More Cowbell, More Drums

One of the immutable laws of music production is that, no matter what style of record you’re dealing with, you can never have too much cowbell. In fact, one of the most effective ways of predicting which upcoming single is going to be a major international hit is to check its cowbell usage. No cowbell is probably fatal; some cowbell is good, more cowbell is best…
(from music technology)

Where can I get more Cowbell?

Fortunately for audio engineers and record producers, as well as general fans of this mighty percussive godsend, a site has been set up which provides a database of songs that have cowbell in them. Even better, you can submit suggestions of songs that should have cowbell in them (which, effectively, is anything that doesn’t have cowbell already). This site is aptly titled the Cowbell Project, and is a must for all music professionals who adhere to the ethos of Walkensian audio production.

And More Drums?

Just to round out this Duke-sourced post with a video, here is one of Paul Lamere’s musical goosebump highlights of 2007 - some super-duper Deerhoof Drumming…

This Music Technology blog post was published on Monday, January 14th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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