Blue -yster Cult began in 1967 as Soft White
Underbelly with Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser
on guitars, Allen Lanier on keyboards and Albert
Bouchard on drums. Adding lead singer and
guitarist Eric Bloom led to the name change of
Oaxaca, then later the Stalk-Forrest Group, which
issued one single. Joe Bouchard was added on
bass and the group was signed to Columbia
Records in 1971. Their first two albums, "Blue
Oyster Cult" and âśTyranny and Mutation", garnered
some interest from rock critics, but it was third
LP, "Secret Treaties", which first broke them in to
the top 100 LP charts.
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