Changing the past ?
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Topic: Changing the past ?
Posted By: Rorro
Subject: Changing the past ?
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 04:34
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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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Posted By: pero
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 04:46
I would kill Phil Collins after Lamb lies tour 
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Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 04:49
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Given the rise of Punk, I think someone already travelled to the past and changed something... ------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 04:55
!!!  !!! but too rude...
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pero wrote:Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 05:24
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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..
------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 07:47
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I'd convince Frank Zappa to take care of himself, and get screened for cancer much earlier. ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 12:51
I'd probably just play some lottery. 
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date 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. |
Posted By: Catholic Flame
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 13:33
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Good plan! The music takes care of itself. ------------- “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” ~Jack Kerouac |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 13:39
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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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Posted By: Paulieg
Date 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!!! |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 14:50
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Yes -- damnit, you CHEW that puke, Jimi! ************************************
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?
------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Hmmm... maybe I'd hide all the metal bands' keyboards and old prog albums, so they'ed leave our music the F**K ALONE!
Posted By: Firepuck
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 15:21
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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...
------------- Kryten : "'Pub'? Ah yes, A meeting place where humans attempt to achieve advanced states of mental incompetence by the repeated consumption of fermented vegetable drinks." |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 17:25
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------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 18:26
I'd not let Bonzo drink so much on the night he died
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 18:39
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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!!!!!!!"
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: kajkeron
Date 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.. |
Posted By: dagrush
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 19:29
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#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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/omgwtfdagrush/"> 
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Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 20:15
Good plan, also I can take some time for win in the lotery  ------------- 
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 09 2006 at 11:41
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Maybe I'll try to push her more toward prog while I'm at it....
------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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?
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: April 09 2006 at 14:28
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Get Syd Barrett help to resolve his LSD addiction and instead of Dave Gilmour leaving Floyd if Syd was to return but have them both working side by side, so Pink Floyd would stay as a 5 piece band, I wonder how cool DSOTM would sound if Barrett contributed to the album, but how would have WYWH album have turned out if he was still present in the group?? How would the bitter 1987 lawsuit have turned out, when Water sued the band for using the PF name without his consent, I think it would have been more difficult for Waters to do that if Barrett was present, cause Waters wouldn't have the same power as Barrett was a founder too!! and I think it wouldn't have come to that if Waters wanted to leave Floyd, I think the situation would have been totally different. How would Floyd have worked out if Barrett stayed?? Would Pink Floyd be still around, I wonder!! ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: April 09 2006 at 14:45
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Another thing: I'd kill Billie Joe Armstrong before he even learned to play guitar! Actually, I'd kill all those bands who started the punk movement ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Sir Hogweed
Date Posted: April 09 2006 at 15:59
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The musical career of Genesis could use some tweaking to make sure their golden era would last a little longer. I'll travel back to England in 1948 to get my doctor's education, which will get me the chance to "accidentally" remove Phil Collins' vocal chords when he's still young. After that, I will teach at Charterhouse and help Anthony Phillips to conquer his upcoming stage fright. Furthermore, I plan to teach little Anthony Banks a few harsh lessons in humility. Next, I will intercept the demo they try to send to Jonathan King and will offer them a contract, if they agree to the inclusion of extra guitarist Steve Hackett and that weird mute drummer Phil Collins right away. This contract must be signed in blood and it means no one can leave the band for all eternity. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 10 2006 at 03:57
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I would use Peter's time machine and head out for San Fran in 66 , play the lotery in order to finance this wild day dream, get in to the concert halls all over the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany etc... with today's state-of-the-art cameras and tape all of the concerts I get to see and keep them until the mid-90's and then hand them to the artistes (groups ) so they can release them onto DVD. I would also try to convince Caravan to record one more album like grey and pink or If I Could I Would I Would I Would I Would I Would I Would I Would I Would I Would I Would I Would
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Fuchk!!!!! I gotta stop daydreaming ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: pero
Date Posted: April 10 2006 at 06:15
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Yes what a pitty |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: April 10 2006 at 14:55
Ah, he learned to play the guitar?...Wow, when??? Thats new... ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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