if you had it all over?

Icey101 · #1 08-06-2011, 10:58 PM

ok so say you're 20 years old again and knew what you knew now

1. what would you do musically different?

2. what would you do different in your life in general?

kaputsport · #2 08-07-2011, 01:46 AM

Well, for one I would buy every single Akai Deep Impact Musicians friend and GC had on blowout for $100...

I would have been listening to a lot more music then that are of influence today.

I would have busted my ass at work, and SAVED MY MONEY.

BTW, this would have been 10 years ago, almost 11.

ADbassman · #3 08-07-2011, 01:53 AM

1. I would have continued guitar lessons.

2. I would have not gone to college, or at least chose a more useful major.

Crass! · #4 08-07-2011, 03:30 AM

1) I would've practiced and played the bass I owned then
2) nothing - my life is awesome =)

Jim Nazium · #5 08-07-2011, 05:48 AM

1. I would have spent more time learning tunes by ear, and less time practicing scales and learning theory (not that those aren't useful; I just spent too much time on them)

2. This list is so long I hardly know where to begin. Probably the top three entries on this list are girls that I wish I had been nicer to. They liked me but I blew them off for some reason ...

I also agree with ADbassman, that I should have either chosen a more useful major in college (and actually studied and learned something), or not gone at all, which might have been a better choice for me. Learned a trade, started my own business, something like that.

Downunderwonder · #6 08-07-2011, 06:05 AM

I would have stuck it out in engineering. Weekend warriorship is nothing to be ashamed of.

fingerbun · #7 08-07-2011, 06:05 AM

1. I would never have sold my first Rickenbacker. I still have a robot reporting every Rick that comes up on ebay just in case mine does. (An Azure Blue 4000 if anyone reading this owns it).

2. I would have done a college music degree and taken up upright when I was 15 instead of in my late 40's.

Longhair · #8 08-07-2011, 06:08 AM

I know that the moment I do something based on what I know now, there will be a different outcome. Chances are everything I know then/now would be different to the point I would look back in 20 years (or today) and realize that I knew nothing back then.

Life is not like a movie where everybody else is cruising along and you are the only person that takes a different path. What happens to all those people that you came into contact with the first time and not the second time? Chances are they will also be on a different path.

Hypothetically speaking now...

Let's say you made a time machine and decided to go back in time to the point right before Hitler was conceived. It would start by his parents leading a different life - or at least a different routine to the point they would not come into contact with the same people that had if the mother was pregnant.

There would have been no World War II. There would be no baby boom after WWII. Chances are that there would be no you either to build a time machine to go back into time and change history.

In the end, you would have not been able to go back into time and to the point right before Hitler was conceived.

Big_Daddy · #9 08-07-2011, 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Longhair

I know that the moment I do something based on what I know now, there will be a different outcome. Chances are everything I know then/now would be different to the point I would look back in 20 years (or today) and realize that I knew nothing back then.

Life is not like a movie where everybody else is cruising along and you are the only person that takes a different path. What happens to all those people that you came into contact with the first time and not the second time? Chances are they will also be on a different path.

Hypothetically speaking now...

Let's say you made a time machine and decided to go back in time to the point right before Hitler was conceived. It would start by his parents leading a different life - or at least a different routine to the point they would not come into contact with the same people that had if the mother was pregnant.

There would have been no World War II. There would be no baby boom after WWII. Chances are that there would be no you either to build a time machine to go back into time and change history.

In the end, you would have not been able to go back into time and to the point right before Hitler was conceived.

Hitler had a role to play in WWI (obviously not the outcome), but a role nonetheless. So if we prevented Hitler from ever being born, WWI could very well have gone a different direction/lasted longer/shorter.

Also, in regards to the question asked at the beginning of the thread, I'm only 19, so is this going to be like dividing by zero?

Longhair · #10 08-07-2011, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Big_Daddy

Hitler had a role to play in WWI (obviously not the outcome), but a role nonetheless. So if we prevented Hitler from ever being born, WWI could very well have gone a different direction/lasted longer/shorter.

Also, in regards to the question asked at the beginning of the thread, I'm only 19, so is this going to be like dividing by zero?

You could still change your outcome by going back 20 years. Would you swim like Michael Phelps or take out the silver medal swimmer and let the 3rd place swimmer take the gold?

Unrepresented · #11 08-07-2011, 11:08 AM

It took the years after being 20 to forge me into where I am today. I'm a better bass player, with better gear, a better ability to work with a band, and a better sense of what I want out of music.

The only thing at the moment I'd consider changing was encouraging myself to switch to a dental school path in college. While I'm happy with my career path for the most part, that one seems to pay much better for ridiculously less hours.

Journey55 · #12 08-07-2011, 11:19 AM

What if you aren't 20 yet?

robd · #13 08-07-2011, 11:28 AM

I would play more gigs while young - gigs get harder when you get older

I would have bought a ton of microsoft stock and a ton of real estate, both which I would have sold off in 2003 and retired.

IconBasser · #14 08-07-2011, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Journey55

What if you aren't 20 yet?

world domination.

**jmattbassplaya** · #15 08-07-2011, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by robd

I would have bought a ton of microsoft stock and a ton of real estate, both which I would have sold off in 2003 and retired.

Funny story about that, my brother told my dad that he should buy stock in Microsoft when they went public. My dad's response - "Computers aren't going to go anywhere."

I promise I'm laughing on the inside

Icey101 · #16 08-07-2011, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Journey55

What if you aren't 20 yet?

if you're not 20 yet then learn from what the old guys are saying, why do you tihnk i posted this thread

IconBasser · #17 08-07-2011, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Icey101

if you're not 20 yet then learn from what the old guys are saying, why do you tihnk i posted this thread

that sounds like a monumentally bad idea, considering that many of the posts are direct contradictions of each other in terms of the advice given.

hell, there are 3 differing opinions on college (not go, go and get a music degree, go and get an engineering degree) already, and it's only the first page.

Icey101 · #18 08-07-2011, 06:42 PM

i should have said "might learn something" lol

Solarmist · #19 08-07-2011, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by robd

I would have bought a ton of microsoft stock and a ton of real estate, both which I would have sold off in 2003 and retired.

That's a BIG +1

ADbassman · #20 08-07-2011, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by IconBasser

that sounds like a monumentally bad idea, considering that many of the posts are direct contradictions of each other in terms of the advice given.

hell, there are 3 differing opinions on college (not go, go and get a music degree, go and get an engineering degree) already, and it's only the first page.

Mileage may vary.