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There's Just Something About That Cowbell

"Saturday Night Live" once aired a rock industry spoof where a producer, played by Christopher Walken, wanted to deliver "more cowbell" to a song being recorded. Storyteller Mitch Myers thinks that there is something to the cowbell in rock music that does go beyond the music.

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