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After two hapless, hitless years, the Cowsill brothers are getting it together again, this time without mommy Barbara and kid sis Susan, elder brother Bill Cowsill told Mike Sherman, pointedly avoiding discussing details of the family hassles which created the tensions and begat the changes.
For six months Bill, Barry, Bob and John played local gigs to work the kinks out of a brand new original act. When those last few Cowsill albums stiffed, booking agents were saying the group was washed out and dried up, Bill confessed. The boys were also borded doing the same thing for so many years while watching the newcomer Osmond and Jackson family clans pass them by.
Bob Cowsill put it this way: "We'll retain a few of the familiar Cowsill hitsongs for nostalgia's sake but we'll switch the type of material we perform with fresh styling and a distinctly different style. It'll be a new venture rather than a 'comeback' on the same level as two years ago."
As it listed recently at the Pasadena Ice House, the first half of the new act accents acoustic geetars, pure country lyrics and easy listening melodies. After intermission, however, the four guys really rock out with electronic instruments, hopped-up speakers, omni-directional mikes, wah-wah pedals and that ain't all.
A while ago loyal Cowsill lovers flayed my tender flesh with verbal lashes for suggesting the same things Bill and Bob are now telling the world. It goes to show that I'm at least 50 percent infallible.
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