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

[Albert Bouchard]

Usually I call management about issues but I usually email Eric or Don every couple months to say hi.
Al

On Aug 16, 2012, at 11:31 AM, gary shindler wrote:

> Do you communicate much with them, Al, or just their manager?
> 
> 
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> ________________________________
> From: Albert Bouchard <altbouch at GMAIL.COM>
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET 
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 9:17 AM
> Subject: Re: BOC-L Digest - 12 Aug 2012 to 14 Aug 2012 (#2012-101)
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> 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
>>> 
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> 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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