A Long Day's Night Blue Oyster Cult
Album info
Album-Release:
2020
HRA-Release:
04.12.2020
Album including Album cover
- 1 Stairway to the Stars (Live) 03:53
- 2 Burnin' for You (Live) 04:39
- 3 OD'd on Life Itself (Live) 04:41
- 4 Dance on Stilts (Live) 05:49
- 5 Buck's Boogie (Live) 06:26
- 6 Quicklime Girl (Live) 04:58
- 7 Harvest Moon (Live) 04:42
- 8 Astronomy (Live) 10:19
- 9 Cities on Flame (Live) 05:53
- 10 Perfect Water (Live) 05:22
- 11 Lips in the Hills (Live) 04:20
- 12 Godzilla (Live) 08:44
- 13 Don't Fear the Reaper (Live) 08:14
Info for A Long Day's Night
Recorded live on June 21, 2002 at the Navy Pier / Skyline Stage in Chicago, Blue Öyster Cult’s “A Long Day’s Night” celebrates, at the time, 30+ years of incredible music from the band. This release truly highlights the band's phenomenal career up until that point in time.
Originally released in 2002 is now being reissued for the very first time on HighResAudio. The audio appearing on all formats has been completely restored and remastered to achieve a stunning new listening experience.
The memorable show was captured on the release “A Long Day's Night,” so titled because it took place during the summer solstice. For two hours, guitarist/vocalists Eric Bloom and Buck Dharma, keyboardist/guitarist Allen Lanier, and their bandmates regale a revved-up crowd with Cult classics like "Burnin’ for You," "Last Days of May," "Godzilla," and, of course, "(Don't Fear) the Reaper.”
Eric Bloom, vocals, stun guitars, keyboards
Allen Lanier, keyboards, rhythm guitars, background vocals
Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, guitars, vocals
Danny Miranda, bass, background vocals
Bobby Rondinelli, drums, percussion
Recorded June 21, 2002 at Navy Pier/Skyline Stage, Chicago, Illinois
Produced by Steve Schenck
Digitally remastered
Blue Öyster Cult
Spanning three decades, Blue Öyster Cult has a long and storied history. The band got its start in the late ’60s on Long Island, New York, as the Soft White Underbelly, but each member had been involved in bands previously in high school and college, before ending up in the “right place at the right time” to create the beginnings of Blue Öyster Cult.
The threads that eventually wove together to create Blue Öyster Cult got their start in upstate New York.
Long Island native Donald Roeser and Albert Bouchard (of Watertown, New York) met at Clarkson College, in Potsdam, NY. The two were introduced by a mutual friend, Bruce Abbott (who later co-authored “Golden Age of Leather” with Donald). With Abbott and two other friends, they formed “The Disciples” and played college parties and local beer halls. The next year, the band reformed and played the same circuits as “Travesty” (named after the Blues Project album). Through all this, their studies fell by the wayside, and both Albert and Donald decided to quit college to concentrate on playing music full-time.
Eventually “Travesty” broke up, Donald and Albert took seperate paths for a while. Donald went back to Long Island, and Albert took a musical opportunity in Chicago. After moving there, though, the band fizzled, and Albert returned to NY and joined Donald. In the meantime, Donald had been jamming with local musicians, and had met a person that would become very influential in their future: Sandy Pearlman.
Sandy Pearlman became interested in rock music around the time of the British Invasion, and was a pioneering voice of rock criticism, opening a new field for creative writers like Lester Bangs. Both Pearlman and his friend Richard Meltzer were contributors for seminal magazine “Crawdaddy!,” the first magazine that dedicated itself to analysis of rock music and its culture.
Allen Lanier came into the fold by way of guitarist John Wiesenthal. Allen had accepted employment at a film company at which Wiesenthal was also an employee. After becoming acquainted, Wiesenthal invited Allen out to Long Island to meet and jam with the loose group of musicians he played with, and Allen began to regularly jam with them.
An old house near Stony Brook College became ground zero for the formative band, and casual jams with whomever happened to be hanging around began to turn into rehearsals with a core band, which included Wiesenthal, Donald, Albert, Allen and Andrew Winters, a school friend of Donald. It was 1967.
Pearlman (along with Meltzer and Wiesenthal) had been a student at Stony Brook, and was becoming increasingly involved in the music scene. When he heard the formative combo, he instantly recognized the talent at work. He had an idea for a band, and thought that this group of musicians had the chops to put that idea into play. The musicians saw that Pearlman’s contacts and stature in the local (and increasingly national) scene could help them spawn a career as well, and an alliance was formed.
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