Monday, December 29, 2014

KLEM FM


The sound quality is poor but I still like the song. It sounded better recorded on vinyl, spun by an AR turntable, picked up by a Shure cartridge, amplified by a Marantz receiver, and converted back to sound waves by Advent loudspeakers.

I bought that album then for that song, and I still like it for the guitar solo beginning around 4 min 17 sec -- but also for the lyrics.

Other fan facts about the Blue Öyster Cult:

  • They were the first band to use umlauts in their name -- ostensibly because it looked "Wagnerian."
  • Patti Smith dated a band member and contributed lyrics to this album (but not that song which was written by Sandy Pearlman).
  • They are posing with a German Messerschmitt Me 262, the very first fighter jet. One of those hangs in the Smithsonian Aerospace Museum in D.C. The Me 262 was in the news today: link

5 comments:

Trooper York said...

You what the favorite tune is at most frat houses?

Don't Fear The Raper

chickelit said...

The band was from around the Stony Brook L.I. area.

chickelit said...

Metallica covered this song and Stephen King was a huge fan of BOC: link (which doesn't excuse walking on the wrong side of the road).

Trooper York said...

Well you are fine if you just got out of the Pet Cemetery.

Amartel said...

More cowbell.
I gotta have more cowbell.