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Cowsills Tell All About Barry
April 1968
Outasite Magazine

Cowsills

SUSIE SNITCHED FIRST
Barry's really nice - REALLY nice. He plays with my toys with me that I got for Christmas. I got this knit-o-matic thing, you know, knit a row a second, and I didn't know how to put it together. Barry got it together in one minute. He wants to be a scientist. And he got a chemistry kit for Christmas, and a rocket to launch, and he wanted to launch it, but the floor would get all blown up!

THEN IT WAS BOB'S TURN
Barry ... Barry's a clown! And he's a genius, too! He knows what he wants, and he'll tell what's on his mind. He doesn't care whether it's good or bad, that's your tough luck. He doesn't have any outstanding liabilities or short comings, although he's a trouble maker. Just like John! Barry got a chemistry set and wants to blow up the house!

JOHN GOT HIS 2 CENTS IN!
No, he wants to launch a rocket in the house, but he can't because it might start a fire. He can't do it in our backyard here in the city, because it's little, and the other tenants will get mad.

Barry is also the most studious - along with Bob. They're interested in the A-student thing. Barry's always got a sick look on his face. He's so sick! Like he doesn't pay attention to what he's doing most of the time - he looks like he hasn't gotten to sleep for a week, and people say, "Oh, the poor dear! He's been worked too hard!" Barry is also the laziest one of us! And if he's ever late, all of us are late, cos we have to wait for him. Togetherness! Brotherhood! Yichhh!

"WE'RE BOTH CRAZY!" SAID BILL
Barry is not planning on blowing up the house - maybe a milk carton or something! It could progress if he brought that off! He does fantastic things - like he builds time machines out of vacuum cleaners and record players, you know, crazy things like that!

Barry is one of my favorite performers - he's a showman all the way! His musicianship is unbelievable - he plays drums, bass. He can master anything at 13 years old, and that's quite a bit to say. All sorts of musicians in the industry say he's "unreal" - he almost put them down because he's that good! He plays the cello now, did you know? He picked it up in TWO WEEKS. If you saw him you'd go crazy - he just sits there, humming. He really goes crazy over strings and stuff like that!

I think Barry's my favorite as far as personality and talent go. We get along marvelously together, because we're so much alike - we're both crazy, you know!




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