Roll over, H. Melville, tell Tom Pynchon the news!

[M. Collette]

I dunno if I agree (even though Set the Twilight Reeling sucked). Drella was
pretty good.

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>From: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de (Lorentzen / Nicklaus)
>To: ckaratnytsky at nypl.org
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Re[2]: Roll over, H. Melville, tell Tom Pynchon the news!
>Date: Fri, Oct 15, 1999, 6:32 AM
>

> Chris wrote:
>>(The only worse thing I've seen was the horrible Time Rocker got up at
>>BAM last year by--whoops!--Lou Reed.)
>
>
>      Yes, the case Lou Reed. Very sad story. The decay of a great artist. Like
>      Grass, Reed missed the right moment to stop (- "The Blue Mask" from 1982
>      would have been a good last record). Instead he went, well, "classic"...
>      Nevertheless, I'll always love not only Velvet Underground (- who
>      doesn't?) but also some of Reed's work from the 70s. "Berlin" (1973) and,
>      most of all, "Take no Prisoners" (1978). This last one is still my
>      favourite Rock-'n'-Roll record. Listened to it many thousand times.
>
>      Best, Kai
>
>