Recorded at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale New York in 1980.
Famous for being filmed as part of the Black Sabbath/Blue Oyster Cult DVD ' Black and Blue'.
'Black Blade' was also released from this show and used on the 'ETL' live album but does not feature here.
One of the few shows to feature 'Born to be wild' and 'Roadhouse Blues'.
Many people who witnessed the shows from this tour found that BOC headlined more often and 'blew' Sabbath off the stage due in part to the promoter being a huge BOC fan and making sure that they had full access to pyros etc every night.
'The Marshall plan' does feature here but is just the studio version as this was the bands first step into making videos (way before MTV).
1. Dr Music (3:43)
2. Cities On Flame (5:25)
3. Divine Wind (4:42)
4. Godzilla (9:22)
5. Roadhouse Blues (4:38)
6. Born To Be Wild (5:40)
7. The Marshall Plan (4:24)
Here is the groundbreaking video of 'The Marshall Plan'
Awww what the hell...
The video is long since deleted so I'm gonna post a HD version of the whole thing as it's just sooo good this includes the Sabbath performance. Ronnie James Dio(RIP) was on vocals at the time and it's a great video.
This is it. One of the greatest live recordings EVER. Beautiful sound, amazing setlist, faultless performance.
This show has appeared under different titles and with different covers but these covers pictured are definately the best ones. The show itself was billed as a 'Soft White Underbelly' show.
The front cover has had the 'Fire of unknown origin' back cover used for it and strangley enough the back cover used is the front cover of ETL with some color changes. All a bit of a mix up really but that's bootlegs for you. Nevertheless it's been cleverly done.
This show has been heavily taken from for the rarities CD on the 40th Anniversary box set.
CD 1. 64:35
1. Intro (2.47)
2. Doctor Music (4.14)
3. Lips In The Hills (4.58)
4. The Unknown Tongue (5.37)
5. Cities On Flame With Rock’n’roll (6.10)
6. The Marshall Plan (5.47)
7. Divine Wind (6.01)
8. Then Came The Last Days Of May (8.03)
9. It’s Not Easy (8.22)
10. Me 262 (3.57)
11. Black Blade (8.33)
CD 2. 47:41
1. Godzilla (13.40)
2. Bass Solo / The Golden Age Of Leather (6.35)
3. Born To Be Wild (7.11)
4. Arthur Comics (3.52)
5. Roadhouse Blues (4.01)
6. (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (7.06)
7. Hungry boys (4:13)
My fave ever track of Blue Oyster Cult is 'Divine wind'. It's played at this show however I want to put a fan made video up instead.It's taken the original meaning of the track and updated it with the terrorist angle. It works well.
Very short set recorded for KBFH. The show's opener 'Dominance and Submission' is used on ETL and hence got removed from the KBFH broadcast.
It's CRIMINAL that the whole show has never surfaced as the band were on FIRE that night. I would love to have this complete show in the quality that the KBFH tracks are.
Here's some photos from the show..
Excellent version of 'ETI' but really a trick missed with no tracks from 'Cultosaurus Erectus' being on it.
1. Dominance and submission (6:32) -Removed for Official use.
2. Doctor Music (3:40)
3. The great sun jester (5:28)
4. E.T.I. (5:03)
5. ME 202 (3:37)
6. Don’t fear (the reaper) (6:27)
Below is a very different video.
It's taken by a news cameraman in 1980 at Wilkes Bar following a riot at the Blue Oyster Cult show where 41 people got arrested.
Make no bones (excuse the pun) about it. But the 'Cultosaurus Erectus' tour of 1980 really proved to be the bands best thus far. Helped by an album with tracks that are so strong and this really is one of the best (if not the best) studio albums by Blue Oyster Cult.
The tour was a winner as it featured so many tracks from 'Cultosaurus Erectus'.
Featuring classic tracks such as 'Unknown Tongue' and 'Lips in the Hills' alongside 'Black Blade' and even 'The Marshall plan' added to faves like 'Cities on Flame' and this tour introduced us for the first time to 'Roadhouse Blues' which thankfully replaced 'Born to be wild' and not only all that but...it also featured my fave BOC track of all time...'Divine Wind'.
CD 1. 45:57
1. Dr Music (3:51)
2. ETI (5:21)
3. Lips In The Hills (4:54)
4. The Unknown Tongue (6:11)
5. Cities On Flame (5:51)
6. The Marshall Plan (5:56)
7. Hungry Boys (4:22)
8. Divine Wind (6:06)
9. ME 262 (3:25)
CD 2. 50:21
10. Hot Rails To Hell (5:49)
11. Black Blade (8:58)
12. Godzilla (14:04)
13. Five Guitars (2:15)
14. Instrumental (5:00)
15. Born To Be Wild (7:42)
16. Dont Fear The Reaper (6:33)
I've included 'Hungry boy's' from this set on the blog. It's a rarely played track from 'Cultosaurus Erectus' and this is the one from this show in Minneapolis 1980.
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