Pynchon the Guest Musician?

[Dustin Iler]

Just found this on Amazon. Check out the final review on the page.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00069I728/sr=1-1/qid=1153626308/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-9471955-0195860?ie=UTF8&s=music

>From: "Dustin Iler" <osirx277 at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Pynchon the Guest Musician?
>Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:31:59 +0000
>
>Can anyone verify this? "Along with the loose-limbed music, Hoboken 
>Saturday Night features musical contributions by heavy hitters (no pun 
>intended) such as drummers Elvin Jones and Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, 
>guitarist Hugh McCracken, and novelist Thomas Pynchon."
>
>Sorry if this has been reported/discussed before.
>
>--Dustin
>
>
>http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3399539
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>http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/6258/theinsecttrustfront5rf.jpg
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>The Insect Trust - Hoboken Saturday Night (US Surrealistic Folkrock 1970
>
>One of the more interesting one-shot bands in rock & roll, the Insect 
>Trust's most famous member was writer/critic/ethnomusicologist Robert 
>Palmer, who played alto sax and clarinet. Less famous, but still a notable 
>member, was guitarist/songwriter Luke Faust, who went on to add creative 
>input for the Holy Modal Rounders' string of wonderful early- to mid-'70s 
>records. The Insect Trust released two albums, their self-titled 1968 debut 
>on Capitol, and their second and final LP, Hoboken Saturday Night. Along 
>with the loose-limbed music, Hoboken Saturday Night features musical 
>contributions by heavy hitters (no pun intended) such as drummers Elvin 
>Jones and Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, guitarist Hugh McCracken, and novelist 
>Thomas Pynchon. The music ranges from surreal folk-rock (à la the Holy 
>Modal Rounders and Fugs), to Booker T.-like pop-soul, to flat-out free 
>jazz. Decades after its release, Hoboken Saturday Night sounds a bit dated, 
>but its charm is irresistible, especially when Nancy Jefferies sings and 
>the band cranks up its raucous onslaught of reeds and percussion. Never 
>intended to be a traditional pop act, the Insect Trust should be best 
>remembered for extending rock's boundaries and taking the genre to a much 
>hipper level without resorting to a lot of banal technique. Good luck 
>locating their records.
>
>The Insect Trust were a musical collective based, as the title suggests, in 
>Hoboken by way of Memphis and by way of a brief fling with the Holy Modal 
>Rounders. The resumes of the regular members are impressive enough?reedist 
>Robert Palmer became one of the most famous rock critics in the land, 
>singer Nancy Jeffries wound up signing Suzanne Vega and Ziggy Marley among 
>others to Elektra, and guitarist Bill Barth rediscovered Skip James. But 
>the list of sidemen on this album is truly staggering, with two bona fide 
>drumming legends, Elvin Jones and Bernard Purdie, heading the list, 
>followed closely by bassists William Folwell and Bob Bushnell. And the 
>music they created on this 1970 album is as fresh and unique as you might 
>expect given the talents involved, a bubbling stew of blues, jazz, old-time 
>music, folk-rock and even, as liner-note writer Robert Christgau points 
>out, bubblegum, with a bohemian-but-not-hippie slant to the lyrics that was 
>utterly refreshing for the time. Word-of-mouth on this record has just been 
>growing and growing, and now, over 30 years later, we're proud to be the 
>ones to turn the wishes of a multitude of collectors into reality with this 
>exclusive reissue. Includes 'Be a Hobo; Hoboken Saturday Night; The Eyes of 
>a New York Woman; Ragtime Millionaire; Somedays; Our Sister the Sun; 
>Reciprocity; Trip on Me; Now Then Sweet Man/Mr. Garfield; Reincarnations; 
>Glade Song', and 'Ducks'.
>
>1 Be A Hobo
>2 Hoboken Saturday Night
>3 The Eyes Of A New York Woman
>4 Ragtime Millionaire
>5 Somedays
>6 Our Sister The Sun
>7 Reciprocity
>8 Trip On Me
>9 Now Then Sweet Man/Mr. Garfield
>10 Reincarnations
>11 Glade Song
>12 Ducks
>
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