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Trauermarsch (Trout Mask) as Finnegans Wake Replica 11-ii-2009

by: Ben Watson

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: audio esemplasm, Out To Lunch, Ben Watson, Bob Dobbs, Late Lunch, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Finnegans Wake, media, Captain Beefheart, Trout Mask Replica, Corsa, Steal Away, Ian Pace, Esther Leslie

Episode of Ben Watson's weekly show "Late Lunch With Out To Lunch" originally broadcast live on Resonance Radio (www.resonancefm.com) with OTL reading pp. 130-9 of Finnegans Wake and a novel interpretation of Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica - plus Big Joe Turner, Chuck Berry and a tribute to Johnny "Guitar" Watson featuring Motorhead and Dr Feelgood.

Notes

This show was originally titled "Wake as Trauermarsch (Trout Mask)". On further consideration, it was reluctantly conceded that it should really be "Trauermarsch (Trout Mask) as Finnegans Wake Replica". Time is of course a "spherical constant" (Frank Zappa) but some dots on the curve (like James Joyce and Captain Beefheart) are so close that they may as well be on a straight line, and Finnegans Wake DID precede the Captain's post-war masterpiece. On the other hand, Out To Lunch would not wish to prevent those who - losing their timely selves in these Einsteinian universes of sounds and words - find multiple examples of Van Vliet "influencing" Joyce ...