![]() Speaking of the origin of band names, Sandy Pearlman is also the one who came up with the band's earlier names, "Soft White Underbelly" and "Stalk-Forrest Group". However, someone once made a fake label for this "beer" using the BOC symbol, and the label appeared in the March 1976 issue of the rock magazine *Zig Zag* (an interview with Sandy Pearlman also appears in this issue). As Bolle Gregmar notes, the term "stout beer" is not a likely label for a beer (editor's note: sort of like labeling Pepsi Cola as "Pepsi Cola Soda"). What is more likely however, is that Pearlman and Meltzer tried to come up with anagrams for "Blue Oyster Cult" and came up with "Cully Stout Beer". Using this name, the two tried to come up with a number of anagrams using the name, one of which was "Blue Oyster Cult", and that this was how they came up with the name. The story goes that Pearlman went off with Meltzer, got stoned, and noticed a bottle of "Cully Stout Beer". It has been reported in several BOC articles in the past, but is believed to be untrue. There is an interesting story as to how Pearlman and Meltzer came up with the term "Blue Oyster Cult". In fact, some band members said that they hated the name. When Pearlman returned to the band and announced the name, the band was less than enthusiastic about it. It is believed that the name was already part of Pearlman's Imaginos poems, which were conceived around 1967. This is presumably when Pearlman and Meltzer decided on the name "Blue Oyster Cult". They had to come up with one to finalize the deal, and entrusted Pearlman to come up with it. There's another quote from Pearlman later in the story: "It was meant to bring all sorts of ambiguous implications to the name."Īpparently when BOC auditioned for Columbia in 1971, they did not have a name. ![]() "And Richard said, 'And we'll add an umlaut over the o!' And I said, 'Great!'" "I said, 'Why don't we call it Blue Oyster Cult?'" he recalls. Standing on a New York street corner with rock writer Richard Meltzer (who had been in an earlier incarnation of the group), Pearlman glanced into the window of a nearby restaurant and noticed that the menu included Blue Point oysters. In 1971, musician and songwriter Sandy Pearlman was trying to devise a new name for his band. "Sometimes genius strikes at the least-expected moment. (Umlauts, we learn, are the two little dots over a letter, in particular over the "O" in Blue Oyster Cult.) The story credits Richard Meltzer with the "fad" of using umlauts in names, and recounts the story of how BOC was named. In the Augissue of Entertainment Weekly, on page 62, there's a story on band names that have umlauts in them.
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