“I got a phone call from a promoter who asked me if I would be interested in re-forming the band for the Coachella festival in LA,” said Farrell in 2001, “and taking the band on tour after that… This comes at a time when this record Song Yet to Be…
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Brutal Planet was succeeded by the sonically similar and acclaimed sequel Dragontown (2001), which saw Bob Ezrin back as producer. The album has been described as leading the listener down “a nightmarish path into the mind of rock’s original conceptual storyteller” and by Cooper himself as being “the worst town…
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The consequent 2001 Jubilee Tour featured largely the classics, alongside “Hungry” from Navarro’s Trust No One and “Happy Birthday Jubilee” from Song Yet to Be Sung . Fans were told to expect a “Sexual Psycho Circus… half-naked, penny rafters, guitar solos, and tribal drums…” Indeed, during ‘ Classic Girl ‘,…
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Morley released his solo album Aliens in 2001
Following the success of this tour, the band decided to record a follow-up album to Ritual de lo Habitual and tapped Chris Chaney to replace LeNoble on bass. They entered the studio with producer Bob Ezrin in 2001, recording as a band for the first time in over 10 years.…
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A month after the September 11 attacks , Jagger, Richards, and a backing band took part in The Concert for New York City , performing ” Salt of the Earth ” and “Miss You”.
In late 2001, Mick Jagger released his fourth solo album, Goddess in the Doorway . It met with mixed reviews; it reached No. 44 in the UK and No. 39 in the US.
In 2001, Relapse Records issued First Daze Here (The Vintage Collection) , a compilation consisting of unreleased material from the 1970s. In 2002, Peaceville Records released a compilation of songs from the first three albums titled Turn to Stone . Peaceville re-released the band’s first three albums on CD in…
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In 2001, Sony/Columbia’s reissue arm, Legacy Records issued expanded versions of the first four Blue Öyster Cult studio albums, including some previously unreleased demos and outtakes from album sessions, live recordings (from the Live 72 EP), and post- St. Cecilia tunes from the Stalk-Forrest Group era.
splitting up in early 2001.