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Stool Man 
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 09:08 |
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If you had to stay in just one year, reliving that year over and over again, which year would you choose?
You can do different things and visit different places each time, but every time you reach the end of December 31st of that year, the next day will be January 1st of the same year (similar to the film "Groundhog Day" but over an entire calendar year)
Later years, of course, mean a lot more great albums available to listen to, but being present at concerts would be more important when you're stuck in one year. I had a great 2014, but I wouldn't want every year to be 2014 over and over again.
I would choose 1970, the only year in which it would be possible to go
to gigs by Jimi Hendrix and Funkadelic. It's also my favourite year of
my favourite band, Pink Floyd.
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 10:45 |
The problem is that you haven't factored in other circumstances. I would choose 1973 for music (rather arbitrarily, it just seems like there was a lot of good music and concerts around at that time), but the trouble is that in 1973 I had no money to buy concert tickets, am not sure I was making good musical choices then and I would shoot myself now sooner than be 15 again. so are we going back to the past with our current selves, tastes and incomes intact, so we can actually enjoy it? and if so, will Sonny and Cher be on the radio every morning?
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 10:53 |
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1974, and I'd beg, borrow, and steal to see every Crimso' gig in the land. There was magic in the air...
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The Doctor
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 11:01 |
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If could pull a Sam Tyler (i.e. wake up in my current form but years in the past), I would go with probably the year he ended up in, 1973. But if I would just go back to being the person I was in 1973 (4 years old), I'd choose maybe 1986. But, with both, it would be for a lot of reasons that had nothing to do with music.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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sublime220
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 11:20 |
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Idk, depends on my future. Probably 1979 when most bands were still around but new ones were emerging.
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There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...
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CPicard
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 11:29 |
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I chose the year 2237: due to a solar eruption, all electronic systems created before the 23th century are kaputt and musical archaelogists have to listen to the 21th century music on tapes and vinyle.
My win. I started collecting all my musical compositions and recordings on tapes.
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 11:47 |
1978 I was 5 years old : No school, absolutely no responsability, total freedom and a ton of fun. 
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 11:52 |
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creepy quest
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Padraic
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 12:30 |
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I'd like to think the best year of my life is yet to come.
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Progosopher
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 12:49 |
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If I had the opportunity to fix past mistakes and missed opportunities, I would go back to 1982 when I was 22 years old and in college. This has nothing to do with the music, however. If that was the only consideration I don't think I would do it. Almost all music of the past is available now, and I am enjoying live performances more than ever before (most of which are classical.) It would be nice, however, to simply time travel at will and see classic Prog shows like PG-era Genesis, Yes on the Relayer tour, Tull doing Thick as a Brick and Passion Play, Jimi Hendrix, etc.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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moshkito
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 14:50 |
Hi,
None!
I would create my own, even if it was in my head!
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Barbu
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 15:11 |
 tamijo wrote:
creepy quest |
You ain't seen nothing yet, dude.
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Progosopher
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 15:58 |
Barbu wrote:
tamijo wrote:
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You ain't seen nothing yet, dude. |
Now you've piqued my curiosity. 
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Stool Man
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 17:41 |
emigre80 wrote:
The problem is that you haven't factored in other circumstances. I would choose 1973 for music (rather arbitrarily, it just seems like there was a lot of good music and concerts around at that time), but the trouble is that in 1973 I had no money to buy concert tickets, am not sure I was making good musical choices then and I would shoot myself now sooner than be 15 again. so are we going back to the past with our current selves, tastes and incomes intact, so we can actually enjoy it? and if so, will Sonny and Cher be on the radio every morning? |
You would be the age you actually are today (otherwise people born after the 70s wouldn't be able to choose any pre-1980 year) I was seven at the start of 1970, so wouldn't be allowed into any gigs at that age.
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 18:00 |
1974-I could see my favourite band Triumvirat promoting one of their best records, "Illusions On a Double Dimple", played by their best lineup (Jurgen Fritz, Helmut Koellen, Hans Bathelt). Also could see some of my other favourite bands in concert with their greatest lineups and great albums being promoted, like Passport doing the "Looking Thru" Tour, and Dzyan promoting their "Time Machine" record.
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 18:06 |
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1974......last year of Graduate School, got married that year...good times...good friends...good music.....
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin
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emigre80
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 22:02 |
Stool Man wrote:
I was seven at the start of 1970, so wouldn't be allowed into any gigs at that age.
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I don't know about that - a friend of mine saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium when she was six. Her older sister took her. All you'd need is some obliging siblings...
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 22:05 |
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2014. I was so young and full of purpose.
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 22:27 |
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There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 23:06 |
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