Vicki Peterson (lead guitarist of the Bangles) and Susan Cowsill (with her family’s band the Cowsills since the age of eight) are currently tilling the fields as the Psycho Sisters, and it’s given them rare perspective on making music that many lesser talents would lack. Their debut album, Up On The Chair, Beatrice is out now via the RockBeat label. Peterson and Cowsill will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with them.
Cowsill: It’s mid-summer, traveling down the road via a 15-passenger van with Neil Young’s “Unknown Legend” serenading the weary travelers, when all at once it is upon us!!! A Christmas tree farm! We must be in the Carolinas as that is where I believe, most of them are born, yes, you heard me … born! I find myself immediately moved to tears while surveying the baby Christmas trees. I imagine them all grown up and ready, willing and excited to be chopped down and taken to the lot where some loving family will take them home and spend heavenly hours caring for, decorating and completely appreciating their presence, their very essence in there home.
They will stand peacefully, majestically and honorably in the glow of the lights that were so carefully placed on them by the one in the family who knows best. They will hear the laughter of the children, feel their joy and share in their wonder as they place invaluable handed down ornaments on their limbs. And most precious of all, they will witness the magic of this season that gently covers this mostly troubled world in a veil of mystery, loving spirit and beauty that only the innocent can see and feel all year long. I am jealous of this privilege! I would be honored to be a Christmas tree!
As the tree farm fades along with my daydream, I am brought back into my body and the real world to the echoed chanting voices of “War Of Man,” and I’m thinking, maybe I’ll put in a request for the next time around. I think I’d look great in Noble Fur!
Video after the jump.
