+ffmfg Really explore the studio space this time. XD

Definitely.

ffmfg lol too cool !!!

ffmfg this is like a dead meme

My sentiments exactly.

"Stop being so selfish!"

I think at least half the reason the sketch is so good is because there’s such a good song in it.😆

@@viviannichols3582 the other half being Christopher Walkins "impeccable" impersonation of Bruce Dickinson.

Listening to it on AM station with its specific frequency - you barely heard it.

idk I feel like they should've recorded a "more cowbell" version of the song lol

Sorry, I can't agree. For me that song was always about the cowbell, long before I ever heard of the SNL sketch.

I agree. Never noticed it until I saw the skit a few years ago , lol.

I saw the sketch before the snl- I just got the record a few days ago and I’m amazed at how low the cowbell is

Grundy Malone I never heard it before the SNL, I’m 15

Honestly the cowbell was sooo understated I've always thought it sounded more like a wood block

I laughed so hard when he said that in the skit 😂

WE NEED MORE COW BELLS!! 🎶

Is more dead angels

one of the best jokes evah ritten

Touch of cowbell on opening of Loverboy's working for the weekend

So true.

Or Cold Ethyl by Alice Cooper

Sounds like you need some Hair of the Dog.

Nazareth "Hair of the Dog."

How many cowbellers they got?

@@stonehobson2487 Only two but we're always hiring... you should hear the crowd go nuts after my 12 minute solo.

@@ZomBMarketing You got my attention..?

In Spanish death metal they attach it to a bull. Crowd goes crazy.

JohnnyArt Pavlou In Soviet Russia death metal-cowbell plays you

So uh what did you think of the skit out of curiosity?

3 years later we need answers

Say it baby!

He was not wrong about that.

Seriously awesome! BOC is a band I have listened to since the 8th grade. Am 41 now. Their songs have been the soundtrack of my life. I am happy that you know him and studied under him.

He seems very down to Earth.

That would of been an honour. Would love to hear backstories about the great days or rock!

All about cow bells?

Oh you lucky bastard lol 😄 I envy you that

Is this a joke or something?

There was a producer named Bruce Dickinson, he produced a BOC compilation that it seems SNL got his name from.

Bruce Dickinson, mid-level manager at Columbia Records, NOT the lead singer of Maiden, same name, different persons

@@MM-tt3np I was thinking theirs no way Bruce from iron maiden is the producer.

Gold plated diapers

Are you a cow?

The only thing you really need to know about playing any percussion instrument - when to do it!

😂😂😂😂

Cwise85 that is hilarious! Made me laugh! “Cowbell Lessons!” Love a sense of humor

Intro to cowbells - proper holding techniques and grip tension.

I never new cow bell existed until now. What is cow bell? Is it a bell shaped like a cow? or a cow shaped like a bell?

@@ericlarson6390 It's a bell cows wear around neck so they can be found. Usually made cheaply they have a dead sound compared to a real bell. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jpiYdq2SmLqukqc.html

@@seriouspipes You didn't recognize the sarcasm dripping off ever single letter in my post? Hell, I went to Switzerland for my honeymoon... There are cows with their bells all over the Swiss alps... and in Germany as well (I was an Army MP in Stuttgart). Most of those bells on the Swiss cows play the bell part from BOC's THE REAPER. (Please notice the sarcasm dripping off every letter of that last sentence. You may want to put a bucket under it so nobody slips and falls in the sarcasm.)

@@ericlarson6390 While everyone can definitely hear the cowbell on Don't Fear The Reaper, be advised: people cannot (and will never) "hear" sarcasm in the printed word. The internet is chock full of people stupid enough to ask the question exactly as you did, and without a trace of the sarcasm you claim is "dripping off every single letter" of your comment. (Because it IS a comment, not a "post". Posts are on that Facebook thingamajig.) Your name is vague enough that someone like helpful-as-all-get-out Mel here could have very easily mistook your comment as coming from someone that doesn't speak English. You left out the "a" before cowbell, reinforcing this idea in the minds of those unfortunate enough to come across said comment. You added no winky-face emojis or 'ha-ha' to your comment, and until the interweb comes up with a sarcasm font (which I would support and use), *nobody can tell sarcasm from stupid.* Your return and ensuing lambast, designed solely to shame poor Mel (who only tried to help the misguided, possibly foreign and lying-about-his-name Eric in his quest to understand all this cowbell madness) also doesn't "drip" with sarcasm. It does drip with other things, now, so don't feel like you accomplished nothing. Like the classic "Argument" skit from Monty Python, where it's delineated for the audience that simple naysaying does not an argument make, sarcasm is more complex than the crude assholery and douchebaggery you've demonstrated here. So, yeah, your comments drip with something, alright. It just ain't sarcasm. In short, stop being such a dick.

i dont

Great song. Really great 👍🏻

The opening of We're an American Band takes the cake.

Yeah, such great album and cowbells do have such a basic pleasant sound , down to earth came with Adam and Eve

It needs much more cowbell then some

Nor do the wind or the summer rain...

@Painkiller Jones Actually, Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain

Sessions don't fear the cowbell

seriously?

Same here.

Agreed. I was there for the Buck Dharma sound. The cowbell was a nice background touch.

I'm still working on the triangle.

Only Fred is funnier than a cowbell

It's pretty funky too. Thanks, I'd never heard that.

And Manilow's, "And like a good neighbor, State Farm is there"

The original skit came out in the late 70s or early 80s. SNL did it back then. Its easy to look up . The original not as funny, no Will showing his belly in that one.

The live version from some enchanted evening is much better

@@buggybunny5769 ??? Serious....you talking about the actual song or an old SNL skit before Will Ferrel? I tried searching it on youtube and couldnt find it...do you have a link?

@@mdub2000 look up old episodes of snl on whatever network carries the old ones. That's how I found it.

@@buggybunny5769 ah man yes i found it ..... i thought it was pretty funny...he used an even bigger cowbell too:)

As someone who's only seen the skit maybe twice, both long after discovering the song, yes he did.

That is bit of exageration. Santrana used waaay more cowbell than that!

Not before the snl skit we didn't

There's a lot of songs where they used all kinds of invented percussion instruments, things like using soda pop bottles (back when they were still made from glass), or an aerosol spray bottle or whatever. I also remember one of the guys in Three Dog Night saying that the vocal sound at the beginning of Liar was produced by going into the bathroom across the hall from the studio, and singing into the toilet. They literally used a toilet as like a reverb chamber or whatever.

Yikes, that was rough😮

Fireworks may never have been in their sets. It is said that Springstein thought Fireworks should have been the obvious single off Spectres. Albert was canned back in 81 so nobody was going to try his song Fireworks. It IS a great song- one of my favorites.

@@NYVoice Fireworks did get some airplay in Chicago when Spectres came out. I figured they didn't play Fireworks at the show I went to because none of the current members wrote it, but I thought they might play Nosferatu simply because the show was on Halloween. I love Fireworks for the guitar and vocals - both lead and backing.

@@jamesdubose5635 Albert was also a good singer on those secondary tracks. A very surreal voice as well as an excellent drummer.

I never noticed it until the sketch. It was a song had heard many times over the years, but probably hadn’t listened close enough to hear the cowbell. Even now, I may notice it, but it is mixed kind of low as he says.

lol I'm 30 and the first time I heard it in the late 90s I immediately noticed it as well

That's because you guys are influenced by the sketch... it takes all of 2 seconds to figure out your inability to separate Ferrell's hysterical satire from the actual song. I grew up with the song, always loved the song, and NEVER thought about the cowbell (barely audible JUST LIKE BOUCHARD SAYS), why? because the cowbell is barely audible! I know what it is to record live music or studio as well. The greatness of the song is in the dark melodic guitar figure and haunting motif of the song, NOT some damned "cowbell".... there are great things about this song... NONE OF THEM are related to the friggin "cowbell"

hotel foxtrot mmm...no, I noticed it years before that sketch, which is what made the sketch that much funnier. I've heard covers of the song that don't use the cowbell and they sound much better.

I didn't even notice it was there at all until I saw the skit and went back and relistened to the song. Then I was like "Ohhhhh... there it is".

hotel foxtrot possibly. It is a great song by the way

So, he had cat flap fever?

You say "Advent calendar present" like it's a thing or something. Please just stop.

@@john.premose go blow a hippo. Who the fuck are you to order people around, Grinchy Nuckphuckle?

"What does that even mean"

@@wickedfuctup It means Mr Ronny is a damn fool...

Gold PLATED diapers

@@wickedfuctup "Never question Bruce Dickinson!"

That was exactly my reaction @0:35!

Hahaha. It's "Grus" and Lynne just liked the sound as a placeholder. It stayed when he found out it sounded like the German word for 'greeting'.

@@davedavid427 Oh really? Well, thanks for that Dave ♥ No one have ever had a clue as this question been thru several videos, Fb-music groups of different genres etc. ...weird i feel lighter, one of those questions buzzing in the head since the 70's. Btw "Grus" in Swedish is gravel, grusväg/gravelroad/surface. But who are you to be the only one in the world knew this? :P /Thank you und danke Dave "Didn't brought me down" David

Lol

Haha..They had the most bizarre lyrics but that's alright as their music was awesome.. Been a fan since 1976, 13yrs old..

I actually like that song more then i do dont fear the reaper

cobra29935 “Your constant undertone is making me toothless.” 😊👍

Thomas Comptois I hear cowbell that isn’t even there.

@@roustabout583 I'm hearing cowbell right now talking about it

Thomas Comptois 😂

In 1976 Rush opened for BOC. Glad they could return the favor.