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There's never really a way to know whether a Saturday Night Live sketch will become an instant classic or quickly fade from memory. As Will Ferrell taught audiences on April 8, 2000, however, you can tilt the odds pretty drastically in your favor if you fall back on a Blue Öyster Cult hit, some banging cowbell and a fittingly bizarre Christopher Walken performance. That's what drove the now-legendary "More Cowbell" segment. In the re-imagined recording session that produced the radio classic "(Don't Fear) The Reaper," sideman Gene Frenkle (Ferrell) is aggressively encouraged by cowbell-craving producer Bruce Dickinson (Walken). None of...
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