re. Beatles/Stones

[Robin Landseadel]

What an odd discussion for the p-list.

So much of Pynchon's writing demonstrates forces that decide history,  
those forces from those parts of the world not made by man or  
controlled by man. In all the pre and post echos of Against the Day,  
the biggest bang is that Heavenwide blast of light on page 779.  
Doubtless this is the source of the Kerghiz Light, at the same time  
the first big burst of climate change, but only a precursor to more  
widespread events in the present. That blast of light/Armageddon thing  
is in all of Pynchon's books, it's a thought he can't let go of.

The Stones were primarily about assuming Black—African American— 
postures, spearheading the British Blues Revival that ultimately led  
to Bonzo Dog Band's immortal "Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw-TVrR8wZc

. . . and Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxeQKQQ6k4s&feature=fvw

As for the Beatles:

	"Whenever I put the headset on now," he'd continued, "I really
	do understand what I find there. When those kids sing about
	'She loves you,' yeah well, you know, she does, she's any
	number of people, all over the world, back through time,
	different colors, sizes, ages, shapes, distances from death, but
	she loves. And the 'you' is everybody. And herself. Oedipa, the
	human voice, you know, it's a flipping miracle." His eyes
	brimming, reflecting the color of beer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1swOYEZBim0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVUzTZ5dgwQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7nbzZnPbYE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHBCpTbRqpE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B01ICC0Fvr4