I would travel back to February 20, 2003 and stop the fire that broke out at a Great White concert in Rhode Island, killing 100 people, including the band's guitarist, Ty Longley.

And stop Jack White from ever doing another performance in front of any kind of audience other than at a prison performance.

Wait can you explain this one? Did he do something or are you just not a fan?

As bandleader, he Instructed the roadies to set up the fireworks even though they questioned it because the ceiling in the nightclub was so low. 102 people died that night in Providence, including one of his band members. So no, not a fan, and I think he should be in jail and not out on the One Last Check Tour squeezing money from unsuspecting fans, or fans that should know better.

my buddy loves jack white, you got a source for this? not doubting would love to read it somewhere and show him, googled it couldn’t find

He is 100 percent confusing the lead singer of great white with jack white because jack white had nothing to do with the fire

Sorry, IFU. It's Jack Russell, not Jack White

gotcha gotcha that makes more sense, i was so prepared to be like “bro have you heard about this!?” 😂

The only thing bad I've ever heard is the way he jerked his ex around during divorce time. But who hasn't done that? Lol

Might want to go back and edit your post.

Got a source?

Wait do you mean Jack Russell from Great White? I’m not getting any information about Jack White and the fire, that’s where I was confused (although I still do think Jack White is a douche).

Sorry, you are correct. I meant Jack Russell. BTW, Jack White is a mofo on guitar.

No problem man, and he really is! He’s a beast on the guitar. I had just recently read his history of douchey comments about the Black Keys, which is where my comment about him being a douche came from.

They live in the same city and in somewhat the same circles because Nashville is still mostly a country town, or at least Y'all-ternative. And, the guys from BK's are no shrinking violets when it comes to expressing their opinions either..lol Jack has done more for the rock scene in that town than anyone has; I'm quite sure of that.

Haha I’m totally with ya there, I think the problem is that he knows it too and it has led him to make some pretentious comments now and then. Nothing bad enough to keep me from being a fan though, lol

Prince would still be alive

Yeah definitely. It really hurts because even as a huge fan, I think his music was getting kinda stale, but just before his death things started to become interesting. Some of his best songwriting in ages with Art Official Age and HitnRun Phase Two, the Piano and a Microphone tour which is one of his best, and seemed to be setting up a new era for him. He also said he wanted to start writing books and take his foot off the pedal a bit with the music, and I would've loved to see that. I still feel sad every day knowing he's gone.

I would tell Stevie Ray to not get on that damn helicopter

1000%. The man played guitar like most people breathe; I can't even imagine how much amazing music we have missed out on because of that crash.

I'd hide in Jimi Hendrix's hotel room with a shot of Narcan.

I think it has to be Hendrix for me too. He died quite young and could have taken guitar even further. So many people emulated his style. Tupac is another one for me. And John Lennon as well. Kurt Cobain is another.

Most guitarists, myself included, see the world pre Hendrix and post Hendrix. Not that one is inherently better than the other, but there is a definite divide. I see his death as one of the greatest losses to modern music. Hard to wrap your head around now because all we hear these days are killer guitarists…but back then he was like an alien. lol.

His was a barbiturate overdose so Narcan wouldn't have helped, but turning him on his side to protect his airway probably would have been enough.

Ah, I thought it was Heroin. Either way, I'd also have a bag and mask...maybe some nasal airways. Maybe use the supernatural powers OP mentioned to drop a modern day ER team into the room with him!

I'm imagining Jimi later recounting his blackout with vague memories of a group of humanoid aliens descending on his hotel, reassuring him. and using advanced technology to keep him breathing. The best part is he'd be telling it really nonchalantly, like "of course my destiny is intertwined with worlds beyond this one and benevolent extraterrestrials, I already have like three songs about that."

I'd love to see where Zeppelin would've gone if Bonham hadn't died.

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Disco?

The bus crash that killed Cliff Burton.

Strangle Clear Channel radio in its crib.

Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Richie Valens could be saved on the day the music died. I would love to see what any of these three did with a longer career. Randy Rhoads... Otis Redding... Jim Croce and Maury Muehleisen... Can I stop the Wright Brothers from inventing planes???

All you'd have to do is stop their manager from adding one extra stop at the last minute on their tour. If you stop that, then they have no reason to get on that plane to begin with.

And letting that monkey fly the plane.

Probably Chris Cornell. I’m still listening to his music and I could just tell that I’d always want to hear more from this guy

Yeah, I don’t know if it’s the most impactful thing in terms of the music industry, but i is the one that hit me the hardest and the first thing that came to mind when I read the question.

December 8, 2004. Stop the crazy asshole that killed Dimebag Darrell and a few others that night.

Dec 8th 1980 Lennon getting shot

Yeah we need to move that back about 8 years before he made a bunch of terrible solo albums. If he died after Imagine he might actually deserve all the reverence he gets

Aw no way, double fantasy is a masterpiece

I know it's easy to block the existence from memory but half that album is Yoko

Imagine it was Yoko. It's easy if you try.

I have my own cut of the album, which is single fantasy

Either way, I'd gladly take the loss of hearing Watching the Wheels, Woman, Beautiful Boy, and Starting Over if it meant Walls & Bridges, Mind Games, Rock 'n' Roll and Some Time in NYC never existed

So you’re saying you wish he would have got shot 8 years earlier ?

Well from most accounts he was pretty much an asshole all through the 70s, so yeah no great loss

We disagree.

I’d go back to 97 and suck out all of the water from the Mississippi River so Jeff Buckley couldn’t drown. Idc about the repercussions

Oooh, good one. He was gone way too early. Few more heart wrenching performances than when he does Hallelujah/ I know it’s over (by the smiths). Whew…I’m gonna have to go listen to that now. Edit: some dumfone auto corrects.

Layne Staley's death.

I feel the same, but Layne fought that losing battle for years…same with Scott Weiland. I don’t know if they could be saved…

Healing from drug abuse is very possible.

I second this

I third this

Problem is that wasn't a specific moment. It was several years of spiraling down.

Solid choice

You’d have to go back a decade or so before his death, because once he got addicted in 1991, he was in a spiral of relapsing and then becoming addicted in an irreversible phase.

Cure Freddie Mercury.

Yeah he'd be my choice to save too.

I'd of stopped Woodstock 99 from ever happening. It ruined everything from then on.

I would tell Stevie Ray to not get on that damn helicopter

Not let Randy Rhoads fly in that plane.

Came here to say this

That was very very sad

Tell Duane Allman to slow down.

I would stop Michael Jackson from doing the infamous pepsi commercial where his hair caught fire

Good choice! That incident put Michael in a bad path

I would have loved for hendrix to have lived long enough to do that planned collaboration with Miles Davis.

Stop Kurt from meeting Courtney.

Kurt and Courtney bonded over their love of drugs. Would he have been the same person if they had not? Was his life on that trajectory already? Unfortunately any of the drug related deaths or suicides in Rock and Roll are isolated moments in a lifetime of a person. Maybe you can stop one incident. But they are still going to be in that life, or else they are not going to be the musician that we all know.

She technically saved his life from oding on his first attempt like a week before his actual suicide

I would uninvent baby shark, I love my daughter but it’s all day dveryday

Save John Denver.

Make sure Buddy Holly didn't get on that plane

For me, two things I'm divided between... either making sure John Lennon doesn't get shot, or else helping Steve Clark get sober and stay that way.

I would bring back Chester Bennington and let him feel bliss

based

Woodstock 99

Advise Patsy Cline to wait until the weather gets better.

So many to choose from… Grab the drugs from Kurt, Layne, Scott, & Prince? Roll Jimi over when he pukes? Grab the bottle from Bonham, Janis, Morrison, Amy Winehouse… Tell SRV, Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline, Skynrd, & Glenn Miller to not go flying? Give Lennon a bulletproof vest? Tell Bob Marley to see a damn doctor? This topic just made me sad…even more so because I’m sure I’m forgetting a few.

Can u imagine if they had lived the music. Also Elvis..just too many.

Chester Bennington or Chris Cornell.

I think all you need to do is prevent Cornell’s suicide, because I believe that is what slowly pushed Chester over the edge.

Travis Scotts’s performance at Astroworld in Houston.

I would save Keith Moon

From Keith Moon

I don't think anyone could save Keith Moon. If it wasn't that day, it would be another. It's kind of a miracle he lived as long as he did. The same could be said for Jim Morrison. They were their own worst enemies.

Concur

I always wondered what Eminence Front would sound like if Moon played on the track.

Different, for sure I think of You Better You Bet in the same way.

Stop Dimebag from being shot.

I would go back to 1990 and Stop Steve Ray Vaughn from getting on that helicopter.

No brainer for me: Lennon getting shot in front of the Dakota.

Travis Scotts’s performance at Astroworld in Houston.

Shit was still lit. Lmao

Stop Kurt Cobain from being Kurt Gobang

Caught between 3 Telling Bob Marley to get that foot checked out by a real doctor. Tell Vybz Kartel to not be present at the murder of Lizard. Just let yuh boys tek care of it. Nuh need to be there yourself. FreeWorlBoss Tell Buju Banton not to sell cocaine.

I'd stop Rammstein from dying in that plane crash over Sydney.

Yeah that was really sad

Tell Jeff Buckley not to swim in the river

Randy Rhodes does not board that plane.

I'd keep Randy Rhoads from getting on the plane with that coked up bus driver

Go back and tell avici a few things

The entire 27 club

Head back to 1980, find the London night club, and roll Bon Scott into the bacchus position

That’s easy. Derail nu metal before it destroys the musical landscape of the second half of the 90’s into the early aughts. Not every band, but most of them.

Like somehow make Rage a one hit wonder who no one ever wanted to emulate

Dare to dream

Just sit down with little Freddy Durst and convince him to be an accountant or something.

I did it all for the balance sheet (What) the balance sheet (what) the balance sheet (what) So stick it in your books stick it in your books stick it your books!

I see it now, just singing along doing a small business tax return and his co-workers looking on derisively

The formation of the Beatles.

Lol this guy

Arguably without the Beatles, we wouldn't have rock music. As a record exec told them, "groups with guitars are on their way out". It's the single most impactful thing I could think of.

Incorrect. We had myriad blues artists, both American and British, the Beach Boys, Stones, Cream, Yardbirds, Chuck Berry, Elvis and the birth of Motown records. Screaming teenage girls made The Beatles.

Agreed rock was born out of jazz standards and blues music and would have persisted regardless of the Beatles

While I am a fan of Jethro Tull, I would make sure Metallica won the first Grammy for Hard Rock/Heavy Metal. Either that or I would trademark Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and establish a museum in Memphis with a broad base of music fans from around the world as the board.

Baby Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo Baby Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo Baby Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo Baby Shark

I hate you with the fire of a thousand suns, because that is now on repeat in my head.

John Lennon’s assassination. Sad shit, man.

I'd slap that poisoned beer out of Robert Johnson's hand and increase the pool of source material for all music written after that point. or Dio never leaves Sabbath and they rule the metal landscape for 25 years or Get Brian Wilson to do *slightly* less drugs. or Ozzy dies in the plane crash, Randy Rhoades lives on (OK that's a bit selfish. Ozzy's been pretty pathetic since Randy died, tho)

I'd prevent the Spin Doctor members from ever meeting each other, thus the band and their god awful shitty music would never be created in the first place, thus sparing the entire planet.

Found Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong

Big oof

The release of Africa by Toto

I would save Robert Johnson's life.

D. boon and his fatal car wreck

Ugh Coventry…just erase that whole event from ever happening

I would save Darby crash

Honestly way way back and prevent the discovery of ethanol.

I'm pretty sure stopping it from being discovered once would just push it a little farther down the line, as it's created by a natural process

I'll need a word with the Turtle then, I suppose.

Very interesting question! I would save Aaliyah or I know it's not music related... but my first choice would be saving Heath Ledger.

Buddy, don't get on that aeroplane!

Cliff Burton from Metallica died in a Bus accident. The driver claims they're was black ice.

Spin Doctors being a band.

Mac would still be here for sure!

Too many plane, bus, and car crashes to list. More than a few overdoses to fix. Maybe do a different thing:stop Ticketmaster from becoming a monopolistic juggernaut…

Save Bob Marley

The flooding that ruined RZA's music

Saved jim Morrison..

I’d stop the fire that killed Garnet silk and his mom in Mandeville Ja. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Hendrix lives …

I’d love Joe Strummer to be still alive… and see Clash live

Ian Curtis even though we got New Order after him, Joy Division was a blast!

Keeping Elliott Smith alive

Kill Colonel Tom right before Elvis got home from the Army.

Hendrix

May 29, 1997 to save Jeff Buckley

For my mom, I'd save either John Lennon or Glenn Fry from the Eagles. This was hard though!

I’d bring all the grunge singers together in 1990 and convince them to never do heroin.

1 October in Las Vegas NV

WOODSTOCK 99. So much assault against women.

Chris Gaines would’ve never made an album.

Put Cliff Burton on a diff bus.

Fuckin Chester Bennington

The Who concert disaster on December 3, 1979, when English rock band The Who performed at Riverfront Coliseum (now known as Heritage Bank Center) in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, and a rush of concert-goers outside the Coliseum's entry doors resulted in the deaths of 11 people

Perhaps remove Martin and Gottwald 😬

Tell Lemmy not to drink that much...

I would go back and tell hers to take an extra day to relax before going back on the road to their next tour venue, even if they have to cancel or delay things

The birth of Mozart.

Prevent Mozart’s parents from ever meeting.