How many more rock operas does Pete Townshend need to write before jumping the rock opera shark?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Poll question: How many more rock operas does Pete Townshend need to write before jumping the rock opera shark?

LONDON (Reuters) - The Who guitarist Pete Townshend, behind rock operas "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia", is writing a new musical "Floss", about getting old.

"As a 19-year-old, with 'My Generation', I wrote the most explicitly ageist song in rock," Townshend wrote on his band's website (www.thewho.com). The 1965 hit song includes the line "I hope I die before I get old".

"At 64, I now want to take on aging and mortality, using the powerfully angry context of rock'n'roll."

Floss will be designed for outdoor performance and arenas and Townshend expects it to be ready for a concert premiere in 2011, probably in New York.

Some of the more "conventional" songs from the musical will appear on a The Who album set for release next year, he added.

"Floss is an ambitious new project for me, in the style of Tommy and Quadrophenia," he wrote. "In this case the songs are interspersed with surround-sound 'soundscapes' featuring complex sound-effects and musical montages."

http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE57O55920090825

[darkstar]

1. Just one more-

pure and easy....

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. You wanna hear a GREAT rock opera???

Get "Preservation Act II" by The Kinks. Circa 1970. Available from Rhino Records.

A double album. NOT to be confused with Village Green Preservation Society, which is pretty good.

P Act II has sort of the same story line.

Preservation Act II has lots of different musical styles, a better story about rival factions trying to take over the government, and fabulous lyrics. Ray Davies is a far better songwriter than Pete is.

And I say this as a person who loves The Who.

"He's Evil"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ5jSHwhMhg

I couldn't find any other songs from Preservation Act II on Youtube.

Artificial Man
Oh Where is Love?
Shepherds of the Nation
Second Hand Car Spiv
When a Solution Comes

[Monk06]

3. Well at least he didn't show up on a float at the Salt Lake City Olympics

I really really hope that was their last appearance.

In any form.

[PVnRT]

4. I figured his next one would be about nubile young boys