BOC-L Digest - 12 Aug 2012 to 14 Aug 2012 (#2012-101)

[Albert Bouchard]

If they are planning on anything like that they are keeping it a "surprise" to me too.

On Aug 16, 2012, at 12:33 AM, Chris Baker wrote:

> "Special guests and other surprises", huh?
> 
> If I thought this meant a one-night-only reunion of the original lineup I'd
> fly across the country (as little as I can afford to), but I can't imagine
> that anything of the sort is in the works.  (Albert..?)
> 
> from the band site:
> ---------
> Blue Öyster Cult - The Columbia Albums Collection includes:
> 
> 1. Blue Öyster Cult (1972 - studio - with 2001 CD bonus tracks)
> 2. Tyranny and Mutation (1973 - studio - with 2001 CD bonus tracks)
> 3. Secret Treaties (1974 - studio - with 2001 CD bonus tracks)
> 4. On Your Feet or on Your Knees (1975 - live) - 2012 Remaster
> 5. Agents of Fortune (1976 - studio - with 2001 CD bonus tracks)
> 6. Spectres (1977 - studio - with 2007 CD bonus tracks)
> 7. Some Enchanted Evening CD (1978 - live - with 2007 CD bonus tracks)
> 8. Some OTHER Enchanted Evening DVD (1978 - live)
> 9. Mirrors (1979 - studio) - 2012 Remaster
> 10. CultÖsaurus Erectus (1980 - studio) - 2012 Remaster
> 11. Fire of Unknown Origin (1981 - studio) - 2012 Remaster
> 12. Extraterrestrial Live (1982 - live) - 2012 Remaster
> 13. The RevÖlution By Night (1983 - studio) - 2012 Remaster
> 14. Club Ninja (1985 - studio) - 2012 Remaster
> 15. Imaginos (1988 - studio) - 2012 Remaster
> 16. Rarities
> 17. Radios Appear: The Best of the Broadcasts
> 
> In addition, the Blue Öyster Cult - The Columbia Albums Collection box set
> comes with a special download code good for four live concert broadcasts as
> well as as a forty page booklet chock full of photos and liner notes from
> celebrated music writer and guitarist Lenny Kaye.
> ---------
> 
> I'm psyched about the remasters that we haven't heard yet, not particularly
> surprised that there are no bonus tracks indicated but presumably that's
> where the Rarities come in.  I'd certainly prefer the rarities skew early
> rather than late  - i.e. I don't much care about stuff deemed not good
> enough for Club Ninja :)
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
> On 8/14/12 2:00 AM, "BOC-L automatic digest system"
> <LISTSERV at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET> wrote:
> 
>> There is 1 message totaling 32 lines in this issue.
>> 
>> Topics of the day:
>> 
>>  1. BOC news
>> 
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>> 
>> Date:    Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:33:56 -0700
>> From:    gary shindler <bewlay68 at YAHOO.COM>
>> Subject: BOC news
>> 
>> BLUE OYSTER CULT ANNOUNCE 40TH ANNIVERSARY BOX SET & SPECIAL NYC CONCERT
>> Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will
>> celebrate the 40th anniversary of Blue Öyster Cult--unleashed in 1972, the
>> eponymous debut album from America's heaviest psychedelic metal band presaged
>> punk, thrash and hardcore--with the release of Blue Öyster Cult - The Columbia
>> Albums Collection, a ...
>> monumental career-spanning BÖC library comprised of 16 CDs (the full official
>> canon plus two discs of rarities) and the mythic Some OTHER Enchanted Evening
>> DVD (a blistering concert video from 1978). The highly-collectible boxed set
>> will be available Tuesday, October 30.
>> 
>> Blue Öyster Cult (led by founding members Eric Bloom and Donald "Buck Dharma"
>> Roeser) will perform an historic New York City/Times Square show--featuring
>> special guests and other surprises--at the Best Buy Theater (44th & Broadway,
>> Manhattan) on Sunday, October 28 (doors at 7pm). Tickets go on sale, Friday,
>> August 17. Reserved seating is available for the show.
>> 
>> A limited number (100) of individual deluxe VIP packages for the Times Square
>> Show will also be offered. Designed to provide the ultimate BÖC experience,
>> each deluxe VIP package includes Blue Öyster Cult - The Columbia Albums
>> Collection (in advance of street date!) in addition to a guaranteed seat in
>> the first five rows of the Best Buy Theater for the BÖC Times Square concert;
>> a pre-show meet & greet with the band; an autographed limited edition Blue
>> Öyster Cult event poster and an exclusive commemorative laminate.
>> 
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