Pynchon's band

[Arie Altena]

-contributing to the fun-question about the Pynchon-band:

The real Pynchon Band must be The Tattoos. I'd never heard of them. A 
friend of mine, deep in the Easy-Listening craze that haunts Amsterdam at 
them moment taped them for me. It's german, 1973, no vocals, two trumpets 
play melody, Mexican style, against the background of a rhytmsection that 
must consist of 
older germans dressed in hawaiian shirts, but they play as if they're on 
LSD, the guitarplayer has a malfunctioning fuzzbox that he even uses in 
Alle Menschen werden Bruder (by Beethoven), the pianoplayer plays nice 
R&R where he shouldn't and the 
organplayer is somewhere outta there in deep space nine. But the thing 
that made me think of Pynchon is that they have recorder-solos' (yes, the 
wooden flute) as well....i guess they must have a record with 
kazoo-solo's played by an older American whose name we all know....

....sorry to clutter your mailbox...I'm just getting crazy by listening 
to this stupid Easy Listening...

Arie Altena