First Album You Bought With Your Own Money

Cheap Trick another one of my "have to buy all their albums" bands. Those bands correspond to most of my live concerts, too, because I didn't spend the money if I didn't love them.


Anybody know the band "Kix"? A regional favorite in Baltimore and southern PA. Had a small hit with the ballad "Don't Close Your Eyes" which I hated. Loved them from the first time I heard them on local FM and went to see them almost every chance I got at Hammerjack's and other local clubs and opening for other bigger acts because they were/are a helluva live band!

One of my most favorite songs of theirs:

Saw Kix several times at the grungy-*** Sandbar in Glen Burnie. They went out on tour with Triumph in 1982 but got booted off the tour. Not sure why.

My favorite Kix is still Cold Blood