Misapprehensions

[Meg Larson]

> From: dennis grace <amazing at mail.utexas.edu>
> To: Greg Montalbano <greg.montalbano at ucop.edu>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Misapprehensions
> Date: Thursday, July 03, 1997 2:11 PM
> 
> Greg s'poses:
> 
> Jackson Browne?  It was an Eagles hit, and it sounds like a good deal of
> Glen Frey's repertoire.  Did JB write it?  Has he ever recorded it?  If
so,
> where?

>Yes, JB wrote that, in conjunction with Frey and ? Jack Tempchin? JD
Souther?
 
> And what the hell is Elton Jonhn saying in the chorus of ROCKET MAN?   It
> sounds like "Rocket Man--burning out his speedos in the sun."
>
"Rocket Man--burnin' out his fuse up there alone."  EJ is notorious for
bending the sounds of words to fit his melodies . . .

Used to work in a record store,
Meg
 
> dgg--who's still grateful to Weird Al for that lucid cover of "Smells
Like
> Teen Spirit"
Just plain grateful for Weird Al . . .
>