History Music / Imaginos

Albert Bouchard, who has taken over the storyline and mythos after Sandy Pearlman’s death, has [[RetCon retconned]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUaeGVdqa0c a few points]] on his ''Re-Imaginos'' album, released in 2019. In Bouchard’s current continuity, Imaginos went to Europe before Texas, where he met “Frankenstein” and took “world-without-end”, which seemingly unlocked his shapeshifting powers. Also, instead of the entire ship being wrecked, Imaginos is thrown overboard by his friends who learn of the “sickness” he caught during “''Gil Blanco County''”. Bouchard is currently continuing the ''Imaginos'' saga, with ''[[Music/ImaginosIIBombsOverGermany Imaginos II: Bombs Over Germany (minus zero and counting)]]'' released in October 2021.

* Jon Rogers (who replaced joey Bouchard as [=BOC=]'s bass player)

* Aldo Nova - a band associate who contributed lyrics for ''Music/RevolutionByNight''

The Imaginos character, plotline, and concepts were created by the band’s producer Sandy Pearlman in the 1960s, who incorporated them into many of the band’s lyrics. It was not told in a specific order until the ''Imaginos'' album itself was released in 1988, leading to many scattered, cryptic references to the plot across the band’s discography. ''Imaginos'' itself, which covers the years of 1808 up to 1893, is only Act I of III of the storyline. Two other double albums were planned which would follow Imaginos’ story up until the modern day. These were to be called ''[[Music/ImaginosIIBombsOverGermany Act II: Germany Minus Zero and Counting]]'' and ''Act III: The Mutant Reformation''. The full title of the entire narrative was, according to Pearlman, [[LongTitle ''The Soft Doctrines of Imaginos: A Bedtime Story for the Children of the Damned'']].

* BrickJoke: A black-coloured brick. [[Music/BlueOysterCult1972 right at the beginning]] in October 1967, Eric Bloom and Donald Roeser started a group with manager Sandy Pearlman. In 1988, 21 years later and after many personnel changes, the last men standing, before the band went into hiatus after this album was first conceived in 1967, were Bloom, Pearlman and Roeser.

* BrickJoke: A black-coloured brick. [[BlueOysterCult1972 right at the beginning]] in October 1967, Eric Bloom and Donald Roeser started a group with manager Sandy Pearlman. In 1988, 21 years later and after many personnel changes, the last men standing, before the band went into hiatus after this album was first conceived in 1967, were Bloom, Pearlman and Roeser.

''Imaginos'' is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band Music/BlueOysterCult. It is a RockOpera telling part of the story of [[ProtagonistTitle Imaginos]], or [[GenderBender Desdi]][[PunnyName nova]], a HumanoidAbomination that becomes an agent of chaos and evil for a group of extraterrestrial deities called “Les Invisibles”.

* GenderBender: [[https://imgur.com/a/6w0iQ86 Imaginos' female persona is Desdinova]], the "Queenly Flux" and "Eternal Light".

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Probably their heaviest album, with "''Siege and Investiture''" being a solid 7.

* GenderBender: [[https://imgur.com/a/w7fV11e Imaginos' female persona is Desdinova]], the "Queenly Flux" and "Eternal Light".

#"Blue Öyster Cult" (7:18)

* FrameStory: "''Astronomy''" [[MindScrew may]] be Imaginos talking to Suzy on a beach and metaphorically describing his death and resurrection earlier in the narrative.

* TheProphecy: Imaginos' granddaughter finds a cryptic prophecy written on the oldest scroll in Imaginos' house, which declares “when the riddle begins, the story will end”.

* {{Familiar}}: Desdinova has a dog from the stars as a familiar, accompanying her on her travels.

* {{Familiar}}: Imaginos has a dog from the stars as a familiar, accompanying him on his travels.

* TheProphecy: Imaginos' granddaughter finds a cryptic prophecy written on the oldest scroll in Desdinova’s house, which declares “when the riddle begins, the story will end”.