John Cowsill

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1,118 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard Sep 2025

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · John Cowsill | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 3 Sep 2025 podcast

I'm always a special attraction somehow.

And that's how that started.

And then I remember we started evolving.

We wanted a bass guitar.

And my brother Bill was pitching to my dad, we need a bass guitar.

So my dad says, well, what can he do?

And I remember they were in my mom's bedroom and sitting on her vanity seat, and my brother Bill goes, listen to this, and he did, I like it, I like it, Jerry and the Pacemakers.

And that, boom, boom, boom, boom, and he had to play it on the guitar in order for my dad to go to Moss Music Center and buy an old K, a new K bass at the time.

And so they came home, and at nighttime,

I would be in that room playing that drum set.

And we were the family who had no money, so we'd take light bulbs out of one room, just put it in another socket in the next room.

And when that didn't work, I just turned all the amplifiers on, because we had some Fender amps, dual Shulmans and stuff.

some silver tones, and the lights on that, your eyes would adjust so I could play drums in the room there.

And parents never said, don't make that noise.

Amazing.

Yeah.

So that was in my bedroom, and I started playing drums.

And then once they got the bass guitar, by default, I became the drummer.

Now, I remember not having great time in the beginning and having people, like, keep their hand moving while I was playing stuff.

But within six months, we were playing four sets a night at the local wine bar.

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