"a drumming contest between the band's drummer Chad Smith and actor Ferrell. In a repeat of the 2000 ""SNL"" sketch, Ferrell again played cowbell for the rendition, which appeared on an episode of ""The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."" Stephen King cited the song as the inspiration for his novel ""The Stand,"" and it appears as the theme song for the TV miniseries based on the novel. Its lyrics are also quoted at the beginning of the novel. The coat-of-arms of British fantasy writer Terry Pratchett, granted to him in 2010, has ""Noli Timere Messorem"" (Don't Fear the Reaper) as"
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" is a song by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult from the band's 1976 album ""Agents of Fortune."" The song, written and sung by lead guitarist Donald ""Buck Dharma"" Roeser, deals with eternal love and the inevitability of death. Dharma wrote the song while picturing an early death for himself. Released as an edited single (omitting the slow building interlude in the original), the song was Blue Öyster Cult's highest chart success, reaching #7 in ""Cash Box"" and #12 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in late 1976. Critical reception was mainly positive,"
"to describe a couple believing they would meet again in the afterlife. He guessed that ""40,000 men and women"" died each day, and the figure was used several times in the lyrics; this rate was 100,000 off the mark. ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" was written and sung by lead guitarist Buck Dharma and produced by David Lucas, Murray Krugman, and Sandy Pearlman. The song's distinctive guitar riff is built on the ""i-VII-VI"" chord progression, in an A minor scale. The riff was recorded with Krugman's Gibson ES-175 guitar, which was run through a Music Man 410 combo amplifier, and Dharma's"
"""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" performed by New Zealand alternative rock band The Mutton Birds. The Mutton Birds version of the song had been previously released as a B-side to their single ""She's Been Talking"" released in 1996. It plays also ""Superstar"", written by Bonnie Bramlett + Leon Russell and performed by Sonic Youth. Critical reception was average; Jason Ankeny of album database AllMusic described the soundtrack as ""imaginative"" giving it three stars out of five. This was a lower rating on the site than Elfman's other scores of the era, such as """", ""Mars Attacks!"" and ""Flubber"". The soundtrack review"
""""", ""Return to Murder House"". The scene depicts Miriam Mead (played by Kathy Bates) kidnapping a young girl in order to perform a satanic ritual. The song also appears in ""Ash VS Evil Dead"", ""Rifting Appart"" with: (Don't Fear) The Reaper ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" is a song by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult from the band's 1976 album ""Agents of Fortune."" The song, written and sung by lead guitarist Donald ""Buck Dharma"" Roeser, deals with eternal love and the inevitability of death. Dharma wrote the song while picturing an early death for himself. Released as an edited single"
"after Jimmy Fallon laughs for the first time in the sketch. According to Fallon, Ferrell wore a tighter shirt in the live sketch than he wore at dress rehearsal to allow his gut to hang out, in turn making Fallon laugh. While the song ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" by Blue Öyster Cult does indeed feature a cowbell playing throughout the song, its sound is largely drowned out by the rest of the instruments. According to Donald ""Buck Dharma"" Roeser, the lead singer and author-composer of the song, the sketch accurately portrays the band's look during the 1970s, but it inaccurately"
"was included. The publication wrote that the song's charm ""lies in the disjuncture between its gothic storyline and the sprightly, Byrdsian guitar line that carries it."" In his book ""The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made,"" rock critic Dave Marsh ranked the song at number 997. Blue Öyster Cult performed a live version of ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" on the band's 1978 album ""Some Enchanted Evening"". A live version appears on their 1982 album ""Extraterrestrial Live"". Blue Öyster Cult's 1991 live album ""Live 1976"" features ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"". A live version appears on their"
"case, it is possible that the sound produced stems from miking an un-amplified electric guitar, rather than from the more conventional amplified usage. The EBow was used by Blue Oyster Cult lead guitarist Donald (Buck Dharma) Roeser, on their 1976 song, ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"", to segue the middle instrumental lead break, back into the final verse of the song. The device was used again on the follow-up album, ""Spectres"", on at least one track (""Celestial the Queen""). The EBow is frequently used by Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien in studio and for live performances of songs such as ""Talk Show"
"band members and those close to the band. It is complete up to ""Curse of the Hidden Mirror"". Their hit single ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" was featured in the famous ""Saturday Night Live"" sketch, ""More cowbell"". The original recording was produced at The Record Plant in New York by David Lucas, who sang background vocals with Roeser and played the now famous cowbell part. Manager Sandy Pearlman mixed the record. ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" was also used in writer/director John Carpenter's horror film classic, ""Halloween"" (1978), the opening sequence of the miniseries adaptation of ""The Stand"" (1994) by Stephen King,"
"English horns, an E♭ clarinet, a contrabass clarinet, two alto saxophones, two baritone saxophones, three bassoons, a contrabassoon, six horns, four B♭trumpets (alternating one D trumpet), four trombones, two tubas, percussion (4 players), twenty violins, eight violas, eight celli, six basses, harp, piano, harmonium, organ, and bass electric guitar. The percussionists play timpani, military drum, friction drum, bass drum, slapstick, five wood blocks, ratchet, guiro, bamboo scrapers, cymbals, six suspended cymbals, 2 tam-tams, 2 gongs, Javanese gong, triangle, tubular bells, church bell, sacring bells, musical saw, flexatone, and siren (not mentioned in the instrumentation list at the beginning of the"
"Apollo 440 transcribed an electronic version of the track on the 1995 debut album ""Millennium Fever"". In 1998, Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers recorded a cover of the song on their ""Rock the Party"" album. Celtic rock band Big Country included a cover of the song on their 2001 covers album ""Under Cover"". The Mutton Birds recorded a version for the 1996 movie ""The Frighteners""; this version is also included on their 2002 greatest hits compilation ""Flock: The Best of the Mutton Birds"". Folk rock band Unto Ashes issued a rendition of ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" on the 2003 album"
"""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" by Blue Öyster Cult and ""Black Celebration"" by Depeche Mode. It also features vocals from the song ""Yeh Kali Kali"", from the Indian movie ""Baazigar"" Behind the Cow ""Behind The Cow"" is a 2007 single by German band Scooter featuring American rapper Fatman Scoop. Premiered at ""The Dome 40"" in Düsseldorf on 1 December 2006, it was released on 19 January 2007 as the lead single from their twelfth studio album ""The Ultimate Aural Orgasm"". Jeff ""Mantas"" Dunn plays guitar on the track. The video was filmed in India, where the band caused controversy by painting"
"recorded with Reed providing lead vocals and guitar, Morrison on guitar, and Tucker on drums, while Cale plays an organ routed through a distorted guitar amplifier. Morrison remarked that he was amazed at the volume of Cale's organ during the recording and that he had switched the guitar pickup on his Fender Stratocaster from the bridge position to the neck position to get ""more oomph"". It is also notable that the song features no bass guitar because Cale, who usually played bass or viola, played organ on the take. The band had a sponsorship from Vox amplifiers, which allowed use"
"Öyster Cult's ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" (1976). Unlike many other XTC songs, he instructed a specific bass part to Colin Moulding: ""Colin had to work very hard to get that bass line. It's very precise. It took me a long time to work it out, because I wanted to get into the J.S. Bach mode of each note being the perfect counterpoint to where the chords are and where the melody is. The bass is the third part in the puzzle."" Its lyrics are sometimes criticised for its similarity to Sam Cooke's ""Wonderful World"" (1960), but Partridge denied copying the"
"In 1976 ""Rolling Stone"" named ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" the song of the year and, in 2004, the magazine placed the song at number 397 on its list of ""The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time""; however, the 2010 version of the list moved it down to number 405. In 1997 ""Mojo"" listed the song as the 80th best single of all time, while ""Q"" ranked ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" number 404 in its 2003 countdown of the ""1001 Best Songs Ever."" When ""The Guardian"" released its unranked list of the ""1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear"" in 2009, the song"
"2002 album ""A Long Day's Night"". Buck Dharma released an acoustic version of the song on the 1994 various artists compilation album ""Guitar Practicing Musicians 3"". Gus Black covered the song in 1996 for the ""Scream"" soundtrack. Finnish gothic rock band HIM recorded a version of the song on their 1997 debut album ""Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. 666"". Pop rock band the Goo Goo Dolls recorded a cover of ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" on their 1987 self-titled album. In 1992, Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch released the extended play ""Don't Fear the Reaper"", on which their rendition of the song appears."
"Jackson the bas guitar (#1, #8), Michael Landau the guitars (#5, #7, #9, #10, #11), Waddy Wachtel (#2, #8), Amir Questlove Thompson founder of The Roots on the drums (#2, #5, #8, #9), Matt Chamberlain the drums (#1, #3, #7), Jim Keltner the drums (#4, #11), Kenny Aronoff the drums (#4, #6), among others. The album intentionally includes older instruments like Hammond organ and Mellotron for a vintage feeling. The song ""Pronto"" has a verse ""C’ho paura [I have fear of] degli americani, e degli inglesi, e degli italiani, dei musulmani e anche dei cristiani"", by which he showed his"
"as a percussion, in lieu of conventional percussive instruments. The distinctive sound of the PPG Wave synthesiser was introduced on this album, developing memorable heavy synth riffs; the dream-like female backing vocals were still fully embraced from ""Warriors"". Saxophones were infrequently used on the album, along with the viola that had last been featured on ""Telekon."" Lyrically, the album has a haunting, oppressive theme with several references to God throughout. The poignant track ""A Child with the Ghost"" was Numan's tribute to his friend and former bassist Paul Gardiner, who died in February 1984 from a deliberate heroin overdose. The"
"ska music, it features noticeably emphasized elements of surf rock and punk rock over that of its predecessor, as well as featuring streaks of eccentric genre experimentation The Aquabats would continue to develop on further releases: among its sixteen tracks, ""The Fury"" includes two instrumentals, pastiches of tango (""Attacked By Snakes!"") and Dixieland jazz (""Lobster Bucket!""), and extensive use of unconventional instruments including clarinets, electric sitars, banjos, sousaphones and even hand music. ""The Fury"" was the first Aquabats album to feature dual keyboardist and saxophonist Jimmy the Robot (James Briggs, credited under his then-stage name of Jaime the Robot) and"
"as the ""Bowling Green Philharmonic Orchestra"" for performing the film's score, but he did receive assistance from composer Dan Wyman, a music professor at San José State University. Some songs can be heard in the film, one being an untitled song performed by Carpenter and a group of his friends who formed a band called The Coupe De Villes. The song is heard as Laurie steps into Annie's car on her way to babysit Tommy Doyle. Another song, ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" by classic rock band Blue Öyster Cult, appears in the film. The soundtrack was first released in the"
"2014 episode of ""The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"" for a charity drum-off battle. Despite Smith clearly giving the better performance, Ferrell was named the winner and awarded a giant gold cowbell. Both were joined by Smith's Chili Peppers bandmates for a performance of ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" with Ferrell playing cowbell. More Cowbell ""More Cowbell"" is a comedy sketch that aired on ""Saturday Night Live"" on April 8, 2000. The sketch is presented as an episode of VH1's documentary series ""Behind the Music"" that fictionalizes the recording of the song ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" by Blue Öyster Cult. The"
"to feature use of the distinctive Vako Orchestron keyboard (choir, string and organ sounds), which the group had purchased on their recent US ""Autobahn"" tour and the Moog Micromoog which was used extensively on this album. Notably, it provided the harsh sounds on the track ""Antenna"". The band's custom-built electronic percussion also featured heavily in the sound, and extensive use was made of the vocoder. The usual synthesizers were present (including Minimoog and ARP Odyssey), and Hütter's Farfisa electronic piano made a return on ""Transistor"". For the first time the group did not use flute, violin or guitars. By 1975,"
"Bitter End"", ""Running Up that Hill"", ""Special K""), Gibson SGs (""Special Needs"", ""Every You Every Me"", ""Black-Eyed"", ""Without You I'm Nothing""), a Fender Jaguar (""Drag"", ""Nancy Boy"", ""I Know""), a Fender Thinline Telecaster (""Twenty Years"", ""Taste in Men""), and a Gibson Chet Atkins SST (""Meds""). His amplifier was a Fender Twin Reverb. In the ""Battle for the Sun"" tour, he still used Gretsch Duo Jets (""Devil in the Details"", ""Come Undone"", ""Follow The Cops Back Home""), a Gibson SG (""Bright Lights""), Fender Cyclone (""Ashtray Heart"", ""The Never-Ending Why"", ""Breathe Underwater"", ""Teenage Angst""), a Gibson Les Paul (""For What It's Worth"","
"the film would be a hit. A guitar track had already been recorded on the demo that was given to Stevens. Stevens wanted to record his parts using one track, and avoid any overdubbing. Stevens used a Hamer SS and a 100-watt Marshall amplifier to record his part. He also used a small Boss compressor pedal to add more sustain. There is only one guitar track throughout the entire piece, with the exception of the ending. The song is available on both the original ""Top Gun"" soundtrack album and the expanded edition. The theme was played on organ as an"
"band member to utilize an array of instruments to affect the performance. Alex Lifeson used a double-necked Gibson electric guitar (one twelve-string, the other six-string) as well as synthesizer pedals; Geddy Lee made use of a double-necked Rickenbacker 4080/12 guitar (bass and twelve-string guitar), as well as extensive synthesizer arrangements (through both pedals and keyboards) in addition to singing; and Peart took on various percussion instruments (temple blocks, tubular bells, bell tree, glockenspiel, and wind chimes) in addition to his drum kit. An abbreviated version of the song, omitting the second verse and Lee's rhythm guitar part during the ending,"
"later told a ""Musician"" magazine interviewer in 1986 that Knopfler had solicited Gibbons' help in replicating the tone, adding, ""He didn't do a half-bad job, considering that I didn't tell him a thing!"" Knopfler duplicated Gibbons' use of a Gibson Les Paul guitar (rather than his usual Fender Stratocaster), which he plugged into a Marshall amplifier. Another factor in trying to recreate the sound was a wah-wah pedal which was turned on, just set to a certain position. The specific guitar sound in the song was made with a Gibson Les Paul going through a Laney amplifier, with the sound"
"and featured the sound of a locally made musical instrument that the band used instead of the sitar, which was becoming popular on records at that time. The eight-stringed instrument, dubbed the ""octachord"" by the band, had been made by a friend's grandfather and looked like a large mandolin. The octachord was played on the record and at live concert appearances by the band's lead guitarist, Wayne Proctor, who still has the instrument in his possession today. Despite ""In the Past"" being released as the band's fourth single, local radio stations preferred to play the softer B-side over the more"
"and in 2004, ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" was listed at number 405 on the ""Rolling Stone"" list of the top 500 songs of all time. The song is about the inevitability of death and the foolishness of fearing it, and was written when Dharma was thinking about what would happen if he died at a young age. Lyrics such as ""Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity"" have led many listeners to interpret the song to be about a murder-suicide pact, but Dharma says the song is about eternal love, rather than suicide. He used Romeo and Juliet as motifs"
"trombone, one percussionist, harp, piano (doubling celeste), violin, 2 violas, 2 cellos and double bass. The percussion consists of 8 crotales, vibraphone, marimba, suspended cymbal, 3 gongs, tam-tam, bass drum, pedal bass drum, ratchet, claves and whip. 1. ""No Way Out"" — The woman tells of how her husband beat her and threatened to garotte her with a towel and of how she picked up a kitchen knife to defend herself.<br> 2. ""Inside (part 1)"" — The woman is in jail thinking of how she failed to take her lawyer's advice to give evidence about her husband's violence, because she"
"the band's sound, and was touted as the honorary sixth member of the group by vocalist Ville Valo. When recording began, HIM had eight songs ready for the album, two of which (""Wicked Game"" and ""The Heartless"") were previously recorded for the group's 1996 EP """". After initial recording ended, the album clocked in at 32 minutes, which the band's record label BMG felt was too short. As a result, HIM opted to include a cover of Blue Öyster Cult's ""(Don't Fear) the Reaper"" on the record, which the band had recorded the previous winter. The track also featured guest"
"Buck Dharma Donald Bruce Roeser (born November 12, 1947), more commonly known by his stage name Buck Dharma, is an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for being a member of Blue Öyster Cult since the group's formation in 1967. He wrote and sang lead vocals on several of the band's best-known hits, including ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper,"" ""Godzilla"" and ""Burnin' for You."" Roeser was born on Long Island, New York. His father was an accomplished jazz saxophonist, and Roeser spent a lot of time listening to jazz music as a result. Because of this, Roeser developed an interest in"
"1985's ""Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis"" EP. ""Rembrandt Pussyhorse"" is one of the most experimental releases in Butthole Surfers' considerably experimental catalog. Making heavy use of in-studio tape editing and sound modulation, the album adds piano, organ, and violin, amongst other sounds, to Butthole Surfers' then-usual battery of electric guitar, bass, and dual drummers. According to guitarist Paul Leary and lead vocalist Gibby Haynes, Butthole Surfers were a four-piece for most of these sessions, with Leary playing the majority of the basslines. However, not all the new instrumentation was performed by the band. The piano on ""Creep in"
"featured in the second movement). Winds: 1 piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 1 English horn, 3 clarinets in Bb (1st doubling clarinet in A, 2nd doubling clarinet in Eb), 1 bass clarinet in B, 3 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon Brass: 5 horns in F, 3 trumpets in C, 1 bass trumpet in C, 4 trombones, tuba Strings: 16 first violins, 14 second violins, 12 violas, 12 violoncellos, 10 double basses, all the strings are divisi. Percussion: Timpani, triangle tree, bell tree, pair of cymbal, tamtam, bongos, tomtom, rototom, timbales, snare drum, military drum, tenor drum, bass drum with cymbal, whip, wood"