I thought they were - deservedly - very highly rated. But the competition was FIERCE - sooo many amazing bands in that era. I love this song especially.
Hey Donald (Buck?) you just popped up on youtube playing Reaper.....A lot of things have changed since Smithtown '65. We were going to come out to see you when you played Riverhead a few years ago, but as usual things got gummed up. Most of are still alive and kicking, except for about 40 of us......Hope all is well....keep on rockin.
I agree fully.As a matter of fact quite spooky.i made a mistake when I got the wires of a magnetic cartridge crossed. I pressed mono on the amp as i was recording on a mono cassette recorder and you should have heard what was in the background.The la la la seemed to get blown away in the wind and the main vocals seemed to be miles away.It just shows you what is in a record.
Seems to be a guy who was smart enough to write this song for his range. No screaming or gymnastics and hence he’s able to sing this song in the same key 40 + years later.
Seems it worked out that way but it’s just a great song that didn’t use screaming I doubt he wrote it thinking about him being able to sing it for fourth years
It's actually pretty strange that they're playing it in the original key, ever since the tour after Agents of Fortune was released they've been playing Reaper a whole step higher because it was easier for Buck to sing higher. I wonder why they brought it down for this show
or i guess you can say that he was smart enough to use a guitar sound you could replicate with another cheaper guitar after the band aint so popular anymore and cash is a problem.
Yes , I totally agree. The fact that this is a scaled down version, I wonder how many of the older great songs they can perform. My favorite BOC album is "Spectors".
🤩 I'm Brazilian, I live in the city of Sao Paulo. Today in 2024 I am 59 years old. I discovered BOC when I was 17 years old - I went to an undergroud store in the city center, and when I laid eyes on the cover of Some Enchanted Evening I fell in love - I asked to hear it - halfway through R Y ready to Rock I already bought it. After that, years passed and I bought all of BOC's albums (many were not re-released in Brazil, so I had to import them). BOC is the band that provided the soundtrack to my dreams and my life! Thank you Eric, Buck, Albert, Joe, Allen, and all the other musicians who were part of the Cult.
RUSH sure played like crazy in Sao Paulo... they even recorded one of their best albums there. Same with Dream Theater... We Americans... those of us on the Right Side of World Culture, Current World Affairs, and Socio-Economics... We Love Mexico, Central and South America!
For my 60th birthday my friend took me to see blue oyster cult at the Medina ball room after the first band Jefferson starship was over want out to burn one there were 6 guys out on the patio burning one after some small talk I told them I was here for my birthday And really excited to see them Low and behold it was blue oyster cult So they took me downstairs to the bar And had shots with the band Best birthday I've ever had
Im 47 and had heard this song here and there throughout my life...but only when i was 40 years old did a workmate play it a lot and i properly listened to it..one of the greatest songs ever wrote.
I'm 47 too & same for me...heard it every now & then, played it on the jukebox occasionally but didn't really "listen" to it till about a month ago when it came up in my feed here. Now I've got 4 different versions/videos of it randomly on my Fav. Playlist lol
through the 60s and 70s, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a musician. I was in bands, nothing great, they always broke up for one reason or the other, mostly frustration.. but after a while, I started to realize that, it is really hard to be able to put yourself in that mood to want to play well. You can go to your 9 to 5 job and get through the day not feeling well, being in a bad mood, being preoccupied, having off the job life changing things happen to you and your family. but a musician has to feel like playing every night. You have to be in that tropical mood. And that’s not easy to flip that switch. I have been playing guitar since 1964. I’ve been about 10 different bands. I’m gone through dozens of guitars and amplifiers, I got tired of getting home at 4 AM smelling like an ashtray, only to have to go to work at 6 AM sometimes to my regular day job. That gets old.. I have a lot of respect for professional musicians now more than ever. I know you have to be good every night, you have to feel like playing, you have to smile when you don’t feel like , you have to be an actor. I used to wonder how bands could possibly complain about being on the road for months. Living in a bus together traveling, like the band with the name “the band “.. grinding it out night after night. That had to be tough. I couldn’t do it. I salute all musicians they don’t get the recognition they deserve 99% of the time.. I remember when the Beatles broke up I wondered, how could they possibly do that. Now, I don’t know how they could possibly stay together all those years. do you see famous musicians floating from band to band starting new bands and then breaking up. I’ll bet most of the time, it’s the other band members or the big name it is burned out. It’s a grind… The bands I was in, after a while, I just didn’t feel it. I ended up quitting. I’m just not cut out to be a musician..it ain’t easy.. I salute real musicians everywhere..
I'm with you Jody. I too played in rock bands in the st Louis area in the 70s. We had good bands with roadies and light and sound techs. Some bands we had to do our own work. I juggled 9 to 5 jobs trying to free myself to play 2 or 3 times a week. I am 70 now and still live off the memories. It was wonderful. The groupies ,the drinking and just general debauchery. Lol. I couldn't keep it up either and had to let it go.
@@bro7269 The whole band as BOC has been underrated. When they go from headlining the NY Academy of Music on New Years Eve 1973with a no name band like Kiss as the opening act in front of Teenage Lust then Iggy Pop and2 months later Kiss sold out the same venue and over the year BOC became the opener for Kiss.
Remember seeing them in winterland SF and the whole band sat in the front of the stage playing acoustic guitars. Awesome then saw them two day later in Stockton and they were even better. They had a love for Stockton because KJOY played whatever there first hit was and attributed much to them playing the song when no one else would.Hand held laser lights. Gotta love SOFT WHITE UNDERBELLY
The guitar playing is still unique and impressive. At the time the style of the solos blew my mind- they had a jazzier thing to them and not basic blues box stuff. Nice
It's a sad joke because bands like BOC aren't included yet rappers and pop stars are there. Like everything it is probably political in a nature. By this I don't me the governmental type politics. I do agree that it would mean a lot if these artists got their earned entrance into the HOF.
1976 77 My band was playing the Midwest towns of Decatur Ill and LaCrosse Wisc and staying at the Holiday Inn and meet the band also staying at the hotel. In Lacrosse we give Buck a ride to the sound check and our gig was a few blocks away and invite Buck to our gig and sure enough 11 and he comes through the door with a guitar and we invite him on stage and we have matching jump suits on. He loved it and the crowd did to. That’s my story with Buck.Glad he is still Rocking and so am I at 72.
@@dougiestenhouse8301 It might have been 30. I was 18 at the time, and asked then to autograph a flyer for my parents because they were fans. It made them feel old! 🤣
Less of key musicans. They really need a keyboard player to do many of their songs-true to the album version. If there is a keyboard player, I may not have seen it. I think he did some looping with his guitar.
@@clemclemson9259 I didn't say "under Rated". Others did. You yourself have often been referred to as "under Rated". I remember seeing Bakerloo several times including at South Birmingham Poly, Henry's Blues House and Mother's, Erdington , where you opened for King Crimson , standing in for Thunderclap Newman, who were banned from playing owing to the age of their guitarist and licensing laws. You have always been an impressive guitarist including with Humble Pie.
There's just something about his playing, a haunting sound that's unique, that was a part of so many great songs like "Perfect Water", "The Vigil", and so many others including this. I'd put him in my top 20 favorite guitarists, I wish there was much more live content of him playing, but being lucky enough to see them play from stadium sized venues, to bars, and then to village festivals, I will consider myself lucky!
First time I ever listened to BOC was back in the early 80's.. Still in high school.. Hanging out in a garage rebuilding an engine in a Pontiac Grand Prix.. 400 cid with big double pumper Holly 4 barrel carb. Smoking lousy weed and drinking warm Miller beer..
Just saw them in February at the Hard Rock in Hollywood with Deep Purple. Both bands were awesome. They've been two of my favorites since the early 70's and they still rock!
I saw BOC in conceret in London 3 times between 1977 and 1981. The years have flown by and it’s quite a shock to see them in their seventies! This song brings back so many happy memories of a different Britain, a different London, a different ethos and an age of much more liberty.
Great footage ... Buck looks so laid back and loving what he's playing. Also love the pre-amble to this ... proof that these guys can still boogie and enjoy it ! 'Love you BÖC!
Mad respect to these gents !!!! Saw them many times back in the day. One hell of a stage show with godzilla and all the lasers etc .. Always loved BOC .
Still amazing after all the years ... i did get the 75 live Album "On your Feet or on your knees" from my german uncle in Chicago when I was about 15 years old. It changed my musical experience and until now I love them, cheers from Germany
1993...just graduated high school....late summer in southern california...driving home from the beach in my '71 baby blue VDub Bug...epic surf sesh done...riding high on life...and this song comes on the radio....this song carries that moment...that memory for me forever....I can't remember a single wave I rode that day...but I remember that song in that specific memory...epic
I had the pleasure of attending the black and blue concert in KC Mo.. great concert before Halloween 🎃.. guys walking through the crowd in Long dark robes for the b.o.c. occasions!!
Saw them on that tour too at the then brand new Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. They came on first but i thought they blew Sabbath away They had a 50 foot paper mache Godzilla in the wings that popped out during the song!
Born in '55 I grew up with The Greatest Rock Bands ever to Grace this Earth. BOC was one of them. As I get older I am not afraid to die, simply because I Don't Fear The Reaper........
secret treaties is one of my all time favorite albums.sounds great even today . agent of fortune had this song but secret treaties had an entire album of burners.We live so lonely in the state of maine.
THE BLVE ÖYSTER CVLT; TYRANNY AND MVTATION is definitely my favorite album. I was 12 when my brother got this album and he introduced me to BÖC. These two are here a lot in LA should I see them at least a dozen times in my life. I miss seeing the rest of the original band in this video.
Love to see them at this age, but I would give about anything to have seen them live when this song first released. Nothing is better than 70’s music like this. I close my eyes and wish I were back in the 70’s.
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70 years old and Buck still does not Fear the Reaper.
He was diagnosed with a terminal heart condition, 40 years ago or more, and he is STILL here! Wrote the song about that!
He'll be 75 later this year. Unreal how good he still sounds.
@@DMSProduktions shows you what they know.... then came the last days of the vaccine...
@@clemclemson9259 Oh phuck me!
I have felt for a long time that we have to make an agreement with death so we are free to be alive without the fear of death
One of the most underrated bands of the Seventies. All my respect, Buck.
we listen to them everyday, but yes you are right
That man has lost some of his vocal range but his guitar work is as good as ever. A song from my youth.
I thought they were - deservedly - very highly rated. But the competition was FIERCE - sooo many amazing bands in that era. I love this song especially.
Hey Donald (Buck?) you just popped up on youtube playing Reaper.....A lot of things have changed since Smithtown '65. We were going to come out to see you when you played Riverhead a few years ago, but as usual things got gummed up. Most of are still alive and kicking, except for about 40 of us......Hope all is well....keep on rockin.
under rated... LMAO
This song will always be special. There is a haunting melody to it which places it among one of the best classic rock songs ever.
Does anyone know the brand or style name for his guitar "
@@jussitikkuri6991 Yes it's a Steinberger custom guitar called the Cheeseberger.
@@jussitikkuri6991 Yes it's a Steinberger custom guitar called the Cheeseberger.
Agreed Louie 👍
I agree fully.As a matter of fact quite spooky.i made a mistake when I got the wires of a magnetic cartridge crossed. I pressed mono on the amp as i was recording on a mono cassette recorder and you should have heard what was in the background.The la la la seemed to get blown away in the wind and the main vocals seemed to be miles away.It just shows you what is in a record.
Buck Darma is one of the most unrated Guitarist of Our Time!! All the Great Guitarist Know Him and Respect Him!!
Amen to that. Born and raised on LI. BOC in it's self is underated. Buck is and always has been top ten.
Yes that is true but we need more cow bell!
Bucks boogie. Yeah us guitarists know how great he is
@@rayhorth4345 Then came the Last days of May. Amazing , but I do also love Bucks Boogie it's just pure fun.
One of my greatest idols ever
Seems to be a guy who was smart enough to write this song for his range. No screaming or gymnastics and hence he’s able to sing this song in the same key 40 + years later.
And it allows the average listener to sing along. This is a song done right.
Seems it worked out that way but it’s just a great song that didn’t use screaming I doubt he wrote it thinking about him being able to sing it for fourth years
It's actually pretty strange that they're playing it in the original key, ever since the tour after Agents of Fortune was released they've been playing Reaper a whole step higher because it was easier for Buck to sing higher. I wonder why they brought it down for this show
cmon thats the last thing you think of when writing a song. he sang what fitted the song, not having high notes etc is just a coincidence
or i guess you can say that he was smart enough to use a guitar sound you could replicate with another cheaper guitar after the band aint so popular anymore and cash is a problem.
That opening riff stopped me dead in my tracks in 1976
2023 and it still does \m/ \m/
He has taken care of himself. Fit, slim, and sober.
I saw them with Foghat in 1982. He still sounds good!
Me too
dude at ur age 1 my farts could kill u.
2024 and it’s still bangin
For a guy in his mid 70s,Buck still has it.
Yes , I totally agree. The fact that this is a scaled down version, I wonder how many of the older great songs they can perform. My favorite BOC album is "Spectors".
Oddly enough it seems the well aged rock star can still bring it where other genres seem to not do it so much.
Long live Rock N Roll
You know it!
He didn't disappoint in Everett, WA that is for sure. Killer guitar
🤩 I'm Brazilian, I live in the city of Sao Paulo. Today in 2024 I am 59 years old. I discovered BOC when I was 17 years old - I went to an undergroud store in the city center, and when I laid eyes on the cover of Some Enchanted Evening I fell in love - I asked to hear it - halfway through R Y ready to Rock I already bought it. After that, years passed and I bought all of BOC's albums (many were not re-released in Brazil, so I had to import them). BOC is the band that provided the soundtrack to my dreams and my life! Thank you Eric, Buck, Albert, Joe, Allen, and all the other musicians who were part of the Cult.
RUSH sure played like crazy in Sao Paulo... they even recorded one of their best albums there.
Same with Dream Theater...
We Americans... those of us on the Right Side of World Culture, Current World Affairs, and Socio-Economics... We Love Mexico, Central and South America!
Well said brother. If you listen very hard and for long enough you go through that doorway into BOC's world. Its worth the journey.
It's all good 👍🎸🆒🌅🆓♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️
I am 59 too and this song is an anthem of my life. I have lived a full full on life and will burn out, not fade away.
It will go down as one of the greatest songs ever
U got that right ✅
This song never gets old.
Absolutely Correct!!!!!
For my 60th birthday my friend took me to see blue oyster cult at the
Medina ball room after the first band
Jefferson starship was over want out to burn one there were 6 guys out on the patio burning one after some small talk
I told them I was here for my birthday
And really excited to see them
Low and behold it was blue oyster cult
So they took me downstairs to the bar
And had shots with the band
Best birthday I've ever had
That's awesome man!!
That's what true friends do.
Now you've got some bragging rights with your buddies!
@@donsmith8614 yes I do!!!
I hope my 60th birthday can be as awesome as yours! Great story!
Im 47 and had heard this song here and there throughout my life...but only when i was 40 years old did a workmate play it a lot and i properly listened to it..one of the greatest songs ever wrote.
I'm 47 too & same for me...heard it every now & then, played it on the jukebox occasionally but didn't really "listen" to it till about a month ago when it came up in my feed here. Now I've got 4 different versions/videos of it randomly on my Fav. Playlist lol
Kick ass songs never get old. Legendary!!!
Does anyone know the brand or style name for his guitar "
I was expecting Bloom to come out with the cowbell. Thank you, Christopher Walken.
Amen to that
@@jussitikkuri6991 Steinberger GR4 I think.
I gotta say, i love how the video begins and hes jamming away. it sounds so flippin good man. legends!
Great song, great band. More cowbell, please 😉
More guitar, bass drums and vocals also 👌.
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Oh, goodie. Another re+@rd making a comment about "More cowbell". You really are original and clever, aren't you?
you need some new material..
Just saw them last week in London and I feel honoured to have had the privilege. Reaper is eternal. Thanks BOC.
One of the greatest songs of the rock era. Lyrically, filled with hope and courage, facing the unknown without fear or regret.
Hope? Obviously against GOD
@@shihyuchu6753
I suspect that you understand God as well as you understand poetry.
Empty set
@@scottjames1401 Could you explain?
..........Fear is the mind killer, fear is the little death........
@@archerbowyer7704 Kwisatz is that you?
bin froh und Dankbar dass ich diese Band mehrmals sehen durfte. Grüsse aus Deutschland !
imagine how many times they have played this song. And we still love it
Due to the popularity of snl the song sort of got a rebirthing
Steinberger
They only played it once. Its on a loop😂😂😂😂
7,647 times
its the song that keeps on paying them!!
through the 60s and 70s, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a musician. I was in bands, nothing great, they always broke up for one reason or the other, mostly frustration..
but after a while, I started to realize that, it is really hard to be able to put yourself in that mood to want to play well. You can go to your 9 to 5 job and get through the day not feeling well, being in a bad mood, being preoccupied, having off the job life changing things happen to you and your family.
but a musician has to feel like playing every night. You have to be in that tropical mood. And that’s not easy to flip that switch.
I have been playing guitar since 1964. I’ve been about 10 different bands. I’m gone through dozens of guitars and amplifiers, I got tired of getting home at 4 AM smelling like an ashtray, only to have to go to work at 6 AM sometimes to my regular day job. That gets old..
I have a lot of respect for professional musicians now more than ever. I know you have to be good every night, you have to feel like playing, you have to smile when you don’t feel like , you have to be an actor.
I used to wonder how bands could possibly complain about being on the road for months. Living in a bus together traveling, like the band with the name “the band “.. grinding it out night after night. That had to be tough. I couldn’t do it. I salute all musicians they don’t get the recognition they deserve 99% of the time..
I remember when the Beatles broke up I wondered, how could they possibly do that. Now, I don’t know how they could possibly stay together all those years.
do you see famous musicians floating from band to band starting new bands and then breaking up. I’ll bet most of the time, it’s the other band members or the big name it is burned out. It’s a grind…
The bands I was in, after a while, I just didn’t feel it. I ended up quitting. I’m just not cut out to be a musician..it ain’t easy..
I salute real musicians everywhere..
I'm with you Jody. I too played in rock bands in the st Louis area in the 70s. We had good bands with roadies and light and sound techs. Some bands we had to do our own work. I juggled 9 to 5 jobs trying to free myself to play 2 or 3 times a week. I am 70 now and still live off the memories. It was wonderful. The groupies ,the drinking and just general debauchery. Lol. I couldn't keep it up either and had to let it go.
Good post. I really appreciate the older bands who still have energy and engage with their audiences
Has to be one of the most underrated guitarists.
Does anyone know the brand or style name for his guitar "
@@jussitikkuri6991 Steinburger.
I hear the term “underrated” a lot in the guitar world but in this case I think it’s fitting.
@@bro7269 The whole band as BOC has been underrated. When they go from headlining the NY Academy of Music on New Years Eve 1973with a no name band like Kiss as the opening act in front of Teenage Lust then Iggy Pop and2 months later Kiss sold out the same venue and over the year BOC became the opener for Kiss.
@@daviclar867
Thanks Davi 👍
They still sound awesome! They're on their 70s and still hit the notes...no detuning required. Well done fellas!
Buck never has a dull note!. He's always automatically cool!
Where's Bloom and the cowbell?
But the harmony singer comes in weak.
"automatically cool", that says it.
@@RobertLBarnard oo
0&noDates I will reschedule to you next couple weeks in oo99999999⁹9⁹99⁹999999999⁹999999
Everything from the vocals to the guitars are haunting on this song. This is one of the reasons I love this song so much.
Buck Dharma: A true American musical treasure
If you have never seen this group in concert you don't know what you're missing 😊
Seen them all through the 80's and into the 90's and seeing them this weekend up here at a casino in MI again❤ 😊
Remember seeing them in winterland SF and the whole band sat in the front of the stage playing acoustic guitars. Awesome then saw them two day later in Stockton and they were even better. They had a love for Stockton because KJOY played whatever there first hit was and attributed much to them playing the song when no one else would.Hand held laser lights. Gotta love SOFT WHITE UNDERBELLY
Saw them, I think, in 1972…they opened for Black Sabbath.
I was in sixth grade…what was my dad thinking, letting me attend that concert??
The guitar playing is still unique and impressive. At the time the style of the solos blew my mind- they had a jazzier thing to them and not basic blues box stuff. Nice
Yeah, he's a real melodic player.
Bucks dad played Jazz Sax, he’s obviously influenced by it.
Always been a big fan of BOC, since the mid 70s.I would like to see them get in the Rock and Roll HOF.
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. The RnR Hall is a JOKE.
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is a joke.
@@davidrockcliffe2367 it may be a joke, but it means a lot to these bands to get recognition for their body of work.
It's a sad joke because bands like BOC aren't included yet rappers and pop stars are there. Like everything it is probably political in a nature. By this I don't me the governmental type politics. I do agree that it would mean a lot if these artists got their earned entrance into the HOF.
@@davidrockcliffe2367 yeah they wanted to put Dolly Parton in WTF?????
Buck is still tearing it up. Great to see he is still heart and soul performing.
i still havent found a song as ethereal as this one
Yeah my guys Coldplay and Dave Matthews Band still got work to do, imo. I 💘 them anyway!
In terms of atmosphere. Try Joy Division. Especially the songs Love Will Tear Us Apart, Disorder, Passover and New Dawn Fades
Try Robin Trower or David Gilmour/Pink Floyd
"You Take My Breath Away" by Queen
"High Hopes" by Pink Floyd
Middle-aged, greying hair and beard and he rocks better than anyone half his age. Love it!
Besides Sammy hagar
Since when is 75 middle aged?
Middle age is around 35-40
You would think that modern entertainers MIGHT wonder why guys like this still bring in the crowds.
Good music lives beyond a week from Friday...
Middle aged?
One of the best songs ever written ! Period !
Buck and Gilmour. Masters of feel. Love it.
Buck, Gilmour, and you forgot Neil Young
@@JInfinity7 LYNYRD SKYNYRD.
1976 77 My band was playing the Midwest towns of Decatur Ill and LaCrosse Wisc and staying at the Holiday Inn and meet the band also staying at the hotel. In Lacrosse we give Buck a ride to the sound check and our gig was a few blocks away and invite Buck to our gig and sure enough 11 and he comes through the door with a guitar and we invite him on stage and we have matching jump suits on. He loved it and the crowd did to. That’s my story with Buck.Glad he is still Rocking and so am I at 72.
Awesome story!
My band opened for BOC in 1997 during their 20th Anniversary tour.
Classic
I think you mean 30th anniversary ✌️
@@dougiestenhouse8301 It might have been 30. I was 18 at the time, and asked then to autograph a flyer for my parents because they were fans. It made them feel old! 🤣
@@murfdog19 Yup...had to have been 30th...this song came out in '75 and they had been around before the '70's...
There is something mystical in this song!
Timeless tune. Sounds as fresh today as it did 45 years ago.
Less of key musicans. They really need a keyboard player to do many of their songs-true to the album version. If there is a keyboard player, I may not have seen it. I think he did some looping with his guitar.
KICK IT BROTHERS .
Wonderful guitar work. Buck is rarely mentioned as a great player, but this proves that he is superb.
what? what are you talking about ?? is he "under Rated" too? omg the comments...
@@clemclemson9259 I didn't say "under Rated". Others did. You yourself have often been referred to as "under Rated". I remember seeing Bakerloo several times including at South Birmingham Poly, Henry's Blues House and Mother's, Erdington , where you opened for King Crimson , standing in for Thunderclap Newman, who were banned from playing owing to the age of their guitarist and licensing laws. You have always been an impressive guitarist including with Humble Pie.
Like "Last Days of May"
One of the greatest American rock bands.
nope according to half the comments Buck is "under rated"
There's just something about his playing, a haunting sound that's unique, that was a part of so many great songs like "Perfect Water", "The Vigil", and so many others including this. I'd put him in my top 20 favorite guitarists, I wish there was much more live content of him playing, but being lucky enough to see them play from stadium sized venues, to bars, and then to village festivals, I will consider myself lucky!
You are a fortunate fellow.
First time I ever listened to BOC was back in the early 80's.. Still in high school.. Hanging out in a garage rebuilding an engine in a Pontiac Grand Prix.. 400 cid with big double pumper Holly 4 barrel carb. Smoking lousy weed and drinking warm Miller beer..
Omg sitting in a basement 14 years old drinking sloe gin fizz and totally singing and rocking out. This took me back in the best way, thank you!
wow, sloe gin fizz, forgot about that drink. Well here's a toast to BOC
14 my goodness
edit unless the alcohol was aged for 14 years
Took me back with the sloe gin fizz. Just need a tequila sunrise and I’m done❤❤
Slo gin fizz was the get-laid drink we gave the girls at parties. Ah the 70's, what a time to be a teenager.
Just saw them in February at the Hard Rock in Hollywood with Deep Purple. Both bands were awesome. They've been two of my favorites since the early 70's and they still rock!
Buck and Bloom in their mid 70's and still bringing it hard!
I saw BOC in conceret in London 3 times between 1977 and 1981. The years have flown by and it’s quite a shock to see them in their seventies! This song brings back so many happy memories of a different Britain, a different London, a different ethos and an age of much more liberty.
This makes me so happy
I’m glad I was able to post. Hope you’re ok Joe!
Great footage ... Buck looks so laid back and loving what he's playing. Also love the pre-amble to this ... proof that these guys can still boogie and enjoy it ! 'Love you BÖC!
BOC is my favorite band of all time and this is why. He crafts guitar solos unlike some guitarists just shredding mindlessly. Love ya Buck!
Seeing BOC again at end of April. 🤘
My favorite band of all time too 👊
I can so imagine Christopher Walken saying: "Music ? ....of course....but I only listen to one band.....The Amazing, Blue Oyster Cult"
And a great opening for Steven King’s The Stand…
A great story fronted by a great choice for the theme
One of the great bands of the Rock Pantheon. BOC forever! 😎
one of my big influence, because he's got the feeling, technic and ideas...
More *cowbell* please 🔔
Well why don't ya go and buy a cowbell of your very own.
I see they added a cowbell. You can see the guy playing it behind the amps. Funny!
We've got COWS 🐄🙄
@@rogertemple7193you clearly don’t get the joke
Great music great beat
Mad respect to these gents !!!! Saw them many times back in the day. One hell of a stage show with godzilla and all the lasers etc .. Always loved BOC .
And whoosh! I’m back to my youth. Just like millions of others, memories are time stamped with this classic for me.
Always loved this unique band.
When you see a great band live, their timing is amazing, great posting
Been one of my favourite tunes forever, and was played at one of my best freinds funeral........how apt "dont fear the reaper" RIP AL
Buck looks great and sounds even better. Blown away with how good he sounds.
Probably a Steinberger, with graphite neck.
I saw Blue Oyster Cult in 1973 on a Weds night, while I was still in High School............ along with Wishbone Ash.
Still amazing after all the years ... i did get the 75 live Album "On your Feet or on your knees" from my german uncle in Chicago when I was about 15 years old. It changed my musical experience and until now I love them, cheers from Germany
1993...just graduated high school....late summer in southern california...driving home from the beach in my '71 baby blue VDub Bug...epic surf sesh done...riding high on life...and this song comes on the radio....this song carries that moment...that memory for me forever....I can't remember a single wave I rode that day...but I remember that song in that specific memory...epic
Love your story. I was there with you while reading it. What a good time to grow up.
I've seen These guys about 30 times over the years. Buck still has a cool, smooth, hauntingly beautiful way of playing! Rock on!!
Blue Öyster Cult is my Favorite band of all time! Buck Dharma is Amazing and truly one of the best guitar players ever!
I can't help it when I hear that cowbell I think of the SNL skit.
One of the greatest songs of all time
Still a classic after all these years
Saw them back in 1980 (at MSG)with black sabbath on their “black & blue” tour😎. My ears are still ringing😂
Me too at the International Amphitheater Chicago, IL
I had the pleasure of attending the black and blue concert in KC Mo.. great concert before Halloween 🎃.. guys walking through the crowd in Long dark robes for the b.o.c. occasions!!
And will forever ring! With the best sounds ever.
Saw them on that tour too at the then brand new Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. They came on first but i thought they blew Sabbath away They had a 50 foot paper mache Godzilla in the wings that popped out during the song!
Exellent....Super for the Years gone by , They are like a Time Machine
Damn Buck Dharma still got it, always been one of my favorite guitar players. And I love Blue Oyster Cult. 👍
5th March 2022, my 60th Birthday, and man i love this band, vastly underrated, they were the real deal superb
Blue oyster cult is the shit, I don't say that lightly, I will love them FOREVER.
Born in '55 I grew up with The Greatest Rock Bands ever to Grace this Earth. BOC was one of them. As I get older I am not afraid to die, simply because I Don't Fear The Reaper........
I remember them back in the 80s i was in my late teens some of the best yrs of my life and music they still play and sound awesome 👌
😀😃😃😃😃bule oyster cult very underrated rock bank i love yr music listenn since 1977
How great it would've been if Will Ferrell would've showed up with a cowbell. We need more cowbell.
…Yer eeeeeeeeevil mate ! ;)
Sounds like they paid attention to Will Ferrell's idea: 40 years later the cowbell is more pronounced.
Rick Beato interviews Buck th-cam.com/video/_Xvc81GL5EI/w-d-xo.html
There more than just a cowbell there is drum, guitars, bass and vocals as well a lot of people seem to forget that.
YOU guys still, completely rock. Thank you for posting. It's amazing in the audience they are all ages !!!
BÖC was the first band I saw live. That was their classic lineup with Al Lanier , Joe and Albert Bouchard.
Man, that concert must have rocked.
It's cool to see Buck jamming again
I saw this group in the same time frame in a large outdoor concert, and i was amazed at how good the group still was.
Buck is a great guitarist,, looking forward to see him play again,, Great upload !!!
I❤ Blue Oyster Cult!!
Kick-Ass buck, I love you you were my first concert!
This song never gets old, a great great tune.
Most memorable solo riff of the time. Glad to see him still kicking it.
Haunting and magnificent. So lucky to be around in the 70s. Never bettered, rock at its best. Bravo B.O.C
That opening looper riff and solo are pretty danged impressive too!
Brilliant. An all time classic
Great band…the melody was hypnotic like the time…..wrangle doesn’t matter the melodic melody does….takes you to another place….
Thanks SO much for uploading, my friend; it is GREAT to see these veterans STILL out there rockin'....and remember, DON'T FEAR THE REAPER..!😉
secret treaties is one of my all time favorite albums.sounds great even today . agent of fortune had this song but secret treaties had an entire album of burners.We live so lonely in the state of maine.
THE BLVE ÖYSTER CVLT; TYRANNY AND MVTATION is definitely my favorite album. I was 12 when my brother got this album and he introduced me to BÖC. These two are here a lot in LA should I see them at least a dozen times in my life. I miss seeing the rest of the original band in this video.
saw them at the hammond civic center in hammond indiana. touring the first album. what a show, loved em ever since. still play the first album LOUD..
One of the best songs ever
When I was a kid this song was big. Finally seeing it played live. Better late than never!
This could go on for a week and it would still be too short! A legend of a song.
thats the coolest guitar i have ever seen, i want it
I grew up listening to Blue Oyster Cult...I guess one could say I've lived a charmed life
Does anyone know the brand or style name for his guitar "
I saw 'em live in the 80's... great show!
Yes we have
Enchanted even.
@@jussitikkuri6991 it's a Steinberger that Buck has had some custom work done on. It's nickname is the "Cheeseburger".
Michael McLoughlin
I was lucky enough to see them live once in N.Y.C. That is a great memory.
They put on a great show. It' amazing how memory works.
Still an awesome song, love it.
Love to see them at this age, but I would give about anything to have seen them live when this song first released. Nothing is better than 70’s music like this. I close my eyes and wish I were back in the 70’s.
GREATEST GUITARIST EVER!!!
More cowbell B.O.C. Love them .. so so many times