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Something You Should Know - October 07 Albert is a founding member of Blue Oyster Cult · Something You Should Know!

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  Speaker 1: with Albert Bouchard. He is one of the founding members
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  Speaker 1: of a band called Blue Oyster Cult. Everybody knows and
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  Speaker 1: loves them. They're actually going to be, the band will,
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  Speaker 1: be at Grand Falls Casino and Golf Resort Saturday, November 7th. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Albert is not going to be here with the band,
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  Speaker 1: but he has been working his tail off in the studio,
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  Speaker 1: putting out a bunch of new music. Tell us about
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  Speaker 1: some of this new music.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a continuation of a series called of
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  Speaker 2: records that I, I did before, you know, the three, three, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the three acts of, uh, the imagino series. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: this is new material, all new material that, uh, was
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  Speaker 2: discovered in, uh, 2024, uh, in Sandy's house when they
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  Speaker 2: were selling, selling it. And, uh, so I saw these
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  Speaker 2: signs and I said, Oh, gee, I, These all fit
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  Speaker 2: in the Imaginose concept. You know, a lot of them,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that Sandy had planned on doing something. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, when the first record, you know, that came
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  Speaker 2: out as a Blue Oyster Cult record, it didn't do
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  Speaker 2: that well. We both kind of gave up on the
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  Speaker 2: idea of it. But then, you know, after he died,
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  Speaker 2: I told him when I visited him in the hospital
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  Speaker 2: that He was still alive, and I said, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to do this for you. He seemed to be very
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  Speaker 2: appreciative of that. But then it took me a while
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  Speaker 2: to get it together. But in 2020, during the lockdown,
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  Speaker 2: I did the first record, and it turned out great.
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  Speaker 2: So I said, I'm going to do them all.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think this is fascinating. The project is finally
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  Speaker 1: coming to a close. But when did you start on this?
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like you started on this a while ago.
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  Speaker 2: It started in 1967, like, you know, within a month
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  Speaker 2: or so of me meeting Sandy. He started talking about
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  Speaker 2: this concept of Imaginos. And within a few months of that,
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  Speaker 2: he presented us with a few songs. One of them
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  Speaker 2: was called Blue Oyster Coke. and so, uh, and this
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  Speaker 2: is when we were still the soft right underbelly. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, uh, when it came time to sign the
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  Speaker 2: Columbia contract, uh, you know, uh, two years later, uh,
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  Speaker 2: he said, ah, you should call it blue. I should
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  Speaker 2: call it. And we're like, what? That's the craziest name.
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  Speaker 2: He said, that's why it'd be great. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: you had to sell it to us, we were not convinced, but, uh,
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  Speaker 2: We had to sign the contract that day, so we
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  Speaker 2: had to make a decision. We said, okay, we'll use
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  Speaker 2: that name. But it started before Blue Oyster Cult was.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I didn't realize that wasn't the original name.
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  Speaker 1: What was the original name going to be again?
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  Speaker 2: Soft White Underbelly.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that would have been a fine name
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  Speaker 1: as well. But boy, I got to just tell you,
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  Speaker 1: there's something special about the name Blue Oyster Cult. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a perfect name.
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  Speaker 2: It worked out. It totally worked out, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Blue Oyster Cult has been very popular for many,
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  Speaker 1: many years, but you were introduced to another generation because
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  Speaker 1: of a skit on Saturday Night Live. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was really, really funny. Did you guys find the humor
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  Speaker 1: in it as well in the band?
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  Speaker 2: I have seen it maybe a hundred times, and each
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  Speaker 2: time I laugh, I think it's magic. It's one of
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  Speaker 2: those things that you just can't You know, they didn't
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  Speaker 2: know that it was going to be that popular. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they were just trying to fill up the time, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that Will Ferrell had written it, and
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  Speaker 2: they turned him down twice. You know, Lorne Michaels was like, no,
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  Speaker 2: this doesn't work. And then when Christopher Walken was going
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  Speaker 2: to be the host... Christopher Walken read it at the
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  Speaker 2: table reading, and they said, oh, this could work. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's give it a try. So, and it turned out
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  Speaker 2: to be great. I mean, I think that they, because
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  Speaker 2: they didn't quite know what they were doing, they were improvising,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when they were doing it. That's one of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons why it's so great.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm so glad to hear that you guys liked
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  Speaker 1: it as well, because I thought it was so funny,
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  Speaker 1: and I was hoping that I was going to hear
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  Speaker 1: that you liked it, because it exposed your music to
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  Speaker 1: a whole new generation who wants to hear more Cowbell.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: We are excited to have Blue Oyster Cult at Grand
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  Speaker 1: Falls in November, and where can I go to listen
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  Speaker 1: to this new music that you're putting out right now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can go to Apple Music. That's what I have,
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  Speaker 2: but it's also on Spotify and, you know, whatever... streaming
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  Speaker 2: service you can hear it right away if you want
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  Speaker 2: physical product you have to go to Deco Entertainment and
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  Speaker 2: they have they have vinyl they have CDs and they
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  Speaker 2: have downloads so all of that well.
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  Speaker 1: That is fantastic and I'm going to make it really
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  Speaker 1: easy to find I'll put it on our Facebook page
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Again, Alan Bouchard, he is one of the
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  Speaker 1: founding members of Blue Oyster Cult. The band, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: will be at Grand Falls Casino and Golf Resort Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: November 7th. We had mentioned Alan will not be here
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  Speaker 1: with the band. He's working right now on putting out
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  Speaker 1: this album. He's been working on this for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and it's finally here. And I've got a link to
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  Speaker 1: it at Facebook.com slash Sunny Radio and Facebook.com slash Sioux
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