[2022-06-10] Joe Bouchard "American Rocker" (Deko)

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14208

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Description
For fans of Blue Öyster Cult, Blue Coupe, and Classic Rock! Joe Bouchard is best known as one of the founding members of Blue Öyster Cult. The original band sold millions of albums for Columbia Records with such classic songs as “Don’t Fear the Reaper” and the #1 hit on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart “Burning For You”. The band toured all over the world with shows in the US, Canada, Europe, the UK and Japan, and has earned Joe nine Gold and two Platinum albums. As a songwriter, he wrote many BÖC songs including the very popular ”Astronomy” which was covered by Metallica on their 1998’s release Garage Inc and the live staple “Hot Rails to Hell”, which was the second BÖC single released by Columbia Records. Today when not writing and recording in his home studio, he performs with several bands. His latest group, Blue Coupe, is a superstar combo which features his brother Albert Bouchard, also a founding member of BÖC, and Dennis Dunaway, a founder of the Alice Cooper Group and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Joe is now set to release the follow up to the very successful 2020 release ‘Strange Legends’. The new album ‘American Rocker’ sees the return of Mickey Curry (Bryan Adams, Hall and Oates, Alice Cooper) on drums, and sees Joe taking a look back at the heyday of the 70’s with BÖC on tracks like “In The Golden Age”, and “Rocket To Fame”.

Tracklist
1. My Way Is The Highway
2. In The Golden Age
3. Deadly Kisses
4. Love Out Of Thin Air
5. Off Season Hotel
6. Hounds Of Hell
7. Conspiracy
8. Rocket To Fame
9. The Devil's In The Details
10. Katherine
11. Hey There Suzi Dear

ted262 · 22 Aug 2004

I love the original line up of BÖC and all, but it's kind of sad that they keep hyping his stuff by mentioning "Reaper" and "Burnin' For You" considering he had no hand in writing either of those songs, and didn't even play the bass on the latter track.

Kym · 11 Nov 2006

ted262 wrote:

I love the original line up of BÖC and all, but it's kind of sad that they keep hyping his stuff by mentioning "Reaper" and "Burnin' For You" considering he had no hand in writing either of those songs, and didn't even play the bass on the latter track.

Who did play bass on “Burnin’ For You”? Wikipedia doesn’t say, though it says Buck Dharma and Eric Bloom played bass elsewhere on the album.

ted262 · 22 Aug 2004

My recollection is that after unsuccessful takes, Buck and Al stayed behind one night and Buck played it to Al's drums.

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14208

Here's the first sample from this album:

The Human Top · **Joined:** 29 Jan 2011 **Posts:** 1114

His voice still sounds great, but the song sounds super formulaic.

[2022-06-10] Joe Bouchard "American Rocker" (Deko)

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