VLVL(4) Blues reference

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on 27/8/03 1:51 AM, Toby G Levy at tobylevy at juno.com wrote:

> 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.
>