Message from Bolle

[DFrost8547 at AOL.COM]

Bolle asked me to post this. So I will. Suppose he's being rather
elliptical... leave it to you to ascertain which band member cannot take
charge of his life. But caveat emptor-- the musings about record
companies/management, and how only garage bands deal with venues, etc (tell
it to Mick Jagger) is rooted in even less reality than any of the flights of
fantasy and or balderdash that have driven most of the non-dreamers offa this
list....
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Forwarded message:
Subj:    BOC fall off
Date:    96-01-07 02:20:37 EST
From:    TUBULAR 1
To:      DFrost8547

Dear Deborah,
Please post this for me for the BOC-L folks...:

Happy New Year one and All. I was very thrilled to get a X-mas card from all
of your guys, via Lynn, which was a great treat in deed, seeing especially
how I've failed to be posting stuff on your side of the line. This is of
course all because of my computer illeteracy and my unwillingness to try
things out because of pure hatred of making mistakes.
One of these days I'll have a computer and modem and everything else to
enable my desire's fullfillment.
Whatever this may turn out to be....

Meanwhile... The debated fact of The Fall of BOC is nice and like you guys I
am as much concerned about the future of our favorite band.
But believe me, you are all very naive and ignorant in the facts of Show
Business. Most of your thoughts aren't even considered on the level of bands
and musicians. It's not up to Eric nor Buck to come up with Concert Venues to
play, The record company side of things are harsh business negotiations that
never touches the band, Only its management deal with these Questions.
Without record company support, there is no financial back-up either to
record a new album in old fashioned ways, which means a lot of Studio time
spent on testing out ideas, doing pre-production and several recordings.
These days there isn't even time nor money for these bands to even rehearse
properly nor is there a budget set up for any active planning for a tour,
record, video, whatever...
You all suffer from the small mind thinking of a band being like some garage
outfit that still book their own gigs, pay for their own rehearsals and
recordings... Those days in BOC's case disappeard back in 1967 when Sandy
Pearlman took charge and begun his Immaginos project that turned out to
become Soft White Underbelly, Oaxaca, Stalk-Forrest Group... The Santos
Sisters??? whatever... We still cherrish this phenomena as Blue Oyster Cult.
right now in MARK-12 set up with the proper return of Chuck Burgi for their
'96 shows. There is material for another album, The Industry doesn't seem to
have time to concern themselves with another "Come-Back" but this has nothing
to do with the band... this is all industrial mega money corporation
thinking, and all they want today is to make Hamburgers...Buy Now, Eat Now,
Forget Now, (Infinite repeats.) Consumation at the cost of The Lowest Common
Denominator, We all know better, BOC is not part of that train of thought at
least not in our minds and hearts...
We're still at awe of this machine and every time we se them live we forget
our grumpy thoughts, If anybody can come up with a receipe to solve this "Has
Been" predicament, I'm here at least to accept any thoughts... Anyway, What I
want to share with you is the default of any band member in charge of his
life... he could be, but that would always be interpreted by that community
he is involved with and may cause unnecessary tention where obviously not
desired by others. This is open to interpretation. but please in the future
refrain from the small thinking because we should all know better than this
by now...
Meanwhile, I remain Yours Truly:
BOLLE_!_?
P.S. May The Cult Be With You All!