Blue Oyster Cult - Long Beach Arena, CA 1974

Classic B.O.C. aboard with a show from October 12, 1974 from the Secret Treaties Tour at a sold out Long Beach Arena in Los Angeles. 

This recording comes from a broadcast by radio station KNAC eight days after the show. I removed some hiss but the sound isn't great, it gets a little better on the last four tracks.

Sound Quality: 9-

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:

01 Intro-Stairway to the Stars

02 O.D.'d On Life (Life Itself)

03 Career of Evil

04 Before The Kiss (A Redcap)

05 Harvester Of Eyes

06 Flaming Telepaths

07 Buck's Boogie

08 Cities On Flame (with Rock and Roll)

09 ME 262

10 Maserati GT

11 Born to be Wild

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Blue Oyster Cult - Tramps, NY 1997

A relatively small set for Blue Oyster Cult, I believe they were the opening act in this benefit event for the Make-A-Wish Foundation at Tramps, a New York City nightclub.

Other band on the bill was Krieger & Densmore with a longer set, a show that was shared here many years ago.

A show I don't see circulating these days, at least I didn't found any other share, it came maybe from dime many moons ago. The recording was made by Jerry Moore, a famous Grateful Dead taper deceased in 2009, and transferred by his friend Rob Berger.

Correction: B.O.C. was second on the bill after Waylon Krieger and Berry Oakley Jr.'s band (thanks smmaddog)

Sound Quality: 9.5

Source: Soundboard

Track List:

01 - Intro

02 - Stairway To The Stars

03 - Cities On Flame With Rock n Roll

04 - Buck's Boogie

05 - Then Came The Last Days

06 - Burnin' For You

07 - Godzilla (vocals break up)

08 - Don't Fear The Reaper

Blue Öyster Cult - New Georges, San Rafael, CA 1988 Complete

I got a copy of this Blue Öyster Cult concert some years ago, sourced from a KRW CO transfer from a broadcast. However this recording has some problems, noticeable channel balance issues, tape speed running too slow, some small cuts, one big cut on DFTR and no encores.
So after seeing the complete show uploaded at Blue Öyster Cult's official youtube page I decided to take that audio, which is probably from a camera's microphone and build the entire performance correcting as best as possible the mentioned defects.
Of course I'd prefer a better and complete fm or soundboard but this way we have the whole concert.
B.Ö.C. live is a serious rock'n'roll machine though I don't think they have bad studio albums (I hear someone mentioning Club... ?) .
Well, after many years with absence of studio records the band is working on a new album probably coming out this year. That's very good news!

Sound Quality: 9+

Sources: FM Broadcast + Youtube audio

Track List:
01 R.U. Ready 2 Rock
02 Dominance And Submission
03 E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)
04 Buck’s Boogie
05 Flaming Telepaths
06 Take Me Away
07 The Last Days Of May (first 2 and last 26 seconds patched with *)
08 ME 262
09 Joan Crawford
10 Harvester Of Eyes
11 Burnin’ For You
12 Godzilla + Drum Solo
13 (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (patched at 04m49s with *)
14 crowd *
Encore:
15 The Red and the Black *
16 Roadhouse Blues *

* audio taken from concert shared at Youtube's Blue Öyster Cult page:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejIXt15Z0EQ

MP3 - mirrors
FLAC pt1 - mirrors
FLAC pt2 - mirrors

Blue Öyster Cult - Lewiston NY 2011

Here's the amazing Blue Öyster Cult, courtesy of Titus Luxor.

Blue Öyster Cult
Lewiston NY 2011

I was stumbling around in the vaults here at Luxor Towers
when I came across this neglected show.
Audience recording, open air concert, low quality mp3
...didn't sound promising....Wrong! this is great IMO.
All vocals and instruments have good separation
and, most importantly, Buck's guitar is loud and clear.
I even love the way Red & the Black starts too slow
but picks up after, I'm guessing,
a withering look at Jules from Buck.
I will be taking Mrs Luxor to the Gateshead and Leicester
BÖC shows later in the year. Anyone going?
Also want to go to Paris in June
but can't get tickets...damn!
We saw them at Amager Bio in Copenhagen
a couple of years or so back.
That was one hell of a gig.
I believe it was their first time there since 1975.
Those Danes went mental! They told me they were "punks".
Don't think punk is the same thing there.
Fights broke out, girlfiends were pushed onto the stage
...crazy stuff.
I've seen them lots of times going back to the 70s
Unlike AtticRock who lives in Middle Earth
where bands rarely play.
Oh...and a big HELLO to Derek
A long time member of this community.
P,S. Any Renaissance fans out there?
regards
Titus

The Red & the Black
Before the Kiss (a Redcap)
The Golden Age of Leather
Burnin' for You
Cities on Flame
Shooting Shark
ME262
Last Days of May
Black Blade
Godzilla
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Hot Rails to Hell

Link

Blue Oyster Cult - New York 1973

 

Celebrating 10 years of Soundaboard.

Blue Oyster Cult, one of my top bands in concert on Dec 31, 1973 at the Academy of Music, New York City.
This was Blue Oyster Cult's New Year's Eve show, the other bands on the bill were Kiss, Teenage Lust and Iggy and the Stooges.

Sound Quality: 8.5+

Source: Soundboard?

Track List:
1. Dominance and Submission
2. Astronomy
3. ME262
4. Stairway To the Stars
5. Transmaniacon M.C.
6. Born To Be Wild
7. Buck's Boogie

MP3
FLAC

Blue Oyster Cult - Bonds International Casino, NY (1981)

B.O.C. are back but not exactly with something new here. This show was first shared here by Titus about five years ago, with the title The Thing! 1981, the exact date seems to be June 16th and they played at The Bonds International Casino NY under the name Soft White Underbelly.
Now with a request to put it up again I decided to share other copy I have of it, apparently with one extra track (Hot Rails To Hell) and also in lossless (shn).

Sound Quality: 9.5

Source: Soundboard

Track List:

Disc 1
01 Dr Music
02 ETI
03 Burning For You
04 Fire Of Unknown Origin
05 Cities on Flame With Rock & Roll
06 Joan Crawford
07 Flaming Telepaths
08 Veteran Of The Psychic Wars
09 Hot Rails To Hell

Disc 2
01 ME 262
02 Heavy Metal
03 Dont Fear The Reaper
04 Godzilla-Drum Solo
05 Born To Be WIld
06 Bass Solo-5 Guitars
07 Roadhouse Blues

Files:
MP3 disc 1 - mirror
MP3 disc 2 - mirror
SHN disc 1 - mirror
SHN disc 2 - mirror

Blue Oyster Cult - Reseda, California 1981

Here we have again the top band in number of posts on Soundaboard.
A show from December 15, 1981 at the Country Club, in Reseda, CA. It was videotaped for satellite broadcast and Roadhouse Blues was played with Robbie Krieger as guest. This track, not included here, would be released the year after on Extraterrestrial Live.

Sound Quality: 9.5

Source: Pre-FM

Track List:

01 - Dr. Music
02 - E.T.I.
03 - Hot Rails to Hell
04 - The Red & the Black
05 - Cities on Flame
06 - Joan Crawford
07 - Burnin' for You
08 - Veteran of the Psychic Wars
09 - ME 262
10 - Godzilla
11 - Bass Solo
12 - Born To Be Wild
13 - (Don't Fear) the Reaper
14 - Heavy Metal

MP3
FLAC pt1
FLAC pt2

Blue Oyster Cult - Albany NY 1976

An incomplete thus small recording from Blue Oyster Cult at the Palace Theatre, Albany. Also the only recording I have from B.O.C. on 1976, the year that saw the classic Agents of Fortune being released.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:
01 - Cities On Flame
02 - Morning Final
03 - This Ain't The Summer Of Love
04 - Five Guitars
05 - (Don't Fear) The Reaper (incomplete)

Files:
MP3
FLAC

Blue Oyster Cult - The Rooster Tail, Detroit (1973)

There was a request for this show so here we have B.O.C. again. One of the reasons this hasn't appeared on Soundaboard before is its low quality, sounding like an audience tape.
But its an interesting recording of an important period in the Cult's career, just before the release of the great Tyranny and Mutation album.

Sound Quality: 8.5

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:

01 - Intro,
02 - The Red & The Black
03 - Transmaniacon Mc
04 - Screams
05 - O.D'd On Life Itself
06 - Wings Wetted Down
07 - 7 Screaming Diz-Busters
08 - Buck's Boogie
09 - Workshop Of The Telescopes
10 - Cities On Flame With Rock & Roll
11 - It's Not Easy


MP3
FLAC

Blue Oyster Cult - International Amphitheatre, Chicago 1979

There's never too much B.O.C. aboard.
This is a great show from the Mirrors tour, but it's very weak in sound.


Source: Soundboard

Track List:

01 - Dominance & Submission
02 - Dr - Music
03 - Mirrors
04 - Cities On Flame
05 - The Great Sun Jester
06 - The Vigil
07 - Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
08 - Astronomy
09 - ME 262
10 - Godzilla
11 - Hot Rails To Hell
12 - Five Guitars
13 - Born To Be Wild
14 - O.D.'d On Life Itself
15 - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

MP3

Blue Oyster Cult - New York 1980 KBFH

A recording from the King Biscuit Flower Hour live at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, New York. The track Dominance and Submission included on ExtraTerrestrial Live was recorded on this show.
This cover below was taken from the Ace Bootlegs site, an excellent resource of information.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Vinyl

Track List:
01 - Dr. Music
02 - The Great Sun Jester
03 - E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)
04 - Adverts 1
05 - ME 262
06 - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
07 - Adverts 2
08 - Outro

MP3

FLAC

Blue Oyster Cult - The Trocadero 1986 (Black & Blue Month)

To close the B.O.C. part on Soundaboard's Black & Blue Month we have a show from the Club Ninja tour dated June 24, 1986.

A WMMR live broadcast recording from the Trocadero Café in Philadelphia.

Sound Quality: 9   

 

Source: FM Broadcast 

 

Track List: 

Disc One 

01 - RU Ready To Rock 

02 - Dominance & Submission 

03 - ETI

04 - Buck's Boogie 

05 - Beat Them Up 

06 - Take Me Away 

07 - Veteran Of the Psychic Wars 

08 - Dancing In The Runes 

09 - Joan Crawford 

10 - Shadow Warrior 

Disc Two 

01 - Burnin' For You 

02 - Godzilla 

03 - (Don't Fear) The Reaper 

04 - Cities On Flame 

05 - Wings Of Mercury 

06 - Roadhouse Blues 

Blue Oyster Cult - Sacramento 1988 (Black & Blue Month)

Finally aboard a show coming out of the 1988 Imaginos tour, one of B.O.C.'s best albums.
This is one of the top recordings from the few that exist from this era, although suffering from a sometimes strange mix, typical from a soundboard anyway.
The cover is taken from Titus blog, hope he returns to our presence.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:

Disc 1:
01. (fade in) R U Ready To Rock?
02. Dominance & Submission
03. E.T.I.
04. I Am The One You Warned Me Of
05. Buck's Boogie
06. Astronomy (Imaginos version)
07. Take Me Away

Disc 2:
01. In The Presence Of Another World
02. Flaming Telepaths
03. Then Came The Last Days Of May
04. Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll
05. Joan Crawford
06. Burnin' For You
07. This Ain't The Summer Of Love
08. The Golden Age Of Leather


MP3 pt1
MP3 pt2

Blue Oyster Cult - Met Center, Minneapolis 1979 (Black & Blue Month)

A recording from the last day of the first part of B.O.C.'s USA tour supporting Mirrors, an album I would classify as neither very good nor very bad.
It's a clean soundboard with generally good sound except for some unbalanced tracks and Astronomy that has some noise.
To my knowledge the only missing song from the set played appears to be (Don't Fear) The Reaper.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:

Disc 1
01 - Dominance & Submission
02 - Dr. Music
03 - Mirrors
04 - Cities On Flame With Rock 'N Roll
05 - The Great Sun Jester
06 - Buck's Boogie
07 - The Vigil

Disc 2
01 - Astronomy
02 - ME 262
03 - Godzilla
04 - Hot Rails To Hell
05 - Bass Solo
06 - Guitar Jam
07 - Born To Be Wild

Files:

SHN part 1
SHN part 2

MP3 part 1
MP3 part 2

Blue Oyster Cult - Live In The West 1975 (Black & Blue Month)

"Live In The West" is possibly the most famous unreleased B.O.C. recording, supposedly created by the band itself to share with their friends.
It has songs caught from various shows during July 1975.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:

Disc One:
01 - Stairway To The Stars
02 - OD'd On Life Itself
03 - Harvester Of Eyes
04 - Flamin' Telepaths
05 - Dominance And Submission
06 - Subhuman
07 - Seven Screaming Diz-Busters

Disc Two:
01 - Astronomy
02 - Cities On Flame
03 - Buck's Boogie
04 - Hot Rails To Hell
05 - Maserati GT (I Ain't Got You)


MP3 pt1
MP3 pt2

Blue Oyster Cult - Rochester, New York 1972 (Black & Blue Month)

First, a HUGE thanks to all Soundaboard readers that left so many nice messages in the birthday post.

Keep on Rocking and Rolling!

And let's start February with an early broadcast of Blue Oyster Cult, from WCMF-FM Radio, recorded live at Nugget's Pizza Parlor in Rochester, New York.

This version has two tracks missing (The Red and the Black and Buck’s Boogie), if any of you has it and is willing to share with us it would be fantastic :)

Sound Quality: 8.5

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:

01 Stairway To The Stars
02 Transmaniacon MC
03 Then Came The Last Days Of May
04 Before The Kiss A Redcap
05 Workshop Of The Telescopes
06 Cities On Flame With Rock & Roll
07 Born To Be Wild

Files:

MP3

FLAC

Missing tracks here (shared by strad):

Blue Öyster Cult - Bootleg EP (New York 1972-04-03)
42mb - @320
Nuggets Pizza Parlor
1- Workshop Of The Telescopes
2- Cities On Flame With Rock 'N' Roll
3- The Red And The Black
4- Buck's Boogie
Link

Blue Oyster Cult - Arlington Heights 2003

This is a B.O.C. audience recording made and shared here by "The Cheeb" using a Sony deck and Sound Professionals hyper cartioid mics.
The first 30 seconds of Dr Music are missing, otherwise it is the complete show.
Big thanks to "The Cheeb" for bringing us more Blue Oyster Cult, it's never too much :)



Source: Audience

Track List:
1-01 Dr Music
1-02 This Aint The Summer Of Love
1-03 Burnin' For You
1-04 Harvester Of Eyes
1-05 Cities On Flame (with rock and roll
1-06 Pocket
1-07 Shooting Shark
1-08 Divine Wind
1-09 The Golden Age Of Leather
2-01 Godzilla
2-02 Buck Dharma Guitar Wank #2
2-03 Don't Fear The Reaper
2-04 Black Blade
2-05 Dominance And Submission

Link

Soundaboard: Two Years!

After two years with regular posts we deserve a special one, right? and how about a DVD share?

But first thanks to everybody that supported the blog since its start.
Without your input in no way this would have got so far (sorry if anyone was forgotten):
Rocket (Hear Rock City), Titus (LuxorDream), Snake'n'Roll (gfx), Meester Music, Derek (from Paris), Toxxy, srcstcbstrd, ~jp~, TBM, Jonty, Rhino, Dutchboy, Coyote Bill, Dino (Dino & Princess' Tunz), Kikas, André Sousa (Mad Ocean), Miguel (Brazil), Rik, jeff, Groovin' Dan, HRP (Hard Rock Passion), barrybutler9, bluesBob, susan, Jim, Martin, Marc Georges, PUSWART , andrew, Zman, Loyola, Marcio, Caffery, into the void, spock_wall, Andy, Neroon001, Brujo, doc, Dave, Oscar the Groucho, Arsenic, Stewy, Fitchman, O.B. Dan, Joy Raider, Chopper, chamilton11, Aramis, Davey, Simon, Ludwig, Gio, kingpossum, Conspiracy Theologian, Eris, waldyr, cenk, Kevin Jackson, davek, No Title, Klaas Durk, FatallyWanderer, Lucy, blewharvest, Knoxx, Bubba, MrDoots, Harold Holt, KlyphO, Gerald, Hywel, Deeb, Mark, Graveviolator, vegasjohn, Chris, Joe, Steved, Rockfather, Rog, fegenheizer, DaBoss, Henry, crispy, WVKayaker, blackdeath, Snuffy, Dave Tupp, matt, elprofesional, Stop, Moonchild Dave, gooolias, joao, wolfsbane, H.P.D., wedge, jlb418, mackpol, emanuel, Timbo, Mitchell, Munga, Devine Light Control, Maranus, Ares79, MusicBringer, bennyboy, kansas100, Jetrell69, Fester Bestertester, Caffery, Kadek55, lodger, bluesband66, hemisphire, OldRockr1, xianrex, Haggis, direwolfman, Warlock, Taffman, Patrick, Chinaski, Matth, oberwolf, musikspieler, dregenwar, HELL YEAH, Ruben, newelectricmuse, gvspirit.

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Ok now on to B.O.C., one of my all-time top bands.
This is a DVD from a VHS-Rip of a TV Broadcast from a concert at the Hollywood Sportatorium in 1981. Seven songs from this show were used for the fabulous Extraterrestrial Live.
It's my biggest upload ever, almost 3GB, and here are some screenshots to help you decide to download it or not :)

Blue Oyster Cult - Hollywood 1981

Sound Quality: 8.5

Video Quality: 9

Source: TV

Track List:

Intro
The Red And The Black
ETI
Joan Crawford
Burnin' For You
Cities On Flame
Veteran Of The Psychic Wars
ME 262
Godzilla
Born To Be Wild
Don't Fear The Reaper
Roadhouse Blues

Files (download all to the same folder and them extract them):
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7 
Part 8
Part 9

Cover (Thanks to Titus)

Blue Oyster Cult - San Juan Capistrano 95/96

Thanks to Titus we have another hard-to-find BOC recording aboard, always welcome I must say.

Blue Öyster Cult
San Juan Capistrano 31/12/1995 & 1/1/1996
FLAC

It's New Year's Eve
It's BÖC
I wish I'd been there!

01 Stairway to the Stars
02 Dr Music
03 OD'd On Life Itself
04 ETI
05 Harvest Moon
06 Before The Kiss
07 See You in Black
08 Joan Crawford
09 Flaming Telepaths
10 Cities On Flame
11 Last Days Of May
12 Auld Lang Syne
13 In Thee
14 Lips in the Hills
15 Me262
16 Burnin' For You
17 Godzilla
18 (Don't Fear) The Reaper
19 Dominance & Submission (aborted)

regards
Titus

MP3 pt1

MP3 pt2

FLAC pt1

FLAC pt2

Blue Oyster Cult - St Petersburg FL. 2003

This was requested by a Soundaboard visitor and here it is, kindly filled by Titus.



BLUE ÖYSTER CULT
St Petersburg FL. 2003
FLAC

Very dry soundboard. The rhythm guitars are
almost inaudible. There is a drop in sound quality
during the first half of E.T I. and also on sections of disc 2.
If I haven't put you off yet then I would also like to say;
This is a great addition to any Cult fan's collection.
Parts of this are brilliant especially
the excellent version of Divine Wind
Covers included with disc 2.
regards
Titus

Dr. Music
E.T.I.
Dance on Stilts
Harvester of Eyes
I Love the Night
Tattoo Vampire
Shooting Shark
Divine Wind
Cities on Flame
Burnin' for You
Godzilla
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Dominance & Submission

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MP3:
Part 1
Part 2

FLAC
Part 1
Part 2