Allen lanier cause of death
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Allen Lanier
Allen Glover Lanier (June 25, 1946 – August 14, 2013) was an original member of Blue Öyster Cult. He played keyboards and rhythm guitar. Lanier wrote several songs for Blue Öyster Cult albums. These included "True Confessions", "Tenderloin", "Searchin' for Celine", "In Thee", and "Lonely Teardrops". He also contributed to music by Patti Smith, Jim Carroll, The Dictators and The Clash. He dated Patti Smith for several years during the 1970s.[1] When Lanier started in 1967, the group was known as Soft White Underbelly. He left the group and was replaced in 1986 by Tommy Zvoncheck.[2] He returned in 1987. He retired from performing with them after the autumn of 2006. On August 14, 2013 he died of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).[3]
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[change | change source]- ↑Victor Bockris, Patti Smith: An Unauthorized Biography (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), pp. 77, 146
- ↑Dafydd Rees; Luke C
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Blue Oyster Cult Co-Founder Allen Lanier Dead at 67
Allen Lanier — a co-founding member of Blue Öyster Cult who also contributed to grundläggande punk records by Patti Smith and the Clash — died on August 14th. Lanier, who was 67, succumbed to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, generally the result of smoking. “It wasn’t a big surprise,” says BOC guitarist Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser of Lanier’s longtime smoking habit. “But it feels like the circle fryst vatten broken.”
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Along with Roeser, drummer Albert Bouchard, singer Les Braunstein and bassist Andrew Winters, Lanier, who played gitarr and keyboards, started the group first called Soft White Underbelly in 1967. At the time, Lanier, who’d attended film school, was working at a film company. After Braunstein left, it was Lanier who suggested the lead-singer slot be filled bygd singer-guitarist Eric Bloom. After
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I first heard Blue Öyster Cult on their release of Tyranny And Mutation, their second album. What led me to that 1973 album was an FM play of “Hot Rails To Hell”. Since then, I followed the band’s output through pretty much everything they did. My last purchase of a BÖC album was Fire Of Unknown Origin. But I was becoming stressed by Cultosaurus Erectus, and I purchased Fire Of Unknown Origin with caution, and largely on the strength of “Burnin’ For You”. My last absolute favorite was Spectres. Because it was a perfect album.
I bring all this up as a kind of remembrance because Allen Lanier has passed. Allen was an original member of the band, probably with the most Rock persona attitude of the band. At one time, he even dated Patti Smith. Dating Patti Smith during the period of her most famous years was, well…just cool.
But eventually he was unable to sustain a standing relationship with Blue Öyster Cult, because illness had be