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Need more cowbell?

Category: Entertainment/culture • Humor • Music
Posted on: March 11, 2006 10:01 AM, by Orac

Need more cowbell?

Not if you're this guy.

Bummer.

Next we'll hear about miraculous "cowbell cures" from alties.

Comments

Sonofabitch - the Will Ferrell/Christopher Walken bit got the song stuck in my head so much that I had to go learn it. I spent enough time on it on this perfectly good Saturday morning that I even struggled whether to accept or delete the correction made in the main riff by contributors to this 12-year-old tabulature submission. (After playing it about a hundred times each way, I think that you DO want to have your 3rd finger on the 3rd fret of the D string while picking the F chord part of the riff).

Damn you, Orac. Now my 3-year-old wants to play the cowbell.

Posted by: Abel PharmBoy | March 11, 2006 12:54 PM

hi orac! just want to let you know i'm adding ri to my science blogs category on my permanent blogroll.

keep up the good work!

Posted by: skippy | March 11, 2006 3:23 PM

I was, for most intents and purposes, living under a rock when the "More cowbell" thing came out, and now I think I finally understand. (I wasn't sure who to ask by the time I realized I was totally clueless....) Thank you for that, and thank you for the amusing comic.

Posted by: Julia | March 11, 2006 10:56 PM

I actually have a t-shirt that says, "More Cowbell" with a picture of the...I hesitate to say "instrument". That SNL clip is so damn funny I can't even stand it. Thanks for giving me a laugh on a rather crappy Sunday.

Posted by: BigHeathenMike | March 12, 2006 7:31 PM

The fact that the "more cowbell" meme rides on the endemic virulence of "Don't Fear the Reaper" has made it powerfully infective.

Thank you, Orac. I had not been infected, and am already a grateful carrier, who promptly passed it on to my son and husband.

Long Live Gene Frenkle, who only in "death" became real to us.

Posted by: Skeptyk | March 12, 2006 7:41 PM