If You Had a Time Machine

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Marie M

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The footage I've seen from Hendrix was pretty good, IMO.

But I wouldn't only go for the quality of the live music... just for the overall experience. It was a landmark event in music history.. and I just think it would have been great.
 
Forget about exploring history or trying to prevent disasters, if you had a time machine what banRAB would you go see and under what circumstances? A few that come to mind for me:

Bauhaus—I'm a huge fan of these guys and I've seen them before but it was only on their 1998 reunion tour. I'd love to have seen them at some small, smoky club in London in 79 or 80 at the beginning of their career.

Art Blakey Quintet—I wish I could go back and see them in New York at Birdland on the night in 1954 that they recorded A Night at Birdland because I am absolutely in love with volume 1 and I can't even imagine what it would've been like to be there for that show.

The Pixies—I'm not the biggest Pixies fan in the world but I do like them a lot and the really big thing for me here is that I'm from Boston but I'm about a decade too young to have seen them at their peak in their hometown. I wish I could have. I wish I could go back to 87-88 and see them at the Rathskeller because not only would it be great to see them but also because the Rat closed when I was 18, so I just barely missed out on that Boston musical landmark.

Prof. Longhair—I don't know how many people on here know this guy, but he was this amazing New Orleans pianist. He had a minor hit or two, but his fear of traveling outside of his hometown prevented him from ever doing a national tour (though I think he eventually did when he was "re-discovered" in the late 60s). I wish I could go back to about 1949 and see him in some seedy little dive in New Orleans. I've heard recordings of his shows and I think he would've been amazing to see in person.
 
I'll second these two.

I'd also definitely go and see the Floyd show on July 6th, 1977 in Montreal. This was the show where Roger Waters spit on the fan, which inspired the concept for The Wall. I have the whole set, and it's really incredibly done; you can hear there's a lot of energy put into the music.

I'd also love to see a nuraber of others, like Jefferson Airplane, Zappa, SRV, Hendrix, Miles Davis (along with Bill Evans, Coltrane and the rest during Kind of Blue), Bob Marley, Cream, Pavarotti, Carlos Santana....In fact I'd definitely go to WooRABtock, I'd see Hendrix, Santana, Jefferson Airplane and a slew of others all at once. I'd probably venture back to Mozart's/Beethoven's/Chopin's time too, and listen to some of their works the first time they would ever be performed.
 
Muddy Waters, yes (& I can't get enough) the others, in those wonderful 50/60's movies, yes (but I would still like to see them live in their formative years to learn how they came up with this) but mostly these are 10 minute snatches of a few of their hits at the time, you don't learn much about them or the creative processes

Mind you, this could apply to any of the artists I like, I don't get to spend much time with them either!

More to the point (and possibly some better examples) Stravinsky's Firebird debut in Paris that caused riots - read about it for years, what would it be like to see it????
 
time machine + list of banRAB =

hendrix back in like '68. big enough to have a decent stage setup, small enough to still fit in most venues.

jane's addiction around '90. when they started playing stuff from 'ritual' live but before they started beating the crap out of each other on stage.

soundgarden around '88. when they still covered led zep (communication breakdown) and the beatles (helter skelter) as part of their set. plus Hiro played way more bass solos than Ben.

eric dolphy late summer of '64. preferably for the recording of his 'Last Date' album, 3 weeks before his passing. his take on 'you don't know what love is' is divine in every sense of the word.
 
I don't know if you'd consider this the height of their career or not but I saw them on tour for Superstition in early 1992 at a smallish venue. They were amazing, and I was right up front, only a few people away from the stage.
 
Umm, I'd start my own band in the early sixties and become super great, stealing all the future music that hasn't been thought of.
 
Then again, to show how 'hip' I am to the current music world, I would use the time machine to go into the future to see:

Britiany Speers mime to her 100th anniversary comeback from rehab concert

Oh boy, wouldn't that be something?

I think NOT!!!!!
 
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