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06-24-2008, 09:12 PM
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This is one of those bands you don't see many fans around here. I really love this Band and I think their bass players have always been awesome. Not to mention the "Chamaleonistic" charatcer of their compositions
So any BÖC fans around here?
Here's one of my favourite songs by them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU9Crc38eNc
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06-24-2008, 10:00 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | I used to love BOC and everything they did. Nowadays I listen to their old stuff and there's stuff I love and there's stuff that sounds really dated.
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06-24-2008, 10:10 PM
| | Cultivatin' the Vast Wasteland | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Nashville Area | | I saw them live in what, I guess it was '86 or '87. Great show. Yeah, I always thought Joe Bouchard was a really solid bass player. Not flashy or acrobatic, but played just what the song needed. And Buck Dharma is one of the most underrated guitarists in rock. Check out the DVD A Long Day's Night. He absolutely tears the roof off the solo on "Then Came the Last Days of May".  It was recorded during the period when Danny Miranda was playing bass for them. Good stuff. I've been a fan for a long time.
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06-24-2008, 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Hellbastard  This is one of those bands you don't see many fans around here. I really love this Band and I think their bass player have always been awesome. Not to mention the "Chamaleonistic" charatcer of their compositions
So any BÖC fans around here?
Here's one of my favourite songs by them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU9Crc38eNc | They're one of my all time favorites, and your link to "Shooting Shark" a superb choice, as it may contain one of the best basslines from a band that relied heavily on Joe Bouchard to help define their sound, though Randy Jackson (yes, that Randy Jackson) plays on that tune. The Revolution By Night is one of their strongest albums.
Check out the simple way the bassline dominates the composition of "Deadline", from Cultosaurus Erectus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf_LWA6RqDM
Also, it's interesting to note the lyrical and musical contributors they cultivated, including writing credits with Patti Smith, Aldo Nova, and even fantasy author Michael Moorcock.
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06-24-2008, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Cap'n Video I saw them live in what, I guess it was '86 or '87. Great show. Yeah, I always thought Joe Bouchard was a really solid bass player. Not flashy or acrobatic, but played just what the song needed. And Buck Dharma is one of the most underrated guitarists in rock. Check out the DVD A Long Day's Night. He absolutely tears the roof off the solo on "Then Came the Last Days of May". It was recorded during the period when Danny Miranda was playing bass for them. Good stuff. I've been a fan for a long time. | Joe used to do a pretty flashy solo before they did the 5-guitar thing. That was always a fun part of the show. But Joe left before that 86 tour and the new bassist hated solos.
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06-25-2008, 07:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Mid Hudson Valley, NY | | | Loved there first two albums back in the day, saw then a bunch of times, most notably New Years Eve 1973 At the Academy of Music in NYC. That gig also served as the professional debut of KISS (who sucked).
After Those first two albums they started to lose it for me, but i still listen to those fondly.
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06-25-2008, 10:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Bremen, Germany | | Awesome to see people who share the same interest for such a great band.
So Marcury, you saw this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc7KmuKIrnA priceless.
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06-25-2008, 10:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: New York, NY | | | Been a fan since birth, love most of their albums, though there are a couple weak ones. Seriously underrated band, and one of the most underrated guitarists of all time. Donald destroys every other guitarist of his time and relative genre, especially Jimmy Page. |
06-25-2008, 10:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Bremen, Germany | | Buck Dharma is seriously underrated, the majestic solos he did while playing Buck' Boogie have always amazed me. Enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFRZxyh0vDU
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06-26-2008, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Hellbastard | Yup! Wow I didn't realize that was on Yuotube.Their stage act was actually great, but the sound was akin to 200 airplanes taking off in the same hangar. Iggy Played that night (with the original stooges) too. He was amazing and of course BOC were too!
Bucks' Boogie, boy that brings it all back!
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06-26-2008, 01:51 PM
| | | | I've been a fan of BOC since 1989 - started with their Fire of Unknown Origin/Cultasaurus Erectus period and moved quickly back to the the first four albums. Joe Bouchard was on my short list of "influences on my playing I didn't recognize until many years later."
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06-26-2008, 02:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Coatesville, PA | | | Yeah, never seen them live, but dig 'em. Joe's beginning bass book was my first too. |
06-26-2008, 02:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Carpinteria, Ca. | | | Used to play Burnin' for You in the first band I was in. Got to open for them a few years (and bands) later. Probably '81 or '82?
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06-29-2008, 05:13 AM
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06-29-2008, 05:23 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Ellenwood,Ga. | | | Cultosaurus Erectus is by far my favorite. It's funny how about ever 5 years or so,another mix of Don't Fear the Reaper comes out on rock radio. Monsters and Joan Crawford are great tunes also.
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06-29-2008, 05:27 AM
| | | | never really got that far into them. however, one of my professors is there sound man, so me and my friend got to see them and go back stage and meet them and stuff. i gotta tell you, the whole experience was really underwhelming. I have a thread about it on here somewhere.
not to burst your bubble or anything but thats my boc experience. oh the best part is that someone tried to trade us shrooms for our tickets.
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06-29-2008, 08:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Virginia Beach, VA | | | We go see 'em every time they come to Va. Beach. Got to meet Eric, Allen, Buck, and Danny Miranda at Hoopla's on Northampton Blvd a few years back. ETI Live is on my CD player at all times.
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06-30-2008, 01:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sylva, NC | | | They were amazing. The first three albums are classic. Turns out the guitarist in one of my bands circa 1976 used to play with them when he lived in Long Island. He'd lost touch with them, but when I showed him an article about them coming to play in Allentown he remembered them. We wound up with backstage passes. They were very gracious, and we had a great time. They described their work as a "morality play", from the 15th century concept of the exploration of good and evil. Lyrics aside, they had some serious musical chops!
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06-30-2008, 10:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Big Sound Central | | | I've only heard a couple of songs by them, "Joan Crawford" and "Godzilla" (and "Don't Fear the Reaper", obviously). But from those three songs, I think they're a fantastic band. The lyrics can sometimes be a little cheesy, but "awesome cheesy", not like, I don't know, "Rush cheesy".
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06-30-2008, 10:47 PM
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