If you could..

Papa Dangerous · #1 07-31-2011, 09:35 AM

If you could time travel to any point in history solely to experience that periods music for the first time, or partake in it... To which point and place would you go? If you could travel to the future, how do you think music will sound?

RustyAxe · #2 07-31-2011, 10:14 AM

I'd go back to the roots of hip-hop (maybe all the way back to disco) and shoot the bastard(s) that started it. Future music, will be pure crap ... if current trends are any indicator.

Chef FourString · #3 07-31-2011, 10:19 AM

The 20's - 50's. Big Band and Jazz. If current popular music is a tell, we're f****d in the future.

Joe Nerve · #4 07-31-2011, 10:21 AM

I'd absolutely want to relive the 70s, but a few years older than I was at the time.

monkeyking · #5 07-31-2011, 10:29 AM

Assuming I know what I know now, I'd go back to the early 60's and record every good song I know from the Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, and Beach Boys before they did them. Then I'd sue the crap out of them.

BananaKing · #6 07-31-2011, 10:40 AM

The 1890's..... I would get to relive Debussy, Satie, Ravel....

bwoodman · #7 07-31-2011, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by RustyAxe

I'd go back to the roots of hip-hop (maybe all the way back to disco) and shoot the bastard(s) that started it. Future music, will be pure crap ... if current trends are any indicator.

Hip Hop - I agree. Disco? Disco had some of the best bass lines - seriously. Boring for drummers, but disco bass lines were actully quite good!

Papa Dangerous · #8 07-31-2011, 10:51 AM

I think I would like to go back to the times of Ancient Greece and learn to play the Lute. I'd live on the island of Delos and praise Apollo, in hopes he would bless me to be the best mortal musician of the time. I would then ask him to hook me up with an Amp and blow the world away and achieve more than human status. (I would need to ask for an extension cord that reached the summit of Mount Olympus tho..)

EDIT: Even better... Maybe Apollo can talk to Zeus and Zeus can blast the amp with some godly thunder that will forever retain an electric, self-perpetuating current!

Perhaps I would note that music of the time and save it in a special Earth proof box so that by 2011, we would have more then 45 fragments of music dating back to the times of Ancient Greece.

As for the future, as crappy as everything is, I think more people are fed up with the garbage out there, then there are those who love it. I see music taking on a very electric turn, and acoustic/transduced acoustic sounds taking a fall for the next generation of music.

I imagine a lot of beeps, boops, and bops with gray alien heads headbanging... There will be a "new" or a discovery of a "new" sound frequency that the brain responds to differently then all other "sounds" previously experienced. This sound will not be able to be faked like the pop stars of todays world fake it. So sorry Ms. Simpson, there is no place for you in the future.

Melik · #9 07-31-2011, 01:04 PM

I would go to the year 1970 so I would be 25 in 1978

RustyAxe · #10 07-31-2011, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by bwoodman

Disco had some of the best bass lines - seriously. Boring for drummers, but disco bass lines were actully quite good!

Good bass lines, sure, I'd agree. If you don't mind playing the same line for 4 or 5 minutes ..

Jazzdogg · #11 07-31-2011, 01:35 PM

1945-1970

Unfortunately, I didn't start playing until '68

madmatt · #12 07-31-2011, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by RustyAxe

I'd go back to the roots of hip-hop (maybe all the way back to disco) and shoot the bastard(s) that started it. Future music, will be pure crap ... if current trends are any indicator.

Well you do not have to worry about that too much, they like to shoot each other all of the time.