BOC: Re: Various thoughts of the day

[Ted Alger]

>Ted Alger <talger at PIPELINE.COM> said that he was disappointed that BOC-L
>wasn't yet another bustling center of fawning idolatry for BOC.  I'm glad
>BOC-L is not.  (Though it *would* be Swann's fault if it was.)  We're far
>more interesting this way. :-)
>
>                                        m@

Actually Matt, what was said was THIS:

>>>>From my time on AOL last year, I don't think it's so much "fawning idolatry",
>>so much as a lot of the AOL PEOPLE EARNESTLY BELIEVE THAT BOC ARE THE
>>BEST BAND IN THE WORLD, RIGHT NOW IN THE NINETIES  <------ this is what I was referring to

>yes, and I was disappointed to find it wasn't true of BOC-L

I don't care to witness people attempting to insert themselves in other peoples nether
regions (even if they ARE the best band in the world), what I was getting at,  is that while
the AOL people may be as impatient for new stuff as BOC-Lers are, they at least, are
a heck of a lot more positive about the fact that there are a lot of realities in the music
business.....such as the fact that right now, possibly the guys do see their market right
now as a 'nostalgia act' until they get new material out....which would possible jeopardize
their ability to make a living if they played too much material that is unrecognizable to people
that aren't hardcore followers.....I know most of the times I've seen the band, a large
majority of the people in the venues are people that probably said to themselves "gee,
Blue Oyster Cult huh? I remember them. That would be a cool show to go to." and probably
got a bunch of friends together to go to the gig.  How many of these people are going to
come back the next time if they don't recognize the songs? Next issue, the guys (at least
Buck & Eric anyways) have families.....they also don't seem to live in each others back
pockets......how much time does it take out of their family time to get together to rehearse
old material? Now on a longer tour, this can be worked out during off time, but when I'M  home
with the wife and kids, that last thing I want to do is say "sorry I haven't seen you for a few
weeks/months guys....I'm gonna go hang out with the people I work with and go work on
some of <insert your job/occupation/whatever>.
  And despite what everyone seems to think about how easy it is to get  recording contracts out
 there, there are quite a few bands with tons of talents lacking deals right now...
(King's X comes to mind) .

My other post keeps coming back to me where I compared this to the Queensryche newsgroup...
that and this list are possibly (at times) the two most negative list around....and I hate
that because I love both bands....no wonder I'd rather talk to Chris or Lisa on the AOL
boards.....and I may not be a BOC-L curmudgeon, but that doesn't mean I'm a 14 year old
know nothing kid.  I am impatient as anyone for the material.  '88 was a looooong time ago....
but I also don't think that I'm owed by the band. I consider myself lucky  even to see them
considering none of us are getting any younger, and quite frankly, I've seen a lot of those old
nostalgia acts....most of them are a waste of money and aren't worth my time except (usually)
for the ones who happen to have some fresh talent aboard to stir things up.  Every time I've
seen BOC, I've been amazed by Buck/Joe/Jon/Eric (whoever).  And for anyone who might
think I'm fawning, I could go post to MMC/ROCK/BOC on AOL or better yet, Eric and Buck's
E-mail addresses are well known.

Ted Alger
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