ATD, page 302, 3rd paragraph

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Alex Nunez <penarecords at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Pandemonium did not begin to amount to a patch on what seemed to be
>> approaching them instead of they it, swelling to surround them, a
>> valley-wide symphony of gunshots, screaming, blaring on musical
>> instruments..."
>>
>> Specifically the first segment. In what way does pandemonium (chaos,
>> disorder) "patch" things?
>
> Wilkommen!
>
> ... but do note, "did not begin to amount to a patch," i.e., ...
>
> 5:  someone or something equal or comparable —usually used in negative
> constructions <the new chairman isn't a patch on his predecessor>
>
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/patch

"Spike Jones Jr., whose father's orchestral effects had a deep and
indelible effect on me as a child, said once in an interview, 'One of
the things that people don't realize about Dad's kind of music is,
when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp
gunshot or it sounds awful.'''

http://books.google.com/books?id=mTlDf5j2en0C&pg=PT13#v=onepage&q&f=false

   "Welcome, music lovers, to the cheerfully deranged world of Spike
Jones and his City Slickers. There's gunshots and cowbells aplenty,
not to mention class hostility, first-rate musicianship, subverted
expectations, hair-trigger timing, and more than enough material for
that interesting subset of folks looking to be offended ...

[...]

"'. . . if you made planned mistakes in musical arrangements and took
the place of regular notes in well-known tunes with sound effects,
there might be some fun in it.'

[...]

"... Spike running around deploying his pistol shots like a symphony
conductor waving a baton ...

[...]

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_jones.html
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