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Rorro
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Topic: Changing the past ? Posted: April 07 2006 at 04:34 |
If you had a time machine and travell back in time, with the mission of changing something that would change the course of prog history, were (place and year) would you go and what would you change?
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pero
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 04:46 |
I would kill Phil Collins after Lamb lies tour
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avestin
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 04:49 |
Given the rise of Punk, I think someone already travelled to the past and changed something...
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Prog-jester
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 04:55 |
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Blacksword
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 05:24 |
1976/77
I'd manipulate things so that Hacketts contribution to Genesis was held in higher regard by Banks, leading to Hackett staying in the band.
1970 - 1973
I'd get David Hentschell into produce the early Genesis albums.
I'd get TFTO by Yes condensed into a single two sided killer album. Failing that I'd break into Andersons hotel room in Tokyo and hide the 'Auto-biography of a Yogi' that inspired TFTO, and replace it with a stack of pornography and an Oliver Reed biography..
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Evolver
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 07:47 |
I'd convince Frank Zappa to take care of himself, and get screened for cancer much earlier.
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Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
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Vompatti
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 12:51 |
I'd probably just play some lottery.
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The Hemulen
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 13:29 |
I'd hover round behind Derek Shulman and slap him every time he suggested to Kerry and co that they try and make a single.
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Catholic Flame
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 13:33 |
Vompatti wrote:
I'd probably just play some lottery.  |
Good plan! The music takes care of itself.
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“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
~Jack Kerouac
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Fitzcarraldo
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 13:39 |
I would have taken with me copies of reviews of Works Vol. I, Works Vol. II, and Love Beach and posted them to Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
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Paulieg
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 13:49 |
I'd make sure Hendrix didn't choke on his puke. Imagine what he'd have given us if still alive!!!
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Peter
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 14:50 |
Paulieg wrote:
I'd make sure Hendrix didn't choke on his puke. Imagine what he'd have given us if still alive!!! |
Yes -- damnit, you CHEW that puke, Jimi!
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Hmmm... maybe I'd hide all the metal bands' keyboards and old prog albums, so they'ed leave our music the F**K ALONE!

Either that, or arrange it so I could be Mr. Kate Bush, starting back when she was young, lithe, lissome and oh-so-SEXY!
"Never mine the 'kick inside,' Katie, me dear, how's about this?"

Yep, Peter's gone deep in the Bush again....
Bush fever? Bushwhacked? 
Edited by Peter Rideout
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy.
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Firepuck
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 15:21 |
September, 1970, Lakeside School, Seattle
Take up computer programming, become best friends with Bill Gates, sit on his coat tails.
1979, start a record label devoted entirely to the development and marketing of progressive music - it could even lose money for all I cared, by now I'm an executive at Microsoft and staring to make money. Maybe I could have changed the 80's music scene...
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Kotro
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 17:25 |
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Bigger on the inside.
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The Miracle
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 18:26 |
I'd not let Bonzo drink so much on the night he died
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el böthy
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 18:39 |
I would take a We cant dance copy, show them to early Genesis and say..." You have the power to change the future...dont do this!!!!!!!"
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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kajkeron
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 18:47 |
Well, It would be good to TELL MOST OF THEM - that they will be ashamed of their achievements in eighties... And that flirts with pop has no future..
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dagrush
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 19:29 |
#1: Convincing the other guys about Hackett would be good, as would showing them "We can't dance". Convincing Peter to work on the Lamb with the rest of them would be good too!
#2: Keep Jackson and Banton from leaving VDGG.
#3: Keep GG from blowing it all up.
#4: Destroy whatever made Yes's various members to do what they did in the 80's. Failing that, convince Squire to make more solo albums.
#5: Make Latimer and Bardens keep working well together.
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Viajero Astral
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 20:15 |
kajkeron wrote:
Well, It would be good to TELL MOST OF THEM - that they will be ashamed of their achievements in eighties... And that flirts with pop has no future.. |
Good plan, also I can take some time for win in the lotery
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Peter
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Posted: April 09 2006 at 11:41 |
So, you guys are fine with me using your time machine merely to gratify my lust for Kate Bush, and get her "up the stump" with my love child?
Maybe I'll try to push her more toward prog while I'm at it....

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