The Colonial Theatre presents Blue Oyster Cult 10/8

Blue Öyster Cult will be coming to the Colonial on October 8 at 8PM. Tickets for the performance are $45 and $35 and can be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street Monday-Friday 10AM-5PM, performance Saturdays 10AM-2PM, by calling (413) 997-4444 or online at www.thecolonialtheatre.org.

For nearly three decades, Blue Öyster Cult has been thrilling fans of intelligent hard rock worldwide with powerful albums loaded with classic songs. Indeed, the Long Island, New York-based band is revered within the hard rock and heavy metal scene for its pioneering work. Blue Öyster Cult occupies a unique place in rock history because it's one of very few hard rock/heavy metal bands to earn both genuine mainstream critical acclaim as well as commercial success. The band is often cited as a major influence by other acts such as Metallica, and BÖC was listed in VH1's "Top 100 Best Hard Rock Artists."

Upon the release of BÖC's self-titled debut album in 1972, the band was praised for its catchy-yet-heavy music and lyrics that could be provocative, terrifying, funny or ambiguous, often all in the same song. BÖC's canon includes three stone-cold classic songs that will waft through the cosmos long after the sun has burned out: The truly haunting "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" from 1976's Agents of Fortune, the pummeling "Godzilla" from 1977's Spectres and the hypnotically melodic "Burnin' for You" from 1981's Fire of Unknown Origin. Other notable BÖC songs include "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll," "Then Came the Last Days of May," "I Love the Night," "In Thee," "Veteran of the Psychic Wars," "Dominance and Submission," "Astronomy," "Black Blade" and "Shooting Shark."

The band members are proud of BÖC's classic sound, and pleased the band is creating vibrant work for disenfranchised music lovers who don't like the homogenized, prefabricated pop or sound-alike, formulaic rap-metal, which monopolizes the radio airwaves and best-seller charts. BÖC has always maintained a relentless touring schedule that brings new songs and classics to original fans and, as Bloom puts it, "teen-agers with green hair. We need more people with green hair at our shows!" BÖC regularly introduces new songs on the road. They debuted songs for Heaven Forbid and Curse of the Hidden Mirror long before they were recorded.

This practice helps BÖC fine-tune their songs, especially before entering the studio. Bloom says with a mixture of exasperation and amusement in his voice. BÖC and its die-hards have forged a special bond thanks to the Internet. The band's AOL bulletin board is one of the most active of any musical act, and band members happily and openly converse with fans. "The topics of discussion aren't always about Blue Öyster Cult, but their common bond is the band," Bloom says.

For the last 30 plus years, Blue Öyster Cult has been following their own unique path. Their motto "On Tour Forever" still holds, as the band plays over 100 dates per year. Most fans feel the band sounds better than ever-that the musical maturity and skill combined with over three decades of playing together has made BÖC a prime example of rock and roll at its best.

Tickets are $45 and $35 and can be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street Monday-Friday 10AM-5PM, performance Saturdays 10AM-2PM, by calling (413) 997-4444 or online at www.TheColonialTheatre.org

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