StoneMtn Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 Apparently these freaks are from Toronto, so I want to hear about them. They're playing a horrible bar in Whistler this Wednesday. Given how much I try to avoid this bar, and the fact that this is a Wednesday, these guys have to be mighty worth it to get me out. So, can I hear some comments on these guys? I'll bet Esau has seen them. Here's the article running regarding the show this week... Cowbell White Cowbell Oklahoma serves up Southern-fried rock n roll on cross-Canada tour Published Date: 2006-05-25 Time: 06:53:57 Cowbell sounds off on debauchery White Cowbell Oklahoma serves up Southern-fried rock ’n’ roll on cross Canada tour By Nicole Fitzgerald Who: White Cowbell Oklahoma When: Wednesday, May 31 Where: Garfinkel’s Tickets: $12 Toronto’s most self-indulgent Southern rock band White Cowbell Oklahoma (WCO) travels the Trans Canada Highway towards the Pacific Ocean via a circa 1927 modified Danish helium/hydrogen balloon, lead guitarist Clem says. Later in the conversation it’s a Death Ray 2000, then another vehicle from another dimension, the sixth, no, the ninth. Whatever tall tale the WCO boys get from point A to B in, it houses a stereo with The Birds’ Sweet Heart of the Rodeo playing. "We are feeling a bit mushy," the Ontario native says with a thick theatrical country drawl. "We were just going to put on a CD of just recorded machine guns in a second." The motor slows, someone is chatting. The band likes to pass pornography to the stop-sign workers at roadside construction sites. The globetrotters will need to stock up for the drive up the construction-ridden Sea to Sky Highway for the Wednesday, May 31 concert at Garfinkel’s. Tall tales, pornography and general mayhem are the preachings of this gruesome mob who dub themselves a church. The band’s worldwide congregation follows the White Cowbell Oklahoma bible – the first six ZZ Top albums. WCO bows down to all the classic rock bands, including Lord Dickinson who headlined a European show WCO played at. Instead of fearing the coming, the WCO group works hard to spread what they call The Rockapolypse with a stage show typically wielding wet T-shirt contests, bare-breasted women, chainsaws and deep-fried Southern rock. "We have this alcoholic effect, sexaholic effect," Clem says. "People take their clothes off and do things they’ve never done before and wake up with somebody they don’t know in another country. That is what WCO has to offer: salvation… It’s high-octane rock ’n’ roll. It’s riffilicious. It can kill from 50 paces." The sexified, electrified rockers promise to drink all your booze, sleep with your women and build on what they call their steadily growing archive of filth, fornication and boogie-woogie deliciousness. But, joking aside, they take their music seriously – at least for a sentence or two. "People can expect rock ’n’ roll excellence," Clem said. "Our music abilities go unparalleled and our creativity unmatched." ZZ Top boasted three lead guitarists, Clem thought why not three or four – a small army. WCO is 543 band members strong with nine "inner chamber" regulars. The nine-headed beast is promoting their latest album, Casa Diablo, on their cross-Canada, soul-saving sin fest. "Thou shalt not leave a bottle of bourbon unfinished," chanted Clem with preacher vibrato effect. "People of Whistler, B.C., Canada, you must throw down your trivial objects and products that you are currently contenting your reality with and come to WCO’s boogie rock ’n’ roll explosion coming to your parts. You must lay down all expectations, grab a drink and take off your clothes and get debauched. People don’t get debauched enough." Can I hear an amen? Advanced $12 tickets are available at Electric Daisy and Garfinkel’s. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 they put on ridiculously awesome live shows, seen them a couple times in ottawa and it's a really good time. i think you should definitely go!ad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 yeah, fun entertaining band for sure... actually think they're perhaps better experienced in a "bad" bar =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted May 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 This is the comment I received from a fellow Whistlerite about this band, on another board...I'll be there,Apperently last time they were in town the guitarist called two girls up on stage to hold his guitar for him while he played "Freebird" with his........uh........'member'......I guess there as a shot glass involved somehow. THATS Rock! ... Now, THAT'S entertainment!I expect I'll be at this show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ersh Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 He uses a JD bottle actually...http://www.fileunder.nl/archives/images/2005/concerten/white_cowbell_oklahoma.jpg;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteymuseum Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 WCO is the most debaucherous rock and roll experience that I've ever booked. This 'member' incident happened at the Underground in Hamilton as well. Other incidents of note at their Underground shows: 1 - Chainsaw shredding a cooked turkey into a million pieces and projected into the audience. 2 - Plastic tarp on the stage, two 'random' women from the audience called up on stage to "oil of olay wrestle" 3 - Half dozen wet t-shirt contests 4 - A REAL tar and feathering But with all that oddity and mayhem, one should not forget that this band performs with at least 5 guitars on stage, and upwards of 8. They play fantastically tight guitar rock all in unison. It's a mental and highly impressive southern fried rock show. PS: The Hamilton CD Release Party for their new CD is at the Underground on SAT JUNE 17th. Tickets available here: http://www.tixit.ca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted May 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 That does it. I'm so going to this show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted June 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 Wow!My ears are ringing, my jaw is sore from grinning, I'm all fired up and I had an amazing time at this show! I can't believe I hadn't heard of these guys from you Torontonians before this.These guys are not a "southern rock" band by any normal stretch. I didn't even hear Freebird played at all (with a penis-whiskey-bottle-slide or otherwise). Instead, I got a hugely eclectic mix of ROCK 'N' ROLL BABY! Hell ya! I heard all kinds of influences in there, from the southern sounds of the Allmans and ZZ Top, to the guitar jammy ballsy craziness of Zappa's sound, to the weird pent up odd atonal noise of Ween, to the near-heavy-metal jammy sound of Umphrey's. (I'm sure that someone with different musical tastes would have been reminded of an entirely different list of bands.)The extremely attractive young lady who accompanied the band on tour, and was kind enough to auction the shirt right off her tattooed back was a nice bonus too.When I bought a disc off one of these guys after the show and started talking to him, he transformed completely from being a fired-up Southern guitar-wailing madman that he had been 10 minutes earlier, to a regular, polite, cool guy from Toronto, who seemed really glad that I had such a great time at his show.Go see these guys. Seriously! Run, don't walk, to join the Church of White Cowbell Oklahoma.Put the South in your mouth, people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted June 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 I completely forgot to mention that we were also treated to some chainsaw antics last night; as is the tradition of WCO. We weren't fortunate enough to actually have any poultry pulverized by the chainsaw, but they did manage to make a pretty good mess of a Whistler phone book. (I think I'd have preferred a turkey, though, because it turns out that if you chainsaw a phone book you end up making millions of tiny pieces of confetti, which can then be inhaled by dancing people in your audience. ... Live and learn.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YearsAlongTheSea Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 Who done let all 'dese rednecks up over the border?Would you rather have vegetarians dancing and inhaling turkey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 Who done let all 'dese rednecks up over the border?There was a special clause about that in NAFTA; it serves to equalize for all the comedians we've sent down to the USA.Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted June 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 (edited) Who done let all 'dese rednecks up over the border?Would you rather have vegetarians dancing and inhaling turkey? They're from Toronto, actually.EDIT TO ADD:Regarding your second question, I'm no expert on physics, but I'm pretty sure that minute particles of turkey don't float and circulate through the air the same way that tiny pieces of paper do; thus no danger of inhalation by the vegetarians ([color:purple]who certainly would have numbered in the THOUSANDS at a WCO show). Edited June 1, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimafleck: the living legend. Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 the only time i saw WHITE COWBELL OKLAHOMA,TERRY SHIAVO and THE POPE had a baby oil wrestle... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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