If you could go back in time and stop any one person or group's musical career, who or what would it be?
If you could go back in time and stop any one person or group's musical career, who or what would it be?
This isn't a "go back in time and assassinate" someone question. It's just their musical career never takes off and thus any music they ever would have made is no longer in this timeline.
I won't say his name but I stopped someone's musical career once. He was an up and coming young guitarist, getting performing gigs here and there, and teaching guitar students to help pay his bills while waiting for a break. I took some lessons from him and as part of general chatting it came out that I worked with computers. He thought that was interesting and asked good questions, so I brought him some programming books. He became a full time programmer a couple months later and a very good one too. I'm glad it worked out for him, but I always wonder what we lost.
61Simon Cowell
The cunt worked out how to make millions from gouging money from kids with cheaply produced pop, and caused a massive collapse in the quality of the British music scene, from which it's never really recovered
It was the only good thing left Simon 🤨
50Outside the box: Robert Elliot, a charter pilot who flew and killed Jim Croce by crashing into a tree on takeoff. Pilot error was found to be the cause as the overweight 57 year old pilot was unable to drive to the airport so ran for 3 miles, from his motel to the hangar, to be on time for the flight. The run exacerbated his coronary artery disease, causing him to tunnel vision and not see the tree.
37I think it would have been better for Brittany if she hadn't been famous.
33I'd do the inverse of this and see what might have happened if Charles Manson had had a successful music career. I heard an album of his songs and they were actually pretty good, kind of a mix of The Beach Boys and The Doors. Maybe if he'd sold some more songs then he wouldn't have gone into the whole murder cult thing.
But then again maybe it would have positioned him to be way worse and we're actually living in the universe where somebody stopped Manson from achieving true wealth and power and like leading a nationwide death cult or something.
31Black Eyed Peas, I feel like that band was forced on me for like a decade.
28Amy Winehouse. If she stayed a blues singer in London she might not have had so many drug issues made worse by fame.
19Drake.
Wanker.
17The singer of 30 Seconds to Mars
16Courtney Love already did this
14Bono. He's the biggest piece of shit.
12Probably a very unpopular opinion but…
Taylor Swift. I am so sick of seeing her name mentioned all the time.
8Corey Feldman
8Would it be cheating if I chose Nero Caesar since he technically was a musician and would perform in the colosseums under threat of death?
5Damn this had me thinking to stop the musician that proposed the winter dance party tour, but it seems buddy Holly originated it so no facing him.
It would have been cool to see where he went musically.
4The Beatles.
4Bon Jovi. Nobody needed that.
2Journey
1All excellent suggestions here. I’m adding Lost Prophets to the list. Maybe don’t look them up if you don’t already know.
1Can I pick a midpoint in his career? If so I would pick Coldplay after Viva la Vida. Otherwise, The B-52s
1Dave Matthews
-1Nirvana
-1Dave Mustaine is a particularly irritating fascist, would be nice id he didn't get royalties
-1Yours.
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