The Cowbell Project

[The Postmaster General]

Anyone who is familiar with Christopher Walken's SNL Blue Oyster Cult skit will probably get a kick out of this site.

Those, and people who are cow bell aficionados.


http://www.geekspeakweekly.com/cowbell


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[Cunning Visions]

Great find Bubba. To be honest...I've always liked the cowbell even before the SNL skit. Sometimes it can give a song that little extra something.

[The Postmaster General]

I wouldn't say I was a fan, but before the skit my favorite part of "Stone Free" was the cowbell. I think because my girlfriend always said it was "cute".

This is just a funny thing -- but (and this was before the skit too) -- My ceiling fan, if not properlly rigged, shakes and makes a noise very, very similar to a cowbell. And it's on the low setting, it goes almost exactly in synch with "We're an American Band" -- I first noticed it sounded like a cowbell actually because of Don't Fear The Reaper. I was listening to it with the fan on, and the song ended - for a brief moment I was like, "Huh?" Then I realized it was the fan -- not too long after that, I had to fix it so it would stop with the noise, because I would always notice it, and couldn't pay attention to music. First I showed a dozen people the Ceiling Fan/Don't Fear The Reaper synch -- it didn't go over as well as the Wiz of Oz/Pink Floyd thing, but they all thought it was pretty funny.

So, the skit was especially funny for me, associating the cowbell with Reaper in that way.

I think it has to be the seminal cowbell song. Grand Funk is a close second.