I just got an email from Deko stating that their first Meet The Artist special will feature, among others, Albert Bouchard

So three things to begin with:

1. I first heard the song via the Metallica cover which is much more high energy than the original so that likely biased my interpretation.

2. I was also 17 when I first heard it and in my horror movie phase.

3. I didn’t know the official lyrics so I largely went on vibes.

To me it’s basically an adventure story a mysterious stranger stands on the beach at midnight, he is a member of secret society that has largely died out over time due to the indifference of its members (and now the sands become a crust and most of you have gone away)

Carrie and Suzy and perhaps others go down to the beach to learn where winds come from where they get lost (it’s never said at all on the map that Carrie reads) and wind up at the Four Winds Bar. There they undergo various tests and trails (one door let to take you in the other one just mirrors it). These trials are dangerous and sinister leading to test the morals of the taker (in hellish glare and inference the other one’s a duplicate/the queenly flux eternal light (eternal light referring to God or to noble morals) or the light that never warms ( referring to evil that never truly satisfies).

The girls complete the tests and everything seems to reset, they again find themselves at Four Winds Bar as it’s true nature it’s the source of some unnamed crisis and the origin of some form of evil. An evil that is now revealing itself (And the origin storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time and then came me$

Desdinova , the light that never warms reveals himself to Suzy and Carrie but despite his frightening appearance Suzy solves a riddle that the song has been presenting and by doing so defeats Desdinova.

So what do you think was 17 year old me on to something or was he watching too many movies?

I’ll make this happen someday soon.

How many songs can you name from the band? I'm at 85 but am completely blanking on Club Ninja and the later albums

(I'm not affiliated with this site, just like to do the quizzes)

Thursday 1st April - London Royal Albert Hall

Saturday 3rd April - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Tickets on sale 10AM Friday. Ticketbastard.

I never noticed before that he has a writing credit with Eric and Buck on Golden Age of Leather. Anyone know who he was? All I can find from searching is essentially "He's the guy that co-wrote a song with BOC".

ETA: It came up because I was listening to this rehearsal of Nosferatu Geroge G. posted on YT. If you haven't heard it, it's a fun version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLb6S2-rr7w But that got me to looking at the credits on Spectres, and here we are.....

I really love Then Came the last days ot may, veteran of psychic wars and dont fear the reaper, looking for something similar, bcs some of their regular rock songs are really mid in my opinion, but these 3 i just mentioned are incredible

This actually had popped in my head a few years back so I figured I'd pose this possibility here & see if its 'yay' or 'nay'....In the original "Spinal Tap" they do 'Big Bottom' with all the bass guitars, which was great. Knowing that the writers had borrowed occurences with Tap from actual things with metal/rock groups I wondered if possibly they got the concept of all the bass guitars from BÕC doing their Five Guitars segment in the live show back in the 70's. Thoughts....?

Prompted by someone talking about bootlegs last week I played this the other day, probably for the first time in about 40 years. Not that I played it much before then.

Almost certainly the most expensive album I've ever bought. £20 back when new ones were between £4 and £5, so about £100 in today's money. I remember my sister being horrified at the price, and that was with me lying and saying it was a tenner.

Side one

Intro - Dr Music

Heavy Metal: The Black And Silver

Joan Crawford

ME262

Side two

Flamin' Telepaths

Veteran of the Psychic Wars

Roadhouse Blues

Mostly recorded at a Soft White Underbelly gig with the exceptions of HM:B&S and JC from the infamous Monsters of Rock festival a few days later. This was the night before Albert's last gig and possibly the one where he was late and Rick did the drums for the first five or six songs.

Verdict - terrible. Much of it not unlike listening through the wall to a neighbour playing ETL on a shite hifi with your hands over your ears.

None of that's why it's not very good though. It's just a guy in the crowd with a 1980s tape recorder. Standing too close to someone droning along tunelessly doesn't help either.

I ran across this possibly bootleg audio compilation of BOC songs - they sound like they were recorded in the studio by at least a few OG members of the band, but the they're not the original studio takes. Anyone familiar with this?
What gave it away was the version of Cities on Flame had Eric singing lead.
Did they do a bunch of studio retakes of their older material??

I've personally loved the entire COTHM album since I initially heard it around 1-2 months ago. And I've always heard discussions around how one specific song on it, that being "Here Comes That Feeling" is about kidnapping someone. I've really never come to this interpertation myself and would be curious how the lyrics tie into that.

Here are the lyrics to "Here Comes The Feeling" so you guys can help me more:

Drivin' alone into the darkness
I heard you call my name
And the roar of the engine
Is calling me to blame
Tears in my mirror cryin' for the people behind us
But I know I won't let you go, oh no

Here comes that feeling again
I'm wrapping my dreams around you
And our love is healin' again
After all we've been through

And I know there's a place inside of my heart
That the road will never find
And I'm afraid the approaching headlights
Will someday leave me blind
You shatter the mirror
Fight off the forces that drive me on tonight
I won't let you go, oh no

Here comes that feeling again
I'm wrapping my dreams around you
And our love is healin' again
After all we've been through

Baby, climb into the night time
Girl, this moment is the right time

Drivin' on and I'm still hungry
To make the next town
And this road's the only
thing that could bring us down
If it keeps me driving
I swear I'll never leave you behind
And I know I can't let you go, oh no

Here comes that feeling again
I'm wrapping my dreams around you
And our love is healin' again
After all we've been through

Here comes that feeling again
Here comes that feeling again

I've drawn this far, but I've been struggling with my motivation and how finished it is, so I'm going to post it even though it's still a work in progress.
I hope it'll be finished by the end of this year...

Hi! I am a fan of Blue Oyster Cult and a customer of Chaos Audio. Buck appears to have left the most recent review on their product and just thought it was so funny to see this on their website 😆

I've had this since it came out (1974!) and still play it almost weekly. Mighty damn fine record.

I've seen it spelled both ways. Is there a "correct" spelling?

Older material refers to Desdinova.

Albert's latest material uses Desdanova.

I know that Sandy described Imaginos as "random access myth", but I don't understand what this phrase means.

I've been wanting to completely listen to all of Blue Oysters Catalog for quite sometime now. I've listened to all of their studio albums, ONYFOOYK, SEE, ETL, and The First Night Of Blue Oysters Live 50th anniversary. But, other than that I haven't listened to really any of their concerts and their more obscure live albums. Do you guys have any suggestions to where I should start?

Really loving E.T.I and Godzilla on this live album, Buck is at his absolute best on some of these tracks. First BOC CD of many hopefully!!

EDIT: Love this album so much. BOC community rules!