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From: tgannon@charlie.usd.edu (spideir)

         **"BOC's GREATEST RIFFS" (Blue Oyster Cult)**
           ======================
 For all those BOC fans out there--BOTH of yu' >:-}  --or for those
     just curious about "vintage metal": hey, Sabbath wasn't the only
     band that Metallica, et al. cut their teeth on. . . .

   --transcr./tabbed tcg, 197?[yeh, I'm old]-1994
   --fuzz box: all . . . [hell, I use TWO fuzz boxes]
   --regarding "key" names: major-minor distinction often meaningless,
       since rhythm guitar usually playing "chords" with no third
       ("power chords"), and the leads in the "major" keys are often
       Mixolydian mode or pentatonic minor. . . (In "straight" minor-key
       tunes, Buck Dharma shows a preference for the Aeolian mode
       [=minor pentatonic, plus "tasty" major 2nd and minor 6th steps].)
   --Disclaimer: these are hacker's versions, admittedly--above all,
       trust your ear . . .


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 **"TRANSMANIACON MC" (_Blue_Oyster_Cult_)                       --key: Am

   Intro riff
     D5                                [chord tacit]                 [repeat]
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |o------7------7---|-------7------7---|------------------|-----------------o|
 |o--x-x-7--x-x-7---|---x-x-7--x-x-7---|----7-6---5-4-----|-----------------o|
 |---x-x-5--x-x-5---|---x-x-5--x-x-5---|--0-----7-----5-4-|-8-7-----7-6------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|-----8-7-----7-6--|
     1 & 2& 3 & 4&      1 & 2& 3 & 4&     1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &   1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &


  neat chromatic, "haunting" lead fill (end of Verse)
     [Am]                      [C]
 ---|-------------------------|------|
 ---|----8--7--6--5-----------|------|
 ---|----------------8--7--6--|-5=---|
 ---|-------------------------|------|
 ---|-------------------------|------|
 ---|-------------------------|------|
      1  &  2  &  3  &  4  &    1...


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 **"CITIES ON FLAME WITH ROCK AND ROLL" (_Blue_Oyster_Cult_)    --key: F#m

   Intro/lead tacit riff
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |o-----------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------o|
 |o-----------------|------------------|-----------4------|2-----2----------o|
 |----------0=======|------------------|-----0-3h4---3h4--|--3h4---32