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[Mike Weaver]

I was having an Insect Trust fe(a)st yesterday, listening to both albums and reading various bits about them.

Of "The Eyes of a New York Woman" the pynchon.com entry reads:
>García Iborra and de Jódar Bonilla write that “Pynchon was >displeased with the band and threatened with legal actions if >the band did not withdraw the album. After some negotiations >the band agreed to stop its performance live and Pynchon >stopped legal actions” (40).

The 'album' would be Hoboken Saturday Night which includes 'Eyes'

Yet Ed Ward says the song was first released as a single by an earlier Arkansas incarnation of the band, called The Primitives, and withdrawn when Pynchon threatened to sue, and the Insect Trust version had his permission. Elsewhere is written he threatened to sue until he heard the record which he liked.

Have any P'troofers applied their forensic skills to this morass of rumour and confusion?