Garage, Inc liner notes

[Andrew A. Apold]

Features mentions of each of the covers.

On Astronomy/BOC section, it says (written by David Fricke)

"Astronomy" comes from Blue Öyster Cult's 1974 guitar-army classic,
Secret Treaties.  Newsted claims that, in his teenage concert-going
years, he saw BÖC more than any other band--"becuase they toured more
than any other band."  I vividly remember seeing them in Philadelphia
in '75, Buck Dharma and Eric Bloom locking guitar necks like medieval
swordsmen in front of three floor-to-ceiling banners with the group's
trademark cross-and-claw logo, turning the classy Shubert Theater on
Broad Street into some kind of electric teenage Nuremberg.

On record, BÖC were metal with brinas.  They wrote fierce, savvy
garage-noir songs about biker wars and adolescent meltdown.  They
collaborated with punk priestess Patti Smith and rock critic Richard
Meltzer, were literate in 60's punk and psychedelia, and, in Dharma,
had a lead guitaris of astounding force and precision.  He didn't just
play licks; he shoved hot needles in your ears.

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Earlier, citing influences:

"Black Sabbath, Merciful Fate, Discharge, Blue Öyster Cult...
Diamond Head and Misfits..... it's obvious which end of the yardstick
they come from."


Hawkwind gets brief mention in the summary of Lemmy's career.


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