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. :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
