summer_sky Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 (edited) Edited March 4, 2011 by summer_sky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RUSHHEAD666 Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 QUOTE (*Limelight* @ Mar 4 2011, 03:36 AM) I really liked Mirrors actually but that's just me. You are not alone. I love "Mirrors" too! "The Vigil!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Cat 3 Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 I saw Blue Oyster Cult on the Spectres tour in Syracuse...truly amazing. I've been a fan ever since. http://www.blueoystercult.com/CC/collectibles/tees/06.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 QUOTE (ReGorLaTroy @ Mar 18 2011, 07:43 PM) I saw Blue Oyster Cult on the Spectres tour in Syracuse...truly amazing. I've been a fan ever since. http://www.blueoystercult.com/CC/collectibles/tees/06.jpg You are very lucky!! Personally I'm totally bummed!! BOC is playing at a nearby fair this summer. Two shows!! The only bad thing is that RUSH is playing in Concord on the same damn night!! If the first BOC show is early I might hit it and then jam back to Concord for Rush! It would be like seeing BOC open for RUSH! SWEET! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 It was amazing, they had this unbelievable lazer light show and this giant Godzilla that took up the whole stage. I was 15 years old and just blew me away. Of course, from that day throughout High School, "Golden Age of Leather" was a staple at every party. :0 Can't believe that was 1978...man, time flies when you're having fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 QUOTE (ReGorLaTroy @ Mar 18 2011, 07:51 PM) It was amazing, they had this unbelievable lazer light show and this giant Godzilla that took up the whole stage. I was 15 years old and just blew me away. Of course, from that day throughout High School, "Golden Age of Leather" was a staple at every party. :0 Can't believe that was 1978...man, time flies when you're having fun! That's awesome! I remember seeing some footage of that big Godzilla on TV decades ago. You saw them in their prime! Buck and Eric still look great these days and their new band is just fine. I was lucky enough to see them last year with the great Rudy Sarzo on bass. They were kick ass and they played three songs off of "Mirrors" that night. I was quite satisfied. They even did a tribute to Rudy's career by playing a bit of "Metal Health" "Here I Go Again" and "Crazy Train!" This band rules! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The K Man Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 (edited) Definitely love me some BOC. Easily a top 15 all-time band for me. Heaven Forbid is definitely a killer record. Aside from the four tunes ColdFireYYZ listed, I also think "Real World" and "Cold Gray Light of Dawn" are great ones. Edited March 19, 2011 by The K Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzy85 Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 QUOTE (*Limelight* @ Mar 4 2011, 03:36 AM) I really liked Mirrors actually but that's just me. I dunno, man. I've really been getting some mileage out of my copy of Mirrors lately. Funny, it was rated pretty badly when it came out. Probably too smooth for those who liked their early albums. I think its smooth and sinister, like a black Cadillac from that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 QUOTE (ReGorLaTroy @ Mar 18 2011, 09:43 PM)I saw Blue Oyster Cult on the Spectres tour in Syracuse...truly amazing. I've been a fan ever since. http://www.blueoystercult.com/CC/collectibles/tees/06.jpg I also saw B.O.C on the Spectres tour......in San Diego....they played with Pat Travers, UFO and Cheap Trick at a Summer Festival at Jack Murphy Stadium. I really love Mirrors...I also have Some Enchanted Evening and Agents of Fortune.... I recently acquired the Spectres album on vinyl, in very good+ condition. R.U. Ready 2 Rock!!!!!!! http://a4.l3-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/135/672d32451603457383104172869b3521/m.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzy85 Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 QUOTE (Silas Lang @ Mar 2 2011, 09:02 PM) "The heat from below can burn your eyes out!" My kinda band. Rock on, boys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron2112 Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 QUOTE (softfilter @ Jul 31 2006, 11:48 PM) The last BOC I bought was Fire of Unknown Origin. Really Good! A few years later they played club in hometown (Canton) Club Ninja I believe was the album they were supporting. They were really bad! Forgot words to Reaper half way through song had to start over again! Embrassing not only for that but the fact a few short years earlier saw them play Richfield Coliseum in front of 17,000 then playing in front of a few hundred at a 3rd tier market. One of my favorite live albums is On your feet Or on your knees. Why embarassing? Most bands are in that position these days. I respect the fact that the core of BOC remains intact, and they continue to soldier on, working harder than most bands out there. Peace, Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silas Lang Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 (edited) QUOTE (ozzy85 @ Mar 20 2011, 11:03 PM)QUOTE (*Limelight* @ Mar 4 2011, 03:36 AM) I really liked Mirrors actually but that's just me. I dunno, man. I've really been getting some mileage out of my copy of Mirrors lately. Funny, it was rated pretty badly when it came out. Probably too smooth for those who liked their early albums. I think its smooth and sinister, like a black Cadillac from that year. http://www.chartstats.com/images/artwork/26917.jpg Review in Creem magazine (Oct. 79) by J.M. Bridgewater A quarterway through "The Vigil" after giving its pussier-than-thou acoustical intro the benefit of the doubt, The Bridgewater realizes with a disbelieving shudder that a heavily muddled melodic variation of ("Oh my Holy Nights!") the Eagles' "Witchy Woman" is being worked. Strong of stomach, he endures not only this, but also the "Runabout"-ish banality some several bars later. The idiot monk prayer-chant to the Silver Surfer that follows, however proves to be too much. Not yet smelling the trap, he curses, hurls his cigarette lighter at the stereo, and begins to thumb through his memory log. B, hummm, BF, eh, here we go, BL: Blimp Sisters (see Whale Bait), Bloody Noses-ah-Blue Oyster Cult. With a cross-reference to a Thin Phil. Thin Phil was a bluebelly stick of a Ft. Hood army boy who kept a house in Waco as a sanctuary from khaki drab regiment. It was a place to get his PFC stripe ripped to the max, a spot where his friends could gather for some serious jammin'. I recall one weekend evening: a typical one starting with a few of us faithfuls huddled over a burner on the kitchen stove, putting heat to some vile, oily lookin' goop that was smoked from a glass pipe. After everyone passed the diligent scrutiny of our good host ("You f*cked up, man? I mean really f*cked up?") we adjourned to the purple candle dimness of the living room, where the beanpole soldier gleefully rubbed his hands together: "Now's for some BEE OH SEE!" And on at fullest volume came that 1st LP's iron sandman's nether-urban blues, reducing as always the less sturdy souls of our troupe to states of catalyptic paranoia. At the eerie irony of the "what luck" retort to "hadn't seen a cop around all day" on "Then Came The Last Days of May", my cuddly blonde dumplin' roomie of that time shivered, her glazed brown eyes squinting. "Oooh, oodles of ominous." "Beaucoup menace," Phil agreed. "This is the heaviest f*ckin' record ever!" Well, not quite ever, Phil - wherever you are - cos Tyranny And Mutation followed, the merciless extention of havin' too much to dream, as unrelenting a rock 'n' roll record as exists, due to the most awesome track transitions ever branded into vinyl. At the time it was released, I thought of BOC as a brainier Blues Magoos, a band that was able to create, control, and multiple-orgasm minatory agitation. They had my kind of roots (listen to the Burdonish "now she's bound for a lower station" segment of "Baby Ice Dog" and see the logic of the Animals cover on Enchanted Evening - though "Inside Looking Out" woulda been more logical) and T&M remains one of this Bridgewater's most played passions. The funny thing is, except for hearing "Don't Fear The Reaper" a few times on the radio, I hadn't any recent studio BOC contact until Mirrors. Which is why I wasted some anger, and almost missed the boat; anticipating ear meltin', and gettin' what? Well, at first I thought I'd conclude this piece by offering a 33rd possibility of a TV pilot for Rocky Graziano (see Gulcher): Rocky as the manager of a once fearsome rock 'n' roll band that'd lost its nerve. But then it hit me: Mirrors is a cunningly deceptive collection of parodies. Of Bee Gees disco ("Lonely Teardrops" is built on a very "Superstitious" vamp, with real girls singing the high parts), pomp rock ("The Vigil"), road-life songs (the acutely pathetic Larry Gatlin type lyrics of "In Thee"), the vainglorious ("Dr. Music"), Crisco cooked hard rock ("I Am the Storm"), and even the Blue Oyster Cult Hit ("The Great Sun Jester"). With the Who Oyster Cult and Blue Oyster Cars thrown in to show that the boys could become a lounge band tomorrow, if they had to. And it's pretty funny. Not fallin' down, Best of Meltzer funny, but, uh, skillfully humorous. I'd rather they'd done like the Sabs did with Never Say Die, and provided further evidence that rock 'n' roll vets needn't bind their act with restrained survival tactics to get it on...but say. What can I write but good health to you, guys. Before the kiss, a joke? Edited April 14, 2011 by Silas Lang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 The live version of Last Days of May on the Long Day's Night DVD is absolutely jaw-dropping. It almost makes up for the ridiculous omission of Astronomy. I still need to nab Some Enchanted Evening to truly go off though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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greg2112 Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 Saw then a few years ago at a small club in virginia and they were great. Buck Dharma's guitar playing is still amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzy85 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 QUOTE (greg2112 @ Apr 14 2011, 04:53 AM) Saw then a few years ago at a small club in virginia and they were great. Buck Dharma's guitar playing is still amazing. Cool to hear that. They play a lot at the casinos and seem to be here every couple of years. I've been wanting to check them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micgtr71 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 They played an old movie theater in my hometown and played The Vigil and Lips in the Hills. It was one of the most amazing BOC shows I have seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordgt99 Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Not sure if I posted in this thread before & don't feel like search through all the pages. BOC was part of my childhood, one big reason being a couple of my cousins use to work with the band. Matter of fact one has his name on the back of Some Enchanted Evening (for special effects). My parents only have SEE and a promo copy of Mirrors. I started getting into their catalog around 2001 when the remaster project started and what has probably turned out to be their last album was released. I highly recommend Curse Of The Hidden Mirror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 BOC shouldn't have rankings. Every album is a 10! JMO! "Mirrors" is one of the most underrated albums in the world! "Revolution By Night" and "Club Ninja" are great too! IMAGINOS? "HEAVEN FORBID!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enemy Within 77 Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Tyranny & Mutation will always be my favorite- but I gotta agree and say they're all good.If you get a chance to see them live do it! I catch them almost every year and Eric and Buck still sound and play phenomenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Fukk 77! I am so pissed off! Blue Oyster Cult is playing here on June 26th! Two shows at a local fair on the same night Rush is here in Concord! I might do the first BOC show and then jam to Rush. "DON'T TURN YOUR BACK" but watch out for that "BLACK BLADE!" Blue Oyster Cult is one of the greatest bands in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enemy Within 77 Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 QUOTE (RUSHHEAD666 @ Apr 29 2011, 01:15 AM) Fukk 77! I am so pissed off! Blue Oyster Cult is playing here on June 26th! Two shows at a local fair on the same night Rush is here in Concord! I might do the first BOC show and then jam to Rush. "DON'T TURN YOUR BACK" but watch out for that "BLACK BLADE!" Blue Oyster Cult is one of the greatest bands in the world. That's what I'd probably do too. BOC one night, Rush the next- I wish my shitty town had back to back shows like this! As much as I miss the Bouchard brothers BOC's sound hasn't lost a thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 QUOTE (Enemy Within 77 @ Apr 28 2011, 11:19 PM) QUOTE (RUSHHEAD666 @ Apr 29 2011, 01:15 AM) Fukk 77! I am so pissed off! Blue Oyster Cult is playing here on June 26th! Two shows at a local fair on the same night Rush is here in Concord! I might do the first BOC show and then jam to Rush. "DON'T TURN YOUR BACK" but watch out for that "BLACK BLADE!" Blue Oyster Cult is one of the greatest bands in the world. That's what I'd probably do too. BOC one night, Rush the next- I wish my shitty town had back to back shows like this! As much as I miss the Bouchard brothers BOC's sound hasn't lost a thing! Hey my rock an roll bro! No! This is worse!!!! Blue Oyster Cult is playing two shows on June 26th at a local fair. Rush is also playing on June 26th at 8 pm in my home town. I am hoping that the first BOC show is at 6 pm. Second show at 8 or 9. I will see the first show and then literally jump in my car and drive to Rush on the same night!! Damn!! That should seriously be "SOME ENCHANTED EVENING!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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