“We do it every night and we’re happy to be playing a song that was so popular,” Bloom said. Their self-titled debut album “Blue Öyster Cult” (1972) included fan favorites, such as “Cities on Flame with Rock & Roll,” but it was their fifth album “Agents of Fortune” (1976) that truly made the band a household name thanks to the smash hit “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.”

One of the lyrics was ‘Blue Öyster Cult.’ We needed a name to play for Clive Davis from Columbia Records and ditched Soft White Underbelly.” “Sandy wrote this huge poetic opus ‘Imaginos,’ a lot of science fiction and fantasy. “He got the name from Winston Churchill, who called Italy ‘the soft white underbelly of Europe’ during World War II,” Bloom said. The band began at a jam session at Stony Brook University in New York in 1967, originally named Soft White Underbelly by rock critic and manager Sandy Pearlman. “We just did three nights in New York about a month ago, where we played our first album, second album and third album in their entirety.” It’s our newest stuff, mixed in with all of the greatest hits and deep tracks,” co-founder Eric Bloom told WTOP. “In 2020, we put out a new album, so we will be playing some tracks from that album. The DMV has a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell from nearby West Virginia.īlue Öyster Cult is ready to rock Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races on Nov. WTOP's Jason Fraley previews Blue Oyster Cult at Hollywood Casino (Part 1) Business & Finance Click to expand menu.

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