WHO: Blue Oyster Cult
WHERE: Trout Run Campground, 2137 Stannards Road (Rte 19), Wellsville, NY
WHEN: September 15 - 6 p.m.-10 p.m.
TICKETS: www.brownpapertickets.com
For over four decades, Blue Öyster Cult has been thrilling
fans of intelligent hard rock worldwide with powerful albums loaded with
classic songs. Indeed, the Long Island, NY‐based band is revered within the hard rock and heavy metal
scene for its pioneering work. Blue Öyster Cult occupies a unique place in rock
history because it's one of very few hard rock/heavy metal bands to earn
both genuine mainstream critical acclaim as well as commercial success.
The band is often cited as a major influence by other acts
such as Metallica, and BÖC was listed in VH1's countdown of the greatest hard
rock bands of all time.
Upon the release of BÖC's self-‐titled debut album in 1972, the
band was praised for its catchy-yet-heavy music and lyrics that could be provocative,
terrifying, funny or ambiguous, often all in the same song. BÖC's canon includes
three stone-‐cold
classic songs that will waft through the cosmos long after the sun has burned
out: The truly haunting "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" from 1976's Agents
of Fortune, the pummeling "Godzilla" from 1977's Spectres and the
hypnotically melodic "Burnin' for You" from1981's Fire of
Unknown Origin. Other notable BÖC songs include "Cities on Flame with Rock
and Roll," "Then Came the Last Days of May," "I Love the
Night," "In Thee,""Veteran of the Psychic Wars,"
"Dominance and Submission," "Astronomy," "Black
Blade" and "Shooting Shark."
The intense creative vision of BÖC's original core duo of
vocalist/lead guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, and
vocalist/rhythm guitarist Eric Bloom are complemented by Richie Castellano on
guitar and keyboards, and the longtime rhythm section of bass guitarist Danny
Miranda, and drummer Jules Radino.
We realized we're a 'classic rock' band. That's what we are,
that's what we do best, that's what we know. The band members are proud of
BÖC's classic sound, and pleased the band is creating vibrant work for
disenfranchised music lovers who don't like the homogenized, prefabricated pop
or sound-alike,
formulaic rap-metal, which monopolizes the radio airwaves and best-seller charts.
BÖC has always maintained a relentless touring schedule that
brings new songs and classics to original fans and, as Bloom puts it,
"teenagers
with green hair."
