25.06.2007.

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BLUE ÖYSTER CULT




Long before Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots ruled the heavy metal airwaves, this Long Island-based band -- which today includes, in addition to Bloom, legendary guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, original keyboardist/guitarist Allen Lanier , bassist Jon Rogers and drummer Chuck Burgi made tightly wound, whip cracking arena-rock, its dark, S&M imagery a forerunner of today's would be hip nihilist blank X generationism. The missing link between the Velvet Underground, KISS and the nascent punk-rock movement of the late '70's, Blue Oyster Cult evolved out of the Stalk-Forrest Group which first came together as the psychedelic Soft White Underbelly on the campus of Stony Brook University on Long Island, NY. Supposedly, the band's producer Sandy Pearlman got the idea for the name while reading a recipe for Blue Point oysters. It was part of his "Imaginos" poetry, later used more extensively in their 1988 album Imaginos. Pearlman had also come up with the band's earlier name, "Soft White Underbelly", from a phrase used by Winston Churchill in describing Italy during World War II. In Pearlman's poetry, the "Blue Öyster Cult" was a collection of aliens who had collected to secretly guide Earth's history. The band's noirish imagery was symbolized by their logo, the ancient symbol of Cronos, the Titan god who swallowed his son, the Grim Reaper.

1st, 2nd, 3rd & 1st "live" album (all 192kb/s) :

1972 - "Blue Öyster Cult"

1973 - "Tyranny and Mutation"

1974 - "Secret Treaties"

1975 - "On Your Feet Or On Your Knees"