Sad to hear that the producer Sandy Pearlman has died. He was the man behind the great early Blue Oyster Cult albums as well as producing the 2nd album by The Clash, Give 'Em Enough Rope.


Blue Oyster Cult, The Clash Producer Sandy Pearlman Dead at 72: Report

7/26/2016 by Gil Kaufman


Veteran rock producer Sandy Pearlman died on Tuesday morning (July 26) at age 72 after a long struggle following a cerebral hemorrhage he suffered in December, according to his longtime friend Robert Duncan.

Pearlman was best known for producing nine albums by hard rock icons Blue Öyster Cult -- including their first five releases and a co-producing credit on their iconic hit the No 12 1976 track "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" -- as well as The Dictators' Go Girl Crazy! and The Clash's first U.S. release, Give 'Em Enough Rope.

In addition to working behind the boards, Pearlman also managed BÖC, Romeo Void, The Dictators and, briefly, Dio-era Black Sabbath. He was president of 415 Records and vice presidentof pioneering 1990s online music service e-music.

Pearlman's friend Duncan, announced the news in a Facebook post, writing, "Sandy Pearlman, poet, writer, songwriter, producer, manager, professor, polymath, visionary, passed peacefully, surrounded by love, at 12:30 am, July 26, 2016, in Marin County, California.

A celebration of his exceptional life will be announced later." Duncan set up a GoFundMe page in June to help raise money for Pearlman's medical costs after what Duncan said was a hemorrhage that left his friend of five decades "unable to walk, talk or fully comprehend his circumstances and in need of enormously expensive care."

Pearlman, who was born on Aug. 8, 1943, also taught over the years at McGill, Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, the New School and a number of other schools. He's sometimes credited with coining the phrase "heavy metal" while working at early rock magazine Crawdaddy.

His work producing, writing for and co-managing BÖC was immortalized in the legendary SNL "More Cowbell" sketch, where Christopher Walken played a fictionalized version of the rock n' roll raconteur.

Tributes to Pearlman came in from a number of his collaborators and friends, including former Reprise Records president Howie Klein and Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn.


[www.billboard.com]

Here's a classic BOC song off their epic first album.

RIP. The man had quite the career.

The Amazing Blue Oyster Cult. Pearlman's "mythos," the whole "Imaginos" thing was an inscrutable, fascinating layer on top of the greatest underground band ever to hit the big time. Well, along with the Doors maybe. Those first 3 albums in particular are fire and ice -- the red and the black. I like the later smoother stuff too, but when they first hit it was this mystery. I sent away for those teletype lyrics and that just made things way weirder! Of course, they were very funny also.

They just did a tribute to Allen Lanier with the Bouchards. Now Sandy.

SEEPAGE FROM DEEP, BLACK, BRITTLE
EXPERIMENTS WHICH FAILED
AND TRANSFORMATIONS TOO HARD TO FIND.
"I WAS OVERCOME AND TURNED TO RED."
DUSTER'S DUST BECAME THE SALE.
LUCIFER THE LIGHT. A RESTLESS MOTION
CAME TO MOVE AND THEN SUBSIDE.
IN ENDLESS KNOCKING AT THE DOOR--
IT'S TIME. TYRANNY AND MUTATION.
TYRANNY AND MUTATION.

Rock on big guy.



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