and hands (to play guitar and the other instruments)

"blah blah [...] thou shalt have ears.. and electric guitars [...]"

how about the birth of elvis?

trick or treat bitch.... biggie dying is an important musical moment. :)

lest us forget Tupac huh?

The night Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil

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why's he an idiot??? do elaborate.

Yes, im the idiot, im the one spamming a music site in my spare time.

Most Important Moment In Music History!

I'd say the day 'My Chemical Romance' got 2gether. (joke)

To think their deaths are important isn't good. To think when they recorded timeless songs is important and I think that's the topic. I think a moment would be something like, for example, the day Kurt met Dave Grohl or something like that. You're right....hard topic.

I'm sure I can't be the first person to say that the invention of music was the most important moment in music history.

why is everyone on here suggesting the most important moment in music history is when a musician died? do you really think that the most important defining moment of music is someones death? i would say something more along the lines of, the most important moment in modern history of music was the summer of love. not only was a **** ton of music released in 1967, but it marked a shift in culture and placed a much larger emphasis on music. beyond just that, there was a amazing amount of new and expirimental things going on in music that were very exciting.

the days peter jason helmis and craig stephen woods were born.

It's entirely too hard to pick just one day as the most important day in music. The music we see today is the culmination of thousands of important events... to pick just one would be doing a disservice to the others.

the release of progressive rock masterpiece "Space Oddity". it shapped rock for the next 15 years, and in that period some of the greatest albums ever where released

The thread is most important, not favorite.

The day that man heard a musical note through a piece of wire and didnt know what the hell it was. As for modern music-Robert Johnson sitting in a recording booth.

I'm a little embarrassed to say this, but I heard to Robert Johnson's compilation "The Complete Recordings" and I really wasn't that impressed

You don't have to be impressed at all. Acknowledgement is better. Virtually all the music that MB listens to in it's current form would not be possible if RJ decided to stay at home that day.

I wasn't either but it says something that virtually every song on that collection has been covered by some of the most important artists over the last 40/50 years.

That's unlikely. One should give credit to precursors, but to assume that minus the precursor everything after that would never have happened doesn't strike me as at all reasonable.

It's also important to note that he wasn't the only hugely influential bluesman. Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf were contemporaries and also were a big part of the blues that led to rock and pop. Removing Robert Johnson may have had an effect, but surely not to delete from history all the pop and rock that followed.

March 17 1973

When the first guitar was played while on some sort of psychedelic drug.

Finally some real contributions!

Of course not, but then we are moving into a whole new ball park. There was probably many more artists that none of us have heard about that were looking at studio technology. For better or worse we only have Robert Johnsons example for now. That is why I put it forward. Of course it isn't the only factor. Far from it. I was responding to the usual posts that seem to dismiss RJ from the progression of modern music.

The obvious one is discovering electricity. IMO music evolved massively in the late 60's and 70's with keyboards/synthesisers, guitar effect pedals, bigger amps, sequencers, computers but none of these would exist without elec. we would still be banging drums and dancing around flutes & fidles.

If only I could find a video of the Family Guy bit with the 4 cavemen singing "For the Longest Time"..... I could post that video and everybody watch it and laugh at it and go "Man! You are so clever!!"

I'd probably say the biggest music innovation happened somewhere during the 1920s or 1930s. And like the above poster, the discovery of using electricity for music, which really opened alot of possibilities.

Yeah, even just amplification was a pretty big deal. I'd say it had a huge effect on singing styles for one thing.

...In Music History? I would have to posit that the Romantic period of music changed the way we view the world today. This was the period that artists stood up to oppressive views of the Aristocratic and Realism. In a sense, they were the rockers of their day. I say that this period changed so many things because it lead to the industrial revolution, emotionally based artwork, and freedom of expression.

Dont get me wrong. I do believe that every time Hendrix or Stevie Ray Vaughn lifted the guitar history was rewritten, but when you're asking about music history you have to be more ambiguous.

hmm... I mentioned in the "most influential person EVER in music" thread that on April 9, 1860 a man by the name of Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville invented a device called the phonautograph and produced the earliest recording ever of a person singing. This would be the most important moment in music production history. For music history in general, I'm gonna have to go with Jackhammers train of thought and say the first person to discover how music could be made with the human body and/or some other device.