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
Sorry Cornfedboy, looks like I shut it down. Too bad too. Although its not the first time I ever damped a party, I would have thought this one had legs. Great thread notwithstanding its untapped potential.
Chris
David Byrne during the "Stop Making Sense" tour. I could never get away with wearing that suit.
BlBloom: That used to be my favorite music video to watch after a bad day at work. If it were a really bad day I would fast forward to the "I'll Do It My Way" scene from "Sid and Nancy".
Kelly, I wish I was in Vienna circa 1825, my buddy Franz
was in good spirits and the syphillis was not so bad that
he could party a little. We drink all night and sing some
songs. Franz brought along some sheet music and we strike
up a foursome. Someone yells out "hey this part came from
that Death and the Maiden song we sang last week. Can't
you come up with something a little more original." Every
laughs and starts drinking and singing and playing....