IV, Music, Headphones, iPods, etc.

[Mark Kohut]

Uh, to love Rock % Roll, which P must does NOT mean he loves every song/group/band who ever recorded a rock & roll song, right?  I mean,
we all make sensibility judgments.

We seem to know from GR he loves Rossini but not Beethoven so much......Certain Romantic composers are NOT his thing we know from ATD.

--- On Fri, 10/30/09, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: IV, Music, Headphones, iPods, etc.
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, October 30, 2009, 3:50 AM
> 
> John:
>  
> > Do we think Pynhcon likes otehr types of music? Of
> course,
> > indisputably. But I don't think his opinion on Rock
> & Roll has soured
> > since he wrote the Slow Learner intro. 
>  
> I gotta side with John, here. If Pynchon is critical of
> Rock & Roll in
> IV, that criticism is surely tempered with a Whole Lotta
> Love, as Led
> Zeppelin always sez. Take a look at this excerpt from
> Pynchon's liner
> notes to Lotion's "Nobody's Cool":
>  
>  
> "The recording studio is half a block from the subway.
> Times Square is 
> being vacated and jackhammered into somebody's idea of an
> update. Next 
> door to Peepland, up in a control room out of The Jetsons,
> the band, 
> between takes, are discussing Bobby "Boris" Pickett, on
> whose 1962 hit 
> "Monster Mash" it turns out Rob's substitute music teacher
> in elementary 
> school played saxophone. Everybody here knows the record,
> not necessarily 
> the Birth of Rap, less an influence than something trying
> to find a pathway 
> through to us here in our own corrupted and perilous day,
> when everybody's 
> heard everything and knows more than they wish they did.
> It's never certain 
> how these things will be carried on, but mysteriously it
> happens. Every night, 
> somewhere on the outlaw side of some town, below some
> metaphysical 14th Street, 
> out at the hard edges of some consensus about what's real,
> the continuity is 
> always being sought, claimed, lost, found again, carried
> on. If for no other 
> reason, rock and roll remains one of the last honorable
> callings, and a working 
> band is a miracle of everyday life. Which is basically what
> these guys do."
>  
> ...one of the last honorable callings, and a miracle of
> everyday life.... 
> One would almost think the guy actually loves Rock &
> Roll.
>      
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