Blue Oyster Cult Looks Back at One of Their Fallen Bandmate Allen Lanier 

~~ Lanier was very important to the band - he was the 2nd best guitar player in BÖC - and a very underrated keyboard player - added great texture & depth to so many tracks - R.I.P. Allen Lanier ..

Favorite band right here, saw them in January and they did Astronomy, my life is complete now. Yes I realize Buck and Eric are the two original band members still worth it though. Oh I took the last album I have left and after the concert the sound guy took it backstage for me and Buck (Donald) and Eric signed it for me 😀. Looked all over Hell's half Acre for Some Enchanted Evening but all I could find was Mirrors, good enough, I was a giddy teenage kid for a few days at 57 lol

B.O.C. sing one of my favorite songs ever! I Love The Night! It's one of the greatest fantasy songs ever! Thanks Guys for such a Beautiful song! 🌠🌠🌠

Burning for You was my fav song. I love this band!

Their first three albums, Blue Oyster Cult, Tyranny & Mutation & Secret Treaties are absolutely essential listening if you're new to BOC. Usually referred to as "The "Black & White" Trilogy. 1972 - 1974. 👍

Thanks for reminding us, how great this band is. So many great songs that i used to introduced on my radio show setlist.

The great Mr. Lanier - it has been said that he was the umlaut in BOC!

In Thee, my favorite ballad, saw them at The Brat Stop, Kenosha Wisconsin.

B.O.C. The symbol will forever remain. Rock In Peace Alan.🙏

Saw these cats in Indianapolis with Aldo Nova and Dokken in '82 maybe '83. Great show.

As much as I like and appreciate how Richie Castellano has helped the band, I miss Allen. My dream of seeing the original 5 play together will not to be. I found the band after Fire of Unknown Origin and Albert had just left, so never saw them play together.

Alan's work on On Your Feet Or On Your Knees was impressive to say the least. That recording was my BOC on ramp, went backwards from there, heard Astronomy.. A true paradigm of rock music imo.

Teenager in High School when "Agents of Fortune" was released, was so big in my school, every car had it blasting. Finally got to see Live in small club was 1998 or 1999, were Touring "Heaven Forbid".

Such a great band, and Buck is one of my big influences on the guitar.

Great video, John.

Great rock band. One of the best.

Dang! I'm almost 65, so I know the deal, it still stings though...Here but know they're gone 😢

My favorite cover of (Don't Fear) the Reaper is the 1994 cover by the Scottish band Big Country

Rock History Music conducting some good interviews with the original BOC members. ETI was my favorite song until Spectres became my favorite album: Godzilla, I Love the Night -- and my favorite underrated BOC song: The Golden Age of Leather. I did not know Astronomy was redone by Metallica! Or that the original recording studio was actually a church (where BOC recorded Astronomy). BOC fans probably know this but, I am going to add: Part of the fun of Blue Oyster Cult is their sense of humor (amongst plenty of dark, sci-fy, images) most evident in the Cultosaurus Erectus album cover: Not only is Blue Oyster Cult's previous band name Soft White Underbelly referred to (The Underbelly Institute) amongst the 'fossils' et cetera, but The Stalk-Forest (Group) another pre BOC name is mentioned as a place the 'fossil Eggs' were found. Oaxaca (Mexico) was another name BOC used briefly. I played Some Unchanted Evening as I wrote this: Live versions of Astronomy and ETI. Plus R U Ready to Rock! Hell Yeah! What a great song to start a rocknroll show!

Saw the bouchard boys,cult bros at the bar in ct...aahhh memory fails bar name.my b day hung out with the guys autographed metal cassette off a album.great time.saw the black & blue tour back in the day as well.

They need to put Dance on stilts on spotify!! Love that song!

Don't Fear the Reaper has the same chord progression as All Along the Watchtower..

"Astronomy" "ETI"

Strange title for this video. You speak to three members/ex-members of the band and with only one member do you even mention Allen Lanier? Did I miss something? Lots of nostalgia in this video but only a fraction of it involves memories of Lanier.