Go back in time and save music.
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I'm guessing you've never seen Auto Tune the News:Jasper Jeffs said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA
OT: I think I'd leave things the way they are. I like it how it is now.
I would probably create an organization devoted to preserving the most important albums in music history, similar to the National Film Registry. That way, those who currently have an appreciation for those albums can know that they hold some place in history and those who don't (and yes, I've met some people who don't appreciate the most historical pieces of music and don't realize how important they are to current music) know how important they are.
Referring to individual people, I wouldn't really change much. Keith Moon died at the height of the Who's talent, so keeping him alive might risk that their quality would decline over time.
Is it wrong for me to say that I would keep Roger Waters in Pink Floyd because the quality of their music declined after he left? I know that the band's internal conflicts with him caused him to leave, but I have a possible solution. What if the Berlin Wall fell a few years earlier and Pink Floyd was offered to perform at the site when Roger Waters was still in the band? With a performance set in history's stone, maybe the band could put their differences aside if they realized how important their music was. But that's just my personal desire.
And I'm one of those people who believe that the death of historical musicians (Hendrix, Cobain, etc.) helped forge their legacies and caused them to be the legends of music that they are.
Referring to individual people, I wouldn't really change much. Keith Moon died at the height of the Who's talent, so keeping him alive might risk that their quality would decline over time.
Is it wrong for me to say that I would keep Roger Waters in Pink Floyd because the quality of their music declined after he left? I know that the band's internal conflicts with him caused him to leave, but I have a possible solution. What if the Berlin Wall fell a few years earlier and Pink Floyd was offered to perform at the site when Roger Waters was still in the band? With a performance set in history's stone, maybe the band could put their differences aside if they realized how important their music was. But that's just my personal desire.
And I'm one of those people who believe that the death of historical musicians (Hendrix, Cobain, etc.) helped forge their legacies and caused them to be the legends of music that they are.
Meh, I'm fine with music as it is.
As long as I got my metal all is good!
But perhaps if I could I would make more metal!
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As long as I got my metal all is good!
[HEADING=1]METAL![/HEADING]
Actually, Roger Waters did jokingly say in an interview during the 1980s that he'd rejoin Pink Floyd if the Berlin Wall came down, obviously thinking that it would never happen. Then it did come down, and he was asked to reform them for The Wall concert, and his bluff was called - there was too much bad blood between the members of the band for that to happen. So he just did the concert on his own, playing the entirety of The Wall minus the songs that he doesn't have exclusive rights to perform (i.e the ones that were written by David Gilmour). Seems it was easier for a country's borders to change than for Pink Floyd to get along at the time!MortalForNow said:
Jasper Jeffs said:
doodger said:
The music industry has had electronic pitch-correction tools since the 1980s, long before auto-tune, and vocoder (which has a similar sound) since the 70s. In fact everything that auto-tune does is possible with a correctly-played vocoder, auto-tune just makes it easier. So you'd have to destroy vocoder too, just to be sure, but then there'd be no Kraftwerk and that would suck.Ftaghn To You Too said:
I think music is fine. Don't change a thing. Sure some bands suck, but that just makes the good ones shine brighter. Live and let live, I say.
I wouldn't bring back any dead guys either. It's easy to deify people who died before they ran out of creativity... if Kurt Cobain was alive today for instance he'd probably be making crap music these days like almost all the other guys from his scene who are still alive...
something tells me you haven't been to the right bands. Or maybe to enough bands.Generic Gamer said:
anyway, what I'd do is kill Blues and see what happens. Our music would be so different.
i would do something terrible to the jonas brothers so that none of them could ever touch an instrument without bursting into flames
Save music? -Save music-? I wasn't aware modern music was in danger, or do we all just want those damn kids off our lawn? No, you want to go back in time and save music, stop thinking of this fan fiction 'Keep fill-in-the-blank' off drugs or whatever. You want to save music, then you have to save the music nobody has ever heard.
Society's records of music is incredibly limited, only going back a few centuries of the several millenia we've been alive. There was no way to record music in the ancient world, or at least none that we know of. In short, we don't know jack about ancient music. What did the Romans play on their harps? What were the tunes to Egyptian hymns of Osiris? What songs did the Vikings chant before battle? Did Jesus sing the psalms while he worked, and did King David really play them? What were the poems and tunes of Native American shamans before the Europeans came over? Were Aztec ritual chants 'hardcore'? What was the first song ever, and by who? We don't know. If I had to go back in time and save music, I'd be more worried about filling in that roughly 10,000 year sized gap we have.
Society's records of music is incredibly limited, only going back a few centuries of the several millenia we've been alive. There was no way to record music in the ancient world, or at least none that we know of. In short, we don't know jack about ancient music. What did the Romans play on their harps? What were the tunes to Egyptian hymns of Osiris? What songs did the Vikings chant before battle? Did Jesus sing the psalms while he worked, and did King David really play them? What were the poems and tunes of Native American shamans before the Europeans came over? Were Aztec ritual chants 'hardcore'? What was the first song ever, and by who? We don't know. If I had to go back in time and save music, I'd be more worried about filling in that roughly 10,000 year sized gap we have.
I'd take all the equipment we have now back to when they were recording straight to vinyl with one mic and use the future tech to stop the record company domination that now ruins music by controlling the mainstream
I'd probably persuade the people who promoted pop in the early Nineties to 'quietly' retire... although I would only do so after the breakup of Take That, because quite simply, Take That are amazing, especially their new stuff, and they wouldn't be around without the dawn of pop. Although in general, pop gave us acts like the Spice Girls and Atomic Kitten, and dreadful stuff later (trying to emulate the dead horse in the early Noughties) like Chico and the Pop Idol wannabes.
Oh, and I'd make sure that both Oasis and Blur were already formed and doing great before acting, because Brit-pop is still pop (though the good sort), and Oasis and Blur are still awesome. And without Blur we'd have no Gorillaz, and Gorillaz are awesome too
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Oh, and I'd make sure that both Oasis and Blur were already formed and doing great before acting, because Brit-pop is still pop (though the good sort), and Oasis and Blur are still awesome. And without Blur we'd have no Gorillaz, and Gorillaz are awesome too
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Come now, I never said anyone should be drunk on the job, and I said you were 'misinformed' because I simply yet have to go to a concert where the artists are drunk. It could very well be that I am misinformed. But you made it sound as though Rammstein is a shining beacon off soberness in the murky vomit pits of drunk metalconcerts.Generic Gamer said:
PS: what bands have you been to when they were drunk?
PPS: just for the sake of the argument: musicians can afford to be drunk because the only organ that can do something about it is the public. and as long as they keep coming, the artist can keep doing what he does. On a normal job you get fired by the boss. If you'd stop going to drunk artists, they'd either stop drinking or stop playing music and descend into poverty.