Steven Wells, late agent provocateur

[Emma Wrigley]

A little button gets pressed in my head when someone criticises Led
Zeppelin and their fish-wielding antics - the lights go off for atleast
five minutes and I have to re-boot. I will see someone about it.

<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Carvill, John;Carvill, John
[john.carvill at sap.com;john.carvill at sap.com]
>Sent: 15/6/2010 9:04:39 AM
>To: marrja at gmail.com;markekohut at yahoo.com
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: Steven Wells, late agent provocateur
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>> Approach it with a pinch of salt and you might find a few grains of
truth ...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/jun/14/unseen-swells-sacr
ed-
>cows
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>Heh. I remember Steven Wells well from the heady late-80s/early 90s
NME, 
>before that venerable and much-cherished magazine imploded. The problem
with 
>Swells's shtick was, was that his shtick was all he had. That and the
fact 
>that it was a second-rate re-tread of other, more witty and intelligent
shtick-
>purveyors such as Hunter S Thompson. It's not so hard to attack sacred
cows 
>like Dylan or Led Zeppelin, or to dismiss (as I recall) Kerouac's 'On
the 
>Road' as 'crap'; but the sort of stuff Swells actually enthused about
was 
>usually pretty mediocre fare. I doubt he'd have been a Pynchon fan, or
at 
>least he probably wouldn't had admitted it in public.
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