Barking Spiders Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Classic rock isn't my bag but there are a few tunes I've got time for; Hey You & You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (BTO), Don't Fear The Reaper, Art for Art's Sake (10cc) , Sweet Emotion, Clampdown (Clash), You Fool No One (Deep Purple), Ladies Night in Buffalo (Dave Lee Roth) and Dr Feelgood (Motley Crue). What links these together? Is it the guitar riffs? Nah. The basslines ? no way Jose? The drumming? who cares. The vocals? as if! What then?...the cowbell of course! Without the mighty cowbell these songs would be lacking the vital spark. So, surely there are more tunes where the cowbell bit is what you wait for! Maybe there are some tunes which are 'made' by claves clacking away in the background or the maraccas a-shakin ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbayne Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 (edited) Honky Tonk Women starts of with a cowbell. Best bit of the song. 😂 Edited October 19, 2018 by Hobbayne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxyFuze Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 It doesn't make the song as such, but the cowbell on the intro to Guns n Roses 'Think About You' is very distinctive; it's one of those album tracks that seems to get forgotten about but is an absolute cracker. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 Supreme cowbelling here and the drumming ain't half bad too boot. Actually when I was much younger Ian Paice was the main reason I used to listen to DP. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonBassAlpha Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 The cowbell in Beefheart's Sun Zoom Spark really makes it for me. More frantic than most cowbell cotributions. Less frantic, but nicely placed is the cowbell on The Mooney Suzuki's Alive and Amplified. The vibra-slap is great too, just can't think of any examples off hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 (edited) check out this classic ... https://vimeo.com/241311990 Edited October 19, 2018 by Barking Spiders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newfoundfreedom Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Ooh I love a bit o' cow bell me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveFry Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 More of the aforementioned . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliasMooseblaster Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 42 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said: Supreme cowbelling here and the drumming ain't half bad too boot. Actually when I was much younger Ian Paice was the main reason I used to listen to DP. I do feel like Paice gets massively underrated as a drummer. I suppose, just as Zeppelin overshadowed Purple as a whole in terms of popularity, so Bonham overshadowed Paice - which seems as a shame, as Bonham's playing doesn't really do it for me, but Paice's playing always seemed to be on the money. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Not cowbell but Northumbrian pipes. Kathryn Tickell's contribution to sting's 'Fields of gold' raise the song beyond ordinary. Eva Cassidy's version is just 'MEH' in comparison. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliasMooseblaster Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 8 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said: I love Paice's drumming too. Some of the seemingly throw away fills he chucks in almost effortlessly are just sublime. Gonna sit on the fence a bit and say I love Bonham too. Equally brilliant and unique IMHO. He's a funny one, is Bonzo: I can see why people like him, and I can admire his playing from a technical point of view. Just something about his feel which seems a bit leaden (ledden?) to me. But then I have always preferred the jazz-trained drummers like Baker, Mitchell, Densmore, etc., so perhaps I prefer Paice's more relaxed feel. (Incidentally, are there any Grand Magus fans on here? Their current drummer - or whichever one played on The Hunt - sounds almost exactly like Paice...at least when he's not doing the double-kick stuff.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Two slightly distorted guitars. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 I wouldn't say it make the song but... The Melodica solo in 'Dance With Me' by Orleans works well 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leftybassman392 Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 (edited) Everybody hurts No drums at all for over half the song's length. ETA: Wild Thing To the best of my knowledge, the only ocarina solo in the history of popular music. (Happy to be wrong though...) Edited October 19, 2018 by leftybassman392 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveFry Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Herbie Hancock's reworking of his own tune " Watermelon Man " featured a Pygmy whistle made from a papaya stem . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Humble instrument? The Tambourine that Jack Ashford played on so many Motown Records. Sometimes he's mixed up front and sometime he in the background, but he's there on most of them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Discreet, but important, the claves in this dEUS track (part of our repertoire, and great fun to play...)... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earbrass Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 1 hour ago, lowdown said: I wouldn't say it make the song but... The Melodica solo in 'Dance With Me' by Orleans works well Well, if we're talking melodica, then this surely deserves inclusion: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 2 hours ago, leftybassman392 said: ETA: Wild Thing To the best of my knowledge, the only ocarina solo in the history of popular music. (Happy to be wrong though...) R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. by John Mellencamp has an ocarina solo! But it does seem to be in direct tribute to Wild Thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japhet Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 How's this for an iconic intro? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 2 hours ago, leftybassman392 said: ETA: Wild Thing To the best of my knowledge, the only ocarina solo in the history of popular music. (Happy to be wrong though...) There is the Harry Berly solo in Whispering (and very good it is). It was popular music at the time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbandit599 Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 (edited) Sorry to revert to cowbell, but check this out. 4mins in if you're the impatient type 😉 Edited October 20, 2018 by redbandit599 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzodog Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 (edited) Planet Caravan would not be the same without Iommi using a flute and delay pedal at 1.17 in Edited October 19, 2018 by bonzodog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 (edited) "That dude sure knows how to rock the triangle". Need to click on the link - The YouTube Video won't embed for some reason. https://youtu.be/jBupII3LH_Q Edited October 19, 2018 by lowdown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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