![]() He was pivotal in the band’s career, from its formation and naming, to getting the band signed to Columbia Records, to crafting its public image to writing lyrics. That would be Sandy Pearlman, who died July 26 at age 72. I have thought about the lyric content and whether anybody’s catching it here or there you never know how anybody will perceive anything.”īloom and BOC singer-guitarist Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser wrote the music, but, Bloom says, “it’s a Pearlman lyric and who knows where he was coming from when he wrote that song?” “It’s no different than any other tune,” Bloom says, “but in England, certainly, somebody might be sensitive about it. Bloom sings about the plane hanging in the air, a target, “like some heavy metal fruit” with the pilot asking, again and again, “Must these Englishmen live that I might die?/Must they live that I might die?” It’s pretty certain the band will play it Saturday night at its Payomet Performing Arts Center concert.īloom sings “ME 262” from a unique viewpoint: A German bombardier during WW II, piloting the world’s first jet-powered fighter aircraft, the Messerschmitt ME 262. The song is “ME 262.” The group played it recently in London and were about to at a festival in Germany, where I caught up by phone last week with singer-guitarist Eric Bloom. ![]() And it’s still a centerpiece of Blue Oyster Cult’s live set. These videos were directed by Richard Casey, who directed the 1985 movie Horror House on Highway Five.The song was written more than four decades ago and it concerns a topic of keen interest three decades before that. He had propane tanks, and he had to have a hunk of car to burn.” They had to have a Hollywood film/pyro guy there, who was licensed to burn s–t up. If anyone has seen the movie about giant ants, called Them!, with James Whitmore, it was filmed in the same place.” Later he adds: “We thought the car on fire was very Hollywood, very cool. But ‘Burnin’ For You’ got a ton of airplay on MTV in 19.”īloom continues: “We made it in the storm drains of LA. In the book MTV Ruled the World – The Early Years of Music Video, frontman Eric Bloom tells the story of the “Burnin’ For You” video: “We went out to California, and our management found a video company, and we did two videos in 24 hours – ‘Burnin’ For You’ and ‘Joan Crawford.’ MTV wouldn’t show the ‘Joan Crawford’ video, because there was something about it that was too racy for them. They issued their first album in 1972 and grew a modest following before scoring a hit with “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” (also written by Buck Dharma) from their 1976 album Agents of Fortune, which hit #12 and became embedded on rock playlists. Dharma’s version, with the title changed to “Burnin’ For You,” was the one that got recorded.Īlong with Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult was one of the first heavy metal bands. Joe Bouchard, who was their bass player at the time, told the metal magazine Chips & Beer that he and Buck Dharma came across Meltzer’s lyrics at the same time, and each wrote their own song around it. Blue Öyster Cult had a “band house” where their band members and associates (including their manager, Sandy Pearlman would bring in song ideas and lyrics. When Richard Meltzer wrote the lyrics, he titled the song “Burn Out The Night,” a reference to an evening of rock and roll. Dharma initially planned to release this song on his solo album, Flat Out, but was later convinced to include it on Blue Öyster Cult’s Fire Of Unknown Origin.” Dharma sang lead, as he did on many of BÖC’s songs.īand manager Sandy Pearlman, claimed that the name came to him when he saw Blue Point oysters on a menu. Lead guitarist Don “Buck Dharma” Roeser wrote this with Richard Meltzer, a rock writer who often contributed lyrics to the band. This would be their last Top 40 hit but it was a #1 hit on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart. The song peaked at #40 in the Billboard 100 in 1981. I never owned a Blue Oyster Cult album in my life and probably never will but I liked a couple of their popular songs. ![]() It is not the more cowbell song but I like it.
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