Blue Oyster Cult

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Hung Out With Them Every Year for About 4 Years

They played this series of summer shows (3 bands every Tuesday at the ice skating pavilion).
My dad was tangentially involved with the promotion, so we got backstage passes to every show.
These guys were cool dudes! All pleasant & engaging. Could talk about anything.
BTW: once we met him, Buck told us to call him Don, which is is real name. The guys in the band called him both. Kind of interchangeable, except Eric called him Buck almost all the time.
Al Lanier (keyboards & guitar) got really sick back in the 70s. One of those years we saw them was the year. We were just late HS/early college and even we could tell there was something wrong. I forget what it was he had, though.