Albert Thomas Bouchard (; born May 24, 1947) is an American musician. He is a founding member and the original drummer of the hard rock band

Blue Öyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult ( ; sometimes abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American rock band formed on Long Island in Stony Brook, New York, in 1967, and best known for the singles "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "Burnin' for You", and "Godzilla". The band h ...

and current drummer of

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. He is the brother of former Blue Öyster Cult bassist

Joe Bouchard Joseph J. Bouchard (; born November 9, 1948) is an American musician. He was the bassist and one of the lead singers of the hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult during their most successful period. He is the younger brother of original Blue Öyster ...

Biography

Bouchard was born in

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, and grew up in

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. He was a founding member of the hard rock band

and a driving force through the band's first decade. In 1981, Bouchard left Blue Öyster Cult. He began to work on an intended solo album that would become the ''

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'' (1988) released under the BÖC name. He has also played on records for Mike Watt (a version of BÖC's "Dominance and Submission" for the flip side of Watt's 1995 single "E Ticket Ride" ), and

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(

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), Gumball and Fabienne Shine. Bouchard has produced records for many other musicians, including Maria Excommunikata, Heads Up! and David Roter. Until 2006, Bouchard's main musical project had been Brain Surgeons, with whom he released several CDs on his own Cellsum Records label. Cellsum grew to host a number of other artists, including Les Vegas, The X Brothers, David Roter and Helen Wheels. In 2007, Bouchard formed Ünderbelly with original Soft White Underbelly singer Les Braunstein, Brain Surgeons bassist David Hirschberg, and guitarist Adrian Romero. They were featured on the 2008

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tribute CD ''Sheep in Wolves' Clothing'', and released the songs "Critical Mass" and "Astronomy" in 2011. In 2008, Bouchard formed the band 'Blue Coupe' with his brother Joe and original

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bassist

Dennis Dunaway Dennis Dunaway (born December 9, 1946, in Cottage Grove, Oregon) is an American musician, best known as the original bass guitarist for the rock band Alice Cooper (1962–1975, 1999, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021). He co-wrote some of the ...

. Originally an Alice Cooper/Blue Öyster Cult cover act, 'Blue Coupe' has released three albums of original material: ''Tornado on the Tracks'' in 2010, ''Million Miles More'' in 2013, and ''Eleven Even'' in 2019. In 2014, Bouchard released his first solo record, ''Incantation'', which was followed in 2017 by a second album, ''Surrealist''. He has a new album released in November 2020, titled ''Re Imaginos'', a mostly acoustic version of the album ''Imaginos'', and is working on a follow-up ''Re Imaginos 2 Bombs Over Germany''.

References

External links

Albert Bouchard's web page2012 Audio Interview with Albert Bouchard from the Podcast "I'd Hit That"Blue Coupe web site
American heavy metal drummers American male singer-songwriters American rock singers American rock songwriters Blue Öyster Cult members Living people 1947 births People from Watertown, New York People from Clayton, New York 20th-century American drummers American male drummers Singer-songwriters from New York (state) {{US-rock-musician-stub