Blue Oyster Cult

[The Polack MSgt]

I can't help myself. Here is an emotionally over wrought MASTERPIECE

[The Polack MSgt]

1. B.O.C.

I Freaking love this band

[Budi]

2. The one band I never got to see in concert, but owned every album

Thanks, The Polack MSgt

Best of the many greats

All our times have come
Here but now they're gone
Seasons don't fear the reaper
Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain…

Blue Öyster Cult's biggest hit single, “(Don't Fear) the Reaper,” has been spooking film audiences for nearly 40 years, ever since its release in May 1976.

Fuck ing A. They had us at the intro

[lastlib]

3. The one time I got a chance to see them in concert.....

....they stood us up! Didn't show! Pissed me off ROYALLY! The one saving grace was that Kansas was set to follow them, so we got to see Steve, Kerry, & Robby sooner than expected.

I really like B.O.C.'s music, too (Agents of Fortune is one HELL of an album!), but man, I get bummed every time I listen to it thinking about that incident.

[The Polack MSgt]

4. I saw them 3 times spanning the late 70s to early 90s and

They rocked

Sorry you missed 'em - But Kansas was a beast in concert, they could easily play 2 shows worth.

Hell "Song For America" can go 40 minutes by itself

[Budi]

6. Kansas... Yup. THAT Album. And Boston, too. REO! (i'm dyin here 😘 )

Journey, Styx, Led Zepplin,


Hoping the afterlife takes us wherever we want, whenever we feel the need, & for as long a stay as we choose.


A bit on Boston that literally speaks to that entire as rock n roll era, as bands emerged from zero to legends, literally overnight:
https://bestclassicbands.com/boston-more-than-feeling-release-date-9-18-17/

Sept 18, 1976: Boston Releases ‘More Than a Feeling’

Snip..
The band Boston emerged from the suburban basement studio of guitarist songwriter Tom Scholz, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate whose work for Polaroid was able to finance his own professional-grade recording facility.

Scholz spent five years writing and developing “More Than a Feeling,” which, on September 18, 1976, followed the August 8 release of the self-titled Boston album on Epic Records as its first single. All that time and attention paid off: It hit #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and helped propel Boston to huge sales of the band’s first album – a reported 17 million copies, one of the most successful debuts ever in recorded music history.




From Zero-to-Legend, from just 1 song, recorded in a basement, a garage or their own makeshift studio.

[Swede]

5. Needs more cowbell.

I love BOC and Nosferatu is one of my favorites.

[The Polack MSgt]

7. The piano/rhythm guitar playing counterpoint to the lead guitar/vocal melody

I don't know the theory, but I know what rocks

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Hung Out With Them Every Year for About 4 Years

They played this series of summer shows (3 bands every Tuesday at the ice skating pavilion).
My dad was tangentially involved with the promotion, so we got backstage passes to every show.
These guys were cool dudes! All pleasant & engaging. Could talk about anything.
BTW: once we met him, Buck told us to call him Don, which is is real name. The guys in the band called him both. Kind of interchangeable, except Eric called him Buck almost all the time.
Al Lanier (keyboards & guitar) got really sick back in the 70s. One of those years we saw them was the year. We were just late HS/early college and even we could tell there was something wrong. I forget what it was he had, though.