{"id":10625,"date":"2011-12-02T23:40:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T04:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10625"},"modified":"2011-12-03T17:04:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T22:04:17","slug":"last-man-standing-the-cowbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-the-cowbell\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: The Cowbell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" src=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Our recent wake for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/she-was-a-great-woman-andrea-true\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea True<\/a><\/strong> and her disco classic, &#8220;More, More, More,&#8221; exposed one of the finer things about the song: its use of the cowbell.  This lowly instrument has been the butt of <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> skits but over time has made a resounding impact on the rock world.  I ask you, can we list all songs that feature a cowbell?  <em>And<\/em> can we determine, <em><strong>once and for all<\/strong><\/em>, what was the first song to highlight its use?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start us off with<strong> Ian Drury<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Reasons To Be Cheerful&#8221;<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CIMNXogXnvE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our recent wake for Andrea True and her disco classic, &#8220;More, More, More,&#8221; exposed one of the finer things about the song: its use of the cowbell. This lowly instrument has been the butt of Saturday Night Live skits but over time has made a resounding impact on the rock world. I ask you, can <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-the-cowbell\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[164,55,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}