Best Blue Öyster Cult Album

So m@tt you've read the Popoff now? Thoughts? I'm wanting to buy it...

nah not the book, i just found like one chapter of the book in PDF form somehwere, it was the chapter on the making of cultosaurus erectus, didn't seem like super well written but interesting and lots on inside details, think i'm gonna buy the e-book version...shit is way too expensive on ebay

Yeah I'ma ebook it too, the $ goes right to the author it seems.

just bought this cuz what the heck. 313 pages! never read popoff before...

His Sabbath book is great.

or i should say "books", he had one that was full of memorabilia along with the text, plus one he called a "FAQ".

big "Never Say Die" fan, which means he's good with me.

listening to heaven forbid, it's not bad!

OMG

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3353/3453108429_ec1068d62e_z.jpg

Filthy McNasty's looks like a good place.

AGGRESSION UNCHALLENGED IS AGGRESSION UNLEASHED!

Thats such a beautiful fkin picture on so many levels

america was such a beautiful country once :(

I miss the old Sunset Strip... That Secret Treaties billboard would have been across the street from the original Tower Records and a couple blocks down from Ben Franks.

Filthy McNasty's looks like a good place.

Yup. Filthy McNasty's eventually became the infamous Viper Room where River Phoenix, etc.

I probably would have liked it better as McNasty's

Any NYC ilxorz wanna go see them at Bergen Performing Arts Center on the 21st?

i have tickets purchased to a slightly less upscale venue, but the cult nonetheless! (and also apparently they are suffering the indignity of opening for kansas)

Kansas & Blue Oyster Cult
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Details: Kansas, Blue Oyster Cult
Ho-Chunk Gaming-WI-Dells
Baraboo, WI
Sat, May 19, 2012 07:00 PM

I can't tell you how happy I am seeing this thread in SNA again!

BÖC at the Ho-Chunk? That's like just up the road from me! (Leave before Kansas, get on down Hwy 12 before it gets too dark and arcane out there.)

haha yeah what's Ho-Chunk like (best casino name ever!)...we actually are driving down from Minneapolis, about 4 hours, so we gotta couple double rooms at the casino itself and are just planning on getting tanked during Kansas and leaving if they are too lame...actually though Kansas has a surprising amount of original members (3/5)...though a little sad one of the greatest 70s rock bands has to open for one of the corniest

hope they play the emerald queen casino this time around. they did a year or so back, but i couldn't make it.

also given the May 19th date we are hoping for a timely addition of "Last Days of May" to the set list!

Hey guys apparently Kansas still do some of the prog epics, not sure if I'm selling it to you here tbh. At least BOC aren't supporting Styx.

honestly, just because we were totally cool with going to see BOC alone I'm kinda geeked to see Kansas in a weird way, though I hope it means that BOC doesn't get a short set :(

They did "Last Days of May" when I saw them a year or two ago, it was great. So they probably still do it.

cool, yeah from setlists i've seen they definitely seem to do a lot of "real headz know the deal" type songs still

I don't think I've ever seen them *not* do "Last Days of May", it's a Buck showpiece

Last time I saw them (2010 -- really still bummed that I didn't see them at all in 2011) the opener was Foghat. Who had 1 of 4 original members, the drummer . The rest of the band was made up of the bassist who joined in 1976 (so okay, that is kinda old school), the guitarist from Wild Cherry of "Funky White Boy" fame, and another singer/guitarist who had played on some late-70s Ted Nugent albs (not Derek St. Holmes -- some other guy)

and they were actually pretty good!

really like Foghat but it's not that hard to recreate their songs, pretty simple so you could plug a lot of people in there and they'd still be okay

Ho-Chunk is probably not the MOST depressing Indian casino. So there's that.

oh my God they're playing in Newton, IA

fucking Newton

the guitarist from Wild Cherry

In Foghat?!!?!?!

That is so wrong - Paul Rodgers/Queen-wrong.

"Grand Funk, featuring Punky Meadows"

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hmm itd be nice to go see them in IL on May 18th

well, as it turns out, I'll be there!

Ho-Chunk is probably not the MOST depressing Indian casino. So there's that.

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haha high praise! i've been to some pretty depressing ones in northern iowa

still excited!

this is one of my favorite ever ILM posts:

What Contenderizer wrote upthread is completely true to me too.
I can only add that the alien, unseizable feeling surrounding BOC was further amplified by what seemed to me their almost quintessential Americanness.
They have the same hazy, dream-like quality of those old 50's horror movies, always walking the fine line between the familiar and the utterly arcane, always evoking a fantasy world where cars, drive-ins, rock n roll, sorcerers and labyrinthine Gothic mansions could stay side by side.
I discovered Blue Oyster Cult around the same time I stumbled into Chrome, and both bands are for me like the perfect soundtrack of this dark, imaginary continent I thought it was America.

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yeah, love that post

also love the chrome connection, not an association i would ever have thought to make

OKAY ROLL CALL FOR THE BÖC SHOW AT HO-CHUNK: ME

that cannot be a real place

I'll thank you not to slander one of Wisconsin's most awesome Native American nations. Or its lucrative casinos: http://www.ho-chunkgaming.com/wisconsindells/

implied slander retracted

"Ho-Chunk!" is also a pretty good approximation of what BOC's guitars sound like.

Been to the Ho-Chunk before, but would've gladly traded that experience in for being there for BOC.

Ho-Chunk casino signs make driving through Wisconsin even more pleasant than it already is

i'm going w/five other dudes from Mpls! we roll deep to BOC!

DN hope to run into you, yell "M@tt!" really loud