Blue Oyster Cult: Classic or Dud?

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Former rock critics wrote lyrics with them (Richard Meltzer, Patti Smith, Sandy Pearlman).

I always thought BOC was a much better band on record than on stage.

Live, the band always just sounded like another 70s rock boogie band. But the recording studio always seemed to be the place where they shined most (Agents of Fortune, Spectres, Mirrors).

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― rockcrit88, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Love BOC about as much as I hate 'em. Horribly uneven band. Some great, great songs, but even their best albums are patchy. Never saw 'em live, and the live recordings I've heard haven't convinced me I missed much.

I'll say classic just out of fascination with perversity. But it seems like futile gesture.

― Pye Poudre, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

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― NYCNative, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Secret Treaties is very classic.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

classic. one of my fave bands. buy all of these:

Blue Öyster Cult
Tyranny and Mutation
Secret Treaties
Agents of Fortune
Spectres
Mirrors
Cultösaurus Erectus
Fire of Unknown Origin
The Revölution by Night

and *on your feet or on your knees* too.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Should've been classic, given their obvious intelligence, humor (some of their song titles are laugh-out-loud funny), and taste in collaborators. But aside from a handful of classic tunes, I haven't found much there after years of trying to like them. I think they sold 999 records to bongloading teens for every one they sold to someone who "got" them.

Although, Buck Dharma (nee Donald Roeser) has to be one of the top 10 rock pseudonyms of all time.

― The Deacon, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Scott and Trip Maker OTM, everyone else not. If you have to spend time worrying about whether or not people liked them for the right reasons, you need another hobby yo. Plus: bongloading teens are people too!

― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Their records sound good and sometimes give me gigglefits.

good enough for me.

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

bombers at 12 o'clock high!

BOC was awesome...never really a heavy-metal band, they were more rooted in boogie ("Red And Black", "Dominance & Submission", "I'm On The Lamb But I Ain't No Sheep") and pop ("Celestial The Queen", "Goin' Through The Motions")...excellent ballads, too ("I Love The Night", "Debby Denise", "In Thee")...I could go on and on...Eric Bloom's vocals were always a bit overwrought, but during the span cited by scott above, they could do little wrong...

― henry s, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Stalk-Forrest Group album is my favorite. OK, I've said it before!

U know it bears repeating!

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Classic. A solid hard-rock band and the first meta-metal band, and almost unfailingly funny. Sort of the Dictators of arena rock.

― fife, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

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― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

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― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.everythingsg.com/celebs/BOC-tour1.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.everythingsg.com/celebs/dharma1.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone know if any of the recordings of them with Les Braunstein on vocals (Soft White Underbelly sessions - 1st attempt at LP for Elektra) have ever surfaced?

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Steve Holtje got into an argument on someone's Blog recently in response to an article about Hipster Metal that went something like this:

Blogger: Hipster Metal is ironic and real metal was never ironic.
Steve: BOC was metal and ironic!
Blogger: They were not metal but I'll give you ironic.

I was with Steve on this one. Sure BOC had some non-metal moments but at the time they were deemed metal and how can you not call a band metal when they definied it in their prime?

― NYCNative, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone at the time would have called BOC metal, same as early Led Zeppelin. In the 80s metal became a social category whose gatekeepers had to weed out the non-purists. Retroactively a lot of 70s bands didn't seem to make the cut.

― fife, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Search these for sure :

Stalk-Forrest Group album
Blue Oyster Cult
Tyranny & Mutation
Secret Treaties
Agents of Fortune (side 1)

and about a couple of albums worth of odd tracks from the rest. Imaginos was way underwhelming when it finally came out, too much fucking Aldo Nova. I didn't see them till the 1980's by which time it was merely fair-to-middling.

Any love for Club Ninja?

― Matt #2, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think BOC saw themselves as heavy metal in the Burroughsian sense rather than the arena rock sense. Sandy Pearlman did anyway.

― Matt #2, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever that means.

― Matt #2, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

OK - for me that involved a narrowing of the aesthetic. Meltzer has said likewise, I think, or something related. That is why Stalk-Forrest Group album feels fresh to me while the later albums, much as I might like things on 'em, feel boxed in.

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

And even Stalk-Forrest Group album has too much west coast stonerism going on, really.

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

You can have too much?

― Matt #2, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

SO classic. The American Black Sabbath couldn't match Sabbath's metal purity and conviction, but they made up for it in variety, singing, lyrics (thanks to those collaborators), melody, humour, arcane mysterioso dread, all that. And unlike Sabbath, they eventually succumbed to clueless AOR crap ("Burnin' For You" was superior AOR crap), but at least they had 10 good years.

(Sorry if I'm just repeating stuff already said on this thread - can't read it thoroughly while the teacher's looking)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I saw BOC live last year, doing the state fair rounds. they know what they are, a jukebox fulla great tunes, and they delivered. they even did "shooting shark" and "veteran of the psychic wars".

when they launched into "godzilla" crowd members young and old became a sea of stomping, bobbing heads. I don't care what year yr in, that's heavy and it's metal.

a buddy of mine's been working on an article on them. he's a freelancer but he doesn't usually do music stuff so he's not even sure where to shop it. he just likes the band and it was an excuse to interview Eric Bloom. anybody got any tips?

― Edward III, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm looking at about three shows this year -- Rochester, Naperville, and there was one other one I was eyeing, i'd have to check their website.

anyway, obviously totally classic, and still a good live show.

Surely there are about 10 BOC threads already?

― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

that's what i thought, but there isn't an actual C&D/S&D thread.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

though there are other threads.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think the game plan was to send up genre conventions (solos, occultism, arena banter) and make a quick buck off of them. Within those limitations they were good.

― fife, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Classic! I've been listening to Agents of Fortunes, Spectres, and Cultosaurus Erectus on a fairly heavy rotation the last couple weeks. And I have a little bit of love for Club Ninja. "Perfect Water" and "Dancing in the Ruins" are both great. I wrote a little thing about why I like them on my music blog:

Why the fascination with azure mollusk fanatics? Well, they were one of the first bands that I sort of stumbled upon following the inevitable "wait, Dave Matthews Band and Hootie & The Blowfish sort of suck, I wonder what else is out there" revelation. I mean, besides the obvious stuff like Black Sabbath and Guns and Roses. This was a band that I found myself! Well, I probably found it through hearing the song "Godzilla" in a great music video on the late, lamented TNT show Monster Vision, but you get the idea. That lead me to believe that they were a joke band, but I purchased the excellent two-disc anthology Workshop of the Telescopes on a whim, and loved it. Hell, by this point I've worn out the second disc, the one with all their poppy stuff on it. Basically, what I love about Blue Oyster Cult is that they were probably the smartest 70s hard rock/proto-metal band. Alice Cooper was clever, sure, Black Sabbath were scary, Deep Purple more overdriven, KISS bigger dumber fun, Led Zeppelin just more, but BOC were the most articulate and intelligent lyricists. Plus, they had great tunes and hooks, definitely a bonus. It probably helped that they had music critics and brilliant sci-fi/fantasy author Michael Moorcock writing for them. Unfortunately, they were probably too smart for their own good, to the point of obtuseness. They should have put on makeup and sung about girls instead. Probably would've been much bigger.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

I have been reading Martin Popoff's BOC book in the bathroom lately. You can tell he's a fan. It's mostly quotes from the band and other hanger-ons and it does a nice job of discussing the good, bad and ugly periods for the band.

Oh, my favorite BOC song is probably not the favorite of many: "Take Me Away."

― NYCNative, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

You can have too much?

-- Matt #2, Tuesday, April 3, 2007 11:07 AM (41 minutes ago)

I'm certainly more likely to listen to "Arthur Comics" than to "A Fact About Sneakers."

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Arthur Comics" is kind of real early American proto-punk, isn't it? Like Hackamore Brick and stuff.

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

"Does anyone know if any of the recordings of them with Les Braunstein on vocals (Soft White Underbelly sessions - 1st attempt at LP for Elektra) have ever surfaced?"

Being the pathetic BOC fan I am, I searched thoroughly for them but I never found anything.

― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

"Arthur Comics" is kind of real early American proto-punk, isn't it? Like Hackamore Brick and stuff"

Obviously yes - all these bands drew from the same secret source.

― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

If I remember right, he may not have put much of anything down in the studio. I think that's where they got hung up.

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― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Never read the Popoff book but the most exhaustive account of the band's history I've ever seen was the cover story of Goldmine a few years ago .. maybe 1999 or 2000? Anyway, just a massive article, it was like 20 pages before you even got to the switch from Stalk-Forrest to BOC...

― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Seeing Myonga refer to B.O.C. as The American Black Sabbath reminded me of a theory I cooked up a little while back about B.O.C. being The American Hawkwind

Why-

1. Some Sci-Fi mythology (altough certainly less so for BOC)
2. Two biggest hits not sung by lead singer (BOC-"Reaper" & "Burnin'" sung by Roeser. Hawkwind-"Silver Machine" sung by Lemmy & "Quark..." by Bob Calvert) Which leads to...
3. Literary Connections (BOC-Pearlman, Meltzer & Patti Smith. Hawkwind-Michael Moorcock & Bob Calvert)
4. BOOGIE!
5. LASERS!

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

BOC also had Moorcock.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

But there's a serious lead guitar disparity between the two.

― fife, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

they also shared the same listserv email group way back in the day! the BOC/Hawkwind list. Good times. Albert Bouchard and Deb Frost used to post to it once in a very blue moon.

― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

i gotz love for Club Ninja! i bought that cassette when i was a kid. didn't know shit abt BOC, so it was the first one i heard...Dancin' in the Ruins is a great slab of AOR!

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

I think they were the best American band of the 1970s. How about that, fuckers. Better than Utopia, even.

Great tunes, excellent feel, great harmony vocals - occasionally they sound like the heavy metal byrds, & what on earth could possibly be better than that, eh?

Buck Dharma is an awesome, underrated lead guitarist, as well.

I saw them live w/aldo nova supporting - I'm pretty sure it was the tour for "Club Ninja", as it happens. All the reviews in "sounds" etc were like "they're past their prime, yawn, avoid", I was dreading it, a bit but they tore the place up, once they got going they were like this unstoppable machine, they could have gone on all night for me.

One track by them I absolutely love is off "Imaginos" (which is pretty ropey otherwise) - "I am the one you warned me of", what a fucking track! Does anyone else dig that one?

I don't normally go in for rock-list-o-philia, but if I had to name my 5 favourite bands, BOC would make the list, easily.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I named my band's second album "Buck Dharma" in tribute (the resulting confusion on the Amazon page is pure hilarity worthy of The Onion), so you know where I stand.

To answer Matt's question, Club Ninja has it's moments. The production is actually not horrible for a mid-80s album, and "Dancin In The Ruins" is a killer song. I haven't heard it in a long time, but I remember it rather fondly. Then, I was nine when it came out.

All things considered, the Stalk Forrest Group album, after hearing about it for so many years, left me slightly underwhelmed.

― Manalishi, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Somewhere on ILM is a post about one of my favorite concert experiences: fIREHOSE opening up for Blue Oyster Cult at a dead movie theater in Riverside sometime in 1987. Watt babbled about opening up for his heroes and even wore his old Secret Treaties shirt.

BOC hadn't released an album in years (Imaginos doesn't really count), there was maybe 30 people in the audience, the Bouchard brothers were long gone, and the soundsystem was mostly crap so the first third of the show was slogging pretty badly until Eric Bloom went on this five minute berserk rant about frustration, UFOs, being "On Tour Forever," paranoia, shitty gigs, etc. etc. that blew up into an AMAZING version of "Take Me Away" that simultaneously blew out the cobwebs and gave them a full tank of rocket fuel because the rest of the gig was the LA Forum in 1975, even if there weren't any lasers.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

"BOC hadn't released an album in years (Imaginos doesn't really count), there was maybe 30 people in the audience"

30 people to see BOC + fIREHOSE?!
that's crazy.

― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

I heard one of their newer albums from 1999 or so, it was bloody awful. Just sounded like Magnum or something. Here's a band that needs to realise that the wheel has turned, and they could get a whole new younger audience if they went back to basics.

My BOC gameplan :

1. Get the proper line-up back together, burying the hatchet if necessary.
2. Do one of those Don't Look Back-type tours, playing the first 3 albums in their entirety.
3. Record a new album with whoever produces Witchcraft or someone like that, with Sandy Pearlman and / or sci-fi authors writing all the lyrics.
4. Clean up (hopefully).

They could still tour state fairs in the summer too, who'd know? Anyway, none of this'll ever happen more's the pity. I may have to start a tribute band instead.

― Matt #2, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought that Radio Birdman were heavily influenced by Blue Oyster Cult.

― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

5. Bring back the giant paper-mache Godzilla headpiece during the drum solo.

― fife, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

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I have a special place in my heart for that one song where they turned into Martha and the Muffins with better lead guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arc_I54oYrg

― a blunt toothcomb (Matt #2), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 18:18 (three years ago)

Oh man I LOVE that track

― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 19:42 (three years ago)

yes.

at this point, youtube has trained itself to play me live bootlegs from the black and white era after absolutely anything i watch, no matter what it is. i don't know why it's doing that- probably because it's the one thing i won't switch off after 5 seconds- but this is the first time any kind of algorithm has actually felt useful to me.

― "H to the Izzo" means "I love you" (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 24 November 2022 01:32 (three years ago)

ten months pass...

Being chased around!
By the neighbor's cat!
It's so lonely in the state of Maine!

― peace, man, Monday, 9 October 2023 13:55 (two years ago)

dumb clouds

― henry s, Monday, 9 October 2023 14:16 (two years ago)

two months pass...

Stairway to the Stars is such a monster. Just such an evil sounding song.

Top 10 Most Evil BoC songs?

Stairway to the Stars
Don't Fear the Reaper
ETI
???

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 21 December 2023 23:01 (two years ago)

Not supernatural evil per se, but I would put “Then Came The Last Days of May” in such a list.

It is definitely a classic of a drug deal gone bad.

― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Thursday, 21 December 2023 23:28 (two years ago)

Er, I don't think BOC was more ev-yul than on, well, "Career of Evil." They'd like to do it with our daughter on a dirt road? Then keep the ransom money?! But continue to rob us of our sleep?!! And fail to apologize?!!

This will not stand!

― henry s, Thursday, 21 December 2023 23:53 (two years ago)

well, I mean, I'm biased, but "Joan Crawford" has a very evil vibe. "Searchin' for Celine" is kinda ominous. But if yr in the right mood p. much any BoC song is ominous as hell

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 22 December 2023 00:19 (two years ago)

My 12 yr old loves BOC, not as much as he loves Steely Dan but they're the hard rock legends he prefers above all others I've played for him. I think the fact they're both vv smooth and rock the hell out is a rare and potent combo.

― omar little, Friday, 22 December 2023 01:14 (two years ago)

omar raising the next generation right

My evil selections above I think lean into the lurid, seductive chaos type of evil. Like beckoning the listener, making them complicit.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 22 December 2023 01:36 (two years ago)

"Veins" off The Revolution by Night

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 December 2023 02:09 (two years ago)

It's funny how their explicit Nazi song is actually one of their least ominously evil sounding.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 December 2023 02:21 (two years ago)

Transmaniacon MC is pretty menacing.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 December 2023 02:39 (two years ago)

Omar 🫡

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 December 2023 02:52 (two years ago)

They'd like to do it with our daughter on a dirt road? Then keep the ransom money?! But continue to rob us of our sleep?!!

more to the point, they're coming for your blue-eyed horseshoe

― Deflatormouse, Friday, 22 December 2023 03:05 (two years ago)

I Love the Night sucks you into the vampire lifestyle with gorgeous soft-rock harmonies and Buck's mellifluous guitar tones, and then "the lovely lady in white was by my side" and it's all over.

Dominance and Submission is just plain fucking contaminated by evil.

― you have already voted in this dolt and cannot vote again (Matt #2), Friday, 22 December 2023 04:08 (two years ago)

Career of Evil, definitely.

Transmaniacon MC is about the tension at Altamont, really sinister vibe.

Mistress of the Salmon Salt is crazy, a woman serial killer lures men, kills them, and uses them as fertilizer.

― A. Begrand, Friday, 22 December 2023 04:37 (two years ago)

three months pass...

Killer 1979 club set from when BOC were touring semi-incognito under their old "Soft White Underbelly" name
https://ijwthstd.blogspot.com/2024/03/blue-oyster-cult-san-francisco-ca-1979.html

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 24 March 2024 03:55 (two years ago)

Stairway to the Stars is such a monster. Just such an evil sounding song.

Never heard these guys before but oh man, this is brilliant. I came late to the Rolling Stones and never fully got into even the classic LPs, probably because, from all I'd read and heard about them, I was expecting the Stones to sound like THIS.

― TheNuNuNu, Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:52 (two years ago)

Xpost
I was listening to that show a couple of weeks ago downloaded from a different source - was really liking its “Astronomy” when there was a big cut in the middle. Does this source have that?

― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:33 (two years ago)

eight months pass...

TIL There was an official concert film of 1980 BÖC/Black Sabbath tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4WGR3kEe4Y

― Okay, heteros are cutting edge this year, too. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 December 2024 05:45 (one year ago)

Oh man. When I was a kid I remember seeing that as a midnight screening at my local movie theater (for, like, one weekend probably). I've always wanted to see it, though a bit nervous that Sabbath would be much more impressive than BOC.

― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Saturday, 21 December 2024 18:50 (one year ago)

lol @ the anti-Ayatollah Khomeni "Divine Wind" performance complete with mask & wig

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 21 December 2024 20:57 (one year ago)

^ that and the Godzilla head prop. BOC sure used to pile on the cheese in those days.

― henry s, Sunday, 22 December 2024 14:44 (one year ago)

LARB article on the origins of the phrase “career of evil,” with stops at Patti Smith and the Blue Öyster Cult.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/careers-evil-migration-three-word-phrase-lautreamont-j-k-rowling-stops-patti-smith-blue-oyster-cult/

― atonar, Friday, 27 December 2024 00:13 (one year ago)

Proud to say I saw them in the Godzilla head days (my first concert, in fact).

― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Saturday, 28 December 2024 18:27 (one year ago)

six months pass...

Saw them tonight. They were great.

Will preface, I'm a casual fan, I know most of the first five albums and not much else.

Eric's voice is pretty diminished by now but he works with it the best he can and made it work. Buck sounded good still and he played his ass off all night.

Great setlist. Also it was at Sea World and the crowd was expecting a 45 minute hits and leftovers show and were not expecting a 90 minute eclectic set.

One lady, before the encode, actually said "what are they even gonna play, they played their three songs"

― steal the classy spy's gun (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 July 2025 03:17 (eight months ago)

lol. I'd love to see them. They played regularly in Annapolis before the pandemic, which was a time in my life when I couldn't really afford concerts. Now that I'm slightly more able to, I would welcome them back.

― peace, man, Monday, 21 July 2025 11:32 (eight months ago)

One lady, before the encore, actually said "what are they even gonna play, they played their three songs"

Reaper, Burnin' For You...She's As Beautiful As A Foot?

― a product of the times, those times being the end times (Matt #2), Monday, 21 July 2025 12:34 (eight months ago)

Godzilla, I imagine

― Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Monday, 21 July 2025 12:38 (eight months ago)

I heard Cities on Flame With Rock 'n' Roll in Royal Farms last month, which would indicate some level of rising popularity. However, checking setlist.fm, that one tends to be in the encore slot.

― peace, man, Monday, 21 July 2025 12:42 (eight months ago)

Do they still do that thing where they all come out and play guitar? I recall that always happened during their cover of "Born To Be Wild."

― henry s, Monday, 21 July 2025 12:57 (eight months ago)

yeah they did that at the end

didn't realize Eric is 80 years old now! I think that is the oldest rock musician I've seen perform live now

― steal the classy spy's gun (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 July 2025 14:13 (eight months ago)

That's wild! I saw Ian Hunter when he was 73 and was duly impressed, and he didn't EVEN have to play stun guitar.

― henry s, Monday, 21 July 2025 15:20 (eight months ago)

The standard set almost always includes
—everyone on guitar at some point
—extended solos on last days of may (flashy Richie first, who is then schooled/domed by buck)
—either harvest moon or shooting shark but never both
—‘what’s that sound’ schtick from Eric into Godzilla

― duolingo ate my baby (Jon not Jon), Monday, 21 July 2025 17:30 (eight months ago)

lol all four correct. Last Days of May solo trade-off was dope

― steal the classy spy's gun (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 July 2025 17:32 (eight months ago)

Dare I ask if the Godzilla head is still featured?

― henry s, Monday, 21 July 2025 17:36 (eight months ago)

It is not

― duolingo ate my baby (Jon not Jon), Monday, 21 July 2025 17:51 (eight months ago)

Neando did they do black blade with the frantic synth at the end

― duolingo ate my baby (Jon not Jon), Monday, 21 July 2025 17:52 (eight months ago)

I am sad that I haven’t seen them since before TSR came out bc I would LOVE to see The Alchemist live

― duolingo ate my baby (Jon not Jon), Monday, 21 July 2025 17:53 (eight months ago)

Saw them last night at Canterbuy Park, a horse track, in MN, it was great. Start was a little shaky but after a couple of songs they seemed to find their footing.

We got "Black Blade", "Harvester of Eyes" and "Cities on Flame with Rock n Roll" as the encores

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 1 August 2025 12:48 (eight months ago)

They are coming here in a few weeks, but prices are pretty high. I might wait a bit to see if they come down at all because it's still more than half unsold.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 August 2025 14:51 (eight months ago)

There were err...plenty of good seats still available at showtime last night

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 1 August 2025 15:02 (eight months ago)

six months pass...

my 22 y/o informed music nerd kid went to see BÖC at thee Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. famous for inspiring The Shining I guess. his clips of show sound and look good enuf

― madame defarge supporters club (Hunt3r), Sunday, 8 February 2026 17:57 (two months ago)

Oh man that rules that they played there

― duolingo ate my baby (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 11 February 2026 01:16 (two months ago)

one month passes...

So when each of our kids have turned five we give the option of getting to learn any instrument they want, no questions asked. Our second child decided harp, which we still have no idea where that instrument came into her mind.

Our youngest just turned five and she said she wanted to learn how to play the drums. So she goes over once a week now to her drum teacher’s house for lessons.

Her teacher is the BOC drummer. Her first set of drumsticks she’ll ever have owned will have a Blue Oyster Cult logo printed on them.

― My homies buttthole surfers' record sounds like a f (Western® with Bacon Flavor), Friday, 10 April 2026 23:37 (four days ago)

Seriously, A+ parenting.

― jmm, Saturday, 11 April 2026 00:44 (three days ago)

amazing ❤️

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 11 April 2026 01:53 (three days ago)

Don't fear the (drum) teacher

― Galactic Poetaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 April 2026 12:07 (three days ago)

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