OK you get to be dropped in for 24 hours into any music 'scene' - which is it?

[Taverner]

[Ron Green]

1. 52nd Street, New York, just after WW II.

Alternate: 1930's, anywhere in the country.

[kwassa]

38. oh, absolutely, jazz, jazz, jazz

[mix]

2. The Haçienda, late 80s/early 90s

[Arugula Latte]

7. Me too -- Madchester

:thumbsup:

[mix]

49. Bristol during the same period would be fun too.

Portishead, Massive Attack, drum n bass, trip hop, graffiti

Banksy

[abq e streeter]

3. here:

[Taverner]

4. You mean, when Elvis did the Sun Recordings there?

That would be cool ... if only to witness history

[abq e streeter]

15. Memphis in the mid-50's , witnessing the big bang of rocknroll....yeah.

[Taverner]

5. Surprised no one is choosing the Krautrock scene of the 70's

Sure your father's dead, but at the same time everyone is experimenting with music and electronics, and doing things you never thought you'd hear in in your lifetime.

And it all sounds good while having a roadie on the autobahn at 200 kmph

[LanternWaste]

6. 1940's Big Band Jazz era...

1940's Big Band Jazz era... No feed back problems, no studio bands dictating The Cool New Thing, musicians who could actually read and write music, The Dorsey's, Gershwin, the crooners, et. al. Sigh...

[Captain Hilts]

45. I'm a Krupa girl....nt

[Urban Prairie]

8. Detroit/Michigan early 60s-mid 70s all over again easily.

Motown, Punk, Rock & Roll, Classic Rock

Alice Cooper, J Geils Band, (even though they were from Boston, Detroit was their "second home") Iggy & The Stooges, Frijid Pink, Bob Seger, Grand Funk RR, all of the Motown artists and groups, Cinderella Ballroom, Cobo Hall, The Roostertail, Grande Ballroom, Vanity Ballroom, Goose Lake Festival (Michigan's "Woodstock") Plum Street (Detroit's version of SF's Haight-Ashbury) CREEM Magazine (Boy Howdy)

http://home.att.net/~s.m.geer/places.htm#Grande

[Mendocino]

16. Also Rare Earth, Mitch Ryder, WRIF

and the MC5. And I can't forget CKLW.

[MiddleFingerMom]

48. I HAD forgotten growing up with the phenomenal late-LATE-night CKLW.

.
Am I way off here, or did they broadcast out of Detroit during the day and
Windsor at night?
.
The MC5 put on the WORST/BEST show I've ever seen. They were just TERRIBLE
musicians -- but so inyerfuckinfacehighenergy that it was one of the best shows
I've ever seen. Outdoor festival, temporary stage and when the crowd surged
forward, they just invited as many up on stage as would fit.
.
Promoter jumped onstage and grabbed the mike -- threatening to shut the
show down if everybody didn't get off the stage.
.
Lead singer grabbing it back and shouting, "FUCK HIM!!! IT'S "YOUR SHOW NOW!!!"
.
.
On the other hand, Rare Earth put on the WORST/WORST show I've ever seen.
Couldn't figure out how they could sound SO bad... except... they had this
madman percussionist with them -- made Ian Anderson look civilized -- and
they were smart enough to leave him alone onstage for about a quarter of an
hour while he ran all over it to beat on all the percussion stations he had set up.
.
I would sit through DAYS of their atrocious music just to hear/see him for
another 15 minutes.
.

[bif]

35. WABX, WKNR-FM

WRIF was WXYZ-FM with pre-recorded music as I recall--a syndicated underground station. It became RIF in the early 70s. How about free concerts at Tartar Field?

[Urban Prairie]

68. Hard to believe now that Howard Stern was a radio Dj @ WWWW (W4) (I believe)

I never really liked him, it seemed back then that he spoke with a lisp as well.

[Mendocino]

60. Forgot the Hash Bash

Does Ann Arbor count?

[Tikki]

9. Plop me down here (1979), again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivDsKQtou_w
"Survive"......The Bags
http://cowbell.fm/track/93750-red-cross-standing-in-front-of-poseur
"Standing In Front Of Poseur".....Red Cross

Tikki

[bluedigger]

10. I'll take what I've got right now - New Orleans.

I would have liked to have seen Dr. Longhair, though.

[Ptah]

11. For 24 hours it would have to be January 16, 1938

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Goodman

In the mid-1930s, Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America.
His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by
critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert
in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."<2>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Goodman#Carnegie_Hall_concert

In bringing jazz to Carnegie, , in effect, smuggling American
contraband into the halls of European high culture, and Goodman and his 15 men pull
it off with the audacity and precision of Ocean's Eleven.


Benny Goodman Live at Carnegie Hall 1938:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbzXS49937A

[mix]

12. thanks for that nt

[Ptah]

13. Here's some more Gene Krupa

Boogie Woogie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnbaRDqFS_E

Enjoy.

I enjoy the music you put up, but rarely comment.

Thanks and keep it going!

[MrSlayer]

14. Bay Area Thrash scene. Early 80's

Slayer, Exodus, Metallica, Testament, Megadeth, Possessed, Vio-Lence, Forbidden, Sadus, Laaz Rockit, etc.

[Initech]

17. Late 60's British psych-progressive (early Pink Floyd, etc).

[datasuspect]

18. early 70s new york dolls max's kansas city scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7flpEA53tuY

[datasuspect]

24. 1976, laurel canyon

sitting in a room in a mansion with blankets over the windows in the middle of the day injecting heroin with jimmy page, david bowie, and dean stockwell.

this was when david bowie used to keep jars of his own urine and was involved in occult spirituality. painting the letter "A-U-M" on carpets and stuff.

don't forget using a borrowed vw bug to go buy liquor.

among the three of them, not one actually owned a vehicle in LA.

[datasuspect]

26. on the tour bus with black oak arkansas

between gigs driving from baton rouge to jackson sometime in the mid-70s

[mix]

56. my parents had friends in the music business during that time

I remember going to these big outdoor parties in Laurel Canyon as a kid under the oaks and other flora.

It's always been a mythological place for me too.

[Mendocino]

19. February 12 1924 NYC

Rhapsody in Blue premiered that night.

[mix]

25. I'd have liked to have been there too. nt

[grasswire]

28. me three

oh what a night that must have been.

[whistler162]

20. Late 30's early 40's Big Band era

[Terra Alta]

21. I have to say the Summer of Love

What can I say; it's the hippie in me. I always thought I was born about 30 years too late...

[abq e streeter]

22. This would've been pretty damn cool too--Liverpool...'62

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Li7n56uU8

[Pryderi]

23. '70s disco.

[MilesColtrane]

27. 210 West 118th Street in Harlem in the early 1940's

MInton's Playhouse was then the crucible of bebop, but thanks to the 1942-44 AFM musician's strike there is almost no record of the birth and development of the music.

[AsahinaKimi]

29. SEEING X~Japan when Hide was still alive ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG9MPxDdj5Q

[travelingtypist]

30. Doomsday Festival August 2000 Dresden Germany

Line-up --

Unheilig
Illuminate
Zeromancer
Letzte Instanz
De/Vision
In Extremo
Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub
Wolfsheim
The Sisters of Mercy
Day two
Accessory
Philtron
Velvet Acid Christ
Terminal Choice
Covenant
And One
Skinny Puppy

[GreenPartyVoter]

31. I'd take any of them, provided you make me 19 again first.

[PVnRT]

32. Punk scene, London, mid 1970s

[KittyWampus]

33. Montmarte in the 20-30's was the place to be.

[carlyhippy]

34. The whole 60's decade....hanging with the Beatles, Beach Boys then onto Monterey

witnessing the music gods being discovered, Whisky a gogo, Pandora's Box, Woodstock, the Grateful Dead, The Doors....wow......

[SoxFan]

36. Manchester-Liverpool, c. 1979-1982

Joy Division
Buzzcocks
Magazine
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Fall
The Smiths
The Chameleons
Durutti Column
China Crisis
The Teardrop Explodes
The Icicle Works
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

[Captain Hilts]

46. Manchester-Liverpool 1963. nt

[hobbit709]

37. Austin during the Armadillo years 70-80

[kwassa]

39. Savoy Ballroom Battle of the Bands: Chick Webb vs. Benny Goodman

May 11, 1937.

[Captain Hilts]

47. The FIRST and ONLY dance hall for blacks and whites. You bet!

[kwassa]

57. here is the story of it from the PBS Jazz series

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7yGiTxAyRQ

[Blue_Tires]

40. Bronx, circa '74-'75

the first seedlings of the hip-hop scene start to take root

[mix]

44. Always been fascinated by the history of hip hop.

An amazing time.

[SteppingRazor]

41. I'd take San Francisco, but I'd want to be there in 65 and 66. n/t

[Tom_Foolery]

42. Hanging out with Buddy Holly in Clovis, New Mexico during early 1957. n/t

[abq e streeter]

59. Re: "hanging out with Buddy"...what? Clovis on its own wouldn't be exciting enough?

:rofl: .....just kidding ----hanging out with the amazing talent going in and out of Norman Petty's studio , including obviously ,Buddy Holly, would have been ...well... amazing.

[guitar man]

43. Gotta be The Summer Of Love

So much of what I am as a musician has been influenced by the music of that era, I'd give anything to have been there to witness it firsthand :thumbsup:

[av8rdave]

50. Late 70s/Early 80s, Austin Texas

Some of the great Texas blues acts are cutting their teeth in the bars on 6th Street.

[Iggo]

51. I wouldn't mind going back to 80's Hollywood Metal for a day.

I really was a lot of fun.

[Demoiselle]

52. I'd like to sing in the chorus at the Metropolitan Opera.

I know I know. Not what you had in mind.

[semillama]

53. CBGB'S 1979!

Ramones, Dead Boys, Talking Heads, The Clash, Patti Smith, The Police, Elvis Costello, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Television...

[Rambis]

54. Bring on the Dead and Quicksilver

with honorable mention to Ronnie Drew and the Dubliners circa 1962

[Bennyboy]

55. Maybelle Carter's front porch.....

The roots of it all....

[spiritual_gunfighter]

58. CBGB scene

I just think it's unfortunate you called it "new wave".

[hunter]

61. I knew something about sound cables, and somebody else hadn't showed up, panic!

You!

Me? But I'm an idiot bystander, not an intern!

I don't remember much else, except for the drunk friend up in the rafters. A remarkable woman. What were we doing up there? How did we get there? I don't remember that either. A deep mystery of my life in the 'seventies.

[cherokeeprogressive]

62. Some late night Blues jam session with all the greatest blues guitarists and a ton of weed.

Or maybe the Layla Sessions.

[BlueJazz]

63. Coconut Grove: 1929

[HughBeaumont]

64. 1986-89 Golden Era of THRASH!!

[tigereye]

65. 40s-50s jazz scene in NYC or Chicago, I think

[canoeist52]

66. set the "Way Back Machine" to....

I'd love to witness the dawn of music scene.

[Kaleva]

67. Where is the "December 15th, 1944 with Glenn Miller" option?

[Jokerman]

69. Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis

I'm not even a fan of Jazz but I'd love to see what this area was like at that time.

"At the height of the jazz era, more than 33 jazz clubs and bistros lit up the Avenue. Local artists such as Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Coe, Noble Sissle, Erroll “Groundhog” Grandy and Wes Montgomery cut their teeth on Indiana Avenue and went on to make enormous contributions to the jazz world. Jazz greats J.J. Johnson, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington and Count Basie also performed in Indiana Avenue clubs"

http://www.discoverindianaavenue.com/userctl.cfm?PageContentTypeID=1&PageContentID=9