WTF! GR and Slothrup

[rich]

I could be wrong but Lotion's CD Nobody's Cool has an extra person in
one of the photographs in the CD booklet. all blurred of course.
always thought it was Pynchon, too

rich

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found my long lost copy of mercury lp THE FOOL this after noon!
>
> "The final identification of him of any certainty is his picture on the
> cover of an album by obscure English band "The Fool" (another allusion to
> Tarot, which becomes increasingly significant), where he is credited as
> playing the Harmonica and Kazoo. " (this from one Pynchon wiki or another)
>
> This from p742 of GR
>
> 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." But knowing his Tarot, we would expect to look
> among the Humility, among the gray and preterite souls, to look for him
> adrift in the hostile light of the sky, the darkness of the sea. . . .)
>
> Here you can see the cover in all of it's colorful glory. (This is the very
> same "The Fool" that painted the outside of the Beatles Apple building and
> designed wardrobes for THE CREAM and HENDRIX, painted their guitars and
> Lennon's Rolls, things like that)
>
> http://www.bonanza.com/listings/The-Fool-1969-LP-Psych-Folk-Mega-Rare-/2289502
>
> This is not my ad at the link above, but it sure is a nice presentation of
> the item.
>
> And, yes, I can find nowhere on the album the scene described in GR (7
> arrogant musicians) nor can I find credits for the 'harmonica, kazoo, "
> alas.
>
> Allan in WV