“More cowbell!” That phrase, first uttered by Christopher Walken on “Saturday Night Live” over 20 years ago, has become the millennials’ “Freebird!” But don’t get me wrong – I come to praise the cowbell, not to bury it. Ah, the humble cowbell. From its origins, i.e. hanging around bovine necks...
The cowbell, modeled here by Swiss bovine Sophia, is, in many ways, rock and roll 's secret weapon. Sometimes, it's just what a song needs to go from good to great.“More cowbell!” That phrase, first uttered by Christopher Walken on “Saturday Night Live” over 20 years ago, has become the millennials’ “ Free bird!” But don’t get me wrong – I come to praise the cowbell, not to bury it.
Ah, the humble cowbell. From its origins, i.e. hanging around bovine necks to assist ranchers in locating wandering members of the herd, it has come into its own as a musical catalyst, that “secret weapon” that can make a good song a great one. I will list ten examples, ranked in order of percussive importance.
But hasn’t this sort of thing been done before? Yes, it certainly has. But I view this type of ranking as a litmus test of musical taste. Kind of like the Proust Questionnaire posed to celebrities each month in. The same questions are asked each time, but the answers say oh so much. It is also similar to the list of questions earnestly asked of celebrity guests on “Inside The Actors Studio” by host James Lipton for the radio and 45s.
What a bunch of talent packed into one band. Vocalist Paul Rodgers , doomed-to-leave-us too-soon guitarist Paul Kossoff cranking out one of the best riffs ever, with drummer Simon Kirke on drums and, of course, cowbell. I don’t know who controls the rights to the song these days, but whoever it is, they don’t seem to have a problem licensing it for television commercials.
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