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Author Topic: If You Like Cowbells So Much - why don't you move to Switzerland?  (Read 1996 times)
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« Reply #60 on: February 20, 2008, 04:06 PM »

I could come up with others if I could be bothered, there are a few E,W& F songs and Pat Metheny tracks not listed for starters.

Switzerland is amazing!
Frighteningly expensive though.

I've usually passed through in less than a day, driving to Italy.
Last time we were in Italy, Belinda and I decided to stay awhile in Switzerland.
To get to where we were going, we drove over a high mountain pass.
The road became narrow, with a sheer drop off right next to the side. At times you couldn't see how far you would plunge because we were above the clouds. All the time there were wide tourist buses screaming past us in the opposite direction.
We stopped at the summit. There was full snow cover, even though it was the end of May. You could see from where they had dug into it to clear the road the snow depth was over ten feet.
After the summit we drove downhill for over an hour.
We eventually found the small hamlet where we'd booked a hotel.
The hotel was a picture postcard image of a typical mountain chalet.
We walked through a field to the cable car. The grass was long and full of amazing wild flowers ( a feature of the Swiss summer).
We took the cable car to the top of the nearby mountain and walked around the ski fields. It was fairly barren, with some green grass and left over pack ice.
You could see how inhospitable it would be in mid winter.
There were refuge huts dotted about.
It was all very interesting and amazing, especially as I don't ski.




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« Reply #61 on: February 20, 2008, 04:25 PM »

You are correct but it is already on the list of 584 songs. 

OK, sorry, I'll have to study the list more thoroughly. Smiley
But in fact you made me listen for cowbells all day, I sometimes hear one played even when a telephone rings. Sure I've got to get one sooner or later.
(I had one long ago, but you know I had a long layoff, and it disappeared.)
 
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« Reply #62 on: February 20, 2008, 05:18 PM »

But in fact you made me listen for cowbells all day, I sometimes hear one played even when a telephone rings.

Sounds as if you may be coming down with the cowbell fever!  There is a cure,  the prescription is MOAR Cowbell!   Grin
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« Reply #63 on: February 20, 2008, 05:54 PM »

Great thread!  I'm wondering from a historical point of view why the cowbell made the crossover from percussion use to drum kit use, especially in the rock genre? From time to time I hear other incidental percussion but the cowbell seems ubiquitous.

Is there a precedent for its use among early blues and jazz musicians that helped fuel its popularity, or is it just that addicitve?
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« Reply #64 on: February 20, 2008, 06:24 PM »

Great thread!  I'm wondering from a historical point of view why the cowbell made the crossover from percussion use to drum kit use, especially in the rock genre?
Man, I've seen the cowbell used by the drummer for Jerry Lee Lewis when I was still a kid. As long as I can remember, just use one in a country bar and people will start to line dance. Even if it wasn't used in the original music they still get up. Got me when they started using it? But it seems to be here to stay.  Grin
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« Reply #65 on: February 20, 2008, 06:36 PM »

But it seems to be here to stay.  Grin
It must be a movement!
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« Reply #66 on: February 20, 2008, 06:46 PM »

I'm wondering from a historical point of view why the cowbell made the crossover from percussion use to drum kit use, especially in the rock genre?

Now don't try to get all serious on us.  Angry

But interesting question.

I guess the cowbell, shaker and tambourine are the most heard percussion instruments in rock.
Really the only one you can practically use as a drummer is the cowbell, although you can hit a tambourine with a stick and Bonham's hi-hat mounted 'ching-ring' has become an ikon.
But, as I say, it would be interesting to learn more based on your question.
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« Reply #67 on: February 21, 2008, 01:21 AM »

Serious? I'm just looking for MOAR COWBELL!   Grin
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« Reply #68 on: February 21, 2008, 03:47 PM »

How did I miss this one?  Close But No Cigar -- Weird Al
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« Reply #69 on: February 23, 2008, 09:31 PM »

I found another one.  Everyday People -- Sly and the Family Stone
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« Reply #70 on: February 23, 2008, 10:15 PM »

A very famous track not on the list........
Lady Marmalade
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/g9uLbTkqaxc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/g9uLbTkqaxc</a>

And again in a different guise:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/GoVeAGaO27I" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/GoVeAGaO27I</a>
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« Reply #71 on: February 23, 2008, 11:13 PM »

My answer to the topic question:

Because Louis would look funny in a pair of lederhosen. Grin

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« Reply #72 on: February 24, 2008, 09:13 PM »

Because Louis would look funny in a pair of lederhosen.

Just for the record, I look funny in a lot of stuff!  You should see me in one of my wigs.   Cool
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« Reply #73 on: February 28, 2008, 04:37 AM »

C'mon man!
I thought everything was bigger in Texas?

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« Reply #74 on: February 28, 2008, 12:00 PM »

I always dug the use of cowbell in Rage Against The Machine.  It was a seriously big part of their sound!
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