I think that the cat is truly out of the bag now and that everyone knows the name of the famous band that Damian Cowell used to be in.

His latest endeavour is annoying audiences with his raggle taggle combo Damian Cowell's Disco Machine but of course Damian's first stab at fame and notoriety was, according to Wikipedia, as the singer of TISM. 

Naturally I don't believe a word I read on Wikipedia, and on a youtube channel I found on the internet : Damian was actually back-up tambourine player with the Uncanny X-men.

For several years they played every toilet and dive up and down the East Coast while Damian would try to persuade Brian to record the avant guard material he was writing while on the road.

Little Brian was having none of it though and continually reminded Damian that his songs wouldn't get the girls and they sounded suspiciously like old jazz music.

Eventually there was a massive fight on stage at the Toowoomba RSL and Damian threw his electric tambourine at Brian's head ,  stormed off the stage and caught the train back to Melbourne.Once there he bought a one way ticket to San Francisco to find himself.He was looking in a supermarket at the frozen peas refrigeration unit and found himself in conversation with a roadie who worked for Frank Zappa who invited him to a 'happening' at the Zappa mansion high in the Hollywood hills meeting many leading musicians, film stars and assorted freaks and innovators including Brian Wilson, Dennis Hopper and Charles Manson.

One event at that notorious party that forever changed Damian's view of reality was participating in a peyote shamanistic sex ritual with Timothy Leary, Mia Farrrow, Anita Pallenberg and the High priest of the Church of Satan Anton Lavey.

Soon after this event Damian moved into Anton Lavey's headquarters the Black House, where he received personal instruction in the satanic arts from the black pope himself and was ordained as a high priest. In the ensuing years the mystery root man was always in the right place at the wrong time. Scoring walk on parts on all the best films, playing the redneck who shot Peter Fonda at the end of Easy Rider, the official dealer backstage at Woodstock who sold the legendary brown acid, a former member of the notorious cult group The Fuck Fucks, and the man who found the marijuana for Paul McCartney before getting busted going through Japanese customs.

The story ended on a happy note as he got thrown out of the U.S. for overstaying his visa and was asked by Mushroom boss Michael Gudinski to put together a prog rock psychedelic group called Damian Cowell's Disco Machine.I think that version of the truth is much more interesting than "I was the guy in TISM."

Anyway, you can make up your own minds, the latest toe tapping hit album introduced by the man himself on And This One's Introduced By... with Dr Gonzo on 3CR's Planet X.

Lots of Damian Cowell shit HERE