{"id":18416,"date":"2026-02-10T11:56:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=18416"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:56:34","slug":"bobby-jensen-and-the-dead-cowboys-release-the-animated-music-video-for-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=18416","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Jensen and The Dead Cowboys Release the Animated Music Video for The Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Dead Cowboys want to let everyone know that because of confusion over the band name they are now known as Bobby Jensen and The Dead Cowboys. To celebrate the slight name change Bobby is releasing The Lake the first in a series of four music videos taken from the debut album.\u00a0The video was done by Andy Pilkington who did the Judas Priest Painkiller video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bobby Jensen shares his reasoning for the name change, \u201cThe name change came about because over the course of the 20 years since I trademarked the name, Dead Cowboys, other groups around the country had started to use the name so there was confusion with talent, buyers, and fans when they would Google the name and be brought to somebody else\u2019s page. I could have chased them all down and given them cease and desist orders but I kind of had a moment of clarity and felt like the name and the idea and concept had run its course and honestly wasn\u2019t working out to be what I intended it to be again.

It was a great thing that we did as a band years ago, but even when recreating it, it wasn\u2019t the same. More importantly, my own name had grown to be much bigger with tens of thousands of followers already following me as Bobby Jensen, especially since the world knows me from the viral hair fire video as Paul Stanley of KISS so I decided to use my own name and title the album \u201cDead Cowboys\u201d. Now the legend can live on in the songs and I can create the stories with a lot more freedom and not get the band stereotyped into one thing.\u201d

Talking about the new music video, Bobby adds, \u201cThe Lake came about when my friend Mike stopped over and was running some ideas of his own that he had come up with and I honestly don\u2019t remember anything about what he came up with except for the first line of the song was \u201cHe sees dead cowboys wait in the night looking to rob a train\u201d, and \u201cboom goes to the dynamite\u201d. Those two things stuck in my head for a while, and I thought it would be cool to have a song about a train robbery so while noodling on my guitar, I came up with the music and the lyrics. Not really knowing what to call the song. I decided to call it \u201cThe Lake\u201d since that\u2019s where everybody dies.

The video was done by Andy Pilkington who did the Judas Priest Painkiller video. He has worked with Saxon, Dee Snider, Motorhead and more. He did the first two videos for \u201cbad friends and good times\u201c and \u201csuper country cowboy\u201d. While we were discussing other songs and ideas, I mentioned to him that some of these stories could actually fit together as continuations of the video so he really liked the idea and we took four songs to become the saga of the demon desperado. It will be a four part video that may be a continuation with other songs in the future. That\u2019s where the freedom of the creativity to write songs about the demon desperado and the dead cowboys I had mentioned earlier. Maybe someone would make them into movies someday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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