(Ray Brandes asks how your first musical love looks in the stark light of adulthood.)
In an essay in Esquire, celebrated rock and roll historian Ben Fong-Torres once formulated “the Puberty Principle,” which holds that the music we listen to in young adolescence is the music that informs our tastes throughout our lifetime. Why not test this idea using ourselves as subjects?
What was the first record (cassette, eight-track tape or CD) you ever purchased? What was the first concert you ever attended? How good of a predictor of your tastes was that “first” experience?