It was our second gold record, and it eventually went platinum."
Eric Bloom, another BOC guitarist, concurs.
“It sort of lifted us up,” he says in the documentary.
Will Ferrell in the ‘More Cowbell’ sketch on ‘Saturday Night Live’; Eric Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult.Credit:NBC; Ed Perlstein/Redferns/Getty
“I’m a believer in credits.
You know, I think credits are important.
“I think Christopher Walken is an amalgam of Sandy and I.”
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David Lucas, another one of the song’s credited producers, disagrees.
“Murray read the paper and drank coffee.”
When asked who he thinks the real Bruce Dickinson was, Lucas responds, “Me!
Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken in the ‘More Cowbell’ sketch on ‘Saturday Night Live’.NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
Well, I was the producer.”
The real Dickinson says that he was amused by his name’s use in the sketch.
Dickinson says in the doc.
“I had never worked on the original record.”
Ferrell says that he pulled that name on the back of a BOC album.
“It’s kind of a funny-sounding name.
That was the extent of my research: the back of a CD cover.”
Perhaps the most consequential conversation about the song came with the topic of the cowbell itself.
How did they even know it was there?'
We actually had that debate at the time.”
Lucas, on the other hand, says that the cowbell was his executive decision.
“I don’t remember any debating.
There’s no voting.
We generally do what I say,” he recalls.
“I knew it needed something.
And the fact of the matter was this was a song about death.
It needed a heartbeat: cowbell.
I go get the cowbell, I come back.
Nobody said anything for 20 years.
But suddenly, after Will’s sketch, everybody remembered doing it!
I played it on the record.”
Bouchardalsothinks he was the one who recorded the cowbell track.
“I played the cowbell,” he claims.
Bloom recalls, “A lot of different people think that they played it.”
Lucas doesn’t seem to mind the muddiness of his cowbell memories, though.
“I don’t care either!”
“Fantastic that I get to see you.”
Active Blue Oyster Cult members are alittleless thrilled to be reminded of the song.
“People started bringing cowbells to our shows most people cannot play a cowbell,” Dharma says.
“Everybody thinks they can, then it all falls apart.”
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