Dear Uncle Ezra about the cowbell
Posted by David Harding
Dear Uncle Ezra about the cowbell
Posted by: David Harding (---.client.comcast.net)
Date: February 17, 2005 10:57PM
Today's Dear Uncle Ezra discusses the question of cowbell succession.
[ezra.cornell.edu]
Dear Uncle Ezra-
There is always a guy with a cowbell at the Cornell hockey games. How is this tradition passed down when one cowbeller graduates?
-Hockey Fan
[ezra.cornell.edu]
Dear Uncle Ezra-
There is always a guy with a cowbell at the Cornell hockey games. How is this tradition passed down when one cowbeller graduates?
-Hockey Fan
Re: Dear Uncle Ezra about the cowbell
Posted by: Scott Kominkiewicz (---.nwrk.east.verizon.net)
Date: February 17, 2005 11:10PM
Back in my time (early 80s), the cowbell percussionist was some guy from either Chi Psi or DU. Sorry, but I didn't know his name.
Re: Dear Uncle Ezra about the cowbell
Posted by: CUlater 89 (---.nyc.rr.com)
Date: February 17, 2005 11:38PM
[Q]Scott Kominkiewicz Wrote:
Back in my time (early 80s), the cowbell percussionist was some guy from either Chi Psi or DU. Sorry, but I didn't know his name. [/q]
My recollection was that the cowbell was passed down within the house. Not sure how the right to play it ever got outside the frat.
Back in my time (early 80s), the cowbell percussionist was some guy from either Chi Psi or DU. Sorry, but I didn't know his name. [/q]
My recollection was that the cowbell was passed down within the house. Not sure how the right to play it ever got outside the frat.
Re: Dear Uncle Ezra about the cowbell
Posted by: DeltaOne81 (---.bos.east.verizon.net)
Date: February 17, 2005 11:59PM
[Q]CUlater 89 Wrote:
Scott Kominkiewicz Wrote:
Back in my time (early 80s), the cowbell percussionist was some guy from either Chi Psi or DU. Sorry, but I didn't know his name. [/Q]
My recollection was that the cowbell was passed down within the house. Not sure how the right to play it ever got outside the frat.[/q]
If I remember this correctly... Age essentially took the right, because whoever the previous cowbell guy was pretty much stopped showing up to games, or at least far from regularly. So Age stepped up and saved the tradition.
Re: Dear Uncle Ezra about the cowbell
Posted by: bigggreddd77 (---.nyc.rr.com)
Date: February 18, 2005 12:05AM
In most of the 90's it was passed down within my fraternity, AEPi.
My friend Jamie Weber had the bell before Age...he actually did double duty as the Cowbell Guy AND the Skating Bear his senior year!
In 1998 Jamie graduated and passed it down to a sophomore in the house who unfortunately had no rhythm and then stopped showing up to games!
Thats when Age picked up the reigns.
My friend Jamie Weber had the bell before Age...he actually did double duty as the Cowbell Guy AND the Skating Bear his senior year!
In 1998 Jamie graduated and passed it down to a sophomore in the house who unfortunately had no rhythm and then stopped showing up to games!
Thats when Age picked up the reigns.___________________________
Class of '99 - Section B - AEPi til you die!!!
Class of '99 - Section B - AEPi til you die!!!
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