VLVL2(3): The Corvairs

[P. Chevalier]

Farfisa, I would think.
Typically garage and surf, especially in its early hours.
Easier to carry than any Hammond monster.


At 23:44 6/08/2003 -0400, Don Corathers wrote:
>I'm having a little trouble remembering any great keyboard work in a surf
>song. It's essentially guitar music, innit? Playing keyboard in a surf band
>seems like another dimension of Zoyd's futility.
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>That would be a Hammond B3 that Zoyd would have been playing, btw. I think
>it was just about the only keyboard option for a traveling band in 1964.
>Gorgeous sound, but a big heavy sumbitch to load in and out.
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>The choice of the band's name can be read as an embrace of a certain kind of
>hip mediocrity, or maybe just unusually acute awareness of one's position on
>the music business food chain. Not that I think the Corvair was a shitty,
>dangerous car, as Nader claimed. But it did have that reputation. And if you
>were determined to name your band after a Chevrolet and you thought you were
>really good, wouldn't you want to be the Corvettes?
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>D.C.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dave Monroe" <monrovius at yahoo.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:23 PM
>Subject: VLVL2(3): The Corvairs
>
>
> > "... with elements of a surf band he'd been playing
> > keyboard in since junior high, the Corvairs ..." (VL,
> > Ch. 3, p. 22)
> >
> >
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> >
> > Nader, Ralph.  Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in
> >    Dangers of the American Automobile.  New York:
> >    Grossman Publishers, 1965.
> >
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> >
> > http://www.sergent.com.au/corvairs.html
> >
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> >
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