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If your could go back in time...

Discussion in 'Entertainment and Technology' started by RedKnight, Aug 4, 2010.

  1. RedKnight

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    If you could go back in time what band/singer would you go see that it is now impossible to see today and why?

    I would most defently see Queen live. There will never be another performer as entertaining and charasmatic as Freddie Mercury again. Oh and the music is pretty amazing also
     
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    wait do I have to go back in time to see a band? cus if I do then I would go back and see rise against at oxegen cus I fucking missed them grrrr

    if I don't then I would go back and see the hiroshima bombings or the storming of the stars palace
    that would be sweet
     
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    I would definitely go see Elvis Presley. Now that would just be too awesome!

    I'd also love to see Queen and The Beatles. :slight_smile:
     
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    To see Pink Floyd together in their youth >_>
     
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    Hendrix, obviously.

    Queen.

    Not so far back, but, the Libertines when they first formed.

    Elvis

    The Kinks

    Thin Lizzy
     
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    Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli at the London Palladium in 1963
     
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    Chopin or Rachmaninoff.
     
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    Nirvana with Kurt Cobain.
     
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    Maybe Tupac or Biggie.

    Or Three 6 Mafia when they had like 1,000,000 people and were actually good.
     
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    Either the Beatles, Michael Jackson or Frank Sinatra!
     
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    rise against would be good but thats not part of the limitations set up for this question. suppose to be a band/singer/festival (thought i should add that in) that is impossible to see today, not events in history
     
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    Hmm... i'd probably go back to the early 90s to see Mariah Carey. While it's technically possible to see her now, she was ten times better back then.
     
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    Well, it isn't a band, but I would go to New York to see the original Wicked with Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth. Those two were amazing together.
     
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    Queen in the early 80s. Awesome.
     
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    Judy Garland, Elvis, and The Beatles for the win. Oh and Queen too.
     
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    I don't care much for modern music, but I'd gladly go back to see Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Händel, and above al, Beethoven at work when their great works premiered.

    Oh, and music that doesn't exist anymore, like castrati singing...

    Okay, technically those don't cound as "bands", but they were certainly the equivalent in those times.
     
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    didnt even think about that long ago filip but it is inline to what i was originally asking

    good thinking :slight_smile:
     
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    The Carpenters
     
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    I'd choose the Beatles, but only in the Cavern Club before they got too big...or perhaps the infamous rooftop gig. George Harrison admitted that once the girls started screaming, they couldn't hear themselves play. And then, once they played Japan (where the audiences used to sit quietly), they realized how awful their live playing had become. :slight_smile:

    There are four artists I've seen after their peaks, and I would've liked to seen them earlier on - Prince, Duran Duran, Gary Numan, and the Herbie Hancock HeadHunters-era group. Despite it being a 25-year reunion gig (and having a different drummer), the HH show was still one of the best I've seen. I can barely imagine what a show in 1974 would've been like...

    Lex