Blue Öyster Cult

Blue Öyster Cult is a group of Rock originating in the the United States, whose style is related with the Hard rock, to the Heavy traditional metal and Rock psychedelic.

History

Blue Öyster Cult is formed in 1970 with Long Island under the impulse of two journalists rock'n'roll, Sandy Pearlman and Richard Meltzer, members of an rock group psychedelic " The Cows" created three years earlier. But each member of the future BÖC has already a musical past within his college or of his university before their happy meeting.

All starts when Bruce Abbott (future joint author of old Golden off leather ) introduces Donald Roeser to Albert Bouchard. They found a first " group; The Disciples" who will become the following year " Travesty" , groups which foam the evenings coeds and limp them local so much so that their members their studies forsake and are devoted from now on entirely to the music.

" Travesty" splitte, Donald remains with Island Length while Bouchard leaves for Chicago where it received some engagements. But Donald makes the meeting of the critic rock'n'roll Sandy Pearlman and finds Bouchard returned to New York: new a combo is formed, with a new musician, Allen Lanier. Pearlman baptizes it " Software White Underbelly".

The group turns more and more, ensuring the first parts of Muddy Waters and Greateful Dead, but an obviousness is essential: it misses a singer… Braustein then joined the group whose word of mount says the largest good. The president d' Elektra Records the remark at the time of a concert and the sign instantaneously, probably very attracted by…

At the beginning of 1969 Software White Underbelly enters in studio to record its first album for Elektra, but of the divergences They oppose to the other members of the group: it leaves them whereas the album quasi-is finished. Elektra, opposed departure of the singer on whom all had been put, auditions then Eric Bloom, an old knowledge Island Length and decides to finish the production of the album.

With the departure of Braustein and the Bloom arrival, the group changes name again and becomes " Stalk Forrest Group". Sandy Pearlman then imagines to give a name of scene to each member: only Donald Roeser accepts, one will know it from now on under the pseudonym of Buck Dharma.

After some concerts, Elektra decides to break their contract, Andy Winters leaves the group then and is replaced by Joe Bouchard, the brother of Albert. In 1970 Stalk Forrest Group in the open air gives a great concert which wakes up the curiosity of the Columbia recording company: an new agreement is signed, it is thus necessary, according to the Pearlman tradition, to find a new name with the group: Blue Öyster Cult.

They become a group with success during this decade, in particular thanks to the title Don' T fear the reaper in 1976. Under the impulse of their mentors and producers of the beginnings, Sandy Pearlman and Murray Krugman, they cultivate a dark esthetics, and a certain hermetic esotericism with their logo (the Chronos inspired of the astrological symbol of Saturn. To note that the dieresis added on “O” was at the origin of a fashion in the names of groups of heavy metal (for example Motörhead). The music of the group is very influenced by Black Sabbath, MC5, and Steppenwolf, according to clean the dires of the singer Eric Bloom and the guitarist Donald Roeser. The influence of Black Sabbath is perceptible in pieces like " Cities one flame with rock'n'roll " , or " Godzilla". That of the MC5 in " Hot rails to hell" , being reproduced on the album " Tyranny and mutation". And finally that of Steppenwolf in pieces like " The red and the black", " Career off evil" or " the subhuman". The group will play a resumption of " Born to Be wild" , the legendary song of the group Steppenwolf.

After their departure of Blue Öyster Cult, the Bouchard brothers will found each one a new group. Albert Bouchard will assemble The Brain Surgeons; Joe The Cult Brothers, who will become The X Brothers.

Anecdotes

The singer Patti Smith who was a time the partner of the clavierist/guitarist Allen Lanier has Co-writing five pieces with BÖC :

  • Career off evil on the album Secret Treaties ;
  • Debbie Denise on the album Agents off Fortune ;
  • Revenge off Vera Gemini (on this last, she sings in duet with Albert Bouchard) on the album Agents off Fortune ;
  • Shooting shark on the album Revolution by Night ;
  • Fire off Unknown Origin , piece recorded initially for Agents off Fortune before being isolated later then begun again by BÖC several years in a new version on the bearing album this name. The original poem is also reproduced in no-claims bonus on the remasterized version of the album Waves (1979) of the singer.
Allen Lanier had returned the similar one to his/her partner while playing on its first album in particular on the piece Elegy .

Inspiration

Michael Moorcock wrote the words of three chansons :

Recoveries

The group made some recoveries:

  • Born to Be Wild of Steppenwolf (the original piece appears in the original soundtrack of the film Easy Rider ), in the album concert One Your Feet but One Your Knees (1975);
  • I Ain' T Got You of the Yardbirds (1964), under the tite Maserati WP (I Ain' T Got You) , on the same album;
  • Kick Out The Jam of the group MC5 (1969), on the album concert Nap Enchanted Evening (1978);
  • We Gottta Get Out Of This Places of the Animals (1965) on the same album;
  • Roadhouse Blues of the Doors (1970), on the album concert Extraterrestrial Live (1982).

In addition, of the pieces of Blue Öyster Cult were taken again by other groups.

  • (Don' T Fear) the Reaper by Gus - figure in the original soundtrack of the film Scream of Wes Craven: at the beginning of film, it is the piece which listening Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) when his/her boyfriend Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) passes by the window of his room.

  • This Ain' T The Summer Of Coils was taken again by L7 for the original soundtrack of the film Souviens last summer .

  • the group Metallica did, in 1998, one howling adaptation of their piece Astronomy (original version on Secret Treaties ) on their album of recoveries Garage Inc. .

Founding members

Current members

Discography (selective)

  • Blue Öyster Cult - May 1972
  • Tyranny & Change - March 1973
  • Secret Treaties - April 1974
  • One Your Feet but one Your Knees (live) - March 1975 (begun again I ain' T got you of the Yardbirds, of Born to Be wild of Steppenwolf)
  • Agents off Fortune - June 1976
  • Spectra - November 1977
  • Summon Enchanted Evening (live) - September 1978 (begun again Kick Out The Jams of MC5)
  • Mirrors - July 1979
  • Cultösaurus Erectus - July 1980
  • Fire Off Unknown Origin - July 1981
  • Extraterrestrial Live (live) - May 1982 (begun again Roadhouse blues of the Doors with Robbie Krieger)
  • Flat Out - 1982 (album solo of Buck Dharma)
  • The Revolution by Night - November 1983
  • Club Ninja - December 1985
  • Imaginos - August 1988
  • Career Off Evil: The Metal Years - compilation 1990
  • Live 1976 - 1991
  • Bad Channels - original motion picture soundtrack 1992
  • Cult Classic - 1994
  • Workshop Off The Telescopes - compilation 1995
  • Heaven Forbid - March 1998
  • Don' T Fear the Reaper: The Best off Blue Öyster Cult - compilation 2000
  • For the Heavy Metal Kids and the Yardbirds - Live in NY/'72 - 2000 (semi-official republication of a pirate of the years 1970, already republished out of CD in 1990 by Skydog, taking again famous Bootleg EP Promotionnel of 1972)
  • Curse off the Hidden Mirror - June 2001
  • has Long Day' S Night (live) - September 2002 (version DVD off contains other pieces headlights of the group such as Harvester Eyes or ME262 )
  • The Individual Collection - compilation 2005

Videotex

  • 1998 : Live 1976
  • 2002 : Black and Blue (filmed in 1981 at the time of the round with Black Sabbath)
  • 2002: has Long Day' S Night

External bonds

  • Official site

  • The BÖC FAQ
  • Giglopaedia: guide concerts of Blue Öyster Cult
  • Entretien in '' Casus Belli '' (newspaper of roleplays)

Simple: Blue Öyster Cult

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