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I love watching you guys head bobbing to some of the best classic rock ever.
Great let's have more Boston but maybe you will react to THIN LIZZY maybe WHISKEY IN THE JAR or THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN but I would start with WAITING FOR AN ALIBI!. lol.
Great reaction to Boston your the best guys .
Stay lucky stay safe Mike UK
Yep guys this album was their first and most of the instruments were done by Tom Scholz in his studio basement with the help of Brad Delp on vocals and Jim Masdea on drums.
10/10 vote for me guys.
Stay lucky stay safe Mike UK.
Barry Goudreau played lead & rythym guitar on this tune and Let Me Take You Home Tonight
When this album came out in '76, everyone, including listeners, radio stations, and especially other bands and record companies, sat dumbfounded in disbelief, wondering "who the hell is that?". Little did they know that one guy, an unassuming Polaroid engineer, pulled off one of the greatest debut record albums in music history (along with a little help from a guy named Brad). Just about every song on the album was played by tons and tons of radio stations across the country for close to a year, until an outfit called Foreigner exploded onto the scene in '77 and had their own record breaking debut album. That same year Styx had The Grand Illusion, Kansas had Point of Know Return, Rush had A Farewell to Kings, Fleetwood Mac had Rumours, Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell, Steely Dan Aja . . . . . see what happens when I start reminiscing! I'm so thankful to have been a high schooler at that time and to have experienced the moments when those albums were released and how magic it was to hear those incredible songs on the radio for the first time. Keep up the good work guys!!
sideskraft. Same here. ‘78 grad and loved all the awesome music we had back then.
Those albums are as great today as back then...only it was fresh then. Hearing Queen and Boston for he first time along with Fleetwood Mac and Pink Floyd was a life changing experience. Too many others to list here. Oh man, Gino Vanelli blew my mind as well. Brother to Brother got worn out just those other albums. Long live classic rock!!!
It's a myth. Read about the album and you will discover that Scholz actually had studio musicians do the drums and a lot of the guitars on this album. He did a TON himself, but not quite what the myths say.
Good times
@@oldenmcgroen 👊
Right on! These kids should don headphones and listen to Dark Side of the Moon. That would blow there minds!
Every note played or sung. Every clap is a human. No cut and paste, No quantizing. No auto-tune. There was a time when humans had talent.
They still do, they're out there. They'll be back in the spotlight again in no time.
Well, not exactly. Tom was known to speed up and slow down vocal parts to make them sound higher, especially background vocals and some of Brad’s vocals as well. He was a master at cutting the tapes, actually, and creating sections where the vocals would soar straight into a solo, and to do that he’d have to speed up the vocals. But for the most part 85% of it was all au naturale.
@@paulbrighton3303 that might be the dumbest shit I ever read.
Today's generation have great talent, as much as any generation, but they don't want to use it. 'Puters can do it all. To quote Zager and Evans:
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
@@Urroner great potential great talent. Talent is developed.
Brad Delp had one of the best singing voices ever.
2nd best to only Freddie
@@budmiller807 listen to José José: el triste
Brad Delp was in league all his own.
In summer 1977, I worked for 6 weeks on an archaeological dig in the Northern Sierra Nevada of California. Every night after work, a buddy and I drove out into the forest on dirt logging roads and screamed the Boston album as loud as we could in the vehicle's cassette deck. I'm 73 now and still listening to this album.
@@jonc3214 very cool story indeed!!!
But do you still listen as loudly as you possibly can ?😊👍
@@steveh7108 I’m sure that was an affirmative!
The ENTIRE album is a masterpiece.
thegorn68 absolutely
Fabulous album....just timeless rock and roll!!!
Yes it is.
Oh yea....absolutely. I sometimes wish they did more but then it might have watered their talent down.
thegorn68 I totally agree!! It’s an amazing piece of classical music to me!
The looks on your faces during the transition between Foreplay and Longtime was the exact look me and my friends had on our faces the first time we listened to this song. We spent many a night down by the beach in Northern Australia, sitting on the tailgate of our station wagon blaring this album into the night, nobody taking selfies or updating their social media accounts. Just enjoying good friends, good music and good times.
Leanne Marie You were fine until you went and got bitter that kids now are socializing differently than you did. Things change, and that’s fine.
@@2yoyoyo1Unplugged Went and got bitter about kids socializing differently? There was nothing derogatory in what I said. Everybody takes selfies and updates their social media these days, me included. I was just talking about my experience as a teenager. They were simpler times, that's all I was saying ✌😊
Yes! In California, bonfires at the beach, a bong or 2, the waves and the music. I love watching these guys' expressions, and I wonder if they have just a little more connection to their parents' generation... hope so.
@Barrett Haynes Yeah, and back then she could slap your face off for it too, and leave fingernail marks, and nobody would run to the cops.
You’re so right. I think life was better when people paid attention to each other and not their phones. You were good friends with a few, not fake friends with many.
The ONLY way to listen to this masterpiece is in your car and at full volume.
On a cassette player, pioneer speakers back when they were made in US in my 1976 Camero. Priceless memories.
Sherman Tank I had Jensen Triaxls with a Craig power booster, cassette/8 track, 1970 Camaro. I though I was the shit lol.
Agreed🔥❤
Oh hell yes!
At night during aurora borealis. What?
Boston isn't just a band. They are an experience...You guys could be from the 70's
Still crackling good after almost 45 years. Some songs don't age well ... this album is basically bulletproof.
The first Boston album is incredible. It's one of the greatest albums ever produced. Every song is worth listening to.
Over and over and over and over again. Once is never enough.
Produced in a basement by the guitarist Tom Scholz only. He hired a drummer to record and then brought in Brad Delp to sing, but all songs were just Tom recording and producing everything.
Every song got radio play... not many can say that.
We were tearing it up on air guitar all the guys and girls in England. ( It's been such a long time as the song goes) Nearly 61 !!!!🤔 can't believe I wrote that! Actually growing my hair long again ( who gives a f+ck) it'll be longer then the young dude on the right soon 😂 I listen too all sorts of music but for me was the 60s right through to the late 80s , then for me personally rock tapered off . What I mean is you can look at any bands in the early years and most of them have become iconic. AC/ DC BOSTON Fleetwood Mac Genises Motley Crew Journey Motorhead Rush Black Sabbath ECT . People aren't producing songs like they did back then now that's why everyones listening too the old stuff. That. Donald Thomas Scholz that created those Boston albums in his basement was a Fu$ken GENIUS.
This was a debut album. This WAS the most successful debut album of all time. Its not like this was their 3rd album that they grew into. Try to imagine this...band after band in the 70's releasing amazing music. The airways are filled with song after song of great rock and roll....then Boston hits! They were no one before them and no one has sounded like them since. This was a BOLT of lightening. There wasn't a bad song on this album. Wonderful guitar riffs, great solos, whirling keyboards, driving drums and a singular rock voice! Yes, this was the work of one man...Tom Scholz. Yes he created this mostly on his own. Yes, much of it was recorded at his home and yes this was the work of a genius. That summer of 76' was magical and this album was EPIC!!!
Yes & hasn't lost its magic touch 😎
Born in 59, I was a teen throughout the 70's. In my opinion it was the decade where rock matured and debuted some of the greatest albums ever.There is no other decade that can match the great rock music that came out of the 70's, not before or since.
I was there. Saw them in 1976 and 77 at the Springfield Civic Center. 90 Miles from Boston.
jason broad Made along with beautiful singer Brad Delp!!!! ♥️
Agree with everything, but you left out one key ingredient: Brad Delp. I still haven’t heard anyone with the range, power, control, and just perfect tone for rock’n’roll as Mr. Delp. And I’m including them all: Freddie Mercury, Steve Perry, Tommy Shaw, Steve Walsh, Axl Rose... all legendary in their own right. For me at the top, it’s Brad. If Tom Scholz hadn’t recruited Brad Delp, we wouldn’t be talking about Boston today. What a voice! One for the ages.
Some music will transcend generations of music lovers. THESE kids look exactly as WE did in 1976 when we heard Boston for the first time!
So true. My face melted the first time I heard this album. BEST EVER.
First time I listened to this album was right after it was released, the room was rather smokey and our eyes were pretty bloodshot... We were speechless.
I was 26 when this album came out, I wore it out
so so true! plus we were passing around the bong! good times :)
Karl X...excellent point. Hopefully this music will be around for future generations to enjoy. GREAT music is undeniable!
Kids learning that the best music was laid down when THEIR parents were kids. TURN IT UP!!!!
Ain't that the truth!!!!!
Oh yeah!
Grandparents!!!
Tom Scholz attended prestigious MIT and worked as an engineer.Got up the cash to build his home studio.Seriously talented man.Brad Delp was an unreal vocalist and one of the nicest people in rock.
Larry K The world lost the voice of an an angel when Brad Delp passed. I’d give anything to see the original Boston together one more time.
This band blew everyones head off when it came out! It is a classic that will stand forever!!!
I am 70, and this is one of my top 5 albums of all time. I loved every song and boy the memories. It doesn't get much better than this. It's fun to watch you guys appreciate what my generation pounded out in the 60s-70s-80s...
I'm also in tears. I love seeing younger folks discovering this awesome music!
It is a good sight isnt it...im enjoying seeing my young nieces enjoy songs from the 70s..
Same here Fud lets hope it never fades..
There is no way this isn't a 10, at minimum. It can't be overstated how this song, and album, came out of nowhere. It may feel familiar to us now, but there was nothing like it before it was released. Stunning
Hard to believe this is 43 years old.......it's as timeless now as ever!
Hard to tell you how absolutely overwhelming this album was to an 18 year old guy!! Every song is AWESOME.
One of the BEST albums of all time, every single song was a hit. I played the hell out of it back in the day. I to see Boston getting some well deserved recognition on a lot of these reaction channels. Great job, guys.
No kinding. Wore out that cassette tape more than once!
Back when Vinyl and Album Covers mattered.
nostalga51jo I framed a lot of mine😃❤️
Album covers like Whipped Cream and Other Delights?
Someone called this 'feel good music' and I totally agree. This could very well be the greatest rock album ever made.
One of the top 3 EASY
1976 I was a college Freshman and man what a freaking year for rock and roll!!! Arguably one of the best years of music in history.
you can throw in any other year between 70 and 79.
It does my heart good seeing young guys digging the music I grew up with.
I was thinking the same thing. One of the things I like best about "reaction" videos is seeing people in their teens and 20's discovering and loving my favorite music.
I know! Stumbled across this and thought, how cool! Should have listed on 8 track like I did. 🤣
I agree. They're loving it as much as we did in 78. I'm 58 and I love watching these guys!
You were born in the wrong decade. You dudes were meant for the 1970's.
I was born in the wrong decade too!
Agreed!
No, it's just we grew up loving rock and roll. There are COUNTLESS bands like Rolling Stones, Boston, Styx, Aerosmith, Rush, and so many others.
They were meant for 1960s-1980s maybe 50s
I feel that I'm in the wrong decade too😎🤘🏼✌🏼🎸
It's so nice to see young people appreciating the best music out there. Boston is the best!!
Yeah, this was recorded in a basement with MIT grad, Tom Scholz and...my personal favorite vocalist of all time: the late, great Brad Delp.
'More Than A Feeling' will always be my favourite Boston song, it is a masterclass in how to create and produce a hit song, Tom Scholz changed the way music would be recorded when this song appeared
I agree, but this one and "A Man I'll Never Be" are right up there with it!
Tom is a genius
Tom is also a sociopath. Wasn't even the original guitarist for the band. Barry was. Barry recorded most of the songs for Boston 1. Tom came in. Re-dubbed some of barry's guitar. Then proceeded to kick him out of the band and sue him 3 times. Didn't even let him do a solo album on his own. There isn't a single doubt in my mind that if tom never joined the band, Brad would still be alive today. Please research what I'm talking about. It will blow you away.
Boston had a couple drummers come in and lay down tracks. Brad Delp was the awesome vocalist (in my top 5 in Rock n Roll). Tom Sholtz wrote all the music, played all the keyboards, bass and all the guitars. And all of this was indeed in his basement. Also- NO AMPS we're used! He created a little box called the Rockman that all the guitar sounds! Tom was/is a genius!!!
You sound like you are basing this all on Toms "fact checked" back cover of the first album. Do some research man. Tom was the one who told everyone about how brad died. What a fucking sociopath. Tom should be in prison for fraud. I'd beat the shit out of him if he had the balls to talk to me.
I remember when "More Than a Feeling" started playing on FM. It seemed that for weeks I would turn on my radio and just catch the very end. Finally one day I got to hear the whole thing. Changed my life. Got the Boston album for Christmas in '76 and wore it out. One of the few albums that, after 40+ years I have never gotten tired of listening through from beginning to end.
Lose the earbuds and listen on a pair of JBL 4311B speakers - the chest pounding is part of the visceral experience!
You got that right...btw I owned those monitors back in the day...plus those ear buds are a recipe for tinnitus one day...I will never use them...
I agree. It's like eating food while holding your nose. Without your sense of smell, you miss a lot of the taste of the food. Listening with earbuds, you don't feel the music in your bones like you do with a pair of big speakers cranking out the sound. Not sure how much hearing I lost listening to the first Boston album at insane volume levels, but it was probably worth it. :)
@@rinardman No "probably" about it. It was definitely worth it!
JBL's with 120W/ch pushing them!
HELL to the ___ (blankin') YEAH!!!!
(so good, no need for profanity!!)
I wish I could not have already heard this a thousand times since '76 so that I could hear it again for the first time.
You dudes are really stokin' the flames of my happy nostalgia. I'm sitting here listening to the song along with you, smiling big and rockin' out along with you, and I'm thinking it's kind of like we're all rockin' out together. LOL. Great job, guys. Checking out Peace of Mind next.
Wow as a kid of the 70's and 80's I could sit and hang with you two all night listening to the oldies. You two get it - love it
More with the 70s For ne ,,
ME
Don’t know many good 80s bands. What would you recommend for someone who likes the classic 70s sounds (rush, PF, Boston, UFO, etc)
In the late 1960s, Tom Scholz began attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he first began writing music. After graduating with a master's degree, he began working for the Polaroid Corporation in the product development division. By night, he played keyboards for bands in the Boston bar and club scene, where he collaborated with keyboardist/drummer Jim Masdea. The two-who shared a concept of the perfect rock band, one "with crystal-clear vocals and bone-crunching guitars"-viewed themselves as only part-time musicians. Despite this, the duo built a small studio near Watertown, Massachusetts to record ideas. Scholz recorded for hours on end, often re-recording, erasing and discarding tapes in an effort to create "a perfect song".
Boston was primarily recorded at Scholz's own Foxglove Studios in Watertown in "an elaborate end run around the CBS brain trust." Epic wanted a studio version that sounded identical to the demo tape, and Scholz decided he could not work in a production studio, having adapted to home recording for several years, stating "I work[ed] alone, and that was it." Scholz took a leave of absence from Polaroid, and was gone for several months to record the band's album. "I would wake up every day and go downstairs and start playing," he recalled. Scholz grew annoyed reproducing the parts, being forced to use the same equipment used on the demo. The basement, located in a lower-middle-class neighborhood on School Street, was described by Scholz as a "tiny little space next to the furnace in this hideous pine-paneled basement of my apartment house, and it flooded from time to time with God knows what." There was a Hammond organ and a Leslie speaker stuffed in the corner of the room alongside the drums; whenever it was time to record the organ parts, they would tear the drums down and pull out the Leslie. Boylan felt that while Scholz's guitars "sounded amazing," he did not understand how to properly record acoustic instruments, and flew in engineer Paul Grupp to instruct him on microphone technique.
Boylan's own hands-on involvement would center on recording the vocals and mixing, and he took the rest of the band out to the West Coast, where they recorded "Let Me Take You Home Tonight". "It was a decoy," recalled Scholz, who recorded the bulk back home in Watertown without CBS's knowledge. While Boylan arranged for Delp to have a custom-made Taylor acoustic guitar for thousands of dollars on the album budget, Scholz recorded such tracks as "More Than a Feeling" in his basement with a $100 Yamaha acoustic guitar. That spring, Boylan returned to Watertown to hear the tracks, on which Scholz had recut drums and other percussion and keyboard parts. He then hired a remote truck from Providence, Rhode Island to come to Watertown, where it ran a snake through the basement window of Scholz's home to transfer his tracks to a 3M-79 2-inch 24-track deck. The entire recording was completed in the basement, save for Delp's vocals, which were recorded at Capitol Studios' Studio C with Warren Dewey engineering the overdubs. All vocals were double-tracked except the lead vocal, and all the parts were done by Delp in quick succession. When Scholz arrived in Los Angeles for mixing, he felt intimidated and feared the professional engineers would view him as a "hick that worked in a basement." Instead, Scholz felt they were backwards in their approach, and lacked knowledge he learned. "These people were so swept up in how cool they were and how important it was to have all this high-priced crap that they couldn’t see the forest for the trees," he said. Boylan found his only real confrontation with the autocratic Scholz during the mixing stage, in which Scholz handled the guitar tracks, Boylan the drums and Dewey the vocals, with Steve Hodge assisting. Scholz pushed guitars too high in the mix, rendering vocals inaudible at times.
The entire operation has been described as "one of the most complex corporate capers in the history of the music business." With the exception of "Let Me Take You Home Tonight", the album was a virtual copy of the demo tapes. The album was recorded for a cost of a few thousand dollars, a paltry amount in an industry accustomed to spending hundreds of thousands on a single recording.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_(album)
J.R.P "the album was a virtual copy of the demo tapes" This is false. Wicki is not a solid source on the debut record. When Boylan heard the tracks that Tom wanted to submit for the record he knew that Tom did now know how to record drum tracks and acoustic instrument tracks properly. The drum and acoustic instrument tracks could not be used on the record as they were to quote Boylan "amateurish". Boylan hired LA engineer Paul Grupp to go to Toms home studio to teach Tom how to record drums and acoustic instruments as well as mic technique. Boylan then gave Tom a directive to re-record all of the drum tracks and the acoustic instrument tracks on the tapes meant for the record before the process could move forward. Thus the album IS NOT A VIRTUAL COPY of the demo tapes. This is also clarified and made absolutely clear because ALL of Brads vocals were recorded by Boylan in Capital Studios Studio C. The demo vocal tracks were NOT USED. It is abundantly clear that the person/people who write this entry/topic for Wiki does not know much about how the 24 track 2 inch analog recordings that took place in the 70's were done and the recording process in general.
I would read what Boylan said himself in the Mix Magazine interview he gave years ago along with the liner notes of the 2006 Scholz remaster of the debut record. I would also read what Barry Goudreau and Jim Masdea have said about how this record came to be. Both of them worked with Tom for years before this record was released.
Yes, produced the hole thing IN HIS BASEMENT! Brad Delp then came in to fill in the vocals. Legendary album. Great to hear your generation can appreciate such epic 70s music. Thanks guys, one of my favorite jams of all time!
isodrosotherm7 this is BS. Tom was introduced to Brad in 1969 by Barry some seven years before this album was released. Tom met Barry sometime before that when Tom auditioned for Barry's band to play keyboards. Barry, Brad and Tom played songs together and recorded demos together of what would eventually become the songs on this record years before the record was released.
Then there is the fact that all of Brads vocals were recorded at Capital Studios Studio C by producer John Boylan. Brads voice was recorded using a Neuman 87 solid state mic fed into a Quad Eight console using the onboard mic-pre and EQ and an outboard Quad Eight limiter
@@neechee5150 wrong. This first album was all Tom except for obviously Brad on vocals, and Sib Hashian and Jim Masdea on drum tracks. The other band members were brought in to show record executives the sound could be reproduced on stage. But technically, yes, Tom produced the whole thing himself. czcams.com/video/Sbda6WhQouY/video.html
@BigTulsa not entirely so. Much of the album was built on demos & remixes over a 5 year period. For example, the lead/solos on Long Time are Barry. Not sure if that is from earlier demos or recorded later. Note that this was played in some form by Mothers Milk (earlier incarnation of Boston) when Barry played the lead guitar so he was familiar with playing the song.
@@BigTulsa The litigation documents between Barry and Tom say otherwise. Tom admitted under oath in legal documents that Barry does in fact play on three songs on this record. In addition, the post litigation liner notes of the 2006 Scholz remaster (Toms pet project) of the debut Boston record make it abundantly clear that Barry plays electric rhythm guitar on Foreplay, Long Time and Let Me Take You Home. Barry plays all of the lead guitar solos on Long Time (Which Tom has admitted) and the huge power chords are the sound of Barry playing his SG custom. Barry also played lead and slide guitars 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.
Tom most certainly did not produce, which in the case of making a record has a very specific definition, the whole record himself, and Boylan was a lot more involved than what Tom has ever been open and honest about. For example, the entire record was mixed at Westlake Studios by producer John Boylan, engineer Warren Dewey and Tom with assistance from Steve Hodges. However before the record could be mixed, Boylan had to do some basic production work on Toms drum tracks. Then there is the fact that Boylan recorded all of Brads vocals sans the vocals for Let Me Take You Home at Capital Studios Studio C. Then there is the fact that Boylan recorded Let Me Take You Home at The Record Plant LA with the band as pictured on the back of the record playing all of the instrument tracks on the record. Then there is the fact that when Tom started submitting his tracks for the record (none of were from the demo) Boylan rejected Toms drum and acoustic instrument tracks because they sounded amateurish. Boylan then hired LA engineer Paul Grupp to go to Toms studio to tutor Tom on how to record drums and acoustic instruments and mic technique. Boylan then gave Tom a directive to re-record all drum tracks and acoustic instrument tracks.
Tom gets so caught up in his own ego and his own hype that he obfuscates the truth regarding who did what on this record as well as how much help he had in bringing this record to the masses. What Tom said in Court under oath can not be dismissed regardless of what the video you posted says.
I can picture Tom discussing this album now with a woman in a bar. Liked this song? I wrote it. Like that keyboard solo at the beginning? That was me. Liked the guitar solos? me again. Bass? You're right. Liked the guitar tone? I ran it through equipment I invented. Like the production? I produced it in my basement. If Tom said he painted the cover art on the album, I'd believe it.
I was 19 when this album came out. Every kid I knew got it. Those were the days when you actually enjoyed entire albums. They wrote it, played it, produced it, sang it. Still sounds great today. It's true, Tom Scholz did almost everything on the Boston album. A couple guys played on a couple tracks.But mainly, all Scholz. Gotta do the Cars debut album. It's another album with almost all hit songs.
Boston was a whole new sound, it was fresh. And the Cars were just the same way, only in a different direction. Both were my go to bands at the time.
You said it! Those were the days when we enjoyed entire albums.
You know you're rockin when you do the "stank face," LOL
10:15 "He picked a good buddy." What an understatement. Brad Delp is a legend! Great video you guys. Love seeing the younger generations loving the classics. Maybe RocknRoll can live on with guys like you.
That face at 3:08 - when this song is just starting and you know you're not going to want it to end.
Boston, Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Chicago, Heart, Van Halen, Foreigner, Asia...the music of my youth. Just great fun music.
Then the heavy stuff...Pink Floyd, The Cure. No words.
When I was a baby (late 2008) My dad used to sing “pictures of you” by The Cure and I would fall asleep like a sloth. I grew up with rock music most of my life I’m extremely grateful for that because the music nowadays is just absolutely disgusting!
1985 windows down on a 1964 Comet rolling hard for the NC beach and all those names were the soundtracks of my life!! Plus all the 80's glam and hair band greats!
When Poison came on the scene with their gay neon spandex you knew the ride was over. That was when rock music officially jumped the shark ...and didn't make it.
The heavy stuff ???? Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper, Uriah Heep, Foghat, to name a few.
Tom scholtz was the founder of Boston. He was an inventor for Polaroid camera. Hearing them live was like listening to the album. Tom invented the one step camera that when you took a picture it kicked out the picture and developed in front of you in one minute. He invented the Rockman, look it up
He invented the Polaroid Instamatic camera? Damn, didn't know that.
@sabbster1157 This is complete urban legend. Tom did NOT invent the one step camera. Edwin Lands invented the one step camera back in 1947. I dont know where or how people come up with this fiction.
Seriously guys, get rid of the ear buds and listen to this thru some real headphones!
Stafford Duecker Lol. I finally went and got myself a record player again. Sounds wayyyy richer than cds
AKG240
Sony, mdrv6, or v600
Good gosh, say anything that costs $40 or more probably.
Indeed!
Much respect to these young lads who still can appreciate some classic rock!
3:12 The nodding and smiles on their face..... extra priceless...!
Back in the day, we'd load up the bong during Foreplay, take a big hit during the build up transition into Longtime and exhale when it dropped on the first guitar note. Good times.
Ha!!
That's the way I remember it. Best of all the album folded in half and you could clean your stash with a card scrapping uphill on one side, and the seeds fell to the bottom.
Bob Cannell you got it 🤪
From a 60 year old, I'm so glad to see you guys appreciate the music I grew up playing in my 8 track cruising Phoenix in my 65 Mustang. One of the Greatest bands ever in my day. This guy did everything on his own in his basement. He has invented many amplifier modifiers still in use today. Electrical genius and inventor as well as singer.
Yep, I was in junior high but I got the 8-track cassette before I got the vinyl record album. But my buddy had a vehicle with an 8-track player in it so we could get high and go out to the lake or go to the park and meet up with friends or do whatever and just blast this stuff and everybody loved the hell out of it. It was my first concert and Junior high. Medium sized indoor venue, they totally fucking rocked it was 1977 and they sent it awesome. Ticket price including all of the extras and fees was $7.50.
The guy you're referring to is Tom Scholz, an MIT grad. Brad Delp on vocals had such a great range. Boston really was one of the best live bands I've ever seen.
Tom Scholz is an MIT graduate. He was an engineer at Polaroid when he recorded this album. Legend has it that he was just doing his job, continuing as a normal guy when this album took off. He is also the inventor of the Rockman portable Guitar amplifier. It's basically how he got that distinct guitar sound.
Sadly, Brad Delp (vocals) committed suicide a few years back. I saw them in concert about 2 years ago. The guy singing sounds a lot like him. I think they found him in a cover band on CZcams. Tom Scholz is a perfectionist, and it comes out on the album and on stage.
I love watching y'all explore from here in Alabama.
He committed suicide like 11 or 12 years ago, not long before I first saw BOSTON. Their new singer, Tommy Decarlo, is great. Fun fact about him: BOSTON discovered him on My Space when he uploaded a cover of him singing a BOSTON song. Tommy was working at Home Depot at the time. It's kind of like how Journey discovered Arnel Pineda.
@@ATalkingBadger I knew they found him online. I forgot about myspace lol Tommy Decarlo did an awesome job when I saw them. I looked it up. Delp died in 2007. Their first 2 albums were phenomenal, and I listened to them over and over as a kid. Third Stage was OK, but I kind of drifted into heavier music around that stage of my life.
I think Third Stage was pretty good; obviously not as many killer titles as their first album and Don't Look Back, but I still enjoy every song on it like I did the first 2. "Amanda" was the most popular one, but that's the slowest and "least Boston" in my opinion. I've learned to enjoy it, but even ones like "My Destination" which was essentially Amanda but... Better (and much shorter), haha. I've listened from beginning-to-end the first album all the way through the third in one listen through multiple times in the past few months. Have you ever heard Barry Goudreau (the original guitarist in Boston alongside Scholz, before leaving the band)'s debut album from 1980? It had help of Delp and Fran Cosmo (who would become a member of Boston like 10 years later). It really sounds like a slightly more generic but good continuation of Boston's sound; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goudreau_(album)
Scholz invented the Rockman in the 80s... it's not used on the debut Boston album. But he also invented the stereo chorus effect, which is used here.
@@mattphillips538 He actually invented a device called "the Power Soak". It's what gave his guitar that unique tight beautiful distortion. Incredible distortion and dynamic range without the necessity to turn the amps way up.
20 years after this album came out, any time I heard this song come on in a bar, everybody stopped what they were doing, sang along, and clapped through the chorus in time. You really need to go through this entire album, but More Than A Feeling and Peace of Mind should be your next two!
IMO....
Top 5 Albums of ALL TIME.
I'm SHOCKED you two never heard it...🤔
LONG TIME is an AMAZING!!!!! track Never gets old especially the outro
The whole album is Great, but You have to listen to Hitch A Ride, it is essential, imagine all that guitar goodness in grand slam home run solos. Tom Scholz is amazing, RIP Brad Delp
One of the best debut albums ever made. Unfortunately for Scholz, it was all downhill from there.
One of the very best albums ever made, debut or not. This album is just a sonic wonderland.
Listen to "Hitch A Ride", for sure!!!
And then watch Rick Beato's video breaking down "What Makes This Song Great" about Hitch a Ride afterwards...
@@KB-kc7ou I caught it when He first posted it, the individual tracks broken down with the solos, definitely a great video.
Great song. I think this is the best album that Boston put out, even though it was their first album. I don't think their other albums, could compare to this one. It came out in 1976, during my high school years. It was great.
Brad Delp & Boston
Absolutely in a class all their own. Thanks guys for airing this. Love it
Ok guys, this is the year I graduated high school so yeah I'm old. This album (yes I own this album) was the #1 go to! Saw them live twice. First time at an indoor arena in Oakland Ca. So you hear the great keyboardist & guitarist Tom Scholz, genius! Not only did he play keyboards but during this song a cathedral size organ lifted up from behind the stage. Must have been 25 ft tall! Lead singer Brad Delp was called the nicest guy in rock & roll, suffered from depression & unfortunately committed suicide March 9 2007. There's your musical history lesson for today!
The story is true! This album was a staple of my collection from an early age. Today, I can put it on and clean house or work on a project and it makes me feel good. I'll stop and dance at times, or play air guitar and air drums. I still know most of the words to all the songs.
Off topic: have you ever listened to Triumph? They are/were a Canadian band that didn't get much traction in the States but tremendously talented. You should check them out.
My recommendations for triumph would be something like "Blinding Light Show/Moonchild" or "fight the good fight"
Chris Check Good choices! I like Lay it on the Line and Spellbound
Add ZEBRA to that list of Canadian Power Trios
Mike Love Absolutely! I use to bug the local rock radio station to play Who’s Behind the Door all the time. It was an uphill battle, unfortunately.
@@MMFrye Have seen Zebra twice in last ten years, but not Triumph in over 25... gotta fix that soon I hope !
So glad you young guys love that! This classic rock can never be repeated with today's Fake Computer music ! Real instruments real voices and just plain authentic sole!
Sounds just as good now as when the album first came out, love it, ten out of ten..real music 😘
Try and picture Brad delp in a basement recording the lead vocals then adding all the vocal harmonies as well. That was one guy
“He picked a great buddy.” (One of the greatest lines *EVER* ).
This whole album is a 10 IMO...really flawless from start to finish!
Some things I remember reading back then: Tom Scholz was an MIT trained Electrical Engineer who created a lot of the effects that enabled that unique sound and there were *64* vocal tracks alone on that first album
LoveBandit1000 said, " there were 64 vocal tracks alone on that first album". This is complete and utter BS. All of Brads vocals were recorded at Capital Studios Studio C. Studio C was a top rung cutting edge studio in LA and the studio was based upon 3M 24 track 2 inch tape machines. When you paired two 3M 24 track tape machines together via SMPTE code that only gave you a total of 46 tracks total to work with. What you claim DID NOT HAPPEN.
Then when you look at the mixing. This record was mixed at one of the Westlake Studios on one of their newly released API consoles. There was no console at that studio or anywhere else that could mix down 64 vocal tracks to eventually get to the total number of tracks that were present at the final mixdown.
If you are trying to claim that Brad needed 64 takes to get his vocals right, then you are even more wrong as producer John Boylan was very clear that Brad did all of his vocals in one or two takes and that all of the backing vocals are in fact Brad
Lastly Tom graduated with a masters in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING not electrical engineering.
the HIGH note on the guitar after he sings is LOUD and awesome - I will never forget it. must have horn tweeters to appreciate it.
THANK YOU GUYS
In February 1977, I moved from indianapolis to work at the Grand Canyon. My roommates had never heard of Boston...they became fans!
Boston "Don't Look Back" or "More than a Feeling"
You guys are a gift. My band mate brought this album home when it first came out and we sat and listened to the whole thing. We kept looking at each other the same way you did. Thanks for taking me back to those great days.
Wow! A blast from 1976 ! I’m 58 grandma and I play these awesome songs to my grandkids! They never grow old ! Keep playing these awesome tunes 💓🎶🎵🎧🎸
This album is a like a greatest hit album. every song is fantastic
Yep. This is what we were listening to back in 1978. Along with Kansas, Styx, Foreigner, Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin (always). If you want to take a time trip back to the late 70s, check out also Foreigner's "Hot Blooded","Double Vision", and "Cold as Ice". Also: "My Sharona" by The Knack, and "Stranglehold" and "Cat Scratch Fever" by Ted Nugent.
That really was a great time for music! I graduated from high school in 1977, so I definitely rocked out to all those groups! Rock On!!!
Tony Whitaker ,
"Stranglehold" 👍👏
Listen to the Doobie Bros album TOULOUSE STREET. Thats the album that broke them. It was their Sophomore (2nd) release and that thing got air play like NOBODY's BUSINESS all over the country. They went from playing bars and small outdoor things to playing Concert Halls and Music Venues that held 2,000 ... 4,000 & 5000 people when just months before the record company wasn't sure weather to take another chance with them or not? Tom Johnson is a white Soul singer in a rocker's body and this harmonies are just 3 guys, Tom, Pat and Tiran Porter the bass player. They were just a small band back then but they played and sounded like it was 20 people on stage. Amazing record by one of the GREAT SF Bay Area bands!!!
Great White Buffalo!
I can't believe you put My Sharona in the same sentence as all those great songs.
Boston is amazing! Brad Delp’s voice will never be matched! This album is one of the best albums ever made!
It's even more fun to listen to the whole album at once. The energy just keeps building and I keep cranking the volume 'til it won't crank any more. It's an absolute masterpiece of an album and Tom Scholz is brilliant. I will always have this album in my collection. I've owned it on 8-track, cassette, vinyl, CD, and now I have it on iTunes.
One of the best selling debut albums! They still play virtually every track on this album!
Santa brought this album for my older brother in Dec 1976 and it was played over and over daily for the entire Christmas break. Same year Santa brought the live version of Starirway to Heaven.
So unbelievably awesome how music can bridge gaps - so far I have heard many reactors of "different backgrounds" enjoying the music I grew up with and knowing in that time - all music was played on instruments and sung by truly talented men and women. Thank You for loving this music...
BOSTON ONE OF THE GREATEST BANDS !!!! LOVE BOSTON THEY KICK ASS!!!!
That album needs to be up on your wall
I mean... what's not to love guys? Amazing vocals, crazy production, that searing, signature guitar. It's all right there for ya. Boston's debut album is the 2nd best selling debut album of all time in the U.S. and around 15 for best selling album worldwide period. It was virtually all hits.
Somebody said "quintessential rock band". You couldn't be more right.
Must do 'More Than a Feeling' and must, *MUST* do 'Peace of Mind' for that legendary, timeless, iconic, guitar riff.
All Boston songs MUST be played while driving in the car, windows down, singing along as loud as hell 🔥🏎
Y'all are listening to the music that was new when I was a teenager.......still blows me away!.......enjoy guys
There's a video of Tom Scholz on You Tube explaining this album. He actually plays Foreplay...It's the same old story: professional Electrical Engineer who can play music, he wants to "go for it" but his parents try to talk him out of it to remain a "company man." This album came out when I was in 9th grade. We did a lot of cruzin' listening to this back in the day! Glad you guys liked it.
ertik24 Tom's masters degree from MIT is in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. This is a well documented fact.
The great John "Sib" Hashian played on Boston's first two albums.
The first album I ever owned. And one of the best I ever owned.
Boys, if you loved that, next you need to listen to "Hitch a Ride" from the same album. It's quite a sonic journey that'll take your breath away...
My favorite!
And.....Smokin'......
I was in High School when this Album came out. CHANGED MY LIFE. There has never been a greater rock album EVER. This album is #1, and Bat out of Hell is #2. It is SO GREAT to see a younger generation set of guys discovering this incredible music for the first time. It gives me hope that humanity may not destroy itself after all. I only have one question/comment. You are clearly wrong that this is a "9.7 or 9.3".... it is obviously an eleven. (these knobs go to eleven). So what on earth could you have POSSIBLY have ranked as a ten?
They give RUSH 10's all the time, as they should but almost EVERY Boston song deserves at least a 10!!
Me too! It was on repeat in every on of my friends cars, homes & “Walkmans” (LOL - really dating myself”). But I still never tire of listening to it...
You definitely need to check out "Smokin". You won't be disappointed!
Don't try smoking it's bad for you .
@@pauladams3135 It's a helluva song though!
It's a very good driving song...as long as you don't mind speeding tickets, lol
the entire album rocks from start to finish.
@@elvinblack3208 This is a true statement.
You guys should have been around when this album first came out. Nothing like it before or since.
Foreplay was the most amazing work we'd heard in many years.
that was to cool watching you guys. took me back to my buddys bedroom in 76 when i heard that same song for the first time and they instantly became my favorite band. Boston never made a bad song.
I recommend More Than a Feeling or Smokin' from this album. Also. Hitch a Ride is a good song off this same album.
Smoked my first joint to this song, years later saw them at the Texxas Jam at the Cotton Bowl in Texas, unforgettable!
The dude with the long hair looks like he could have been a member of the band in the 70's.
I get a vicarious rush watching you young folks diggin the music I grew up with. Great reaction!
1.More than a feelin
2.Smokin
From the same album by BOSTON ,well worth a listen
Michael Stratton Just do not Drive when listening to ‘Smokin’. Your foot will plant that gas pedal. What speed limit?
Well I'm loving hearing Boston! So maybe soon some Foghat? The song Slowride, you must!! This song was always epically playing at every keger party I went to in 1976. 😁✌🍺
back then - a guy in our neighborhood drove a challenger - and would slowly drive down the street with that song blasting - must have been one of the first Bass boxes designed for a car trunk - windows would rattle when his car was still 4 or 5 houses down the street...
I miss those days....
@@jonniiinferno9098 a challenger! One of my favorite cars! I bet it sounded good 😆 back then it was all about the music and the cars for us. That's why I still love those old muscle cars to this day. That song was so good for crusin and you just had to turn it waaay up! 😊
@@laurakali6522 me too.. So much! The world was so different 😥 I need a time machine, I would surly go back and just stay!
Thanks for posting that! I miss the 70's!!!! Everything was so badass then! Great cars, great music, great hair, great tans!!! ha ha
Boston was a full band. I think the person may have been talking about ELO (Electric Light Orchestra). That was performed by 1 artist, Jeff Lynne, who also did the vocals. You should definitely check that music as well. All amazing stuff.
Your faces are priceless. Thanks for reminding me how I felt when I first heard Boston. Big LOVE!
you are correct . This was Tom Scholz...he was an MIT student....like second in his class or something like that. he built a bunch of guitar gadgets that were commercially available for a while..not sure if they still are, but i had a couple of those gadgets. and yes...one of the most successful debut albums of all time. you should just go ahead and do an album reaction ! :O).
HELLLLLS YEAH!!!!
Next Boston reaction MUST BE....
SMOKIN!!!
The story of this album is true.
I disagree with the comment that they weren't as good live... my first concert was Black Sabbath, Heart, and Boston - Halloween night, 1976, and let me tell you, they were EVERY BIT as good live as they were in studio!
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dang nice freakin show in 76, you lucky. I started going to concerts around 1983, being 13 yrs old at the time.
AKICITA I think bands r better live. Most. Some are better off in studio. Most perform live and have some special effects can be pretty awesome. I’m not a big fan of said effects messing up seeing the band play. (Big, loud fireworks n whatnot)
Bands are only better live if they have a great singer. Many rock singers simply aren't very good live. Boston was so lucky to have Brad Delp, probably the most underrated frontman ever. Dude could sing like nobody else in rock.
Dave Peterschmidt Yeah. He was definitely kick-ass!
And with the release of this album the Birth of the "Air Guitar". And it was good. And there was much rejoicing throughout the land.