I got the information about the band from the book. Thanks for the correction!
Thomas Am Die, 2004-05-18 um 18.38 schrieb Howard Posner: > > How was the band's name whose music one can only bear to listen when > > being on a different planet? > > Not quite that. In the interests of accuracy, from Douglas Adams' "The > Restaurant at the End of the Universe", chapter 17: > > "Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagracka Mind Zones, are > generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in > fact the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert goers judge that > the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete > bunkers some 37 miles from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves play > their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated > spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet -- or more frequently > around a completely different planet. > * * * > Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic > reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system > contravenes local strategic arms limitations treaties." > > Disaster Area was not in the original BBC radio Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the > Galaxy. I suppose it was substituted for the super-evolutionary Hagunenons, > which would have been too difficult to do on television. -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss --
