White Cowbell Oklahoma form army of rock
Kayla Hillier
Issue date: 4/6/04 Section: Arts & Entertainment
White Cowbell Oklahoma could probably only be described as the product of what could happen if Red Green meets ZZ Top and The Playboy channel on the highway to Texas.
"Our music is an assault ... it's so high velocity and high testosterone," said mononymic Cowbell vocalist Clem. "It is ... inconceivable ... that anything can rock so hard. Sometimes the sceptics show up and they're like 'Yeah, whatever, I'm going to watch a little bit of rock n' roll and drink a little beer and then I'm gonna' go home.' It ain't gonna' happen that way. You're gonna' come and your mind is going to be blown. Its kind of like seeing a fourth dimension that you've never saw before because our shows are just so explosive and filled with sensory overload ... fire, brimstone, destruction, sex, drugs, violence. It's all there at the White Cowbell Oklahoma show."
One could even say that the show leaves the door wide open for sin.
"I would say that and it's funny when I come to this part of the world. That everybody says all the people in, say, Toronto are very conservative, they never cheer, they never get out of their seats, they never do nothing," said Clem. "Well I tell you, whenever the White Cowbell Oklahoma plays in Toronto there is an explosion of a humanity and lust and carnal celebration. It is something that, just maybe, other bands can't accomplish in this part of the world."
With the assurance of a show like no other, as well as the promise of carnal pleasures, it's hard to imagine that this much sex could ooze from a band called White Cowbell Oklahoma.
"We wanted to be called Black Oak Arkansas but it turns out there's another band called Black Oak Arkansas. So we went to White Cowbell Oklahoma because ... there was a white percussion instrument at the centre of our sound. A white cowbell," said Clem. "We said to ourselves, 'This is a symbol of phallic magnificence' ... and it is a percussion sound so simple, yet so hypnotic and all encompassing we must name the band in relation to this percussion masterwork of engineering that is the cowbell. Oklahoma is just a state of wondrous geographic and geometric and geological wonders."
"Our music is an assault ... it's so high velocity and high testosterone," said mononymic Cowbell vocalist Clem. "It is ... inconceivable ... that anything can rock so hard. Sometimes the sceptics show up and they're like 'Yeah, whatever, I'm going to watch a little bit of rock n' roll and drink a little beer and then I'm gonna' go home.' It ain't gonna' happen that way. You're gonna' come and your mind is going to be blown. Its kind of like seeing a fourth dimension that you've never saw before because our shows are just so explosive and filled with sensory overload ... fire, brimstone, destruction, sex, drugs, violence. It's all there at the White Cowbell Oklahoma show."
One could even say that the show leaves the door wide open for sin.
"I would say that and it's funny when I come to this part of the world. That everybody says all the people in, say, Toronto are very conservative, they never cheer, they never get out of their seats, they never do nothing," said Clem. "Well I tell you, whenever the White Cowbell Oklahoma plays in Toronto there is an explosion of a humanity and lust and carnal celebration. It is something that, just maybe, other bands can't accomplish in this part of the world."
With the assurance of a show like no other, as well as the promise of carnal pleasures, it's hard to imagine that this much sex could ooze from a band called White Cowbell Oklahoma.
"We wanted to be called Black Oak Arkansas but it turns out there's another band called Black Oak Arkansas. So we went to White Cowbell Oklahoma because ... there was a white percussion instrument at the centre of our sound. A white cowbell," said Clem. "We said to ourselves, 'This is a symbol of phallic magnificence' ... and it is a percussion sound so simple, yet so hypnotic and all encompassing we must name the band in relation to this percussion masterwork of engineering that is the cowbell. Oklahoma is just a state of wondrous geographic and geometric and geological wonders."
