DeLillo and Hendrix.

[S.R. Prozak]

To my generation, Hendrix represents everything about cosmopolitan culture we find hollow.

Andrés Segovia... that's a different story. Or Demilich, Ontario Blue or K.K. Null - but not that same sterile "face the issue by avoiding the issue" that seemed so important back in the 1960s and now, so deathlike...


----- Original Message -----
From: Prsamsa at aol.com
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:45:41 EST
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: DeLillo and Hendrix.

> 
> I heartily but respectfully disagree.   Hendrix was a genius-- of studio 
> effects, a folk hero, a natural, a leader of rock lyrics into spaces it has 
> never gone and will hardly approach again..I'm convinced listening to Ziggy 
> Stardust and Electric Ladyland over and over, that my ears can become 
> orgasmic, that music speaks louder than words, or at least resounds against a 
> different part of the psyche;  that Ziggy Stardust is about Jimi Hendrix, and 
> he taught a generation to play, to listen, to dream.
> At least my generation.  I'd still rather die than let my mind suffer 
> premature sterility. 

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