June 16, 1973, I saw Blue Oyster Cult at Tampa Stadium with Deep Purple, ZZ Top, Family, and Savoy Brown. It was before the release of BOC’s (Don’t Fear) The Reaper built around an awesome riff.

(Don’t Fear) The Reaper also features a cowbell as percussion as immortalized by the hysterically funny “More Cowbell” SNL sketch of April 8, 2000, featuring Christopher Walken as music producer Bruce Dickenson and SNL regulars Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, Horation Sanz, Chris Parnell with Will Ferrell on cowbell. Regarded as one of the funniest sketches of SNL history, the sketch calls the me, the true story teller to find one thing that could be exaggerated for comedic purposes.

What’s your “cowbell?”