The "WHAT IF?" thread.

[Mr Badguy]

The rules are simple: you answer the hypothetical question then add a question of your own and the next poster answers that, then does the same.

I'll start:

What if Aerosmith had been wiped out in that plane crash (they had checked out the same plane) in '77, rather than Skynyrd?

[PETE'S BROTHER]

The rules are simple: you answer the hypothetical question then add a question of your own and the next poster answers that, then does the same.

I'll start:

What if Aerosmith had been wiped out in that plane crash (they had checked out the same plane) in '77, rather than Skynyrd?

they would be dead.


what if jimmy cracked corn, and you cared?

[chefcraig]

What if Aerosmith had been wiped out in that plane crash (they had checked out the same plane) in '77, rather than Skynyrd?

Then Run DMC would have had a cross-over hit a few years later with "Sweet Home Alabama", a duet with Skynyrd that would have moved race relations in this country forward far more that the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement.

What would have happened if Richard Thompson had accepted the job offer with the Eagles in the mid-seventies?

[ThrillsNSpills]

Then Run DMC would have had a cross-over hit a few years later with "Sweet Home Alabama", a duet with Skynyrd that would have moved race relations in this country forward far more that the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement.

What would have happened if Richard Thompson had accepted the job offer with the Eagles in the mid-seventies?

We'd be up to Funk 127 by now.

What if Crespo and Dufay after joining Aerosmith, proved to make even better songs with Aerosmith than Perry and Tyler at their best?

[FORD]

We'd be up to Funk 127 by now.

What if Crespo and Dufay after joining Aerosmith, proved to make even better songs with Aerosmith than Perry and Tyler at their best?

We might have been spared the string of MTV cheese ballads like "Amazacryincrazy".


What if Mick Taylor had stayed with The Stones, and Ronnie Wood had stayed with The Faces?

[sadaist]

What if Crespo and Dufay after joining Aerosmith, proved to make even better songs with Aerosmith than Perry and Tyler at their best?

Fans of the original (classic) band would be arguing on the Internet with fans of the new version. Much like we have with Van Halen.


What IF Ozzy had never bit the head off of anything?

[chefcraig]

What if Mick Taylor had stayed with The Stones, and Ronnie Wood had stayed with The Faces?

Nothing much. The Stones would have continued to drift through the seventies, the Faces would have fallen apart anyway as Rod Stewart's solo career took off, and Woody probably would have wound up as an unreliable sideman for a succession of unmemorable "reunited" 60s bands.


What IF Ozzy had never bit the head off of anything?

Randy Rhoads would still be alive, and the world would have been spared The Osbournes, along with all of Ozzy's ghastly nineties/2000s albums.


Here's the big one: What if Dave Roth never left Van Halen?

[FORD]

What IF Ozzy had never bit the head off of anything?

What if Ozzy had bit the head off of Sharon?

Or at least made sure that she was taking a joyride on that plane in March 1982, and not Randy.

[Nitro Express]

Sharon did say Ozzy came in drunk and said,"We have decided you have to go." Then he proceeded to strangle her. She got to the panic button on the phone and security came. I wonder who "they" were? The band? Demons? The fans?:biggrin:

[Satan]

Sharon did say Ozzy came in drunk and said,"We have decided you have to go." Then he proceeded to strangle her. She got to the panic button on the phone and security came. I wonder who "they" were? The band? Demons? The fans?:biggrin:

Uhhhhh..... I'm gonna have to plead the 5th on that one. http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/teufel/d095.gif

[ThrillsNSpills]

What if Dave Roth never left Van Halen?

There would be no Hag bio and there wouldn't be terms like Sammymath.
The VH albums would still be very short but potent guitar based power. The several ballad songs per album momentum they had would have been cut obviously from the finished product and sold to Journey and later Aerosmith. :)

And if Ozzy never bit the head off anything we wouldn't have that amazing picture of a drunken, cross-eyed Ozzy after conquering a dove's head in the sony records conference room with feathers, blood and a horrified group of execs. Couldn't they understand Ozzy was just demonstrating his entertainer's ability of controlling a room?

What if drugs and alcohol wasn't an issue with all these talented people in bands who met with an early death in bands we loved?
All the people we lost would still be alive but would the music still have had the same edge?

[Nitro Express]

Uhhhhh..... I'm gonna have to plead the 5th on that one. http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/teufel/d095.gif

Then you realized if you rid the world of Sharon Osbourne you would have actually been doing a good deed. Since your mission is to make hell on earth you realized your error and let her live. Damn you Satan! Damn you!

[Mr Badguy]

There would be no Hag bio and there wouldn't be terms like Sammymath.
The VH albums would still be very short but potent guitar based power. The several ballad songs per album momentum they had would have been cut obviously from the finished product and sold to Journey and later Aerosmith. :)

And if Ozzy never bit the head off anything we wouldn't have that amazing picture of a drunken, cross-eyed Ozzy after conquering a dove's head in the sony records conference room with feathers, blood and a horrified group of execs. Couldn't they understand Ozzy was just demonstrating his entertainer's ability of controlling a room?

What if drugs and alcohol wasn't an issue with all these talented people in bands who met with an early death in bands we loved?
All the people we lost would still be alive but would the music still have had the same edge?

Then Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, et all would have run out of steam and been forgotten about by 1980. The rest would have joined Whitesnake.

What if Freddie Mercury wasn't gay?

[78/84 guy]

We might have been spared the string of MTV cheese ballads like "Amazacryincrazy".


What if Mick Taylor had stayed with The Stones, and Ronnie Wood had stayed with The Faces?

The Stones would have really been the world's greatest rock band !! Instead they hired the Wood and he really has brought nothing to the band in 30 years. Rory Gallagher was first choice and it would have been a great one, but he bailed after Mick & Keith were acting weird when he went to meet with them about joining. They should still get Taylor back !!

[FORD]

The Stones would have really been the world's greatest rock band !! Instead they hired the Wood and he really has brought nothing to the band in 30 years. Rory Gallagher was first choice and it would have been a great one, but he bailed after Mick & Keith were acting weird when he went to meet with them about joining. They should still get Taylor back !!

Well, it's a good sign that Taylor has always been willing to work with the Stones when the opportunity comes up. He worked with them on John Phillips album which was done about a year or two after he left the band. Woody played on Mick Taylor's solo album in 1979. Taylor showed up at a Stones gig in Kansas City on the 1981 tour, and he played on Keith's solo album "Talk is Cheap" in 1988. And of course, he came back and touched up some guitar parts for the "new" tracks on the Exile on Main Street remaster last year.

So I've always had a good feeling that, whenever the Stones finally decide to do their final tour, Mick Taylor will be on stage with them. Hopefully Bill Wyman too.

[Bob_R]

The rules are simple: you answer the hypothetical question then add a question of your own and the next poster answers that, then does the same.


Hmmmm.....

[Dave's Bitch]

What if Freddie Mercury wasn't gay?

Queen may not have been so campy and produced some heavy ass music.

What if Ace and Peter stayed with Kiss?

[FORD]

What if Freddie Mercury wasn't gay?

Queen would have never existed, and possibly Brian May & Roger Taylor would have been in a band with Paul Rodgers in the first place. So no Bohemian Rhapsody, but the Bad Company records might have sounded better.


What if Bon Scott rented a Hotel room or crashed on someone's couch in February 1980, instead of trying to sleep it off in a frozen car?

[Steve Savicki]

What if alternative/Seattle sound never existed? Would "hard rock"/"heavy metal" live on?
Personally I thought it died fer sure in 1990, Slaughter's "Stick it to ya" (one of) the final nail.

[kwame k]

What if............





























































You STFU, Steve!

[Mr Badguy]

Queen may not have been so campy and produced some heavy ass music.

What if Ace and Peter stayed with Kiss?

The band opens KISSWORLD, a Disney style themepark, after "Music from The Elder" is a multi platinum smash and they embark on a career in campy, progressive rock and film scores.

Or nothing changes at all, as Gene and Paul always called the shots.

[Mr Badguy]

Queen would have never existed, and possibly Brian May & Roger Taylor would have been in a band with Paul Rodgers in the first place. So no Bohemian Rhapsody, but the Bad Company records might have sounded better.


What if Bon Scott rented a Hotel room or crashed on someone's couch in February 1980, instead of trying to sleep it off in a frozen car?

"Back in black" (or whatever their next album is called) is still a massive smash and the band release a stream of albums as good, due to better lyrics and original ideas.

Brian Johnson is "discovered" by Black Sabbath in 1983 to replace RJD.

What if Halford comes out in 1983?

[Unchainme]

STFU Steve

And to further answer that, Grunge/Alt. would have found a way to break into the mainstream regardless. It was already leaking in the late 80's with Sonic Youth and Janes Addiction, was really only a mattter of time.

What if MTV decided in the mid-90's they were to stick with a music format?

[78/84 guy]

Queen would have never existed, and possibly Brian May & Roger Taylor would have been in a band with Paul Rodgers in the first place. So no Bohemian Rhapsody, but the Bad Company records might have sounded better.


What if Bon Scott rented a Hotel room or crashed on someone's couch in February 1980, instead of trying to sleep it off in a frozen car?

Fuck that would have been nice !!! Bon was the best !! Sorry Brian, you did ok.

[Blaze]

What if MTV decided in the mid-90's they were to stick with a music format?

Cortney would be playing keyboards with her breast-ums muskles in GnR.

What if GnR did not milk the jig Man of a milllion a year and DLR had milked it?

[Jérôme Frenchise]

What if Bon Scott rented a Hotel room or crashed on someone's couch in February 1980, instead of trying to sleep it off in a frozen car?

"Back in Black" would have sounded perfect as far as I'm concerned - never could stand B. Johnson's voice.
But there wouldn't have been any "Hell's Bells", unless the tune was already ready before Bon Scott passed away (?) -
or it would have been about John Bonham's death.
Oddly enough, AC/DC would have made much more solid records, but would have sold less than they did from 1981 onward...

What if John Bonham hadn't choked in his puke in 1980?

[Mr Badguy]

Zeppelin would have eventually split due to Robert Plant getting sick of it.

What if Ozzy went down in that plane crash in '82 with Randy?

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Zeppelin would have eventually split due to Robert Plant getting sick of it.

Very probably!


What if Ozzy went down in that plane crash in '82 with Randy?

Or maybe [I]instead of{/I] Randy?...

WITH Randy: Ozzy would have gone leaving a much better memory than he will when he dies from now on... His career wouldn't have been spoilt with the 1983 and onward weaker and weaker albums he then delivered.

INSTEAD OF Randy Rhoads: Rhoads would have had an awesome career, who would he have played with?

What if the Police had not split in 1984?

[BITEYOASS]

Here's the big one: What if Dave Roth never left Van Halen?

Then there would have been at least 20 actual =VH= albums, instead of the 6-pack and the imaginary 10 albums that Edward Van Lying has been bragging about.

[BITEYOASS]

Plus there would have been a box set as well. But with all of the bootlegs, demos and previously unseen pics all over the web--we all could make our own =VH= box set.

[Mr. Vengeance]

Good idea for a thread shot to hell by people who can't follow rules.

[SunisinuS]

"What if the Police had not split in 1984?"

The album "Police State" would have been released in 2010 with Bono on Lead Vocals and Bonham Junior on drums as Stewert is on Death Row for asphyxiating Gordon Sumner by stuffing 6 drumsticks down his neck.


What if "Rap" never caught on....and was only played once and died on the Radio?

[Dave's Bitch]

We would all be saved :).act's like fiddy cent and eminem would be flippin' burgers and there would be a new generation of rockers :killer:

Now,What if Chinese Democracy was made with the original Guns line up?

[Jérôme Frenchise]

"What if the Police had not split in 1984?"

The album "Police State" would have been released in 2010 with Bono on Lead Vocals and Bonham Junior on drums as Stewert is on Death Row for asphyxiating Gordon Sumner by stuffing 6 drumsticks down his neck.

:D


What if "Rap" never caught on....and was only played once and died on the Radio?

Yeah... What would deaf dumb asses listen to? :p

[sadaist]

What if....


All the members of Metallica died in that bus crash that took Cliff Burton? Would they just be a metal memory of the 80's similar to Metal Church? Would they have achieved enormous cult status like Nirvana did when Kurt blew his head off?

[Jérôme Frenchise]

What if....


All the members of Metallica died in that bus crash that took Cliff Burton? Would they just be a metal memory of the 80's similar to Metal Church? Would they have achieved enormous cult status like Nirvana did when Kurt blew his head off?

They would probably have reached cult status, but not to the same extent as Nirvana did, not that they wouldn't have desserved it,
but they would have missed another album, and Nirvana was more listenable for non-metal ears.

What if HENDRIX hadn't died? How would he have reacted musically in 1978 when Van Halen delivered VH I ?

[Terry]

They would probably have reached cult status, but not to the same extent as Nirvana did, not that they wouldn't have desserved it,
but they would have missed another album, and Nirvana was more listenable for non-metal ears.

What if HENDRIX hadn't died? How would he have reacted musically in 1978 when Van Halen delivered VH I ?

If Hendrix hadn't died, he likely would have continued moving toward the new direction he was pursuing shortly before he died, slowly dropping the freak-out stage theatrics from his performances combined with playing fewer gigs and concentrating more on the writing and recording process. Had all of that come to pass, by the time Van Halen came onto the scene Hendrix wouldn't have given much thought to being displaced as the King Of Shit Hot Licks because his focus would have been on crafting songs and sounds.

What if Keith Moon hadn't died in 1978?

[Mr. Vengeance]

What if Keith Moon hadn't died in 1978?

He'd have kept drumming for The Who. Not like he was going to be a solo artist if you ever heard his attempts to sing.

What if The Ramones had sold the amount of albums they DESERVED to?

[Diamondjimi]

What if The Ramones had sold the amount of albums they DESERVED to?

They would've still been the same 4 guys, the same 4 chords, in leather jackets and jeans with holes in them...

[sadaist]

They would've still been the same 4 guys, the same 4 chords, in leather jackets and jeans with holes in them...


What if.......you would have included your follow up 'what if' so that you didn't break the chain of this thread?


;)

[Diamondjimi]

What if..... Sammy Hagar was shot onstage instead of Dimebag?




What if I'd posted this 1.5 seconds earlier?