Having listened to 70s music for the past twenty minutes, it astonishes me that the cowbell ever went out of fashion.
We should hope for a comeback.
The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Hmmm… Not remembering the cowbell from my ‘tween years. I do remember going to sleep listening to “Mystery Theater” and the Carpenters on my AM radio.
All you need to do is listen to the intro to “Honky Tonk Women” over and over again …
But it is back! Sort off…
Ask Kate Moss.
For a while Target had an anthology “More Cowbell” (based on the SNL BOC skit) with 17 such songs. Alas it’s no longer on sale.
(May I say that I couldn’t always identify the cowbell. I can’t even hear it in “Don’t fear the reaper.” It’s certainly not the most distinctive sound in “Reaper.”)
And it’s in Mississippi Queen by Mountain, too. Sixties.
It was a pervasive little sound, wasn’t it?
I say we start an internet petition. Those always do loads of good.
Being 10 years older than Meryl, I’m going to petition for the mid-60’s Hammond organ.
Oh mannnnn…..
Nothing like the FULL version of Iron Butterfly’s hit song to just make me want to play again..
This is the album I was referring to. And yes it has Mississippi Queen. It also has Dr. Love, and the main reason I got it Radar Love. And would you believe that the lead guitarist of BOC reads Powerline?