If you could travel in time only once. What era of music would you travel too?

I would travel 1000 years into the future so I could see if music and earth survived. I would also like to see if the PA top 100 albums were mostly from the 70's still.

Grumpyprogfan wrote: I would also like to see if the PA top 100 albums were mostly from the 70's still.

Don't know why I'm laughing - they will be

 

 

I actually agree with PeePee...

 

I'm going to have to consult a therapist to see if I'm still sane

 

But yeah, I'd probably wish I was born 10 or 15 years sooner to witness Coltrane (and modal jazz in general) and the Frisco scene.

 

Given the actual state of the planet, and the rise of all those frigging  nutcases accessing to power, I wouldn't mind too much being 15 years closer to death nowadays, if I trade them for active music listening from 59 to 69..

 

 

 

 

 

Wow, that's harsh! 

Anyway, for me it would be 1972/73. I was alive but far to young to appreciate(let alone know about) close to the edge and selling england by the pound so I would see those bands(Yes and Genesis)on their tours around that time.

the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ballet "Le Sacre du Printemps" ("The Rites of Spring) performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with the choreography of Vaslav Nijinski. probably the biggest scandal in music history, and no, I did not have to look that up; I heard a radio feature about this scandal once, and it is also one of my favorite compositions of all time.

the premiere of Bela Bartok's "A csodálatos mandarin" ("The Miraculous Mandarin") in Cologne, Germany on Nov 27th 1926 does in my opinion come second (regarding biggest musical scandal). Cologne's Lord Mayor at that time, a certain Konrad Adenauer, who later became the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, prohibited further renditions

...and this is also pretty good stuff, but I don't intend to stick around in the past for 13 years through WW1.

 

 

How can anyone out-do this one?

 

 

I'd go back to 1965 ( I was 7 yrs old). I'd tell my younger self to work his a$$ off so he could spend all his money on vinyl LP records. Buy one to play the livin' crap outta and one to archive unopened, I'd tell him his life depended on it, and that he needed to buy the first pressings and as many Vertigo Swirl labels as he could get his hands on. I'd explain that he will be the envy of all his friends... (ok, male friends. but whatever). Then I would give him a list of artists to secure and unique package releases to obtain.  I'd grow old knowing life is GOOD.

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Just like every thread and post on PA. Ya'll are living in the past. Don't you think there is a chance modern music could be better in 1000 years?

With good chances to be dead in an instant when getting out of the time machine? Thanks but no thanks!

In fact I'd be very interested in witnessing the first time any person consciously used something as a musical instrument, played for an audience for the first time, a group played something consciously composed for the first time etc. Unfortunately these are too imprecise in all likelihood for the time machine to make sense of them. 

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Just like every thread and post on PA. Ya'll are living in the past. Don't you think there is a chance modern music could be better in 1000 years?

There's so much music that's been created in the past 1000 years that I have yet to discover, plus whatever music will be released in my lifetime. I'm honestly not that interested in adding another 1000 years of music to explore when I've barely scratched the surface of what's out there currently.

in a 1000 years the world will be ash so I'm not keen on that idea.

I would go back to see ELP playing Pictures At An Exhibition at Newcastle City Hall in March 1971

I was there. The only time I saw ELP. It was good, but not in my top 20 gigs.

Hercules wrote: I'd go back to Sept 1963 and convince Boris Johnson's father to use a condom.

Oh that's good.  That's very good

Then back a little further to Trump Senior.....

Weird ... I have a lot of "favorites" and all that but me going to spend time with the Amon Duul commune? Not even stoned immaculate! Me going back to watch the girls get frisked at the Rathskeller the same week that a student was shot in Ohio? Me sharing a small apartment with Space Pirate Radio's Guy Guden in its early days? (lots of fun there!).

I saw a lot of "big names" in the arts ... maybe the only thing I wish for is not a time travel, but that people can see and watch how nice and valuable all these folks and arts were at the time, and how so ignored and wasted they are looked at today ... Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar is one. Tangerine Dream at the Greek Theater with the trees getting lit up by the lasers (picture on the Encore album!!!) would be something worth reliving and enjoying, but I would rather have Edgar Froese having tea and crumpets with us, than have to live a memory lane stuff that is ... very depressing for me.

I would like to see one last thing ... more respect from the commercial side of things for the rest of the arts ... all of them are suffering horribly in America, and have been a laughing stock since a couple of presidents some 40 years ago started removing as much money from the arts as they could ... the reason why? Almost all of the arts were handled by "liberal" folks and used on a couple of networks well known for trashing some really big _________ (use your own!) folks ... 

Sometimes I think that too few people (other than this thread ... wow ... thanks everyone) have as much appreciation for rock music as they do classical and more importantly, the history of music and the arts ... not the hysterectomy and killing of the frog in our own hearts!

And bring us the movie, please ... a la Terry Gilliam?

Since Captain Bob never wrote a script it would have to be based upon this, which wasn't that great tbh:

 

 

 

I did, it was sh*t.

Time travel is notoriously problematic for many reasons so to be able to enjoy 1972 again what you have to do is turn back time, like Superman did in Superman 2. Of course that to do that all you have to do is fly around the globe really quickly.

The way our respective governments want to suppress the working classes, sooner than you'd think. It won't be long before we'll be seeing the return of rickets, child labour and, yep, tricorn hats.

You can relive the Drama of Trevor Horn of Buggles taking over from Jon Anderson in YES.  

No, I'll set the machine to delete that part lol.

I actually like the Drama album. I thought Trevor Horn did a pretty good job of standing in for Jon Anderson, and he even sounded a bit like him, although I heard Trevor Horn got booed at by the audience during some of the YES concerts in Britain.

The excitement though really comes across on the live album. I first hear that album in 1975 and it was so 'visceral' . I think you have to be an ELP fan which obviously I am. I realise that a lot of people who saw them in the seventies were not that impressed.