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Just a thought experiment

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Dei, Mar 15, 2011.

  1. Dei

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    You're sent back into mid-late 18th century Europe, roughly 1770. It's the middle of the Classical period in music and the Romantic period is going to come by the end of the century. You'll be living in the time of such musical greats as Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin.

    You've been a r****d all your life and you have no skills to which you can make a living save one. For some reason, you've been a musical prodigy all your life. At the time you were pulled back, you were carrying the instrument/s of your choice and, in the case of electrical equipment, an amplifier and solar panel that could last your lifetime.

    What music would you play, barring you plagiarize the musicians of that era their music? Would you simply relish the opportunity to outdo the greats at their own genre? Or would you try to rock it out with music from the 80's? How about some 90's pop or techno?
     
  2. lean

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    I'd rap about mar1juana.
     
  3. Dubious

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  4. apollo33

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    I'll teach them how to Dougie

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  5. Landlord Landry

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    dubstep.

    burned at the stake 2 days later.
     
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  6. cson

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    "The tables might wobble but they won't fall down!"
     
  7. Royals Ego

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    I think we're using the term 'thought experiment' a little too loosely
     
  8. Joe Joe

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    None. Would attempt to sell technology, move to America, and try to get in Thomas Jefferson's inner circle so that he is more detailed in his Bill of Rights.
     
  9. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum

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    Pimp Juice.
     
  10. mylilpony

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    i would sell auto-tune to the masses and be the next guttenberg and make everyone equal.
     
  11. Daedalus

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    something Miles Davis would play....would it sound like poetry or cacophony to them?
     
  12. Manny Ramirez

    Manny Ramirez The Music Man

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    I would sing this song and sing it exactly like this chick:

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  13. Bandwagoner

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    good luck

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  14. RedRedemption

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    Soulja Boy.

    They'd think I'm possessed! :D
     
  15. apollo33

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    They will probably just sell you as a slave if you are black.
     
  16. rezdawg

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    Manny, I watched that whole video...it was so bad, I couldnt stop.

    I cant believe thats really a song.
     
  17. Lil Pun

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    No, you'd probably.....

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  18. Cannonball

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    Depends on the time period. "Kind of Blue" Miles wouldn't be a cacophony. "Kind of Blue" Coltrane would. "Live at the Plugged Nickel" Miles would too.

    I think Mozart would dig most jazz. A lot of jazz vocabulary is based on things Mozart wrote.
     
  19. Manny Ramirez

    Manny Ramirez The Music Man

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    I would fop til I dropped.

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    Wait, did I say fop? I meant fap....
     

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