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"WOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOH NEEEELLLYYY !!" The Swirling Eddies would like to extend their heartiest "Wooooow Nellllyyyyyy" to All our new club members. In our first newsletter you'll find interesting 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 cultivate loyal, enthusiastic fans, and so we wish to thank each and everyone of you for your membership. 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''Rollers 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, |
fourteen, Camarilio (known at the
time as "Karloada the Mighty Penguin 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 Walker, 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 Company'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 incredibly 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" under 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 famous 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 tell from the cover photo, my guess is that you guys are wearing spandex pants. Do you plan on wearing them on stage at your live performances ? Just Curious,
Dear Cindy, No rock star worth his weight in spit would be without spandex
pants. Of course we all wear spandex wherever we go, but our pants are
specially designed . Each pair comes equipped with a built in mini-fog
machine, so that wherever each of the Eddies may be - on stage,at the laundry
mat, in bed, etc. we'll be surrounded by rock fog.
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the age of three, to several swarthy fugitive Eskimo couples. His first
spoken words were, "Cheese it, the cops ! " Running away with the circus
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