[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[Chris Bannister]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 10:15:29PM -1000, david wrote:
> On 04/03/2014 09:58 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:26:25PM -1000, david wrote:
> >>Who knows, maybe 300-400 years from know, today's rock operas will be high
> >>opera! Complete with the fat lady singing and scholarly musicologists
> >>writing dissertations on the use of pinball machines as musical
> >>instruments...
> >
> >Ummm, it has already been done! Tommy. :)
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who's_Tommy
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfZQLXs72Lo
> 
> Thanks, only that's a musical, not an opera. ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_(album)
'... Tommy was the first musical work to be billed overtly as a rock
opera.'

*AND* he played pinball! Although, perhaps, not as an instrument. :)

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