John Cowsill

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

So I'm sitting on a box of Cuddy Sark while we're building a set list.

Yeah.

But, man, those were the best times for me.

And this is mostly covers or any originals?

All covers.

Yeah.

All covers.

We played every Stones, every Beach Boy, every Motown, every new Beatles song that came out.

I remember, you know, I had calfskin heads, so living in Rhode Island, my memory just goes right to I'd have to get down there early on my bicycle and get the heads off and heat them up with my mom's hair dryer so they wouldn't get shrunk again.

Well, because calfskins just, when there's humidity, they just turn to mush.

I didn't know that.

Yeah.

I didn't know about plastic heads.

I'm sure they made them, but we didn't know about them yet.

But that's how it started.

And then somebody from the Today Show, because Newport, Rhode Island is very... In the summertime, all the rich people come there.

We lived in the Fifth Ward.

We weren't rich.

And they said, would you like to be on television?

They were, like, stunned that we were doing this music and so well.

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