Notes From Underglass- Why Pynchon Matters

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on 2/23/03 6:37 PM, prozak at anus.com at prozak at anus.com wrote:

> 
>> At least you got your wish for death and carnage in Rhode Island.
> 
> While I would never be caught dead going to a Great White concert
> (I'm not musically open-minded, AT ALL, hehe) this event is
> troublesome because it could have occurred at what feels like 10,000
> clubs I've been to in the past decade.When everyone's half-gone on
> beer and pot and snorts off the backup amp, who remembers to ask what
> is flammable and thus, what can be done? And when the turnover is so
> high that often you return to a club to find new name and entirely
> new staff except the doorman, who remembers?
> 
> I wonder what would Pynchon would think of Great White (ROFL).
> 
I've played thousands of shows in clubs all over the eastern half of the
U.S. (in various states of altered consciousness). I've worked as a doorman
in clubs. Most of my friends are musicians. Nobody that I know on either
side of the business would consider setting off a flashpot or permitting
such a thing in a small club, crowded or not. It's idiotic. It's gravely
irresponsible. Someone should be prosecuted for homicide.

I doubt that anyone in Great White has ever heard of TRP.