irony, Hendrix

[Doug Millison]

"Irony as Hendrix wielded it was not irony in its current, 
fashionable incarnation -- that is, a form of embarrassment, a means 
of not having to say what you mean. His sonic irony, like the verbal 
irony of Francis Scott Key, was quintessentially American: a 
popular-culture vehicle with which to express a profound love for his 
country, and a sublime anger with the people who were doing their 
utmost to ruin it."
http://www.feedmag.com/templates/daily.php3?a_id=1281

Sounds like Pynchon and GR to me. The column is worth reading. 
Hendrix died 30 years ago today.
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