5 Apr
2014
5 Apr
'14
7:30 p.m.
On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 19:26 -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...
I dislike Pinball Wizard, but like Pete Townshend and to be honest, e.g.
The War of the Worlds has some nice songs, but IMO it isn't good as a
complete classical opus. Rock musicians shouldn't try to make "concept
album" or "operas". The oldish, classical operas tend to be crap and and
all "modern rock" operas usually are crap². Musicians (especially Rock
and Jazz folks) usually don's stick on banal things long enough to make
an opus out of it, this is a task for the people how are boring and
stiff as a poker.