# Which musical performance would you travel back in time for? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-musical-performance-would-you-travel-back-in-time-for/753033 "2016-04-24T21:47:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-musical-performance-would-you-travel-back-in-time-for/753033/41 "2016-04-27T11:31:36Z")
My dad was a talented guitar player and vocalist, but at the time I was too young to appreciate his music. I’d go back to a random evening when his friends were over and nagged him to play for them. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-musical-performance-would-you-travel-back-in-time-for/753033/42 "2016-04-27T13:04:29Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brwmLjD-3Hw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brwmLjD-3Hw) > LOL! I found it ! Not from Ed Sullivan, that was in '64. But did you notice the audience clapping ON the beat? ---
**Author:** ![txjim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f07891/32.png) [@txjim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txjim)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-musical-performance-would-you-travel-back-in-time-for/753033/43 "2016-04-27T13:50:17Z")
I’ve got three to see, hope you all don’t mind waiting in line… Any of the Talking Heads concerts filmed for _Stop Making Sense_ The Roy Orbison concert filmed for _A Black and White Night_. I’d have to have honorery A-List status to get in the door, hope tickets are included in the package. I’d love to see the younger me at the Tom Waits concert I attended in a smaller venue in the 70s. I did not know at the time what greatness was on the stage, including Leon Redbone as the opening act ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-musical-performance-would-you-travel-back-in-time-for/753033/44 "2016-04-27T14:09:56Z")
I’d go back to see the premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with Beethoven himself conducting. He was almost totally deaf by this time and could neither hear the orchestra nor the thunderous applause at the end. He had to be physically turned around so he could see the audience’s appreciation for his music. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-musical-performance-would-you-travel-back-in-time-for/753033/45 "2016-04-27T14:45:49Z")
December 13, 1895. Berlin. Gustav Mahler conducts the world premiere of his completed Second symphony, the “Resurrection.” I, myself, know how it’s _supposed_ to sound; I would dearly love to know if he did, too! ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-musical-performance-would-you-travel-back-in-time-for/753033/46 "2016-04-27T15:36:11Z")
I just missed being old enough for Woodstock. I know it is probably the most banal of choices, but since Woodstock was an event that so defined my generation, I’d like to experience it. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-musical-performance-would-you-travel-back-in-time-for/753033/47 "2016-04-27T16:02:14Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > I’d go back to see the premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with Beethoven himself conducting. He was almost totally deaf by this time and could neither hear the orchestra nor the thunderous applause at the end. He had to be physically turned around so he could see the audience’s appreciation for his music. [http://www.comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/peanuts-beethoven-cheering.gif](http://www.comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/peanuts-beethoven-cheering.gif)😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-musical-performance-would-you-travel-back-in-time-for/753033.md?page=2)