How completely awesome is it that Bob Cowsill did The LP Questionnaire and Pick Three? Sister Susan is coming up next week. I have The Cowsills on our little bloggy! Very very cool.
The Cowsills, a family group who were the original inspiration for The Partridge Family, had a string of hits in the 60s ranging from “The Rain, the Park and Other Things” to “Hair.” They also recorded the theme song for Love, American Style.
I read that Bob also works in the medical industry helping to train Emergency Departments on a software package that he helped to develop. (from cowsill.com). People always joke that musicans aren’t exactly saving lives but he actually is!
On Friday, you can catch The Cowsills on Florence Henderson’s show on DirecTV. Hmm… I wonder if anyone at DirecTV is reading this… Florence Henderson should come to SXSW, too!
Before I start waxing nostalgic about 60s pop music and The Brady Bunch (while glossing over the fact that I wasn’t quite born in the 60s, just gestating), I present to you, the SXSW blog reader, Bob Cowsill’s LP Questionnaire…
Name: Bob Cowsill
Pro Wrestling Name: Okay, apparently my pro wrestling name is “Brooklyn Nova” - I can live with that - actually I kind of like it…a lot. If I ever develop an ego that’s so huge I need to have my name preceed the group’s I wouldn’t have “Bob Cowsill and The Cowsills”, I’d have “Brooklyn Nova and The Cowsills.”
1. Pretend you’re 15 (and tell us what year it is, if you don’t mind). Name three songs you’d put on a mix tape for your girlfriend/boyfriend. The year was 1965. At that time in my life I would have chosen “Moon River” by Andy Williams, “Do You Believe in Magic?” by the Lovin’ Spoonful and “My Girl” by the Temptations.
2. Which evil villain would make the best president? Don Corleone. He would have made money in the process, true, but he would have straightened everybody out, and nobody would have given him any crap, and the United States would have at least, at a minimum, commanded “respect” throughout the world. “President Corleone, how will you deal with Hugo Chavez, sir?” “I will make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
3. What was your favorite cartoon as a child? The Road Runner. I learned a lot from Wile E. Coyote…never never never give up, no matter the outcome, the danger, the improbability, the roadblocks, the obstacles. Get ahead of the rock even though the rock might crush you. It’s true that I never saw him succeed, but he never ever stopped trying…really unbelievable dedication and belief in his purpose. I was always rooting for him even though I knew it was his destiny to fail. I wanted to become that driven in my pursuits.
4. What superpower do you wish you had? Flight. I’ve flown in dreams so I’m familiar with that power… what it feels like to actually fly. I’ve flown over tree tops, swooped down and swooped up and swooped all around just by maneuvering my arms this way or that. It’s the only superpower I’ve ever personally experienced so that might be causing me to lean that way because I would love to be able to do it anytime I feel like it. I’d only want the other superpowers periodically and some of them would drive me literally insane. Flight is different than the rest.
5. What would the title of your autobiography be? Songs From My Father’s House
Pick Three
Any band with the word “Fuck” in their name just so I can go up and give them some “fucking” advice…as in, “what the FUCK were you thinking?”
The Presidents of the United States of America: I liked them… thought they were very cool.
Jakob Dylan: He should have had 50 more hit records. What happened?
(unfortunately Jakob Dylan is no longer performing but in the interest of the sanctity of Bob’s choices, I’m leaving it be).
I’m listening to Melissa Manchester (no, she’s not performing, either), and Mel’s getting me through the 5 o’clock blues. Is there such a thing or did I just make that up? Good times with Jim James and Jacob Golden tomorrow. More coming your way tonight in a Pick Three blitz. Got RSS? Our feed does a body good! That was a pathetic joke, sorry. Email better ones to musicblog@sxsw.com. I just ate ice cream cake! lp
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Posted: February 27th, 2008 under LP Questionnaire, Linda Park, Pick 3, Music Festival, Latest News.
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My Morning Jacket: Just because they are my favorite band, and they have to be one of the best live bands in the world… I’m not exaggerating!!
Kris Gillespie, North American label director for The Domino Recording Co. Ltd., was set upon a life in music when he learned to read by following the lyrics on album jackets, mainly The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars. Forever since, music has been a constant source of exhilaration and comfort.
It’s Jenn Marshall’s birthday today so let’s all sing for our super cool mistress of the Registration Department. Well, you sing… I think if anyone heard me singing “Happy Birthday” at them, their birthday might not be so happy anymore.