The boombox & you & the music ?

[Drew]

Going back to the begining, what was the bbx and what was the music that you played through it ?

For me, I have to go back 37 years, (lord I'm getting old !) It was my Sony CF-550 and Led Zeppelin concerts recorded off FM radio. I was the only 12 year old who had a portable cassette recorder in my sixth grade class, and yes, it got me in some trouble and was told never to bring it back onto school grounds again

That little Sony was not big and loud, but made quality recordings.

 

[Oklahoma Wolf]

1985 - Mom bought me my first boombox, a Pulser CC-4000. First thing played on the tape deck was Falco 3, first song was Rock Me Amadeus. Until I got my Pioneer SK-650 the other week, this was also the best boombox tape deck I've ever had. Even my Panasonic RX-DS20 couldn't keep up with it for sound quality.

 

[Barrys_Bapz]

I'm only 20 so I haven't been in the game that long but, a few weeks age I walked to college with my GF777 and an AUX cable pumping out Zef Side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOljfxuXVT8

The campus manage was going ****ing mad "turn that OFF! this is not a disco" hope there is more of it to come.

 

[fresh produce]

Me 2 I haven't been around that long iam 23 my favorite radio I like 2 walk around with is my conion c100f or my lasonic 931 blasting some House of Pain JUMP that song always gets the party started

 

[mellymelsr]

For me it was the summer of 81...I was 13 and had a brand new Panasonic 5150 and my best friend had an M70. We walked everywhere with those radios. The park, Boy's Club, the Mall, on the bus, everywhere! My music of choice back then was electronic funk, soul, r&b, and rap. Favorite bands were The Gap Band and Parliament/Funkadelic. That boombox and the music played on it brought me more joy than I can explain. If you had music to play there were always people hanging around (ie girls) so life was good. Having boomboxes today allows me to go back in time and remember the good old days.

 

[baddboybill]

I believe spring /summer of 1983 and I was 14. My friend and I would roam the streets with our boomers He had a Marantz crs 4000 and I had my CEC (avatar). We use to jam to all sorts of Rock n Roll like Def Leppard, Ozzy, Ted Nugent, Scorpions, and so on That was the coolest summer, good friends, hot chicks, and great tunes on the bbx's

 

[Pointdexter1906]

College, 86 -- a friend of mine from Trenton, NJ had all these WBL Kickin' S (New York) mix tapes with club/house music on them. Colonel Abrams, Sharon Brown, C-Bank, Private Possession feat. Hunter Hayes... pure 80s club classics. I had a JVC 3-piecer, don't remember the exact model number...

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

For me it was the summer of 81...I was 13 and had a brand new Panasonic 5150 and my best friend had an M70. We walked everywhere with those radios. The park, Boy's Club, the Mall, on the bus, everywhere! My music of choice back then was electronic funk, soul, r&b, and rap. Favorite bands were The Gap Band and Parliament/Funkadelic. That boombox and the music played on it brought me more joy than I can explain. If you had music to play there were always people hanging around (ie girls) so life was good. Having boomboxes today allows me to go back in time and remember the good old days.

In 83 me and my Lasonic TRC 920 went every where and although 90% of the time I was listening to AC/DC, Van Halen and other Rock, Like Melly I would play what ever brought the girls!

If they had a mix tape, I would pretend to be totally ANNOYED to have to play it :annoyed: But the truth was, I was more then happy to get that face time.

Yet another great reason to be one of the few on the block with a boombox!

I had a buddy up the street who "Kind Of Had" a radio. It was really his dads. His dad used to workout in the garage and used the radio for that and when his dad would go to work my buddy would sneak it out. I lived at the end of the block on the corner, he lived mid block. Well, one day we were on the corner in front of my house with the radios, vying for the girls attention when his dad came home from work early.

I remember his dad driving by....stopping, thinking "Did I just see what I saw?" and backing up...He got out of the car, (we thought his dad was going to knock his head clean off in front of us as was common of the time!) he GRABBED his stereo, not saying a word and got back in the car and drove off. My buddy ran home a few minutes later. We didn't see him for a week! THAT WAS THE END OF THAT. I continued to rule supreme with the 920 the rest of the summer!

In hind site I now realize that radio meant as much to his dad as they do to us and being NEW and a $300 item back in 1983. That was a big deal. Of course we were snot nosed 13 years olds that destroyed everything we touched, so I'm sure that added some weight to the situation!