Changing the course of musical history

[BretWeir]

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Go back to the 50's. Be the writer - not the artist - for a large number of the bubble-gum teen pop type hits. Enough to get you a rep as a really great songwriter. Then you just call up a young, relatively unknown guitarist named Jimi Hendrix and say, "I'm X, you've heard of me. I wrote a song I think would be perfect for you."

So you get more of an insider fame, as much money, and hopefully don't change much of the actual performance. Its not like I could go back and do Tina's "Proud Mary" like she did.

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Then cap off your career by growing a huge afro and killing an actress when she rejects your offer of a Viagra-fueled sexfest.

[James Boston]

RDH has it right. Think of it like buying stocks. You wouldn't go back to 1950 and buy Microsoft, you'd buy US Steel, or whatever. Then, 30 years later you'd buy Microsoft. The real potential in this would be the ability to know how the musical landscape changed over 50 years, and to always be one step ahead - business-wise that is.