What the faulted 1999
comeback
of
the Progressive
Country Funk band?
Here's the story!
Kids
were in the Way?
'Flaming Paper Bag' tour stopped
by band drummer's penchant for having
children
HENDERSONVILLE, TN (June 15, 2000) -- After several years of inactivity, the progressive country funk band, Cow Pie attempted a comback tour in 1999. The tour was delayed once, twice, and then finally canceled in late 1999.
With fans, known as Mushroomheads, filling the band's newsgroup with rumors, complaints and, as former Rolling Stones intern and Mushroomhead Harry Lipschitz put it, "a lot of whining," the apparent truth finally came out in a statement by Cow Pie guitarist Peter Clinhardoo.
"They can't stop having kids, these two!" said Clinhardoo, in an impromptu interview with Reginald Imfph, a music writer in Nashville. "I mean, they're not even Catholic, and they can't seem to stop making babies. I'm really concerned, as I thought they would stop at 12 kids."
Zeccorifilius admitted he is not Catholic. "I'm not Catholic," he said in an interview a week after his band mate broke the news.
He added that, as far as he knew, the kids who were given away to wealthy families in what he called a "child lottery" were doing fine.
"It is hard to keep track," he admitted. "I run 65 side businesses, and I can keep better track of the clients of all of them than all of those rug rats."
"We kept our three favorites," Zeccorifilius added.
The Tennessee Dept. of Children and Families were repeatedly asked about the whereabouts of the adopted children, and TCF's spokeswoman, Clarice Thomas, insisted that they "didn't know about no Acidophilus kids."
Thomas was apparently unable to write down Zeccorifilius as it was spelled out over the phone, and eventually hung up on a reporter from the Goodlettsville (Tennessee) Gazette. This occurred three times.
This article was reprinted from the June 24, 2000 edition of the Gazette, a newspaper covering Goodlettsville, a small city outside Nashville. The article prompted the closure of the paper, after complaints by residents on the nature of this and other articles, which weren't the expected "light and fluffy happy news" expected to appear in such a tiny city's news rag.
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