Flat Out (Buck Dharma album)

Flat Out
Studio album by Buck Dharma
Released	1982
Recorded	Boogie Hotel Studios, Port Jefferson, New York Kingdom Sound Studios, Long Island, New York North Lake Studios, North White Plains, New York The Power Station and Warehouse Studios, New York City The Automatt, San Francisco, California, 1981
Genre	Rock
Length	38:21
Label	Portrait
Producer	Donald Roeser

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Flat Out is a solo album by Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, lead guitarist and vocalist for hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music). Although Roeser penned and sang BÖC's biggest hits ("(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "Godzilla", "Burnin' for You"), the band operated as a democracy, and some of the songs he brought to the band were deemed too poppy by the others, so he released many of them on this solo record. "Born to Rock" was the first single (and was played live by the full band on occasion in 1982 and again in 2004), and "Your Loving Heart" was also released as a single, but neither charted well.

The track "Come Softly to Me" begins with a 35-second backwards recording. When played in reverse, it is a conversation that mentions a bongo record that sounds like Channel 11 music used to be. The conversation, which takes place during a game of ping-pong, ends with, "I could kick your ass but I know this is just for a sound check." The Fan Club lyric book titles this song "Gnop Gnip" (ping pong spelled backwards).

All tracks composed by Donald Roeser; except where indicated

Additional track on the CD version (originally released on Guitar’s Practicing Musicians Volume 3, 1989):

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