Customer Reviews

Blue Oyster Cult - Cult Classics

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This is a really wonderful addition to anyone's Guitar Tab collection. A collection of BOC's best songs are placed in an easy to read format for all guitarists. Fans and non-fans alike will enjoy this book which is tabbed out surprisingly well in comparison to some of the other BOC books I've seen. Highly recommended, although I caution some of the guitar work is quite complex. May not be suitable for the beginner.

Buck Dharma is truly an incredible guitarist. This book is the guitar tablature from their early 90s release Cult Classics, re-workings of some of the best songs. I feel that the tabs are accurate, but Buck's style is som complex I can't really tell if this is how Buck plays it. Nevertheless its a good tool to study his style which is more off-the-wall than most guitarists may realise. The tab is clear and concise but the style is complex and tough to pull off for even good guitarist. A good tool. But beware most will not easily "cop" Buck's solos like other guitarists featured in guitar rags. To me this makes it even better. I'm still today trying to play the solos in "Buck's Boogie" a quarter as smoothly as the master plays them. It's perplexing, but compelling.

While I am not a bigtime fan of Blue Oyster Cult, there are two or three songs that I really like. One of my favorite all-time songs is "Burning For You," and was the reason that I bought the book.

The tab was pretty darn good until I got to the solo. I played my Cd and listened intently to the solo. Unless my ears are failing me, there is no way the transcribed solo matches up completely with the recorded version.

Still, few guitar transcription books are totally accurate (I must say that Hal Leonard's Scorpions book and several others are pretty darn accurate!). But this one was way off on this song. Since it was the only one I learned in its entirety, I can't comment on the others in the collection except to say the ones I have looked at seemed to be OK.

Ultimately, the book was a great guide in learning this song, and for that reason, was well worth the money to me. I can only conclude that you will have to watch it when you are trying to learn the faster portions of different solos.

Imagine my excitement at discovering that there is a BOC tab book. Imagine my disappointment at discovering that it does not include Then Came the Last Days of May, which contains the finest guitar playing they ever recorded. I would have bought the whole book just for that one song.

I got this for my 18 year old son's Easter basket. He loved it. He actually hugged it when he found it! He's a guitar player and a big BOC fan, so it was perfect.

I WISH I WERE IN CHARGE OF MAKING THIS CD. I WOULD REPLACE THE REAPER AND GODZILLA'S TV MIX WITH MAYBE "WINGS WETTED DOWN" OR "SEVEN SCREAMING DIZBUSTERS." OTHERWISE THIS CD IS JUST FINE. THE NEWLY RECORDED BLUE OYSTER CULT GEMS ARE REALLY GOOD, ESPECIALLY "ODed ON LIFE ITSELF."