> Other HB musician/writers - Jesse Sublett, bass
player with many
Austin
> bands, has written a couple of thrillers - anyone
read them?
I have a copy of "The Rock Critic Murders" but haven't read
it. Rock critics - would that qualify as murder? (Frank Zappa
: "rock critics : people who can't write, writing about
musicians who can't play for people who can't read".)
John aslo wrote :
> Practically every contemp British HB writer seems to
have some musical
> background - David Peace, Nicholas Blincoe, Mark
Ramsden, myself even,
we
> all have dodgy post-punk records lurking in our CVs
(well apart from
> Ramsden who's a serious jazz hat)
It's a bit of a phenomenon in Australia too, I think.I know
of at least 2 (we're a small country, people wise) probably
hb (haven't read them) writers who are ex-rock muso's Dave
Warner & Peter Doyle although these guys are probably
more pre- or contemporary to punk
> BTW, someone mentioned Lou Reed and I seem to recal
detecting a
definite
> influence of Vachss on a couple of the songs from
the New York album,
anyone
> else notice that?
I've kept up with very little contemporary music for quite a
few years now but I remeber that Lou is also a big Chandler
fan as well as William Burroughs.Another singer who loves
books & I'd be surprised if he didn't like other HB lit
aside from Chandler & Vachhs.
Rene.
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