Boston - Foreplay / Long Time (REACTION)
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- @AirplayBeats reacts to Boston - Foreplay / Long Time
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From where I came from no one danced to this band. What we did was drive down a street at night with the windows rolled down and turned up the Pioneer radio as far as the knob would go to some Jensen 6x9’s speakers.When the transition from Foreplay to Long Time would hit, it was goosebumps every time. This album created so many great memories as teenagers. Back where no cell phones, no social media, no auto tune and life was so much simpler. I was lucky enough to live through those years and wish we could all experience what that was like. Today just feels like everything is artificial.
Amen. you just described my youth
GOOD TIMES
I had the alpine removable head unit with 6x9s in back 5s up front and a 12 inch sub in the trunk of my silver 69 Skylark with a 350 under the hood.
Good times for all. We had the last great childhood.
@@dieselbourbon3728 let me guess. When you say Alpine removable head unit you don’t mean the face comes off. Do you mean the whole radio would slide out? If it was this then yeah, that’s wayyyyy old school!!!
Yep
You're speaking my language. I actually made boxes in high school wood shop to mount my speakers into and put them in the back seat of my 72 Nova SS.
Had enough speaker wire to take them out and place them on the top of the car when parked with a group of other friends cars, we drank beer, partied and listened to music into the night.
God, I miss those days.
Tom Scholz is the genius behind Boston. He is an MIT graduate, he wrote the songs, played guitar, bass, organ, produced the record…..all in his basement!!! He also created the effects that you’re hearing. He got the terrific Brad Delp to sing.
Brainiac. Like Stevie Wonder - don't like the sound equipment? Invent your own.
Brad Delp, still one of the greatest voices in the history of rock n’roll. Gone way too soon. R.I.P.
And WAY before digital recording. All these awesome analog recordings are just amazing. To think that they could produce this quality of music without the benefit of digital recording is just mind blowing...
Just for fun, find and read the back cover of this album. As honest as it gets and too funny. All this album still sounds fresh after almost 50 years.
Tom graduated Ottawa hills high school in Toledo. He sent his Demo to engineer Eddie Kramer, who did Kiss, etc. Kramer sent the demo back and told Tom he couldn’t do anything to it except mess it up, release your demo as is, it’s perfect.
One of the best debut albums of all time
Have a good day, fellas
Thanks. Have a great weekend!!
My guys…this entire album was a staple. It’s brilliant from start to finish. Listen to the entire thing!!!! ❤️
Bought the tape in 2007 or 1997 and I did!
This album simply blew out the music scene of the late 70s.. Everyone knew every cord, guitar solo note and lyric to every song on this album.
About as perfect of an album as you could make.
Mid-'70s. It came out in the summer of '76. If you were a kid living the suburbs, the album was issued to you. It came in the mail with samples of Tide.
Chord
@@Cosmo-KramerTide a track or a service?
@@michelelaraia7358 A laundry detergent.
Bradley Delp was a friend of mine since age 14. He always had that great voice. His favorite musical group was the Beatles. Bradley died in March 2007....but his voice and music lives on.
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
I met him once during a break when he was singing in a Beatles tribute band in Melrose MA. Really nice guy. Gone too soon. RIP Brad
@@lanazugg-zugg8433Yes, Lana Bradley's Beatle cover and was called Beatlejuice. One of his many musical gifts was the ability to sound like almost anybody from all of the Beatles to James Brown or Little Richard....He put soul into anything that he sang.
I will never forget when this Album came out. God the 70's were awesome.
this entire album was written and recorded in the basement of an apartment building in boston by 1 man and a vocalist named brad.....you will love smokin
Didn't the record company want Scholtz to come to their studio but he insisted on recording most of the parts in his own studio he built? Seems I recall reading that, could be wrong.
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee and a bassist on foreplay (Fran Sheehan)
Yes smoking is the shit, favorite song on the album
I know and that is amazing to me, I had no clue when I first was listening to this. I didn't know until years later. Now it would not seem as amazing because of all the music programs, filters... all kids of things to make stuff sound better. But back then... you had to pull that off on your own.
@@stevemd6488 no, detto
This album established an entirely new sound for rock music. The engineering was as important as the songwriting.
Can't go wrong with any track on this entire album. They are all hits! Great reaction 🔥
True story
You have to realize that no one had ever heard these type sounds on an album before. The crazy thing is the genesis of this album started around 1970 and was turned down by record companies. Tom's equipment gave the 80s its sound, especially the likes of Def Leppard. Best debut ever.
I graduated HS in 1978. The BEST time for music. Boston, Rush, Aerosmith, Kansas, Van Halen, Foreigner, Toto, Journey, Zeppelin, the Who, Sabbath, Supertramp, Queen, Pink Floyd, Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer and so many, many more, all at their best. All are still played to this day. Do you think 50 years from now anyone is going to listen to the garbage that's put out today? NO. We will still be listening to what came out in the 1970's though.
I thought of more, AC/DC, Skynard, Allman Brothers, The Cars, Foghat. And that's just off the top of my head.
The whole f n album is better than it should be from beginning to the end.
Once in a lifetime debut.
Yes👍🏻
Ah, Boston's s/t debut. Had this cassette in my car for years, it never left my car during my teenage years. Ah....the 70's, music really hasn't been the same since.
Deep dive, Boston-Boston!
You know the story by now. Sonically one of the best produced sounds ever.
Over all a top 3 GOAT Album for me.
Ever song. Every time.
For over 45 years!
🤘😎
And you HAVE to listen to ALL of it once you start because the music pulls you in that much 💖
Notice the UFOs are guitars upside down
Another album to just run the whole thing. It's perfect
This was and is a classic. 60’s and 70’s was a great era for music
You guys obviously know music and production, its great to have you on CZcams 👍
Thanks Brian!! Have a great weekend!!
Without bragging, I'm from the greatest era! 70's-80's. So many freakin'concerts! Wish you were there! Sincerely
As stated b4. What u hear was recorded in Tom’s basement. The record label told them to go to LA and record it again in a studio with a producer. They went, hung out and turned in the same demo recording. That’s talent!!! That’s what we’re always listening to. Tom was an engineer for Polaroid.
I’ll say it again the cleanest crispest album recorded back then.
This whole album is 100% pure gold!!!!!!
Yes !!!
Rock legends! Great, great, GREAT! Shows! Seen them many times.
When this came out, it was mind blowing...!!! And all over the radio, every song on the album got "Airplay"... Not many albums can say that.
#1 selling debut album for 11 years, and is STILL #2...
Their song Party always filled the dance floor.
Boston is good shit,,,,💥💥💥👍😎
Oh yeah, a great dance song. Wow, 🤔 round about 50 years of great music from Boston for me!
Smokin' and Rock and Roll Band off the same album. They rock and they move!!! Great reaction fellas!!!
If you're Jonesing for some B3, "Smokin'" is a must.
I remember I was on my way to Chicago when I heard Boston for the first time. That first album took off bigger than any album post Beatles. Boston has never make a bad song.
You got to do "Hitch a Ride" from this album with its transcendent double guitar outro.
This music doesn't need any remastering That dude in his basement perfected it decades ago
This was 1975, think about that for a minute. Amazing music for that time. Arguably the best debut album of all time. Still the one album that I’ve owned in 5 different formats, Vinyl, 8 Track, Cassette, CD and now digital. Not a bad song on the entire album.
I still have an 8 track of this. And Foghat, Carole King, Faces, Cheap Trick.... got about 20,but no player lol
It was released in 1976. What a summer of music THAT was!
How were we so lucky to have all this awesome music come at us all at the same time, all l can say is we were blessed, l'm old now but l don't regret being a teenager in the 70'👍🥰
Aaaaah.....BOSTON 🤗 Reminds me of spending every waking moment at the beach & cruisin' hwy 101 with my girls in my '74 VW Bug....music BLARING 😂 Thanks guys....you make me feel young again 🥰
Grew up north of Boston. Could be greatest debut album of all time .
The spaceships on the album cover are electric guitars- one of the best rock debut albums ever- went more than 10x platinum and all produced and recorded in the basement of the genius who played almost every instrument on the album and had to build a band out to tour
The moment when the acoustic switches to electric for the final pre-chorus is peak music.
I was a senior in high school in 79' and when this album came out it was magical. I don't know how many sets of Kricket 6"x 9" coaxial speakers I blew up listening to this song. Good thing they had a lifetime warranty! Did y'all notice that the Boston logo is an upside down guitar? I didn't realize that until I was 60!
every song on this album is great !!
This song still gets played on Classic Rock FM radio stations very often even to this very day.
This is one of those albums that you can play from start to finish, and it all flows great. Listen to the whole thing... 👍🤘
I think we will do this whole album. Can’t wait to hear it
Everything said above is true. As Producers you MUST read about Tom Sholz putting this album together almost in his basement. The vocals on much of Boston was Brad Delp layering his vocal tracks over other tracks. No fancy stuff, just singing over his own tracks flawlessly. Real music.
Totally agree, Tom had the bones, but needed the band to bring it to life. Barry played awesome, as well as rest of the band. I rode a ten speed bike to the record store when this album dropped, it was life changing.
I always loved the powerful soundscape of Foreplay riding into Long Time. This combo got played a lot with my group of friends on the way to a party or just cruising the avenue in the 80s.
Another great driving song.
One man. Tom Sholtz. Played every instrument, wrote all the lyrics, produced and recorded all the music in his basement. All analog, no protocols in 75. Then had the singer come in and lay down the vocals . Incredible. Guitar, bass, keyboards and drums are all the same guy .Tom Sholtz.
@kennycamaro2361 Tom does not play a single drum track on this record, and this has been well documented from the first release of this record. Tom could not play the drum parts on this record not even after the third cold day in hell. Sib plays drums on every song except for one and Jim Masdea plays drums on that remaining song. Second, Brad wrote Let Me Take You Home Tonight, and that song was recorded at The Record Plant LA by producer John Boylan and the tracks are played by the band as pictured on the back of the record. Third, all of Brads vocals were recorded by producer John Boylan at Capital Studios Studio C. Fourth, Barry plays electric rhythm guitar on three songs. Barry plays lead on one song and lead/slide guitar on another. Fran plays bass on two songs. Brad plays acoustic 12 string on one song as well. This is all well documented and admitted to by Tom in the liner notes of the 2006 Scholz remaster of the 1976 debut Boston record.
The production on this record is amazing even by 2023 standards. Just a marvel to take in. Can't believe it's coming up on 50 years since it was released.
I’ve always thought this was one of the best engineered albums ever. You literally can hear every note by every instrument. Genius. 😊
They were so big in 1979 when I saw them with Black Sabbath and Van Halen at Anaheim Stadium, they were the headliner.
Every song on this album was and is still played on radio
Including this masterpiece
Every single song...enjoy the ride
Also the spaceships on the cover are upside down guitar's
The second solo always gives me chills
This was one of my favorite bands back in High School! This was their 1st album, which they recorded in their "Basement" lol! It was way ahead of the times! You won't find a bad song on the entire album! Matter of fact, it's difficult to name which song is my favorite on the album!
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1. More Than a Feeling
2. Peace of Mind
3. Foreplay/Long Time
4. Rock & Roll Band
5. Smokin'
6. Hitch a Ride
7. Something About You
8. Let Me Take You Home Tonight
A TRUE masterpiece album from front to back!!!
One of the most iconic debut albums ever. It blew our heads off when we first heard it.
Whole f’ing album. Perfect rock music
Absolutely one of my favorite songs. It’s a jam!
Soundtrack of my youth. Even had a Boston belt buckle. Thanks for bringing this back!
Two thoughts about this album, after 40+ years of listening to it:
1) Use it to "calibrate" your headphones. If this doesn't sound absolutely delicious in them, throw them away.
2) Use it to "calibrate" your speakers, as loud as possible. If this doesn't sound absolutely delicious with them, throw them away.
The Launch/ Cool the Engines. Is a must
When this album came out it was like nothing anyone had ever heard before. Mind bending at the time. Still so fresh and beautiful 😊 not one bad song on it.
They were so good, A 65 yo guy here and grew up with so many great bands and so much great music, For me it was and still is the greatest music ever! Went to see all of the concerts and it was not that much money for a ticket!😄
It's obvious that you guys truly love and appreciate music!! Thanks for your channel. Subbed.
Thanks for rocking wit us!! Have a great weekend.
Some of their best work...that first guitarlead is sick...
It was absolutely a dancing song and the room would be clapping along with everyone attempting to sing at that range.
I love the way the guitar seconds Brad's singing
When this came on at parties we were Rockin', Head Bangin', Air Guitarin' and singing the choruses!! 😎
When I was a tike, I shared a room with my older brother and he played the hell out of this. It's what made me want to play bass. The bass is badass.
Prob one of the best debut albums of all time! Every song is a banger
First...Frampton Comes Alive!, then Boston, then Van Halen! All three...game-changers! And I had to listen to them all through a Kraco head unit and Sparkomatic speakers! 😳But what a time to be a teenager!
One of the last 8 track tapes that I bought. This was fresh and different music in 1976.
Senior year in high school. Cutting class after lunch a going to lake with my friends. This blaring on the radio. Boston is a good band.
Boston released their debut album just about a week before my 16th birthday in August of 76. It's difficult to describe just how huge this LP hit the music scene. It's one of the fastest selling debut albums in rock history. It went platinum in 4 months. It was an amazing sound experience for the beginning of the backside of the 70's. Another superb reaction gentlemen 👏
i was a sophomore when the boston debut album came out, in 1976, living in central cali, that album was fuqin fire on top of fire, 3 days a week after school a buddy of mine's mother worked everday till 6 pm, i live 2 blocks from this friend, we'd drive to his house smoke a joint of humboldt skunkweed, in his living room a wooden record player console with big speakers we would play boston the entire album and just trip hard on that music while looking at the album cover, every song on that album is fire 5 top 40 hits, then 2 years later, boston played live in fresno ca, they were fuqin even better live with a killer light and lazer light show back when rock ruled america and the world
R.I.P. Brad. What a stellar voice.
After graduating from MIT, Tom Scholz was an engineer at Kodak. In his spare time he built his own equipment and studio in his laundry room. He played/engineered/produced almost everything and got a buddy to sing. He literally made the greatest debut album out of his basement. Peace of Mind was the #2 big hit off this album. Hitch A Ride is my favorite. You'll also like Smokin' and Rock n Roll Band.
Love your reaction(s). I'm a huge Boston fan. You mentioned the 'claps' , I read on the CD cover (maybe cassette) that they started out using actual people clapping hands. But everyone's hands got so sore, they ended up using sand blocks to make the clapping sounds.
Brad Delp's voice is pure magic
What was impressive about Boston, beyond their amazing studio (Tom’s house) recordings was that their live performances were so good. They sounded like the albums. Crisp, clear and every musician capturing accurately what they had previously laid down. I can’t exactly remember when guitarists started adding “delay” effects routinely when playing live, but with Tom his “sustain” separated him from quite a few players, who at the time were still heavily into “feedback.” Turning the guitar facing the amp overloading the pickup signal. All three very cool effects to be sure. But Tom and Boston created their own lane, which is what the great groups do best. 🤘😎
70s rock is so top notch … before 80s synth pop (no offense to anyone)
I’m a 74 baby, my stepdad would show me all sorts of tunes…he taught me how to use his reel to reel set up when I was 4…
Any shot of reacting to Captain Beyond, track: Raging River of Fear?
BOSTON ROCKS GUYS!!!
This album is another I wore out when it came out, and THIS song is 💣💥!! The word you used was perfect.. SONIC!!
Timeless. ✌❤
I worked for Boston from 1976-1979. I used to help carry & set up their equipment at the Music Complex Studios in Cambridge, Ma. There is no one like the mastermind of this band like Tommy Scholz. And no other singer as brilliant as Brad Delp, who did all the lead and harmony singing. That's why they didn't sound exactly the same on stage.
“Smokin” and “Rock ‘n’ roll band” are a must off of this album 🎸🥁🔥💣
Go Boston!!!!
This first BOSTON record is what you get when a bonafide M.I.T. Graduate, an electrical engineer and inventor, who also happens to be a musician, decides to make his own studio, his own equipment and a new,unique,sound.
This first record is the product of one Tom Scholz working in his basement apartment. He wrote, played, recorded, mixed and mastered nearly every sound you hear. Other than the vocals by Brad Delp which are just amazing in every way, Tom did just about everything else himself. The guitar, bass drums and keyboards are all Tom!
He did it so well, that when he got his record deal, the label forced him to re-record the album in their professional studios with the best of everything, and they couldn’t recreate what the guy did in his dorm and basement. They wound up using most of Tom’s original demo tracks in the final product.
GENIUS!!
@jhc2093 Tom does not play a single drum track on this record and the record is far better off for that fact. As has been documented in the liner notes of every copy of this record that has ever been produced and sold, Sib plays drums on every track on this record except one. Jim Masdea plays drums on Rock and Roll Band.
Second Brad wrote Let Me Take You Home and Brad co-wrote Smokin. This is all well documented as fact in the liner notes of every copy of this record that has been sold and Tom even as litigious as he is has NEVER disputed these facts. Then there is the fact that ALL of Brads vocals sans the vocals for Let Me Take You Home were recorded by producer John Boylan at Capital Studios Studio C. There is also the undisputed fact that the entire song Let Me Take You Home was recorded by producer John Boylan at The Record Plant LA. Also it is well documented that this record was mixed in LA at Westlake Studios by Boylan, engineer Warren Dewey who suggested that the band name be changed to Boston, and Tom with assistance from Steve Hodge.
Third Barry who introduced Brad (who was Barry's brother in law at the time) to Tom back in 1969/1970 plays electric rhythm guitar on Foreplay, Long Time and Let Me Take You Home. Barry also plays the huge power chords in Long Time and Barry plays all of the lead guitar solos on Long Time as well. Barry also plays lead and slide guitar on Let Me Take You Home. Fran plays bass on Foreplay and Let Me Take You Home. Brad plays acoustic 12 string guitar on Let Me Take You Home. This is all documented as fact in the post litigation liner notes from the Tom Scholz (it was his pet project) remaster of the debut Boston record. A good portion of this is also documented as fact in sworn legal deposition and documents that Tom was forced to provide as a part of the law suits between he and Barry.
@jhc2093 said, "He did it so well, that when he got his record deal, the label forced him to re-record the album in their professional studios with the best of everything, and they couldn’t recreate what the guy did in his dorm and basement. They wound up using most of Tom’s original demo tracks in the final product"
This is utter and complete BS and there is absolutely no documentation to back this up and no one who knows how this record came to be would put up with that bunch of BS. Here are some facts for you. NOT ONE TRACK from the demo was used on this record. Anyone who has heard the demo can and will tell you this. Second no one attempted to duplicate Toms tracks at any major studio. After meeting with Tom and seeing how autocratic he was, Boylan agreed to let Tom record his instrument tracks for the record at his home studio, and to emphasize the point the tracks that Tom recorded specifically for the record do NOT sound the same as the demo tracks. Boylan knew that Tom needed help on learning how to record drums and acoustic instruments so he hired LA engineer Paul Grupp to go to Toms studio to tutor Tom, and then Boylan ordered Tom to re-record all drum and acoustic instrument tracks.
Boylan also knew that in order to do Brads vocals justice, he would have to take over recording all of Brads vocals which he did ,and Brads vocals sans the vocals for Let Me Take You Home were recorded by Boylan at Capital Studios Studio C. Brads vocals deserved the top of the line in terms of mic-pre's, eq's compressors, mics and consoles, and that is why Boylan insisted on using a very good professional studio to record Brads vocals.
Lastly your claim that "they" who ever that is ended up using most of Toms original demo tracks for the record is complete BS. Not one track from Toms demo that was sent to Epic and producer John Boylan made it to this record. Tom was forced to admit this when interviewed and asked specifically about the claim that you make. In addition, it is well known that the demos do not sound like the final product on the record as well.
The Drummer of Boston loved the band Steely Dan so much that he named his daughter Aja after the band's album of the same name. :-)
A lot more great songs to come from this album...!
Great reaction and some very insightful commentary as well. Thanks for sharing. This album, song, band is really just three guys. Tom Scholz was an MIT engineer working for a phot corporation. He wrote, composed, engineered and recorded this album in his basement on equipment he bought used, borrowed or created, patented and built himself. Tom plays classical guitar, 12 string guitar, lead electric guitar, rhythm electric guitar, bass and organ on this album, Brad Delp is the vocalist and sang lead vocals, backup vocals and did all the harmonies himself. Tom hired a friend to play the drums. So what you hear is really Tom playing the music Brad singing and Sib drumming. The entire albums is back to back bangers. In my opinion the greatest debut album of all time. Also this album was recorded using the patented pedal system Tom created which allowed him to switch tones on his guitar without changing guitars. Now every single professional guitarist and bassist uses a version of this system he invented and debuted on this album. Enjoy, Chris.
My High Schools days ! Cutting class smoking tree listening to Boston ! NICE
There is a great documentary where Tom shows a crew around the basement of the house where he recorded this album. He still has the organ he used to play this, and he uncovers it and fires it up right there in front of the camera and starts to play foreplay. It is amazing.
Your audio continues to impress. Love to see appreciation for good music as well
Glad u guys enjoyed it , this was one of the greatest songs that came out when I was in junior high.
That Organ
It is a VERY large pipe organ. You should give The Launch followed by Cool the Engine simultaneously, the First two songs off the Third Stage album.
Thanks guys that is a epic song, the drummer didn't do bad either did he 👍
You asked if this album made us move? No, we were so awe-stricken when it came out that we just stood stunned and soaked it up with every pore on our body. It blasted from boom boxes all that summer.
Every song on this record slaps. Its one of only a few albums (like Led Zeppelin IV, Van Halen I) where every single song got heavy rotation on radio stations.
You gents just seemed to “get it” and went with the flow. Awesome!
Your body language was the BEST reaction you could possibly give.
Sconic guitar and vocals to the next level. As always, I appreciate your views on the mix and production of the music. Great reaction, guys.
This album rocks!