aw. Re: VLVL Berger: the deal

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Schwitty schrieb:

> of where Pynchon is 'in fact' putting it, on the hippie movement. 
> Little wonder that Pynchon makes reference to Zappa, who used rock and 
> roll in the 60s to make fun of hippies, instead of the likes of 



* But then again Pynchon makes reference to Zappa to 
reflect his own rock'n'roll sentimentality:

"Maybe this small attachment to my past is only 
another case of what Frank Zappa calls a bunch of 
old guys sitting around playing rock'n'roll."
(Slow Learner Intro, p. 25)

The tragic thing about Zappa is that he never managed to get
beyond irony. So he was very good when it came to make jokes
about monster movies from the 1950s (though, personally he was
not really blessed with humor: in the early 80s Zappa stopped his
concert in Kiel after 40 minutes because somebody had thrown a 
bloody tampax on the stage ...), yet did he actually unfold a
substancial work of his own? Got my doubts about that. It's no
wonder that Zappa, late in life when Freund Hein had already 
appeared at the horizon, wanted to convert to classical music. But
that pompous "Yellow Shark" orchestra piece is just too silly -  


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