Attention Warren Zevon fans!

[Allen Ruch]

Yep, that would be why I was looking for the liner notes to begin with—that's actually my page on Zevon & Pynchon. Allan sent me a photo of the actual notes; he was very kind, so now they are online. For anyone interested in more Zevonian Pynchon connections, his library was put on auction to raise money for charitable causes. And one of those books is a first-edition copy of "Vineland." (The page has a picture and link.) According to his ex-wife Crystal, warren Zevon was a "true Pynchon fan"....

—Quail, the other Allen, as in Ginsberg, not Poe


On 11/17/21, 8:53 AM, "Pynchon-l on behalf of Jon Lebkowsky" <pynchon-l-bounces at waste.org on behalf of jon.lebkowsky at gmail.com> wrote:

    An excerpt from the liner notes is quoted here:
    http://shipwrecklibrary.com/the-modern-word/sl-music-zevon/

    "Woozy from reading the Thomas Pynchon canon at a sitting, so to speak, I
    conceived of Transverse City as a multilayered cyberpunk album. This track,
    with several simultaneous vocal lines including a list of carcinogens in
    the environment I got from the Sierra Club, suggests the dense texture I
    was striving to create when I ran out of Virgin’s money. We sent the
    24-track tape to David Gilmour in London, and he recorded his leads and
    sent it back."

    On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 7:29 AM <jbloocher at gmail.com> wrote:

    > I thought it was very obvious you were asking for liner notes…
    >
    > I sadly don’t have them but you’ve now prompted me to look up Zevon. It’s
    > been years (decades).
    >
    > Sent from my iPhone
    >
    > > On 17 Nov 2021, at 14:03, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > I have to go with the "Mr Bad Example" album as an overlooked treasure.
    > > "Model Citizen"
    > >
    > >
    > >> On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 5:36 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
    > >> wrote:
    > >>
    > >> To quote Warren himself, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." I don't think that
    > >> Warren would mind to have his music shared, and I for one would eagerly
    > >> collect all I can find. Ever since I heard "Werewolves of London" while
    > >> visiting L.A. I have bought every record. and also watched all his
    > >> appearances on Letterman, courtesy YouTube. Hard to say which is my fave
    > >> song, but it is either "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" or "The
    > Great
    > >> Pretender".
    > >>
    > >> On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 3:23 PM Allan Balliett <
    > allan.balliett at gmail.com>
    > >> wrote:
    > >>
    > >>> Normally I'd be happy to provide for you but just today Donal Fagen
    > >> shamed
    > >>> out of this questionable practice
    > >>>
    > >>> (You looking for the tunes or the cover graphics?)
    > >>>
    > >>> -Allan in WV
    > >>>
    > >>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 2:59 PM Allen Ruch <quail at shipwrecklibrary.com
    > >
    > >>> wrote:
    > >>>
    > >>>> Hello friendly neighborhood Listers!
    > >>>>
    > >>>> I understand that the late, great Warren Zevon mentions Pynchon as an
    > >>>> influence in the liner notes of the 1996 Rhino “I’ll Sleep When I’m
    > >> Dead”
    > >>>> anthology:
    > >>>>
    > >>>>
    > >>>
    > >>
    > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll_Sleep_When_I%27m_Dead_(An_Anthology)
    > >>>>
    > >>>> Does anyone out there in the Zone have a copy of this CD set? And if
    > >> so,
    > >>>> would you please mail me off-list?
    > >>>>
    > >>>> Thank you!
    > >>>>
    > >>>> —Quail
    > >>>>
    > >>>>
    > >>>> --
    > >>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
    > >>>>
    > >>> --
    > >>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
    > >>>
    > >>
    > >>
    > >> --
    > >> Arthur
    > >> --
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    > >>
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