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Post by Espo on Jul 11, 2022 21:42:45 GMT
The Mercury News published a review of the Alameda show and the current status of the band which are both very positive. While I was not at that show I have to agree with their assessment of the current band being spot-on. Unfortunately, I am not smart enough to be able to add a link to the article. However if I can find it you can too!
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Post by joe on Jul 12, 2022 1:14:01 GMT
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Post by Espo on Jul 12, 2022 2:15:43 GMT
Thx Joe!!
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Post by javan on Jul 12, 2022 3:39:04 GMT
I wouldn't say that Buck is the sole remaining original member and that Eric is just a "longtime member". He *is* on the first album after all. Otherwise, an enjoyable article. Whenever I read an article about the band that not written by a BOC fanatic (waves to everybody here), I cringe at the mistakes that could've been avoided simply by going to a trusted source online....
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Post by Espo on Jul 13, 2022 3:41:33 GMT
The whole original member argument is semantics. It's like saying Brad Whitford isn't an original member of Aerosmith because Ray tabano was there before him or Ringo isn't the original drummer because Pete Best was there before him. As far as I'm concerned who was ever in the lineup on the first record is an original member.
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Post by javan on Jul 14, 2022 1:20:40 GMT
The whole original member argument is semantics. It's like saying Brad Whitford isn't an original member of Aerosmith because Ray tabano was there before him or Ringo isn't the original drummer because Pete Best was there before him. As far as I'm concerned who was ever in the lineup on the first record is an original member. Exactly. Who played stun guitar on Blue Oyster Cult, recorded December, 1971? E. Bloom. Ergo, original member. |
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Post by joe on Jul 14, 2022 2:51:56 GMT
If I had to name the "original" members, I would have to refer to a actual band member or a respectable history site. So, with the lack of any other advice, I chose the website: www.hotrails.co.uk/bocfaq/faq_02.htm#02_03The following is quoted directly from the page above. I've highlighted the five performing members that I believe to be the documented original members:
"The agents of fortune responsible for this rage of heavy-metal thunder were a shadowy quintet, indeed. Their primal rumblings were first heard in the late 1960's, in the band known as Soft White Underbelly, which evolved into the Stalk-Forrest Group as an antidote to that era's "success-rock" syndrome. The dusty nightmare of Altamont settled into rock's fabric, and a thoroughly professional band emerged from the SWU/SFG heiarchy.
As Blue Oyster Cult then, a familiar lineup would remain unchanged for a dozen years: leather-clad Eric Bloom (vocals, guitar) leering at audiences behind silver-mirrored shades; white-suited Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser (lead guitar, vocals) attaining pyrotechnic levels that earned him Top-10 honors in rock-guitar polls; menacingly frail, pale Allen Lanier (keyboards, guitar, vocals), longtime companion to poetess Patti Smith, lurking near the fringes of BOC's pulse; and Long Island brothers Albert Bouchard (drums, vocals) and Joe Bouchard (bass, vocals), drifting effortlessly from pile-driving, bottom-end work to more exotic rhythms with enviable finesse."
The site also mentions a sixth member:
"The indispensable sixth member of this American rock 'n' roll cabal was Sandy Pearlman."
I don't think Sandy was a performing member. I think the commonly thought of definition of an original band member is a performing member, emphasis on "I think" and "commonly thought of". If you really want to open up a can of worms, look up some of the legal criteria for a "founding member" and a "co-founder". Lets not go there..... |
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Post by The Ocean on Jul 15, 2022 2:25:16 GMT
As far as founding or original members goes, the argument I always use is Buckingham/Nicks. There are more albums by Fleetwood Mac before they joined than after, but why WOULDN'T want to see the band with them?
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