Red Mosquito

Pick a band or musical artists and declare, or guess, what’s the earliest decade they could have existed in accordance with the evolution of music recordings.
Please correct wrong guesses and explain why.
Examples:
The War on Drugs could exist in the 1970’s
Early Bob Dylan could exist in idk, the 1910’s.
Both guesses.

Can we also use this thread to guess the earliest decade in which a future band or artist could come into existence?

Yes?

Milk and Honey will own 2023.

Weird to think that EBB/flaux could come into existence as early as 2048, considering how heavily they will rely on the pinchshifter for their trademark sound.

I think all great bands are embodiments of unique and transhistorical forms which slide in and out of what we call "our reality."

For example Phish will re-appear as a group of Romanian refugees in the year 2048 and dominate world music for three seasons before disappearing entirely.

For further example, based solely on technological advancement, could Pearl Jam Ten have existed in the 1960’s?

All bands exist at all times, you just can't always hear them

In 1960 Pearl Jam's Ten would have emerged from a Motown revival band in Saginaw, MI

i laughed

History is what refuses desire and sets inexorable limits to individual as well as collective praxis.

Can't really retrofit any band/ solo artist into a previous era. War on Drugs is obviously a tribute to the 70s/Petty/Springsteen but its hard to see how they would have been popular if it hadnt been
for a band like Radiohead or even Wilco.

Also no to Dylan. While he may have had old influences and really
studied them so he could sound so raw and unpolished, his phrasing was really modern. Even the unpolished part was studied IMO not something you would have heard in an earlier era.

Maybe I’m not being clear.

Imagine, Mookie Blaylock is somehow instantly zapped back to 1972. Does the technology exist for them to make Ten?

Mickey wrote:All bands exist at all times, you just can't always hear them

Absolutely I agree and thank you for posting this. I’m going for Earth’s linear timeline on this thread.

Matters wrote:Maybe I’m not being clear.

Imagine, Mookie Blaylock is somehow instantly zapped back to 1972. Does the technology exist for them to make Ten?

It's not about the technology, man, it's about the vibes.

The song and video for Jeremy would barley blip today.

Pretty sure the ocean was producing waves back in '72.

What is this thread

It seems to be a thread where you take a musical artist and transpose them into othe time periods. Like, “hey, Emerson, Lake & Palmer would’ve sounded great in the 1890s”.

Most bands of the last twenty years wouldn't have made it in the 90s, but might have felt at home in the 70s or 80s, so you'd have to jump a decade or two.

Time travel is complicated.