HW: More (literary) Bandits Talk

[Max Wilcox]

Jon Jarrett wrote:
>
> x       Max Wilcox talking about `The Naked Lunch' being used by Calvert
> forces me to remind everyone that the same book gave the name to one of my
> other favourite bands, Steely Dan. I quote Jeff Baxter, "`Steely Dan' is a
> huge steam-powered hydraulic dildo in the William Boroughs book `The Naked
> Lunch'. We thought it'd make a good name for a rock band."
>         This is the only Steely Dan/Hawkwind connection I'm ever likely
> to find, so I thought I'd make the best of it ;-)
>         Jon

        And, if what I've read is to be believed, the term Heavy Metal was used
as a musical destinction from a character in a Burroughs book, the Heavy
Metal Kid, I believe. It was then used by someone in the soundtrack from
Easy Rider, in Born to Be Wild, and the rest is then history.
        Here endeth the lesson.
-Max Wilcox