Blue Oyster Cult Looks Back at One of Their Fallen Bandmate Allen Lanier

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[@cathypatman1224]

B.O.C. sing one of my favorite songs ever! I Love The Night! It's one of the greatest fantasy songs ever! Thanks Guys for such a Beautiful song! 🌠🌠🌠

[@williamsherman1089]

Favorite band right here, saw them in January and they did Astronomy, my life is complete now. Yes I realize Buck and Eric are the two original band members still worth it though. Oh I took the last album I have left and after the concert the sound guy took it backstage for me and Buck (Donald) and Eric signed it for me 😀. Looked all over Hell's half Acre for Some Enchanted Evening but all I could find was Mirrors, good enough, I was a giddy teenage kid for a few days at 57 lol

[@monmixer]

I love BOC. Secret Treaties is my favorite but when you start comparing them they are all of equal quality and great.

[@user-mu9cw8xe4r]

Cool indeed. I saw BOC live for the first time in 2016 (I was 48 -- where does the freakin time go?) and I heard the song In Thee for the first time. I found out In Thee (and Dr Music👍) is on The Mirrors album, searched a couple good record stores in the area and lo and behold I found Mirrors for (get this) $4.97. No scratches. yeah for me and (our) teenager at heart moments

[@dwightcrapson135]

I have seen them in concert just 23 times, not nearly enough. _!_

[@wandaburnsworth1588]

Burning for You was my fav song. I love this band!

[@seerstone8982]

Ain't no home for me 😢

[@Pjrock2112]

​@@seerstone8982 "Time ain't on my side" 😢

[@atomicwedgie8176]

Time to play 'b' sides.

[@thecolorgreen7046]

Their first three albums, Blue Oyster Cult, Tyranny & Mutation & Secret Treaties are absolutely essential listening if you're new to BOC. Usually referred to as "The "Black & White" Trilogy. 1972 - 1974. 👍

[@crustafari]

The great Mr. Lanier - it has been said that he was the umlaut in BOC!

[@Pjrock2112]

In Thee, my favorite ballad, saw them at The Brat Stop, Kenosha Wisconsin.

[@billyz5088]

~~ Lanier was very important to the band - he was the 2nd best guitar player in BÖC - and a very underrated keyboard player - added great texture & depth to so many tracks - R.I.P. Allen Lanier ..

[@markbirchette8740]

B.O.C. The symbol will forever remain. Rock In Peace Alan.🙏

[@tomgorman748]

As much as I like and appreciate how Richie Castellano has helped the band, I miss Allen. My dream of seeing the original 5 play together will not to be. I found the band after Fire of Unknown Origin and Albert had just left, so never saw them play together.

[@user-mu9cw8xe4r]

Allen Lanier was their 'Secret Weapon". The first song I think of when I hear Allen Lanier's name is Joan Crawford (Fire of Unknown Origin); and a large part of the reason my favorite BOC album is Spectres is Allen's piano on Nosferatu and, especially, Death Valley Nights, which (to me) is arguably their most underrated song outside of Golden Age of Leather (also on Spectres album). Searchin' for Celine was penned by Allen. Then some solid synth on Celestial the Queen. I didn't intend to turn this into a review of Spectres album😅 I enjoy talking about this band (obviously). I also agree with Richie Castellano being a great addition to BOC. Without him I may not be praising BOC past and present as much as I do (today).

[@Luileadolfo]

Thanks for reminding us, how great this band is. So many great songs that i used to introduced on my radio show setlist.

[@davidjackson2690]

Saw these cats in Indianapolis with Aldo Nova and Dokken in '82 maybe '83. Great show.

[@Gerrys-Channel]

Such a great band, and Buck is one of my big influences on the guitar.

[@AJMjazz]

Great video, John.

[@krisdoggett483]

Great rock band. One of the best.

[@robertdavis5714]

Teenager in High School when "Agents of Fortune" was released, was so big in my school, every car had it blasting. Finally got to see Live in small club was 1998 or 1999, were Touring "Heaven Forbid".

[@GreatCircle360]

Alan's work on On Your Feet Or On Your Knees was impressive to say the least. That recording was my BOC on ramp, went backwards from there, heard Astronomy.. A true paradigm of rock music imo.

[@seerstone8982]

Dang! I'm almost 65, so I know the deal, it still stings though...Here but know they're gone 😢

[@seerstone8982]

My favorite cover of (Don't Fear) the Reaper is the 1994 cover by the Scottish band Big Country

[@user-mu9cw8xe4r]

That fact alone has me thinking about checking out Big Country. I remember their self titled hit on MTV in the early mid 80's and I kinda liked it. But that was all I remember by BC.

[@keithknechg3217]

Saw the bouchard boys,cult bros at the bar in ct...aahhh memory fails bar name.my b day hung out with the guys autographed metal cassette off a album.great time.saw the black & blue tour back in the day as well.

[@user-mu9cw8xe4r]

Rock History Music conducting some good interviews with the original BOC members. ETI was my favorite song until Spectres became my favorite album: Godzilla, I Love the Night -- and my favorite underrated BOC song: The Golden Age of Leather. I did not know Astronomy was redone by Metallica! Or that the original recording studio was actually a church (where BOC recorded Astronomy). BOC fans probably know this but, I am going to add: Part of the fun of Blue Oyster Cult is their sense of humor (amongst plenty of dark, sci-fy, images) most evident in the Cultosaurus Erectus album cover: Not only is Blue Oyster Cult's previous band name Soft White Underbelly referred to (The Underbelly Institute) amongst the 'fossils' et cetera, but The Stalk-Forest (Group) another pre BOC name is mentioned as a place the 'fossil Eggs' were found. Oaxaca (Mexico) was another name BOC used briefly. I played Some Unchanted Evening as I wrote this: Live versions of Astronomy and ETI. Plus R U Ready to Rock! Hell Yeah! What a great song to start a rocknroll show!

[@danielannutto792]

They need to put Dance on stilts on spotify!! Love that song!

[@rubicon-oh9km]

Just buy the CD.

[@oatnoid]

Don't Fear the Reaper has the same chord progression as All Along the Watchtower..

[@walterfechter8080]

"Astronomy" "ETI"

[@rubicon-oh9km]

Strange title for this video. You speak to three members/ex-members of the band and with only one member do you even mention Allen Lanier? Did I miss something? Lots of nostalgia in this video but only a fraction of it involves memories of Lanier.