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Post by joe on Oct 27, 2023 2:44:30 GMT
Looks like DFTR showed up inside a PBS program. Looks like it aired on 10/19/2023 "You Gotta See This! By Peoria Magazine is a local public television program presented by WTVP."
You can skip the stuff at the front, the intro to the segment of the program starts at 13:55
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Post by joe on Nov 16, 2023 4:07:47 GMT
More of a personal experience "hearing" story from today than an actual sighting...
Hearing DFTR on the radio "seems" to bring me good luck; I hope the trend continues.
Wife and I were waiting in the parking lot of my oral surgeon's office for an ongoing dental work appointment. Yea, really fun.
We got there early and were pushing radio buttons trying to find ANYTHING interesting to listen to. I then hit on DFTR, then the volume got cranked up! We caught it about half-way through, but even half of DFTR put me in a better mood than anything else I had heard today.
Went in, getting ready to be put under, the surgeon was waiting on a tech for something, so he told me I might have good luck on this one. I said maybe so because I just heard a song by a friend of mine on the radio in the car. He asked what it was and I said "Don't Fear the Reaper" created / written / sang / played by Buck Dharma. You mean of Blue Oyster Cult???? Yep, that's the one. He asked if I actually really did know him, so I gave him a ~15 second rundown. He wondered if I was from New York since that's where BOC started out. Nope, met him for the first time in line at a hotel before a concert. He was impressed at the whole thing!
So Buck take pleasure that you and DFTR are known even to oral surgeons halfway across the country in 2023!
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Post by The Ocean on Nov 18, 2023 3:18:41 GMT
Just heard it in the trailer for the upcoming movie about the von Erich wrestling family which if you’ve never heard of them is one of the most bleak and depressing stories in wrestling history, which is saying something. DFTR is a great choice in that regard.
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Post by joe on Nov 18, 2023 3:28:55 GMT
Just heard it in the trailer for the upcoming movie about the von Erich wrestling family which if you’ve never heard of them is one of the most bleak and depressing stories in wrestling history, which is saying something. DFTR is a great choice in that regard. Yes, VERY prominent in the trailer. Just watched it. Add another one to the list!
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Post by joe on Dec 4, 2023 3:37:14 GMT
Heard it last night in the movie titled X. This sighting has already been mentioned in this forum at buck-dharma-forums.freeforums.net/post/17994 , but I thought I would add a little since they put DFTR to very good use.
MY THOUGHTS:
This was a low budget-looking horror flick reminiscent of the adult themed slasher flicks of the late 70's/early 80's. The kind that I watched a lot on TV and at a local drive-in movie theater (I had a source for free passes so I watched all or part of a LOT). Remembering how bad some of those earlier films were made X entertaining in it's on way since I hadn't seen one in awhile so there was a comedy factor to it. Even my wife kind of liked it and we had to pay attention since we didn't know when DFTR would kick in.
The placement of DFTR in the movie was perfect: the first kill of the night! The song wasn't just thrown in there, the scene was choreographed around it or the other way around, I couldn't tell. The sound level of the song was raised and lowered depending what was happening at the time. Sometimes just in background, other times almost describing what was going on. Lyrics were also placed at appropriate times, as was the guitar solo. A large part of the song was played coming in and out as appropriate. The meaning of the lyrics in the movie weren't exactly as Buck intended when he wrote the song, but hey this WAS a horror movie and we know DFTR is a go-to for such things.
Even if the movie was cheesy, I did appreciate the effort they made to have DFTR match the scene. I'm biased of course, but to me this was probably the most entertaining part of the movie!
DFTR lives on and probably will even after all of our times have come.
FYI Donald Roeser was properly credited as the writer and BÖC as "performed by".
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Post by soonerbillz on Jan 7, 2024 18:42:32 GMT
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Post by soonerbillz on Jan 7, 2024 19:04:49 GMT
Probably shared before but here's a marching band doing DFTR It's still pretty cool.
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Post by Buck on Jan 8, 2024 20:11:39 GMT
To hear G'n'R's "Welcome To The Jungle" in a rain forest would be to me, weird! 'Specially with Pygmies with blowguns and spears peering through the fronds at the hapless arrivals.
I'd be thinking, "This isn't what Axl had in mind!"
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Post by joe on Feb 18, 2024 3:34:50 GMT
DFTR will NEVER go away. Which is good. Someone will always come up with some clever way to use it.
Here's the latest find:
The "Don't Fear the Reaper Chicken Wing Challenge" at The Garden Grille and Bar, Hilton Garden Inn, Feb 15, 2024. Location unknown. Looks like some company's team building event or something, couldn't find the back story unfortunately.
To read the text you need to use the icon in the Vimeo player to change the resolution to 1080 and watch full-screen.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 24, 2024 15:38:58 GMT
Watching Resident Alien and reaper shows up in a pretty prominent scene taking place on Halloween, with the guitar solo timed to fit a really tense and heartbreaking scene as well. Pretty killer use of it. Great show as well. Alan Tudyk was BORN to play an alien poorly fitting in with humans 🤣
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Post by joe on Mar 29, 2024 2:30:29 GMT
Not a sighting of the DFTR music, but there is a recent church article, not sure if used in a sermon, that uses the concepts of DFTR.
From the one page article the author says:
"... the song neatly summarises a way of thinking about the never-ending process of life."
and further down:
"... What if we all followed the advice of Process thinking, or just listened to Blue Öyster Cult, and stopped trying to stop the perishing, and instead looked for what is becoming? ........."
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Post by joe on May 9, 2024 3:24:32 GMT
I'm not familiar with the website Screen Rant, but nice they went to the trouble to make this nice piece on DFTR even if this is from 2022. Not just a list, describes how DFTR is used in each of their 10 picks.
"10 Best Uses Of Blue Öyster Cult's (Don't Fear) The Reaper In Movies & TV"
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Post by joe on Jul 5, 2024 2:58:28 GMT
Not really a sighting, but coincidental hearings. Had a physical therapy session for my arm last Friday. A distribution transformer had just blown somewhere up the road, so NO POWER. And my PT room is on the third floor (I was on the sub-level). Wife spent an hour driving me there, so I was going anyway - power or not. I figured they were stuck up there, so they might as well work on me if they needed something to do. Fortunately the stairs had emergency lighting, along with a light here and there in the building. Spooky in there. So got to the PT room, three sides are windows, so plenty of light and the normal amount of people. Everybody seemed happier than normal, some kind of boom box blaring assorted rock tunes. An hour later, just winding up on my last new routine, having trouble with it, and guess what blared out of the boom box - DFTR! Instantly got motivated and figured it out. So just as DFTR finished and another song started, three guesses - power back on! Coincidence that it waited for DFTR to finish to come back on??? So the power was "there" before and suddenly now it's "here". Cool.
So next session was last yesterday (Wednesday). Power OK. Went up to the PT area, just ready to sit down, but heard "something". Poked my head into the exercise room - no boom box. Backed out and heard it again. So stuck my head way into the receptionists area, they gave me strange looks, and three guesses - DFTR playing! Again. Couldn't pin down the location, so I said "somebody here has good taste in music". One of them fessed up and said "oh, you mean the Reaper?" Three other ladies working up there, one said "that is MY song". Another said "NO, it's mine!". They all loved it. Never saw them that cheerful. I told them I would let the creator (Buck) know and they seemed curious about how I'd do that. So convinced them I could, so they asked if I would pass along their thanks for creating it. Tomorrow I'll tell them I did. So two times in a row. Kind of spooky in a nice kind of way. If I hear it again tomorrow, I need to buy some lottery tickets - or life insurance.
EDIT: Well I didn't hear it the third day, so no lottery tickets purchased. Darn. But Two out of Thee Ain't Bad.
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Post by agent on Jul 8, 2024 2:43:25 GMT
DFTR was bump music on The Big Weekend Show - Jim Clyburn seemed to be the Reaper elect
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Post by Espo on Jul 8, 2024 3:03:48 GMT
DFTR was bump music on The Big Weekend Show - Jim Clyburn seemed to be the Reaper elect They used Godzilla last Sunday. Love it!
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