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JUST ANOTHER BAND FROM L.A.

Eddie, Are You Kidding?

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	Eddie, are you kidding? I've seen you on my TV Eddie, are you kidding?
From: obrecht@imagen.com (Doug Obrecht) He used to own a clothing store and made cheesy TV commercials in the 70's. I forget the name of that store. I think it was on Wilshire Blvd close to Santa Monica Blvd. No! I am not kidding!
From: Vladimir Sovetov <sova@kpbank.ru> It seems that you are right. Here is what said about in "200 Motels" album booklet.
"In the Bizzare Production offices on Wilshire Boulevard, right next to and several floors above a clothing store called Zachary All..."
From: pshirley@whale.st.usm.edu (Phil Shirley) In response to the person who asked if Eddie (as in "Eddie, are you kidding?") was still around: Mark V. & Howard K. were interviewed on the Doctor Demento Show about 3 or 5 years ago. They said that they had seen Eddie on TV within the last few weeks, as I remember. Same bit as he had done before, apparently.
From: tw roscoe <bluepuma@ix.netcom.com> Was there the night at the Pauly Pavillion when it was recorded... too bad some of the other stuff didn't make it to cd/vinyl...
I get my suits at Eddie's, nice suits... portly... Eddie takes the Frank Zappa thing well, perhaps gave a release... working as a ad amoung the fans...
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	I thought they were the pits
From: sweet@ucs.usc.edu (Rob Sweet) the pits - less than complimentary descriptive; i.e "they suck"
From: chris@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace) Derived from 'pit' on the sense of the stone in the centre of plums, cherries, etc.
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	Eddie, my friends ask me, Eddie, Eddie, are you kidding? I wanna tell you something, my friends: I am not kidding. Here at Zachary All
From: matt@lainet.com (Matt Bloomfield) "Zachary All" was the name of the clothing store that Eddie (are you kidding?) ran. I think I saw a commercial about a year ago -- he looks a lot older!
See also Eddie comment above.
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	In all the right places. They're most comfortable. Our model Twiggy here will demostrate.
From: Vladimir Sovetov <sova@kpbank.ru> Had she really worked for Eddie? I believe she used to be a flat little english model which introduced to the world Mary Quant's (sp?) idea of how thrilling short skirts could be.
From: Charles Ulrich <ulrich@sfu.ca> Undoubtedly not. I've always imagined that this was an ironic reference to Mark Volman, whose physique was quite the opposite of hers. Does anyone who saw this band remember if Flo mimed modeling the double-knits at this point?
From: baritone@crl.com (Michael Barrett) I saw Flo n' Eddie several times in their post Zappa years, and I think it did refer to Flo's physique. Although when they did "EAYK" on their own, the description had changed to the more appropriate "Our lovely model Gorgo here will demonstrate..."

	I have this lovely little Seersucker ... wait a minute WHERE CAN I GO IN GARDENA? AND WHERE CAN I GO IN L.A. AND WHERE CAN I GO IN ROSEMONT I NEED SOME THREADS TODAY
CC
" Questions, Questions, Questions, flooding into the mind of the concerned young person today..." Frank Zappa. Call Any Vegetable. JABFLA.
From: ulrich@sfu.ca (Charles Ulrich) What I want to know is what role in the composition of "Eddie, Are You Kidding?" was played by John Seiter, the drummer in the last line-up of the Turtles before they broke up.
The label of JABFLA credits the song to Seiter-Volman-Kaylan-Zappa. Flo and Eddie's Illegal, Immoral, and Fattening credits it to Volman-Kaylan-Zappa-Seiter.
Did the Turtles perform an embryonic version of "Eddie, Are You Kidding?"?

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