The Swirling Eddies
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The Swirling Eddies are a band that began as an anonymous spinoff from the band Daniel Amos, along with new drummer David Raven.
For each Swirling Eddies release, band members adopted pseudonyms for the liner notes; "Camarillo Eddy" (Terry Scott Taylor), "Berger Roy Al" (Tim Chandler), "Gene Pool" (Greg Flesch), "Arthur Fhardy" (Rob Watson), "Spot" (Jerry Chamberlain), "Hort Elvison" (David Raven) and, on later albums, "Prickly Disco" (Gene Eugene).
The band released its debut album in 1988 entitled Let's Spin!. 1989's Outdoor Elvis featured the band's first two radio hits, "Driving in England" and "Hide the Beer, the Pastor's Here!". The band's documentary video, Spittle and Phlegm was released the following year.
The band's stage shows are rare and unusual, to say the least. Since the band was formed in the late 1980s, they have only performed about six or seven live concerts. In 1990, the band performed at The Cornerstone Festival in drag, belting out covers like "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar", The Animals' "We've Got To Get Out Of This Place", The Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand", and Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World".
In 2004, the band began to work on their first album of original, new material in ten years.
Discography
- Let's Spin!, 1988 album
- Outdoor Elvis, 1989 album
- Spittle & Phlegm, 1990 VHS documentary
- Zoom Daddy, 1994 album
- Sacred Cows: The Songs That Helped Us, 1996 album
- Spittle and Phlegm, 2002 DVD documentary (Reissue)
- The Berry Vest of the Swirling Eddies, Best of album featured a bonus track on the tape version only reversing the usual convention of the time of putting bonus tracks on the CD only.