The Fool

[Dave Monroe]

"There's supposed to be a last photograph of him on the only record
album ever put out by The Fool, an English rock group -- seven
musicians posed, in the arrogant style of the early Stones, near an
old rocket-bomb site, out in the East End, or South of the River. It
is spring, and French thyme blossoms in amazing white lacework across
the cape of green that now hides and softens the true shape of the old
rubble. There is no way to tell which of the faces is Slothrop's: the
only printed credit that might apply to him is 'Harmonica, kazoo -- a
friend.' ..." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 742)

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music.html

The Fool, anarchic eccentrics in 1960's Amsterdam and London,
designers of many a psychedelic wonder...mainly known for being
slagged off in every Beatles book ever written by those who weren't
there, but they also made a self-titled album (CRREV116). Produced by
Graham Nash on the cusp of leaving THE HOLLIES (who The Fool also did
sleeves for!) and founding CSN, engineered by Hendrix soundmaster
Eddie Kramer, the album is a shock, this is a tour de force of Wyrd
Folk ala Incredible String Band and strange twisted visions of pop ala
God knows who! The Fool can take it's place alongside the likes of
VASHTI's "Another Diamond Day" as rediscovered artefacts of a time
when an injection of Wicker Man-ism somehow found it's way into the
already twisted body of British pop.

http://www.cherryred.co.uk/revola/artists/fool.htm