{"id":2136,"date":"2012-09-05T17:11:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T21:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2012-09-05T17:11:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T21:11:27","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-262-roach-days-revisited-youre-gonna-want-more-cowbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/09\/05\/my-musical-evolution-part-262-roach-days-revisited-youre-gonna-want-more-cowbell\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 262 Roach Days Revisited You’re Gonna Want More Cowbell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blue<\/a>Blue \u00d6yster Cult<\/em> first entered my consciousness on the beloved Heavy Metal Soundtrack<\/em> with Veteran Of The Psychic Wars<\/em>. It was one on my favorites on that soundtrack. The next time I heard of Blue \u00d6yster Cult<\/em> it was in Fast Times At Ridgemont High<\/em> while Mike Damone is trying to sell tickets. “No I don’t have any Blue \u00d6yster Cult! I ate fourteen pairs last time around. Where were you?\u00a0 The next stop was John Carpenter’s Halloween<\/em> and (Don’t Fear) The Reaper<\/em>.\u00a0 It was this last step that lead to the purchase of Agents Of Fortune.<\/em><\/p>\n

(Don’t Fear) The Reaper<\/em> is such a classic song.\u00a0 There are a couple other cool picks here as well but the real draw is Reaper.\u00a0 I can see the effects of the Mix Tape in play here. The two or three songs that made it to the tapes are familiar but the rest feel almost like I’m hearing them for the first time.\u00a0 Definitely after the listen to the entire album all the time era.<\/p>\n

I also see the absence of the internet at play. I realize that I know very little about Blue \u00d6yster Cult.<\/em>\u00a0 I can search the web for them now and in doing so found out some things that surprise me. The main being that Blue \u00d6yster Cult<\/em> was considered Heavy Metal at some point and that they were trying to be the American answer to Black Sabbath<\/em>.\u00a0 I really don’t see that in the small sampling that I’ve acquired.\u00a0 In fact the dots over the O and the hook and cross symbol were in pursuit of heavy metal themes. They were one of the first dotted vowel groups. The hook and cross was a symbol from alchemy for Lead, a very heavy metal.<\/p>\n

I still don’t think of metal when I listen to Blue \u00d6yster Cult<\/em>. I think of something more progressively album oriented like Pink Floyd\u00a0<\/em> or Alan Parsons Project.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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This Ain’t The Summer Of Love<\/em>
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