Fw: RE: re. Beatles/Stones

[Mark Kohut]

I always took the Stones/Beatles question as one about kind of music, not
a real judgment of who's better.

Sorta like Pynchon or Roth?  (Really Pynchon/Bellow is better)

--- On Fri, 8/14/09, Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com>
> Subject: RE: re. Beatles/Stones
> To: "'Pynchon Liste'" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 8:17 PM
> I hated, and raised my daughter to
> hate, the Beach Boys, but a woman that I
> was nuts about suggested that I give Pet Sounds a chance.
> Daughter and I
> both grew to love it.
> 
> As far as a rock, as opposed to rock'n'roll song fave goes,
> the Stones'
> "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" is a monster, way better than
> anything by
> either band before or after.  
> 
> When I was coming up, I thought that Led Zeppelin was
> bombastic long-hair
> white boy glam rock rippin' off the blues.  I was so
> much older then.
> They've been one of my fave groups for the past 5 years. 
> 
> Henry Mu
> Sr. IT Consultant
> 
>