if i could trade places......


i hope we might have some fun with this one, while learning something of ourselves and imparting to others a bit about our unique tastes and passions. here’s the fill-in-the-blanks drill: if, for one night, i could trade places with a [musician, singer, participant-live or dead] in a concert by [a group, composer or individual-live or dead], I’d do so because [ reason or explanation ]. this is not a rigid construct but only a rough formulation of an idea for each to build upon.

i’ll give an example, by way of further explanation and as a “starter post,” as follows: if, for one night, I could have stepped out of my lawyer’s shoes and suit and taken on the role of another, I’d have chosen to be the tambourine player in eric clapton’s band that played and recorded the tracks that became the “unplugged” album. this part is one, even I, could have performed adequately and would have put me in the middle of a performance i judge to be among the most seminal of the last couple decades of the 20th century.
cornfedboy
My choice. I would say Robert Johnson, still alive of course, c. '67 (68?), in attendance at the Fillmore when Cream performed Crossroads. I wonder what he would have thought?
Beam me into E. Clapton the night he performed "Spoonful". Although compositionally challanged, the spirituallity, sincerity and intensity of this work add up to: "Big Medicine". Everything's alive about it...
What a wonderful thread Cornfedboy and from a lawyer no less.....it reminds me of a recurrent phantasy which I had in younger times of being a jazz trumpeter or a bassplayer in the days of be-bop and the "cool", or playing dixie, or singing the blues. Must have been a compensation for my dayly chores and pretending to keep an unperturbed professional stance. Funny, come to think now, I love classical music, but I never dreamt of being a classical performer..makes sense. Thanks Cornfed, you helped me to a bit of personal insight. Not bad for a lawyer (-:, maybe we should switch professions, law was one of my early choices, by the way.
Regards,
An audiophile writer, living on an island in the Mediterranean. Funny, Cornfedboy, I trained as a lawyer and took a post-grad course in Ethnopsychiatry (hi Detlof!)-- but never exercised either. When younger, I thought I could double up as a blues guitarist (hi again, Detlof).
Regards!