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Summary: Light show to end all light shows
Comment: BOC was the quintissential live band back then. The ultimate laser light show before they outlawed it. Lasers hitting mirror balls raining down on the crowd while Astronomy played. Incredible. Never duplicated. Listen to the crowd go wild after astronomy on Some Enchanted Evening. Great Band. All of their albums are worth having.
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Summary: Live, loud, and crushing....yet poignant.
Comment: BOC used to tour in the late 70's early 80's each summer with Black Sabbath, on the double bill "Black and Blue Tour". I saw them together several times, including the infamous downpour rainout at Phoenix Stadium with Molly Hatchet and Shakin' Street (look it up). This album captures that energy like no other. Buck Dharma's Gibson through a few Marshall stacks. The sound is raw, tight, and aggresive. No digital effects, no overdubs, no jive studio harmonies, just the concert. "Cities On Flame" should be a workshop lesson for any young band that wants to understand syncopation, playing tight, letting the song breath with some space, and then bringing the hammer down. Study it.
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Summary: A Must Have From BOC
Comment: Absolutely a great representation of the powerhouse that BOC was back in the 70's. This is to date still one of my favorite live albums. I saw them live a lot and they put on a hell of a show. This album really does make you feel like your in the arena watching them perform. Great production and a perfect example of how raw yet powerful BOC was live. Buck is at the top of his game and blisters the lead solos from beginning to end. The Last days Of May (A True Story) has a hauntingly brilliant and beautiful yet all too short lead guitar solo. Buck Dharma (Donald Rosier) is a superior lead guitarist that never ever got his just due. He is great throughout this release. A Must have for any true rock fan of any era.
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Summary: super live album
Comment: Nowadays we can look back and see that BOC have released at least 4 live albums, "On Your Feet........", the first in 1975, Some Enchanted Evening in 1978, Extra Terrestrial Live about 1980 en finaly in 2003 Long Days Night. Each of them proves the strenght of BOC as a live act, with a very good show that is equally impressive as say a show of KISS with different kind of effects. Being Dutch I had the honor of seeing them way back on several occasions in Holland and Germany. They were a somewhat mystic band with tremendous players, for instance Donald Roesers way of guitar playing is more fluent than Ace Frehley. "On Your Feet ...." is an epic document of their show and setlist midways the seventies, after having released the 3 black and white studioalbums, with nonalbumtracks such as "Bucks Boogie" (now is the studiorecordering as bonus available), the Blues Brothers song "I Aint Got You" and Steppenwolfs showstopper "Born to be Wild". Every track is outstanding and gives you the idea of being part of the audience. With 5 musicians on stage, some of them playing different instruments (i.e. guitar and keyboards) and 4 of them singing lead this must be a hell of a job to record but the band succeed in it. They had often incomprehensible lyrics which adds to their mysterous aura. Sometimes the music is utterly chaos, among them "ME 262" which culminates in "5 guitars" but beautiful recorded. A very strong album, simply one of the best live rockalbums ever made.
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Summary: On Your Feet or on Your Knees
Comment: Being a fan of Blue Oyster Cult and not so much of the decision's of the radio airplay. This cd which many moon's ago I had on vinyl, remember. All I can say is "rocking"! Not so much on their Don't fear the Reaper but Cities on Flame. This CD is the one that has some excellent guitar and drum's that will make You bang your head or pull your little whip out that You will cherish forever. Excellent vocal's along with the hot "live" guitar's along with the mellowing out and then coming back in with an explosion of music if You've got the volume cranked up like it should be. "Last days of May" is one of the classic BOC song's they've done, All the song's on this CD are excellent to get You in the mood. One of the best live show's recorded, Pure Raw sound without the polished sound of the many take's of studio cut's. If anything it's worth having to play to the volume extreme and scaring Your kid's and letting them hear what music is all about. On a note of "CAUTION", listening to this while driving, "WATCH YOUR SPEED", and leave Your air guitar and drum's at home and keep those hand's on the wheel.
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