If Given a Time Machine...

[rotorhead]

Which era of rock and roll would you most like to be a part of as a guitar player?

For me I guess it would be in the '65- '75 time frame. Not only were guitars becoming more advanced, but also I'd love to have been in there for the discoveries and advancements is recording techniques along with tweaking amps, etc.

I didn't start playing until I was 13 in 1979 so I missed being a part of that era. I did have my fun while maturing as a musician over the years, but always felt I missed something due to age limitations.

All is good, of course but I think I would have loved being a part of that era.

I guess I could really break that down to two eras: '65- '69 and '70- '75. But...meh. you get the idea.

 

[donepearce]

That seems a good era to me, and I was lucky enough to hit it. Born in 1950, I started playing serous guitar in '64 at age 14. Then in bands from '65 onwards. I guess I was the same as a lot of British lads back then - I was bitten by the Blues bug.

 

[Didds]

Which era of rock and roll would you most like to be a part of as a guitar player?

For me I guess it would be in the '65- '75 time frame. Not only were guitars becoming more advanced, but also I'd love to have been in there for the discoveries and advancements is recording techniques along with tweaking amps, etc.

I didn't start playing until I was 13 in 1979 so I missed being a part of that era. I did have my fun while maturing as a musician over the years, but always felt I missed something due to age limitations.

All is good, of course but I think I would have loved being a part of that era.

I guess I could really break that down to two eras: '65- '69 and '70- '75. But...meh. you get the idea.

I'd go back to the 70's, more specifically, 1974-1980. Those were the years of the Bon Scott lead AC/DC, the golden years IMO. It's always been my dream to see Acca Dacca live, and it would make it infinitely more worth it with Bon on vocals

It was also a great time to be a musician. Just before the industry started to go to **** (though that wouldn't happen for another 30 or so years), great music culture here in Australia, and much, MUCH easier to make it as a muso

 

[Raiyn]

'65-'70

Just a smorgasbord of sounds. Everything from Surf Rock to proto metal with stops in psychedelia and folk mixed with Motown.....

 

[rotorhead]

If I had to pin it down more specifically, I'd go with '70-77ish. It was the time when so many splinters of the scene were being born to include my favorite: boogie rock/ blues.

Status Quo were refining their sound and bands like Humble Pie, Brownsville Station, Savoy Brown, etc were at their prime.

You also had the birth of Southern Rock and the emergence of American rock bands finally competing with British bands. Bands like Aerosmith, Kiss, Heart, Cheap Trick, etc were all coming onto the scene.

The third wave of British bands came along, as well. They had a harder edge and were developing what turned out to be the NWOBHM.

Plus...The Ramones.

Yessss.

 

[iblive]

I’d have taken lessons.

 

[gball]

No need for time travel as I'm pretty happy right now, after 41 years of playing. We have the past as a teacher but no need to relive it. Exciting music is being made every day, and we have better tools to do it with than we have ever had. I want to hear what's next, what I haven't heard before, not go back to another era that I already know about.

 

[rotorhead]

No need for time travel as I'm pretty happy right now, after 41 years of playing. We have the past as a teacher but no need to relive it. Exciting music is being made every day, and we have better tools to do it with than we have ever had. I want to hear what's next, what I haven't heard before, not go back to another era that I already know about.

Ahh, but if you travelled back, you wouldn't have heard it before and would be a part of the innovation :)

 

[Chubbles]

65-75 as well. Everything from soft hippie music to classic rock. I started in 79 at 14.

 

[Raiyn]

Ahh, but if you travelled back, you wouldn't have heard it before and would be a part of the innovation :)

What time travel movie universe rules are you playing under? If you're traveling back in time from the present, you'd know of the music that existed in the era you're traveling to watch the formation of.

 

[rotorhead]

Yes but in my particular scenario your memory is erased. So there.

 

[Raiyn]

Yes but in my particular scenario your memory is erased. So there.

 

[Gahr]

I'd cheat and use the time machine several times.

I'd go to Chicago to catch some blues in the late 1950s, then jump to London and witness the blues boom from 1964-1970, and finally I'd travel to California to experience the mighty Van Halen rise from backyard parties to the big stage in 1974-1984 (maybe with a vacation in Boston to check out the J. Geils Band).

Then I would die and go to heaven.

 

[Col Mustard]

I'd cheat and use the time machine several times.

+1 on that... I started playing guitar in about 1962 at the age of 14. I'd have taken lessons too.
Being self taught is a heavy handicap. The era of music and sexuality from about 1967 until the
epidemic of HIV broke up the party about 1980... that was something I wouldn't mind living through again. There's a few choices I'd second guess, I'm sure. I was 20 in 1968.

I'd prefer to keep my memory intact as I travelled. So I could bet on a few horse races, and buy some stock before coming home. Apple, Microsoft, General Dynamics, ...I believe that a time traveller could fund his lifestyle easily, and without paradox. Just don't get too greedy.
I'd buy a few guitars, and bring 'em aboard. NOT TOO MANY, remember... just enough to
pay for the lifestyle I'd like to become accustomed to. And one or two to keep.

People who romanticize any given era will often gloss over the down sides of real life
in those times. The sixties was actually terrible to live through. (so was the fifties, I was there).
It was a time of social change, and the resistance to change was vicious, the backlash was
intense. Those of us attempting to advance the changes... we experienced a lot of that.

"Well you walk into a restaurant,
strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you
as you're shakin' off the cold
You pretend it doesn't bother you
but you just want to explode

Most times you can't hear 'em talk,
other times you can
All the same old cliches,
"Is that a woman or a man?"
And you always seem outnumbered,
you don't dare make a stand

Here I am On the road again
There I am Up on the stage
Here I go Playin' star again
There I go Turn the page..." --Bob Seger

Still, we persisted... *grins ...And the music was the pulse. I can still
feel the beat of it. Each age seems to have its own beat. But the Rolling
Stones have kept on rolling all the way through. The beat of each era still
includes Charlie Watts. ...And Mickey Hart.

I know, it's only rock an roll but I like it... Yes I do

 

[Col Mustard]

 

[Biddlin]

Retrobump

 

[AngelDeVille]

I would have succeeded in killing Sara Connor

 

[rotorhead]

If my memory did survive the trip, I would have fronted Manson the cash to make his record. He might not have turned out so angry if he had a little success and maybe not go on his little rampages.

 

[Raiyn]

If my memory did survive the trip, I would have fronted Manson the cash to make his record. He might not have turned out so angry if he had a little success and maybe not go on his little rampages.

So you'd give a paranoid delusional psychopath money to produce a record... One that would likely tank causing him to become even more enraged?

Nope. Eliminate him from the time line before "The Family" forms and see what comes of his victims and followers.

 

[Biddlin]

I can't beat the time I came up in. Elvis, Little Richard, Jimmy Reed, Fats Domino at the beginning, Jimi and Janis in the middle and Keef across the whole damned era, it's been plenty inspiring and mighty entertaining.