VLVL(4) Blues reference

[Vincent A. Maeder]

That is just crazy (no pun intended).  V.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of Toby G Levy
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 8:52 AM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: VLVL(4) Blues reference
> 
> On page 43 Zoyd calls the TV-Detox place and hears music playing in
the
> background: "Little Charlie and the Nightcats singing 'TV Crazy.'"
> 
> TV Crazy was the first song on the first album from Little Charlie and
> the Nightcats, but it was not released until 1987.  Since the action
of
> Vineland at this point is 1984, there's a slight, dare we say,
> anachronism here.
> 
> This band is a California blues group that would definitely been in
heavy
> rotation on the blues show that Pynchon listened to while writing
> Vineland.
> 
> A couple of years ago, Charlie and his band played in my city.  A
friend
> of mine, who happened to be rereading Vineland at the time, went up to
> Charlie during the break and barely got the word "Pynchon" out of his
> mouth before Little Charlie said very quickly with a tight-lipped
grin,
> "yeah, yeah...page 43...I never read the book."  He definitely gave
the
> impression that he was asked about Vineland TOO many times over the
> years.
> 
> Toby
> 
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