BOC and Satan????

[Michael P Mccollum]

On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, ROBERT SEDLER wrote:

> ATTENTION: The following story IS true, but is intended to be
> SARCASTIC and HUMOROUS. No flames are necessary, I'll do it myself.
>
> I was hangin' around the other day kickin' out some serious jams to
> BOC's T&M album, and something that I had completely forgotten about
> came rushing back to me like an angry grandmother at a customer
> service desk. When I was younger (weren't we all?), it seems like just
> because I was "young & stoopid" I would always take heat from people
> about how that "satanic" music I listened to was putting my immortal
> soul in Jeopardy ( I usually picture Alex Trebek as the Grim Reaper
> here) and how I was going to "crackle and burn like spittle in a deep
> fryer" for listening to evil bands like Blue Oyster Cult.
>
> I remember being fresh out of high school, pimply-faced and full of an
> almost inexhaustible energy, and working at a local Burger King (low
> wages and all the cold fries ya can eat!). My boss, the store manager,
> was one of these guys who I'm sure EVERYBODY knows. He was one of
> these guys who was once into some serious drugs, but had kicked the
> habit because hang-ups and crutches are evil, and was now hung up on
> Religion. He had basically traded in his bong and straw on a cross
> (meet the new boss, same as the old boss). He used to let me listen to
> Blue Oyster Cult at work ONLY if he could, in return, preach to me
> the "evils" of the music I was listening to. I figgered I'd let him so
> I could jam at work, and so I could argue with the boss. Well needless
> to say, he pestered me every chance he got, and I gave it to him right
> back. He used to tell me about how Tyranny & Mutation was BOC's most
> popular album because Satan was alive in the music marketing world and
> was using all his power to get this album into everyone's home.
>
 i got hassled one time when i was 15 - i was wearing my club ninja tour
shirt with the big cult symbol as a throwing star and this dude came up
to me as i was going down the street and called to me about my shirt. I
thought he was a fan so i stopped and he he laid into me about all that
satan crap and i listened and got teary eyed -not because i felt sinful
or guilty of anything but because this guy had the gall to harass me
about something that brought me such great pleasure and i resented it. i was
just a punk kid but that really pissed me off and is one of those
formative events that made me what i am. Ive got my own religion now
based on the sanctity of amplification, the holiness of reverb and the
everlasting power of full on guitar frenzy.

-mike psyche

btw - anyone else ever heard the deal about boc astrally projecting
themseves over the audience when they played? It seemed to come up a lot
when i first got into boc - i think its mentioned in one of those rock is
satan books ive seen too -any explanations?, Al?