Blue Oyster Cult Concerts 1970s
May 1, 1970 Stony Brook Athletic Field, Stony Brook, NY (supporting Jefferson Airplane, Roxy, and Glenn McKay's Headlights)
July 3, 1970 Stony Brook Gymnasium, Stony Brook, NY (supporting Ten Years After and MC5)
August 14, 1970 Boston College Stadium, Brookline, MA (cancelled due to cancellation of festival)
September 18-19, 1970 Camp Swan Lake, Pike, NY (Private Swinger's Naturist Party)
October 2-3, 1970 Forum Lounge, Babylon, NY
October 24, 1970 The Old Jailhouse, Watertown, NY
December 31, 1970 Conry's East, Farmingdale, NY
As Stalk-Forest Group
January 5-10, 1971 Conry's West, Levittown, NY
March 13, 1971 Peabody's Warehouse, Virginia Beach, VA (Billed as "Stalk Forest")
March 19, 1971 Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (supported by The Soft Decline)
April 3, 1971 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (possibly April 10th)
April 16-18, 1971 Tony Mart's, Somers Point, NJ (supporting Fat Rabbit)
May 6, 1971 The Pad, Canandaigua, NY (Billed as "Stalk Forrest")
June ?, 1971 Mineola, NY
July ?, 1971 Tony Mart's, Somers Point, NJ
July 4, 1971 The Warehouse, Binghamton, NY
July 12, 1971 The Cabaret, Scranton, PA
July 14, 1971 Art Stock's Colonel's Garter, Wilkes-Barre, PA
July 15, 1971 The Cabaret, Scranton, PA
July 17, 1971 Art Stock's Colonel's Garter, Wilkes-Barre, PA
August 4 & 6, 1971 Art Stock's Colonel's Garter, Wilkes-Barre, PA
August 13-15, 1971 Southampton Breakfast Club, Southampton, NY
August 19-20, 1971 The Cabaret, Scranton, PA
August 21, 1971 Art Stock's Colonel's Garter, Wilkes-Barre, PA (supporting Tomorrow)
August ?, 1971 Southampton Breakfast Club, Southampton, NY
September 4, 1971 Art Stock's Colonel's Garter, Wilkes-Barre, PA (supported by The New Breed)
September 6, 1971 Art Stock's Colonel's Garter, Wilkes-Barre, PA (supporting The Box Tops)
Sep/Oct ?, 1971 Slovak Center, Catasauqua, PA
October 15, 1971 The Cabaret, Scranton, PA
October ?, 1971 The Bedroom, Youngstown, OH
October 30, 1971 Village Barn, Uniontown, PA (supported by Church Street Extension)
November 4, 1971 The Cabaret, Scranton, PA
November 5, 1971 Gallagher's Wooden Nickel, Scranton, PA
November 6, 1971 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
November 18, 1971 Fieldhouse, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (supporting The Byrds, with Mahavishnu Orchestra)
November 20, 1971 Lusk Field House at SUNY, Cortland, NY (supporting The Byrds, with Mahavishnu Orchestra)
December 3, 1971 University of Maine, Orono, ME (2 shows 7.00 & 10.30 supporting The Byrds, with Mahavishnu Orchestra)
December 4, 1971 Keaney Gym, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI (supporting The Byrds, with Mahavishnu Orchestra)
December 9, 1971 Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, NY (supporting Edgar Winter's White Trash, with Mahavishnu Orchestra)
December 10, 1971 Patrick Gymnasium, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (supporting The Byrds, with Mahavishnu Orchestra)
December 11, 1971 Pritchard Gym at SUNY, Stony Brook, NY (2 shows 7.30 & 11.30 supporting The Byrds, with Mahavishnu Orchestra)
January 21-22, 1972 The Rock Pile, Island Park, NY (supporting Edgar Winter's White Trash)
February 8, 1972 My Father's Place, Roslyn, NY
February 25-26, 1972 The Rock Pile, Hempstead, NY
March 3, 1972 Harrington Auditorium, Worcester, MA (supporting Alice Cooper)
March 4-5, 1972 The Rock Pile, Island Park, NY
March 17, 1972 Cold Spring High School, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
March 19, 1972 Paramount Theater, Wilkes-Barre, PA (2 shows, supporting The Grass Roots)
March 24-25, 1972 The Rock Pile, Island Park, NY
April 1, 1972 Sunshine In, Asbury Park, NJ (2 shows 8.00 & 10.00, supported by Plum Nelly)
April 3, 1972 Nuggets Pizza Parlor, Rochester, NY
April 4-9, 1972 The Fun House, Rochester, NY
Blue Oyster Cult Tour:
April 14, 1972 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (supporting Alice Cooper, Redbone cancelled)
April 15, 1972 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (All Campus, with Mick Greenwood, Tom Rush, The Byrds, and Alice Cooper)
April 16, 1972 Charleston County Hall, Charleston, SC (supporting Alice Cooper)
April 21, 1972 Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY (supporting Alice Cooper and Spirit)
April 22, 1972 Commack Arena, Commack, NY (supporting Alice Cooper and Fleetwood Mac)
April 23, 1972 War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, NY (cancelled)
April 28, 1972 New Haven Arena, New Haven, CT (supporting Alice Cooper, with Edgar Winter's White Trash)
April 29, 1972 Meehan Auditorium, Providence, RI (Brown Spring Weekend)
April 30, 1972 Music Hall, Boston, MA (supporting Alice Cooper)
May 3, 1972 University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC (supported by Trapeze and Radio)
May 5, 1972 Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum, Jacksonville, FL (supporting The James Gang)
May 6, 1972 Pirate's World, Dania Beach, FL (supporting The James Gang)
May 9, 1972 Atlantic Christian College, Wilson, NC
May 12, 1972 Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, TN (cancelled)
May 13, 1972 Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC (cancelled)
May 15, 1972 Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, IL (supporting Spirit and Chase)
May 19, 1972 Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN (supporting Alice Cooper and The Chambers Brothers)
May 20, 1972 Cumberland County Memorial Arena, Fayetteville, NC (supporting Alice Cooper and The Chambers Brothers)
May 21, 1972 Boutwell Auditorium, Birmingham, AL (supporting Alice Cooper and The Chambers Brothers)
May 22, 1972 Municipal Auditorium, Mobile, AL (supporting Alice Cooper and The Chambers Brothers)
May 23, 1972 The New Woods, Tifton, GA (supporting Alice Cooper)
May 28, 1972 Indianapolis, IN
May 29, 1972 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (supported by Courageous Dong)
June 2, 1972 Fort Homer Hesterly Armory, Tampa, FL (supporting Spirit and Big Brother & The Holding Company, REO Speedwagon cancelled)
June 3, 1972 Warehouse, New Orleans, LA (supported by Aliotta, Haynes, & Jeremiah)
June 12, 1972 Scherwood Club, Schererville, IN (supporting Big Brother & The Holding Company)
June 14, 1972 Willowbrook High School, Villa Park, IL (supporting Big Brother & The Holding Company)
June 15, 1972 John Hersey High School, Arlington Heights, IL (supporting Big Brother & The Holding Company)
June 16, 1972 Roanoke Valley Civic Center, Salem, VA (supporting Spirit, with Dr. John)
June 18, 1972 Overton Park Shell, Memphis, TN (supporting Spirit, with Hydra)
June 20, 1972 Mobile Municipal Auditorium, Mobile, AL (supported by Dr. John, Spirit cancelled)
June 21, 1972 Pensacola Municipal Auditorium, Pensacola, FL (supporting Spirit, with Dr. John)
June 23-24, 1972 Jai-Alai Fronton, Miami, FL (supporting The Allman Brothers Band, John Hammond, and Alex Taylor)
June 26, 1972 Central Park Wollman Memorial Rink Theater, New York City, NY (cancelled due to cancellation of Alice Cooper concert)
June 27, 1972 D.A.R Constitutional Hall, Washington DC (supporting Quicksilver Messenger Service)
July 13, 1972 Ritz Theater, New York City, NY (supporting The Jeff Beck Group)
July 14, 1972 Sunshine In, Asbury Park, NJ
July 22, 1972 Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta, GA (supporting Black Sabbath)
July 25, 1972 Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA (supporting Black Sabbath)
July 26, 1972 Sheboygan Armory, Sheboygan, WI (supported by Wedgewood)
July 27, 1972 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (supporting Black Sabbath and The J. Geils Band)
July 28, 1972 Cole Field House, College Park, MD (supporting Black Sabbath and Black Oak Arkansas)
July 29, 1972 Ritz Theater, New York City, NY (2 shows, supporting Cactus)
July 30, 1972 Civic Center, Providence, RI (supporting Black Sabbath, with Bedlam)
August 2, 1972 Gaelic Park, New York City, NY (supporting The Jeff Beck Group, Flash, and Argent)
August 4, 1972 Idora Park, Youngstown, OH (supporting Quicksilver Messenger Service and Wishbone Ash)
August 8, 1972 Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, IL (supporting The Jeff Beck Group and
August 10, 1972 Minneapolis Armory, Minneapolis, MN (supporting Emerson, Lake, & Palmer)
August 25, 1972 Hickory Motor Speedway, Hickory, NC (with the Peace Corps, Kallabash Corp, Big Brother, and High Cotton)
September 1, 1972 New World Beach, Annapolis, MD (supporting Chuck Berry)
September 8, 1972 William & Mary Hall, Williamsburg, VA (supporting Rare Earth)
September 9, 1972 Park Center, Charlotte, NC (supporting The James Gang)
September 10, 1972 Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC (supporting Rare Earth)
September 12, 1972 The Gaslight, New York City, NY (Usmacinta Center Cultural Innovations Benefit Concert, with Beekman Street, Charles Farris, and Smoke Da Show)
September 13, 1972 The Electric Company, Chapel Hill, NC
September 14, 1972 Bondurant Auditorium, Radford, VA (supporting Flash, with The Divots)
September 15, 1972 The Music Factory, Greenville, NC
September 16, 1972 Clinch Valley College, Wise, VA (supported by Blackberry Hill)
September 23, 1972 Dobyns-Bennett High School, Kingsport, TN
October 2, 1972 Hunter College, New York City, NY (Usmacinta Center for Cultural Innovations benefit concert. Supported by Brownie's Revenge)
October 6, 1972 The Warehouse, Lexington, KY (2 shows, supported by the Buster Brown Band)
October 14, 1972 Clark Gymnasium, Buffalo, NY (supporting Wishbone Ash, with Five Dollar Shoes)
October 19, 1972 Laughlin Fieldhouse, Morehead, KY (supporting Stevie Wonder)
October 20, 1972 Sportatorium, Hollywood, FL (supporting Beck, Bogert, & Appice and Foghat, with Ursa Major)
October 21, 1972 Jacksonville Speedway, Jacksonville, FL (supporting Beck, Bogert, & Appice)
October 22, 1972 Brevard Community College, Cocoa, FL (supported by The Marshall Tucker Band)
October 27, 1972 Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, MD
October 28, 1972 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (2 shows, supported by Rittenhouse)
October 30, 1972 Electric Park Ballroom, Waterloo, IA (supporting Wishbone Ash and REO Speedwagon)
October 31, 1972 Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI (supported by Captain Beyond and Wet Nasteez)
November 1, 1972 Wharton Fieldhouse, Moline, IL (supporting Wishbone Ash, with Speed-O-Meter and Limousine)
November 3, 1972 Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA (cancelled)
November 4, 1972 Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
November 5, 1972 Utica Memorial Auditorium, Utica, NY (supporting Quicksilver Messenger Service, with Estus)
November 10, 1972 Klein Memorial Auditorium, Bridgeport, CT (supported by Camel)
November 17, 1972 The Blue Max, Winston-Salem, NC (supported by The Fog)
November 18, 1972 Randolph Macon College, Ashland, VA (supported by Chicken Hot Rod)
December 2, 1972 Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ (2 shows, supporting Flash)
December 7, 1972 Hara Arena, Dayton, OH (cancelled)
December 8, 1972 IMA Auditorium, Flint, MI (cancelled)
December 22, 1972 Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI (supporting Flash, with Mom's Apple Pie)
December 26, 1972 Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Evansville, IN (supporting Quicksilver Messenger Service, with Boone's Farm)
December 30, 1972 National Guard Armory, Rockford, IL (supporting Quicksilver Messenger Service and Flash)
December 31, 1972 Dome Arena, Rochester, NY
January 19-20, 1973 Kinetic Playground, Chicago, IL (supporting Flash and Jo Jo Gunne, with Glencoe)
January 27, 1973 Northeast State Community College, Johnson City, TN (supported by Hoover)
February 3, 1973 Trinity College Fieldhouse, Hartford, CT (supported by Patrick Phillip Henry and Liquide Lighte)
February 4, 1973 The Roostertail, Detroit, MI
February 10, 1973 War Memorial Auditorium, Nashville, TN (cancelled due to being caught in snow)
February 18, 1973 Old Rivoli Theater, Buffalo, NY (supported by Renaissance and Bethlem Steele)
February 22, 1973 National Guard Armory, Bowling Green, KY (supported by Boot and the Black Mountain Band)
February 24, 1973 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (2 shows, supported by the Charlie Daniels Band)
March 3, 1973 Warehouse, New Orleans, LA (supporting Jo Jo Gunne)
March 9, 1973 Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI (supporting Lou Reed, with The Rockets)
March 15, 1973 Keith Albee Theater, Huntington, WV
March 25, 1973 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA (supported by Good God and Musica Orbis)
Tyranny and Mutation Tour:
April 3, 1973 Bismarck Civic Center, Bismarck, ND (supporting Black Oak Arkansas)
April 6, 1973 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, Indianapolis, IN (supporting Beck, Bogert, & Appice and REO Speedwagon)
April 7, 1973 Catholic Youth Center, Scranton, PA (supporting Savoy Brown, with Andy Bown)
April 11, 1973 Kansas City Memorial Hall, Kansas City, KS (supporting Focus and Joe Walsh & Barnstorm)
April 13, 1973 The Roundtable, Cleveland, OH (supporting Jonathan Edwards, with Circus)
April 14, 1973 Park Center, Charlotte, NC (supporting Billy Preston, with McKendree Spring)
April 18, 1973 Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA (supporting Procol Harum)
April 21, 1973 Lake Spivey Park, Jonesboro, GA (supporting Argent, with Bloodrock and Hydra)
April 27, 1973 Love Auditorium, Davidson, NC
May 4, 1973 Vance Junior High School, Bristol, TN (supported by Mulberry)
May 11, 1973 Minneapolis Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN (supporting The Doobie Brothers)
May 13, 1973 Sunshine Inn, Asbury Park, NJ (cancelled due to issues with fee)
May 15, 1973 Civic Center, Amarillo, TX
May 16, 1973 Henry Levitt Arena, Wichita, KS (supporting Alice Cooper)
May 26, 1973 Warehouse, New Orleans, LA (supported by White Witch and Mason Proffit)
May 27, 1973 Nashville, TN (supporting Richie Havens)
June 1, 1973 Civic Center, Hammond, IN (supporting Savoy Brown, with Status Quo)
June 3, 1973 Pershing Auditorium, Lincoln, NE (supporting Savoy Brown, with Status Quo and Canned Heat)
June 6, 1973 Embassy Theater, Fort Wayne, IN (supporting Savoy Brown)
June 7, 1973 St. Paul Auditorium, St. Paul, MN (supporting Savoy Brown and Manfred Mann)
June 8, 1973 Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO
June 12, 1973 Rickwood Field, Birmingham, AL ("Biggest Rock Show in Alabama", with Cactus, Manfred Mann, Wet Willie, and Savoy Brown)
June 13, 1973 Municipal Auditorium, Mobile, AL (supporting Savoy Brown, Manfred Mann's Earth Band & Wet Willie, with Cactus)
June 15, 1973 Memorial Coliseum, Jacksonville, FL (supporting Deep Purple and ZZ Top)
June 16, 1973 Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FL (supporting Deep Purple, Savoy Brown, ZZ Top, and Billy Preston (cancelled))
June 17, 1973 Palm Beach International Raceway, Jupiter, FL (Hot Fun in the Summertime, with New Days Ahead, ZZ Top, Billy Preston, Savoy Brown, and Deep Purple)
June 22, 1973 Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Auditorium, Chattanooga, TN
June 23, 1973 Pine Knob Music Theater, Clarkston, MI (supported by Malo, Captain Beefheart cancelled)
June 27, 1973 Monroe County Fairgrounds, Rochester, NY (supporting Savoy Brown and Manfred Mann, with David Blue)
June 28, 1973 The Palisades, McKeesport, PA (supporting Savoy Brown, with David Blue)
June 29, 1973 Palace Concert Theater, Providence, RI (supporting Savoy Brown, with David Blue)
June 30, 1973 The White Elephant, White Oak, PA
July 1, 1973 Warner Park, Madison, WI (Something New Under The Sun)
July 4, 1973 Riverfront, Davenport, IA (Mississippi Valley Music Fair)
July 11, 1973 Sherwood Forest, Flint, MI (Wild Wednesday)
July 16, 1973 Wollman Skating Rink, New York, NY (Schaefer Music Festival)
July 21, 1973 Pungo Airfield, Virginia Beach, VA (Concert by the Sea)
July 27, 1973 C. Morris Civic Auditorium, South Bend, IN (supporting The James Gang)
July 28, 1973 Suffolk Downs Raceway, Boston, MA (supporting Savoy Brown, with Barnaby Bye)
July 29, 1973 Illania Speedway, Schererville, IN (supporting The New Cactus Band, with The Mike Quattro Band)
August 2, 1973 Evansville Coliseum, Evansville, IN (supporting Savoy Brown)
August 3, 1973 Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC (supporting The J. Geils Band, with Brownsville Station)
August 4, 1973 Denver Coliseum, Denver, CO (supporting ZZ Top and Savoy Brown)
August 5, 1973 Cessna Stadium, Wichita, KS (supporting Rare Earth and Savoy Brown, with Dr. Hook)
August 7, 1973 Alpine Arena, Swissvale, PA (supporting Mott the Hoople, with The New York Dolls)
August 8, 1973 Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (supporting Mott The Hoople and Flash)
August 9, 1973 Dixie Classic Fairgrounds, Winston-Salem, NC
August 12, 1973 University Of Houston Jeppesen Stadium, Houston, TX (cancelled appearance, with ZZ Top, Doobie Brothers, Wishbone Ash, Savoy Brown (who refused to play after a disagreement about who should warm up for whom) & Willie Nelson)
August 14, 1973 Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI (supporting Mott the Hoople, with The New York Dolls (cancelled))
August 18, 1973 Florida State Fairgrounds, Tampa, FL (supporting The New Cactus Band)
August 19, 1973 Riverfront Park, Nashville, TN (supporting Focus, with Freddie King and Stories)
August 25, 1973 Hollywood Sportatorium, Hollywood, FL (supporting Focus, with Spirit and Bachman Turner Overdrive)
August 26, 1973 Lake Spivey Park, Jonesboro, GA (festival show, with Fletcher & The Piedmonts, Micropolis, Mose Jones, Freddie King, and Lynyrd Skynyrd)
August 30, 1973 Civic Center Theater, El Paso, TX (supporting Quicksilver Messenger Service and El Chicano)
September 1, 1973 Albuquerque Civic Auditorium, Albuquerque, NM (supporting Quicksilver Messenger Service, El Chicano, and Flash)
September 2, 1973 Coyote Ridge, Pueblo, CO (Coyote Ridge Festival)
September 4, 1973 Kalamazoo Ice Arena, Kalamazoo, MI (supported by The Common People)
September 5, 1973 Grand Rapids Civic Auditorium, Grand Rapids, MI
September 9, 1973 Hampton Roads Coliseum, Hampton, VA (supporting Sly & The Family Stone)
September 14, 1973 Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA (supporting Mott the Hoople and Joe Walsh & Barnstorm, with Orphan)
September 16, 1973 Park Fairyland, Kansas City, MO (Carney Rock, with Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie, Flash & Brownsville Station)
September 18, 1973 Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO (supported by McKendree Spring and The Mike Quattro Jam Band)
September 21, 1973 Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ (supporting Slade)
September 23, 1973 Lake Spivey Park, Jonesboro, GA (supported by Nazareth)
September 28, 1973 Ellis Auditorium, Memphis, TN (supporting Slade)
September 29, 1973 Louisville Convention Center, Louisville, KY (supporting Slade, with Hydra)
October 4, 1973 Tulsa Assembly Center, Tulsa, OK (supporting Uriah Heep, with Tucky Buzzard)
October 6, 1973 Academy of Music, New York, NY (supporting Slade)
October 7, 1973 Lehigh Valley Community College, Northampton, PA (supported by The High Keys)
October 8, 1973 Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH (supported by Nazareth)
October 9, 1973 Agora, Toledo, OH (supported by Nazareth)
October 11, 1973 Minneapolis Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN (supporting Fleetwood Mac)
October 12, 1973 Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, MB (supporting Savoy Brown)
October 13, 1973 University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI (supporting Fleetwood Mac, with Jambalaya)
October 14, 1973 Massey Hall, Toronto, ON (supporting Mott the Hoople, with Aerosmith)
October 19, 1973 Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium, La Crosse, WI (supporting The New Cactus Band, with Spirit)
November 9, 1973 Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA (supporting Focus, with The Spencer Davis Group)
November 10, 1973 IU Assembly Hall, Bloomington, IN (supported by Weather Report)
November 14, 1973 Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA (supporting ELO, with Montrose)
November 16, 1973 Special Events Center, Salt Lake City, UT (supporting Rare Earth and Buddy Miles)
November 18, 1973 Tempe Stadium, Tempe, AZ (Sounds For a Sunday Afternoon, with Hans Olson, ELO, ZZ Top, War, and Three Dog Night (cancelled))
November 29, 1973 Knoxville Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, TN (supporting ZZ Top)
December 4, 1973 Shryock Auditorium, Carbondale, IL (supporting ZZ Top (cancelled))
December 7, 1973 Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA (supported by Brian Auger's Oblivion Express)
December 13, 1973 Louisville Convention Center, Louisville, KY (supporting Mountain)
December 14, 1973 Auditorium Theater, Chicago, IL (supported by The Raspberries)
December 15, 1973 Decatur Armory, Decatur, IL (supported by The Flock)
December 21, 1973 Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, CA (2 shows, supported by Eric Burdon)
December 22, 1973 Golden Hall, San Diego, CA (supported by Daddy Warbucks)
December 27, 1973 Century II Convention Center, Wichita, KS (supported by Captain Beyond and Aerosmith)
December 28, 1973 Cowtown Ballroom, Kansas City, MO (supported by The Charlie Daniels Band)
December 29, 1973 Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, IN (Holiday Festival, with Captain Beyond, The Mike Bloomfield Band, Iggy & The Stooges, REO Speedwagon, and Rare Earth)
December 31, 1973 Academy of Music, New York, NY (supported by Iggy & The Stooges, Teenage Lust, and KISS)
January 12, 1974 Wollman Skating Rink, New York, NY (cancelled)
January 25, 1974 Sunshine Inn, Asbury Park, NJ (cancelled due to venue improvements)
January 27, 1974 Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, PA (supported by The Dictators)
January 31, 1974 Hersheypark Arena, Derry, PA (supporting Black Sabbath, with White Witch)
February 2, 1974 Capitol Theater, Rye, NY (supported by Iggy & The Stooges and The Dictators)
February 5, 1974 Broome County Arena, Binghamton, NY (cancelled due to cancellation of Black Sabbath concert)
February 21, 1974 Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI (supporting Black Sabbath)
February 22, 1974 War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, NY (supporting Black Sabbath, with Bedlam)
February 24, 1974 The Warehouse, New Orleans, LA (supporting Bachman Turner Overdrive, with Hydra)
March 3, 1974 William & Mary Hall, Williamsburg, VA (supported by Badfinger, Nazareth, and Status Quo)
March 9, 1974 Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA (2 shows, supporting Aerosmith)
March 15, 1974 Parsons Municipal Building, Parsons, KS (supported by Kansas)
March 16, 1974 Holiday Inn East, Springfield, IL
March 17, 1974 Diablo Stadium, Tempe, AZ (supporting The Doobie Brothers and REO Speedwagon)
March 19, 1974 Barton Coliseum, Little Rock, AR (supporting Rare Earth, with Lynyrd Skynyrd)
March 22-23, 1974 Ambassador Theatre, St. Louis, MO (supported by Rory Gallagher)
March 26, 1974 Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, MB (supporting Savoy Brown, with Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids)
Secret Treaties Tour:
April 10, 1974 Memorial Stadium, Daytona Beach, FL (supporting Rare Earth, with Silverhead)
April 12-13, 1974 Michigan Palace, Detroit, MI (supported by KISS and Suzi Quatro)
April 16, 1974 Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI (supported by Farm)
April 18, 1974 Saunders Fieldhouse, Grand Junction, CO (supporting Rare Earth)
April 19, 1974 Civic Auditorium, Albuquerque, NM (supporting Rare Earth, Sugarloaf, and Redbone)
April 20, 1974 Civic Theater, El Paso, TX (supporting Redbone, with Nazareth)
April 27, 1974 Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ (supported by KISS and Ross)
May 3, 1974 National Guard Armory, Fort Wayne, IN (supported by Heartsfield)
May 4, 1974 Alexander Memorial Coliseum, Atlanta, GA (supported by Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Hydra)
May 6, 1974 University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
May 10, 1974 Stark County Fairgrounds, Canton, OH (supported by Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
May 11, 1974 Shubert Theater, Philadelphia, PA (supported by Golden Earring)
May 14, 1974 Centennial Hall, Rock Island, IL (supported by Brian Auger's Oblivion Express)
May 17, 1974 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL (supporting Aerosmith, with The Sharks)
May 19, 1974 W.K. Kellogg Auditorium, Battle Creek, MI (supported by Catfish Hodge)
May 24, 1974 Hara Arena, Dayton, OH (supported by The New York Dolls, Billy Cobham, Dixie Peach, and Isis)
May 26, 1974 Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA (cancelled due to rain)
May 30, 1974 Sports Arena, Toledo, OH (cancelled)
June 1, 1974 Allen Theater, Cleveland, OH (supporting Aerosmith)
June 2, 1974 Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, OH (supporting Aerosmith)
June 7, 1974 Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA (supported by Nazareth, Queen cancelled)
June 8, 1974 Golden Hall, San Diego, CA
June 12, 1974 Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC (supported by Nazareth)
June 14, 1974 Paramount Theater, Portland, OR (supporting Cold Blood, with Nazareth)
June 15, 1974 Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA (supporting Cold Blood, with Nazareth)
June 16, 1974 Selland Arena, Fresno, CA (supporting Ten Years After, with The Strawbs)
June 20, 1974 Union Auditorium, Normal, IL (supported by Kansas)
June 21, 1974 Century Theater, Buffalo, NY (supported by Nazareth and Golden Earring)
June 22, 1974 Palace Concert Theater, Providence, RI (supported by Nazareth)
June 24, 1974 State Theater, Easton, PA (2 shows, supported by Nazareth)
June 25, 1974 Greenville Memorial Auditorium, Greenville, SC (supported by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Nazareth, KISS cancelled)
June 26, 1974 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA (supported by Maggie Bell, KISS cancelled)
June 27, 1974 Roanoke Valley Civic Center, Salem, VA (supported by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Maggie Bell, KISS cancelled)
June 28, 1974 Park Center, Charlotte, NC (supported by Nazareth and Brownsville Station, KISS cancelled)
June 29, 1974 Asheville Civic Center, Asheville, NC (supported by Nazareth and Brownsville Station, KISS cancelled)
June 30, 1974 Alexandria Roller Rink, Alexandria, VA (supported by Nazareth, KISS cancelled)
July 1, 1974 Pine Knob Music Theater, Clarkston, MI (supported by The Mike Quattro Jam Band)
July 2, 1974 Ohio Theater, Columbus, OH (supported by Nazareth)
July 3, 1974 Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, IN
July 5, 1974 Casino Arena, Asbury Park, NJ (supporting Aerosmith)
July 6, 1974 Eagle Stadium, Chattanooga, TN (supporting Rare Earth, with Nazareth, KISS cancelled)
July 7, 1974 West Tennessee Fairgrounds, Jackson, TN (supported by Pavlov's Dog, Nazareth and Larry Raspberry & The Highsteppers cancelled)
July 8, 1974 Ellis Memorial Auditorium, Memphis, TN (supported by Nazareth, KISS cancelled)
July 10, 1974 Carolina Coliseum, Columbia, SC (supported by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Golden Earring)
July 11, 1974 West Palm Beach Auditorium, West Palm Beach, FL (supported by Nazareth and KISS)
July 12, 1974 Jai Alai Fronton, Orlando, FL (supported by Nazareth and KISS)
July 13, 1974 Curtis Hixon Convention Hall, Tampa, FL (supported by Nazareth and KISS)
July 14, 1974 Boutwell Auditorium, Birmingham, AL (supported by Nazareth and KISS)
July 16, 1974 Independence Hall, Baton Rouge, LA (supported by The New York Dolls and KISS)
July 17-18, 1974 Electric Ballroom, Atlanta, GA (supported by KISS and Fat Chance)
July 19, 1974 Cumberland County Memorial Arena, Fayetteville, NC (supported by Nazareth, KISS, and Glass Moon)
July 20, 1974 Muscle Shoals Fairgrounds, Muscle Shoals, AL
July 21, 1974 Missouri State Fairgrounds, Sedalia, MO (Ozark Music Festival, with Aerosmith, America, Babe Ruth, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Bill Quateman, Bloodstone, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Boz Scaggs, Cactus, The Charlie Daniels Band, David Bromberg, The Eagles, The Earl Scruggs Revue, The Electric Flag, Elvin Bishop, Fresh Start, Jim Stafford, Jimmie Spheeris, Joe Walsh, Leo Kottke, Locomotiv GT, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Mahavishu Orchestra (cancelled), The Marshall Tucker Band, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils (cancelled), REO Speedwagon, The Souther, Hillman, Furay Band, Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes, Tower of Power, and Triphammer)
July 24, 1974 Nashville Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN (supported by Jo Jo Gunne and Elvin Bishop)
July 27, 1974 Marion County International Raceway, LaRue, OH (supporting Aerosmith (cancelled), with The New York Dolls)
July 28, 1974 Cessna Stadium, Wichita, KS (supporting ZZ Top, with Brownsville Station and Metroplex)
July 30, 1974 Tulsa Fairgrounds Speedway, Tulsa, OK (supporting ZZ Top, with Brownsville Station and Metroplex)
August 2, 1974 Artpark Theater, Lewiston, NY (supported by Mercury)
August 3, 1974 Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, IN (supported by The James Gang, KISS, and Chris Jagger)
August 4, 1974 C. Morris Civic Auditorium, South Bend, IN (supported by KISS, Nazareth cancelled)
August 8, 1974 State Farm Show Arena, Harrisburg, PA (supporting Uriah Heep, with Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
August 10, 1974 Decatur Armory, Decatur, IL (cancelled due to power outage)
August 20, 1974 Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh, PA (supported by The Climax Blues Band and Rush)
August 23, 1974 Municipal Auditorium, Minot, ND (supported by Gandolf, The New York Dolls cancelled)
August 24, 1974 Civic Auditorium, Fargo, ND (supported by Gandolf, The New York Dolls cancelled)
August 27, 1974 Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA
August 29, 1974 Arena Building, Cape Girardeau, MO (cancelled due to power shortage)
August 30, 1974 Boston Garden, Boston, MA
August 31, 1974 Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ
September 1, 1974 Cape Cod Coliseum, Yarmouth, MA (supporting Aerosmith)
September 2, 1974 Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI
September 14, 1974 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY (Citizens Committee on Mental Health benefit concert, with Ken Lyon & Tombstone, Tom Rush, Weather Report, and David Bromberg)
September 15, 1974 Thomas Fieldhouse, Lock Haven, PA (supported by KISS and Rush)
September 16, 1974 Paramount Theater, Wilkes-Barre, PA (supported by KISS and Rush)
September 19, 1974 Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium, LaCrosse, WI (supported by Jo Jo Gunne)
September 20, 1974 Memorial Hall, Kansas City, KS (supported by The New York Dolls)
September 21, 1974 Tennessee State Fairgrounds, Nashville, TN (supported by Lynyrd Skynyrd)
September 26, 1974 Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA (supported by T-Rex and Moxie)
September 28, 1974 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA (supporting Billy Preston)
September 30, 1974 Convention Center, Louisville, KY (supported by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Hydra)
October 5, 1974 Academy of Music, New York City, NY (supported by Triumvirat)
October 9, 1974 Industrial Building, Casper, WY (supported by T-Rex)
October 11, 1974 Warnors Theater, Fresno, CA (supported by T-Rex)
October 12, 1974 Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA (supported by Jeffrey Comanor)
October 13, 1974 Golden Hall, San Diego, CA (supported by UFO)
October 14, 1974 Show Palace, Phoenix, AZ (supported by T-Rex and Golden Earring)
October 17, 1974 Medford Armory, Medford, OR (supported by T-Rex and The Morgan Blackwood Group)
October 18, 1974 Paramount Theater, Portland, OR (supported by T-Rex)
October 19, 1974 Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA (supported by T-Rex and Fred Schwartz)
October 20, 1974 Memorial Arena, Victoria, BC (supporting T-Rex, with Holy Smoke)
October 21, 1974 Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC (supporting T-Rex, with Holy Smoke)
October 23, 1974 Stampede Corral, Calgary, AB (supporting T-Rex)
October 24, 1974 Kinsmen Fieldhouse, Edmonton, AB (supporting T-Rex)
October 26, 1974 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (supporting T-Rex, with Steel)
October 28, 1974 Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Des Moines, IA (supporting REO Speedwagon, with Focus)
October 31, 1974 Pershing Center, Lincoln, NE (supporting REO Speedwagon, with Lightnin' Lyle)
November 3, 1974 Civic Center, Springfield, MA (supporting Aerosmith, with Hydra)
November 10, 1974 IU Assembly Hall, Bloomington, IN (supporting Aerosmith, with Wet Willie)
November 17, 1974 Civic Center, Baltimore, MD (Heavy Metal Sunday, with Ruth Copeland, PFM, Aerosmith, and Steppenwolf)
November 19, 1974 Brown County Arena, Green Bay, WI (supporting REO Speedwagon)
November 23-24, 1974 Winterland, San Francisco, CA (supporting Jefferson Starship, with Kansas)
November 28, 1974 Kiel Convention Hall, St. Louis, MO (supporting Wishbone Ash, with Camel)
November 29, 1974 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL (supported by Manfred Mann and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band)
December 1, 1974 Palmer College Auditorium, Davenport, IA (supporting Foghat, with Premiate Forneria Marconi, who replaced The Sensational Alex Harvey Band)
December 2, 1974 Sioux Falls Arena, Sioux Falls, SD (cancelled due to other commitments)
December 7, 1974 Sports Arena, Toledo, OH
December 9, 1974 Capital Center, Landover, MD (supporting Bachman Turner Overdrive, with Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
December 11, 1974 Memorial Auditorium, Utica, NY (supporting Bachman Turner Overdrive, with Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
December 13-14, 1974 Michigan Palace, Detroit, MI (supported by Manfred Mann)
December 16, 1974 Erie County Fieldhouse, Erie, PA (supported by Manfred Mann)
December 19, 1974 The Warehouse, New Orleans, LA (supported by Rush)
December 20, 1974 Kansas City Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, MO (supporting ZZ Top)
December 21, 1974 Municipal Theater, Tulsa, OK
December 23, 1974 Mr. Flood's Party, Ann Arbor, MI (supported by Electric Mud and Flim Flam & the Foofaraws)
December 28, 1974 Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA (supported by American Tears, Rush cancelled)
December 29, 1974 Palace Theater, Waterbury, CT (supported by Rush (cancelled))
December 31, 1974 Academy of Music, New York, NY (2 shows, supported by Camel and Carmen)
On Your Feet or On Your Knees Tour:
February 11, 1975 War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, NY (supporting Rod Stewart & The Faces)
February 12, 1975 Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI (supporting Rod Stewart & The Faces)
February 15, 1975 Capital Center, Landover, MD (supporting Rod Stewart & The Faces)
February 21, 1975 Civic Center, Charleston, WV (supporting Rod Stewart & The Faces)
February 22, 1975 Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, OH (supporting Rod Stewart & The Faces, with REO Speedwagon)
February 24, 1975 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY (supporting Rod Stewart & The Faces)
February 25, 1975 Civic Center, Providence, RI (supporting Rod Stewart & The Faces, with The Strawbs)
February 26, 1975 New Haven Coliseum, New Haven, CT (supporting Rod Stewart & The Faces and Elvin Bishop)
March 1, 1975 Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ (supported by The James Gang and The Dictators)
March 7, 1975 Allen Theatre, Cleveland, OH (supported by The Strawbs)
March 8, 1975 Indiana State Fairgrounds, Indianapolis, IN (supported by Styx and Babe Ruth)
March 13, 1975 Spokane Coliseum, Spokane, WA (Festival gig, with Stoneground, Rusty Weir, Freddy King, Blood, Sweat, & Tears, and Man)
March 15, 1975 Salem Armory Auditorium, Salem, OR (supported by REO Speedwagon and Man)
March 18, 1975 Manure Palace, Boise, ID (supported by REO Speedwagon and Man)
March 19, 1975 Terrace Ballroom, Salt Lake City, UT (supported by REO Speedwagon)
March 21, 1975 Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA (supported by REO Speedwagon and Rare Earth)
March 23, 1975 Show Palace, Phoenix, AZ (supported by REO Speedwagon)
March 26, 1975 Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA (supported by REO Speedwagon and The Pretty Things)
March 27, 1975 Golden Hall, San Diego, CA (supported by REO Speedwagon and The Pretty Things)
March 28, 1975 Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, CA (supported by REO Speedwagon and The Pretty Things)
March 29, 1975 Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA (supported by REO Speedwagon and The Pretty Things)
April 11, 1975 Omni 41 Ice Arena, Schererville, IN (supported by Vitale's Madmen and Rodger Moon)
April 12, 1975 Willow Ice Chalet, Willow Springs, IL (supported by Vitale's Madmen and Rodger Moon)
April 13, 1975 Cascade Sports Arena, Grand Rapids, MI (supported by Status Quo and Ted Nugent)
April 14, 1975 Metro Ice Arena, Lansing, MI (supported by Bob Seger and Status Quo)
April 16, 1975 Baton Rouge, LA (cancelled due to flooding)
April 19, 1975 The Warehouse, New Orleans, LA (supported by The Strawbs and Passport)
April 24, 1975 Music Hall, Houston, TX (supported by The Strawbs and Navasota)
April 25, 1975 Texas Hall, Arlington, TX (supported by The Strawbs)
April 26, 1975 Ritz Music Hall, Corpus Christi, TX (supported by Rat Madness)
April 27, 1975 Fair Park Coliseum, Dallas, TX (Columbia Records Free Concert, with Fancy Space, Stoneground, Rusty Weir, Freddy King, and Blood, Sweat, & Tears)
May 2, 1975 San Antonio Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, TX (supporting Trapeze, with Bloodrock)
May 3, 1975 Ector County Coliseum, Odessa, TX (supporting Trapeze, with Bloodrock)
May 4, 1975 Amarillo Civic Center, Amarillo, TX (suppporting Trapeze, with Bloodrock)
May 6, 1975 Lubbock Municipal Coliseum, Lubbock, TX (cancelled due to disagreements with Trapeze)
May 10, 1975 Old Wink Arena, Big Rapids, MI (supported by Bob Seger)
May 16, 1975 Capitol Theater, Rye, NY (supported by Rush)
May 17, 1975 Island Music Center, Huntington, NY (supported by The Strawbs and Brian Auger's Oblivion Express)
May 24, 1975 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY (supported by Pavlov's Dog, Journey, and Myles & Lenny)
May 25, 1975 Cape Cod Coliseum, Yarmouth, MA (supported by Journey, Wet Willie, and Duke & The Drivers)
May 30, 1975 Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC (supporting Foghat, with Thee Image)
May 31, 1975 Cumberland County Memorial Arena, Fayetteville, NC (supporting Foghat, with Brownsville Station)
June 1, 1975 Ellis Memorial Auditorium, Memphis, TN (supporting Foghat, with Point Blank)
June 3, 1975 Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Columbus, OH (supported by Styx)
June 4, 1975 Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, TN (supporting Foghat, with Styx)
June 5, 1975 Park Center, Charlotte, NC (supporting Foghat)
June 6, 1975 Civic Center, Charleston, WV (supporting Foghat, with Bob Seger)
June 7, 1975 Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA (supporting Foghat, with Bob Seger)
June 9, 1975 Hara Arena, Dayton, OH (supported by Styx and The Flock)
June 22, 1975 Fairyland Park, Kansas City, MO (Carney Rock)
June 27, 1975 Pershing Center, Lincoln, NE (supporting ZZ Top)
June 28, 1975 Sioux City Municipal Auditorium, Sioux City, IA (supporting ZZ Top)
June 29, 1975 Stockyard Arena, Fargo, ND (supporting ZZ Top, with Sugarloaf (cancelled))
July 2, 1975 Warnors Theater, Fresno, CA (supported by Journey)
July 3, 1975 Redding Convention Center, Redding, CA (supported by Journey and Ace Jet)
July 4, 1975 Paramount Theater, Portland, OR (supported by Journey)
July 5, 1975 Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA (supported by Journey (cancelled))
July 8, 1975 Medford Armory, Medford, OR (supported by Journey)
July 9, 1975 Yakima Speedway, Yakima, WA (supported by Journey)
July 11, 1975 San Jose Civic Auditorium, San Jose, CA (supported by Journey)
July 16, 1975 Corpus Christi Memorial Coliseum, Corpus Christi, TX (supporting War)
July 19, 1975 Pekin Memorial Ice Arena, Pekin, IL (supported by Hydra)
July 23, 1975 Century II Convention Center, Wichita, KS (supporting Joe Walsh)
July 25, 1975 Penrose Equestrian Center, Colorado Springs, CO (supporting Joe Walsh, with Point Blank)
July 26, 1975 Civic Center Music Hall, Oklahoma City, OK (supported by Kansas)
July 27, 1975 Fairgrounds Pavilion, Tulsa, OK (supported by Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes, Kansas, and Diamond Reo)
July 31, 1975 Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY (supporting Uriah Heep, with Point Blank)
August 1, 1975 Saginaw Civic Center, Saginaw, MI (supporting Uriah Heep, with Point Blank)
August 2, 1975 Showboat Amphitheater, Lowell, MI (cancelled due to rain)
August 3, 1975 Nippert Stadium, Cincinnati, OH (Ohio River Rock Festival, with Aerosmith, Black Oak Arkansas, Bobby Womack, Foghat, Mahogany Rush, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Outlaws, REO Speedwagon, Status Quo, and Styx)
August 9, 1975 Mobile Municipal Auditorium, Mobile, AL (supporting Uriah Heep and The Atlanta Rhythm Section)
August 10, 1975 Orlando Sports Stadium, Orlando, FL (supporting Uriah Heep)
August 14, 1975 Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (supporting Uriah Heep)
August 15, 1975 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA (supporting Uriah Heep)
August 17, 1975 Capital Center, Landover, MD (supporting Uriah Heep)
August 20, 1975 Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Cedar Rapids, IA (supported by Styx)
August 21, 1975 Allen County Coliseum, Fort Wayne, IN (supporting Uriah Heep)
August 23, 1975 Cleveland Stadium, Cleveland, OH (World Series of Rock, with Mahogany Rush, Aerosmith, Uriah Heep, and The Faces)
August 24, 1975 MECCA Arena, Milwaukee, WI (supporting Uriah Heep)
August 26, 1975 Orpheum Theater, Davenport, IA (supported by Mahogany Rush)
August 27, 1975 Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO (supporting Uriah Heep)
August 29, 1975 Calderone Concert Hall, Hempstead, NY (cancelled)
August 30, 1975 Freedom Hall, Johnson City, TN (supporting Uriah Heep)
August 31, 1975 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY (cancelled)
September 13, 1975 Illinois National Guard Armory, Rockford, IL (supported by Brownsville Station)
September 14, 1975 Tenth Street Stadium, Bloomington, IN (Jordan River Music Festival, with Aerosmith, Joe Cocker (who cancelled), Sha Na Na (who cancelled), Slade (who didn't play due to lack of time), Chris Hillman Band, Savoy Brown, The Atlanta Rhythm Section, Kenny Rankin & LTD)
September 15, 1975 Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Des Moines, IA (supporting Slade)
September 18, 1975 Hulman Center, Terre Haute, IN (cancelled due to travel distance)
September 19, 1975 Convention Center Arena, San Antonio, TX (supporting Rod Stewart & The Faces)
September 20, 1975 Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, TX (supporting Rod Stewart & The Faces)
September 21, 1975 Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX (supporting Rod Stewart & The Faces)
September 26, 1975 Omni, Atlanta, GA (supporting Uriah Heep)
September 28, 1975 Knoxville Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, TN (supporting Uriah Heep)
September 30, 1975 Fairgrounds Coliseum, Columbus, OH (supporting Rod Stewart & The Faces)
October 2, 1975 Civic Center, Springfield, MA (supporting ZZ Top)
October 3, 1975 Boston Garden, Boston, MA (supporting ZZ Top, with Duke & The Drivers)
October 4, 1975 Civic Theater, Akron, OH (supported by The Michael Stanley Band)
October 5, 1975 UD Arena, Dayton, OH (supporting Rod Stewart & The Faces)
October 9, 1975 El Paso Civic Theater, El Paso, TX (supporting Uriah Heep)
October 10, 1975 Albuquerque Civic Auditorium, Albuquerque, NM (supporting Uriah Heep)
October 12, 1975 McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO (supporting Uriah Heep)
October 13, 1975 Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, UT (supporting Uriah Heep)
October 19, 1975 Hammersmith Odeon, London, England (supported by Motorhead)
October 21, 1975 Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm, Sweden
October 22, 1975 Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden (supported by Thirty Years War)
October 23, 1975 Olympen, Lund, Sweden (supported by Thirty Years War)
October 25, 1975 Holstebro Hall, Holstebro, Denmark (supported by Gnags and Lollipops)
October 27, 1975 Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark (supported by Bifrost)
October 29, 1975 Burger House, Ludwigshafen, Germany
October 30, 1975 Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt, Germany (supported by Kin Ping Meh)
October 31, 1975 Stadthalle, Erlangen, Germany
November 3, 1975 Paris Pavilion, Paris, France
November 4, 1975 Opera Cinema, Reims, France
November 5, 1975 Wacken Hall, Strasbourg, France
November 7, 1975 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 8, 1975 Cave Palace, Cambrai, France
November 12, 1975 Monumental Theater, Madrid, Spain
November 13, 1975 Casilla Pavilion, Bilbao, Spain
November 14, 1975 Alliance Theater, Barcelona, Spain
November 16, 1975 Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland (supported by Goertz & Garza)
November 17, 1975 Momignies, Belgium (cancelled)
November 18, 1975 Old Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
November 20, 1975 Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle, England (supported by Birth Control)
November 21, 1975 Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England (supported by Birth Control)
November 22, 1975 Empire Theater, Liverpool, England (supported by Birth Control)
November 23, 1975 Hammersmith Odeon, London, England (supported by Birth Control)
December 17, 1975 San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, CA (supporting Aerosmith, with Ted Nugent)
December 19, 1975 Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA (supported by Kansas and Ted Nugent)
December 21, 1975 Winterland, San Francisco, CA (supported by Kansas and Link Wray)
December 26, 1975 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL (supported by Rush and Artful Dodger)
December 27, 1975 Sports Arena, Toledo, OH (supported by Mott and Bob Seger)
December 28, 1975 Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, IN (Christmas Concert, with Mott, Ted Nugent, The Outlaws, Rush, Peter Frampton, and Black Sheep)
December 31, 1975 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (supporting KISS, with the Leslie West Band)
January 4, 1976 Capital Center, Landover, MD (Holiday Rock Spectacular, with Rush, Ted Nugent, REO Speedwagon, and Leslie West)
January 23, 1976 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL (supported by Bob Seger and Point Blank)
January 25, 1976 Broome County Arena, Binghamton, NY (supported by Bob Seger and Angel)
January 27, 1976 Palace Theater, Albany, NY (supported by Bob Seger)
January 30, 1976 Randhurst Ice Arena, Mount Prospect, IL (supported by Bob Seger and Rory Gallagher)
March 28, 1976 Allen County Coliseum, Fort Wayne, IN (cancelled due to recording commitments)
March 31, 1976 Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA (cancelled due to recording commitments)
Agents of Fortune Tour:
May 1, 1976 Memorial Auditorium, Utica, NY (supported by Styx and Sutherland Brothers & Quiver)
May 2, 1976 Falcon Hall, Poughkeepsie, NY (supported by Styx and The Beaver Brown Band)
May 6, 1976 Dome Arena, Rochester, NY
May 7-8, 1976 Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ (7th cancelled. Supported by Slade and Dr. Feelgood)
May 10, 1976 Pittsburgh Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA (supported by Styx and Starcastle)
May 12, 1976 Agricultural Hall, Allentown, PA (supported by The Dictators)
May 22, 1976 Orpheum Theater, Davenport, IA (supported by Rush)
May 23, 1976 Duluth Arena, Duluth, MN (supported by Rush and Ozone Crater & The Moon Rock Band)
May 26, 1976 Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium, La Crosse, WI (cancelled due to poor ticket sales)
May 27, 1976 Brown County Arena, Green Bay, WI (supported by Rush and Sunblind Lion)
May 28, 1976 Lakeview Arena, Marquette, MI (supported by REO Speedwagon)
May 29, 1976 St. Paul Civic Center, St. Paul, MN (supported by REO Speedwagon, Rush, and The Boys)
June 4, 1976 Northwest Speedway, Coeur d'Alene, ID (Nor'wester, with Bachman Turner Overdrive, Bang, Big Horn, Child, Chris Jagger & Friends (cancelled), Dave Rea & Friends, Earthsong, Flash Cadillac, Freefall, Heart, Magi, Nektar, Rainbow, Salem Mass, Season Street, Shy, The Stacy Heydon Band, and Trooper)
June 6, 1976 Oakland Stadium, Oakland, CA (Day on the Green, with Boz Scaggs, The J. Geils Band, Jeff Beck, Journey, Mahogany Rush, Nils Lofgren, Sammy Hagar, Santana, Tower of Power)
June 7, 1976 Medford Armory, Medford, OR (supported by Mahogany Rush and Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
June 8, 1976 Agate Hall, Eugene, OR (supported by Mahogany Rush and Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
June 9, 1976 Eastgate Mall, Walla Walla, WA (cancelled due to lack of noise level control)
June 12, 1976 Seattle Center Coliseum, Seattle, WA (supported by Mahogany Rush and Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
June 14, 1976 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (supported by Mahogany Rush and Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
June 15, 1976 Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC (cancelled due to poor ticket sales)
June 18, 1976 Metrapark Arena, Billings, MT
June 20, 1976 Joliet Memorial Stadium, Joliet, IL (cancelled due to poor ticket sales)
June 23, 1976 Niagara Falls Convention Center, Niagara Falls, NY (supporting ZZ Top, with Starz)
June 25, 1976 Cape Cod Coliseum, Yarmouth, MA (supporting ZZ Top, with Starz)
June 26, 1976 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (supporting ZZ Top, with Ted Nugent)
June 28, 1976 Richfield Coliseum, Richfield, OH (supporting ZZ Top, with Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
June 30, 1976 Charleston Civic Center, Charleston, WV (supporting ZZ Top)
July 2, 1976 Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, WI (supported by Mott and Mahogany Rush)
July 4, 1976 Liberty Bowl, Memphis, TN (supporting ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd, with The Outlaws)
July 6, 1976 Assembly Center, Tulsa, OK (supported by Rush, Mott (cancelled) & UFO. Mott was going to close the show, but time ran out and they didn't get to play)
July 7, 1976 Civic Center, Amarillo, TX (cancelled, supported by Rush, Mott & Starz)
July 8, 1976 Hirsch Memorial Coliseum, Shreveport, LA (supported by Rush, Mott & Starz)
July 9, 1976 Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, TX (supported by Rainbow and Starz, Mott cancelled)
July 10, 1976 Moody Coliseum, Dallas, TX (supported by Rush and Starz, Mott cancelled)
July 11, 1976 Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, TX (supported by Rush and Starz, Mott cancelled)
July 14, 1976 Orlando Sports Stadium, Orlando, FL (supported by Rush, Mott, and Starz)
July 16, 1976 West Palm Beach Auditorium, West Palm Beach, FL (supported by Rush, Mott & Starz)
July 18, 1976 Civic Center, Dothan, AL (supported by Rush)
July 20, 1976 Soldiers and Sailors Auditorium, Chattanooga, TN (supported by Rush)
July 23, 1976 Triad Arena, Greensboro, NC (supported by Rush & Mott)
July 24, 1976 Cumberland County Memorial Arena, Fayetteville, NC (supported by Rush & Mott)
July 25, 1976 Capitol Music Hall, Wheeling, WV (supported by Rush)
July 28, 1976 Myrtle Beach Convention Center, Myrtle Beach, SC (supported by Rush)
July 29, 1976 Garrett Coliseum, Montgomery, AL (supported by Mott, Rush cancelled)
August 1, 1976 McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO (cancelled due to Albert Bouchard illness)
August 2, 1976 Idaho State Fairgrounds, Boise, ID (supported by Point Blank)
August 4, 1976 Butte Civic Center, Butte, MT (supported by Point Blank)
August 7, 1976 Anaheim Stadium, Los Angeles, CA (supporting ZZ Top, with Johnny & Edgar Winter, Point Blank (who replaced Rory Gallagher) & (host) Cal Worthington and his dog spot)
August 9, 1976 San Diego Stadium, San Diego, CA (supporting ZZ Top, with Johnny & Edgar Winter)
August 13, 1976 Sioux City Municipal Auditorium, Sioux City, IA (supported by Rush)
August 14, 1976 Fargo Civic Auditorium, Fargo, ND (supported by Rush and Point Blank)
August 15, 1976 North Dakota State Fairgrounds, Minot, ND (supported by Rush and Point Blank)
August 17, 1976 Topeka Municipal Auditorium, Topeka, KS (supported by Point Blank, Rush cancelled)
August 20, 1976 McElroy Auditorium, Waterloo, IA (supported by Rush and Point Blank)
August 21, 1976 Pekin Memorial Ice Arena, Pekin, IL (supported by Point Blank and Piper)
August 22, 1976 Illinois National Guard Armory, Rockford, IL
August 24, 1976 Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, UT (supported by Straight Shooter, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band and Paris both cancelled)
August 27, 1976 Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY (supported by Mahogany Rush and Starz)
August 28, 1976 Trumbull County Fairgrounds, Cortland, OH (Mosquito Dam Jam, with Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, The J. Geils Band (cancelled), REO Speedwagon, and Starz)
August 29, 1976 Fulton County Stadium, Atlanta, GA (Festival show, with .38 Special, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Edgar & Johnny Winter, and KISS)
August 31, 1976 Mississippi Coliseum, Jackson, MS (cancelled)
September 3, 1976 Hara Arena, Dayton, OH (supported by Rush and Styx)
September 4, 1976 Mesker Music Theater, Evansville, IN (supported by Wet Willie)
September 6, 1976 Varsity Stadium, Toronto, ON (supporting KISS, with Artful Dodger)
September 10, 1976 Saginaw Civic Center, Saginaw, MI (supported by Rush)
September 11, 1976 Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI (supported by Spirit and Angel)
September 12, 1976 Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Columbus, OH (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
September 13, 1976 Roy Stewart Stadium, Murray, KY (supported by Rush and Angel)
September 15, 1976 John F. Kennedy Memorial Coliseum, Manchester, NH (supported by Rush and Angel)
September 17, 1976 Broome County Arena, Binghamton, NY (supported by Rush and Angel)
September 18, 1976 Onondaga War Memorial Auditorium, Syracuse, NY (supported by Rush and Angel)
September 19-20, 1976 Palace Theater, Albany, NY (supported by The Tommy Bolin Band)
September 21, 1976 Crete Memorial Civic Center, Plattsburgh, NY (supported by Rush and Angel)
September 22, 1976 Dome Arena, Rochester, NY (supported by Rush and Angel)
September 24-25, 1976 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL (supported by Rick Derringer, The Tommy Bolin Band (24th) and Point Blank (25th))
September 26, 1976 Allen County Coliseum, Fort Wayne, IN
September 28, 1976 Knoxville Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, TN (supported by Sammy Hagar and Angel)
September 29, 1976 Hulman Center, Terre Haute, IN (supported by Angel and Starz)
September 30, 1976 Milwaukee Auditorium, Milwaukee, WI (supported by Rick Derringer and Starz)
October 1, 1976 Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE (supported by Mahogany Rush)
October 2, 1976 Shrine Mosque, Springfield, MO (supported by Mahogany Rush)
October 3, 1976 Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY (supported by Mahogany Rush and Starz)
October 7, 1976 Erie County Fieldhouse, Erie, PA (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe and Paris)
October 8, 1976 Toledo Sports Arena, Toledo, OH (supported by The Godz and Paris)
October 9, 1976 Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OH (supported by Montrose and Jay Ferguson)
October 10, 1976 Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO (supported by Nektar)
October 12, 1976 Dane County Coliseum, Madison, WI (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe)
October 15, 1976 Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (supported by Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Angel)
October 16, 1976 Music Hall, Boston, MA (supported by Boston, Angel cancelled)
October 17, 1976 Central Maine Youth Center, Lewiston, ME (supported by Boston, Angel cancelled)
October 20, 1976 Agricultural Hall, Allentown, PA (supported by Paris)
October 22, 1976 Commack Arena, Huntington, NY (supporting The J. Geils Band, with Styx)
October 23, 1976 Civic Center, Providence, RI (supporting The J. Geils Band, with Mother's Finest)
October 24, 1976 Convention Center, Niagara Falls, NY (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
October 27, 1976 Civic Center, Lansing, MI
October 29, 1976 Freedom Hall, Johnson City, TN (supported by Mother's Finest and The Ramones)
October 30, 1976 Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band and Wet Willie)
October 31, 1976 Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, IN (supported by Styx, Starz, and Sammy Terry)
November 6, 1976 Salem Civic Center, Salem, VA (supported by Starz and Mother's Finest)
November 7, 1976 Civic Center, Charleston, WV (supported by Starz and Mother's Finest)
November 10, 1976 Civic Auditorium, Albuqerque, NM (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe)
November 11, 1976 McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO (supported by The Tommy Bolin Band)
November 13, 1976 Forum, Inglewood, CA (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe and Angel)
November 14, 1976 Civic Plaza Assembly Hall, Phoenix, AZ (supported by Graham Parker & The Rumor)
November 20-21, 1976 Winterland, San Francisco, CA (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Rory Gallagher, and Sasha & Yuri)
November 23, 1976 Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, OR (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
November 25, 1976 Seattle Center Coliseum, Seattle, WA (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
November 26, 1976 PNE Gardens Auditorium, Vancouver, BC (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
November 28, 1976 Spokane Coliseum, Spokane, WA (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
November 29, 1976 Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
December 3, 1976 Civic Theater, El Paso, TX (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
December 4, 1976 Ector County Coliseum, Odessa, TX (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
December 5, 1976 Convention Center, Dallas, TX (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
December 6, 1976 Memorial Coliseum, Corpus Christi, TX (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
December 7, 1976 Austin City Coliseum, Austin, TX (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
December 8, 1976 Fairgrounds International Building, Oklahoma City, OK (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
December 10, 1976 Century II Convention Center, Wichita, KS (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band and Moxy)
December 11, 1976 Illinois State Armory, Springfield, IL (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
December 12, 1976 Memorial Hall, Kansas City, KS (supported by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band and Dirty Tricks)
December 15, 1976 Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV
December 16, 1976 Civic Auditorium, Bakersfield, CA (supported by the Little River Band and Ambrosia)
December 17, 1976 Sports Arena, San Diego, CA (supported by Montrose)
December 18, 1976 Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA (supported by Montrose)
December 19, 1976 Selland Arena, Fresno, CA (supported by Montrose and Angel)
December 21, 1976 Stockton Memorial Auditorium, Stockton, CA (supported by Yesterday & Today)
December 22, 1976 Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA (supported by Montrose)
December 26, 1976 The Scope, Norfolk, VA (supported by Grinderswitch)
December 27, 1976 Capital Center, Landover, MD (supported by Uriah Heep)
December 28, 1976 Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC (supported by Grinderswitch)
December 30, 1976 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA (supported by Point Blank)
December 31, 1976 Richfield Coliseum, Richfield, OH (supported by Uriah Heep and Point Blank)
January 1, 1977 Rupp Arena, Lexington, KY (cancelled)
February 3, 1977 Astor Theater, Reading, PA (supported by The Dictators)
February 4, 1977 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (supported by The Ramones, Patti Smith cancelled)
February 5, 1977 Eisenhower Hall, Highlands, NY (supported by Ace)
February 6, 1977 Bangor Auditorium, Bangor, ME (supported by Styx)
February 8, 1977 Alumni Memorial Gymnasium, Potsdam, NY (supported by The Dictators)
February 11, 1977 Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (supported by The Ramones)
February 13, 1977 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA (supported by The Atlanta Rhythm Section and Mayson)
February 15, 1977 Reed Green Coliseum, Hattiesburg, MS (supported by Blackfoot)
February 16, 1977 Boutwell Auditorium, Birmingham, AL (supported by Rush and Piper)
February 17, 1977 Municipal Auditorium, Mobile, AL (supported by Rush and Piper)
February 18, 1977 Barton Coliseum, Little Rock, AR (supported by Rush and Piper)
February 19-20, 1977 Warehouse, New Orleans, LA (supported by Rush)
February 22, 1977 Municipal Auditorium, Columbus, GA (supported by Rush and Piper)
February 24, 1977 Reid Gymnasium, Cullowhee, NC (supported by REO Speedwagon)
February 25, 1977 Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC (supported by REO Speedwagon and Rush)
February 26, 1977 Cumberland County Memorial Arena, Fayetteville, NC (supported by REO Speedwagon and Rush)
February 27, 1977 Omni, Atlanta, GA (supported by REO Speedwagon and Rush)
March 3, 1977 Civic Center, Savannah, GA (supported by The Atlanta Rhythm Section and Rick Derringer)
March 4, 1977 Civic Center, Lakeland, FL (supported by The Atlanta Rhythm Section and Rick Derringer)
March 5, 1977 Hollywood Sportatorium, Hollywood, FL (supported by The Atlanta Rhythm Section and Rick Derringer)
March 6, 1977 Memorial Coliseum, Jacksonville, FL (supported by The Atlanta Rhythm Section and Rick Derringer)
May 6, 1977 Civic Center, St. Paul, MN (cancelled due to recording commitments)
June 14, 1977 Cambria County Arena, Johnstown, PA (supported by Uriah Heep and The Dictators)
June 15, 1977 Metro Ice Arena, Lansing, MI (supported by Starz and The Dictators)
June 16, 1977 Memorial Auditorium, Kitchener, ON (supported by Utopia)
June 17, 1977 Civic Center, Ottawa, ON (supported by Utopia)
June 19, 1977 Rich Stadium, Buffalo, NY (supported by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ted Nugent, and Starz)
June 21, 1977 Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON (supported by Utopia)
June 22, 1977 London Gardens, London, ON (supported by Utopia)
June 24, 1977 Convention Center, Winnipeg, MB (supported by Utopia)
June 27, 1977 Agridome, Regina, SK (supported by Utopia)
June 28, 1977 Saskatoon Arena, Saskatoon, SK (supported by Utopia)
June 29, 1977 Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, AB (supported by Utopia)
July 2, 1977 Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC (cancelled)
July 5, 1977 Foothills Arena, Calgary, AB (cancelled)
July 8, 1977 Place des Nations, Montreal, QC (cancelled)
July 14, 1977 Jai Alai Fronton, Bridgeport, CT (supported by UFO)
July 15, 1977 Lebanon Valley Speedway, Lebanon, NY (supported by The J. Geils Band, Black Oak Arkansas, and The Dictators)
July 16, 1977 Cape Cod Coliseum, Yarmouth, MA (supported by REO Speedwagon and Starz)
Spectres Tour:
October 7, 1977 Utica Memorial Auditorium, Utica, NY (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe (cancelled))
October 9, 1977 Civic Center, Augusta, ME (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe)
October 10, 1977 Rockland Fieldhouse, Ramapo, NY (supported by Nils Lofgren and The Dictators)
October 13, 1977 IMA Auditorium, Flint, MI (supported by The Dictators)
October 14, 1977 Hammond Civic Center, Hammond, IN (supported by The Dictators and Ram Jam (cancelled))
October 15, 1977 Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Des Moines, IA (supported by Ram Jam and Cheap Trick)
October 16, 1977 Orpheum Theater, Davenport, IA (supported by Ram Jam)
October 19, 1977 Dane County Coliseum, Madison, WI (supported by Black Oak and Lake)
October 20, 1977 Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium, LaCrosse, WI (supported by Black Oak and Cheap Trick)
October 21, 1977 Brown County Arena, Green Bay, WI (supported by Cheap Trick and Lake)
October 22, 1977 Riverside Ice Arena, Austin, MN (supported by Black Oak and Lake)
October 23, 1977 Duluth Arena, Duluth, MN (supported by Black Oak and Lake)
October 24, 1977 MECCA Arena, Milwaukee, WI (supported by Black Oak & Prism)
October 25, 1977 Sioux Falls Arena, Sioux Falls, SD (supported by Black Oak and The Charlie Daniels Band)
October 26, 1977 Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE (supported by Black Oak and Cheap Trick)
October 28, 1977 Diddle Arena, Bowling Green, KY (cancelled)
October 29, 1977 Fairgrounds Pavilion, Tulsa, OK (supported by Black Oak and Bliss)
October 31, 1977 Memorial Coliseum, Corpus Christi, TX (supported by Black Oak)
November 3, 1977 Civic Center, Lake Charles, LA (supported by Cheap Trick)
November 4, 1977 Joe Freeman Coliseum, San Antonio, TX (supported by Black Oak and Cheap Trick)
November 5, 1977 Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, TX (supported by Black Oak and Cheap Trick)
November 6, 1977 Convention Center, Dallas, TX (supported by Ram Jam, Black Oak, and Cheap Trick)
November 8, 1977 Municipal Coliseum, Lubbock, TX (supported by Black Oak)
November 9, 1977 El Paso County Coliseum, El Paso, TX (supported by Black Oak)
November 10, 1977 Ector County Coliseum, Odessa, TX (supported by Black Oak)
November 12, 1977 Aladdin Theater, Las Vegas, NV (supported by Black Oak)
November 14, 1977 Civic Plaza Assembly Hall, Phoenix, AZ (supported by Black Oak and Head East)
November 16, 1977 Community Center, Tucson, AZ (supported by Black Oak and Head East)
November 18, 1977 Sports Arena, San Diego, CA (supported by Black Oak and Head East)
November 20, 1977 Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, WA (supported by Black Oak and Rail)
November 21-22, 1977 Jantzen Beach Ice Arena, Portland, OR (supported by Black Oak and Southbound)
November 23, 1977 Jackson County Fairgrounds, Medford, OR (supported by Black Oak and Psalm)
November 25, 1977 Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, UT (supported by Black Oak and Sammy Hagar)
November 27, 1977 McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, OR (supported by Black Oak)
November 30, 1977 Centennial Coliseum, Reno, NV (supported by Black Oak)
December 1, 1977 Civic Auditorium, Bakersfield, CA (supported by Black Oak and The Motors)
December 2, 1977 Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA (supported by Black Oak and The Motors)
December 3, 1977 Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA (supported by Black Oak and The Motors)
December 4, 1977 Robertson Gymnasium, Santa Barbara, CA (supported by Tommy & Timmy)
December 6, 1977 Selland Arena, Fresno, CA (supported by Black Oak and The Motors)
December 10, 1977 Cow Palace, Daly City, CA (supported by Black Oak and Piper)
December 15, 1977 Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh, PA (supported by Detective)
December 16, 1977 Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OH (supported by Edgar Winter's White Trash and Detective)
December 17, 1977 Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, IN (supported by UFO and Detective)
December 18, 1977 Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY (supported by Edgar Winter's White Trash and Detective)
December 19, 1977 Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Evansville, IN (supported by Golden Earring)
December 21, 1977 Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh, PA (supported by AC/DC)
December 22, 1977 Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Columbus, OH (supported by Detective)
December 26, 1977 Civic Center, St. Paul, MN (supported by Black Oak and The Rockets)
December 27-28, 1977 International Amphitheater, Chicago, IL (supported by Black Oak and Detective (27th) and Edgar Winter's White Trash and The Rockets (28th))
December 29, 1977 Civic Center, Saginaw, MI (supported by Detective and The Rockets)
December 30, 1977 Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI (supported by Detective and The Rockets)
December 31, 1977 War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, NY (supported by Detective)
January 5, 1978 Century II Convention Center, Wichita, KS (supported by Black Oak and Missouri)
January 6, 1978 Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, MO (supported by Black Oak and Millionaire at Midnight)
January 7, 1978 Illinois State Armory, Springfield, IL (supported by The Rockets (cancelled))
January 8, 1978 Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO (supported by Black Oak and Gibralter)
January 11, 1978 Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
January 12, 1978 Civic Center, Providence, RI (supported by Rush)
January 13, 1978 Nassau Coliseum, Hempstead, NY (supported by Rush)
January 14, 1978 New Haven Coliseum, New Haven, CT (supported by Rush)
March 1, 1978 Agricultural Hall, Allentown, PA (supported by Horslips)
March 2, 1978 Broome County Arena, Binghamton, NY (supported by Angel)
March 3, 1978 Civic Center, Baltimore, MD (supported by The J. Geils Band, Horslips cancelled)
March 4, 1978 Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (supported by The Sanford Townsend Band and Crack the Sky)
March 5, 1978 Fairgrounds Coliseum, Columbus, OH (supported by The Godz)
March 7, 1978 Civic Center, Lansing, MI (supported by Angel)
March 8, 1978 Finch Fieldhouse, Mount Pleasant, MI (supported by Horslips)
March 9, 1978 Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON (supported by Teaze)
March 10, 1978 Memorial Auditorium, Kitchener, ON
March 11, 1978 Chick Evans Fieldhouse, DeKalb, IL
March 12, 1978 L.C. Walker Arena, Muskegon, MI (supported by The Rob Tyner Band)
March 16, 1978 University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT (supported by The Jam)
March 17, 1978 Onondaga Memorial Auditorium, Syracuse, NY (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe)
March 18, 1978 Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe and Charlie)
March 19, 1978 Civic Center, Springfield, MA (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe and Charlie)
March 22, 1978 Erie County Fieldhouse, Erie, PA (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe and Crack the Sky)
March 23, 1978 Sports Arena, Toledo, OH (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe and Crack the Sky)
March 24, 1978 Hara Arena, Dayton, OH (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe and The Godz)
March 25, 1978 Richfield Coliseum, Richfield, OH (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe and The Jam)
March 26, 1978 Civic Center, Wheeling, WV (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe and The Jam)
March 27, 1978 Allen County Coliseum, Fort Wayne, IN (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe, The Jam cancelled)
March 29, 1978 Ocean Ice Palace, Bricktown, NJ (cancelled due to technical difficulties)
March 30-31, 1978 Music Hall, Boston, MA (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe)
April 1, 1978 Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC
April 2, 1978 Rupp Arena, Lexington, KY (supported by Angel and The Godz)
April 4, 1978 Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, TN (supported by Angel and The Godz)
April 5, 1978 Civic Center, Huntington, WV (supported by Angel and The Godz)
April 7, 1978 Freedom Hall, Johnson City, TN (supported by Angel and The Godz)
April 8, 1978 Von Braun Civic Center, Huntsville, AL (supported by Angel and The Godz)
April 9, 1978 Barton Coliseum, Little Rock, AR (supported by Angel)
April 12, 1978 Civic Center, Savannah, GA (cancelled due to equipment truck crash)
April 13, 1978 Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA (supported by Angel and The Godz)
April 14, 1978 Municipal Auditorium, Columbus, GA (supported by Angel, The Godz cancelled)
April 15, 1978 Memorial Coliseum, Jacksonville, FL (supported by Angel)
April 16, 1978 Mississippi Coast Coliseum, Biloxi, MS (supported by Angel)
April 17, 1978 Lee County Civic Center, Fort Myers, FL (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe)
April 18, 1978 Leon County Civic Center Tallahassee, FL (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe)
April 19, 1978 Boutwell Auditorium, Birmingham, AL (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe (cancelled))
April 20, 1978 Civic Center, Dothan, AL (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe)
April 21, 1978 Civic Center, Lakeland, FL (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe)
April 22, 1978 Hollywood Sportatorium, Hollywood, FL (supported by Be-Bop Deluxe)
Blue Oyster Cult UK Tour 1978
April 27, 1978 Colston Hall, Bristol, ENG (supported by Japan)
April 28, 1978 Free Trade Hall, Manchester, ENG (supported by Japan)
April 29, 1978 Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, SCOT (supported by Japan)
April 30, 1978 City Hall, Newcastle, ENG (supported by Japan)
May 1, 1978 Odeon, Birmingham, ENG (supported by Japan)
May 3-4, 1978 Hammersmith Odeon, London, ENG (supported by Japan)
May 6, 1978 Vliegermolen Sports Hall, The Hague, NED (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 7, 1978 Bovis Hall, Le Havre, FRA (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 8, 1978 La Villette House, Paris, FRA (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 11, 1978 Sports Palace, Saint-Etienne, FRA (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 12, 1978 Eulach Hall, Winterthur, SUI (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 14, 1978 Hemmerlein Hall, Forcheim, GER (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 15, 1978 Friedrich Ebert Halle, Ludwigshafen, GER (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 16, 1978 Hamburg Music Hall, Hamburg, GER (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 18, 1978 Stadthalle, Offenbach, GER (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 19, 1978 Forest National, Brussels, BEL (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 20, 1978 The Rotunda, Le Mans, FRA
May 21, 1978 Open Air Theater, Colmar, FRA (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 23, 1978 Grona Lund, Stockholm, SWE
May 24, 1978 Falkoner Theater, Copenhagen, DEN (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 25, 1978 Folkets Park, Malmo, SWE (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 27, 1978 Scandinavium, Gothenburg, SWE (supported by Johnny Cougar)
May 30, 1978 Empire Theatre, Liverpool, ENG (supported by Japan)
May 31, 1978 Odeon, Edinburgh, SCOT (supported by Japan)
June 1, 1978 City Hall, Newcastle, ENG (supported by Japan)
June 2, 1978 De Montfort Hall, Leicester, ENG (supported by Japan)
June 3, 1978 Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, ENG (supported by Japan)
June 4, 1978 Hammersmith Odeon, London, ENG (supported by Japan)
June 5, 1978 City Hall, Sheffield, ENG (supported by Japan)
July 12, 1978 Cambria County Arena, Johnstown, PA (supported by Cheap Trick and British Lions)
July 13, 1978 The Scope, Norfolk, VA (supported by Cheap Trick and British Lions)
July 14, 1978 Capital Center, Landover, MD (supported by Cheap Trick and British Lions)
July 15, 1978 Cape Cod Coliseum, Yarmouth, MA (supported by Cheap Trick)
July 16, 1978 Jones Beach Theater, Hempstead, NY (supported by British Lions)
July 20, 1978 Asbury Park Convention Hall, Asbury Park, NJ (supported by British Lions)
July 21, 1978 Catholic Youth Center, Scranton, PA (supported by British Lions)
July 22, 1978 Albany-Saratoga Speedway, Malta, NY (Albany-Saratoga Rock Festival, with British Lions, Nantucket, Derringer, and Alvin Lee)
July 25, 1978 Scarborough Downs, Scarborough, ME (Scarborough Fair, with Alvin Lee, British Lions, Dr. Hook, Ten Years After, and UFO)
July 27, 1978 Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA (CBS Convention, supporting The O'Jays, with Santana)
July 29, 1978 John F. Kennedy Stadium, Bridgeport, CT (Great American Rock Show, with The Michael Bolotin Band, The Simms Brothers Band, Derringer, and The J. Geils Band)
August 4, 1978 Hec Edmundson Pavilion, Seattle, WA (supported by UFO and British Lions)
August 5, 1978 Spokane Coliseum, Spokane, WA (supported by British Lions, UFO cancelled)
August 6, 1978 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (supported by UFO and British Lions)
August 8, 1978 San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, CA (supported by UFO and British Lions)
August 9, 1978 Selland Arena, Fresno, CA (supported by UFO and British Lions)
August 10, 1978 Inglewood Forum, Inglewood, CA (supported by UFO, British Lions cancelled)
August 11, 1978 Tahoe-Carson Speedway, Carson City, NV (supported by UFO and British Lions)
August 12, 1978 Bakersfield Civic Auditorium, Bakersfield, CA (supported by UFO and British Lions)
August 13, 1978 Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA (supported by UFO and British Lions)
August 15, 1978 Tucson Community Center, Tucson, AZ (supported by UFO and British Lions)
August 17, 1978 The Summit, Houston, TX (supported by UFO and British Lions)
August 18, 1978 Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX (supported by UFO and British Lions)
August 19, 1978 Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, OK (supported by UFO and British Lions)
August 20, 1978 San Antonio Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, TX (supported by UFO and British Lions)
August 23, 1978 New Orleans Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, LA (supported by UFO and British Lions)
August 24, 1978 Fair Park Coliseum, Beaumont, TX (supported by British Lions)
August 26, 1978 Busch Memorial Stadium, St. Louis, MO (Superjam, with Angel, Bob Welch, Eddie Money, The Godz, and Styx)
August 27, 1978 Edgewater Sports Park, Miami, OH (Great Miami River Music Festival, with The Cars, Starcastle, The Dirt Band, and The Beach Boys with Jan & Dean)
August 28, 1978 Nashville Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN (supported by Black Oak and UFO)
August 29, 1978 Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN (supported by UFO and British Lions)
September 2, 1978 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, CA (Day on the Green, with AC/DC, Cheap Trick, Journey, Ted Nugent, and UFO)
September 4, 1978 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Denver, CO (supported by AC/DC)
September 8-9, 1978 Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh, PA (supported by Prism on 8th and Thin Lizzy on 9th)
September 10, 1978 Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI (supported by UFO and British Lions)
September 11, 1978 IMA Sports Arena, Flint, MI (supported by Thin Lizzy)
September 13, 1978 Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (supported by The Dictators)
September 27, 1978 Wallace Civic Center, Fitchburg, MA (supported by Savoy Brown)
September 28, 1978 War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, NY (supported by Thin Lizzy and AC/DC)
September 29-October 1, 1978 Palladium, New York, NY (supported by Thin Lizzy)
February 14-15, 1979 Alexander's Sunset Inn, Browns Mills, NJ (supported by Kenn Kweder on the 15th)
February 16-17, 1979 The Palladium, New York, NY (Indochinese Refugee Concert)
March 17, 1979 The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA (2 shows, supported by Bruce Baum)
March 19, 1979 Starwood Club, Los Angeles, CA (2 shows)
April 22, 1979 The Bottom Line, New York, NY (2 shows)
April 23, 1979 My Father's Place, Roslyn, NY
Mirrors Tour:
May 6, 1979 Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
May 7, 1979 Kosei Nenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan
May 8, 1979 Kosei Nenkin Hall, Osaka, Japan
May 9, 1979 Nagoya Shi-Koukaidou, Nagoya, Japan
May 10, 1979 Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
May 12-13, 1979 Andrews Amphitheater, Honolulu, HI
May 17, 1979 Sioux City Muncipal Auditorium, Sioux City, IA (supported by Brownsville Station)
May 18, 1979 Riverside Arena, Austin, MN (supported by Brownsville Station)
May 19, 1979 Five Seasons Center, Cedar Rapids, IA (supported by Brownsville Station)
May 20, 1979 Palmer Auditorium, Davenport, IA
May 21, 1979 Pershing Auditorium, Lincoln, NE (cancelled due to poor ticket sales)
May 24, 1979 Expo Idaho, Garden City, ID (supported by Mahogany Rush)
May 25, 1979 Adams Fieldhouse, Missoula, MT (supported by Mahogany Rush)
May 26, 1979 Metrapark Arena, Billings, MT (supported by Mahogany Rush)
May 27, 1979 Minot Municipal Auditorium, Minot, ND (supported by Hollow Earth)
May 28, 1979 Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, Rapid City, SD (supported by Mahogany Rush)
June 1, 1979 Ector County Coliseum, Odessa, TX (supported by Badfinger)
June 2, 1979 El Paso County Coliseum, El Paso, TX (supported by Badfinger)
June 8, 1979 Rapides Parish Coliseum, Alexandria, LA (supported by Head East)
June 9, 1979 Cotton Bowl, Dallas, TX (Texxas Jam)
June 10, 1979 Lousiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA (Day of Rock and Roll)
June 12, 1979 Columbus Municipal Auditorium, Columbus, GA (supported by Head East and Brownsville Station)
June 13, 1979 Dothan Civic Center, Dothan, AL (supported by Head East)
June 15, 1979 Peabody Auditorium, Daytona Beach, FL
June 16, 1979 Great Southern Music Hall, Gainesville, FL
June 18, 1979 Lee County Civic Center, Fort Myers, FL (supported by Stillwater)
June 19, 1979 West Palm Beach Auditorium, West Palm Beach, FL (supported by Stillwater)
June 21, 1979 Mobile Municipal Auditorium, Mobile, AL (supported by Sweet)
July 19, 1979 Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (supported by Roadmaster)
July 21, 1979 Toledo Speedway, Toledo, OH (Toledo Speedway Jam)
July 25, 1979 Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO (supported by The Rockets)
July 26, 1979 Hammond Civic Center, Hammond, IN (supported by The Rockets)
July 27, 1979 Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY (supported by Thin Lizzy and Roadmaster)
July 29, 1979 Alpine Valley Music Theater, East Troy, WI (supported by Roadmaster)
July 30, 1979 Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Des Moines, IA (supported by Roadmaster)
August 1, 1979 McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO
August 2, 1979 Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, UT (supported by Mahogany Rush and Roadmaster)
August 5, 1979 San Diego Stadium, San Diego, CA (with Cheap Trick, UFO, the Pat Travers Band, and Shakin' Street)
August 6, 1979 Tucson Community Center, Tucson, AZ (supported by Cheap Trick and Shakin' Street)
August 9, 1979 Spokane Coliseum, Spokane, WA (supported by the Pat Travers Band and Roadmaster)
August 10, 1979 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (supported by the Pat Travers Band and Roadmaster)
August 11, 1979 McArthur Court, Eugene, OR (supported by the Pat Travers Band and Roadmaster)
August 12, 1979 Seattle Center Coliseum, Seattle, WA (supported by the Pat Travers Band and Roadmaster)
August 13, 1979 Jackson County Fairgrounds, Medford, OR (supported by the Pat Travers Band and Roadmaster)
August 18, 1979 Cal Expo Grandstand, Sacramento, CA (supported by Cheap Trick, the Pat Travers Band, and Shakin' Street)
August 19, 1979 Spartan Stadium, San Jose, CA (supported by Cheap Trick, the Pat Travers Band, and Shakin' Street)
August 20, 1979 Selland Arena, Fresno, CA (supported by the Pat Travers Band and Shakin' Street)
August 22, 1979 Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA
August 23, 1979 Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA (supported by the Pat Travers Band)
August 24-25, 1979 Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA (supported by the Pat Travers Band and Shakin' Street)
August 31, 1979 Hollywood Sportatorium, Hollywood, FL (supported by Ian Hunter)
September 1, 1979 Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum, Jacksonville, FL (supported by Ian Hunter)
September 2, 1979 Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, FL (supported by Ian Hunter)
September 4, 1979 Boutwell Auditorium, Birmingham, AL (supported by Ian Hunter)
September 5, 1979 Township Auditorium, Columbia, SC (supported by Nantucket)
September 6, 1979 Memorial Auditorium, Greenville, SC (supported by Ian Hunter & Mick Ronson)
September 7, 1979 The Omni, Atlanta, GA (supported by Ian Hunter)
September 8, 1979 Cumberland County Memorial Arena, Fayetteville, NC (supported by Ian Hunter)
September 9, 1979 Asheville Civic Center, Asheville, NC (supported by Ian Hunter)
September 13, 1979 Farm Show Arena, Harrisburg, PA (cancelled due to technical difficulties)
September 14, 1979 Boston Garden, Boston, MA (supported by Ian Hunter)
September 15, 1979 Presque Isle Forum, Presque Isle, ME (supported by Ian Hunter)
September 16, 1979 Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME (supported by Ian Hunter)
September 18, 1979 New Haven Coliseum, New Haven, CT (supported by Rainbow)
September 19, 1979 Glens Falls Civic Center, Glens Falls, NY (supported by Rainbow)
September 20, 1979 War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, NY (supported by Rainbow)
September 21, 1979 Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI (supported by Rainbow)
September 22, 1979 Lansing Civic Center, Lansing, MI (supported by Rainbow)
September 23, 1979 Lakeview Arena, Marquette, MI (supported by Rainbow, who cancelled)
September 25, 1979 York Memorial Hall, York, PA (supported by Fly-By-Night)
September 26, 1979 Broome County Arena, Binghamton, NY (supported by Rainbow)
September 27, 1979 Erie County Fieldhouse, Erie, PA (supported by Rainbow)
September 28, 1979 Utica Memorial Auditorium, Utica, NY (supported by Rainbow)
September 29, 1979 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (supported by Rainbow)
September 30, 1979 Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD (supported by Rainbow)
October 2, 1979 Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Columbus, OH (supported by Rainbow)
October 3, 1979 Wendler Arena, Saginaw, MI (supported by Rainbow)
October 4, 1979 Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY (supported by Rainbow)
October 5, 1979 Pittsburgh Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA (supported by Rainbow)
October 6, 1979 Hara Arena, Dayton, OH (supported by Rainbow)
October 7, 1979 Richfield Coliseum, Richfield, OH (supported by Rainbow)
October 10, 1979 Dane County Coliseum, Madison, WI (supported by Rainbow)
October 11, 1979 Brown County Arena, Green Bay, WI (supported by Sweetbottom)
October 12, 1979 International Amphitheater, Chicago, IL (supported by Rainbow)
October 13, 1979 Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE (supported by Rainbow, who cancelled)
October 14, 1979 Hammons Center, Springfield, MO (supported by Rainbow, who cancelled)
October 16, 1979 Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI (supported by Rainbow, who cancelled)
October 18, 1979 Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, IN (supported by The Hounds)
October 20, 1979 Freedom Hall, Johnson City, TN (supported by Robert Palmer)
October 21, 1979 Huntington Civic Center, Huntington, WV (supported by the Michael Stanley Band)
October 24, 1979 Illinois State Armory, Springfield, IL (supported by the Pat Travers Band)
October 26, 1979 Metropolitan Sports Center, Bloomington, MN (supported by Rainbow, who cancelled)
November 1, 1979 Brighton Center, Brighton, England (supported by Magnum)
November 2, 1979 Bingley Hall, Stafford, England (supported by Magnum)
November 4, 1979 Queens Hall, Leeds, England (supported by Magnum)
November 5-8, 1979 Hammersmith Odeon, London, England (supported by Magnum)
November 9-10, 1979 Gaumont Theater, Southampton, England (supported by Magnum)
November 11, 1979 Manchester Apollo, Manchester, England (supported by Magnum)
November 12, 1979 Granby Hall, Leicester, England (supported by Magnum)
November 13, 1979 Sophia Gardens Pavilion, Cardiff, Wales (supported by Magnum)
November 14, 1979 Manchester Apollo, Manchester, England (supported by Magnum)
November 15, 1979 Royal Highland Exhibition Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland (cancelled due to poor ticket sales)
December 1, 1979 Riverside Centroplex, Baton Rouge, LA (supported by April Wine)
December 2, 1979 The Warehouse, New Orleans, LA (supported by April Wine)
December 5, 1979 Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, OK
December 6, 1979 HemisFair Arena, San Antonio, TX (supported by Head East and Mistress)
December 7, 1979 Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, TX (supported by Head East and Mistress)
December 8, 1979 Corpus Christi Memorial Coliseum, Corpus Christi, TX (supported by Head East and Mistress)
December 9, 1979 McAllen Convention Center, McAllen, TX (supported by Head East and Mistress)
December 10, 1979 Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, TX (supported by Head East and Mistress)
December 13, 1979 Nashville Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN (supported by Head East and April Wine)
December 14, 1979 Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OH (cancelled due to The Who concert disaster)
December 15, 1979 Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN (supported by Head East and April Wine)
December 16, 1979 Rupp Arena, Lexington, KY (supported by Head East)
December 26, 1979 Bakersfield Civic Auditorium, Bakersfield, CA
December 27, 1979 Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix, AZ (supported by Gamma)
December 28, 1979 Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA (supported by the Pat Travers Band and Gamma)
December 29, 1979 Centennial Coliseum, Reno, NV (supported by Gamma)
December 30, 1979 Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA (2 shows, supported by Gamma)
December 31, 1979 Cow Palace, Daly City, CA (supported by Gamma and SVT)
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Blue Öyster Cult - or BOC- are an American rock band from Long Island, New York in America who formed in 1967.
Blue Öyster Cult's current members are vocalists Donald Roeser, Eric Bloom, Jules Radino on drums, Richie Castellano on the keyboards and rhythm guitar and Kasim Sulton on the bass guitar.
The band started out in 1967 with various different members, they named themselves "Soft White Underbelly". However this was eventually changed to Blue Oyster Cult in 1971.
Their self titled debut album was released in 1972 and included songs "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll", "Stairway to the Stars", and "Then Came the Last Days of May". Their debut album was highly successful and subsequently led them to tour with The Byrds, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Alice Cooper.
Blue Öyster Cult went on to release their first live album, named, "On Your Feet or on Your Knees" in 1975, which impressively went gold.
After a string of success the band hit a brick wall when members started to leave and go solo, their album reached just 83 in the charts. They picked up after finding new members and enjoyed more success.
Since the release of their memorable debut album in 1972, the band has sold over 24 million albums around the world, with 7 million being sold in America alone. As well as this Blue Öyster Cult's music videos are highly regarded, achieving heavy rotation on MTV when the station first came about.
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Blue Öyster Cult – 22/2/2019 – Hammersmith Odeon
I got to the Odeon (Apollo) as The Temperence Movement were starting up. They’re a Black Crowes style band with a singer who reminded me of a young Rod Stewart. They should have been my thing – they certainly had a lot of support in the crowd – but they weren’t. The drummer was pedestrian and the sound was muddy. They weren’t bad; they just didn’t rock my boat.
Arriving on stage to the theme from ‘Game of Thrones’, Blue Öyster Cult continue to rock my boat to the point of capsizing. The best news of the day is that Danny Miranda is now full-time on bass. Kasim Sultan was the last bass player and while a fine jazz-rock player was totally wrong for BÖC. That said, he’d previously annoyed me as bass player for Meat Loaf, so maybe I annoyed him too. Miranda was the bassist on the last two BÖC albums (20 years ago!), and has the right level of attack and bounce in his playing to propel the groove along.
Basically, this is Buck Dharma’s band – he was a founder member, writer of the three big hits and still plays incredible guitar parts. The other almost original member is Eric Bloom on guitars and keyboards, who was the happiest I think I’ve seen him.
We only got two songs from ‘Secret Treaties’ but otherwise a good mix of the hits and a couple of lesser known numbers – the best of which was a beautiful rendition of ‘The Vigil’ which sent Miranda spinning gently around the stage. The crowd did a lovely job of singing ‘Burning for You’, but throats were a bit raw for ‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper’ having just sung ‘Godzilla’ at the tops of our voices.
Unlike their last London gig, no-one broke a guitar string or lost their voice, or got the words wrong or needed bits of the drum-kit replaced. But then they weren’t trying to video this gig, so there’s a lesson in that.
A storming gig from one of my favourite bands.
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The power of Blue Oyster Cult still prevails. They are rocking as hard as ever performing their fun, playful heavy rock tunes like “Godzilla” and “Don’t Fear The Reaper”, which are sure to leave a smile on the audience’s face.
They put on highly intense performances with their heavy, distorted guitars blaring through the means of power chords and catchy riffs that are sure to get everyone to rock out to the performance. Blue Oyster Cult is such a likable band to see live because they incorporate the hard rock music that simulates the audience and perform it in such a catchy way that the audience is always begging for more. The lead guitarists and vocalists, Buck Dharma and Eric Bloom, perfectly perform intricate harmonies and guitar melodies while playing live that adds a strong depth to the performance. Blue Oyster Cult also performs with a third guitarist that adds a great dynamic quality to the performance. Songs such as “Burinin’ For You” can clearly convey the intricate polyphonic arrangements that Blue Oyster Cult is so great at performing. All the members of Blues Oyster Cult have a tough look with all of them wearing black attire and sporting sunglasses. Although most of their songs are presented in a fun way, they want to still maintain a dark quality to their songs with several of their songs focusing on such topics as death and suicide. Blue Oyster Cult’s setlist covers a vast range of their discography, but mainly sticks to their classic hits that everyone loves.
The loud sound of heavy rock, the bright flares of flashing lights, and the fun vibe that is exhibited by the performance makes Blue Oyster Cult’s show a must see experience. There is a reason why Blue Oyster Cult has sold over 24 million records and to see them live clearly reinforces why they are such a loved band.
Sometimes, when you’ve got a fever, the only prescription is more cowbell. Back in 2000, Blue Oyster Cult were lent a new lease of life by the now-legendary Saturday Night Live sketch that saw Will Ferrell sending up ‘(Don’t Fear) the Reaper’ with frankly ludicrous amounts of his percussive instrument of choice; it brought the band - who have never officially split since their 1967 formation - back into the public consciousness. It might have been an unwelcome event, though, for the legions of loyal fans who had remained with the Cult over the decades; either way, the band continue to tour, although they haven’t produced a new album since 2001’s Curse of the Hidden Mirror. The list of past members of Blue Oyster Cult is extensive, but the current lineup still features two of the classic members; on lead vocals, Eric Bloom, with Donald Roeser on lead guitar. They still frequently play across North America, but haven’t played in the UK since 2008. That last set of dates saw them play career-spanning sets that were heavy on soloing and reinterpretation of the classics; what they lack in energy, as they get older, they make up for with the sheer flexibility of their musicianship. Having released an extensive, seventeen-disc remastered boxset in 2012 that chronicled their career, they’ve yet to properly promote it; don’t rule out the possibility of further UK shows just yet.
These guys are fun to rock with. I saw them my first time in 1975 in Salt Lake City at the Terrace Ball Room. Anyone who remembers the Terrace knows how awesome to rock the roof off that place. BOC did that night. Eric Bloom kicked it hard on vocals. This was the band that recorded their best albums. They had bombs, and fog machines and a light show to knock your socks off. What a show. I've seen almost all rock bands worth seeing. BOC s still one of my favorite concerts. I then saw them a few years later at the Salt Palace. Again, they killed it. Buck Darma was fun to watch. Eric was impressive in every way. I slept over that night in the line to get Aerosmith tickets going on sale at 9:00 am the next morning. At 7 am I went across the street to eat and wash up. In the lobby was the BOC checking out of the Motel. I got to talk with the brothers, Buck and Eric. I still have their autographs from Agents of Fortune Tour. They were very kind and jovial. We had a 15-minute goof around lil party. Then they were off to the airport in another city. I'm so glad to see Eric is still showing his vocal talents today. What a true musician and a great Rocker. To the BOC* Dean
Firstly, the place was packed. I don't know if it was a fortuitous alignment of the stars, or what, but there was literally no space inside.
Parhaps powered by the audience's energy, BÖC hammered out a storming set, throwing everything into it. The playing was fast and furious, especially Richie Castellano on guitar, but the 'old timers' Eric Bloom and Buck Dharma gave as good as they got!
Quite a bit of chat between songs and even a 'peoples vote' between Harvest Moon & Shooting Shark. The rest of the set, an almost two hour show, was full of classic BÕC songs, with a few 'deep cuts' thrown in, had the audience rocking throughout.
The set list:
01 Tattoo Vampire
02 Before the Kiss, a Redcap
03 Career of Evil
04 Burning for You
05 Harvester of Eyes
06 People's vote
Harvest Moon
07 The Vigil
09 Buck's Boogie
10 Then Came The Last Days of May
11 Black Blade
12 Godzilla
13 Intro to Reaper aka Where's Eric
14 (Don't Fear) The Reaper
15 The Red & The Black
16 Hot Rails to Hell
17 Cities on Flame (With Rock & Roll)
The Blue Öyster Cult or BÖC for short have reached somewhat iconic status over their vast career for their musical capabilities and innovative approach to the genre of hard rock. Fast approaching their 40th anniversary, they play with the same level of sincerity and modesty of a band on their very first tour, clearly moved by the huge reaction from the crowds.
Their music has soundtracked a number of generations and the age range present tonight is evidence of the band's wide appeal. They all sing in unison to favourites including 'Burnin' For You' and 'Golden Age of Leather' much to the delight of the performers onstage. They give their all throughout the show and have some real skill with the instruments, the guitar riffs sound on point and they do not miss a single note no matter how fragmented some of the instrumentals become. The clear highlight is the modern cult classic '(Don't Fear) The Reaper' which very much cements the band's reputation on the circuit.
Being a massive fan and with a birthday the previous day it was the perfect gift for me after a series of wrong turns to find venue we eventually stumbled upon it the venue was a student's nightclub but it had respectable views and it was a packed and excited crowd after a short but rocking set by the support act the cult hit the stage at 9pm starting with stairway to the stars the band took the crowd through a setlist covering their recording history Eric said it was a sold out show and there was certainly no room to move the band were clearly enjoying themselves and did a number of songs rarely featured in recent years by the time cities of flame finished the gig the crowd were more than happy it was back to metro and hotel for me happy having seen a A1 gig a long but content drive home to Wales the next day was worth the long drive to see best band on planet
A truly amazing show. I had been looking forward to this concert for six months, and it was even better than I had imagined. I will definitely see them again if they ever come back to my area, and I encourage anyone on the fence about seeing them live to do the same. All of the band members are very talented musicians who obviously enjoy what they do. The fans were respectful, yet got very "into" the show. Blue Öyster Cult definitely set our city on flame with rock and roll.
Despite the original band members being in their seventies, they rocked the house down!!! I saw BOC in 1979, and this show I enjoyed even more. Wonderful venue, and this was the best show I have seen there! I have always been a Blue Oyster Cult fan, and they are still every bit as awesome as when I first heard them. THEY ROCK and Dharma still shreds w his soul!!!!
TURNED OUT TO BE QUITE A GOOD SHOW. WENDOVER PEPPERMILL CONCERT HALL IS A GREAT PLACE TO SEE A SHOW, AND THE CULT AND VANILLA FUDGE DID MAKE FOR A GOOD TIME REMINISCING. CULT PLAYED THEIR THREE HITS AND SHOWED THEIR CRAFT WITHOUT RESORTING TO WILD GUITAR SOLOS WHICH IS SO PREVALENT LATELY. WORTH YOUR TIME TO SEE THEM IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T BEFORE.
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Complete List Of Blue Öyster Cult Albums And Discography
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This Complete List Of Blue Oyster Cult Albums And Songs presents the full discography of Blue Oyster Cult studio albums. The band Blue Oyster Cult was first formed in 1967. The group hails from the area of Stony Brook, New York. The bands most famous lineup form 1970 to 1981 consisted of Eric Bloom on lead vocals, guitar, and keyboards, Buck Dharma on lead guitar and vocals, Allen Lanier on keyboards, rhythm guitar, backing vocals, Joe Bouchard on bass, vocals and, Albert Bouchard on drums, and vocals.
This complete Blue Oyster Cult discography also includes every single live album. All these exhilarating Blue Oyster Cult albums have been presented below in chronological order. We have also included all original release dates with each Blue Oyster Cult album as well as all original album covers. Every Blue Oyster Cult album listed below showcases the entire Blue Oyster Cult album tracklisting.
Blue Öyster Cult STUDIO ALBUMS
Blue öyster cult (1972).
Released : January 16, 1972
CD Track Listings:
- “Transmaniacon MC” – 3:21
- “I’m on the Lamb but I Ain’t No Sheep” – 3:10
- “Then Came the Last Days of May” – 3:31
- “Stairway to the Stars” – 3:43
- “Before the Kiss, a Redcap” – 4:59
- “Screams” – 3:10
- “She’s as Beautiful as a Foot” – 2:58
- “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll” – 4:03
- “Workshop of the Telescopes” – 4:01
- “Redeemed” – 3:51
Tyranny and Mutation (1973)
Released : February 11, 1973
- “The Red & the Black” – 4:24
- “O.D.’d on Life Itself” – 4:47
- “Hot Rails to Hell” – 5:12
- “7 Screaming Diz-Busters” – 7:01
- “Baby Ice Dog” – 3:28
- “Wings Wetted Down” – 4:15
- “Teen Archer” – 3:57
- “Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)” – 5:08
Secret Treaties (1974)
Released : April 1974
- “Career of Evil” – 3:59
- “Subhuman” – 4:39
- “Dominance and Submission” – 5:23
- “ME 262” – 4:48
- “Cagey Cretins” – 3:16
- “Harvester of Eyes” – 4:42
- “Flaming Telepaths” – 5:20
- “Astronomy” – 6:28
Agents of Fortune (1976)
Released : May 21, 1976
- “This Ain’t the Summer of Love” – 2:21
- “True Confessions” – 2:57
- “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” – 5:08
- “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)” – 3:43
- “The Revenge of Vera Gemini” – 3:52
- “Sinful Love” – 3:29
- “Tattoo Vampire” – 2:41
- “Morning Final” – 4:30
- “Tenderloin” – 3:40
- “Debbie Denise” – 4:13
Spectres (1977)
Released : November 1977
- “Godzilla” – 3:41
- “Golden Age of Leather” – 5:52
- “Death Valley Nights” – 4:07
- “Searchin’ for Celine” – 3:35
- “Fireworks” – 3:14
- “R. U. Ready 2 Rock” – 3:45
- “Celestial the Queen” – 3:24
- “Goin’ Through the Motions” – 3:12
- “I Love the Night” – 4:25
- “Nosferatu” – 5:27
Mirrors (1979)
Released : June 1979
- “Dr. Music” – 3:10
- “The Great Sun Jester” – 4:48
- “In Thee” – 3:48
- “Mirrors” – 3:44
- “Moon Crazy” – 4:06
- “The Vigil” – 6:25
- “I Am the Storm” – 3:42
- “You’re Not the One (I Was Looking For)” – 3:14
- “Lonely Teardrops” – 3:41
Cultösaurus Erectus (1980)
Released : June 14, 1980
- “Black Blade” – 6:34
- “Monsters” – 5:10
- “Divine Wind” – 5:07
- “Deadline” – 4:28
- “The Marshall Plan” – 5:25
- “Hungry Boys” – 3:38
- “Fallen Angel” – 3:12
- “Lips in the Hills” – 4:25
- “Unknown Tongue” – 3:56
Fire of Unknown Origin (1981)
Released : July 1981
- “Fire of Unknown Origin” – 4:09
- “Burnin’ for You” – 4:29
- “Veteran of the Psychic Wars” – 4:48
- “Sole Survivor” – 4:04
- “Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver” – 3:16
- “Vengeance (The Pact)” – 4:41
- “After Dark” – 4:25
- “Joan Crawford” – 4:55
- “Don’t Turn Your Back” – 4:07
The Revölution by Night (1983)
Released : October 1983
- “Take Me Away” – 4:31
- “Eyes on Fire” – 3:56
- “Shooting Shark” – 7:10
- “Veins” – 3:59
- “Shadow of California” – 5:10
- “Feel the Thunder” – 5:48
- “Let Go” – 3:25
- “Dragon Lady” – 4:08
- “Light Years of Love” – 4:05
Club Ninja (1985)
Released : December 10, 1985
- “White Flags” – 4:41
- “Dancin’ in the Ruins” – 4:01
- “Make Rock Not War” – 3:56
- “Perfect Water” – 5:30
- “Spy in the House of the Night” – 4:20
- “Beat ‘Em Up” – 3:24
- “When the War Comes” – 6:02
- “Shadow Warrior” – 5:40
- “Madness to the Method” – 7:26
Imaginos (1988)
Released : July 1988
- “I Am the One You Warned Me Of” – 5:04
- “Les Invisibles” – 5:33
- “In the Presence of Another World” – 6:26
- “Del Rio’s Song” – 5:31
- “The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein’s Castle at Weisseria” – 6:43
- “Astronomy” – 6:47
- “Magna of Illusion” – 5:53
- “Blue Öyster Cult” – 7:18
- “Imaginos” – 5:46
Cult Classic (1994)
Released : 1994
- “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” – 5:08 (re-recorded)
- “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)” – 3:43 (re-recorded)
- “M.E. 262” – 4:48 (re-recorded)
- “This Ain’t the Summer of Love” – 2:21 (re-recorded)
- “Burning for You” – 4:29 (re-recorded)
- “O.D.’d on Life Itself” – 4:47 (re-recorded)
- “Flaming Telepaths” – 5:20 (re-recorded)
- “Godzilla” – 3:41 (re-recorded)
- “Astronomy” – 6:28 (re-recorded)
- “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll” – 4:03 (re-recorded)
Heaven Forbid (1998)
Released : March 24, 1998
- “See You in Black” – 3:17
- “Harvest Moon” – 4:55
- “Power Underneath Despair” – 3:30
- “X-Ray Eyes” – 3:48
- “Hammer Back” – 3:35
- “Damaged” – 4:22
- “Cold Gray Light of Dawn” – 3:52
- “Real World” – 5:08
- “Live for Me” – 5:19
- “Still Burnin'” – 3:39
Curse of the Hidden Mirror (2001)
Released : June 5, 2001
- “Dance on Stilts” – 6:06
- “Showtime” – 4:35
- “The Old Gods Return” – 4:36
- “Pocket” – 4:12
- “One Step Ahead of the Devil” – 4:17
- “I Just Like to Be Bad” – 3:54
- “Here Comes That Feeling” – 3:19
- “Out of the Darkness” – 4:34
- “Stone of Love” – 5:52
- “Eye of the Hurricane” – 4:41
The Symbol Remains (2020)
Released : October 9, 2020
- “That Was Me” – 3:18
- “Box in My Head” – 3:45
- “Tainted Blood” – 4:18
- “Nightmare Epiphany” – 5:30
- “Edge of the World” – 4:52
- “The Machine” – 4:15
- “Train True (Lennie’s Song)” – 3:58
- “The Return of St. Cecilia” – 4:12
- “Stand and Fight” – 4:49
- “Florida Man” – 4:08
- “The Alchemist” – 6:00
- “Secret Road” – 5:24
- “There’s a Crime” – 3:37
- “Fight” – 3:13
Ghost Stories
Released : April 12, 2024
1. Late Night Street Fight 2. Cherry 3. So Supernatural 4. We Gotta Get Out of This Place 5. Soul Jive 6. Gun 7. Shot in the Dark 8. The Only Thing 9. Kick Out the Jams 10. Money Machine 11. Don’t Come Running to Me 12. If I Fell
Blue Öyster Cult Live Albums
On your feet or on your knees (1975).
Released : February 27, 1975
- “The Subhuman” – 7:30
- “Harvester of Eyes” – 4:55
- “Hot Rails to Hell” – 5:55
- “The Red and the Black” – 4:33
- “Seven Screaming Diz-Busters” – 8:27
- “Buck’s Boogie” – 7:40
- “(Then Came the) Last Days of May” – 4:35
- “Cities on Flame” – 4:08
- “ME 262” – 8:46
- “Before the Kiss, a Redcap” – 5:05
- “Maserati GT (I Ain’t Got You)” – 9:02
- “Born to Be Wild” – 6:36
Some Enchanted Evening (1978)
Released : September 1978
- “R.U. Ready 2 Rock” – 5:38
- “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)” – 5:16
- “Kick Out the Jams” – 3:03
- “Godzilla” – 4:09
- “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” – 6:09
- “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” – 4:34
Extraterrestrial Live (1982)
Released : April 1982
- “Dominance and Submission” – 5:56
- “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll” – 5:18
- “Dr. Music” – 3:40
- “The Red and the Black” – 4:34
- “Joan Crawford” – 5:17
- “Burnin’ for You” – 4:50
- “Roadhouse Blues” – 9:06
- “Black Blade” – 6:10
- “Hot Rails to Hell” – 5:02
- “Godzilla” – 7:45
- “Veteran of the Psychic Wars” – 8:10
- “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)” – 5:17
- “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” – 6:37
Released : November 4, 2016
- “Stairway to the Stars” – 3:32
- “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll” – 5:21
- “ME 262” – 8:18
- “Astronomy” – 8:27
- “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)” – 5:18
- “Buck’s Boogie” – 7:06
- “(This Ain’t the) Summer of Love” – 2:48
- “Born to Be Wild” – 6:21
- “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” – 6:14
A Long Day’s Night
Released : September 24, 2002
Hard Rock Live Cleveland 2014
Released : January 24, 2020
iHeart Radio Theater N.Y.C. 2012
Released : March 3, 2020
40th Anniversary – Agents of Fortune – Live 2016
Released : March 6, 2020
45th Anniversary – Live in London
Released : August 7, 2020
Live at Rock of Ages Festival – July 30th 2016
Released : August 27, 2020
50th Anniversary Live – First Night
Released : October 4, 2023
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Rod Stewart and Faces, who appeared in concert at Charleston Civic Center Friday, presented nearly an hour and a half of nonstop music that was primarily ROD STEWART'S greatest hits.
It definitely is ROD STEWART and Faces and Faces knows its places behind ROD STEWART. There are some excellent musicians in Faces, including drummer Kenny Jones, guitarist Ron Wood and bass player Tetsu Yamauchi, but Stewart is one of rock's most distinctive voices, and he is the star.
Friday's concert was well presented, the sound was well-mixed and only occasionally was there difficulty in hearing the lead singer. One of those occasions was "Every Picture Tells a Story." The singer's voice had the same timber as the echoing cymbals, making it impossible to discern the song's identity until the final chorus.
Stewart's songs - from "Gasoline Alley," which was performed excellently, through "Sweet Little Rock'n Roller" and "Bring It on Home to Me/You Send Me" - were uniformly fine. Highlights of the set included "Angel," which was given a somewhat heavier treatment than usual, and a mellow Paul McCartney tune, "Mine for Me."
On a couple of occasions, the band did present material from guitarist Wood. Two of his songs, "I Can Feel the Fire" and "Take a Look at the Guy," were quite good.
Stewart's "(I Know) I'm Losing You" was well-done vocally, but featured a somewhat somewhat overlong drum solo.
WARMUP group for the show was Blue Oyster Cult, a heavy metal band that played some very tight, fine music.
Highlight of this band's set was "The Joke's on You," which in addition to some excellent excellent instrumentation featured a fine maniacal laugh at the end as the singer proclaimed, "The joke's on you." It was a devilish, "I got even" kind of laugh that was perfect.
Special lighting effects on this tune and on "62" were quite good. "62" was an excellent excellent rock number that featured a drum solo that, unlike Faces' solo was innovative and kept short enough to be interesting. "Buck's Boogie" also was fine.
There was no encore by Faces - a situation that displeased many in the audience - but the band's long set, and an especially good "Twistin' the Night Away" as set closer, gave the crowd its money's worth.
Rube Goldberg must have made quite an impact on the two groups, Blue Oyster Cult and R.E.O. Speed Wagon, that appeared with Rod Stewart and the Faces Saturday evening at Cincinnati Cincinnati Gardens.
Goldberg became known for his complicated, whirring, buzzing, smoking, blinking, mechanical contraptions that performed simple tasks. The only difference between him and the two rock bands was the fact that at least his superfluous contrivances accomplished something.
Blue Oyster Cult, the evening's opener, appears to have shed its musical inventiveness for a boogie band image - all songs played extremely loud with no variation in the fast rumbling tempo that achieves the boredom threshold after 10 minutes.
THE CLIMAX of this group's act came when all five members started playing guitars and strutting like grouse preparing to mate. This increased by four the number of dull, uninspired guitarists onstage playing the same mechanical licks any beginning player quickly learns. The guitar quintet was followed by the finale featuring explosive charges, smoke, and a light-show running amok.
R.E.O. Speed Wagon's performance contained much of the same tripe. Although it did manage to change the pace of its act by playing one slow song, "Lonely Country," the reduced tempo revealed the band's limited skills - a lead singer with a one dimensional delivery and a drummer playing junior high school level paradiddles - that were hidden under the boogie guise.
For Rod Stewart and the Faces the evening was a cakewalk. From the beginning of their performance when they walked on stage to a tape of David Rose's "The Stripper" until the large crowd's ovation brought them back to do "Maggie May," the Faces captivated the audience with a mix of hard work, only minute pauses between songs in their 90 minute show and talent.
RON WOOD'S melodic guitar solos, especially on "(I Know) I'm Losing You," offered an intriguing contrast to Stewart's raspy voice. While Wood is incapable of playing with the complex creativity of Eric Clapton, his long solo lines lend even more of an edge to Stewart's vocals.
Stewart's performance was not limited to his singing. He bounced across the stage shadow-boxing and dancing like Muhammad Ali in the ring. His acrobatics with the microphone stand, first as a cane, then a baton, coupled with his bumps and grinds with back to the audience on "Sweet Little Rock'n'Roller" were done with an infectious frivolity that spread quickly to the other members of the band.
After "Sweet Rock'n'Roller," Stewart immediately slowed things with a gentle treatment of Jimi Hendrix's "Angel" and then Ronnie Lane's drums gradually increased the tempo with several teasing false climaxes before the Faces exploded into "Stay With Me."
This constant juxtaposition of crescendos with diminuendos and the excellent, for the Gardens, sound system (Tet Su's bass lines and Ian McLangan's keyboards could be heard distinctly) added the proper blend of tension and relaxation which left both band and audience drained but very happy.
75-02-26: New haven CT Setlist:
The following week, the same publication published a full page article based on an interview they did with Sandy Pearlman following the Cleveland gig:
'Aggression is a universal quality' - Intellectualizing with BOC mastermind Sandy Pearlman by David Einstein
David Einstein || Scene Entertainment Weekly
Drove to Seattle to pick up cases and then down to Portland...
75-03-15: Salem OR Setlist:
By the way - I found that ring a few days later in a road case... Lost it for good in 1981...
75-03-18: Boise, ID Setlist:
Jive gig with front-door load-in and up ramps and small stage. Stayed over.
The Blue Oyster Cult - R.E.O. Speedwagon concert in SLC's Terrace Ballrom showed graphically the unfulfilled need for quality rock concerts in Utah.
The spring break concert, originally scheduled as a three band show (Man, a rising Welsh group was included on the bill), became a two group two show affair because of the flood of ticket sales.
R.E.O. Speedwagon opened the show and immediately had the crowd on its feet. R.E.O. is an American group that has been steadily moving into the limelight of rock on the strength of lead guitarist Gary Richrath's songwriting and playing.
Richrath carried the band in concert, his exuburance in pounding his guitar on such rock and rollers as "Lost in a Dream" the title track from the band's latest album and "157 Riverside Avenue" the group's encore, resulted in gash on his right hand.
Blue Oyster Cult then took the stage with the announcement "OYFOOYK, the amazing Blue Oyster Cult."
Amazing is not the word. The Cult proved themselves to be one of the top live bands playing today, combining superb musicianship with exciting showmanship to provide a mind boggling display.
The Cult has been called the ultimate intellectualization of the heavy metal genre but looking past critic's verbosity and the band's sinister and mysterious aura I saw one hell of a tight rock band.
Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, the band's lead guitarist, continually wowed the crowd with his searing, lightening leads. Vocalist Eric Bloom showed some incredible stage antics to enhance the effect of his appropriately sinister voice.
I saw this show at the Terrace Ballroom.
REO Speedwagon was with them pre Kevin Cronin. A red headed dude sang, he sang on the studio version of "Back on the Road Again"". I thought they were edgier and better than than the line up that went on to put out the "mega hits".
I'm pretty sure that BOC headlined. They rocked! it seems that everyone on stage had a guitar for "7 Screaming Diz-Busters". I especially remember "Buck's Boogie" and "Last Days of May". It was a small and intimate venue, probably 800-1000 people.
The funniest thing I remember is that there were folding chairs lined up on the floor. The minute the lights turned out everyone grabbed their chairs and tried to get as close the the stage as possible. Making this huge mass of seats, it was impossible to leave the floor for the duration of the show. It was before heavy security, you could stand up and lean on against front of the stage.
Played Orange Festival on Fairgrounds. Broke scrim. Drove to LA...
75-03-21: San Diego CA Setlist:
I found a listing for this gig in the Mon 03 Mar 1975 edition of the "Arizona Republic":
75-03-24 & 25: Rehearsals At S.I.R. Los Angeles:
- Trapeze are down on the ticket as openers but were apparently replaced late on by The Pretty Things
75-03-26: Los Angeles, CA Setlist:
Sandy Pearlman, manager of the country's most infamous heavy-metal machine, the Blue Oyster Cult was adamant over the Shrine Auditorium's no-smoking, no-standing policy which was stringently enforced during the band's recent concert.
Congratulating him for the group's excellent performance only made matters worse.
"What do you mean great show?," he quizzed, his voice a combination of rising anger and emotion. "It was -.
"If we knew what was going to happen, we would have gone to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. I'd look out to the audience and see kids getting shoved around by those guys (security force)... it was pretty unreal. They wouldn't let anyone even stand up," said Pearlman.
What was to have started as an interview of BOC didn't begin until Pearlman let it be known the audience was denied a complete evening with the Cult. "Blue Oyster Cult will never play the Shrine again," he said.
"We're coming back in the first week of September to play two nights at the Long Beach Arena... it's already been scheduled," said Pearlman. "But if we play more dates and can't use the Forum or arena, we'll go to the Civic, somewhere where the audience won't be oppressed."
But for those who sweltered through the paranoia at the Shrine that evening, there was the consolation of the Blue Oyster Cult wrecking its brand of controled havoc on stage.
"Cities on Flame," "Dominance-Submission," "Astronomy," "Career of Evil," a version of The Doors' "Soul Kitchen" and more. The guitar play of Buck Dharma and showmanship of Eric Bloom showed the audience why the Cult was made to play live.
"We love playing to audiences, especially young audiences," said Pearlman. "That's the vocabulary they respond to."
Behind the tongue-in-cheek lyricisms the group toys with, Pearlman explained the basis for the Cult's joking around.
"The idea behind it is why admire yourself in the ordinary? It's a form of self-consciousness. We're trying to introduce an excess beyond the ordinary. The material is raw but retains the same whimsical crazed humor when the group was known as the Soft White Underbelly.
Pearlman ran into the Underbelly at Stonybrook University in New York in 1968. It contained Cult members Dharma (AKA Donald Roeser), keyboardist Alan Lanier and drummer Albert Bouchard. The Cult also includes Albert's brother Joe on bass and rhythm guitarist Bloom.
"I was editor of the original Crawdaddy magazine," noted Pearlman. When I saw these guys I said to myself hey there's got to be something I can do for them. At that time they played sort of the same stuff the Cult plays now only it was more abstract.
"Well I had connections so I got Columbia's Murray Krugman (who now produces the group along with Pearlman) to listen and he liked them. So we changed their name to Blue Oyster Cult and started from there.
"The difference with the Cult's music opposed to the old Underbelly is that now the group is more to the point, a lot heavier. Lyrically the same people are writing, including myself. Now the material is played and arranged better. The music is also a bit more serious although we kid around a lot.
"I wrote ME 262 as a joke. We have deliberate reference to joking," said Pearlman.
What do the members think of the Cult's image?
"Some are indifferent," noted Pearlman. "Some always wanted to sound and act this way. The music isn't Black Sabbath (depressing black magic, etc.) or Zeppelin (serious rock). It's whimsical with an awful lot of jokes.
"You don't think Dharma likes to kid around?" Pearlman asked. "Of course he does, and he gets his share of laughs in. These guys also dress the way they want to (from most of the members' casual attire to Bloom's black leatheroid look). You see they're not slaves of their own creation."
Looking towards the future, Pearlman said the Cult is eyeing the use of laser technology for theatrical use. "The thing is, the costs are prohibitive. For now, we feel we have the best sound system and lights. We'd love to mess around with holograms but may not be able to afford all that stuff."
And as far as heavy-metal losing any popularity in the music world, Pearlman had a positive explanation for it, too.
"None of music's styles really die. Heavy-metal is extremely popular for several reasons. The vocabulary. It's white... it's suburban... it's anonymous. It uses all sorts of raw material and becomes a highly expressive form of music.
"Look at the last three year's biggest money grossers," he challenged. First it was Black Sabbath, then Deep Purple and now Led Zeppelin, all heavy-metal bands."
- The Express || 10 April 1975
Whether it proves there is a "rock recession" or simply a lack of interest, only about 1,700 fans turned out for an all-powerhouse concert program in Sacramento Memorial Auditorium.
Headed by the East Coast's "Blue Oyster Cult," Friday night's bill was a three-tiered blast of super-loud, high-energy rock - the kind washed in acid and intensified with relentless, pulsing rhythms.
The concert opened with "Pretty Things," a British group that has been around since the Rolling Stones age, and moved to "RED Speedwagon" before bringing on the Cult.
All three bands are into the kind of rock that turns up the volume and smears the sound over the spectrum so that a guitar, for instance, sounds less like a guitar than an onrushing tornado with musical pitch.
There is a school which says this kind of rock has had its day, that fans more and more are turning to music that feeds their minds as well as their senses (though not necesarily more quietly).
On the other hand, with local ticket prices topping out at $6.65 these days, there may be something to the talk of a recession in rock ak well as other branches of entertainment.
At any rate, Friday night's less than half-a-houseful held no such reservations. As fans of this Idiom they got an entertainment bargain: Three topnotch groups, each superb at playing it yet each with distinctive differences.
Pretty Things is a six-man band, with keyboards and vocalists augmenting the basic drums and bass, lead and rhythm guitars. It has some good tunes, good voices and an upbeat cheerful quality about its music. And onstage it generates the kind of e1ccitement that could ignite a crowd.
R.E.O. Speedwagon, with five musicians, gets into hints of biker-hard violence with some of its tight-sprung arrangements. Its assets include Gary Richrath who plays a singing, wailing style of lead guitar, and Neal Doughty, who adds some tasty, ear-boggling licks on keyboards. The fans spent most of the time on their feet during the band's 53 minutes onstage.
And Blue Oyster Cult, which is very big back East, adds visual showmanship - strobe lights, silver drums with see-through skins, tight blackleathers - to its unquestioned musical power and authority (labored groans under and thudding beats phasing the total sound).
It took the spotlights at 10:37 and didn't quit the stage for good until a little past midnight.
The cult features lead vocalist Eric Bloom and lead guitarist Buck Dharma as its chief assets. Bloom's strong and pleasant voice dominates and lines out the melody.
The crowd loved it, even though as entertainment it was a clear-cut case of sensory overdose.
75-04-05: Los Angeles, Hollywood S.I.R. Rehearsals, going through
75-04-11: Shererville, IN setlist:
75-04-13: Grand Rapids, MI Setlist:
- The Warehouse Concert List
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- Styx 1975 Gigs
Hello I was looking for a ZZ Top date I couldn't find anywhere and found your site. Thank you for helping here.
I was telling a youngster about a stupid thing I did that night: standing inside a monitor at the June 27 Lincoln show. I wouldn't swear the Hammond was on the fritz, I can't say for sure since it was so long ago and I was really baked that night, but BOC absolutely rocked, much much better than later in their history (no disrespect).
If I had to make a guess I would say there was a Hammond at least in "Astronomy". Anyway I am writing to offer the setlist was BOC was the first act and ZZ Top the headliner. They both were (are) top drawer acts, but BOC was first.
Hope this helps and thank you for the great compilation!
Three gatecrashing motorcyclists added brief excitement to an otherwise common rock concert Sunday night at Tulsa Fairgrounds speedway.
Performing at the concert were Blue Oyster Cult, Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes, Kansas and Diamond REO. They were all good but the intruders stole the show.
The unidentified riders entered the race track area through the performers' Yale Avenue entrance circled half of the track and entered the dirt infield.
The crowd of about 6,000 cheered as the cycles came to a halt near the stage but the fun was not over.
Tulsa County deputy sheriffs, also on motorcycles, chased the riders. One of the three vanished into the crowd but the remaining two were caught and escorted out.
During their exit, however, the cyclists turned back to the track and raced on the infield with deputies in the pursuit and the crowd cheering.
The two riders were eventually out-maneuvered trapped and captured, as was the third, but not until he evaded deputies for several minutes. The crowd soundly booed the deputies and hurled paper cups and dirt-balls in their direction.
The gatecrashers were not charged according to deputies at the scene.
The concert, meanwhile, was common but that's not to say the performers were also mediocre.
Each group gave a solid set. Except for Kansas, the music was all the same - loud driving guitar music built on repetitive riffs and piercing solos.
Diamond REO opened the show featuring a couple of blues-flavored tunes. The lead singer jumped and pranced on the stage. Those crowding the stage area loved it.
Kansas, one of the more promising groups around, followed with a too brief (40 minute) set. Their melodic music was the exception to the heavy metal music.
The six-man group performed their music's complex arrangements flawlessly. Kansas can offer straight rock but they rise above other groups with their classical approach to rock.
The crowd seemed pleased with the group, even at times when they had to listen instead of dance ("This is NOT a boogie tune," Kansas told the crowd before one number.)
Following Kansas was the motorcyclists and then Ted Nugent. He gave the most energetic performance of the night, but his guitar solos didn't flow like the solos offered by Kansas.
The show ended with headliners Blue Oyster Cult, a 5-man-combo who offered little or no variance from driving rock music. A few people worn from overindulgence to metal music headed for the exits.
Most however stayed for the show past the original 10 p.m. closing time and enjoyed hard rock note.
The performers were all good but somebody should raise a collection to pay the cyclists. They made the show special.
The following words of a fan finally solve the mystery about the August 1st, 1975 gig:
The "unknown" venue has been found. Point Blank as the opening act as well.
Konstantinos is responsible for maintaining and updating the giglists at www.uriah-heep.com .
If you've ever seen Uriah live, please check out the site to make sure he has your gig(s) listed. And if you have a ticket stub or handbill he doesn't have, even better!
Jive gig on showboat. It rained all day so we cancelled, REO played and there was a riot...
Rock festival at UC orderly CINCINNATI (UPI) - There were a lot of people cut by flying glass bottles, some arrests and a few drug overdoses, but the overall assessment of the big outdoor rock festival here was fairly good.
Officials estimated between 35,000 and 50,000 young people jammed inside the 25,000 seat University of Cincinnati football stadium for the 12-hour show that wound up shortly before midnight Sunday.
"Only 5 per cent caused any trouble," said Police Sgt. Harold Mills. "Ninety-five per cent of them were orderly."
Although there were occasional arrests for disorderly conduct and some persons hospitalized for drug overdoses, thrown bottles caused the most trouble.
From time to time glass bottles were heaved through the air and the broken glass reportedly caused some 275 persons to seek treatment for mostly minor cuts at the infirmary.
Despite the bottle throwing, Mills said the crowd was better behaved than at the last big outdoor rock concert at old Crosley Field five years ago.
Several of the disorderly conduct arrests stemmed from concert goers cursing some of the 95 policemen on duty.
Such bands as Arrowsmith, Blue Oyster Cult, Mahoganey Rush, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Foghat played at what was called the "Annual Ohio River Music Festival." Tickets were priced at $9 and $11 and promoter Ross Todd said the event grossed about $300,000 with about half paid to the bands.
The streets of the University of Cincinnati are paved with aluminum. But if any would-be conquistadors descend upon the Clifton campus, they will be disappointed. By the time they read these words, the bauxite El Dorado will have disappeared.
The unique paving material a blend of aluminum beer cans, broken wine and beer bottles, and an occasional pop can - fanned out from the gutters like metallic and glass diluvian desposits. This was the debris from 12 hours of rock and roll at the first Ohio River Music Festival.
Clean-up crews can easily make the campus and the festival's site, Nippert Stadium, spotless. Too bad they weren't on hand while the extravaganza was in progress to clean up the music.
The Sunday festival began innocently enough with the Outlaws and Styx at 10 a.m., two hours ahead of the advertised starting time, because, according to producer Ross Todd, "University officials wanted the concert over before dark and the people (31,800) were already here when we opened the gates."
THE THIRD act, Status Quo, managed to generate a tremendous amount of excitement for such an early position on the bill. The band's blues repertoire and tasteful tempo changes within songs created an aura of unpredictability.
The inventive guitar solos by the group's lead vocalist Francis Ross and the brief "but significant harmonica work by Bob Young enabled the group to give the festival's most outstanding performance.
Ross's blues-based guitar lines created a different emotion on each chorus. In the finest blues tradition, he skillfully transferred these instrumental feelings into his vocal delivery.
So much for the creative portion of the festival. The seven groups following Status Quo used, in varying degrees, the same puerile combination of chordal progressions, solo riffs, and tempos that infest the average college-bar band. The bathostic seven covered every aspect of mediocrity.
MAHOGANY RUSH'S guitarist, Frank Marino, gave an insipid imitation of Jimi Hendrix. Like the late guitarist, Marino plucked the instrument's strings with his teeth. He played two Hendrix compositions, "Purple Haze" and "Red House." He concluded the trio's set with an unaccompanied solo verl-son a la Hendrix of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
The anthem contained the same roaring glissandos, sounding like a 747 in a crash dive, Hendrix used at Woodstock. While the last notes violently pulsated through the speakers, Marino whipped off his guitar, wrapped the serpentine cord around its neck and shoved it into a speaker cabinet. He let the guitar fall to the floor. Upon impact, the instrument roared like a wounded hippopotamus.
The only facet of Hendrix's act Marino could not duplicate was the creativity. Hendrix was a revolutionary artist. Marino is a pantomimist.
IF THE CROWD'S thirst for violence was not satiated with Marino, all it had to do was watch how the security squad dealt with anyone foolish enough to penetrate the no-man's land between the stage and the audience, and/or when captured in this area refuse to go peacefully. Only one person apparently made these two mistakes. He left the stadium unconscious on a stretcher courtesy of 10 security people - all trained in martial arts.
Although some security people wore leaded gloves and carried nonchuckas, two sticks attached by rope or chain, one member of the force did "not feel we're carrying too many weapons today." When criticized about his crew's rough handling of the gate crasher, security leader Roger Carpenter replied, "I don't care whether you like it or not. That's the way my men operate."
Bobby Womack and his band, Peace, followed Mahogany Rush. Womack's forte was middle-of-the-road rhythm and blues.
THE NITTY Gritty Dirt Band was the sixth act. Usually spirited, the band's performance sounded tired and sloppy. While soloing on Hank Williams' "Jambalyaya (On the Bayou)" guitarist Jeff Hanna completely lost the song's progression and stopped in mid-chorus.
Foghat followed the Dirt Band's sub-par performance with a set highlighted chiefly by a steady light rain.
The next act, Blue Oyster Cult, opened its set with its usual flash of light, explosion and dry ice, and closed in a cloud of vapor. The Cult's opening and conclusion weren't the only foggy parts of their act, however Buck Dharma's jejune guitar solos and Albert Bouchard's phlegmatic drumming put the group's heavy metal under a cloud of banality.
BLACK OAK ARKANSAS - which combines the Southern rasp of its vocalist, Jim "Dandy" Mangrum with scatological lyrics and Aerosmith, the headliner, closed the Festival.
Aerosmith, an inordinately mediocre band, mixed the mike-stand swinging histrionics of its vocalist, Steven Tyler with the band solos of drummer Joey Kramer and guitarist Brad Whitford to cause the audience to demand an encore. Aerosmith responded with an appropriately-named finale, "Toys in the Attic."
I was at this gig! Great concert! My first exposure to BOC which was awesome for a 19 year old!!.
Any pics available?
However, I have since noticed that they've now changed that listing to Orlando so it looks like this was indeed a BOC/Heep show after all...
Uriah Heep and Blue Oyster Oyster Cult brought thousands of ears at the Capital Centre in Largo beyond shock - all the way to pain Sunday night with their, respectively, English and New York versions of heavy metal rock music.
"We don't want to play so loud we make people's brains dribble out of their ears," insisted insisted Mick Box, Heep's guitarist. "We're looking for light and shade in our volume, but it's hard to tell just how the audience is taking it. Some blokes would shove their heads right into the amplifiers for three hours if we let them."
Heavy metal is rock music's pornography, but in Uriah Heep's case it is fairly good pornography, and almost legitimized as music as the group managed to embody in its songs a sense of nuance, and dynamics, particularly noticeable Sunday in contrast with Blue Oyster Cult's heavy-handed mauling of musical sensibilities.
Mick Box was in no little pain himself, playing with a cast on his right wrist, which he broke in four places after a second fall into an orchestra pit two weeks ago in Louisville, Ky.
"Look at me arm: I look like a junkie," Box said after getting another injection of pain-killer after the concert. "The doctor ordered me to stop playing for six weeks, but I'd rather play in pain with a cast on me arm than go crazy by not playing."
The accident may have a silver lining, since Box, unable to wield a pick, has found he can achieve a wider variety of sound textures using his fingers. "I'll probably incorporate the new stuff into my playing even after the wrist is better."
Far more noticeable than texture was volume as Heep moved from "Devil's Daughter" and "Suicide Man," featuring Ken Hensley, the organist and song-writer, on guitar, to "July Morning," evidently featuring a screaming hoard of locusts, and "Return to Fantasy," the title tune from Heep's latest album, with an overly heavy dose of synthesizer from Hensley.
On a Heep standby, "Sweet Lorraine," the group's new bassist, John Wetton, formerly with Family, King Crimson and Roxy Music, took a long, unpleasant solo that rarely folllowed the beat the drummer was trying to keep. Box attributed this to the hall's acoustics, saying that Wetton probably could not hear himself. Wetton is obviously quite technically proficient, but the audience certainly should expect a better monitoring system.
Box is the group's most engaging member, although he usually is overshadowed on stage by David Byron, the lead singer, who one thinks must be joking until one realizes that his bizarre warbling and Dean Martin posturing is done on purpose.
Lee Kerslake, Heep's drummer, is quite adequate, steady and non-theatrical, unlike Hensley, who is an outstanding organist but comical when for the fifth time in a song he drinks from a paper cup without using his hands. One expects his next trick to be balancing a ball on his nose while he plays the National Anthem on a set of bicycle-horns.
The audience, perhaps 17,000 strong, was enthusiastic but not delirious. It took five-practice runs before Byron was able to teach them a sing-along part to "Prima Donna." Box rated the audience 10 on a scale of 10, but said that the group objected strongly to the "gorilla" tactics of the security force, which acted to keep people in their seats and out of the isles. Box said that the group was asking for a written apology from the center's management
To borrow and bend a beer ad's blurb, Blue Oyster Cult is everything Uriah Heep is - and less. While Cult's lead singer concentrated on being demonic with his black leather outfit and handcuff belt, the group's bassist concentrated on his own gawking face on the Capital Centre's closed-circuit television screen. Cult's lead guitarist continues to be the group's greatest asset.
The Atlanta Rhythm Section was dropped from the bill at the last minute because it was found in Philadelphia that having all three groups playing made the concert overly long and tiring for the audience.
BOC blew everyone at the Capital Centre away. Crowd loved them. Mick Box with Uriah Heep had broken his wrist August 2nd and so was not in greatest form.
Additionally, it took Uriah Heep forever and a day to set up after BOC. DC crowd was unforgiving, and booed them off the stage after only three songs or so. Not sure it would have mattered, however, as following BOC was such a difficult act to pull off that night (like many other nights).
The venue name was Veteran's Coliseum. Somewhere I have a ticket stub that I'll try to find, scan, and send.
Sam Judd is right, it was a smelly old place. The acoustics were bad and the seating was worse. My seat had a big pillar right in front of it and I could hardly see the band until I moved.
They rocked and I was inspired to see them 4 more times through the 70's and have remained a fan. The drum solo leading into Godzilla when they played the 5-Season's Center in May of '79 is still one of the best rock-show moments I've ever witnessed.
By the way, BOC headlined this show. Styx was just coming up. I remember "Lady" was on the jukebox at the pizza joint I worked at then, but none of us were fans yet. BOC on the other hand... :-)
Thanks for a great site!!
I can't remember the exact year but I think it was 1973 or 1974 in Cleveland Stadium. The event was called "The World Series of Rock" and consisted of several bands playing over the course of the day. BOC didn't headline (obviously) but played somewhere in the middle. I can't even remember any of the other acts.
A few years previous I got hooked on them after hearing their second album and they have been my number one band ever since. I've probably seen them over 30 times since, going to where ever they played within in about a 20 mile radius.
I regret that I've missed them several times in the past 10 years because I can't find anyone around my age (50) that will get off their dead ass and go anymore. Anyway... I was with 2 other diehards at that concert (which are the same 2 that have gone with me to all the other shows).
We were initially in the upper nosebleed section (stadium seated about 86,000) but when they came on we worked our way to within about 50 feet of the stage. The temperatures and women were very hot, we were very buzzed and for about 30 minutes I thought I was in heaven. To this day that type of setting gives me the most happiness.
If I only had a time machine that worked...
I saw BOC a bunch of times in the 70's, but I believe it was the summer of 75 that they played Cleveland Stadium at "The World Series of Rock" in front of about 80,000 people along with Mahogany Rush, Uriah Heep, Aerosmith and Rod Stewart.
I remember Joe's bass amp blowing up in a puff of smoke during Dominance and Eric pacing back and forth saying "we ain't got no bass" over and over again as the band kept playing the same riff over and over. Finally he says "we're going to try to get out of this song without the bass" and just then Joe jumps out from behind the amps plugged back in and rockin and the crowd went nuts!
The old stadium, summer of 1975: opener was Uriah Heep (not quite Stone's Angel moment, but pure rock camp nevertheless), followed by Blue Oyster Cult (pre-Reaper but still way cool), Aerosmith (right after "Toys In the Attic" came out), and the headliner was The Faces, with Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Ronnie Lane, and the great Ian McGlaglen all there.
- doclehman.wordpress.com link
In fairness, though, take optimism from the belief that the next time Uriah Heep pass this way they have to be better. To be worse will take effort.
Raj Bahadur || Scene Entertainment Weekly
Whilst BOC were playing in Davenport, Iowa I was in New York checking out out lasers in the fog and Pearlman turned them down... went to Szechuan and then to Taters Rehearsal...
By the way - by Szechuan, I am always referring to the one on the N.E corner of 2nd Ave and 6th St (across from the old Fillmore East) in NYC... it's still there... my daughter checked for me just last summer...
They used to have a picture of Sam on the wall!! "Very good customa"!!
NB: there used to be an internet link (from a domain now long gone) containing info on a supposed BOC Denver gig on this date, on a page professing to offer info on "Concerts and Events in the Denver area from 1965 to 1976"
There's a useful blog that charts the story of all the acts who played the Freedom Hall here:
- Freedom Hall's Golden Age of Rock
- Glens Falls Post-Star || 30 August 1975
Went up to Capitol Theatre in Portchester CT for rehearsal...
- Winterland Shows || Ross Hannan and Corry Arnold
Arrive in time to unload and work gig; truck wouldn't make it out of town...
Arrive gig and let truck run all day; Stage hands began dismantling The decking and scaffolding of the back 20 ft of the stage during show... union hands... what can I tell ya... Aerosmith probably put them up to it...
I almost killed Joe Bouchard with a flying flash pot... I believe this was the very last time the band asked ME to do the pyro... it was the damned English Flash powder I'd gotten from Heep's crew...
Just a really fun smooth day... you're bound to have one of those sooner or later, no matter where you work...
We weighed the equipment and did gig and stayed over that night...
The weighing was for the Carnet paperwork we were going to need for customs in Europe... each piece had to be weighed, measured, serial number of each piece in each case recorded... took a while...
This was Larry Miller's FIRST show working for BOC...
Fort Worth; Left for Fort Worth A.M. and truck broke down; we arrived not too late & went to big S/P party; Later left for Atlanta...
25 Nov 2015: Some news crew footage of BOC from this gig has emerged on "texasarchive.org" which is very interesting.
- Band arrive at the airport and hotel and backstage
- Clips of the gig as well as crew packing up
Columbus; Did gig and cruised with baby Carriage and French Connection later...
- Ohio State Lantern || Thursday 02 October 1975 (Page 5)
BOC only played about a 1/2 hour before some nitwit tossed a bottle out of the upper deck that hit Albert's drum kit and exploded into shards all over him... I'm still amazed he only had a few small nicks and got none in the eyes... I remember helping him pick the shards out of his hair so he wouldn't get any splinters in his hands... could have blinded or killed him or anyone else on that stage...
At first I was pissed that he walked off and refused to continue, but after thinking about it later I was I was proud of him and glad he had the sand to do it (he took a lot of heat) for everybody else... including me, as the next bottle might've had my name on it...
The night wasn"t a total loss. Because we had an early evening Rick Downey and I went to a club after and saw the Tubes in full regalia. Great show...
I was there, too. Bunch of rednecks wanted to see Lynyrd Skynyrd. I have a copy of a ticket that says The ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd. BOC was a fill-in because Ronnie and the boys couldn't make it to the show. Too bad it was pre-laser! Eric could have "lit 'em up" with his wrist unit.
It's funny how many people I have run into in my life who attended that show.
Duke and the Drivers played Check you bucket and What you got sure's good.
BOC played 3 songs and left the stage. I have no idea what ZZ played because I didn't stay.
The original bill had ZZ Top/Lynyrd Skynyrd/Duke and the Drivers on it but for some reason Skynyrd didnt show - Blue Oyster Cult came on stage and blew me away. Then some idiot threw a bottle at the band - I'll never forget watching it fly threw the air from someone who was there. I'm very sorry...
Arrive Akron in time for load-in and had weird gig with Sound & Lights that we never had used before or since...
This was Karl Kuenning's very first show... detailed in his book "Roadie", but he got a bit of it wrong... here to see his account of this gig... -->
I was lucky enough to see them at the Akron Civic Theater. It is a beautiful place for a show. It had clouds that seemed to float across the ceiling.
We scored some really good trips before the show and this might have had some thing to do with my buddy that went with us, as he freaked out when Eric was singing Flaming Telepaths. The Strobes were flashing, Eric pointing to the crowd (my buddy thought at him) with that sinister laugh of his as he sang the jokes on you, my friend proclaims he's pointing at me, he's talking to me as he leaps up and runs toward the doors. This is one of my all time favorite show. I think they played Secret Treaties in its entirety...
Dayton OH; Spent all day trying to get the van running. Miller and Bolt missed gig; Party later...
In oct 9 1975, BOC opened for Uriah Heep (with J Wetton). I was a UH fan at that time but I had to recognize that BOC played better than UH.
The Uriah Heep-Blue Oyster Cult concert Thursday at the Civic Center had to be one of the most disappointing I have heard in recent months.
Uriah Heep opened with several songs from the band's new album "Return to Fantasy," all of which seemed blurred, every instrument drowning out all the others, leaving only the heartbeat of the rhythm.
As the concert progressed, however, so did the quality of the music. Perhaps the group needed time to adjust to its new environment.
Despite several good performances, only "July Morning" stood out as truly excellent.
While the band did use dynamics to some advantage, most of the sound was continually blocked by what seemed to be an attempt to play everything at once.
It's really a pity too, because at times each of the musicians, the organist, bass player, guitarist and drummer, seemed to individually emit certain strains of sound which seemed potentially creative.
One of the members of the band was once quoted as saying "We like noise." Well, they made plenty of noise Thursday.
And Blue Oyster Cult's performance, if you can call it that, was monotonous, lacking in style, artistry and continuity. I kept trying to hear a fourth cord as they played the same three over and over and over and over and over...
They sounded like a high school rock band trying to tune up. The only difference was their instruments were newer, they had more powerful amps and louder speaker.
Though musically zilch, they did have a few gimmicks that thrilled the audience (but gimmicks usually have faults).
They had a generous supply of strobe lights and smoke and at one point the drummer used an echo during his solo the net effect being ridiculous dissonance.
But the most amazing thing about Blue Oyster Cult's performance is that the audience demanded an encore.
Oh, culturally deprived teenyboppers of El Paso, you must have been stoned, really stoned.
Salt Lake; Wild drive to Salt Lake; Hired drivers and sent them out...
As best I remember we had 3 days between the show in Salt Lake City, Utah (with Uriah Heep incl. one of my favorite musicians, John Wetton... I used to continually bug him to play me some King Crimson during Heep sound checks) and our departure date for the UK. In the interest of making things better for the crew, the band agreed to hire a driver to bring the equipment back to NYC, giving us a few days to get ourselves sorted out before leaving the country.
Great idea that just didn't pan out...
Uriah Heep is a flashy, English power group and we all know that when it comes to shear power Rock the English have everyone outclassed, right? It seems someone forgot to tell the Blue Oyster Cult.
The Cult from Long Island stole the show from the Heep Monday night in the Salt Palace in what turned out to be another one of United Concert's infamous disappearing band shows (the third billed group, The Kids, formerly the Heavy Metal Kids, never materialized).
The Blue Oyster Cult is a guitar band and makes no pretense about it, in fact they flaunt it. During ME 262 they brought their keyboard man, Alan Lanier, and drummer, Albert Bouchard, out from front with their Les Pauls for a wailing screaming jam featuring four guitars and a bass.
The real power behind the Cult is lead guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser. For years critics have been raving about Buck Dharma's playing (upon the release of their first album Melody Maker called him Heavy Metal's premier guitarist). Buck Dharma, however, has seemed content to remain an almost motionless figure in the background of the Cult's live shows.
Monday night's concert saw a new Buck Dharma, coming out into the spotlight, moving with the music, and ostensibly enjoying it. He even hammed it up a bit during one of the Cult's live standards "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll", pausing to leisurely scratch his head while the audience waited on the edge of their seats for the blazing burst they knew was coming. Buck's white SG must have scorch marks on it.
Perhaps with this venture into showmanship Buck Dharma will be recognized as the man with the stuff, the power and the finesse to put an end to Student Life's Beck vs. Page vs. Clapton vs Mahavishnu John debate.
Albert Bouchard's drum solo featuring phase shifting, echo and strobe effects, while not a technical wonder, was certainly entertaining.
The Cult also showed that the use of such visual effects as the strobe light, flashpots and smoke generators, which seem to have become trite in these days of the jaded Rock fan, (I hear the Carpenters are smashing their instruments now), can be used to stunning effect if employed sparingly and at the right moments.
The crowd was on its feet (as opposed to on its knees) for the Cult's opening number, Stairway to the Stars, and the great majority stayed there for the remainder of the hour and ten minute set, which included "Maserati GT" and "Buck's Boogie," but despite the crowd's howling, stomping and incendiary display the Cult didn't return for an encore.
As for Uriah Heep, its not that they were bad just a bit upstaged. They certainly tried hard enough. Frontman and vocalist extraordinaire, Dave Byron pranced and stomped and whirled in accompaniment to his soaring vocals.
Uriah Heep's vocals were awesome at times, the four part harmonies of Byron, keyboard man Ken Hensley, guitarist Mick Box, and new bassist John Wetton (ex Roxy Music and King Crimson) floated something from a celestial choir.
The Heep suffered from a poor choice of material, one that lacked the variety they're capable of. The highlights of the show were older numbers such as "Rainbow Demon", "Easy Livin", "Look at Yourself", and "Bird of Prey".
The Heep seem to be moving from their mystical, majestic sound to a more straight forward, less complex one but somehow all those guitar blasts, organ swells, and rave up endings started to sound the same. Drummer Lee has one of the most simplistic styles I've ever heard.
The Heep returned for an encore.
24 hrs after the hired driver left SLC, Rick Downey (Road Manager at the time) got a call from a young BOC fan who now had our equipment truck, but no money and no idea where exactly to take it!! It seems that the hired driver had picked this guy up hitchhiking and gave him Rick's phone # and the keys before leaving at the next truck stop.
We had no choice at this point but to wire this kid some float and hope for the best...
Around noon on the departure day we get a call from the kid and he says he's almost out of gas and out of money, almost into New Jersey. We set out to meet him on the road, communicating with the truckers with a C.B. radio until finally spotting and flagging down our truck. The kid wanted no part of NYC so we gave him a few hundred bucks and said bye to him on the side of the road... I've often wondered if he ever had any clue as to the key role he played in us making our deadlines...
We now had a matter of hours to get all this gear to the freight brokers, verified against a carnet and get ourselves on a flite. I'm not sure how but we managed to accomplish all this, even though we had to use the equipment truck to get from the freight brokers to the terminal and pretty much left it on the curb and caught our plane to Heathrow.
Left for London 8.05...
Arrive London 7:30 AM; First stop after arriving at Heathrow was the Montcalm Hotel for breakfast and a nap. This was not only my first experience with UK money (explained to me by a porter as "just like yours, but worth twice as much") but also my first experience with bangers, broiled tomatoes and real toast (with a few mushrooms on the side)... Tasty enough for a working man (what's in bangers anyway??... surely not any meat products..)
After a nap we found out that our gear had indeed made it to Heathrow and after a quick trip back to the brokers - I had to sign the friggin carnet - we settled in for a night off in London... can't speak for the rest, but mine didn't amount to much beyond a really great Italian dinner with Joe Bouchard... We spent the rest of the evening listening to old Jazz/R&B singers from the 20's and 30's on a "Stars of The Apollo" tape of mine.
After assembling with our Lites and Noise at the Manticore I went on a run across London with Colin Waters to a company called ILS where we picked up the Hammond Organ for the tour as we needed one that would run on 240v/50hz... this was quite an interesting trip as I was able to view quite a bit of the city (NO clue which parts... don't even know where the Manticore was) and we made a stop at some friends of Colin's who were squatting in a big old house... quite a deal...
Now the fun began as we loaded our band gear into the semi (Artic to you Euro types) followed by sound and lights, only to find we were about 15 feet short of truck space.... several very laborious re-trys later another truck was summoned and we were finally done around 4AM and headed for Hammersmith.
I don't have many memories of that first gig except for all the GLC rules that almost kept us from using any special effects, but I do remember Motorhead as I was already a big Hawkwind fan and was anxious to see just what Lemmy had cooked up... as you mentioned, the crowd had no idea what to make of them except that they were too loud to enjoy...
My all time Motorhead memory is from that night though... as I was helping carry off the drum kit, the first cymbal stand I picked up slipped right through my fingers to the floor, it was then I noticed that the metal stands were all covered with a thick coating of what looked to be motor oil, upon inquiring "what the feck" I was informed that the drummer liked the smell of the oil on the metal stands as the stage lights heated them up... I remember thinking "these boys have got a bad case of Heavy Metal"... Little did I know the history that Motorhead would compile...
We always had fun working with them as they were interested in little else besides how loud, fast and high they could play... no politics involved... gotta play that Ace Of Spades from No Sleep Til Hammersmith every so often on the old home stereo... just to blow the cobwebs out of my Carver pwr amp.... Ahhhh the memories....
Let's get things in perspective before we go any further. The Blue Öyster Cult's performance at Hammersmith Odeon wasn't the aesthetic nightmare portrayed by some reviews, but on the other hand it wasn't the mind-wrenching experiences that reliable witnesses in the States had promised us.
Part of the fault lay with the Cult - the pacing of the show with the aural and visual climax coming after only four numbers in "Harvester of Eyes" and "Flaming Telepaths" left something to be desired, and the persistent dissipation of energy in twiddling guitar solos (and I mean solos ) gave the performance a constant feeling of coitus interruptus - but part of it, I felt lay with the theatre itself.
Rock'n'roll isn't meant to be taken sitting down anyway, and when you're perched in your comfy armchair halfway up in the circle, it's difficult to get truly involved with what's happening far below you onstage.
You tend automatically to lapse into an objective, critical frame of mind instead of letting yourself roll with the flow. From the point of view of the band - especially a physical band like the Cult - it's not easy to bridge the gap when faced with an enforcedly static audience.
Consequently, although the sound was OK and the musicianship solid, after the rather ropey first two numbers, and although the lighting and staging were effective, at times stunning, there was an automatic slickness to the whole show where I'd anticipated a somewhat higher speedo spontanaiety quotient.
Still, I got the impression that given an environment more conducive to honest-to-God rock'n'roll insanity - a nice, impersonal hockey arena, let's say, or good ol' Friars Club, Aylesbury, somewhere to really bring out the animal in an audience - then the Cult could be the definitive sonic assassins of which we'd been forewarned.
Coming across this site was a stroke of luck as I was looking for something else. I'm glad I did as it has reminded me what an excellent gig this was.
Me and my mate Goody travelled down to London from Derby for this gig. We went based on about two hearings of On Your Feet and reading a gig review in some rock mag.
Motorhead were first up. They hadn't really been formed for very long and it showed. After a couple of songs Lemmy announced "We may not be the best band in the world, but we're certainly the loudest" which just about summed them up. Disappointing really as was devout a Hawkwind fan (still am). Anyway, they eventually cleared off and it was time for the main event.
I think this was BOC's first ever UK gig, so the atmosphere was electric waiting for the band to kick off. When they finally started up the wall of sound almost caved your chest in. Motorhead were just loud, BOC was loud and powerful. The set looked pretty good with the BOC drapes and most of the band looking suitably menacing in black, contrasting with Buck in white.
I don't remember the exact running order of the playlist but a couple of highlights for me were Flaming Telepaths and the Last Days of May, both of which allowed the musicianship to shine through. Bucks Boogie was excellent too, with Buck in his guitar hero role showing what an excellent musician he is. The song that really got the crowd going though, and the one I consider to be the absolute best one of the show, was Dominance and Submission. Wow.
I left the Hammersmith half deaf and wholly happy. An excellent gig, that I will remember fondly for years to come.
As a footnote, the band returned to the Hammersmith about a month later, so I went to that show too.
Just to say that Lemmy's exact words to the crowd were "We might not be the best band in the world but we are the fucking loudest." and on that note most of the audience hit the bars or the loo to avoid a truly terrible performance.
It was a great night for the BOC, so different from anything that had been performed at Hammersmith before, enough to forgive them for the guitar hero histrionics.
I was there and thought the band were absolutely great. I tell my children that it was one of the best gigs I ever attended. They were certainly far better than Aerosmith who I saw at the same venue in, I think, the same year.
I thought Motorhead were poor and ridiculously loud. My mate and I went to the bar almost as soon as they started.
Flew to Stockholm and did gig in beautiful hall... it was all very nice wood paneling & perfect acoustics, with a full recording studio board and tape machines built in... I believe it was used for Orchestra & Opera and we were told that Robin Trower had recently recorded a live album there... and I believe I even have the album...
I love the boc, and saw them here in Stockholm, sweden in 1975 and 1978. Therefore I'm afraid I must correct you over the venue.
The gig in '75 was indoors at Konserthuset (The Concert House, I was on row 10, in the middle, I still have the ticket. If I find it, I'll scan it for you), not Gröna Lund, which is a sort of a luna park, where they played outdoors (so the laser show wasn't that much to see), in '78.
As I remember there was not any support act.
Lund Sweden; Long ramp for loadin; Gravy met up with NELA; travelled to Copenhagen...
I believe that the warm-up band must have been the Danish band Lollipops who were quite popular in Denmark and Sweden in the late sixties.
Lollipops dissolved in 1971 but were reformed in 1973 achieving new success, now singing in Danish instead of English, then performed on a less frequent basis in the eighties. Lollipops ended in 2004 when one of the founding members died from kidney problems.
The other Danish opening band, Gnags, originally (1966-69) sang in English. In the beginning they called themselves Those Gnags and their first release (1969) was sung in English. In the seventies and eighties they were among the most popular (If not the most popular) of all the Danish bands.
They still exist although their live performances have been much less frequent as has their recordings.
I contacted the lead singer of Gnags, Peter A. G. Nielsen, to see what he remembered of this show and to find out the venue name:
"Blue Oyster Cult played at Holstebrohallen. The program was: "
"Blue Oyster Cult traveled with the biggest production we till this date had experienced."
667 tix were sold at D.kr. 30,- (aprox. £3,- ). Concert arranged on a split deal with ICO A/S and Holstebro Hallen. No review of concert in papers, but small pre-add.
Info comes from archive of Holstebro Hallen.
I didn't see the concert. I'm checking the archive for book release and stumbled over your page. I talked to a concertgoer who told me that it was the loudest concert so far I Holstebro Hallen and that the warm up Lollipops was so mis-billed, an embarrassment. He couldn«t give any detail on BOC show, sorry.
667 tix is approximately a half filled stadium. Same arranger did Bay City Rollers same place the day before BOC and made 803 tix sold so it was nice enuff for a relative unknown orchester with no hit records in Denmark.
Played Tivoli and Larry got arrested for having Flash powder... I guess it was some sort of crime in Denmark... wish Larry was around to elaborate... I just remember some aggro about the pyro even being in the building was a fire reg violation...
Also met Bob Tench on this trip as he was on second guitar...
Ludwigshafen; Travelled from Frankfurt to Ludwigshafen and played really small gig; No Support Info
Blew off original hall because of weird load in. Changed to smaller Hall - dunno the name - I just know that it was definitely changed the morning of the show... the load in was up about 3 flites of stairs and was a really small stage, so we got the master electrician on the tour (my room mate Nick from Curved Air) to claim to all concerned that the electrics were not adequate...
I remember being taken to a brothel in Frankfurt for my birthday (31 Oct)... the less said about that the better... how about one word... TWINS!
My gal at the time (Varya) and I supervised the brothel expedition. I have a hilarious anectdote about this that I may someday share.
From what Sam says above, the venue change happened more or less at the last minute. Therefore the poster above - clearly printed in advance of the tour - which gives the venue as "Volksbildungsheim" would seem to be wrong. The boc.com site gives the venue as the "Festhalle".
If anybody knows for sure, please let me know.
We went straight to the Volksbildungsheim. We were not aware of any change of venue. So it must have taken place there. A "Volksbildungheim" in Germany is a place you may call "adult education evening classes". Of course I have not been there before but it look exatly like that. They also had a theater inside which was probably used as a cinema. BOC performed there. I'm sure.
Frankfurt is the biggest American Army Base in Germany and they may have expecting a lot of US soldiers. So the concert may have been arranged for the "Festhalle" first. Because the Festhalle is a much bigger venue. But the ticket sales were probably too low to let the show go at the Festhalle. So they changed venue to the Volksbildungsheim.
When we got inside we were informed that the show was sold out. But we did not have any tickets. When we were looking around for some touts, Eberhard spotted Joerg Guelden. He was a rather famous rockwriter for German rock magazines and you could recognize him at once because he was over 2 meters tall. He did not know us (of course) but I told him we were big fans and had no tickets. We were very lucky that he tooks us inside with him. So we didn't even have to pay.
Inside were 80% US soldiers and all (!!) were stoned. Most of them were already sleeping on their seats or on the ground. Something I have't seen before like this. At first a support band played. It's a german band called "King Ping Meh". Nobody really cared but they were a lot better than I expected. They had a great singer whose name is Geff Harrison and they rocked.
BOC's gig was awesome. Sorry I can't give you the setlist but they played the songs we expected.
What a great day it was. Even after another 5 hours drive back home.
Weird stage and even weirder load in... the stage was kind of in a corner & was not even a proportioned shape... just a strange combination of weird assed angles... we had to load in around the corner & roll everything down a bunch of hallways to the room where the stage was...
The biggest show on the tour was to be in this huge place in Paris... All the European press was gonna be there and we were told all must be perfect...& everything was till 30 min before showtime when I discovered that all the power in this place was coming from portable generators and was not frequency regulated... therefore the Hammond Organ (1/2 of Allen's rig at the time) was useless as it would warble flat and sharp and never lock up...
So yours truly grabbed an interpreter and all of the extension cable I could find and ran down the street knocking on doors till on the next block we found a little french granny who agreed to let us plug a line through her front window and into the wall to get a regulated source!
We put at least 5 lbs of gaffer tape on it so she wouldn't be tempted to unplug it... and at the end of the nite we couldn't get her to the door so we just cut it off at the window... it's still plugged in for all I know...
That was also the show where mid-way thru the set someone walked between the backlites and the backdrop, casting a huge shadow behind the band... As I apprehended the culprit and prepared to show him the door, I discovered it was none other than Mick Jagger, who only wanted to know if they were going to play Maserati GT!!
I put in the request with the boys and Mick got to hear his favorite BOC (Yardbirds) song...
Mick was movin' that night. At one point at the mix position I turned around at there he was. He was capable of really blending in, I remember. No Rock Star clothes or vibe...
Rheims France; Drove to Rheims from Paris; wierd gig with sloping stage...
Strasburg, France; Drove from Rheims, great load in and easy gig although very cold; Stayed at H-I...
Arrived Amsterdam AM... I certainly remember the day off in Amsterdam and a late nite trip to the Canal Strasse... the basement bar at the Paradiso was the first time I had ever seen Hashish (& anything else you could imagine) being openly sold and used....
Amsterdam; Played Paradiso and had a great time...
I have the tape from this show. Albert, ever the afficianado of cannabis was the "Drummer From Zontar". He had been sampling the wares downstairs and was basically in no shape to play...
75-11-07: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland Setlist:
Drove to Cambrai from Amsterdam and spent too long eating dinner so opening act didn't play!!
The crew dinner that was prepared for us was totally disgusting frogginess... and I can usually eat anything (including Cheval) but this shit looked like Bangers and Mash after it had already been eaten and chucked back up... with Xtra onions...
We refused to eat it and made the promoter pay for cabs and take us to eat at a nice hotel or we weren't going to do the show (he didn't know we didn't actually have such power)...
After having a Four Star meal of delicious Steak Au Poive and Pommes Frittes and some lovely asparagus and butter with a really impressive Blancmange(?) for dessert, we made our way back over to the gig... this was the maddest I think I've ever seen Rick Downey... the support act had no clue how to even get power onto the stage, much less turn on and operate the sound and lights as ALL the crew went to dinner...
Click the following link to see some photos from this show:
Our trip to Spain was highlighted by one of our trucks being damaged near Madrid... the truck was towed to the gig and we offloaded before the show... the first nite - Madrid - was televised LIVE to the entire country...it was all sold out...
The promoter told us we could have whatever we wanted for crew food as he had made a bunch of money, so we decided on steak and potatoes (Pomes Frittes?) come dinnertime we were chowing down heartily till one of the Brits inquired as to the origin of the "steak" we were eating... upon finding out that it was indeed horse, most of the crew went off in search of "proper" food while I rather enjoyed extra helpings of "Cheval"... this story is told often around my wife's group of horse enthusiasts when they accuse me of not liking horses... I assure them that I really do love them... with a bit of garlic butter on the side...
On the second day someone discovered that drugstores (Chemists in Euro) in Spain sold Mandrax (European Qualuudes) over the counter! This almost brought the tour to a screeching halt... thank goodness for a day off...
When it came time to leave Madrid for Bilbao we were forced to rent a local truck as a replacement had not arrived... It was what we refer to here in the states as a stake truck... wooden fencing for sides and covered with a large tarp...
We christened it the Cabbage Wagon as we had to clear several hundred lbs of rotten cabbage out of it to load our gear...
Der Kabbage Vagen was sitting at the next gig waiting for us though and we finally got a replacement in Barcelona...
Bilbao Spain; Really nice hotel; Sellout crowd; I did Flashpots; Larry got X-Rays; Left for Barcelona...
Spent two hours finding gig; Der Kabbage Vagen was late; Busted Star on loadout...
There was a big GIANT star on the ceiling of this place made with about fifty 20ft long fluorescent light tubes... when we discovered that the promoter & the stagehands had fucked off and left us with NO help to load the trucks, we were standing around grousing about it when SOMEBODY - no one was REALLY sure just who - ahem - yelled out 10,000 pesetas to the first man that can knock one of those fluorescent tubes out of that ceiling... at which point everybody on the crew launched a Heineken bottle at that star & it rained bottles & fluorescent tubes for a couple of minutes...
Donald's really nice boots he had just bought the day before were stolen from the dressing room that night as well... I remember him leaving the show in his sock feet singing the line from the old Chris Kenner/Alan Toussaint song "I like it like that" that went "The Last Time I Was Down There I Lost My Shoes"...
We went by the hotel on our way out of town & picked up a driver who had brought us a new tractor unit for our damaged truck... while the bus was parked outside, several of the crew snuck into the wine cellars & kitchens of the hotel & stole a load of wines & champagnes... not to mention about 10 lbs of Napoleon pastries... they were ever so yummy... we had just been thru some shit days & had the next one off so all the lads were jolly & the bubbly was flowing... I remember brushing my teeth with Moet Chandon the next morning as we had more than we knew what to do with...
In barcelona friday 14 nov 1975 the unknown venue are a historic theatre from barcelona whin name is Casino L' alianca del Poblenou. i'm present in busted big neon star and think that theatre not have any faul so that they werw breaking this historical star ligth. but now is a history in theatre also that BOC crash this light.
So that they were breaking this historical light
Played small Hall in Zurich and found out that Macon was canceled the next day and left for Brussels...
All I remember about Switzerland was how expensive everything was...
Rewind the way-back machine to November 16th,1975. I was just 18 attending my first quarter at the all girl American Fashion College of Switzerland in Luzern.
Homesick for hearing anyone who could speak English, I took the hour train ride north to Zurich to see a band I had never heard of, solely on the poster that had USA printed across the bottom in large capitol letters.
Arriving early for the sound check, I met John Watkins LD, from SeeFactor who ran the amazing (when it worked) red and green laser light-show and Rick Downey, tour manager, who had the biggest "fro" ever seen on a white guy.
Hanging with crew for a few hours was like being beamed home stateside. The vibe was good. The music was infectious. I didn't want it to end.
When invited to the next show in Brussels, I gladly accepted and jumped on board the tour bus to join the endless party of roadie debauchery.
No clue as to why is was cancelled... at that point just one less pain in the ass gig and one more day off...
Brussels; Really neat gig; Looked around for an 18" speaker and ended up using an Electrosound Bin...
Brussels was the scene of the now infamous BOC/Gestapo encounter..... I don't guess I'll ever live it down...
The morning after the show when checking out of the hotel (most of band & crew, including myself already on bus), some discrepancy came up & the hotel manager snatched a bunch of our baggage into lock-up and was holding it for ransom...
At this point (unbeknownst to me) some of our crew went up the stairs & trashed the first room they came to... which happened to be mine... Meanwhile I'm sitting out on the bus next to our advance man Eric Gardener (more on him later), when several carloads of the old "Stats Polezei" roll up....
After checking out their jack-boots & leather trench coats, I commented to Eric (who is Jewish) that I was really glad it wasn't 1943 and that those guys hadn't come looking for me... the trench coats came back out of the hotel a minute later, tromped up into the bus and demanded to know "Who is this Sam Judd? Is this a man or is this a PIG!!!??? " I was then marched up to the trashed room (frigging great job, TV through the window into the alley below, water spewing where the sink used to be before it went to the alley, etc etc), where I was questioned as to why I did this...
I asked the group which one spoke the best English, then looked him right in the eye & told him, "I didn't do this, but you give me 60 seconds on that bus & I'll hand you whoever did..." Returning to the bus, I informed Gravy & Geoff that the jig was up and it was time to pay the fiddler (Never mind how I found out it was them between the hotel & the bus)...
After all the damages were settled it was off to the airport & back to the good old Montcalm in London... On arrival there we found out that Buck had become a papa while we were hassling with the Gestapo that morning... Cuban cigars & Hennessey Cognac were the order of the day...
One of our lads named Larry Miller (A fellow Atlantan...there was even one more for a total of 3 at this point... more about Larry later) had once served as a fireman & went squirming into the attic & began frantically calling for us to pass any & all extinguishers up to him as there was now a healthy blaze going...
He managed to hold it at bay till the Local F.D. showed up and began praising him as a hero for his quick work... headline in the paper next morning "Rock Hero Saves City Hall" & a big photo of Larry's Smiling facade.....the local paper may actually have it on archive...
My day went fine,found a great record shop round behind the gig and a fine steakburger,chips & beans (don't be stingy with that H.P. now)... until during the loadout I rolled my ankle over a fat power cable & took a header off several steps of the choir section behind the stage...
I went to stand and the ankle said NO! in definite terms... ambulance ride to hospital... no break only a bad sprain... as I'm leaving... ambulance arrives w/Larry who has had load shift onto him in the truck OBVIOUSLY breaking his arm...
Someone on the tour took a picture of Larry and I in the Hotel lobby next morning, me in a wheelchair, Larry's arm in a sling and we're holding up the paper w/Larry's pic...
I finished the rest of the tour and flite home on crutches and we got extra locals to load the trucks... big fun...
Larry is at this moment in time battling inoperable cancer and has only JUST retired from the road & gone fishing... he actually lives only a few miles from me these days & I think of him often with a smile...
I'd never heard of BÖC until '74. I'd got heavily into Sabbath (still am) the previous year after hearing the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album and had bought all the Sabbath back catalogue, and then my friend introduced me to BÖC by lending me On Your Feet. I then went out and bought the first three BÖC albums.
So I was quite heavily into both bands by the time gigs were announced at Newcastle City Hall late '75. First Sabbath in October and then BÖC in November.
The Sabbath gig was great. Everyone stood as soon as the band came on and remained so for the rest of the gig. The BÖC gig was great too but different. They started with Stairway to the Stars. Twice! The guitar started and then when the rest of the band were supposed to come in somebody didn't. They stopped, stared at each other and then started again. I'd never seen anything like it but then I thought, having not seen that many gigs, that maybe sometimes this happens. I've seen a thousand gigs since and I've never seen it happen again!
The other thing that was different was that before the first song was finished I'd been told by a bunch of old hippies behind to sit down. It seemed strange to me then to watch a whole gig sat down - and it still does. Great show though that got better and better as it went on. Maybe they were nervous? I think it was the first night of their first UK tour.
Manchester Eng; I went to hospital to get X-Rays and hung out at Hotel; Stayed over...
So there I was, a tender boy of nearly 15, going out to see the mighty BOC.
I went to the gig with 3 friends, Pete Spencer who had first bought BOC albums plus some Soft White Underbelly demos and bootlegs from a shop that was on Oldham Street Manchester which appeared to sell nothing but bootlegs. My other two mates were Andrew Allen and Jonathan Griffiths. The gig was by no means a sell out but it was fantastic. We were also impressed with Birth Control who performed a really innovative drum solo. I find most solos very boring. Our seats in the stalls were next to two guys doing a bootleg and they encouraged us to whoop it up into their mic.
Andrew who was the only one who was not that impressed. He wrote a letter to Sounds, which was published, complaining it was too loud etc. He signed it off as a Ritchie Blackmore fan. Letters were published the following week asking how a Ritchie Blackmore fan could complain about volume etc. The letter was even quoted in an interview with the band a week or so later in Sounds
I saw BOC about 10 years later at the Manchester Apollo but it was not a patch on this concert in 1975. I have recently been playing BOC early albums and they really do stand the test of time. Fantastic
The end of 1975 and the Liverpool Empire have great memories for me. First of all, on September 14th I saw Alice Cooper there - the Empire was reportedly the only provincial UK venue which was big enough for the Coop's stage set and then on November 22nd I saw Blue Öyster Cult.
Alice's gig was sold out, BOC's wasn't, but there's no prize for guessing which show had the biggest effect on me.
Earlier that year, "On Your Feet" had finally come out - it had seemed an age since "Secret Treaties" and Max Bell of the NME had been teasing us with reports of a double live album which would kick the Who's "Live at Leeds" into touch. Do you remember old Max? He did some sterling work on behalf of the UK BÖC community plus he was a big fan as well, and it showed.
"On Your Feet" though made a seriously deep impression on me - at last, I was able to hear what they sounded like live... I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever heard. I loved the vibe - from the lyrics which got me reaching for the dictionary and the aspirin in equal measure to the enigmatic Gothic cover and centrefold of the 5 guitars on the altar playing to the hooded masses (a pretty amateurish cut and paste job when you look at it now - it was "pp", after all ("pre Photoshop") - but then it was the coolest thing I'd seen. Sabbath could bugger off - this was the real thing.
When we heard they were coming to Liverpool as part of a small UK tour, we couldn't believe our luck. I just knew I wouldn't be allowed to go another city on my own so this was too good to be true. Me and my mate Ridgey got our tickets - front fecking row , no less and on November 22 we set off, armed with the crappest instamatic camera in the known universe and an unfaltering - though ultimately baseless - trust in the abilities of our pack of flashcubes. Do you remember flashcubes? They'd illuminate anything you pointed the camera at - providing it was no more than two feet from the lens. But we didn't know that then.
A quick anonymous phone-call to the local hotels told us they were staying at the Liverpool Holiday Inn so we wandered over there to wait. I was wearing my home made BÖC T-Shirt - the kronos symbol was actually half an "i" and an upside down "c". In a dark room, you'd think it was pretty good. In a room with a bit more light in it, Ridgey had earlier taken one look at mine, and decided smart casual was going to be his look for the day.
We had no joy at the hotel and after a while decided to head on over to the Empire. There, we hung around outside getting colder and colder - that bloody T-shirt was a big mistake - and watched the crowd build up. Looked a LedZep/Quo/Sabbath collective - a mixture of denim and Afghan coats, and the Patchouli fair took your breath away. And they - we - were all so young!! Little did I realise then but these were the people who were going to age with the band.
We went to hang around the stage door as the Cult finally rolled up and we got a couple of pics - we gave a Buck a Liverpool football scarf and he sort of looked at us with a "what the feck are you giving me a scarf for?" type expression. I think we were hoping for an onstage: "I'd like to thank the people who gave me this little scarf - I'll keep it and cherish it forever" but if so, we were disappointed.
Anyway, after a swift drink we finally got in to the Empire Theatre and claimed our front row seats and waited. The stage set looked portentous - two massive backdrop sheets hung down featuring the Gawlik first LP cover artwork, and, in between, a raised drum dias with Albert's kit in front of the biggest gong I'd ever seen.
Then the lights went down and we held our breath - shadowy figures came on stage to pick up instruments plus one small figure all in white - hard to sneak on stage in the dark if you're dressed like Alec Guiness's Man in the White Suit, Buck mate. It would have looked more impressive if they hadn't then spent a minimum of two minutes or so fine-tuning but finally there was a hush and a roadie invoked us to assume either a standing or kneeling position (apparently it was optional) and - BAM!! There they were belting out Stairway to the Stars.
This was fantastic. Eric dressed in sort of black satin pyjama get up, shades glinting menacingly, Buck in a white jumpsuit, Joe shirt open and brother Albert in his leather "heaven" gear. Allen looked a bit like he was attending a cocktail party, thigh-length leather jacket, leather trousers, white deck shoes - definitely too hip for the room. He played like that too, I thought. He's always been a bit of an enigmatic figure for me ever since. I'd love to see a proper interview with him sometime.
Harvester followed - seemed a bit slower and more solid than I'd heard before. Next up - deep joy - Telepaths. It was a privilege to hear my absolutely favourite song in the world done live - the keyboards and guitar in that just do it for me every time. I loved that great echoing laugh tape playing as it built up at the end - and it was fantastic. But would it lead into Astronomy?? - we didn't know then that they don't do those two together live... Well, no, but it lead to the next best thing: a great "Last Days of May" introduced by Eric saying "Very glad to be here - Liverpool's a big town for Americans, y'know..." Hmm... You should try living in it, mate..
Though it was great to hear, this Last Days version didn't quite match up to OYFOOYK's one - mind you, that version is probably the best that it could possibly be so it's no wonder, but Buck seems to like to go for a wander during these solo bits - it's unlikely to be the same thing each time so that's why he should tape every gig - you never know when some amazing sequence is going to manifest itself.
Next was Before the Kiss - is Conry's Bar still open, by the way. It was back then - this was great - this version seemed faster, a bit less relentless than the record - a driving wall of guitar sound with a brilliant middle section which just shifts emphasis without warning to take you unawares.
I can't honestly tell you what followed next - it was 2/3 minutes long, consisted of a bass run, hihat and snare rhythm - punctuated by echoey bluesey guitar fills. Albert was snarling out some very echoey lyrics over this and it built to a head - and then stopped suddenly. Bolle Gregmar of the Fan Club has identified a song on other dates of this tour as "Candy Store/Red Light". I've bowed to his starry wisdom on this one because buggered if I know what it was.
"And now... the main event" a maniacal echoing laugh and we're into Cities on Flame. Albert was brilliant - he put everything into it and we loved it. Buck was especially great on this at the end with Eric bashing the cymbals on the podium.
"That was Albert Bouchard on the vocals... and Eric Bloom on the flying drumstick..."
And then we hit the drum solo... It was keyed into the lighting well, - any epileptics in the audience had it bad for a few minutes, I can tell you - and it was as good as drum solos get, plus I like Albert as a drummer but I am not now nor have I ever been a fan of drum and bass solos. They just kill the momentum of the show. At least we hadn't yet had a bass solo...
"Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!", dropping bombs and wailing sirens introduced Me262 which kicked off at a fair old rate but soon transformed into a festival of self-indulgence which at times slowed the show down to a real crawl and at other times looked and sounded great. First there was some laid back "stereo" guitar swapping (a la Thin Lizzy) during which time the tune meandered about all over the place for a while. Some of it was technically brilliant - there was one bit which built up faster and faster into a crescendo of echoing sound only to fade gently away...
Then THUD!! - the dreaded bass solo, but it didn't last long (especially when compared to later gigs) and Buck quickly joined in. I remember how I was still hoping for Astronomy at this stage and was worried about the amount of time left.
Then things changed as, in a manner reminiscent of a goalie running into the opponent's penalty box towards the end of a game, Albert popped up with a guitar to create that legendary force known as "The 5 Guitars". Wearing a black top hat, Albert's emergence snapped a jigsaw into place and we had an electric version of duelling banjoes. This bit was just like the record and - at last - we had an idea of what was going on visually onstage during that part of the track. Me262 built up to it's climax and then they were off.
Cheers, shouts and stamping on the echoing floor brought them back: "We only have time for one more..." Oh no - only one!! What would it be? Would it be Astro - "this is off our live album and is sung by Mr Joe Bouchard..." Oh well, at least Hot Rails is a brilliant track to end on and this was a great performance of it. Then it was "Thank you and Good night..."
Oh yeah... and for Ridgey too.
Ted Nugent, as people are coming to find out, is less than a master of tact and diplomacy and is more like a baby Godzilla unchained.
"Hey man, did you come to watch me blow Blue Oyster Cult off the stage?," Nugent said in his dressing room after his set which preceded BOC and Kansas at the Long Beach Arena recently.
Charming right? Nugent had reason to be arrogant. But at the same time he couldn't hide his anger. (I got the impression he isn't the type that would, either).
"Did you see that set? It was only 30 minutes long. It's like calling me up and saying 'Hey Ted would you please come down and warm up the amps for the guys.'"
"It was the same thing at the UCLA gig Dec. 14. We only played for 30 minutes. But you wait till next time" Nugent knew he did a great job. People were hollering for an encore but it wasn't to be. A few seconds after his set ended the lights came on to a chorus of boos.
For a 30-minute set, a group of rockers can't get much better. Nugent with all his braggadocio is truly one of the hottest guitarists around. He's got reason to brag.
It was a pounding heavy-metal feast for Nugent's band. It was just a shame that management couldn't have let him and Kansas play at least an hour each and cut back on the Cult's time.
Nugent will be back and playing longer. And so will Kansas.
As a stunning classical-rock band Kansas, is hard to beat for its artistic skills and punchy rock n' roll.
They performed stuff from all three albums including the new one "Masque" and it was real hard to pick a favorite. It would have to be all three.
After a 45-minute delay, the Blue Oyster Cult came on.
You can accuse these boys of sitting on their laurels (because they haven't performed anything new on stage in their last three area appearances. One good excuse is that they just came back from a European tour.
But as predictable as the set was, you can't help but like what the Cult does. "Harvester of Eyes," "Flaming Telepaths," "Stairway to the Stars," etc. It's always played with the fury and energy of old.
What the Cult needs however is a new stage act and some new material. The pre-advertised laser lights were not to be seen and the flash powder gimmicks are as old as rock n' roll itself and about as over-used as Kiss' chords.
What's less inspiring is to hear Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" as the encore for the third straight time.
So next time the Cult conies to town, the guys should be ready with some new tunes. If not they'll have to make way for the likes of Kansas and Nugent whether they like it or not.
Great concert, great memories of one of the greatest Rock Groups of all time.
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