"I saw my friend turn into a monster!"
That’s the chilling admission of guitar player Eddie Loebs – Phillip Garrido‘s former best friend, who saw him evolve into the sexually twisted fiend accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard.
Even more than three decades ago, when Loebs and Garrido played together in a band, the long-haired hippie bass player lusted after the ladies and preyed on groupies, Eddie revealed to The ENQUIRER in a blockbuster exclusive interview.
"He was a freak," said the musician, "and obviously, he went sexually crazy. He wrote a song called ‘Insanity,’ in which he sang, ‘I’m going – yes, I’m going insane,’ and obviously he did."
Garrido used massive amounts of cocaine, Eddie disclosed to The ENQUIRER.
Once in Reno, Phil took Eddie to his hotel room, where he had removed a full-length mirror from the back of a door and laid out three huge lines of cocaine, at least three feet long, leading to a pile of cocaine.
Said Eddie: "A good-looking girl would walk by, and Phil would almost salivate, saying things like, ‘Wow, look at that! Oh man, I’d love to jump on her!’
"Even though he was married to his first wife Chris, nothing slowed him down. His wife just had to put up with it."
Eddie was present on at least two occasions when Phil brought home young girls – rock groupies or girls he picked up in bars – and took them to his bedroom for sex, while Chris would move into another bedroom for the night.
"I’m not surprised that Phil’s current wife may have gone along with him kidnapping Jaycee," Eddie told The ENQUIRER. "He was the dominant one in his marriage."
Phil had a great stage presence, says Eddie, but as he got heavily into drug use, he stopped showing up for gigs. "Finally, we threw him out of the band."
Eddie, still a musician in Sacramento, kept running into Phil in the Lake Tahoe area, and was shocked at how he was sinking deeper and deeper into his obsessions.
Soon after, Garrido abducted a 25-year-old woman in Nevada and took her to a storage unit in Reno. He had set up a projector with porno movies and magazines – plus rugs on the floor and walls, sex toys and wine.
Garrido was caught in the act and convicted of rape, and wife Chris divorced him. The brute was sentenced to more than 50 years behind bars, but incredibly was paroled in 1988 after serving only 11 years.
"The man who had been my friend didn’t exist anymore," Eddie told The ENQUIRER. "A sex-crazed monster had moved into his body."
