Getting mac-album-stories

[cliffdweller]

Originally posted by shackin'up
Well, Talking about the reissues I felt the need to tell a personal story about I got my Tusk album back in '79. But that story was a bit off topic in that thread, so I deleted my post there and start a new one with it here. ( thanks for your reaction Christy!)

Do you like to share special moments about getting a Mac-release?

Well, this is mine.

Now, I think this is the moment to tell about how I got The Album back in '79...

I was almost 14 years old and in love with the Mac for two years at the moment Tusk came out. I was torturing the recordstore-guys for months and months asking about release-dates and it felt like ages until the day came that IT was there. I called all 4 recordstores of my hometown to ask if The Album came out that morning and only one said: wait a minute, I'm just opening the packages.... I waited for a minute....felt like half an hour...and he said, Yes! 29,95! ( dutch guilders ). I was a bit shocked at the price, but I had gathered money for months so I grabbed 30 piek and jumped on my bike with my heart pumping in overdrive. I was downtown in about 15 minutes and could not wait to go back home. I put down the money and he said... don't you wanna hear it? You asked me about this damn record a thousand times and you don't want to listen? So he unpacked the whole thing, while he was complaining about all the covers and that there was more paper than vinyl in there. I listened to over and over, which I loved immediately because of the warm sound and then The Ledge started and I did not know if I had to cry of disappointment or happiness because I felt both at the same time. This was so weird and different, but it was so great to hear that fantastic voice coming from everywhere I got a thick throat and I began to sweat. I said to the man, in a vibrating voice: this is so amazing, I have to listen to this at home. "Is it good?" he asked while putting The Album in it's perfect fitting plastic bag.
"don't know yet. Maybe IT's trash, maybe IT's brilliant. But I don't think IT is like Rumours."

I hung the bag on the the right side of my steer and rode home as fast as I could. At 75 % of my ride home, it happened. My right knee catched the bottom of the plastic bag and the above side of The Record hit my steer. I was riding the bike so hard that all those covers and Two Thick Vinyl Plates cracked. An angle of 90 degrees was hanging on my steer when Fell on the side walk of the street and scratched my elbow. It was bleeding but I did not see that until much later, my trousers were torn a little bit, too, but my eyes went blurry looking at that Perfect Hook in Plastic hanging on the steer.

I walked back to the record store crying. With no money left I put The Thing on the counter. The man looked at me: " did you have an accident? Are you alright?" I said with a thin voice: " yes, But Tusk is not...."

He looked at IT, packed a new one, gave it to me and said: "Let This Thing be brilliant damn it! Go home, boy, but don't rush!"

In the months afterwards, That Album unleashed IT's beauty to me. But until today, I'm regretting that I left the store without my broken album. Would have been a beautiful token of the turning point in my music- taste. Yes, the best selling band in the world got me interested in alternative-even underground- music, through Tusk. The best Album ever recorded by anyone.

gerald

okay...I think I'm gonna cry now.

[shackin'up]

Originally posted by tommer

but when it comes to FM i can become (highly uncharacteristicly) very resourceful,

Yes, that's recognizable....

[shackin'up]

Originally posted by cliffdweller


okay...I think I'm gonna cry now.

sorry... just told what happened...

[shackin'up]

Originally posted by marc402
me neither

I bought it put it in my discman , walked out of the store and when i got to the second track i loved it so much i rushed back to the store to get the other one aswell
and even the best of peter green splinter group later that day in another store.

At least you topped my story financially...you did not use 30 piek that day!

[shackin'up]

Originally posted by DownOnRodeo


So then it was a matter of riding home on my bike with an LP in a plastic bag hanging off one of the handlebars! Cause it was blowing around everywhere, I had to stabilise it with one hand. I felt so crazy!!

Well, next time: look out for your knee!

Funny that you mention the live-album, because that's the other album that has a personal story: I broke my collarbone once because of my love for that album. But that story would be off-topic, because it was not happening during the purchasing of that album, but a couple of years later.

[shackin'up]

Originally posted by darklinensuit
As a sophomore I actually cut a college class to go buy the Greatest Hits cassestte when it came out. I listened to the new songs in my little Sentra as I hurried back for an International Relations class. The little fold-out photo got passed around the room a few times, as many guys wanted a few looks at Stevie in that kitten pose on the floor in the low-cut black dress.
I don't remember anything else from class that day, but don't tell my students. I like to tell them that studies are always the most important. File that under Lies Teachers Tell.

- Jake

That's the only Lie this teacher can't get over his lips...

[shackin'up]

Originally posted by GardenStateGirlie
I just remember my parents buying me Greatest Hits when it came out because they knew how much I loved Fleetwood Mac. Not a really spectacular story but they surprised me with it and I sat on the floor all day long and kept playing it over and over again. I remember opening it up and looking at the picture and being very confused as to why there was no Lindsey....and why Stevie's boobs were hanging out of her dress

Well, GH, The very best of, and Time are the only Mac-albums I don't own. At least you and darklinensuit gave me one reason to purchase one of them...

[darklinensuit]

Originally posted by shackin'up
Well, GH, The very best of, and Time are the only Mac-albums I don't own. At least you and darklinensuit gave me one reason to purchase one of them...

VBO is far superior to GH. You can find that GH photo online, I'm sure.

- Jake