me too but they didn't know about my short thief streak. That's one case where I'm glad I got caught, the Sheriff visit straightened me out quickly on that behavior.

 

[jaetee]

I just found a copy of Yello's "Stella"

Man, what an awesome era for music that was. Thanks for the trips down memory lane, gang!

Great thread...!

Bobby, I'm thinking its time to update the boomboxery playlist!!!!

 

[bill]

oh yeah

sparx.
now there is a band that pretty much no one remembers. too bad i mean they were one of most unique acts of them all.

 

[eldorado]

i had no boombox as a kid,

but the tapes i used on my walkman with speaker

was

my own mixtapes, i was around 8, to 10 yrs,

the music was diverse,

i taped from radio and some vinyls at my uncle's,

from del shanon, to maurice ' this is acid ', royal house ' can you party ',

maddonas vogue, lambada from kaoma,

some ice t, ice mc, vanilla ice, technotronic ' this beat is ',

and later, snap, with ' the power ' , ' mary had a little boy '

great times...

' Praise the Lord !!! '

 

[teamstress]

LOL, I'm still listening to the same music I did in the '80's, classic rock,(a little more classic now!), and 80's pop. Most of the new stuff sucks.

 

[BoomBoxDeluxe]

My first box was one of those Saisho boxes. :annoyed:

It was a thing with speakers though.

Always playin' Chaka Khan: I feel for you, and pretty much recording off the radio what was going about back in '86/87.

I just wish that I had a double cassette though. Didn't get a Double cassette until '93 when I got my Hitachi 3D30, and I used to get upto crazy stuff with that box, which I still have.

The Saisho, however, is long dead. It suffered serious injuries when the handle on it snapped..........

It died a slow death for about 8 years, finally deceasing in the early months of 1997.

-BoomBoxDeluxe.

 

[MONOLITHIC]

I had a double cassette deck Samsung a year before that I used to walk around playing Run-DMC's "Raising Hell" tape, The Real Roxanne's "Bang Zoom", MC Shan's "The Bridge" and other Hip-Hop classics from 1986... The handle broke at one of the chrome ends and I would constantly tape it up with duct tape and walk around the neighborhood.

But the 1st boombox I wanna count as being my 1st "real" boombox was my Lasonic TRC-931 in late 1986/early 1987... I think one of the first songs I played on it was the debut song I taped from a Saturday morning Philly Hip-Hop radio show called "Street Beat with Lady B", "Public Enemy No. 1" by Public Enemy. I remember walking around the corner to a friends house...

(the dude on my right) to show off my new box and marvel at the dopeness of the song - 'cause the hum in the background f*cked my head up! And was he just scratching that hum?!?

Anyway, while I was standing on the steps of another friends house (the dude on my left, who lived next door to the dude on my right), I met a soon-to-be friend of mine (not shown ) who walked up blasting the same song on his gold International version of this box:

Man, I loved the green LED meters on his box and the fact that, at night, you could see them all the way down the street.
Eventually, we had to find out who's box was louder so we went over to his crib and sat them side by side, put our best tapes in and turned up the volume... Months later, he wound up getting the Lasonic you see in this picture:

Still no competition for my box , but he was very happy with it.

 

[eldorado]

I had a double cassette deck Samsung a year before that I used to walk around playing Run-DMC's "Raising Hell" tape, The Real Roxanne's "Bang Zoom", MC Shan's "The Bridge" and other Hip-Hop classics from 1986... The handle broke at one of the chrome ends and I would constantly tape it up with duct tape and walk around the neighborhood.

But the 1st boombox I wanna count as being my 1st "real" boombox was my Lasonic TRC-931 in late 1986/early 1987... I think one of the first songs I played on it was the debut song I taped from a Saturday morning Philly Hip-Hop radio show called "Street Beat with Lady B", "Public Enemy No. 1" by Public Enemy. I remember walking around the corner to a friends house...
[ Image ]
(the dude on my right) to show off my new box and marvel at the dopeness of the song - 'cause the hum in the background f*cked my head up! And was he just scratching that hum?!?

Anyway, while I was standing on the steps of another friends house (the dude on my left, who lived next door to the dude on my right), I met a soon-to-be friend of mine (not shown ) who walked up blasting the same song on his gold International version of this box:
[ Image ]
Man, I loved the green LED meters on his box and the fact that, at night, you could see them all the way down the street.
Eventually, we had to find out who's box was louder so we went over to his crib and sat them side by side, put our best tapes in and turned up the volume... Months later, he wound up getting the Lasonic you see in this picture:
[ Image ]
Still no competition for my box , but he was very happy with it.

now thats something !!!!