If You Had a Time Machine

David Bowie at the Werabley Empire Pool in '76. I know a few people who went to that gig, which makes me kinda jealous.

Talking HeaRAB on their Expanded HeaRAB tour would've been a giggle. I'd love to been able to see the Birthday Party at one of their Hacienda gigs too. Would've been some experience to see Happy Mondays before they released Yes Please too.
 
Always refreshing to get the "imaginative" point of view that goes "I don't keep up with music, so I'll hint that current/recent music (anything after 1960) is all crap and that pop music was invented by a scattering of artists I happen to like."

It's snobbery minus knowledge. I guess that's pretty imaginative.
 
I would go back and see as many classical pianists as I could to see how the styles differ. I would especially like to see Beethoven perform some of his piano sonatas.

I would also like to go to a bar where some of the jazz greats were first starting out like Miles Davis, Coltrane, Monk.

And this of course...
 
Me being bored I dug through the older pages and found this, good thread.

Nirvana
I would see them under any circumstances, if I had to camp out for tickets for a month I'd do it. I would prefer to see them at a dingy club in 1990, maybe the Off Ramp Cafe in Seatle, right before they hit it big. I can't imagine what talking to Kurt or Krist would be like.

Alice In Chains (With Staley)
Just to hear Staley's voice live would be the greatest thing ever. Preferably Unplugged, due to the fact I think it was their best live performance. But going to a huge AiC concert with good seats would also be an honor.

Operation Ivy
If I had to chose one punk show to go to, I'd decide on these guys in a heart beat. Seeing Jeese Michaels in action would be insane.

Sublime
I can't imagine how much fun going to a Sublime gig would be. I'd like to go during their 40 oz to freedom days, probably some pavilion somewere in Long Beach California.
 
This is a pretty epic list and most of these banRAB I would also loved to have seen/ or see.

But I'm actually seeing Faith No More in February... pretty psyched!

And although it would have been awesome to see Tool before/around the Undertow era I actually think I'd prefer to see them in a larger scale gig with all of their crazy visual shows they have. It's quite an atmosphere. But it is also true that smaller gigs are much more intimate.
 
Pink Floyd in February 1972 at London's Rainbow Theatre

Guns N' Roses on the 13th of July 1993 at Palais Omnisports de Bercy, Paris, France

Jeff Buckley on the 17th of August 1993 at Sin-
 
Going back in time to see some of the most famous musicians of the 20th century is imaginative?

We have pretty different concepts of "imagination."

To me, imaginative is going back in time to teach a rabbit to ride on the back of a dog.
 
Hmm...

The Beatles- Because, they, were like, The Beatles
Queen- Freddy Mercury live was a spectacular act
The Grateful Dead- A lot of people hate them but I still love em

There's a few of my obvious picks
 
I'm not trying to be an old fogey / stick in the mud (although possibly guilty of both), merely if given the opportunity for time travel, why use it to see something you can already get on video?

I would rather go back to see something never to be seen again (and my examples were only a few of the many that I could think of)

I'm certainly NOT trying to say my tastes in music are better/more valid than anybody else's, just the imagination of what you could use time travel for
 
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