Trivia Question: Can you name any songs that use a cowbell as part of the instrumentation?
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^^Somehow I knew that’d be first!
Oye Como Va by Santana.
I saw Blue Oyster Cult in concert.
Musician/bandleader Spike Jones used cowbells and other novekty instruments in many of his tunes.
Make that K in novelky an L
Poof!
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Nuthin’. I’m losing it.
Nightrain – Guns N’ Roses.
Doesn’t The Beatles’ “When I’m 64” use cowbell in it for part of the percussion emphasis, or am I mistaken about that ?
Where is there a cowbell in Don’t Fear the Reaper?
@Buttonstc I hear a bell but I don’t think it is a cowbell.
@Adirondackwannabe It is that “tock..tock…tock” you can hear in the background throughout the song.
@rojo I think that’s the drummer. Not a cowbell.
Grazing in the Grass – - Hugh Masekela 1968
@Adirondackwannabe Nah, that’s a cowbell. Here’s some fun background trivia about the cowbell in that song.
“The song features the prominent use of the cowbell percussion instrument. The song was originally recorded without a cowbell, but the sound was overdubbed into the song at a later stage. Bassist Joe Bouchard remembered a producer requesting his brother, drummer Albert Bouchard, to play the cowbell on the track. Joe Bouchard recalled: “Albert thought he was crazy. But he put all this tape around a cowbell and played it. It really pulled the track together.”[6] Producer David Lucas claims that the inclusion of the cowbell was his idea,[7] and guitarist Eric Bloom supports Lucas’s claim”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Don't_Fear)_The_Reaper#Composition
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