Pynchon's band

[Nicholas Peter Spencer]

Hey Arie,

I think we'd all appreciate some more info about this Easy Listening 
thing you're talking about.  I know that Mantovani, James Last, Klaus 
Wunderlich (and maybe Richard Clayderman, but that's a bit too much for 
most tastes) have been enjoyed and revived in recent times, but if you 
could give us some more obscure names, album titles etc. that would be 
jolly good.

Nick Spencer

On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Arie Altena wrote:

> -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
> 
>