#Blue oyster cult dont fear the reaper movie#

'Don't Fear the Reaper' played over closing credits. Season Premiere 2001: Homer displays a medallion with the BOC logo on it. In the 1996 'Homerpalooza' episode, Homer says 'This man doesn't fear the reaper!' Homer exclaims, 'Stop harvesting me with your eyes' Concert footage and interview segments with BOC. 'Burnin' For You' is lampooned with pop-up word balloons.Ī feature program about the classic rock concerts that happen at the famous Buffalo Chip Campground during the Sturgis biker festival. Clips from various videos and comments from rockers Blackie Lawless (WASP), Sebastian Bach (Skid Row), Scott Ian (Anthrax), and James Hetfield (Metallica). Song excerpts from Philadelphia show.īrief interview segment with Buck, Eric and Allen.

Interview Segments with Allen, Buck and Eric. Interview and 'Stairway to the Stars' live. 'Astronomy' video aired.Ĭable Access show. He also plays the solo in the song.Įric Bloom and Buck Dharma participate in 'heavy metal' 'We Are The World' with Ronnie James Dio and others.īuck, Eric and Jon Rogers interviewed. (Segments of this same interview were also aired on MTV )īuck Dharma cameos as a frustrated aspiring guitarist in hilarious video by upstate New York band, Blotto. Interview Segment with Allen Lanier & Joe Bouchard. (Different parts of this same interview were shown on 'Night Flight' ) 'Veteran of the Psychic Wars' video shown. Tom Snyder narrates.Įric Bloom and Rick Downey appear with Martha Quinn. Carroll performs 3 songs.Īllen Lanier participates in a piece about rock musicians and hearing loss. Allen Lanier guests on piano with the Jim Carroll Band. Sound bites with Eric Bloom discussing freedom of expression.Ī short-lived competitor to Saturday Night Live. Filmed at the same time/location as the Joan Crawford video. Take off was an special edition of 'Night Flight'.

#Blue oyster cult dont fear the reaper movie#

Excerpts of 'Born to be Wild' from the 'Black and Blue' movie shown. Interview segment with Eric Bloom, Buck Dharma and Allen Lanier discussing violence in rock & roll. Thanks to the wonder of YouTube, now there are links to point you to where you can watch some of these gems.Ī vintage photo of the band was shown, taken at a bar mitzvah they'd played in 1970 for show producer Joel Gallin.

If you have any further appearances and can provide accurate broadcast information, please contact us for addition to this list. P.S.-Dharma also wrote BOC’s song that was a tribute to Godzilla.This is not a complete list of BÖC's television appearances, but does include the majority of their television appearances. I was thinking about my wife, and that maybe we’d get together after I was gone.” “I wrote the guitar riff, the first two lines of lyric sprung into my head, then the rest of it came as I formed a story about a love affair that transcends death. “I was thinking about my own mortality,” he told Performing Songwriter. Dharma wrote the song while picturing an early death for himself. The song, written and sung by lead guitarist Donald Roeser-known by his stage name, Buck Dharma-deals with eternal love and the inevitability of death. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” appeared on Blue Oyster Cult’s 1976 album Agents of Fortune. I think it would be cool to hear at funeral.” People thought it was glorifying suicide and the occult-though it had nothing to do with either. However, here were so many urban legends around it that it caused satanic panic back in the ‘70s. “‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper’ by Blue Oyster Cult is a classic rock standard that came from the fear of death.