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Cow Pie is reportedly coming out of retirement. For the third time, leaders and original members Anthony J. Zeccorifilius and Peter Clinahardoo will be featured. If you live near your state's fairgrounds in the mideast and mid-Atlantic states, you're in luck. You won't have far to go to see Cow Pie again. Mushroomheads car pools are being planned, in addition. Click here for details.

The blogging page is no longer active. After repeated attempts to remove the rude "Cow Pie sucks" blogging attacks from the site, the web host decided it was best to simply remove the pages altogether to prevent further trouble. Mushroomheads have been e-mailing each other, and you can still sign up for the Mushroomhead newsletter, an e-mail alert on Cow Pie events and rumors and news.

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To Blame? (Oct. 8, 2001) -- Cow Pie's "Watch Your Step" tour stopped in Kabul in 1995, and in some circles the band has been credited with Osama bin Laden's deep hate for Americans. Cow Pie refused to let bin Laden jam with the band in their appearance that year, and the report was it embarrassed the terrorist leader in front of his 12 wives who were present.

Then-member of Cow Pie, Jim Shortz, is credited with rejecting the terrorist leader. Said he, at the time: "If we were ZZTop, maybe he'd fit in, with the beard and all. But, man, we're not gonna jam with a bearded camel jockey, no matter how he gets on with the chicks. Did you know they don't have beer in this country?"

The U.S. Department of Defense would not comment on the matter. However, a U.S. Dept. of Commerce spokesperson confirmed that beer is almost impossible to find in Kabul, Afganistan.

Dissent of Shortz's decision forged a division in the group, and two months later, Shortz left and took his gear with him. In addition, he took every instrument cable and mic cable the band had at that time. Until a used PA system and several new cables were purchased by the remaining members, Cow Pie took a six-month hiatus.

Foot is now in Cow Pie (April 13, 2002) -- In a surprising move, Cow Pie was joined by Rick "Slick" Foot, who once toured western Tennessee with Bill Jones and the Jones-ing Band. (BJ and the Jones-ing played all over Memphis and other cities in 2001.)

This news came out of an accidental encounter with Anthony Zeccorfilius at a Kroger outside of Nashville, by Mushroomhead Moe Beetle. "After initially denying he was who he was to me, Tony, as his friends call him," said Beetle, "admitted that Foot was in Cow Pie."

Foot plays both the bass and rhythm guitar, and will most likely serve dual roles in Cow Pie, which, even though it is a required instrument for most of their songs, has not had a steady bassist since 1999. "This changes everything," said relieved Mushroomhead Jerry Rigg, a convenience store night clerk in Rockwood, Tenn. "Finally, they'll have a bass player again. The synthesizer bass programming thing they did the last few years just didn't work for me, dude."

Zeccorfilius, when reached, responded first to Beetle's comment: "Nobody -- and I mean nobody -- calls me Tony. The name's Anthony." He added, "Beetle might be a fan of Cow Pie, but he doesn't know sh_t." As for Foot joining the band, the drummer said that "Slick" will not be solely in Cow Pie. "We don't plan to have Foot stuck in Cow Pie. He has other interests, and we welcome that. If Foot wants to get into things other than Cow Pie, that's won't cause a stink with us."

Web site to go low key (Dec. 20, 2003) -- Mushroomheads everywhere have received notice that the official website, mushroomheads.net, will no longer be as active in presenting the latest news. Webmaster Will "Wizzy" Wigg has been told by his landlady, who is also his mother, that he must now work full-time in his position as a clerk at the Dollar General in Ridgetop, Tenn. At 24, Wigg said, his mother finally put her foot down and is requiring rent from him. I wish I could continue with my efforts in getting and reporting grass roots news about the band that coined the phrase 'progressive country funk,' but at some point a guy's got to accept that he has to work full-time if he's able."

The main impact of this is that the official Cow Pie website will become the prime source for Cow Pie news. For information on how this will affect distribution of Hot Streaks, the official fan club newsletter, please visit www.cowpie.com.

Web page last updated: December 24, 2002.