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12-05-2005, 04:44 AM
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12-05-2005, 05:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: The Abyss | | | One can never have too much cowbell.
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12-05-2005, 06:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: perth, western australia | | | I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.
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12-05-2005, 04:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | I'll go with cowbell, since the audience is less likely to cowbell along with their horrid timing than they are to clap along. Just watch out for the guy who snuck a cowbell in. 
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12-05-2005, 04:45 PM
|  | Knowledge is Good - Emile Faber | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Pleasant Hill, CA | | | Clapping. It has more dynamic range than cowbell. But I will admit that the opening to "Mississippi Queen" is far less dramatic with just clapping.
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12-05-2005, 04:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | Where is the poll for "Cowbell", "Clapping" or "Carrots"?
Cant beat some cowbell
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12-05-2005, 05:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Cowbell... Fu manchu rocks
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12-05-2005, 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by lemur821 I'll go with cowbell, since the audience is less likely to cowbell along with their horrid timing than they are to clap along. Just watch out for the guy who snuck a cowbell in. | OMG I HATE IT WHEN THE AUDIENCE CLAPS. It's like they purposefully try to throw you off, as a test, or they think the song is in like 9/8...
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12-05-2005, 05:25 PM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | | cowbell...
all i can say is
Mississippi queen, lowrider, little sister, and of course, Don't fear the reaper! |
12-05-2005, 05:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Washington, DC / Ithaca, NY | | | I think we can all agree that an audience full of cowbell would be horrific. |
12-05-2005, 05:30 PM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | Clapping vs. cowbell
Tsk, tsk... why do you argue about one or another when you can have both?
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12-05-2005, 06:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tasmania, Australia | | All good songs must have either claps or cowbell in it.
Great songs have both.  |
12-05-2005, 07:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Fern Park, Florida | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by chips I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Where is that cowbell guy?? |
12-06-2005, 01:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Finland, EU | | | Perhaps you could get a hi-hat-style cowbell stand. Who needs the drummer for.. more cowbell, baby!
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12-06-2005, 12:49 PM
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Originally Posted by lemur821 I'll go with cowbell, since the audience is less likely to cowbell along with their horrid timing than they are to clap along. Just watch out for the guy who snuck a cowbell in. | +1
I saw Wynton Marsalis in Montreal about a month ago, and during one song, Wynton and the band start clapping. But not in unison, like one dude in half notes, another in triplets, and another doing some syncopated stuff. And the crowds starts clapping 
Obviously, a room full of whites can't ever figure out which guy to follow clapping, so everybody's just clapping along mindlessly, with complete disregard for rythmic consistency. (where's the "slapping forehead smiley" when you need him)
And THEN, after the show, some wise-a$$ is telling his friends that, quote: "The handclapping number was terrible, the band members weren't even clapping together" 
Does humanity even have a chance?
This would not have happened with cowbell.
I am Phil Mastro, and I approve cowbell. |
12-06-2005, 12:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: T-Dizzle fo shizzle | | | Whenever I hear cowbell I think of that Will Ferrel sketch from SNL. Friggin hilarious.
Get the Best of Will Ferrel SNL DVD's. Gold. Absolute carrots.
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12-06-2005, 05:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Michigan, USA | | | Cowbell ownz hands.
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12-06-2005, 05:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Fern Park, Florida | | In full size, too! ...he was soo needed
who gets that crazy clapping??  
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12-06-2005, 11:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: perth, western australia | | +1 on the will ferrel DVD. FREAKINGa hilarious
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