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Blue Oyster Cult Reviews Page Mohegan Sun Arena April 22nd, 2005
BOC on tour forever…. It does seem that way. I’ve been a fan of Blue
Oyster Cult since nineteen eighty, having been
turned onto the album “Some Enchanted Evening”. I than became an
oysterholic. I simply loved them. Having
seen them from the second row center in nineteen- eighty one, Springfield
Civic Center. It
was the Black and Blue tour (BOC and Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio). The images are
STILL burned into my memory and what I still call my best concert in my life time thus
far, and I’ve seen a lot of concerts since then. The laser light show, the
motorcycle being
ridden on stage, and even the drummer wearing a Godzilla head. Let’s not
forget the
pyrotechnics that knocked rows of us to the floor, with a stream of
wind and heat that actually
blew my hair! Anyway, my point is, they rocked! Since that
magical moment, I’ve seen them countless times with and without the Bouchard brothers,
Albert and Joe. They really did make a great band but they parted for
undisclosed reasons. Trivia: Do
you know what the symbol means? It is an ancient symbol that means
"Blue Oyster Cult". The BOC
logo was created by Bill Gawlik, the artist who created the band's first and
second album
covers. It is a stylization of the astronomical symbol for the planet Saturn.
In the process of
creating the album cover, Gawlick used a washer to separate the symbol into
its 5 parts
hook, bars and dot. When the band was shown the artwork for the album cover,
they instantly
decided that it would be the perfect band logo, and that it is. Ok,
getting to the recent concert I just saw. I don’t want to be harsh since I
love the band and their
music, which will never change but, the show was very lack luster to say the
least. It was
disappointing when compared to they other concerts I have seen. As it was put
to me, the hunger
is no longer there. There was no showmanship, no theatrics, no nothing. They were
motionless and played in a sense of being mechanical “Going Through The
Motions” (excuse
the pun, a song from my favorite BOC album Spectras). They sounded good,
don’t get me
wrong, I mean if you played the same songs over and over again for thirty
plus years, I guess
you’d sound good too but be
bored as hell doing so. They did play some new tunage that I couldn’t
really relate to. Don’t Fear The Reaper was second to the last song. It did
have me on my feet
just below Buck Dharma in front of the stage. I would have to say, that was the highlight
of the evening for me. Would I go
see them again if they came back around? You know they will since their motto
is…. On
on
tour forever… The answer would be yes. Set List
Lips In
the Hills
Cities On Flame
Red and The Black
Astronomy
OD’d On Life
Godzilla
Burning
Don’t Fear The Reaper
Transmaniacon
Hot Rails
Harvest Moon
Kelly Roadway Hajduk Rating **
1981
2005
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