What's the band in this story?

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, MichaelB wrote:

> 
> I saw Thomas Pynchon the other the night.  I did.  I was walking
> fairly late out on Venice Beach.  It was cloudy, nobody was around. 
> When suddenly the clouds, near the horizon, began to brighten.  And
> then swirl.  And then spiral down and open, agape, like an elephant's
> trunk.  And indeed there was a loud shrieking, a horn, a trumpet
> blast and from the trunk slid an alien space pod.  It landed where
> the water licked the shore.  Blue, red, yellow lights.  Some smoke. 
> The pod sort of belched and Pynchon walked out.  He was carrying a
> bottle of beer. 

Was there a full moon by any chance and did you happen to be on a
grunion hunt? The night shadows and sea sounds play strange tricks while
one awaits the tiny creature's silent running.

			P.