Topic: Music History Time Machine (Read 14079 times)

mberan42 · « **on:** 08 Feb 2009, 19:35 »

You've been given access to a Time Machine. Trouble is, stipulations have been put on its use: you can only use it once, you will return immediately to the present upon completion, and you are only allowed to change one moment in music history.

What would you change in music's history? What one moment, one song, one album, one artist, one band would you change? Would you prevent Beethoven from going deaf? Stop Marvin Gaye's father from killing him? Something else completely? What would you change?

While there are a few minor things I'd change/prevent - stop Queen from recording We Will Rock You, stop the Beach Boys from recording Barbara Ann (sounds too much like my last name when they sing it) - there is one specific incident I'd stop from happening:

"John, this is Yoko. Yoko, John."

You?

Dazed · « **Reply #1 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 19:40 »

I would kick Chris Martin's pregnant mother down a set of stairs.

Inlander · « **Reply #2 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 19:44 »

I'd go back to February 1959 and insist to a young pilot named Roger Peterson that it's not safe weather for flying.

Be My Head · « **Reply #3 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 19:56 »

I can't really think of anything...I guess if I could, I would stop either Frank Zappa or Chuck Schuldiner from getting cancer?

Jughead5267 · « **Reply #4 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 20:08 »

Well I guess this kinda goes along with the op's...
Mark David Chapman wouldn't have woken up on December 8, 1980.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #5 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 20:14 »

... yeah, I'd rather do that than anything else I can think of.

Christophe · « **Reply #6 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 20:20 »

I'd pour sugar into Jeanette Sliwinski's gas tank.

DarkAvenger · « **Reply #7 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 20:36 »

Yeah I was just thinking the same thing...

sean · « **Reply #8 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 20:44 »

I'd go back to 1996 and punch each and every member of Jimmy Eat World in the face until they agreed to break up.

I know, its sad, but its for the best.

Christophe · « **Reply #9 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 20:52 »

Hey, their stuff from when they actually sounded like they were from the Midwest US emo scene is kind of decent.

squawk · « **Reply #10 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 21:01 »

i'd go back to october 21, 2003 and hide all the knives in elliott smith's house

Spluff · « **Reply #11 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 21:03 »

I'd probably just confiscate tour vehicles from the many bands who manage to crash them (looking at you, stevie ray vaughan).

Also, I'd slap whoever decided that Slo Burn wasn't worth keeping together.

Wardial3r · « **Reply #12 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 22:04 »

Quote from: squawk on 08 Feb 2009, 21:01

i'd go back to october 21, 2003 and hide all the knives in elliott smith's house

Exactly what I was thinking when I read the opening post.

Also, would have stopped Casey Calvert from O.D. ing. Somehow.

New Hawthorne Heights is terrible. They just have empty spaces where the screams should be.

De_El · « **Reply #13 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 22:18 »

Hide all the sharp objects and long cords in the Curtis family home.

Wardial3r · « **Reply #14 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 22:39 »

Quote from: De_El on 08 Feb 2009, 22:18

Hide all the sharp objects and long cords in the Curtis family home.

Clearly joy division didn't already produce wayyy too much material, a fraction of which is worth listening to.

De_El · « **Reply #15 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 22:42 »

Haha! Your jokes are funny. I laugh so much.

Christophe · « **Reply #16 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 22:47 »

"One domestibot for... Brendan Canty? Brendan Canty. Oh, and it came with a telegram: "Now you can take care of your children AND play with Fugazi at the same time!""

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #17 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 23:06 »

Wait a second, I know. I'd just go back and turn Jimi Hendrix over in his stupor so he didn't just choke on his own vomit. Him or John Bonham.

Wardial3r · « **Reply #18 on:** 08 Feb 2009, 23:28 »

Quote from: De_El on 08 Feb 2009, 22:42

Haha! Your jokes are funny. I laugh so much.

i'm slick.

Cire27 · « **Reply #19 on:** 09 Feb 2009, 00:00 »

Quote from: Inlander on 08 Feb 2009, 19:44

I'd go back to February 1959 and insist to a young pilot named Roger Peterson that it's not safe weather for flying.

This made me sad.

pwhodges · « **Reply #20 on:** 09 Feb 2009, 05:26 »

I would prevent Henry Purcell's early death; if he had lived a normal lifespan, he would have reached his peak around the time that Handel arrived in England - and that would have got really interesting.

valley_parade · « **Reply #21 on:** 09 Feb 2009, 05:29 »

"Lars, just stop whining and let Cliff sleep over there."

CRUNCH.

Hat · « **Reply #22 on:** 09 Feb 2009, 05:31 »

Probably take a shit on Frank Zappa or something.

No particular reason why, I just think it'd be fun.

Inlander · « **Reply #23 on:** 09 Feb 2009, 05:45 »

Hey, if I go back in time can I hang around for a few years to get a twofer? 'Cause I'd also like to go to 1956 and disable Nancy Powell's car.

Chymes · « **Reply #24 on:** 09 Feb 2009, 06:27 »

Save Jeff Buckley back in 1997... Bet on a few sporting events whilst I was there and come back and you know, go to every venue on his next tour

michaelicious · « **Reply #25 on:** 09 Feb 2009, 07:57 »

I would convince D. Boon to wear a seatbelt.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #26 on:** 09 Feb 2009, 08:16 »

I'd tackle the dude who shot John Lennon and wrestle him to the ground.

Or convince all the members of Nickelback that music is not the right career for them and they are destined for far greater things outside of music.

valley_parade · « **Reply #27 on:** 09 Feb 2009, 08:32 »

I always wanted to take a copy of the Ramones self-titled album back to say, 1955, and just give it to someone.

sean · « **Reply #28 on:** 09 Feb 2009, 08:34 »

Quote from: Christophe on 08 Feb 2009, 20:52

Hey, their stuff from when they actually sounded like they were from the Midwest US emo scene is kind of decent.

I know, thats why it's sad. It had to be done before it was too late though.

Then emo would be all okay.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #29 on:** 09 Feb 2009, 11:36 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 09 Feb 2009, 08:32

I always wanted to take a copy of the Ramones self-titled album back to say, 1955, and just give it to someone.

Oh man I suddenly have a really strong desire to go back in time to one of the first-ever acid tests in San Francisco in 1966 and drop a Shpongle album into the sound system and see what happens.

michaelicious · « **Reply #30 on:** 09 Feb 2009, 13:27 »

I already saved D. Boon, man.

el_loco_avs · « **Reply #31 on:** 10 Feb 2009, 02:21 »

Quote from: squawk on 08 Feb 2009, 21:01

i'd go back to october 21, 2003 and hide all the knives in elliott smith's house

Sadly i think he'd succeed in killing himself eventually. He had already jumped off a cliff before XO

Quote from: Dazed on 08 Feb 2009, 19:40

I would kick Chris Martin's pregnant mother down a set of stairs.

I thought "what's the problem with Gwyneth?" but then I got it.

As for my pick. I'd tell Jeff not to go swimming and just meet the band at the airport or something. Or at least get him some inflatable armbands.

Thrillho · « **Reply #32 on:** 10 Feb 2009, 03:30 »

I would go give Syd Barrett a slap and say LAY OFF THE DRUGS.

michaelicious · « **Reply #33 on:** 10 Feb 2009, 07:29 »

Quote from: Jeans on 10 Feb 2009, 00:04

Yeah but you told him to put on a seatbelt. That shit won't work, man. He was lying down i the back of the van because he was recovering from an illness. You can't wear a seatbelt lying down.

That's pretty much the entire point of telling him to wear a seatbelt.

Dazed · « **Reply #34 on:** 10 Feb 2009, 20:15 »

On second thought though, yeah, I'd probably just take the alcohol/assorted drugs away from Hendrix, Keith Moon, Jim Morrison, John Bonham, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Shannon Hoon, Brad Nowell, etc etc etc

Inlander · « **Reply #35 on:** 10 Feb 2009, 21:00 »

Actually maybe I'd just go way back and somehow ensure that heroin was never invented. That oughta sort out around 90% of problems and tragedies in the music biz.

Wardial3r · « **Reply #36 on:** 10 Feb 2009, 21:01 »

Quote from: Dazed on 10 Feb 2009, 20:15

On second thought though, yeah, I'd probably just take the alcohol/assorted drugs away from Hendrix, Keith Moon, Jim Morrison, John Bonham, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Shannon Hoon, Brad Nowell, etc etc etc

I'm pretty sure without alcohol/drugs, they wouldn't have mad any music worth anything.

negative creep · « **Reply #37 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 04:37 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 09 Feb 2009, 05:29

"Lars, just stop whining and let Cliff sleep over there."

CRUNCH.

I, too, dream of Lars Ulrich being thrown through the bus window instead of my Mystikal Master Kliff Burton.

valley_parade · « **Reply #38 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 05:16 »

I mean they still would probably make some shitty albums in the 90s, but at least the drums would have sounded decent.

Christ, St. Anger sounded like Lars was beating a chain-link fence with a baseball bat.

Spluff · « **Reply #39 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 05:21 »

The later albums would have been a lot better, most probably. Cliff Burton did a lot of the writing for Metallica and his influence is what kept them on track after Dave's leftover ideas ran out.

Yossarian · « **Reply #40 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 09:43 »

I guess I'd travel to Vienna in the 1820s, taking with me some fancy antibiotics and (just to be on the save side) a lifetime-supply of condoms, so that Franz Schubert could have lived beyond his 32. year. And maybe he might have shared some of the stuff with Robert Schumann.

JD · « **Reply #41 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 19:30 »

Quote from: Objects inside Clouds on 08 Feb 2009, 20:44

I'd go back to 1996 and punch each and every member of Linkin Park in the face until they agreed to break up.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #42 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 20:42 »

You guys are thinking way too narrowly. Couldn't we just find a way to make sure that the whole generation of young boys never heard either rap or metal and thus never thought to synergise the two thus averting that whole turd of a movement?

We could punch some folks in the face as well, just cos.

Christophe · « **Reply #43 on:** 13 Feb 2009, 20:44 »

If we blew up the studio where Run D.M.C. and Aerosmith were recording "Walk This Way" in, that would take care of many problems.

valley_parade · « **Reply #44 on:** 14 Feb 2009, 07:36 »

Then you also have to wipe Anthrax and Public Enemy off the face of the earth.

Oh well. At least it'd clear up some programming schedules for VH1.

Emaline · « **Reply #45 on:** 14 Feb 2009, 23:16 »

But I like both of those groups a lot.

Admittedly, my knowledge of Anthrax is pretty vague, but oh em gees Scott Ian....*swoon*

mberan42 · « **Reply #46 on:** 20 Feb 2009, 15:27 »

I change my answer. I would push the mother of whoever wrote the $5 Footlong Subway song off a 10 story building when she was pregnant with the composer.

JD · « **Reply #47 on:** 21 Feb 2009, 07:23 »

TLT Thomas · « **Reply #48 on:** 27 Feb 2009, 18:14 »

I would go back to May 25th, 1996 and save Bradley Nowell's life. Maybe haul his ass into rehab, too.

Sublime was done WAY too fucking soon.

Wardial3r · « **Reply #49 on:** 07 Mar 2009, 04:51 »

Throw Bono's pregnant mom down stairs.

Not because I don't like U2... Just because Bono is a pretentious fool.

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