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: I am a lover of all things nature and animal kingdom. If I had my druthers, I would live in a tree house and never drive a car (in Los Angeles) or go to a large outlet store, or be anywhere where I would have to deal with our current over-populated too-big-for-our-planet’s-britches world! Don’t get me wrong, I love this place; I just can hardly find it anymore! Which rather indirectly brings be to my topic, me and horses. I recently was treated to a weekend of horseback camping trip. A dream I’ve had since I was thrown off the back of a Shetland pony at my childhood home at the tender age of five has been to own my very own horse. The camping trip is as close as I’ve gotten thus far! I have had many pets—I have bonded with many four-legged creatures, but nothing compares to the physical connection I have experienced while riding “with” a horse. I have lived a very chaotic life. I am a slightly high-strung creature myself. So to find the sense of peace, ease and calm confidence I am constantly reaching, searching and praying for in my daily life while on top of this giant, dangerously graceful beast is … poetic … justice? I’m probably not using that phrase as it is intended, but I don’t mind. The horses don’t mind. And Twilley don’t mind. (Couldn’t resist!)
Video after the jump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYX_ufkoDBo
