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Post by Alessandro on Feb 15, 2020 13:16:08 GMT
I think Eric said in a recent interview that they briefly toyed with the idea of performing Treaties as a whole in 2019, like they did with Agents and the first album, but then eventually gave up (unless I figured out a non-existent interview and convinced myself it was true, see the topic above about selective memories and damaged brains )
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Post by duckbarman on Feb 15, 2020 20:31:19 GMT
I think Eric said in a recent interview that they briefly toyed with the idea of performing Treaties as a whole in 2019, like they did with Agents and the first album, but then eventually gave up (unless I figured out a non-existent interview and convinced myself it was true, see the topic above about selective memories and damaged brains ) That would have been the album for that particular treatment... > but then eventually gave up
Sadly, as there was no Buck vocal on that LP, I wonder if that had anything to do with the decision to drop the idea, as it would have put a big strain on EB to carry the full load...?
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Post by Buck on Feb 20, 2020 16:35:36 GMT
Eric picked up a hitchhiker once that claimed he saw us at the Mount Rushmore festival (where Eric jumped off Washington's nose.)
The Rushmore festival was a complete fabrication by Richard Meltzer, writing in some music publication, can't remember.
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Post by duckbarman on Feb 25, 2020 17:25:45 GMT
Eric picked up a hitchhiker once that claimed he saw us at the Mount Rushmore festival (where Eric jumped off Washington's nose.) The Rushmore festival was a complete fabrication by Richard Meltzer, writing in some music publication, can't remember. That Rushmore festival thing has proven problematical to stand up. Here's what EB's said in the past: "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..."So I wondered what magazine was it - the obvious suspect would be Crawdaddy but I haven't been able to get access to any 1970-71 back issues to check... However, I did spot a strange series of adverts for a 04 July 1971 SFG Binghampton gig. Check out the small text at the bottom of the ad below: "This group appeared at the Sugarloaf Mountain Festival in LA. According to Crawdaddy magazine, "they were the only pleasant surprise of the Festival".A Californian SFG gig...? That was news to me and I decided it must be what could euphemistically be described as "a load of old bollocks", designed to make the band sound a bit more "cosmopolitan" to punters, prospective promoters and venues alike... it's not like people could look it up on the internet back in 71 to check up... :-) Then Joe added this helpful info: Stalk Forrest never played in California. I remember this Sugarloaf Fest was invented by Richard Meltzer and probably Sandy Pearlman too. Richard had an article in Crawdaddy where he describes the made-up festival in detail. It was all a farce to promote the group.
So that more or less corroborated my thoughts on the ad, but then I had a further thought: here's Meltzer inventing a distant music Festival in Crawdaddy to promote the band around the NE... Could this be the Rushmore festival that Eric was referring to? - obviously that would mean he'd mis-remembered the actual Festival name... the sticking point, of course, would be the jumping off "George Washington's nose" bit - hard to replicate that at a Sugarloaf Mountain Festival... So I ended up - as usual - in a state of confusion... :-( The only way to clear it up, I suppose, is to find that issue of Crawdaddy...
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Post by bil on Feb 25, 2020 22:06:10 GMT
More interesting is the price of beer!
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Post by zillagodreturns on Mar 4, 2020 7:54:59 GMT
I always longed to hear Les Invisibles and/or Magna of Illusion...and I still do. Every show I saw on that tour, about a dozen in So Cal, I was hopeful it would come out.
Is it unpopular to say I prefer the Maestro's version of Astronomy? That into! Those vocals!
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