Musical Time Machine!
 

You can go back in time and stop one band from making a huge mistake.

Who, what, and why? Go!

Since this is actually a music topic, mind if I move to General Music instead of The Lounge?

Have at it doll...

Who? Entity Paradigm
What? Rock band from Lahore
Why? because their debut album "Irtiqa" was amazing, they could've achieved so much success. There have been "reunions" in recent times but I want to see the original line up.

Go back to early 1967 and convince Brian Wilson to finish Smile.

Duh.

I'll also go back to '67, but I'll stop Brian Epstein (Beatles manager) from taking that drug overdose.

Good luck with that one.Thorozine might help...

kill Courtney Love

Another route would be to make Pet Sounds as big a blockbuster as Sgt. Pepper's was. He might not need convincing, then.

/signed

I'd go back to 1990 to save Andrew Wood from overdosing so that Pearl Jam never exist and Eddie Vedder is never heard from.

Go back in time and stop Nickelback from ever forming.

they aren't that bad

But then all of the biggest names in music, from Paul McCartney to Mozart, will have no one to take influence from.

I would go back to 1990 and meet with Ride. I'd bring them a copy of their 92 album Going Blank Again and ask them to do better. If that doesn't convince them, I'd give them a copy of Carnival of Light and also a copy of Oasis's Definitely Maybe to show them what happens if they don't stay on top of their game.

I'd go back to year 1479 and make sure music doesn't change after that. Damn post-medieval music

Erm...

I'd convince Andy Warhol not to cut ties with the VU and make sure they never met Doug Yule.

Maybe this does not count but I would beat Mark David Chapman to death with a baseball bat on his 18th birthday.

And to think, only four short years earlier Ride's Nowhere was released. :(

I'd go back to 1979 or whatever it was and convince U2 that I deserve 1% of their record sales

I'd tell my dad to use this time machine, and to go back to 1987 when he was friends with Kurt Cobain and tell him to get his autograph.

Your dad knew Cobain? That's hella rad

Now why didn't I think of that?

:rofl: I remember that Nickelback troll we had last year lol.

I'd put a call in to Stevie Ray Vaughan and tell him to go by car, the helicopter is out of service... :(

Also, I'd go to the hospital, abduct Mr and Mrs Cowell's newborn baby and put him in a bag, weigh it down with rocks and hurl it into the nearest river. Sorry Simon: It's a no from me!

Note: Trollheart does not advocate nor condone throwing babies in the river.
Unless they're Simon Cowell.

Hide John Bonham's liquor. And lock him in a room. Wonder if it would actually do any good though. Somewhere down the road... ya know...

Dude if you did that though, you would be stealing a very pertinent piece of rock n roll folk lore. (Albeit it may have been ture, but don't rob them of a great story.)

:beer:

I would go back in time and stop KISS from forming. I think them forming as a band was the biggest mistake they ever made.

Please unban him, he was hilarious

I'd go back to the early 90s and become the 6th Spice Girl, Manly Spice.

1991 - The offices of MTV - "Come on, NOBODY wants to see a show with a bunch of whiny teenagers arguing amongst themselves. The public will know it's staged and you will be the laughing stock of the world. I know that Viacom wants a steady flow of ratings and that the network is finding a way to do it with regular programming, plus I know it's inexpensive to make (although of course those videos you play have been GIVEN to you), but you're MUSIC Television. The Real World will flop!"

That should have done it.

"Oh yeah, that Unplugged idea? Keep that!"

lol The Real World was a huge success though.

Also there are like five different MTV channels now and at least 3 of them play music videos constantly all day.

I'd probably try and cheer Ian Curtis up a bit. Maybe bring him ice cream or take him back to Nazi times for a visit.

But then we wouldn't have New Order, the film Control and probably a few other good things.

Nope, I wouldn't do anything. I'm not going to go back in time and fuck up the space time continuum and have butterfly effect type ripples through time where I might come back to the present and not exist because of something I did in the past.

Nope. Not happening.

I like New Order and all but I think it's a necessary evil getting rid of them to have Ian alive - the other three would have just manifested that talent in other ways. Hopefully Bizarre Love Triangle would still exist somehow.
I reckon the only reason I like the movie Control so much is because I like Joy Division so much, so it's an easy choice.
The real question is whether the music would be as good if he wasn't on the brink of suicide....I imagine not :(

Or more importantly John Barnes rap in World In Motion.

You've changed my mind. I'll leave it alone.