If I Could Turn Back Ta-hhhhm....
 

Morrigoon and I were chatting about this last nite -- if you could go back in time to see one artist/group perform, who would it be? Something that would be impossible to see today...

Just thought it was a fun discussion topic :D

My answer was to see Ella Fitzgerald (hey, she's swanky, right??!??).... performing with (as an added bonus) Louis "GOIN TO NEW ORLEANS SQUARE ON THE MARK TWAIN" Armstrong. A night like that would just beg for sipping martinis.

Who would you guys pick to see? The Beatles? Elvis? Carol Channing? (oh wait, she isn't dead yet..... ewwwwww).

Chopin in the salons of Paris

Great thread! And I love your sig. line!! :D

We just watched the Disneyland After Dark segment on the Disneyland DVD the other day with the girls and had to explain Louie Armstrong to them. They were NOT impressed....:rolleyes: My husband was really disappointed.

I have always wanted to participate in the Beatles mania. I see the footage of girls passing out and screaming at the concerts or outside the venues and I just don't get it. I've never been that crazy in love with any band or performer. So if I could turn back time, I'd be a crazed Beatles fan.

I started to say "The Beatles" but most of their concerts were impossible to hear, with all the screaming going on. I also would have liked to have seen Led Zeppelin in their prime. My parents saw Elvis plenty of times and I heard all about it but it would have been nice to experience.

No, what I would really like to have experienced is Charlie Parker and Dizzie Gillespie performing in the NYC jazz clubs of the 40's.

That's too bad. I absolutely love seeing that DVD. I always think of it whenever I'm on the Twain.

That's why you go back further and catch the Beatles (or even further and see the Quarry Men) at the Cavern.

The Doors. Most definitely the Doors.

Hendrix.

Woodstock.

Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo

Oh, and how could I forget Pink Floyd. Oh man, to see The Wall live....

Mozart. Didn't even have to think about it.

I'd love to go back to that little backyard party the Quarry Men played and be there when they allowed Paul into their band. Mmm, those Teddy Boy outfits....;)

Then flash forward a bit and see them at the Cavern, and perhaps in Germany as well.

I'd love to see some real deal 1940's swing. I'd live there for a few months and learn the dances and forget about rock 'n roll for a while. There's something so wonderfully unleashed about swing dancing. (I want to see Swing Kids again)

Don't know if this counts, but I'd go back to 1988 or so and visit raves in England...hell, I'd travel all over time and space to raves before the crackdowns of the mid 90's. I'd visit Frisco warehouses and New York basements and the Midwestern barns. Back when the locales weren't rented, they were broken into....when "hardcore" was just trance spun twice as fast....when everything was homemade, from the fuzzy pants to the light toys to the projections.....when parties were free, without security nor searches, and they went until the cops showed up. :cheers:

Uh...that would be...hmm

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