Post by sirrastus on Jul 26, 2015 5:03:19 GMT
Two great pieces from Classic Rock(posted on J&A) about the Les days and the early days up till 2006 when the piece aired.My fave pararagh from the second article:
Having two prankster wordsmiths around helped in other ways as well. “Sandy and Richard were writers, so to help promote us they’d make up shit about us.” Bloom says. “Meltzer wrote an apocryphal article about us in some rock magazine that was totally tongue in cheek. He wrote that we played at the Mount Rushmore rock festival. Of course, there was no such thing. But he said that the highlight of the show was when Eric Bloom jumped off of George Washington’s nose. A couple of years later, we’re driving somewhere in America in our van. We see some poor guy hitch-hiking on a two-lane blacktop, so we picked him up. ‘Are you guys a band?’, he asks us. ‘Yeah', we tell him: ‘We’re Blue Öyster Cult'. The guy says: ‘No kidding! I was at the Mount Rushmore festival!’. He said he saw my jump off the nose...”
Having two prankster wordsmiths around helped in other ways as well. “Sandy and Richard were writers, so to help promote us they’d make up shit about us.” Bloom says. “Meltzer wrote an apocryphal article about us in some rock magazine that was totally tongue in cheek. He wrote that we played at the Mount Rushmore rock festival. Of course, there was no such thing. But he said that the highlight of the show was when Eric Bloom jumped off of George Washington’s nose. A couple of years later, we’re driving somewhere in America in our van. We see some poor guy hitch-hiking on a two-lane blacktop, so we picked him up. ‘Are you guys a band?’, he asks us. ‘Yeah', we tell him: ‘We’re Blue Öyster Cult'. The guy says: ‘No kidding! I was at the Mount Rushmore festival!’. He said he saw my jump off the nose...”
