Buck Dharma (Donald Brian Roeser) Quotes

It’s a shame really because if a band or an artist doesn’t have a hit straight away the label will drop them and go and look for another act, so you don’t get bands developing in the same way as we did.

Buck Dharma Blue Öyster Cult

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• It’s a shame really because if a band or an artist doesn’t have a hit straight away the label will drop them and go and look for another act, so you don’t get bands developing in the same way as we did.

  

  Buck Dharma Blue Öyster Cult
  • Artist
  • Hit
  • Developing