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Rock band that went to the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt to participate in the big Walpurgisnacht rock festival in the 1975 novel ''Leviathan'', the third book in Robert Anton Wilson’s insane ''Illuminatus!'' trilogy.

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Mick Jagger and his new group, [[the Trashers]], arrived on April 27, while the FBI was interviewing every whore in Las Vegas, and there quickly followed [[the Roofs]], [[Moses and Monotheism]], Steppenwolf, [[Civilization and Its Discontents]], [[Poor Richard and His Rosicrucian Secrets]], [[the Wrist Watch]], [[the Nova Express]], [[the Father of Waters]], [[the Human Beings]], [[the Washington Monument]], [[the Thalidomide Babies]], [[the Strangers in a Strange Land]], Dr. John the Night Tripper, Joan Baez, [[the Dead Man's Hand]], [[Joker and the One-Eyed Jacks]], [[Peyote Woman]], [[the Heavenly Blues]], [[the Golems]], [[the Supreme Awakening]], [[the Seven Types of Ambiguity]], [[the Cold War]], [[the Street Fighters]], [[the Bank Burners]], [[the Slaves of Satan]], [[the Domino Theory]], and [[Maxwell and His Demons]]. 
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The band's name a reference to Benjamin Franklin's ''Poor Richard's Almanack'' and Franklin's supposed association with Rosicrucianism.


==External Links==
*https://everything2.com/title/Illuminatus%2521+bands
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=gnO76vZELmQC trilogy on Google Books]
*[https://archive.org/details/illuminatustrilo00robe trilogy on Archive.org (account required)]
*[https://archive.org/details/TheEyeOfThePyramidIlluminatusTrilogy trilogy text on Archive.org]

[[Category:1975]]
[[Category:The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]
[[Category:Rock]]