{"id":29260,"date":"2024-04-12T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/blue-oyster-cults-eric-bloom-talks-new-album-ghost-stories\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T12:00:13","slug":"blue-oyster-cults-eric-bloom-talks-new-album-ghost-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/blue-oyster-cults-eric-bloom-talks-new-album-ghost-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue \u00d6yster Cult\u2019s Eric Bloom talks new album, &#8216;Ghost Stories&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-11\/M_BlueOysterCultGhostStories_020724.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Frontiers Music Srl <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Blue \u00d6yster Cult<\/strong> just released the new album <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Ghost Stories<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, featuring a collection of \u201clost gems\u201d recorded between 1978 and 1983, and guitarist\/vocalist <strong>Eric Bloom<\/strong>\u00a0is explaining why these tunes never made it to an album in the first place.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cYou know, when you&#8217;re writing songs for a record, sometimes you work at it, you work at it, you work at it, never quite gets to where you want it to be recorded,&#8221; he tells ABC Audio. \u201cThat happens a lot on records.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To get these tunes to where they needed to be for this album\u00a0they were transferred from reel-to-reel analog tape to digital audio by the band\u2019s original audio engineer,\u00a0<strong>George Geranios<\/strong>, with producers\u00a0<strong>Steve Schenck\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Richie Castellano\u00a0<\/strong>using artificial intelligence to complete the songs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite\u00a0the tunes\u00a0being recorded so long ago, Bloom says he didn\u2019t really forget about them \u2014 but at least one, \u201cDon\u2019t Come Running To Me,\u201d gave him what he called an \u201coh yeah moment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI&#8217;m listening to that, and I\u2019m going, you know, I remember that. 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