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On Your Feet or on Your Knees

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Released
  
February 27, 1975

Artist
  
Blue Öyster Cult

Producer
  
Sandy Pearlman

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Hard rock

Length
  
78:13

Release date
  
27 February 1975

Label
  
Columbia Records

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Recorded
  
April 27, 1974 October 5–21, 1974 Academy of Music, New York City Paramount Theatre, Portland, Oregon Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington Show Palace, Phoenix, Arizona Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, British Columbia Capitol Theatre, New Jersey

On Your Feet or on Your Knees (1975)
  
Agents of Fortune (1976)

Similar
  
Blue Öyster Cult albums, Heavy metal albums

On Your Feet or on Your Knees is the first live album by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult released on February 27, 1975 by Columbia Records. Each of the band's first three studio albums is represented by three songs each, two other songs are covers ("I Ain't Got You", albeit with modified lyrics, and "Born to Be Wild"), and one ("Buck's Boogie") is an original instrumental that remains a staple of the band's live shows to this day. The 12 songs include performances at the Academy of Music in New York City, the Paramount Theatre in Portland, the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, the Show Palace in Phoenix, the Long Beach Arena, the P.N.E. Coliseum in Vancouver and the Capitol Theatre in New Jersey, though it is not clear which songs came from which venues and on what dates.

Contents

It hit No. 22 on the Billboard 200, thus making it the band's highest charting album in the U.S.

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Personnel

Band members
  • Eric Bloom - Lead vocals on tracks 1-2, 4-5, 9, 11-12, stun guitar, synthesizer
  • Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser - lead guitar, lead vocals on "Last Days of May" and "Before the Kiss (A Redcap)"
  • Allen Lanier - rhythm guitar, keyboards
  • Joe Bouchard - bass, lead vocals on "Hot Rails to Hell"
  • Albert Bouchard - drums, guitar, lead vocals on "Cities on Flame"
  • Production
  • Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman - producers
  • Tom Scott, Kurt Kuntzel, Aaron Baron, Tim Geelan, Pete Weiss, Jerry Smith - engineers
  • Jack Douglas - engineer, mixing
  • John Berg and Gerard Huerta - design
  • John Berg - cover photo
  • The cover lettering designed by Gerard Huerta, which was also used on the 2012 boxed set, was one of the first "Heavy Metal" logo designs.

    Songs

    1Subhuman7:29
    2Harvester of Eyes4:58
    3Hot Rails to Hell5:29

    References

    On Your Feet or on Your Knees Wikipedia