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| | The Music Box: Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera (Album Review) |
 | | Rather than attempting an actual rock opera with a linear story line (á la The Who’s Tommy), however, the Skynyrd story occupies less than half of the tracks on Southern Rock Opera. | | | Throughout Southern Rock Opera, Drive-By Truckers takes its lyrical writing to the next level, and the three-guitar assault employed in its songs perfectly captures the sound of 1970s Southern arena rock without ever sounding derivative or mocking. | | | Southern Rock isn’t pretty, and nowhere is this more evident than in the music of the Athens, Georgia-based Dixie rockers Drive-By Truckers. |
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http://www.musicbox-online.com/dbt-sro.html
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| | Amazon.com: Southern Rock Opera: Music: The Drive-By Truckers |
| | "Southern Rock Opera" is also the best rock opera since the heyday of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and The Who's "Tommy." If you think this is all hypebole, then just listen to the album. | | | Having listened to several of DBT's previous albums, "Southern Rock Opera" is even more amazing. | | | A southern rock opera about growing up in the south in the 70's, the rise and fall of arena rock, the mythology surrounding the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and common misconceptions about the south. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000068FUS?v=glance
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| | Rock Opera At The Regent |
| | So, back by popular demand, The Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra once again puts the 'rock' back into 'Rock Opera,' with their 8 musicians and 18 singers delivering you amazing renditions with jaw-dropping intensity. | | | Led by Ultrasonic Productions co-founders Sal Clemente and Alan Ware, the Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra performs songs from Superstar and Tommy, and breathes new life into classic songs by The Beatles, David Bowie and Queen. | | | Spurred on by these successes, they have begun their latest venture an original rock opera that tells the tongue-in-cheek tale of a star-struck would-be songwriter and his quest to write the ultimate rock opera and thereby win the approval of his lifelong hero Andrew Lloyd Webber. |
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http://boston.craigslist.org/muc/141437312.html
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| | Amazon.com: Southern Rock Opera: Music: The Drive-By Truckers |
| | "Southern Rock Opera" is also the best rock opera since the heyday of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and The Who's "Tommy." If you think this is all hypebole, then just listen to the album. | | | Drive By Truckers' "Southern Rock Opera" is the best American rock album of 2001, and also the best Southern Rock album since Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Street Survivors" way back in 1977. | | | A southern rock opera about growing up in the south in the 70's, the rise and fall of arena rock, the mythology surrounding the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and common misconceptions about the south. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000068FUS?v=glance
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| | The Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera (2001) |
| | Not a rock opera in the sense of Tommy or Jesus Christ Superstar, this sprawling double disc is more akin to a song cycle about Southern rock, in particular Lynyrd Skynyrd. | | | A potentially dodgy concept that's redeemed by magnificent songwriting, passionate singing, and ruggedly confident but far from over-the-top playing, Southern Rock Opera should be required listening not only for fans of the genre, but anyone interested in the history of '70s rock, or even the history of the South in that decade. | | | The two discs are divided into Acts 1 and 2; the first sets the stage by exploring aspects of an unnamed Southern teen's background growing up as a music fan in an environment where sports stars, not rock stars, were idolized. |
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| | The Rock Opera Tommy |
| | Pinball Wizard, probably the most recognized piece from Tommy, was released early on March 7 and reached #4 and #5 in the UK and US respectively. | | | This was the first time a rock group ever performed at the Met. | | | In a Rolling Stone article of the performance, Pete, in his usual eloquence, sums up the event with: "We shit in their toilet." Good ol Pete. |
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| | Boston Rock Opera |
| | "One of the best things to happen to the often-perilous rock opera/concept album since Tommy" | | | It has been difficult to continue our mission presenting low-cost original stagings of rock opera and concept albums in this difficult economy. | | | While we're on hiatus, we will also be re-thinking this website and plan to add back some of the community features that made it the rock opera resource for many years. |
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| | Tommy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tommy (1969) is one of The Who's two full-scale rock operas, and the first musical work explicitly billed as a rock opera. | | | Tommy was one of the first music films released with a multichannel hi-fi soundtrack -- billed as "quintaphonic sound" -- and in many theaters it was presented with high-powered concert-style sound reinforcement, played at rock concert volumes. | | | Tommy was originally released as a two-LP set with a thin booklet of lyrics and artwork in a triptych-style fold-out cover. |
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| | Tommy by Who CD |
| | The definitive rock opera, TOMMY liberated the Who from a "singles band" stigma, marking them as a substantial artistic force. | | | Tommy is a sensational album filled with best rock tunes ever written. | | | `Tommy´ changed the Rock N Roll History for ever. |
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| | DVD Verdict Review - Tommy: Superbit Edition |
| | Tommy is indicative of the era of experimental filmmaking, falling into similar company with films like Brian de Palma's polarizing Phantom of the Paradise or The Rocky Horror Picture Show. | | | The Who would go on to produce another greater (though less accessible) opera called "Quadrophenia," and, when all was said and done, would be held as the bridge between old, "dinosaur" rock and punk music. | | | With the release of "Tommy," The Who demonstrated that they were on the scene for good and it's a well-established fact that they perfected music in 1971 with the release of their album "Who's Next." I will not argue about this. |
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| | Tommy |
| | This originally was placed in the opera to express Tommy's cure. | | | The original draft was about a rock and roll star named Danine instead of Tommy and the car was an Eldorado instead of a Rolls Royce. | | | Tommy was released in the U.S. May 17, 1969 reaching #4 and remaining in the charts for 126 weeks. |
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| | Tommy (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tommy was a 1975 musical film, based on The Who's 1969 "rock opera" concept album Tommy. | | | Unlike other films of rock operas (such as Pink Floyd's The Wall) the album is not dubbed over the film; the different actors sing the songs instead of The Who. | | | Tommy is told to forget what he saw and heard, and as a result becomes deaf, dumb, and blind. |
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| | Rock Hall focuses on rock classic - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
| | CLEVELAND -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame chose The Who's rock opera "Tommy" for its first exhibit dedicated to one rock classic partly because of its reach as an album, a film and a Broadway musical. | | | The Rock Hall, which opened in 1995, had focused its exhibits on the careers of performers or the history of musical styles, so to focus on one work in "TOMMY: The Amazing Journey" was seen as a big change. | | | Several major opera houses performed the music from the album released by The Who in 1969. |
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| | Amazon.com: Southern Rock Opera: Music: The Drive-By Truckers |
| | "Southern Rock Opera" is also the best rock opera since the heyday of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and The Who's "Tommy." If you think this is all hypebole, then just listen to the album. | | | Drive By Truckers' "Southern Rock Opera" is the best American rock album of 2001, and also the best Southern Rock album since Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Street Survivors" way back in 1977. | | | A southern rock opera about growing up in the south in the 70's, the rise and fall of arena rock, the mythology surrounding the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and common misconceptions about the south. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000068FUS?v=glance
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| | 'Tommy', Film Version of 'The Who's' Rock Opera - Tommy Quiz |
| | 'Tommy', Film Version of 'The Who's' Rock Opera | | | 'Tommy', Film Version of 'The Who's' Rock Opera - Tommy Quiz | | | I couldn't believe that there were no quizzes on the movie "Tommy", adapted from the concept album by "The Who". |
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| | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum : Home |
| | Tommy is one of the earliest and most important rock operas. | | | The iconic rock opera had many incarnations, including an album, movie, soundtrack, a Broadway play as well as an orchestral version and a ballet interpretation. | | | The Rock Hall is pleased to announce the new exhibit TOMMY: The Amazing Journey. The exhibit is now open and will remain so until March 2006. |
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| | Tommy Movie Review at Hollywood Video |
| | This film is a rock opera about a deaf, dumb, and blind boy who becomes a pinball celebrity. | | | Most know that Tommy is a dialogue-less film, telling its story with music and songs by the Who. | | | The lengthy prologue details the romance between Tommy's parents (played by Robert Powell and Ann-Margret) and the death of his father at the close of WWII. |
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| | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum : Home |
| | Tommy is one of the earliest and most important rock operas. | | | The iconic rock opera had many incarnations, including an album, movie, soundtrack, a Broadway play as well as an orchestral version and a ballet interpretation. | | | Queen's 'A Night at the Opera,' featuring the seven-minute rock operetta "Bohemian Rhapsody," tops the U.K. album charts. |
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| | Tommy |
| | Having seen this movie a long time ago and remembering how weird it was, I have since familiarized myself with the Who's original album, the Broadway cast recording, and the Who's performance of the rock opera on the CD "Live at Leeds." The material is brilliant, but this isn't the best presentation. | | | I first came in contact with Tommy the movie when I bought the soundtrack prior to auditions for the stage version, thinking that the movie was no different than the orignial concept album or the play. | | | As for the so called "concept album" that is tommy, Its not a concept album because it has nothing new. |
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| | Tommy DVD at Video Universe |
| | This movie is the story of a boy, Tommy (Played by Rodger Daltrey), who had a horribly traumatic experience as a child, which made him deaf, dumb and blind. | | | I suggest it for anyone who loves rock and roll music and has a taste for something odd told in a facinating way. | | | The film is based on guitarist Pete Townshend's stage opera, and features a star-studded cast that includes Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John, Jack Nicholson, and Tina Turner. |
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| | Tommy (Movie soundtrack) |
| | The movie is based upon The Who's rock opera Tommy. | | | The story of Tommy is explained in the review of the original Who album. | | | This is the soundtrack of a 1975 movie called Tommy, directed by Ken Russel. |
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| | Articles - Genres of Prog [A Rock Opera: Art (Symphonic) Rock] - ProgressoR |
| | That's why the term Rock Opera assigned to the album was determined because of the conception. | | | Since "Hair" with a combined team of the performers and "Tommy" of Who, issued a bit earlier, have a long way to go to the Progressive territory (nearer to it is the second related album by Who "Quadrophenia", 1973). | | | We'll hardly ever hear a similar, close to impossible, variety of the voices made by Diamond for the heroes of his Rock Operas from dilogy "Them" / "Conspiracy" to "The Graveyard" and others (all conceptual and even non-conceptual albums by King Diamond and Mercyful Fate). |
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| | Tommy (1975) |
| | Tommy is the best rock movie opera ever. | | | The same could be said of rock band The Who - their energy, edge and talent has been replaced by Coldplay! | | | What a movie Tommy was - thirty years old and still more memorable that all the releases I've sat through in my local multiplex so far this year. |
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| | Tommy DVD, Tommy for $9.59 at DVDmagnet.com |
| | This classic rock opera is brought energetically to life by an outstanding cast including many stars of the rock music industry. | | | Told through the remarkable music of The Who, this is the story of Tommy, who, when just a boy of six, witnesses the murder of his father by his mother (Ann-Margret) and her lover (Oliver Reed). | | | Growing into manhood, Tommy (The Who's Roger Daltrey) is subjected to several bizarre cure attempts by the Acid Queen (Tina Turner), the Preacher (Eric Clapton) and the Specialist (Jack Nicholson). |
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| | Theatreport.com- Theatre in Houston, Tx - IBP 2005 - 2006 - Local News - News |
| | Im a Dr. Seuss fan and Im a Beatles fan, explains Johnston, and I love rock operasall the way from Jesus Christ Superstar to Tommy and many others. | | | Last year, we told you about the prestigious MAP grant IBP was awarded to develop an original rock opera written by the legendary Texas singer-songwriter (and Americas vanguard outsider artist) Daniel Johnston. | | | Ive used songs from some of my albums; and Ive got a lot of unpublished and unrecorded songs, and Im including some of those, too. |
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| | Timeline Theater |
| | 1969 May 23, The Who released their rock opera "Tommy." | | | 1728 Jan 29, The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay (d.1732), with music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, had its premier at the Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. | | | He wrote new lyrics to popular tunes and his "ballad opera" was a great success. |
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| | IMPULSE MUSIC -- CD CATALOG |
| | BERY GOOD ITALIAN PREOGRESSIVE METAL IN THE VEIN OF DREAM THEATER AND EMPTY TREMOR (KEYBOARDIST EXTRAORDINAIRE AND CREATOR OF GENIUS A ROCK OPERA). | | | W/ EX "AT VANCE " SINGER OLIVER HARTMANN AND DANIELE LIVERANI OF GENIUS ROCK OPERA. | | | DOUBLE LIVE CD LIMITED EDITION DIGI CD W/ TOMMY ALDRIGE, RICKY PHILLIPS & ROBIN McAULEY -GUESTS NEAL SCHON, JAMES CHRISTIAN, GREG GUIFFRIA & OTHERS |
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| | Press Releases - IFC Companies - IFC and Green Day Join Together to Create Unprecedented Partnership |
| | Like The Who's rock opera Tommy or concept albums by the Beatles and Pink Floyd, which spoke to previous generations, Green Day's critically acclaimed American Idiot is a modern audio-documentary that addresses the concerns of a new disenfranchised generation during a time of great social and cultural change. | | | Highlighted in the deal is IFC's commitment to merge Green Day's rock anthem "Jesus of Suburbia," into the network's very DNA for an entire year by incorporating the song into IFC's on- and off-air promotions and programming through 2005. | | | While the relationship will evolve and develop throughout 2005-2006, with various opportunities to showcase the song, it is important to underscore that IFC is a non-commercial network and the partnership will not include music video airplay or any type of commercial involvement. |
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