Author: Team Uber

The original concept of ‘Imaginos’ dates back to the 1970s and was originally projected to be a trilogy of double albums with a story that weaves scripts and poems by the late producer Sandy Pearlman about an alien conspiracy that is brought to fruition during the late 19th and early 20th century through the actions of Imaginos, an agent of evil. It was also originally intended as a solo album by Blue Öyster Cult drummer, founding member and sometime songwriter and vocalist Albert Bouchard. The protracted stop/start recording of it was to last seven years and eventually surfaced, at the insistence of BÖC’s then label CBS, as a Blue Öyster Cult album in 1988, their last for the label. Having been fired from the band in 1981, Bouchard himself had less involvement in the finished product, but now all those years later, he gets his chance with ‘Re-Imaginos’, an album where he gets to re-visit and ‘re-imagine’ the concept album, perhaps more as it was originally intended.