Gravity's Rainbow

Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
Sun Sep 14 09:53:50 CDT 2008


Actually, that "country parody" was no parody at all. It was directly
influenced and in fact often overseen if not out and out written by Keith
Richards' friend and occasional roommate, Gram Parsons.

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> I love'em, but the Rolling Stones have never really done anything but R&R
> and R&B, with a little country parody thrown in.  If I had to live with
> just
> the Beatles or the Stones catalogue and no other recorded music on the ever
> popular desert island, it would have to be the Beatles, who started and
> ended with R&R, and defined  the "concept album," and touched on
> Stockhausen
> and chamber music in between.
>
> http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/henrymu
>
> HENRY M
> Information, Media, and Technology Management Consultant
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Mark Kohut
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:23 PM
> To: pynchon -l
> Subject: Gravity's Rainbow
>
> ain't matched by the Beatles at all.
>
> It is all early Rolling Stones.
>
> MK
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