Genres: Hard Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal, Arena Rock, Album Rock Active: 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1967 in NY
The Who, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Moody Blues, The Byrds, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Pretty Things, The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, The Velvet Underground, The Rolling Stones, MC5, Jimi Hendrix Alice Cooper, UFO Jim, Steppenwolf, Rainbow & Stars, Robin Trower, Queensr˙che, Rainbow, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Whitesnake, The Billion Dollar Babies, Ozzy Osbourne, New York Dolls, Aerosmith, April Wine, The Del-Lords, The Dictators, Hawkwind, Kiss Monster Magnet, The Celibate Rifles, The Family Cat, Mike Watt, fIREHOSE, Alice in Chains, Makers, Queens of the Stone Age, moe., Follow the Train, CKY, Demon, Excel, Lucifer's Friend, Coheed and Cambria, Pist-On, Apocalyptica, Tenacious D, The Atomic Bitchwax |  |
Blue Öyster Cult was the thinking man's heavy metal group. Put together on a college campus by a couple of rock critics, it maintained a close relationship with a series of literary figures (often in the fields of science fiction and horror), including Eric Von Lustbader, Patti Smith, Michael Moorcock, and Stephen King, while turning out some of the more listenable metal music of the early and mid-'70s. The band that became Blue Öyster Cult was organized in 1967 at Stony Brook College on Long Island by students (and later rock critics) Sandy Pearlman and Richard Meltzer as Soft White Underbelly and consisted of Andy Winters (bass), Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser (guitar), John Wiesenthal -- quickly replaced by Allen Lanier -- (keyboards), and Albert Bouchard (drums), with Pearlman managing and Pearlman and Meltzer writing songs. Initially without a lead singer, they added Les Bronstein on vocals. This quintet signed to Elektra Records and recorded an album that was never released.
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Release: July 13, 2010
Label: Legacy
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Release: January 26, 2010
Label: Playlist
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