Spanning three decades, Blue Öyster Cult has a long and storied history. The band got its start in the late ’60s on Long Island, New York, as the Soft White Underbelly.
Long Island native Donald Roeser and Albert Bouchard met at Clarkson College, in Potsdam, NY. The two were introduced by a mutual friend. With Abbott and two other friends, they formed “The Disciples” and played college parties and local beer halls. The next year, the band reformed and played the same circuits as “Travesty”. Through all this, their studies fell by the wayside, and both Albert and Donald decided to quit college to concentrate on playing music full-time.
Eventually “Travesty” broke up, Donald and Albert took seperate paths for a while.
Allen Lanier came into the fold by way of guitarist John Wiesenthal. Allen had accepted employment at a film company at which Wiesenthal was also an employee. After becoming acquainted, Wiesenthal invited Allen out to Long Island to meet and jam with the loose group of musicians he played with, and Allen began to regularly jam with them.
An old house near Stony Brook College became ground zero for the formative band, and casual jams with whomever happened to be hanging around began to turn into rehearsals with a core band, which included Wiesenthal, Donald, Albert, Allen and Andrew Winters, a school friend of Donald. It was 1967.
Pearlman had been a student at Stony Brook, and was becoming increasingly involved in the music scene. When he heard the formative combo, he instantly recognized the talent at work. He had an idea for a band, and thought that this group of musicians had the chops to put that idea into play. The musicians saw that Pearlman’s contacts and stature in the local (and increasingly national) scene could help them spawn a career as well, and an alliance was formed.
OUDE OPTREDENS VAN Blue Öyster Cult
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02 nov `22
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11 okt `21
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03 - 06 jun
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29 - 31 mei
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22 jun `17
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16 - 18 jun
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16 - 18 jun
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15 - 17 jun
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06 - 09 jun
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05 sep `09
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OUDE OPTREDENS VAN Blue Öyster Cult
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02 nov `22
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11 okt `21
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03 - 06 jun
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29 - 31 mei
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22 jun `17
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16 - 18 jun
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16 - 18 jun
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15 - 17 jun
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06 - 09 jun
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05 sep `09
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Blue Öyster Cult NIEUWS
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23/02/2017Dit weekend in de voorverkoop: o.a. Queensryche/Blue Oyster Cult, J. Cole en Ricky Gervais
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23/02/2017Dit weekend in de voorverkoop: o.a. Queensryche/Blue Oyster Cult, J. Cole en Ricky Gervais
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22/02/2017Blue Öyster Cult en Queensrÿche samen naar TivoliVredenburg
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29/09/2011Eerste namen Hellfest en speciale actie
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11/12/2007Blue Öyster Cult geeft eenmalig optreden
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