I believe that the second best use of time travel technology would be to go see all your favorite bands before they broke up or when they were at their peak.
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aug 31, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd see Queen. Love Freddy Mercury.
aug 31, 2025, 2:04 pm • 7 0 • view
Black Sabbath, Soundgarden, Queen, Nirvana, Beatles… so many to see
aug 31, 2025, 4:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Second best for sure. The first would be to give the felon’s daddy a condom.
aug 31, 2025, 3:47 pm • 2 0 • view
What would the fir- ohhhh yeaaaaah. Stopping yourself from signing on to be the worst Green Lantern ever is a close 3rd though.
sep 1, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
I would do that right after I gave DJTs father a vasectomy !
aug 31, 2025, 2:12 pm • 28 0 • view
Brilliant!👏
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aug 31, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Great-grandfather, at the very least. Being an absolute cunt is hereditary in that lineage.
aug 31, 2025, 4:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep, husband and I would agree with that!
aug 31, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
And all the Authors and I'm in!
aug 31, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Hot damn yes. It was just yesterday that I learned Ween stopped performing last year. Maybe they'll return and I'll get my chance, but honestly I wish I'd seen them circa '03.
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Was listening to Brett Anderson..of Suede...asked if he could change anything what would it Be..Social Media he declared.. something about tribalsim ..division... alt reality I like that
aug 31, 2025, 2:47 pm • 4 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
3rd best... 1. Go back and tell loved ones who have passed over everything you wish you had told them. Hold them once again. 2. Get the lottery numbers.
aug 31, 2025, 9:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Here in Chicago, the best use of time travel technology would be to buy up all the parking lots and leave them to yourself in the present day. The parking fees here are outrageous.
aug 31, 2025, 2:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Or the toll roads.
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 pm • 2 0 • view
That’s usually the first thing I think of. Ethically, it would have the least unintended consequences.
aug 31, 2025, 2:22 pm • 12 0 • view
Plot of very anxious wave by mo daviau . Has a few plot and physics holes but it’s still pretty good.
aug 31, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
I say reverse Reagan's presidency
aug 31, 2025, 6:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Too young and poor to make my way to Glastonbury 1997 and see Radiohead share their musical magic. I would go back and bring a high Def recording device, 1990 tape tech suuuuuucked
aug 31, 2025, 3:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Definitely at their peak.
sep 1, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
That's my plan, should I get my hands on one. That and see original productions of my favorite musicals.
aug 31, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes!
aug 31, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
The Beatles!!
aug 31, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 0 • view
So the Beatles peaked *before* they stopped touring? ... I'd time travel to Rishikesh and chill with them while they figured out the Maharishi was full of @#$%. Maybe bring Ringo something to eat?
aug 31, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Oooo, I'd go!
aug 31, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Totally agree! In fact, I had seen an ad on my phone recently for just that, but then it disappeared from my screen. (Hate it when that happens). Maybe someone changed the time line and so the service never happened. Bummer. If I come across it again I will go see Queen w/Freddie. You? #protestjam
aug 31, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I did see most of them...
aug 31, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Or ones you regret missing: Queen.👍
sep 1, 2025, 12:33 am • 0 0 • view
My daughter gifted me my most recent tee. It says: “ I may be old, but at least I saw Jerry live!”
aug 31, 2025, 2:38 pm • 15 0 • view
same - Frank, too
aug 31, 2025, 2:38 pm • 2 0 • view
I did as well. Twice in Pittsburgh as a college student.
aug 31, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
I got sober in 94 and got to see Jerry while sober a few times, which was cool. Unfortunately, the last time I saw him was Noblesville IN about a month before his passing. There was a riot , golf carts on fire, people flooding over the fencing. Jerry forgot the words to Fire on the Mtn. Tough
aug 31, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Seeing Jerry remains among my favorite things in this life.
aug 31, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Me too.. so fortunate
aug 31, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
But too many old rockers are pathetic. I went to a Yes concert pre covid the sent chills it was so good. The singer amazing.
aug 31, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
The Beatles. Led. Zep. The Who. Jimi H. Janis J. Etc etc etc.
aug 31, 2025, 5:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Good choice. Obviously the best use of time travel is to go back in time to last week to stop myself before I said "You too!" when the waiter told me to have a good meal.
sep 1, 2025, 1:02 am • 1 0 • view
Heart during the 1977 Little Queen tour as they sing Sylvan Song, Dream of the Archer and Barracuda on stage.
aug 31, 2025, 5:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Or maybe stop DT from becoming president.
sep 1, 2025, 1:12 am • 0 0 • view
Love the way you worded this.
aug 31, 2025, 8:28 pm • 2 0 • view
I would make a point of seeing the Stax-Volt Tour! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUk1...
aug 31, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Jingles Christmas cookies. Pot of tea and jingles and Christmas was coming😋🎄
aug 31, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Zeppelin-73 That would do
aug 31, 2025, 7:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Add in Hendrix and SRV and I’d be pleased as well.
aug 31, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Aaarrr! I forgot Hendrix and Stevie Ray! I’ll just go sit in a corner and stfu now. Inexcusable
aug 31, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Artists that were probably ten times more amazing live than on record. I saw EVH in 1984 and so he’s not on my list, but he’s maybe may favorite show ever.
aug 31, 2025, 7:51 pm • 2 0 • view
And yes. Hendrix’s New Year’s Eve album with band of Gypsies. Machine Gun. To me, I think the best example you can give anyone of Hendrix is that song, that album. Jimi went right into a whole other level with that. Just an amazing work, vocally and instrumentally. Full of emotion
aug 31, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
I saw Van Halen right after “Fair Warning”. I think ‘81? Madison square garden. I wasn’t a huge fan, still am not, but to my dying day I will say it was the best show I’ve seen. That band worked hard onstage, and were super polished. Crystal clear sound, just an all around excellent show
aug 31, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 0 • view
that would get really time consuming unless you went back and stopped Ticketmaster from existing
aug 31, 2025, 4:07 pm • 7 0 • view
k*ll baby ticketmaster
aug 31, 2025, 4:08 pm • 9 0 • view
Yes, I would have loved to see Led Zeppelin in their prime. And others of course.
aug 31, 2025, 5:57 pm • 2 0 • view
I would go to Richmond on 04/03/1865 to see Jeff Davis hustled out of church when Richmond fell. Then to Appomattox on 04/09/1865 for the surrender. Then to DC for Lincoln assassination on 04/14/1865. I even have my wardrobe designed.
aug 31, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve always wished I could travel back in time to watch Monterey Pop Festival in real time ☮️❤️🎶
aug 31, 2025, 3:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Agreed! For me, I’ve always said front and centre at the Simon and Garfunkel Central Park concert.
aug 31, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks to this post for making me think of all the amazing concerts I've seen & reminding me how much I love live music. I need to start going again. Last one was Tool a few months before COVID started. Incredible show.
aug 31, 2025, 5:07 pm • 5 0 • view
If you liked the Tool show you’ll love the current NIN tour.
aug 31, 2025, 5:14 pm • 4 0 • view
I saw NIN a couple of times in the late 90s or early 2000s. I'd love to see them again. Thanks for the suggestion.
aug 31, 2025, 5:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Pink Floyd with Syd ❤️❤️❤️
aug 31, 2025, 3:28 pm • 2 0 • view
While being in great shape ourselves
aug 31, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
That would be great
aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Ha ha!
aug 31, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe that would be the FIRST BEST use of time travel
aug 31, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Time travel is possible! The United States just traveled back 250 years!
aug 31, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, and Mo Daviau's "Every Anxious Wave" is a time-travel novel about pretty much exactly this. www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...
aug 31, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
To hell with my "favorite bands." I want to hear: Tansen sing at the court of Emperor Akbar. Charlie Christian electrify the crowd playing "Rose Room" with Benny Goodman. Bessie Smith "walk one" (hypnotize an audience member).
aug 31, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I can think of a lot of better uses... Which one do you consider to be number 1?
aug 31, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Gonna do a double take on the weird dude in the corner from now on.
sep 1, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
There’s a fun novel about this: Every Anxious Wave by Mo Daviau
aug 31, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Begs the question re.: your #1
aug 31, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
...or Mozart before he died...
aug 31, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
And any I missed!
aug 31, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I made the mistake of seeing Meatloaf in concert about 2 weeks before he died. It was a fast way to destroy his legacy. The promoters should have volunteered to refund all tickets.
aug 31, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I say this without a trace of sarcasm or irony: I love Meat Loaf’s music.
aug 31, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I would not say that I was a big fan but he had a powerful voice, before he got real sick. There are so many artists that do not do their legacy justice by continuing to perform well past their prime. Even Phil Collins, with his iconic voice, needs to pack it in. Sad.
aug 31, 2025, 3:35 pm • 2 0 • view
When they were at their peak. Yes!
aug 31, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
And the first would be to stop trump's mother having him.
aug 31, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m with the guy who would go back and give trump’s father a condom.
aug 31, 2025, 5:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Fortunately, I'm old enough to have done that.
aug 31, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
There’s a long list before music. Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr, Constantine the Great, Theodosius I, Muhammad ibn Abdullah, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Leopold II, Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pok, Orange Shitstain, then music.
aug 31, 2025, 2:15 pm • 2 0 • view
my words were chosen with intent
aug 31, 2025, 2:37 pm • 4 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Think of how much humanity could have improved.
aug 31, 2025, 2:32 pm • 1 0 • view
The question ETRJ posed was the second best. Didn't state the first. Maybe ONE of yours qualifies for #1. Human life has and always will have evil characters until such time religion is no longer needed. Until then allow music to comfort the soul.
aug 31, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd make sure I NEVER saw Hawkwind without having taken LSD. The last time I saw them I did not take any. Never gone to see them since.
aug 31, 2025, 2:57 pm • 4 0 • view
Traveling back in only time will leave you floating in space. You need to travel back in space and time. 😜
aug 31, 2025, 2:14 pm • 2 0 • view
I would want to see the Beatles before they were famous but playing really good. Cavern Club or Hamburg maybe
aug 31, 2025, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Watching “All our Yesterdays” OST I thought “to hell with going back in time pre indoor plumbing and 2 ply tp. I’m going to relive the 70s and 80s for the music!”
aug 31, 2025, 3:38 pm • 1 0 • view
incredible idea in theory, however I do fear that my nerdy ass would die at a 1978 stones concert
aug 31, 2025, 2:37 pm • 3 0 • view
still getting knifed by a hell’s angel would be quite the way to go
aug 31, 2025, 2:38 pm • 1 0 • view
I saw them in 81 with...drumroll please..... Prince! He opened at a festival and the crowd threw beer cans at him.
aug 31, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm going with the point when band was just catching on- they could still play a smaller venue, tix were reasonable, but they already had their "sound" down. I know enough to understand yr first best use, & am down w/ that.
aug 31, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
The one I always regret missing out on was peak Jane's Addiction. Seen clips of their early shows and it looks like the best kind of chaos.
aug 31, 2025, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Imagine the fees they'd charge!
aug 31, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
the necessary eradication of Capitalism eludes this creator entirely #CapitalismKills
aug 31, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Short of that, see everybody you can
aug 31, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
And when tickets were $10
aug 31, 2025, 2:09 pm • 12 0 • view
I’m 73. Done that.
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Just think, Liberace in person.
aug 31, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I would to go Wacken 2013 in Germany to see Nightwish perform what I consider the greatest 15 live sets in history 💙
aug 31, 2025, 2:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m in for Blind Melon.
aug 31, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
The first best use would be to go back in time and make a certain orange president's father a eunuch.
aug 31, 2025, 6:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I turned down an invitation to go see some band at a small club near where I worked. It turned out to be the Police, just a couple of weeks before they broke out!
aug 31, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
A buddy had the same experience with Pearl Jam. If we only knew then what we know now.
aug 31, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
(Or same lack of experience)
aug 31, 2025, 4:23 pm • 1 0 • view
The third best would be to go see how cuddly sabertooth tigers are. Result: not very.
aug 31, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Facts.
aug 31, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I would choose to see Yes on their Close To The Edge tour in 1972, particularly the performance they had filmed for the concert film. Just the absolute pinnacle of live Rock ‘N Roll.
aug 31, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
If combined with immortality I would follow famous historical figures throughout their lives. I promise I have not thought about this at length.
aug 31, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Or go back and have a vasectomy performed on Fred trump.
aug 31, 2025, 2:46 pm • 5 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 2:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeaaaahh. A "vasectomy."
aug 31, 2025, 7:25 pm • 1 0 • view
I disagree, but that would be cool, the best use of time travel would be to go smother DonOld in his crib, along with BiBi and Hitler.
aug 31, 2025, 4:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I would give that chance to Trumps mother, give her the chance to swallow him.
aug 31, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Great thought!
aug 31, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Before they become expensive, too.
aug 31, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Ticket prices are so high now that going back to see anyone would be a huge break... thanks to online music apps for identifying artists who are still affordable and are the next decade's big headliners
aug 31, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
The Stone Roses...
aug 31, 2025, 7:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I am curious about the best use of time travel. Real life is always disappointing for me, and people are only people. Maybe I look too closely? But, seriously, what's the best use of time travel?
sep 1, 2025, 4:30 am • 0 0 • view
Lofty. Can't compete with mine to go back when somebody invented the first loaf of bread because that has always intrigued me.
aug 31, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
not #1?
aug 31, 2025, 1:59 pm • 2 0 • view
oh, you know
aug 31, 2025, 2:27 pm • 5 0 • view
Oh yeah
aug 31, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I would go back and run over Fred Trump at a crosswalk.
sep 1, 2025, 5:23 am • 0 0 • view
I'd like to travel back to roll some great artists on their side so they wouldn't choke on their own vomit.
aug 31, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
I want to do the Freaky Friday thing first, then time travel back to 68 so I can move to Laurel Canyon and live next door to Frank or Cass or CSN, or........
aug 31, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
The first one being to prevent Fred and Mary Anne from getting hitched?
aug 31, 2025, 2:14 pm • 5 0 • view
Or kick Fred in the nuts really hard so he’s sterile.
aug 31, 2025, 2:33 pm • 7 0 • view
Amen. I regret not seeing a few I could have: Queen and Prince to start with.
aug 31, 2025, 7:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Both would clearly be amazing.
aug 31, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
So true. Nirvana, also.
aug 31, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Too late for me, but I saw several.
aug 31, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Some bands are meant to break up.
aug 31, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
I’d go a bit further back to when they played bars and clubs with 50 people there.
aug 31, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
id use a time machine to get close to vince mcmahon in the 80s, have him write me into his will for complete ownership of the wwf then kill him in the late 90s and save wrestling.
aug 31, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Second best way to fuck in your time continuum, you mean. Just thinking about it at that time and place will set off a butterfly effect. It’s possible with a multidimensional reality. We’re doing that very thing right now 🤯
aug 31, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd go to the concert in Wisconsin in 1989 where Nirvana opened for the Tragically Hip in front of 80 people.
aug 31, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Don’t forget to take the good weed with you
aug 31, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Pink Floyd Pulse concert for me.
aug 31, 2025, 6:01 pm • 2 0 • view
When ticket prices were reasonable.
aug 31, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Or before they died 😭 ( thinking of you SRV )
aug 31, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The best use would be to go back and kill the fella who invented mirrors. Every time I see one, I cringe.
aug 31, 2025, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Hello beautiful
aug 31, 2025, 2:08 pm • 1 0 • view
I would go see Sappho of Lesbos. Although we know of her today as a poet, she was actually a renowned musician. The poetry was merely the lyrics to her songs. I could experience her music and Greek/Near Eastern music of which we have no idea how it sounded, and also have some oragnic wine and olives
aug 31, 2025, 3:20 pm • 1 0 • view
You probably mean: travel back so you can help them break up just before their peak.
aug 31, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Bands I have seen: Peter Frampton Jethro Tull Styx Blue Oyster Cult Rush REO Speedwagon Ozzy I'm sure there's more, I just can't remember some of them...😝
aug 31, 2025, 2:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh, right... Humble Pie and Steppenwolf
aug 31, 2025, 2:45 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 2:32 pm • 0 0 • view
OMG you are so right!!!!
aug 31, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
A real fan would see them before they were cool. :-)
aug 31, 2025, 2:49 pm • 2 0 • view
You do realize that most bands improve over time. To a point. So that band playing for 12 people was an unskilled bunch of kids with pimples and borrowed teenage lust filled lyrics.
aug 31, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Nah, I’m there for that shit! I love half-assed jank!
aug 31, 2025, 3:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Unless you were a child
aug 31, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
You’ve got a time machine.
aug 31, 2025, 3:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Or I could find me and take me to see them then I could answer i did
aug 31, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
“Dude why did you let yourself go like that?” - Me, to me
aug 31, 2025, 3:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh yea
aug 31, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
And, why exactly, is this second on your list? (Just wondering how far off-base I am with mine.)
aug 31, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I am confident we are on the same page.
aug 31, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Indeed. I guess it would be really bad if we were to refer to it as, "our wonderful secret." Too far?
aug 31, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
The first best use is a vasectomy for Fred Trump.
aug 31, 2025, 2:44 pm • 3 0 • view
I never saw The Who, The Stones, or The Beatles. Take me baby.
aug 31, 2025, 7:40 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 4:33 pm • 2 0 • view
If I could have seen Morphine.....
aug 31, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Works for me I have seen some of the Greatest Bands live music in the 60z & 70z were the best.... That's what we did we went to Concerts of every kind imaginable outside & inside
aug 31, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Or before the lead singer dies of a heroin or fentanyl overdose.
aug 31, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Gotta see em by age 26 for sure.
aug 31, 2025, 2:38 pm • 2 0 • view
lol. I am old enough to have seen a lot of the classic rock bands at their peak.
sep 1, 2025, 1:17 am • 2 0 • view
Too bad it would only be available to the uber rich 😭
sep 1, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
I've always said that one of my points I'd hit if I could time travel is the rooftop concert from The Beatles.
sep 1, 2025, 1:58 am • 3 0 • view
Take me back to the Viper Room. "At Depp's request, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed on the club's opening night."
aug 31, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
The first would be to have released #Espstein files before 2016 election and every year since
aug 31, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
And then kill Hitler.
aug 31, 2025, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Old enough to have seen them all when they were :) Kept the concert programmes and ticket stubs too!
aug 31, 2025, 4:56 pm • 3 0 • view
CBGB in the 70s would cover a lot of my favorite bands
sep 1, 2025, 2:16 am • 2 0 • view
Stevie Ray Vaughan for sure.
aug 31, 2025, 3:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Right after Hendrix, for a compare and contrast. Then Zeppelin.
aug 31, 2025, 3:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Perfect.
aug 31, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Umm, I am afraid to ask what you think the best use would be, Erik…
aug 31, 2025, 2:14 pm • 1 0 • view
But then all the time immigrants would be taking access away from the natural timers who wouldn't be able to see those shows. 😄🤣
aug 31, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
😜
aug 31, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
What’s the first best use?
aug 31, 2025, 7:46 pm • 0 0 • view
To go back in time to watch Material Issue play their last New Year’s Eve gig in a skating rink? Priceless.
sep 1, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
Why else would it need to be invented. 🎶 😘🥳🤔🤗
aug 31, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I've done it. It's called being born in England in 1951, going to university in 1970. Captain Beefheart late 1972, the real Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green, the underground clubs 1967-70 etc
aug 31, 2025, 6:10 pm • 1 0 • view
I was lucky enough to see Zappa/Mothers/Beefheart (best concert I've ever attended) & the Peter Green Fleetwood Mac (the best of the FM lineups) back in the day. I love watching musicians make music.
aug 31, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I saw Zappa on his last tour in high school - incredibly entertaining and a super fun show. So glad we went!
aug 31, 2025, 7:41 pm • 2 0 • view
I've seen Zappa many times. He's one of my favorite musicians. The concert with Beefheart, during the Bongo Fury release tour, was the best one.
aug 31, 2025, 7:44 pm • 1 0 • view
I recall getting trout mask replica in college and listening to it and thinking “what the fuck is this?” Of course, now with Radiohead and so many other experimental bands, it seems more tame. God bless rock and roll.
aug 31, 2025, 7:47 pm • 1 0 • view
For me, earliest R.E.M. and Cocteau Twins would have been amazing, and I sorely wish I could see the Cranberries a few more times (SO great live!). Plus it would have been awesome to see Van Halen (DLR) instead of Van Hagar (though that was still pretty decent). 😁
aug 31, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
You might like this book that involves that exact thing. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
aug 31, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes! 💔
aug 31, 2025, 3:50 pm • 1 0 • view
man in the (time travel device) box
aug 31, 2025, 3:51 pm • 1 0 • view
If only. I have their 1990 Live at the Moore on vinyl.
aug 31, 2025, 4:08 pm • 2 0 • view
What's the first one? To go all Terminator on the mothers of Trump, Putin and Netenyahu?
aug 31, 2025, 2:09 pm • 7 0 • view
The usual answer is to kill baby Hitler. But quite apart from the fact that most of us would be incapable of committing infanticide anyway, we also have Hitler's blunders to thank for WW2 not being even more lengthy and deadly than it already was, so I'm not sure that'd be my first choice.
aug 31, 2025, 3:07 pm • 1 0 • view
I think the 27 million who died as the result of Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union might disagree. Are you suggesting we need to hang on to brainless tyrants like Trump obsessive ones like Putin or criminally self-preserving ones like Netenyahu because the alternatives could be worse?
aug 31, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
No, but I think that it's a better use of hypothetical time travel opportunities to derail fascist movements from gathering steam than to eliminate their future leaders, especially if those leaders end up being a detriment to their own efforts later on.
aug 31, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
The only thing worse than the Nazis would be the Nazis under competent leadership, essentially.
aug 31, 2025, 3:07 pm • 4 0 • view
Thank you for reminding us of that while we look at our situation in the US with total incompetents in every post. The puppet masters are pretty scary, however.
aug 31, 2025, 3:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Possibly the best. Bear with me. I like the Novikov self-consistency principle - outcomes that void the reason for going back in the first place are impossible (e.g. going back to shoot Hitler? Misfire). If right, viable uses would be tourism, fact finding, maybe Dirk Gently-style pottery fraud.
sep 1, 2025, 12:56 am • 0 0 • view
Tourism would generally be fine. You don't have to avoid changing history too much because you physically can't. You can go and enjoy yourself.
sep 1, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
My favorite bands were at their peak 10 and 3 years before I was born respectively (Weezer and Ozma, 1996 and 2003).
aug 31, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Going to see Hendrix used to be my no.1 priority when I get my time machine. But you’re right, would do that afterwards (assuming it’s possible to actually change history).
aug 31, 2025, 2:25 pm • 3 0 • view
I actually saw the original RHCP at the University Ballroom in SLC. Not only did their drummer pass since, but my boyfriend who took me did, too. That was a great night. I named one of my kids after Anthony.
aug 31, 2025, 2:12 pm • 4 0 • view
Forgive my ignorance but, was Anthony the drummer or your boyfriend?...
aug 31, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
The lead singer of the RHCP.
aug 31, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
This did not go over my head. You could however kill two birds with one stone and see Lionel Hampton do “Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" while you’re there.
aug 31, 2025, 2:33 pm • 4 0 • view
Get some amazing bootlegs; like, imagine the audio capture technology of today (or even a few decades hence); now take that to some of the most famous/important concerts in history...
aug 31, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
But with normal ticket prices.
aug 31, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Wouldn't that be cool???
aug 31, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view
I reckon this is what all the time travellers actually do - they just don't talk to the people in our lifetimes about it.
aug 31, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
My question would be, why didn't you do it at the time? Nostalgia is just a mental pain. Personally, I made a point of it at the time. And like an old register receipt, the mental ink is fading fast.
aug 31, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree
aug 31, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
After spiking Trump’s mum’s coffee with The Pill.
aug 31, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes! I agree.
aug 31, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Cusp Gen-x/ millennial So: Alice in Chains Nirvana Pearl Jam NIN STP RATM Green Day And No Doubt back when Gwen was cool.
aug 31, 2025, 4:06 pm • 4 0 • view
I’ve seen both Green Day and NIN in the last year and honestly they are each as good as they have ever been. I strongly encourage you to see them if you get the chance.
aug 31, 2025, 4:07 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh Pearl Jam too. They may be the best touring band out there, though I’m not sure what’ll happen now that Matt retired.
aug 31, 2025, 4:08 pm • 3 0 • view
I should have included Sublime in my list.
aug 31, 2025, 4:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Excellent list. My first thought was to go catch a bunch of the early Lollapalooza shows & go to HFStival (a DC area one that brought in great bands). I don't know why I skipped them back then.
aug 31, 2025, 5:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Secretly we all wish we'd caught some kind of Presidents or Toadies show.
aug 31, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Saw Green Day at a club in NJ right before ‘Dookie’ broke. Stood there surrounded by hundreds of kids singing along and thought “they’re gonna be huge”. Also realized I was too old to be trying to pull off the leather jacket at shows.
aug 31, 2025, 7:42 pm • 1 0 • view
We lived on beacon hill in Boston when they started a riot at the hatch shell. Though they prevented us going to our favorite bar that night, I always respected them after that.
aug 31, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view
LED ZEPPELIN THE DOORS NIRVANA
aug 31, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
#Zeppelin #RobertPlant
aug 31, 2025, 3:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Traveling to Dallas on November 22, 1963 and stop the death of Camelot.
aug 31, 2025, 3:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Damn straight!
aug 31, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Right after you kill baby hitler you mean?
aug 31, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I would give my right nut to be in the UK 62-72....
aug 31, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I missed seeing Tom Petty and Prince. I’d start there and work my way backward.
aug 31, 2025, 6:28 pm • 1 0 • view
I had every opportunity to see both and just never did. Along with Bowie.
aug 31, 2025, 6:38 pm • 2 0 • view
I did, too. Came right to my city, but I was too tired or too busy. Thought there would be more opportunities, etc.
aug 31, 2025, 6:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Meanwhile I’ve seen Dave Matthews like fifty times, mostly because it’s easy as a fan club member.
aug 31, 2025, 7:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Step one: Go back to the 40s and waste Donnies parents. Step 2: come forward to the 60s and see Johnny Cash and Elvis together in a 200 seat dance hall in my hometown. Step 3-?: Repeat as necessary for Hendrix, Woodstock, Ozzy w Randy Rhoads, Biggie, Pac, Nirvana, and so on
aug 31, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
As I'm reading this I'm watching Quantum Leap.
aug 31, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
A side note, whenever my husband are a team in trivia we call ourselves the Rural Jurors
aug 31, 2025, 2:24 pm • 9 0 • view
I always use “Liquid Courage” but I may need to make a switch!
aug 31, 2025, 2:27 pm • 2 0 • view
🤣
aug 31, 2025, 2:36 pm • 1 0 • view
One very simple proof time travel is impossible: In December, 1961, the Beatles played the Palais ballroom in Aldershot, to a "crowd" of about 12 people. How many of us would, if we could, go back to see that show? The fact no one has proves time travel is impossible.
aug 31, 2025, 2:47 pm • 19 1 • view
Well, 12 people did...
aug 31, 2025, 3:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Things would turn out so bad, if time travelers went all see their favorite shows... It would add up those being stuffed full. Timeline could not handle time tourism. 🤔 "Yeah that one new band, their first show. Somehow there was million crowd from all over the world, no less, total mayhem."
aug 31, 2025, 3:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Think about woodstock! There would be so many wasted timetravellers... maybe it wouldn't do any harm to the timeline tho, because everybodys high so even if someone told they were from the future, locals would just be like, Far out man! Groovy! 😶🌫️🤪🥰
aug 31, 2025, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
What if one of the Beatles was from the future, went back and replaced the original drummer
aug 31, 2025, 3:34 pm • 3 0 • view
The Ringo timeline protection secret police will be visiting you soon. Do not try to resist.
aug 31, 2025, 4:22 pm • 11 0 • view
There was only 11 the first time...
sep 1, 2025, 3:53 am • 0 0 • view
Perhaps a feature of developed time travel is some sort of ghosting feature where you can observe but are not literally present. I would love to go back to prehistoric times BUT *get out* of the freaking time machine? I would most likely be dead in less than 5 minutes.
aug 31, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
...or step on a butterfly and when you get back it's planet of the apes.
aug 31, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd like to visit all my relatives going back as far as possible to see what their childhoods were like. That would be so interesting. And I want to be there the first time someone ever made ice cream.
aug 31, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
One benefit for sure.
aug 31, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I was thinking about something like this. What band would you want to see live at their peak? The Stones? The Who? AC/DC? Van Halen? The Eagles? Led Zeppelin? The Beatles?
sep 1, 2025, 1:50 am • 1 0 • view
Also their first ever shows, when they played to a bar with 15 people watching
aug 31, 2025, 2:00 pm • 43 1 • view
Or Jeff Buckley during the short time that he was around to perform.
aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Others mentioned Joan Jett. Saw her play at Six Flags when I was in high school. Later, I saw her open for the Police. She almost fell off the stage, she was a lil tipsy or something.
aug 31, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
aren’t we all
aug 31, 2025, 7:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Didn’t Joan Jett do exactly that right after she was offered a gig at Madison Square Garden (and turned it down)?
aug 31, 2025, 2:12 pm • 6 0 • view
She’s cool. Saw her last summer when she opened for Alanis Morisette
aug 31, 2025, 3:19 pm • 5 0 • view
Saw her a couple years ago when she and her drummer got in a shouting argument about how she forgot band introductions. He wouldn’t stop drumming until she did it. It was kind of hilarious.
aug 31, 2025, 3:20 pm • 11 0 • view
Niiiice! 🤣 She played for over an hour and was having a blast. Seems her happy place is the stage with a guitar.
aug 31, 2025, 3:24 pm • 8 0 • view
Same! That was a badass lineup.
aug 31, 2025, 3:51 pm • 2 0 • view
I saw a band at the Electric Circus in 1966. Long hair from the west coast. Songs all blended together. 6 months later I got "Anthem of the Sun" and realized the band had been the Dead.
aug 31, 2025, 2:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Future historians will come to discover that more than half of the attendees of the Beatles’ Shea Stadium concert were old men, shrieking and disguised as teen girls.
aug 31, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Travelling back to the summer of 1992 for this specific purpose would be the right thing to do.
aug 31, 2025, 2:21 pm • 2 0 • view
I daydream of this often.
aug 31, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
usually at the same time
aug 31, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
This is what I would do. Just tour all the greatest gigs, see my favourite bands before I discovered them, go to the original Woodstock and see what it was really like...
aug 31, 2025, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Seeing Chestnut tree dominated Eastern forests, untouched California and massive Buffalo herds, tenochtitlan and Billy Ray before Achy Breakup.
aug 31, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
I know that last artist but am not familiar with those other bands.
aug 31, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I guess they never really had break out albums per se
aug 31, 2025, 5:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I always give this as my answer when people ask where I’d time travel to!! I say a Led Zeppelin concert followed by getting eaten by a T-Rex because nothing cooler is going to happen to me than either of those things
aug 31, 2025, 8:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Absolutely! We’re doing our best to at least see all the great old rockers before they stop playing…. Rolling Stones, Jon Anderson, Steve Hackett, Steve Howe
aug 31, 2025, 2:23 pm • 3 0 • view
I sure know what your first use of time travel would be...I call shotgun!
aug 31, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I use the Time Machine to take out Fred tRump, then go to Abbey Road Studios! A pheasant time is guaranteed for all 😃
aug 31, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view