BOC: Review of 3/6/95 show in St. Louis

[Ed Eichendorf]

-- [ From: Ed Eichendorf * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --


 Hi all, caught the Oyster boys at KSHE's Real Rock Restaurant and Concert
Club last night, and an excellent show it was! The venue: a medium size
bar/restaurant with booths along the side walls, a bar at the front and a
pit
area in the center with more booths, some tables, two rows of chairs in
front
of the stage, and the mixing board. My friend and I arrived after all the
good
spots were taken so we ended up standing in front of the bar and directly
behind the pit right next to the guy operating the spot light. Before the
show
started the spot light guy decided to move down to the pit behind the mixing
board. We immediately moved to fill the vacuum and consequently had an
excellent sight line on the same level as the stage about 80 feet away and
about 15 feet in front of the bar. As this place is owned by a radio station
it also has a lot of rock and roll memorabilia scattered around and hung on
the walls.

 The show: Blade Runner music started playing about 8:30 and then launched
into Stairway to the Stars with the rest of the set list being,

 Dr. Music
 OD'd on life
 ETI
 Harvest Moon
 Before the Kiss
 Teen Archer
 I'd Like to See You in Black
 Joan Crawford
 Flaming Telepaths
 Cities on Flame
 Last Days of May
 In Thee
 Lips in the Hills
 Burnin' For You
 Godzilla
 Don't Fear the Reaper

and then for the encore,

 Dominance and Submission
 The Red and the Black

ending at 10:22.

 This was the fourth time in the last four years that I've seen BOC and this
was the best show so far. This was also the first time I saw them indoors.
While the first four songs were pretty much standard issue Harvest Moon
really sounded good and my friend who had never heard it before really liked
it too. It sounded to me like it had an almost Imaginos feel to it although
it was written a few years before Imaginos came out. Teen Archer is a great
live song and I'm glad they've started playing it. I'd like to... is also a
good live song. Joan Crawford was a real surprise, my friend recognized it
before I did. Allen had some great keyboard work here. Flaming Telepaths
was cool, especially the strobe lights and laugh at the end. Cities had the
usual Buck theatrics but was the shortest solo I've yet seem him play on it.
He more than made up for it though on Last Days. In Thee was a great change
of pace and everyone seemed to enjoy it. Hearing the opening strains of
Lips in the Hills was the real shocker though. This was another good live
song. After that came the trinity with the bass and drum solos during
Godzilla.
The drummer went for about a minute with a stickless drum solo. They came
back
for the encore with a vociferous response during the 'Dominance'
'Submission'
call and response. After that it sure sounded like they were going to play
ME262 but they broke out into TR&TB instead.

 After the show we needed to use the Facilities and they were upstairs off
to
the right of the stage. As we were coming back down the hall past a door
marked Employees Only there was some guy bringing Danny a breathing Birthday
present. We decided this would be a good place to wait and before long Eric
came out wearing a Rangers jersey and I managed to get his autograph on my
T&M CD. Just after that some one came down the hall saying Buck was in the
bathroom and before long he came down the hall and I got to shake the hand
of God. Got his autograph too. Next up was Allen and he seemed to be the
most
talkative of the bunch. Most of the people getting albums autographed seemed
to be getting T&M signed. Someone even got a Quad T&M signed.

 At one point during the show Eric asked how it sounded and then mentioned
the band had just got some new Ampeg equipment. For the most part the sound
was excellent although occasionally the keyboards would get lost. All in all
this was a really great show and the only thing that would have made it
better
was if they would've played Golden Age of Leather.

  May the Oyster Boys rock you hard. Now we just need to get the Brain
Surgeons out here.
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