If you could live at any time in musical history

If you could live at any time in musical history..

These come to mind for me...
1. Late 1800s-Early 1900s -- Verdi, Wagner, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky
2. Late 1950s -- Jazz when it was new and incredibly vital.
3. Ancient Rome to hear what it sounded like since we don't know

Please add more!

 

Being 17 in 1960 would have been great

 

Yes, it was!

 

Luckily for me I did[50's-60's-70's]the three greatest decades for music...EVER!!

 

As a big fan of rock/pop, jazz and classical, I'm happy I grew up during the late 1960s/1970s and experienced the classic rock era as it was happening. I'm certainly curious as to what it would have been like to be part of the growth and explosion of classical and jazz, but wouldn't trade for it.

 

I would like to have been about 18 in 1967.

 

Yep.

 

Probably mid-60's California with nascent folk rock movement and The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield and the beginning of "free love' and good weed before it got crazy.
Or 1973 to see if Springsteen live was as explosive as is reported by those who were there.

 

A toss up between the late 50s for the Jazz and the late 60s/early 70s for Zappa.

 

I would find the age of Beethoven intriguing. Besides the musical performances, I imagine a lot of natural beauty and now-extinct animals. Would I actually want to go there? Definitely not.

 

Plunk me down on Sunset Blvd on April 6th 1966 about the time a white van cops a uturn to chase down a black hearse and then let me vagabond my across the country for the next decade or so.

 

Good one.

 

Absolutely!!!

 

I wouldn't want to live in any time other than this one, aka Now.
But I surely would love to visit several periods of music history:

• 1913 to see the premiere of "The Rite Of Spring";
  
• 1959, which was probably the hottest year for Jazz;
• 1964, too see the British Invasion;
• 1966, too see the Bossa Nova x Rock thing in Brazil;
• 1967, because of Psychedelic Rock;
• 1972, because of Prog, Glam and Krautrock;
• 1977, because of New Wave;
• 1983, to sse Echo & The Bunnymen at the Albert Hall
• 1985, Live Aid

I guess that's all. From this point on I think I've seen most things "in real time"...

 

Now. Because centuries worth of incredible music is available anytime of day or night for mere pennies a day. It is an amazing time to be a music enthusiast.

 

I'm another like the others above who would like to have been more with it in the 60's. I was there as a 2nd half boomer watching The Beatles on the Ed Sillystone show but needed to be several years older to be allowed into the clubs on Sunset circa '66. That would have been great.

 

Sitting in the sandbox with Brian Wilson.

 

18 in 1966... UK based so I coulda caught Barrett's Floyd at the UFO and then the Beck-Page Yardbirds in Cardiff on the Ike & Tina Turner/Rolling Stones tour, when they upstaged the Stones that night in Wales to the extent the Stones didn't wanna take the stage... then I woulda crossed the Channel and gone to Hamburg to catch the Monks in action right after they released Black Monk Time... then back to the UK to catch the Pretty Things and Creation... as well as the Butterfield Blues Band on their '66 British tour...

 

November 1966: Revolver the latest Beatles album; "Good Vibrations" just released; the Jimi Hendrix Experience breaking out in Europe; listening to the psychedelia of that moment, unaware of how much further rock music would be pushed forward month to month, year to year, for a very long time

 

This is me, pretty much.

I was actually old enough, but geographically misplaced.

 

1960’s Brasil

 

A bit obvious, but the mid 60s - mid 70s in England..... London.
I don't think the 60s really happened in Ireland. No money & the church still had the country in a stranglehold.

 

ah, but if you were in WA you coulda seen the Sonics and the Wailers! Did you?

 

1973, if only to see some of my favourite artists live in their prime, at least in theory.

Grateful Dead
Frank Zappa
Miles Davis
The Stooges
Sun Ra Arkestra
Richard & Linda Thompson
Captain Beefheart
Can

 

The early days of you know who at The Cavern