John Cowsill
speaker
1,118 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
John Cowsill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then I remember my dad, who was moonlighting.
He was in the Navy, so he was moonlighting as a carpenter.
And he had a friend named Neil Sylvia.
And I don't know how it happened, but this blue sparkled Slingerland drum kit came into the living room and put it right there in the middle in front of the fireplace.
It just set it up, and my brother Barry was the first drummer, and he sat there, and we could just sit down and play.
We don't know how we did this, but the first song I ever played was You Can't Do That, and I just sat down, because it's a boom, boom, boom, boom.
We're just winging it, man.
Everybody's self-taught, no lessons at all.
But that was really fun.
And then I remember, excuse me, they went out as a trio,
Bill, Bob, and Barry, and I remember waking up, must have been midnight or one or two in the morning, and they're counting like $300 out, and I think that was a light bulb, and my dad said that we could make money doing this, okay?
And so I would tag along to them.
We lived in Newport, Rhode Island, and we would go to New York to play.
I don't know how we got this gig, but it was at North Bergen High School, and we'd play all the dances there.
And
And we'd go across the George Washington Bridge.
It was so exciting.
But I was just a tag along.
And I would sit in and I would play You Can't Do That.
I'm a special attraction.
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