Blue Oyster Cult - Live - 1972 - Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll

[bloksaspew]

These are "The Guitars that Destroyed the World" ! ! Yeeaah ! ! !

[badgermousy]

yeah. no one, er, nobody, rocks like this. albert bouchard is a force of nature. he is the guts of the bÖc. this is the origin of metal, except that metal don't tie down bÖc. they transcend metal. greatest band ever. sö cool, sö funny, sö superb.

[TheRaidersrock28]

Best version of this song ever

[don62snodgrass]

@junkers290 They don't make 'em like that anymore! Nantucket Sleighride is one album of a 2 album set! I love Mountain! Those were the days!

[beachbum654]

Everybody Loves my Baby!!!

[citiesonflame13]

Check out Blue Coupe, both B bros plus Dunnaway from A.Cooper. Fantastic trio. Nominated for 4 rammy awards including "Best New Artist". 40 yrs later the industry still has no clue. LOL

[ifutureman]

great song, but Albert Bouchard could not sing to save his life. Eric and Buck were the only ones who had any business singing lead vocals. This song would probably be an FM radio classic if it only had a strong vocal track.

[WickedFesterBand]

@ifutureman Beg to differ......... Eric sings it now and it isn't as good.

[don62snodgrass]

Live albums were always my favorite...Live at Leeds, Cheap Trick at Budokan, Mountains' TwinPeaks, Rory Gallaghers' Stage Struck, and...THE AMAZING BLUE OYSTER CULTS' ON YOUR FEET OR ON YOUR KNEES!!!!! I had the album and the 8track and wore them both out during the late 70's and early eighties. Underrated album by an underrated band that should be in he Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!!!!!

[junkers290]

@don62snodgrass Unbelievable! In one post you have managed to name three of my all time favourite records, Stage Struck, Twin Peaks and of course On Your Feet Or On Your Knees. I still have all three on vinyl, and they are still playable.

[toogawnjawn]

The one tune by boc that is really hard to find a video on is the one that goes I love you like sin, but I won't be your pidgeon, I do not know what the deal is up with that, a song that got air play, unless it is a copy wright issue.

[kurtmanerz]

@toogawnjawn 'Sinful Love,' off of 'Agents of Fortune' - great song

[bloksaspew]

@kurtmanerz I may be yer dove,but I won't be ur pidgeon...

[Flunder]

typo "nobody" I got caught up in the ROCK!

[Flunder]

nobody rocks like this. nobosy!

[linkone11]

I saw these bad asses in the late '70's; during this song they all lined up with guitars. I have never seen anything like it. Pure rock an roll (with the exception of Led Zep live). I just hope that you younger rockers find something similar in your concert experience. If you do, let me know, so I can see them too.

[topdog591]

These guys were on every stadium tour in the 70's that came through Cleveland and the Richfield Coliseum...What a time it was kids.....Still ass kickin

[redhead5150]

B.O.C. ROCKS LIKE IT SHOULD BE!!!!

[metalicult]

my favorit band!!! and passing it on my 24 year old sons also we went to show in foxboro mass 3 06 10 his first boc show!!!! the look on his face priceless

[jamesjwalsh]

Thanx for putting this on. Fantastic stuff.

Is "I'm on the lamb...." available from this performance? Or some other early

live show?

[rickyon]

You're welcome. This EP had 4 songs. This one, The Red And The Black, Workshop Of The Telescopes and my all time favorite Buck's Boogie. I heard recently that there were more songs recorded from this show but I've never seen them available anywhere. Sorry!

[FAZOOO]

FUCKIN AWESOME!!!!!!

[TheBhannah]

one 1,000 guitarz

[kcdave11]

God, these fuckers straight up jammed!

[clubninjarock]

Shake it! Don't break it! Buck Dharma!!!!!!

[joeseg1963]

mannn who rocks like this anymore? Awesome jam! thanks for posting this!

[rickyon]

You're welcome!

[gzrmember1976]

wcmf in rochester is still on the air i used pick them up when i lived in attica good radio station

[paperboy6996]

awesome HQ video thanks for posting I Miss Albert but LONG LIVE BOC

[rickyon]

You're welcome!

[labluvver]

@paperboy6996 Search for Albert Bouchard's Outrageous Canadians, and Blue Coupe. No need to miss Albert, my friend.

[Danh103663]

Everybody else can celebrate Dylan's Birthday -- I'm celebrating Albert Bouchard's Birthday, because BOC was my Bob Dylan!

[heavybreizhad]

Great sound for a great band

[aaa567ify]

Lot's of Don't fear the reaper. Anybody have Burnin' for you, single or other famous singles by BOC. Thanks if there available! Awesome song and slideshow.

[BKellyS]

BOC ROCKS! My 18 year old son sent this link to me. The kid has good taste! I saw them in the late 90's at the Cotillion here in Wichita, a smaller venue (holds maybe a couple thousand?). I was about 20 feet in front of Buck Dharma, it was awesome watching a legend that close. He has been one of my favorites and a big influence on my guitar playing since the 70's.

[goopah]

Albert was always underrated as a drummer. Very creative. And a great vocalist as well. Unique vocal style.

[96renegademan]

wwwwwwwwwooooooooooooooowwwwww­wwww haha this is where i live

[korina95]

RICKYON ! WE GOTTA QUIT MEETING LIKE THIS!!!!Your taste in music is truly on a par with mine. You have great taste!!!

[rickyon]

I see you've found one of my friends Jerry Schares. He's kanushrox here on You-tube. You and I are close to the same age and what can I say, we have great taste in music! You have to go pretty deep into my uploads to see a lot of my other favorites because for the last year and a half or so I've been posting mostly Kansas and my own bands from the '70s and '80s. If you're on Facebook I have a shitload of pictures over there.

[firstshirt434]

How do you solve the problem of which guitar sounds best? Have everybody play a different one!!

[mikeinoakland]

greatest live hard rock recording of all time (the 4-song orig CBS promo 12-inch, NOT the later "bootlegs")...nothing else ever close

ditto all their first LA-area live gigs 1973-74. Hollywood Palladium, Palladium again (first with Mott the Hoople, then with Stories (both 2nd billed), their first LA headlining show LONG BEACH AUDITORIUM (two nights, early winter 1974)...again, nothing else ever close. Buck was playing the "cherry red SG" then (like on this CBS live 4-song lp)...awesome axe.

[bobbyozb]

Saw them in Cleveland in '79......They played all their good tunes.....This, Godzilla, Don't fear the reaper, Astronomy Etc......They didn't screw around.....They hit the stage and played their asses off......Good old time rock and roll !!!!

[DoomMetalSludge]

This song is based off Black Sabbath's "The Wizard" - BOC and their management were always Sabbath heads! Sandy Pearlman and Murry Krugman ended up managing the Sab's in 1980! Both killer bands. What a great quality recording!

[MatthewMartin23]

For sure something is missing vocally in BOC without Albert and Joe. If you considered BOC as the elements, fire, earth, air and water, Eric is fire, Albert is earth, Joe is air and Buck is water as far as their singing abilities. This is why Al and Joe are still doing their thing and Buck and Eric are still doing their thing. All are phenomental musicians. It's too bad they could not all work out. Still, I do enjoy the current BOC lineup. They rock and rock hard. Love them live!

[TheRanger28]

Now this is BOC, I'm sorry but Eric can't carry this tune like Al Bouchard did. And the whole band just sounds awesome back in the day.

[mike21b]

Damn good recording for something from 1972! 

[BlackmoreRules]

The TRUE hard rock!

[RoeserFan2]

@BlackmoreRules Ritchie!

[fuzz1a]

Yeah! I guess?

[phagola]

that hook is on par with Black Dog

[EerieBetrayal]

i fucking love blue oyster cult :D rock n fucking roll!

[RoeserFan2]

If you pit this version of this song against any other hard rock/metal tune the result would be the boxing equivalent of a KO for Cities on Flame in the first 10 seconds of the first round. Look up "kick a" in the dictionary and you will find this video. It is positively savage.

[GeminoSmothers]

Blue Oyster Cult inspired metal in general. It still inspires to this day. I listen to a lot of extreme metal bands, but nothing kicks ass like this.

[sgrroiii]

Bet they had great Pizza too . Rock & Roll Heaven !

[tigerlilysun]

The first song I ever knew all the words to. Recorded 1 year after I was born.

[F8F77]

Killer Stuff!  Great Recording..... Raw early Metal ..... The Real Thing Baby

[everydayshitshow]

Awesome

[RoeserFan2]

rick, pathetic that this has only 3,500 views. I think I account for about 1,000 of them! Great pics, and the hardness of the guitar riff is magnetic to my ears.

[rickyon]

Thanks and Buck Dharma does kick ass!

[ih8tbush]

@RoeserFan2 This is a rare treat. If you think about it 1972 was probably the greatest year in the history of rock and roll (Exile, Ziggy, Eat a Peach, School's out,Harvest, Fragile, Close to the Edge, Something Anything) AND that's the year the cult debuted? wow!

[Burnstickibuds]

Not bad.

[thebeatles4664]

too fast (twss) but still awesome song!!!!!!!

[roddergreg]

Has anyone ever noticed how BOC hasn't had a major hit since the Bouchard Bro's left?

[yourunclehank1]

@roddergreg Yep. Wish they'd recorded with that

Blue Coupe thing they had going. Joe, Al and

Dennis Dunaway

[Supertzar999]

@roddergreg

Not sure how much the Bouchards had to do with it. Their peak commecial years were from 76' to 82' and then seemed to fall off the radar with the introduction of hair bands dominating the airwaves. My personal favorite lineup was from 10 - 15 years ago with Bobby Rondinelli on drums and Danny Miranda on bass.

[MatthewMartin23]

@Supertzar999 Which proves the point of the value of Al Bouchard. If you research it closely, he alone wrote and or composed almost 40% of their material. That is a daunting amount of music genius that they lost in 1982, which was as stated the end of the peak of their commercial success. I enjoy today's BOC because Eric and Buck are legends of rock, but notwithstanding the absence of the Bouchards is felt in the lyrical quality and in the total balance of the band.

[MatthewMartin23]

@roddergreg Yes! And the reason is the the original 5 members were different in their influences so their albums displayed rich rock pedigree. Buck and Eric are awesome but BOC as a movement was lacking without Albert and Joe.

[ZENONWK]

@roddergreg If you're implying that it's because they're not with the band any longer, you have a serious case of tunnel vision my friend. Although I'm a big fan of theirs as well, it's a lot more complicated than that.

B.O.C. B.O.C. B.O.C.

[WickedFesterBand]

@roddergreg Darn tootin! Blue Coupe! Check them out!



[Drizzlerman]

This rocks so hard it hurts, but oh so good.

[905Alive]

every once in a while you can catch a band in a small venue, I saw Foghat at the Pavillion in Old Lyme Ct, a small bar, great show, I was once in a band called Cold Steel, we played a Chinese restaurant and on the sign outside they wrote "tonite Cold Steet", I couldn't get them to understand it was Cold Steel not Steet, they keep saying "yeah Col Steet"

; )

[gutterspout]

@905Alive You're right, like I saw Soundgarden @ the Empire Rock Club in Philly and Jane's Addiction at the Theatre of Living Arts on South St in Philly, all small clubs, Nirvana @ JC Dobbs on South St too... many more, all great shows!

[gutterspout]

@gutterspout  by the way, i did see BOC at the Spectrum, one of the first Laser shows ever, it was awesome

[905Alive]

Nuggets Pizza Parlor ????

no doubt where many bands got their start ; )

[rickyon]

I would love to have a pizza parlor like that in my neighborhood!

[TheRanger28]

@rickyon Yeah, they don't make pizza parlors like they used to.

[roddergreg]

Did I see Rick Downey in one of those pictures?? It's Albert's song for shame for shame

[rickyon]

OK wiseguy! What picture are you talking about? It may be a picture from that time period but you don't see anybody's face playing drums on this vid except Albert Bouchard! You may have seen his hair! :-)

[roddergreg]

The Drummer at 3 minutes

[rickyon]

I think you are seeing things that aren't there! At the 3:00 mark you see 4 guys playing guitars. The clip before you see a guys hair in the back on drums. The picture after which may be from the time period you mention you don't see the drummer at all! Come on Dude you can do better than that!

[roddergreg]

3:29 to 3:35 sorry was trying to remember by memory. Rick Downey looked exactly like that.

[rickyon]

I like you because you are a BOC fan like myself and you obviously know something about them but that is Albert Bouchard in that picture from 3:29-3:35. I have made many mistakes in info on these vids that I post but not this time!

[roddergreg]

My Apology's I guess it was the moustache that that threw me off. Albert Bouchard was the greatest. Thanks for the awesome video.

[rickyon]

You're welcome and that's OK. I like people to keep me on my toes! Feel free to comment on any of my vids. I posted two other songs from this EP as well as A couple of studio cuts from BOC.

[rachel112263]

Hi Rick!! Total Excellence. BOC rocks!!! 5 stars

[rickyon]

Thanks Rachel!

[crankerny]

The Golden Nugget was a short lived pizza parlor on East Henrietta Rd in Henrietta, N.Y. a suburb of Rochester. It later turned into The Bijou Theatre and featured local and regional acts such as Talas, Cactus, BOC, ect. It was a average size/club resturant with great music and killer pizza !!!!!

[rickyon]

Thanks for the info. What a great combo! Rock and Pizza!

[mikeinoakland]

plain old no-jacket 4-song 2-sided CBS PROMO 12 inch that was pressed up inbetween the 1st and 2nd albums. the orig white inner sleeve had something small printed on it, "BOC LIVE" or whatever. it's incredibly undervalued (at anhy price) because (a) it's the best hard rock recording ever pressed (and from just a board tape!) and (b) has been bootlegged/reissued in so many types/inferior verions, NONE of them FROM the orig master tape --metal mike/angry samoans

[rickyon]

My CD copy of the EP is definitely many generations removed from the master but it still is of great quality. The first generation copies of this are extremely rare and like you said at any price are undervalued. Just my opinion but "Buck's Boogie" is the best instrumental ever!

[40Rtruss]

Over 30 years old and still great just goes to show that a real era in Music history the greatest era in Rock will never die and never gets old just better

[tgtyelj2lablir]

my name is tony don roeser is my step-brother the original EP was called In Your Mouth or On The Ground with some of the sickest and original cover art ever Also it was pressed on blue vinyl First BOC concert was on Oct 6th 1973 when they backed up Slade at the NY Academy of music still have not fully recovered that was right after the release of Tyrannt and Mutation Before the 5 guitar attack Buck, Eric, and Albert would get into this sick beat on the drums it was serious

[rickyon]

Hey Tony. It must be a real kick being related to such an incredible guitar player. Do you see him often at family social events? The original EP must be incredibly rare! I remember reading about the history and the different versions of it. My copy is a bootleg of a bootleg. Quite a few steps down the road from the blue vinyl!

[dick91p]

With all due respect, it took a second reading to decipher your

poor grammar, but cool stuff otherwise!

[rickyon]

You should take a refresher course in English because what I wrote was quite clear but who asked you anyway? Was that unclear also?

[NYVoice]

Are you from Long Island Tony? Just curious. A guy named Tony introduced me to BOC back in 1975 right after On Your Feet came out. I was hooked from there on in.

[ellinlvx]

Must have been really hard to drum and sing this song with such force.

Bouchards kick booty

[rickyon]

Please read the info section!

[RoeserFan]

This version is the musical equivalent of a dirty bomb.

[rachel112263]

I'm a huge Buck Dharma fan myself (check out my page). I think I've seen BOC more than any other band. I just saw them this past September at a small club in Lancaster, PA. I stood in my usual spot right in front of Buck. I cried like a baby the whole time. He is just as good, if not better, than he was in 1972.

[AlbertMondback]

Awesome.

[RoeserFan]

What a discovery. This is absolutely radical. So hard core it hurts!

[rickyon]

I've also posted "Bucks Boogie" and "The Red And The Black" from this rare EP. I'm a big Buck Dharma and BOC fan myself.

[azmarkus]

Recordings such as this are testament to the fact that any incarnations of BOC of anything less than the original 5 members are but mere shadows and, quite frankly, frauds.

Thanks for posting this gem.

[rickyon]

You're welcome! Check out my other BOC posts all from the original 5!