Martin Popoff releases his new book, which focuses on the Blue Öyster Cult’s album “Imaginos” and is titled “In Perfect Water: The Rebel Imaginos”.
Here is what’s written on the back cover: “
In a whirlwind of words and pictures that is ten times weirder and darker than the wildly speculative and conspiratorial Flaming Telepaths; Imaginos Expanded and Specified, four-time Blue Öyster Cult author Martin Popoff draws fever-dreamed connections between Sandy “Memphis Sam” Pearlman’s legendary Imaginos writings of 1967 (along with other BÖC lyrics) to tumultuous world events mostly after the end of World War I.
At an action-packed pace, Popoff connects the Imaginos saga to Egyptology, Ignatius Donnelly and his Atlantean studies, Russian cosmism, Rasputin, Tennyson, Charles Dellschau and the Victorian-era airship mystery, George Ellery Hale, Augustus Le Plongeon, hollow earth theory, telluric currents, Alice in Wonderland, H.P. Lovecraft, theosophy, Edgar Cayce, the Cliff House, Boleskin House, upstate New York spiritualism, The Wizard of Oz, Kenneth Grant, Antarctic military bases, Hans Kammler, Wernher von Braun, Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron, Godzilla, myriad UFO events, the Kennedy assassination, the Process Church, the Necronomicon, John and Yoko in Egypt, the Very Large Array, CERN, HAARP and the lyrics of The Stranglers.
And forging further connectivity to Flaming Telepaths, there is more on Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, World War II and the key birthright and developmental milestones in the life of Imaginos in the 1800s and early 1900s. Flash forward, once we’re into the 1970s, entries on the Blue Öyster Cult albums emerge and the connections multiply and clarify.
All the while a consistent narrative worms its way through the march of time and its dizzying geopolitical markers, and that is the tale of Imaginos’ quest to quit the bidding of the sea-dwelling Old Ones and return to his planet of origin, through science—be it earthly or extraterrestrial—or by occulted magic.“
