That damned Lotion

[Wolfe, Skip]

Just to clarify, I don't dislike Lotion.  I just don't think they're 
significantly different from (or better than) dozens of other groups on the 
scene.  I guess I expected more than what is, in my opinion, routine 
goodness from a group Pynchon would endorse so enthusiastically -- something 
extra-special, even magic.  I bet I'm a little jealous, too, that they get 
to hang out with him and I don't.  Anyway, you're right, Tod.  It's probably 
not a very good reason to buy a tape (but if TRP came out raving about Jimmy 
Dean sausage, don't tell me you wouldn't try just a wee taste . . .).  I do 
share his fondness for Monk, though.
     Skip


>I'm apparently the only person on the list who ever heard of Lotion before
>Pynchon did them the favor of writing liner notes.  I'm also apparently the
>only person on the list who likes the band.  Maybe there's a connection?
>Maybe going out to buy an album because a WRITER you like has endorsed
>them isn't the best way to approach MUSIC.  If TRP appeared in an ad for
>Jimmy Dean longpig, I doubt I'd develop a taste for human flesh alla 
sudden.
>Whereas, if I were offered some exotic dish unsuspecting-like, who knows?
>(Human: finally, an exotic meat that doesn't taste like chicken!)  My point
>being... um.

>I guess my point is that I do like Lotion's music (Full Isaac in 
particular),
>and I do think Pynchon's on to something.  And I think it's great, and
>appropriately odd, that he did them the favor of adopting them publicly.
>After all, you guys bought at least two copies of their tapes, two copies
>that wouldn't have sold otherwise.  But maybe this music is something best
>discovered accidentally.

>Maybe the liner notes/interview were baby steps toward the limelight.  I
>mean, if TRP edged far enough out of the shadows to do an interview in
>Esquire for some obscure (and only arguably good) band, how far will he be
>willing to go to promote his new novel?

>Tod