23 skidoo [bonus tracks]

[Robin Landseadel]

On Oct 10, 2009, at 6:05 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

	GREAT connection, Robin...thanks

Think of these connections: The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Terry Melcher,  
Charles Manson, Phil Spector.

Don't forget this connection:

Here's the Byrds "Milestones" and "Flower Bomb Song" clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftz73-U488

"Miles Tones"?

Miles Re-Appears as the psychic Chum of Chance.

The Byrds co-joined Coltrane and the Beatles in 8 Miles High:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGbokn4r38o&feature=fvw

	They entered the transition tunnel to the eastbound Santa
	Monic Freeway, where the radio, which had been playing the
	Byrds' "Eight Miles High," lost the signal. Doc kept singing it to
	himself, and when they emerged and the sound came back, he
	was no more than a half a bar off.

The Paranoids Greatest Hit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CMUXouqx8o&feature=related

Terry Melcher's Greatest Hits:

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JtygEMwlks&NR=1

Terry Melcher thought the Byrds should cover "It's All Over Now, Baby  
Blue":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W27oYDpMykQ

Played once on KRLA, then pulled.

As regards the inherent vice of rock and roll in L.A. in the sixties,  
remember that the backing track for the Byrds' version of Dylan's Mr.  
Tambourine Man was performed by the "Wrecking Crew":

	The Wrecking Crew was a nickname coined by the drummer
	Hal Blaine after the fact for a group of session musicians in Los
	Angeles, California, who earned wide acclaim in the 1960s.
	They backed dozens of popular singers, and were one of the
	most successful "groups" of studio musicians in music history.

	The Wrecking Crew's members typically had backgrounds in
	jazz or classical music, but were highly versatile. The talents of
	this group of 'first call' players were used on almost every style
	of recording, including television theme songs, film scores,
	advertising jingles and almost every genre of American popular
	music, from The Monkees to Bing Crosby. Notable artists
	employing the Wrecking Crew's talents included Bobby Vee,
	The Partridge Family, The Mamas & the Papas, The
	Carpenters, John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel.

	The figures most often associated with the Wrecking Crew are
	producer Phil Spector (who used the Crew to create his
	trademark "Wall of Sound"), and Beach Boys leader Brian
	Wilson, who used the Crew's talents on many of his mid-60s
	productions including the songs "Good Vibrations" and
	"California Girls" and the acclaimed album Pet Sounds.

	Members of the Wrecking Crew played on the first Byrds single
	recording, Mr. Tambourine Man, because Columbia didn't trust
	the skills of Byrd musicians except for Roger McGuinn. On the
	basis of the success of the single, further recordings of the
	Byrds were conditional on the success of the single.
	Subsequently, all the Byrds played on their subsequent
	recordings. Spector used the Wrecking Crew on fifth Leonard
	Cohenfifth album, Death of a Ladies' Man.

	The Wrecking Crew were inducted into the Musicians Hall Of
	Fame on November 26, 2007.
	http://www.musicianshalloffame.com

Phil Spector's Greatest hit:

http://diekopfhoerer.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/lana_clarkson.jpg

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> --- On Fri, 10/9/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>  
> wrote:
>
>> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>> Subject: Re: 23 skidoo [bonus tracks]
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 1:37 PM
>> On Oct 9, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Michael
>> Bailey wrote:
>>
>>>>>        "Oh,"said Miles, stopping. "You hate me too."	
>>>>> 	Eyes bright through his bangs.
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GeneClarkImg.jpg
>>
>>    	 It was late at night, when David brought Jim and Gene to	
>> 	the World Pacific studio. Dickson asked them to sing a few
>> 	songs.
>>
>> 	He felt their vocal sound was worth his time, since vocal	
>> 	blend was the most difficult achievement for a group. Their 	
>> 	pseudo English accents did cause him to wonder about 	
>> 	their motivation.
>>
>>     	Jim and David begged Dickson to go with them to a movie
>> 	they had seen, "A Hard Days Night." He finally understood
>> 	the accents. The lads were excited about the movie.
>>
>> http://growingbolder.com/obj/print.php?objId=178736

>> 	"It's lovely," said Oedipa, "but why do you sing with an
>> 	English accent when you don't talk that way?"
>>
>> 	"It's this group I'm in," Miles explained, "the Paranoids.
>> 	We're new yet. Our manager says we should sing like that.
>> 	We watch English movies a lot, for the accent."