Pynchon in Popular Music

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:35 AM, <ruudsaurins at aol.com> wrote:
> Hoy! Hoy!
>        And let us not forget Pat Benatar's rather unheralded CD effort
> entitled "Gravity's Rainbow".   Somehow, I suspect that her exceptional
> guitar player/ husband Neal Giraldo might be the actual Pynchon fan, but
> from what I understand, Pat Benatar has quite a well-cultured upbringing as
> well; on Long Island, if I am not mistaken.  One must always suspect that
> these Long Islanders will try and stick together and support one another
> whenever possible.  I doubt that the naming of that disc is simply a
> coincidence.

The album takes it's title from a Thomas Pynchon novel.  "It's the
most bizarre book," Benatar laughs.  "I can't tell whether (Pynchon's)
being brilliant or he's just bullshitting.  It's all about man's
inevitable race to destroy himself. I thought with all the angst going
on on the record that this would be a good title."

http://www.lemuseumdebenatar.com/vintage93.html