Blue Oyster Cult

Date:
2 September 1979

Venue:
Lakeland Civic Center Arena, Lakeland, FL

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Comments:
Mirrors Tour.

I was into "Don't Fear The Reaper" and "Godzilla" and I didn't know anything from the Mirrors album but we went just on the strength of the songs we knew. I had heard some crazy stories about BOC using lasers at their concerts--that they would shoot them out of the ends of their guitars at frisbees and stuff--and ridiculous as they sound now, I bought into it.

They had a huge light show that was really cool...but no lasers. The guitarists had mirrors or some kind of reflective stuff on the backs of their guitars that they would use to reflect the lightshow. During one song they held up their guitars and ground the necks up against each other.

The opening act was Ian Hunter, formerly of Mott the Hoople. I believe he was touring his You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic album but I didn't know his stuff. I remember him getting the crowd to chant an anti-Exxon slogan at one point. Maybe he was an environmentalist or something?