Blue Öyster Cult on the Merv Griffin show

[Denis]

Joe Bouchard has a MusicMan, but Buck's guitar is crazy! Sort of a combination Flying V/Explorer/Firebird setup. Sounds cool though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXqLZRwp1II&feature=related

[Barklessdog]

Cool video, sure brings back the memories. Weird guitar

[chromium]

That would be a fun song to cover.

The guitar is a Vulcan something or other...  I just remember Spock being involved somehow

[OldManC]

That was his signature guitar for years. Never saw anyone else with one.

[gweimer]

I saw BOC on their first tour, and I was about 10 feet from the stage.  Buck Dharma played guitar LEFT handed at that show.

[Nocturnal]

I think there are two of those guitars in this video:



There are so many cheesy things to laugh about in this video, but I have always loved this song.

[gearHed289]

That song will forever remind me of Suzie, my half Hawaiian girlfriend the beginning of senior year. :-)

Saw them the summer of 76 (or should I say summer of the Reaper) opening for KISS in Atlanta.

[TBird1958]

 I have so many fond recollections of this band.......

My introduction to them was a lazy summer afternoon, our next door neighbor has a nephew or some such visiting from Utah with Jeep, we got on pretty well and smoked a couple joints (it was the '70s!) and went out for a ride - lo and behold "Secret Treaties" is on his 8 track! Happily it left a more lasting impression than the pot did. I saw them 4-5 times, at one show they recorded some of "On your feet or on your knees" and once on the bill with UFO right before Schenker left the band.
 The liner notes in "Secret Treaties" discuss the band's desire to write about Time amongt other things..........including a song written about a Nazi warplane - I love the chorus, Junkers Jumo 004! This album remains an all-time fave of mine.

 In more recent times in quite frankly the most unexpected place (Sequim, Wa.) I found myself in the footsteps of the Oyster boys, when I came across this pic of them in the hotel lobby where The Nasty Habits stay when we play out there.
   

[mc2NY]

BOC sometimes used to rehearse in the basement of the magazine The Music Paper, where I used to work. The former publisher (died) was good friends with them. I still have a couple of the band's 2-inch master tapes w/computer mix discs.