Lotion and Other Forms of Music

[Matt Lindsey]

>At 08:43 AM 10/28/96 EST, Skip wrote:
>>
>>No, but I had the same experience exactly.  I bought the cassette of "Full 
>>Isaac" when I heard TRP was doing the liner notes for their new CD, and 
>>found it pretty ordinary.  At first I though, well there must be something 
>>really good here that I'm not getting; but after several listenings, I kinda 
>>think that's not the case.
>>Skip
>>
At 09:57 AM 10/28/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Lotion on CD sounds fine but not outstanding to me, too.  Maybe that's part
>of P.'s point--that it's good, unpretentious rock 'n' roll.  Haven't heard
>the band live, which might be another thing entirely.

Exactly.   Hearing them live first makes quite a difference, especially if
you are not trying to listen through Pynchon's ears.  I saw them in concert
before reading any Pynchon.  Their images are compelling: a dog locked indoors
longing for outside, memories of a high-school sweetheart.

The liner notes by Pynchon for "Nobody's Cool" are good.  Blurb in
the New Yorker magazine (sometime around May/June 96) is where I first noticed 
the connection:  I had a demo version of Lotion's CD w/out liner notes
until then.
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