4 Apr
2014
4 Apr
'14
12:51 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 10:15:29PM -1000, david wrote:
On 04/03/2014 09:58 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
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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who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the
oppressing." --- Malcolm X
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:26:25PM -1000, david
wrote:
Thanks, only that's a musical, not an opera. ;-) 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