Al Bouchard is one of the very best drummers of the 70s hard rock period. His fills were innovative and avoided needless repetition and provided subtle creativity while holding down the beat. Al and BÖC, like Deep Purple and The Doors, masterfully used accelerando and retardando to propel the emotional journey of the live crowd through the songs. BÖC is a small, but thoroughly tasty segment in the history ofv American Rock … and it is one BEST experienced LIVE! 🤘🏻
I saw this tour twice, the best show in the Palace Theater in Waterbury CT. We had front row, mere feet from Eric Bloom and Buck Dharma for much of the 2+ hour set. They played just about anything you wanted to hear off the first 3 albums. They were On 🔥 Fire!!! They all grabbed a guitar for ME262 and did their famous 4 lead guitars plus 1 monster bass in the bombing run jam in the middle of the song just feet away! You could hear the strings themselves and not just the amps. Eric and Buck crossed guitar necks to screaming feedback, we were all screaming in the front row, such a rush, blasting us loud and clear. Beyond underrated, some of the stuff they did, and continue to do with a revamped lineup but the 2 frontman, the faces and sound of BOC are still touring in 2024, 52 years after I saw them for the first of 19 times. They always brought big boy rock with cool lyrics and a distinct sound. They mastered the studio with one great album after another. More BOC, also from that live album, do Hot Rails to Hell, another all time banger from them and for me, this is the definitive version. One of the best bands ever, enjoy! 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎸🎤🎸🎹🎶🔥
This album was on the turntable a lot when I first bought it when it was new. I saw them the first time when they were touring this, and I saw essentially the same concert. I went not knowing who they were, but the tickets were like $4.50, so I went. I've been a fan ever since.
Yep, first half dozen times I saw them was in the 70s and never paid more than $5.50 for a ticket and every single time they were in a great double or triple bill so they actually cost less than $3.00 per band. THOSE were the days! 🔥
Crazy cool version. This album was eye opening and we were hooked and part of "The Cult"! I had Tyranny and Mutation and my friend had the first album. Then I got Secret Treaties. The heaviness and jamming on this album is fantastic. I was in a band that covered the live versions of Last Days of May, Ain't Got You and Buck's Boogie. My guitar player would throw in the solo from this song into Ain't Got You sometimes. Fun stuff!
One of the greatest live albums ever. By one of the best live bands to ever set foot on a stage. This album was recorded at the Oakland Coliseum in 1974. They opened with Subhuman...and I was instantly hooked for life. And you are right, they had the 80,000 people, including me at 15, in a trance.
The footnotes don't indicate which songs were recorded at which venue, was in attendance on this album Long Beach Arena, promoter was Ron McCoy from 105.5 knac.
This was the very first BOC album I purchased as a teenager. I had just enough money to buy one album with some change left over , or spend it all on a double live album. A purchase that I NEVER regretted.
I've seen BOC live five times I saw Gentle Giant in Detroit opening for Renaissance--another band you should check out. Son, you should have seen BOC's laser shows of '76 and '77!! Mind-blowing! I feel sorry for anyone who didn't go to those shows. The laser shows were so intense and so ahead-of-its-time that OSHA shut it down in '78, I think. OSHA wasn't sure if damage was being done to people's eyeballs because no one had ever seen anything like it before and so put the ka-bosh on it. But I saw those shows--on the main floor for the shocking high price of like $10.50 the last time. The first one was only $8.50! That's not even conceivable now. Now you pay 10 times that and only get a 10th of the entertainment--at best. BOC also deserves recognition for transporting that laser show from city to city. It was very complex and intricate. The lasers were water-cooled, for instance. It used these specially made glass tubes and if one broke, they had a warehouse with replacement parts for the lasers stocked up and a driver would run out and bring the new glass tube to the venue the crew would have to install it and test it before the show started. That was a feat in and of itself. Why did they go through so much trouble to lug this huge, complex, yet delicate machinery around night after night? Because the results were so f'ing spectacular.
I listen to this entire album when I go running! I first heard it in the Air Force when I was stationed in Italy in 1976. This is my favorite song on the album, too.
I saw them live in Spokane, Washington, in 75 when the album had just come out. it was on my birthday March 13, 1975. I was 19 years old. I’ve been a fan since 1973 when I bought my first BOC album Secret Treaties. BOC on tour forever! I’ve seen them so many times I can’t remember. I lost track after 60 shows.
BOC always deliver live!! Chod, all the hit songs they are most noted for, such as Don't Fear The Reaper, Godzilla, Astronomy, are all much better live than studio. Check those songs out on their second live album: Some Enchanted Evening.
IMO, this piece was perhaps the best representation of their black & white era. Hellfire & brimstone.😄 Miles apart from "...Reaper", and even more miles apart from "Burnin' For You".
You made a horribly sorrowful night a lot better, just hearing this song again with kinda like a BOC fam. And one can actually see your feedback is geniune.
Radical rhythms and time signatures, along with some smoking guitars. It was lyrics like "Lucifer the light" that kept their early work out of the mainstream and garnered a strong cult following. But that all changed with mainstream classics like Don't Fear The Reaper and Godzilla.
There DECLINE came when they brought in Tom Werman as producer! He killed there sound! I was a huge fan before GODZILLA! I thought that was pop radio garbage. But i guess they had to pay some bills.
I'm going to see these guys next week! The new young guys they have playing the Keys/2nd guitar and drums as well as a very veteran bass player who played with Queen adds up to a very vibrant band!
Man I’m jealous! I’ve seen them a lot but it’s been awhile. They use to open with Ain’t The Summer Of Love a lot but now it seems Dr Music is the opener. Enjoy, will be awesome!
I am going to see them 9/28/24 in Laughlin, NV...my wife got tickets for my birthday celebration! I have not seen them since 1981...I am so damn stoked. Saw Todd Rundgren last Saturday in Laughlin...awesome show..he still has it..played for two and and half hours.
…..they are much better live !!!! Check out this whole album “OYFOYK”❤️ (1975) “Extraterrestrial” is another live album recorded (1982) 🔥 Please check out (Joan Crawford) of this album 🙏🏻❤️🎸🔥
BOC are well known. I can't say why they don't get as many responses on your channel. Maybe because your audience is younger in general and BOC are an older band. Popularity does not equal talent, of course. Lots of crappy music out currently, as I'm sure you are well aware. Only two kinds of music, good and bad.
Al Bouchard is one of the very best drummers of the 70s hard rock period. His fills were innovative and avoided needless repetition and provided subtle creativity while holding down the beat. Al and BÖC, like Deep Purple and The Doors, masterfully used accelerando and retardando to propel the emotional journey of the live crowd through the songs. BÖC is a small, but thoroughly tasty segment in the history ofv American Rock … and it is one BEST experienced LIVE! 🤘🏻
Bill Ward also. 🔥
I saw many great bands in the 70's and 80's, but none could perform live like BÖC!
Completely agree. Criminally overlooked band. Guess what? These guys are still duking it out on the stage to this day!!!
Blue Oyster Cult
Is an amazing band
So much talent
Underrated
But always the coolest
I love the drumming on “Are You Ready to Rock”, on their live Fox Theater recording.
I saw this tour twice, the best show in the Palace Theater in Waterbury CT. We had front row, mere feet from Eric Bloom and Buck Dharma for much of the 2+ hour set. They played just about anything you wanted to hear off the first 3 albums. They were On 🔥 Fire!!! They all grabbed a guitar for ME262 and did their famous 4 lead guitars plus 1 monster bass in the bombing run jam in the middle of the song just feet away! You could hear the strings themselves and not just the amps. Eric and Buck crossed guitar necks to screaming feedback, we were all screaming in the front row, such a rush, blasting us loud and clear. Beyond underrated, some of the stuff they did, and continue to do with a revamped lineup but the 2 frontman, the faces and sound of BOC are still touring in 2024, 52 years after I saw them for the first of 19 times. They always brought big boy rock with cool lyrics and a distinct sound. They mastered the studio with one great album after another. More BOC, also from that live album, do Hot Rails to Hell, another all time banger from them and for me, this is the definitive version. One of the best bands ever, enjoy! 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎸🎤🎸🎹🎶🔥
This album was on the turntable a lot when I first bought it when it was new. I saw them the first time when they were touring this, and I saw essentially the same concert. I went not knowing who they were, but the tickets were like $4.50, so I went. I've been a fan ever since.
Yep, first half dozen times I saw them was in the 70s and never paid more than $5.50 for a ticket and every single time they were in a great double or triple bill so they actually cost less than $3.00 per band. THOSE were the days! 🔥
Off the top of my head, saw them with: Aerosmith , ZZ Top, Black Sabbath, Foghat, Rush, UFO, Judas Priest and others.
You get points for playing the live version.
Killer album! 🔥
Crazy cool version. This album was eye opening and we were hooked and part of "The Cult"! I had Tyranny and Mutation and my friend had the first album. Then I got Secret Treaties. The heaviness and jamming on this album is fantastic. I was in a band that covered the live versions of Last Days of May, Ain't Got You and Buck's Boogie. My guitar player would throw in the solo from this song into Ain't Got You sometimes. Fun stuff!
One of the greatest live albums ever. By one of the best live bands to ever set foot on a stage. This album was recorded at the Oakland Coliseum in 1974. They opened with Subhuman...and I was instantly hooked for life. And you are right, they had the 80,000 people, including me at 15, in a trance.
My favorite “Subhuman Live”.
The footnotes don't indicate which songs were recorded at which venue, was in attendance on this album Long Beach Arena, promoter was Ron McCoy from 105.5 knac.
This was the very first BOC album I purchased as a teenager. I had just enough money to buy one album with some change left over , or spend it all on a double live album. A purchase that I NEVER regretted.
My favorite BOC Tune ! Buck Dharma
I've seen BOC live five times I saw Gentle Giant in Detroit opening for Renaissance--another band you should check out. Son, you should have seen BOC's laser shows of '76 and '77!! Mind-blowing! I feel sorry for anyone who didn't go to those shows. The laser shows were so intense and so ahead-of-its-time that OSHA shut it down in '78, I think. OSHA wasn't sure if damage was being done to people's eyeballs because no one had ever seen anything like it before and so put the ka-bosh on it. But I saw those shows--on the main floor for the shocking high price of like $10.50 the last time. The first one was only $8.50! That's not even conceivable now. Now you pay 10 times that and only get a 10th of the entertainment--at best. BOC also deserves recognition for transporting that laser show from city to city. It was very complex and intricate. The lasers were water-cooled, for instance. It used these specially made glass tubes and if one broke, they had a warehouse with replacement parts for the lasers stocked up and a driver would run out and bring the new glass tube to the venue the crew would have to install it and test it before the show started. That was a feat in and of itself. Why did they go through so much trouble to lug this huge, complex, yet delicate machinery around night after night? Because the results were so f'ing spectacular.
I listen to this entire album when I go running! I first heard it in the Air Force when I was stationed in Italy in 1976. This is my favorite song on the album, too.
Great pick.
What a great album.
OOOOHHH YAAAAA…!!! WAS AT THE SECRET TREATIES TOUR IN 1974 N A COUPLE OF SHOWS IN THE 80s. THEY DO DEFINITELY ROCK THE HOUSE DOWN..!! ROCK ON 👊🖖
ROCK and ROLL!
I saw them live in Spokane, Washington, in 75 when the album had just come out. it was on my birthday March 13, 1975. I was 19 years old. I’ve been a fan since 1973 when I bought my first BOC album Secret Treaties. BOC on tour forever! I’ve seen them so many times I can’t remember. I lost track after 60 shows.
Those first 3 albums
Blew me away
Great Song
BOC always deliver live!! Chod, all the hit songs they are most noted for, such as Don't Fear The Reaper, Godzilla, Astronomy, are all much better live than studio. Check those songs out on their second live album: Some Enchanted Evening.
I was there
IMO, this piece was perhaps the best representation of their black & white era. Hellfire & brimstone.😄
Miles apart from "...Reaper", and even more miles apart from "Burnin' For You".
I saw this tour three times, I was 15.
You made a horribly sorrowful night a lot better, just hearing this song again with kinda like a BOC fam. And one can actually see your feedback is geniune.
Hope things are better for you
Impossibly aggressive! My god!!!!!
The mainstream radio and critics thought they were weird.
Actually the reviews of the early albums were stellar
Radio just didn’t get it
Wilburn BOC my fav, 1st show they were a support for Rare Earth El Paso 1973 the rest is history!!! Play Marshall Plan
Radical rhythms and time signatures, along with some smoking guitars. It was lyrics like "Lucifer the light" that kept their early work out of the mainstream and garnered a strong cult following. But that all changed with mainstream classics like Don't Fear The Reaper and Godzilla.
There DECLINE came when they brought in Tom Werman as producer! He killed there sound! I was a huge fan before GODZILLA! I thought that was pop radio garbage. But i guess they had to pay some bills.
I'm going to see these guys next week! The new young guys they have playing the Keys/2nd guitar and drums as well as a very veteran bass player who played with Queen adds up to a very vibrant band!
Man I’m jealous! I’ve seen them a lot but it’s been awhile. They use to open with Ain’t The Summer Of Love a lot but now it seems Dr Music is the opener. Enjoy, will be awesome!
I am going to see them 9/28/24 in Laughlin, NV...my wife got tickets for my birthday celebration! I have not seen them since 1981...I am so damn stoked. Saw Todd Rundgren last Saturday in Laughlin...awesome show..he still has it..played for two and and half hours.
I like gentle giant also, I think BOC has better riffs though
…..they are much better live !!!! Check out this whole album “OYFOYK”❤️ (1975)
“Extraterrestrial” is another live album recorded (1982) 🔥
Please check out (Joan Crawford) of this album 🙏🏻❤️🎸🔥
BOC are well known. I can't say why they don't get as many responses on your channel. Maybe because your audience is younger in general and BOC are an older band. Popularity does not equal talent, of course. Lots of crappy music out currently, as I'm sure you are well aware. Only two kinds of music, good and bad.
Pardon my ignorance but I thought the drummer carried the tempo?