Perogo Ness
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Hedwig and the Angry InchSo, who loves Hedwig? Lets hear some support for the only existing true rock musical. Fun stories would be sweet too.
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RainbowJude
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Perogo Ness wrote: | | So, who loves Hedwig? Lets hear some support for the only existing true rock musical. |
The only existing true rock musical? That's quite a claim... care to back it up?
Later days
David
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Perogo Ness
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Well mainstream. We can call Rent and JCS rock musicals because they use electric guitars but they really aren't. ALW is not a rock musician. He doesn't write rock music and if I could guess I would say he doesn't know how too. Steven Trask is primarily a rock musicien, not a musical theater composer.
Don't get me wrong JCS and Rent are awesome. They just aren't really rock.
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Pasty
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Tommy?
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RainbowJude
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What is Rock? | Perogo Ness wrote: | | We can call Rent and JCS rock musicals because they use electric guitars but they really aren't. ALW is not a rock musician. He doesn't write rock music and if I could guess I would say he doesn't know how too. Steven Trask is primarily a rock musicien, not a musical theater composer. |
I think a rock musical uses rock music as primary part of its musical vocabulary. And I don't think it's relevant whether or not the composer of the musical is primarily a rock musician or not.
Furthermore, how do you define what is and what is not rock music? Rock music has its roots in the 1950s as a hybrid form that mixed rhythm-and-blues with country-and-western and has developed in many ways since then.
Later days
David
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Perogo Ness
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Lordy I just wanted to start a conversation, not rock music. Someone must be iching with disagreeability.
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Carbucketty
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Re: Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Perogo Ness wrote: | | So, who loves Hedwig? Lets hear some support for the only existing true rock musical. Fun stories would be sweet too. |
You need to listen to a Gekidan Shinkansen musical. They use hard rock for the soundtracks. (Granted the shows are full of the gratuitously violent Samurai stage fighting and such...)
Aterui is more mild, though...
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RainbowJude
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Not... | Perogo Ness wrote: | | I just wanted to start a conversation.... Someone must be iching with disagreeability. |
I'm not itching with disagreeability. You made a sweeping statement and I called you on it. It's nothing personal. I like to investigate things that I read. I don't just blindly accept what I see and, if I don't agree with something, I interrogate it.
Later days
David
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LoneWanderer
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Yeah I would deffinatly not say Tommy isnt a rock musical (or opera rather). It's by the friggen who for gods sake, and was originally just a concept album that was bought by there regular fans, not the musical theatre types.
Also, it really depends by what you mean with rock. There are plenty of shows that involve things that were concidered "Rock and Roll" back in the day (Who loves the beatles? I love the beatles).
~The Lone Wanderer
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Perogo Ness
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Yea I forgot about Tommy. And I've never heard of samuri stage shows, thats really sweet.
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TR_Wolf
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Isnt Rocky Horror a Rock one?
And I love Hedwig! My favourite songs are "The Origin of Love" and "Wig in a Box", but I've only seen the movie version, I'd love to see it on stage but professionally, not the cheap fringe-style tours that tour around the south UK now and then (although I did ask one of those styles if they were coming up North and they said they couldnt find a promoter up here or something).
Either way, yeah would love to see it Live if they put a chunk of effort into it 
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