Great Question from “Bill Graham Presents”

[PreacherBob]

Because of sooo many changes in music since the 70s, there would be a lot to consider in your choice.
However, what would surprise me the most first is the fact I just woke up from a 53 year old nap

 

[zulu]

Keith Richards!

 

[Stuball48]

"Where Have All The Flowers Gone"

 

[walrus]

Autotune...

walrus

 

[beecee]

The lyrics allowed by the "censors"

 

[Stagefright]

That its Impossible to get a flying car with 8-track

 

[RBSinTo]

How terribly bad music has become.
RBSinTo

 

[Rocky]

Pay hasn't changed.

 

[HeyMikey]

Digital and computers.

 

[MartyG]

If they were 40+ in 1970, that they are still alive.

 

[mellowgerman]

Uber Eats?

 

[Cougar]

That a guitar can be "set-up" and made easier to play. AND they should probably be humidified.

 

[tonepoet]

Maybe the most surprising thing would be that this thing called a laptop computer is capable of containing a recording studio (such as Pro Tools) and that you could sit in your bedroom recording, mixing and mastering.

 

[Wilmywood]

That Hendrix may not be the best ever

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

That "them" is now a singular pronoun.

 

[Westerly Wood]

digital age.

 

[Midnight Toker]

That a PA can be small, lightweight, efficient, and can sound punchier, deeper, clearer, w/ more balanced spread.....just overall 1000X better, and not have to pushing 100+db to make an audience "feel" the music. That monitoring systems are incredible compared to the crap they had in 70. That bigger/louder is NOT better, and that you can do a show in front of 20,000 people playing through a deluxe reverb, not 4 full Marshall stacks.

 

[PreacherBob]

Also I think todays technology in pickups would be a shocker. We’ve talked about those early Guild acoustics with the magnetic pickup at the end of the fretboards, with the last three frets chopped off, holes drilled in the spruce tops and volume/treble knobs added. Or the old shiny chrome clamp in sound hole pickup. I’m not even sure they had piezo uts pickups. So many options now. I currently use several models of Fishmans and LR Baggs, over the past 30 years really. But for me nothing compares to just installing internal mics, or my trusty ole Shure SM58 on a boom stand. I use my 25 year old Miniflex mic in my main stage guitar every week, which is my Guild D46. Nothing beats a natural sounding acoustic. So I guess after he woke up and sampled all of the modern piezo pickups, he’d most likey resort back to the SM58 which groups started using them in 1966.

 

[Rocky]

Also I think todays technology in pickups would be a shocker.

For acoustics, absolutely. For electrics, not so much.