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Blue Öyster Cult

Grugahalle

Essen, Germany

January 28th 1984

I've been taking a look at some old recordings.

Ones that, perhaps, were not the greatest sounding but deserved a revisit.

This is one of those.

I posted a very sharp/harsh version  many moons ago.

What was I thinking? I now ask myself.

This is a newer remaster.

No doubt in ten years time I will re-listen this one and wonder what I was thinking.

Here is a ticket from the show:

Steve Switzer wrote:

I only went to one BOC gig in central Germany - I think Essen.

I was in BAOR (British Army on the Rhine)

and that's the nearest show to where I was based...

They were pushing "Shooting Shark" at the time. I enjoyed it a lot.

The most memorable thing was that Eric Bloom's guitar string broke

and somehow drew blood from his face - very eerie...

(Eric goes AWOL for the 'Marshall will buoy but Fender control' line in Cities on Flame)

I wonder if this was the broken string moment?

Eric is in fine voice throughout BTW.

Here is a poster advertising the concert:

Joe Bouchard is man of the match

and this remaster makes no apology for highlighting his bass.

Rick Downey deserves a mention too.

Some nice drumming here.

I was at the infamous Donington show

where Rick first stepped in to fully replace Albert Bouchard.

His debut 'proper' professional gig in front of 80K people!

I've done so much work on this bootleg it made me dizzy

but I love BÖC so it's worth it.

It's still a lousy audience recording with multiple issues

but when it rocks it rocks.

"Holy Scheiße it's Godzilla!"

regards

Titus

P.S. Does anyone know what the intro music is?

I feel I should know  but can't quite place it.

Possibly Bad Channels?

Disc 1

01 intro

02 ME 262

03 E.T.I.

04 Hot Rails to Hell

05 Born to Rock

06 Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll

07 Burnin' For You

08 Take Me Away

09 Joan Crawford

Disc 2

01 Shooting Shark

02 Don't Fear (The Reaper)

03 Godzilla

04 bass solo/Born to Be Wild

05 Let Go

06 Roadhouse Blues

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