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"WOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOH NEEEELL- LYYY !!" The Swirling Eddies would like to extend their heartiest "Wooooow Nellllyyyyyy" to All our new club members. In our first newsletter you'll find inter- esting articles about your favorite Eddy, concert information, fun facts and an order form for Swirling Eddie T-Shins, videos, special recordings, etc. This order form is designed to entice you to spend hundreds of dollars on brick-a-brak, gaudy junk, and useless paraphenalia so that the Eddies can live comfortably in big houses over-looking the ocean.As a new band, The Eddies know just how important it is to culti- vate loyal, enthusiastic fans, and so we wish to thank each and everyone of you for vour mem- bership. We believe the Swirling Eddies Spinning Vortex Fun Club and Mutual Admiration Society will be one of the best clubs ever, and you the fan are the essential ingredient. Without you, the Eddies would be nothing but a bunch of spoiled Rock n''Rol- lers driving fast cars, living in luxurious houses, and having the pick of any girl they wanted So, from the deepest recesses of our guts comes another hearty "Woooooh Nelllllyyyy" to "Eddy fans everywhere !!!!!!!! MEET.... CAMARILLO EDDY Camarillo Eddy was born, at the
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fourteen, Camarilio (known at the
time as "Karloada the Mighty Pen- guin Boy" because of his pasty white, soft, almost formless hands) was an instant hit at the Southern Tunisia Wild Hair Festival. Ever the rambler, Eddy left the circus and moved to New York in 1964. where his experimentations in atonal dadaistic composition earned him a punch in the stomach from the then mayor Jimmy Walk- er, played by Bob Hope. "My idea was to capture collective hysteria and spells violently of that time", says Camarillo with a high-pitched grating laugh reminiscent of Monty Hall's live in maid. Cam adjusts his hunch and continues, "Those were tough times. I lived on carpet lint and mud pies ." Eddy's musical influences changed drastically when, in 1967 on his way to Los Angeles, he ran over the 1910 Fruit Gum Compa- ny's tambourine player, and drug him 362 miles before stopping. "I thought I might have a flat , so I got out to take a look. Here was this funny little guy with a beehive hairdo, caught in the bumper of my car. I looked into his face and he says to me- I'll never forget this as long as I live- He says 'Can we stop at a Stucky's ?' I got back in my car and drove to the very next Stuckys, another hundred miles or so up the road. The whole experience was incredi- bly ethereal. It changed my life." Indeed it did ! Cam began to write and record more "accessible" songs and scored a giant hit in 1968 with "The Green Berets" un- der the pseudonym "Sgt. Barry Sadler". A fairly successful off- broadway musical,"Midgets, Ho !" |
led to a lifelong friendship between
Cam and Eric Clapton and, as the whole world now knows, the two went on to sing lead vocals on all of the Beatle albums. Few people know however, that during this period Camarillo originated the fa- mous phrase "You're not the boss of me !" In the spring of this year, Cam cultivated giant pods in his back yard and eventually the "Swirling Eddies" were born.
Dear Eddies, Love your first album! Though I can't
Just Curious,
Dear Cindy, No rock star worth his weight in spit
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