Re: [LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

On 04/04/2014 12:50 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> 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. :)

I think they used pinball machine sounds as part of things. Have any
musicologists turned their scholarly eyes in the direction of "Tommy"?

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