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There will be more cowbell at the Kentucky State Fair this year, but not in the animal exhibits. The Texas Roadhouse Concert Series lineup for 2025 was released on Thursday and it features a mix ...
From taking bass lessons from future reality show judges to fighting the FDA over lasers, Blue Öyster Cult has done a lot more than inspire cowbell players around the world. President Trump signs ...
The SNL sketch featured cast members including a young Jimmy Fallon portraying the drummer of the real-life classic rock band Blue Oyster Cult, as they recorded their cowbell-heavy hit, "Don't ...
The members of Blue Öyster Cult and the song's producers debate the identity of the real Bruce Dickinson in the documentary "SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night." Wesley Stenzel Mon, January 20, 2025 at 2:00 ...
That night, “ Saturday Night Live ” paid tribute to Blue Oyster Cult’s 1976 jam “ (Don’t Fear) The Reaper” and one iconic bit of percussion. The cowbell.
The cowbell sketch originally aired on April 5, 2000, during an “SNL” episode in which Walken was the host. The sketch is about the fictional process of Blue Oyster Cult r ecording their hit ...
Blue Oyster Cult got through it and we persevered. When we play 'Reaper,' people still mimic playing the cowbell, and we had to ban people from bringing actual cowbells to the concerts.
The premise is Blue Oyster Cult are recording their classic 70s hit, Christopher Walken plays the producer whose fever is only curable by adding more cowbell to the track, which Ferrell’s character ...
Blue Oyster Cult got through it and we persevered. When we play 'Reaper,' people still mimic playing the cowbell, and we had to ban people from bringing actual cowbells to the concerts.
Twenty-four years after airing, Blue Öyster Cult’s front man is still reckoning with the legacy of SNL’s ‘More Cowbell’ sketch: ‘My first feeling was relief. Relief that it was funny ...
In 2012, with an expansive, 14-disc box set of their Columbia years just released, Prog reappraised the work of the band made infamous by bleakly comic songs like Joan Crawford, and a Saturday Night ...
They eventually became Blue Öyster Cult in 1971, a name inspired by a poem written by manager Sandy Pearlman as part of his Imaginos cycle (more of which later).