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, along with new drummer David Raven.

Career

For each Swirling Eddies release, band members adopted

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s for the liner notes; "Camarillo Eddy" (

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), "Berger Roy Al" ( Tim Chandler), "Gene Pool" (

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), "Arthur Fhardy" ( Rob Watson), "Spot" (

Jerry Chamberlain Jerry Chamberlain is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and the Swirling Eddies (credited as "Spot"). In late 1974, Chamberlain was asked to join Jubal's Last Band, ...

), and "Hort Elvison" (David Raven). These pseudonyms were dropped for their third album, "

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". Over the years new Eddies appeared on the band's albums including "Prickly Disco" (

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), Picky Swelly, Newt York Newt York, Derry Air (

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), and Judy Ism. "Guest Eddies," a term used for musicians that contributed musically to one of the band's projects also made appearances on nearly every album. The list of "Guest Eddies" includes Buckeye Jazzbo, Miracle Babe, Mary Baker Eddy, Jeb McSwaggart,

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, and

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. As early as 1991, Taylor saw the Eddies as an ever-evolving and ever-growing family of like-minded musicians. At that time, in an interview with Harvest Rock Syndicate, Taylor explained that the plan was to "(open) the Eddies up to even more artists, sort of make the Eddies this conglomerate of different people that I've always wanted to work with, and have a lot of song-writing teams involved and different lead singers. Just make it this mass of people, that sort of fluctuates and changes." The band released its debut album on Alarma Records in 1988 entitled ''Let's Spin!''. ''Outdoor Elvis'', released in 1989, featured the band's first two radio singles, "Driving in England" and "Hide the Beer, the Pastor's Here!". The title track included lines such as: "It's said he croons when the moon's above, singing tenderly 'Hunk of Burning Love.'" The band's documentary video, ''Spittle and Phlegm'' was released the following year. In 2004, the band began to work on their first album of original, new material in ten years entitled ''

The midget, the speck and the molecule The Swirling Eddies are an American rock band that began as an anonymous spinoff from the band Daniel Amos, along with new drummer David Raven. Career For each Swirling Eddies release, band members adopted pseudonyms for the liner notes; "Cama ...

''. The recording sessions ended in May 2007 and the album was released on July 23, 2007. Tim Chandler died on October 8, 2018.

Discography

Albums

* ''

Let's Spin! ''Let's Spin!'' is the title of the debut album by rock band The Swirling Eddies, released in 1988 on Alarma Records. Although the true identities of the Swirling Eddies were later revealed, it remained a complete mystery for most people at t ...

'', 1988 album * ''

Outdoor Elvis ''Outdoor Elvis'' is the second album by rock band The Swirling Eddies, released in 1989 on Alarma Records. The title track found the Swirling Eddies in search of the elusive Elvis Presley who, according to the song, escaped the city by fakin ...

'', 1989 album * ''

'', 1994 album * ''

The Berry Vest of The Swirling Eddies ''The Berry Vest of The Swirling Eddies'' is the title of compilation album featuring music by the rock band The Swirling Eddies, released in 1995 on Alarma Records. In an unusual twist, the cassette version of this "best of" compilation inclu ...

'', Best of album featured a bonus track on the tape version reversing the usual convention of the time of only putting bonus tracks on the CD, 1995 Compilation * ''

Sacred Cows ''Sacred Cows'', subtitled "The Songs That Helped Us," is an album featuring the rock band The Swirling Eddies, performing their own less-than-serious versions of popular CCM hits, released in 1996 on StarSong. The basic plan for the recor ...

'', 1996 album * ''

'', 2007 album

Special and limited editions

*''Swirling Mellow'', Released numerous times between 1988 and 2008

Videography

* ''Spittle & Phlegm'', 1990 VHS documentary * ''

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'', 2002 DVD documentary (Reissue)

References

External links

The Swirling Eddies at www.DanielAmos.com

The Swirling Eddies at Myspace.com
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