The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Dominance and Submission

Dominance and Submission by The Bastard Sons of Dennis is the latest song to be added to their Cosy Lube Turtle album.

Cosy Lube Turtle is an album of Blue Oyster Cult covers, which The Bastard Sons of Dennis were known and loved for playing. Cosy Lube Turtle is in fact an anagram of Blue Oyster Cult.

Dominance and Submission is the penultimate track to be added to the Cosy Lube Turtle album. We hope to be able to finish the final track, Seven Screaming Diz-Busters, in the coming weeks.

About half of all the Blue Oyster Cult covers that The Bastard Sons of Dennis ever played make up the Cosy Lube Turtle album. We are uncertain at this time if a second album of Blue Oyster Cult covers will ever be made due to the duo living in two different countries by now.

Besides their Blue Oyster Cult covers and many originals, The Bastard Sons of Dennis also played a cover of Kashmir by Led Zeppelin very rarely.

For Blue Oyster Cult songs, the regular members of The Bastard Sons of Dennis – Q. Wim Lijkkes and Yuri Nation – would be replaced by BOC specialists Derek Broom and Chuck Palmer.

Dominance and Submission was always a tremendously popular live track. During the pauses for “It Will Be Time”, Derek and Chuck would flip their guitars around to reveal signs saying “Throw Panties Now!” and “If No Panties, Bras!”. There was an occasion when somebody took a big bag full of (clean) underwear along to a show and gave items out to the crowd to throw at the appropriate moment, which was great fun.

When Chuck’s solo finished and before the “Dominance” / “Submission” section got fully underway, Derek would often use the defined area of uncertainty to thank the venue and sound guy and talk a bit of nonsense.

Dominance and Submission was originally released in 1974 as a song on the album Secret Treaties by Blue Oyster Cult. The band also released a live version on their 1982 E. T. L. album.

If you would like to download or listen to Dominance and Submission by The Bastard Sons of Dennis from Bandcamp, please click here.

To download or listen to the entire Cosy Lube Turtle album as it stands right now, please click here.

If you would like to listen to the Cosy Lube Turtle album here at the Wud Records website, please click here instead.