The tone of the rhythm guitar is gnarly and, again, Buck Dharma does a good job of making his guitar a focal point. It has a great rhythm guitar bit, enchanting vocals, and some great guitar work by Buck Dharma (this guy is my hero). This does pretty much encompass their whole creative career.ĭon't Fear The Reaper is their most famous song (mainly because of the cowbell sketch on SNL, you can find that at ), and rightly so. I chose to buy their greatest hits instead of their individual albums because, frankly, they have a LOT of albums and I don't have a lot of money.

Bloom, Buck Dharma, and Lanier are still in the band today, and they are still touring (I missed out on going to see them because it was an outdoor show and it was raining :upset: ). Since then, they've continued to release albums and tour. After spending a couple years as a bar band under the names Stalk-Forrest Group and Oaxaca, they changed their name to Blue Oyster Cult and recorded their self-titled debut album for Columbia Records in 1970. After a while, they replaced their singer and bassist with Bloom and Joe Bouchard.

In the late sixties, Buck Dharma, Allen Lanier, and Albert Bouchard started a band called the Soft White Underbelly during college. They are one of the best bands in rock music and blazed a lot of trails. I noticed something really peculiar - unless I'm dyslexic, there is NO Blue Oyster Cult there.

I read through the review list yesterday, mainy because I really had nothing better to do.

Blue oyster cult don't fear the reaper