As others said, you'll want to react to every song on this album. Next up should be the songs Foreplay/ Long Time (the two should always be played together and most CZcams videos have them that way. The rest of the album can be done in any order. I also think their second album ("Don't Look Back") is worth a deep dive. If this album is an 11 out of 10, DLB is like a 9.5.
You should do every song on this album, as every song is freaking amazing. This was the biggest selling debut in history (surpassing Led Zeppelin I) until Guns & Roses Appetite For Destruction came out. You will LOVE every single song on this album. They were all hits.
It was truly an incredible debut album, with no weaknesses whatsoever. That Boston sound, largely provided by the Rockman amp that Tom Scholz designed, takes me back to high school in the late 70s everytime I hear it.
This is a true Classic Rock song from one of the Greatest Bands of 1976. I have always enjoyed this song, as you you get older, when you hear that old familiar song, you do start reminiscing in your mind of the years long past to that special person you long miss them. RIP Brad Delp. Rock On Boston! 🤘🤟✊🤙👊
I love everything about that song and everything about this whole debut album. Every single song on it is great and I really do like the sequencing of it as well. I would say that if you move on to their second song on this album which would be their second song ever in some sense, you're going to like it just as much. But the problem is, I could say that about every next song on the album until it's the last one and boy that is a great way to conclude an album I tell you what. And then you're sad because it's over and then you go back and listen to it again from start to finish, over and over, laugh. It's best listened to loud by the way. 😀
This song is iconic. I thought you might recognize the chorus because its been used in numerous movies & commercials over the years. The instrument playing that hook is an electric guitar. Tom Scholz is the songwriter & guitarist, and Brad Delp (R.I.P.) sang both lead & harmony vocals. 🔥🔥🔥
Brad layered multi track harmonies over and over and what To Scholz loved so much about him was he could his the harmonies precisely every time he layered them. No freakin auto-tune needed!
Mr Brad Delp, lead singer is one of the best Male vocalists ever! Unfortunately we lost him to suicide in 2007. I can only imagine how much more he would've given us😢. Guitarist Tom Schultz, had a strict deadline with this song. He went home and put it together overnight, in his studio, on his own. Incredible! Who does that nowadays? This song like you said is a classic! It's been in tv commercials, movies, etc. Don't look back, please. It's harder and my favourite!
Oh yeah, and as far as what's doing that riff during the breakdown that you liked so much, it's the bass guitar playing in unison with the guitar playing Barre chords (Wiki it), so it sounds really solid and the other thing that's actually a part of it to me is how tightly interwoven with the drum part it is. Listen closely to see how perfectly the kick drum (the bass drum) pattern is woven into that riff. You can probably hear this best during the fade out at the end when it's just that going over and over. You can hear the kick really really well there.
Listen to Nirvana's Smells like Teem Spirit .... they admit they got their main riff idea from this song. As for Boston, ALL their 70's stuff is amazing. Foreplay/Longtime is their best song IMO.
I was 13 when I bought this album an it was magical this album was ahead of it’s time an a masterpiece. Needless to say it inspired my love of music an listening to them now makes me feel 13 again lol. Brad Delps vocals are like no other an I can easily say he had one of the best voices of all time. This era of music was mind blowing. Thanks for the memories that time period was really awesome 👏
I was playing football at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas circa 76-78 and heard this album on a midnight album review from a station from KC. I had to drive to KC to buy it because it hadn't been widely distributed. But I had to have it. I dubbed it on cassette. Getting ready for practice I would play it in my locker. I remember one of the Brothers in arms passing by and saying who is that? Brilliant engineers with the passion for music Spent years in the making, but well worth it.
This album was recorded in the guitar players basement on 16 track tape. He was a genious! Nothing today sounds anything like this. Home tape blows away most recordings today. He knew what the f---k he was doing! Still the highest selling album after 1973 that most recordings cannot match! How the hell did he do that? This album is a historical monument even to this day! One of a kind!
Great band, great song, great reaction. Let us not overlook the fact that the spaceships on the album cover are guitars. When I was a kid, I stared at that dang album cover for far too long. 😏
This album took off so fast it blew the band away! It went gold in 30 days! To date, this album has sold a billion copies world wide! The lead singer Brad Delp was overwhelmed but pushed on. The second album went gold in 3 days! The pressure of touring and the sudden fame was too much for Brad and he took his life to escape the pressure of sudden fame. There is no disaster like success if your not ready for it! He will be greatly missed.
I was in 10th Grade when this song was being played on the radio. 45 years later, I hear that opening guitar riff, and I am instantly transported back to high school. So glad to see the young people showing an appreciation for the music that was treasured buy me and my peers
Now Boston, next KANSAS? "Carry on wayward son by Kansas is another classic rock song from the 70s. First studio, but the official video is the best. Such talented musicians all around. Apparently the song was used in The Supernatural, TV show. Geez we had freaking amazing music in the 70s. I didn't appreciate it back then. But seeing your reactions makes me go Wow!
The sound you asked about was made by three guitars 2 electric played thru devices that the genius Tom Sholz who wrote engineered mixed and recorded in his basement. He played all guitars on this very complicated song.
Song was released in '76. The guitarist is an MIT grad and actually invented the Rockman in the 70's which was a guitar effects box, about the size of a sandwich. The album was recorded in his basement i believe. When you said "ahead of it's time" you were actually SPOT-ON with that assessment.
Tom Scholz, lead guitar, is the person who started the band. He tells the story about how he built his own mixing equipment and sound room in a basement. He wrote all of the songs minus a singer and presented a demo to a record company, they agreed on terms and Tom had to find musicians for a band. He also invented electronics that changed/modified guitar music before it went into the amp. There’s an interview with Tom in which he explains the process he went through to go from building his own equipment to putting the band together. The interview is about 45 minutes and the time passes without realizing it was that long.
@@eviekelpie1 Yes! I live in “Presley Heights”. Right across the road from Elvis Presley Lake and Campground”! His little house is about 2 miles from mine.
I love the 70s music because they play real instruments and real voices Such talent Also I feel as if after the 70s A lot of music was elelectronic music happened Music industry were really strict on talent
Boston is quite different from Zeppelin. Zeppelin is poetry and Boston is blue collar everyday man. And it's allllll gooood. :) Boston, Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Aerosmith, Kansas ... just a few of the bands with tasty rock ballads.
Those were highly processed guitars generally, to answer your question. I don't normally comment as i've had a stroke and can't express myself very well but I wanted to say to you,..kudos for not interrupting the song. Refreshing! Good man, Good Man.
Bro that’s beyond impressive to first take hear a song that’s from a different era and nail the same tag to it in 2023 that the majority of people in the industry had during the same era it came out in..so much so that critics and the industry felt that it needed its own category..”Arena Rock”..makes sense a lot of Boston studio tracks sound like they could’ve been recorded live..the music especially from the debut album just had a kind of energy nobody had ever heard before..great channel/reaction brother👍🏼👏🏼
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Boston (Tom Scholz, really) had such amazing production values. Tom Scholz recorded demos, and then re-recorded all the musical parts except for the vocals (Brad Delp) in his basement on a home-made machine (he was an MIT grad and engineer at Polaroid). So he played everything except the vocals. The new tapes were fed to a 24-track mobile machine for mixing, and the rest is history.
As a heads up, im huge into the album art which is why my vinyl collection is as big as it is... theres a story in the artwork from all these artists albums and thats something the generations of today will never get or understand, they just look for the free downloads and move on... ps... this album cover if you look closely is perceived to be a spaceship buts its actually an upside down guitar...
If you like this, then you have to listen to some Supertramp. The Logical Song is the most accessible, but if you've got some courage, you're going to want anything off of the Crime of the Century album. Start with Hide in Your Shell
Sorry, the smiling at about 3:30 crosses generations. Yes we all felt that way. Thank you for just listening and not interrupting the flow; listen first analyze later. Good stuff thank you.
"HOW BOSTON FOOLED THEIR RECORD COMPANY WITH THEIR DEBUT Classic rockers Boston were foundational in the transition between the emerging sounds of hard rock in the early 1970s and the slick, radio-friendly format that would take over the genre’s sound. Boston had killer ballads like ‘More Than a Feeling’ and ‘Amanda’, but also unrelenting prog-rock epics like ‘Foreplay/Long Time’ and hard-hitting self-aggrandising rock tracks like ‘Rock ‘N Roll Band’. All the while, the band’s gigantic power-chord heavy guitar sound was copied by nearly every band that followed in their wake, leading the charge of what most listeners considered the sound of rock music in the 1970s. Like most rock bands, Boston wasn’t exactly a democracy. In fact, when they first formed, Boston was hardly even a band. MIT-educated mechanical engineer Tom Scholz was playing in groups as a side hustle while working a day job at the photography company Polaroid. Scholz was modifying his amplifiers and building his own effects pedals, bringing a scientific approach to arena-ready rock songs. Scholz had the vision to bring his signature sound to the masses, but what he didn’t have was a band to do it with. After numerous demos were rejected, Scholz finally got Epic Records to sign his band Mother’s Milk. The record contract stipulated that the group record their debut album in Los Angeles, something that Scholz was unhappy with. Having recorded nearly all of the band’s demos in his basement by himself through overdubs (only the drums and Brad Delp’s vocals weren’t recorded by Scholz), Scholz decided he wanted to adopt the same technique to record the album proper. In order to achieve this, Scholz paired up with Epic-approved producer John Boylan and concocted an elaborate ruse: Boylan would meet with Epic representatives to assure them that the album was going well and being recorded in Los Angeles. In reality, Scholz was recording the album largely on his own in his basement studio in Boston. “We didn’t actually tell them that we were transferring the tapes. What they didn’t know wouldn’t hurt them. We told them we were working on the album with Boylan, that was all true - Tom still had stuff to do back home,” Delp later said about the band’s subterfuge. “We gave them a complete tape, and they thought, ‘Man, these guys work fast.'” Scholz used most of the same equipment that was used to record the band’s demos. Drummer Sib Hashian recorded all of the album’s drum parts (except for the song ‘Rock ‘N Roll Band’, which was recorded with original drummer Jim Masdea) while Delp handled all the vocals. Bassist Fran Sheehan and guitarist Barry Goudreau were occasionally brought in, but almost all of the guitar and bass parts, along with all the keyboard parts, were recorded by Scholz. Boylan helped record acoustic guitars and vocals, but by and large, Scholz used his home studio and his own knowledge of recording to make Boston. Apart from recording the vocals, the only time that Scholz went to Los Angeles was to mix the record. Epic Records remained none the wiser when it came to Scholz’s deception, and once they received the final mix of the album, they had no idea that most of the music was recorded in a basement. Scholz didn’t even quit his job at Polaroid once the album was complete. “I was at Polaroid when I first heard ‘More Than A Feeling’ on the radio,” Scholz claimed. “I was listening to somebody else’s radio. The first week the album came out, it did better than I expected.” Boston would go on to sell more than 20 million copies around the world, including going 17-times platinum in the United States alone. Along with the debut albums from Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill, Linkin Park, and Guns ‘N Roses, Boston created one of the biggest-selling first albums in the history of popular music. Unlike those other albums, Boston is almost certainly the biggest-selling home recording of all time.:
m.czcams.com/video/o4piQMhm9WY/video.html And “Louie, Louie” by the Kingsman riffs on “Havana Moon” by Chuck Berry Additionally, “Pump it Up” by Elvis Costello riffs on “Subterranean Homesick Blues” by Bob Dylan which riffs on “To Much Monkey Business” by Chuck Berry.
to say this could be a early 2000 song is an insult to this band, the era(70's) and the genius of tom shultz founder and lead guitarist and M.I.T graduate who wrote and made this first album in his basement and played all the instruments except drums on his own...this album as all the others used NO COMPUTERS OR SYNTHISIZERS just good old fashioned music...unless you grew up in the 60's and 70's as did i listening to how great music was made you sir would understand that the 2000 comment is ridicules...
That riff is just an electric guitar my friend. That guitar is on overdrive or what's called a fuzz box. That was about 1976 or so and even then it wasn't ahead of its time. That guitar sound has been around for a very long time. Since the 1960s as a matter of fact.
However Tom used something a little different he invented to not only mimic that sound but do more. He added tones that original ovedrives could not achieve. It is the beginning basis of "The Boston sound". Until Tom came along there was no counterpart to this sound and sustain. Then came the Rockman . . . . . .
@@mrfester42 Damn skippy! However what Tom did was unique and not heard before. Only in slight similarities like the Yardbirds or the Kinks. And Jeff Beck (RIP) was a huge influence on Tom.
Wait until you find out that the lead guitarist, and writer of all the songs, engineered, played all the instruments, and recorded this entire album on equipment HE MADE, and recorded it IN HIS BASEMENT! And in 1976, there was no digital recordings, this was all done on tape.
When I watch your reactions I feel like I'm a teen again in the 70s! We had the greatest music there ever was!
I think the 70's was the greatest decade of music there's ever been in the history of mankind!
Same here! It’s a breath of fresh air to see our youth discovering new music…🤘🏼🤘🏼
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1976....USA produced 3 iconic rock songs for the ages....More than a feeling Hotel California and Don't fear the reaper
As others said, you'll want to react to every song on this album. Next up should be the songs Foreplay/ Long Time (the two should always be played together and most CZcams videos have them that way. The rest of the album can be done in any order. I also think their second album ("Don't Look Back") is worth a deep dive. If this album is an 11 out of 10, DLB is like a 9.5.
You should do every song on this album, as every song is freaking amazing. This was the biggest selling debut in history (surpassing Led Zeppelin I) until Guns & Roses Appetite For Destruction came out. You will LOVE every single song on this album. They were all hits.
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It was truly an incredible debut album, with no weaknesses whatsoever. That Boston sound, largely provided by the Rockman amp that Tom Scholz designed, takes me back to high school in the late 70s everytime I hear it.
Agreed! Junior HS/HS we sat and listened this album too many times to count…smokin vibes and smokin music! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
@@YesMyTatsAreReal The rockman actually came out during the 80s when the Third Stage was released. So the sounds on this album predates the rockman.
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This is a true Classic Rock song from one of the Greatest Bands of 1976. I have always enjoyed this song, as you you get older, when you hear that old familiar song, you do start reminiscing in your mind of the years long past to that special person you long miss them. RIP Brad Delp. Rock On Boston! 🤘🤟✊🤙👊
Brad Delp hits it every time- criminally underrated RIP
47 years later and it NEVER GETS OLD
And Brad Delp's amazing voice (not electronically altered - this is his voice) and he hits E5 near the end.
I love everything about that song and everything about this whole debut album. Every single song on it is great and I really do like the sequencing of it as well. I would say that if you move on to their second song on this album which would be their second song ever in some sense, you're going to like it just as much. But the problem is, I could say that about every next song on the album until it's the last one and boy that is a great way to conclude an album I tell you what. And then you're sad because it's over and then you go back and listen to it again from start to finish, over and over, laugh. It's best listened to loud by the way. 😀
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Driving powerful rift and chorus pumps u up wherever u are, this songs does this to everyone, RIP Brad Delp
This song is iconic. I thought you might recognize the chorus because its been used in numerous movies & commercials over the years. The instrument playing that hook is an electric guitar. Tom Scholz is the songwriter & guitarist, and Brad Delp (R.I.P.) sang both lead & harmony vocals. 🔥🔥🔥
Brad layered multi track harmonies over and over and what To Scholz loved so much about him was he could his the harmonies precisely every time he layered them. No freakin auto-tune needed!
Mr Brad Delp, lead singer is one of the best Male vocalists ever! Unfortunately we lost him to suicide in 2007. I can only imagine how much more he would've given us😢.
Guitarist Tom Schultz, had a strict deadline with this song. He went home and put it together overnight, in his studio, on his own. Incredible! Who does that nowadays?
This song like you said is a classic! It's been in tv commercials, movies, etc.
Don't look back, please.
It's harder and my favourite!
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Timeless music… 🔥🔥🤘🥰💜
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Oh yeah, and as far as what's doing that riff during the breakdown that you liked so much, it's the bass guitar playing in unison with the guitar playing Barre chords (Wiki it), so it sounds really solid and the other thing that's actually a part of it to me is how tightly interwoven with the drum part it is. Listen closely to see how perfectly the kick drum (the bass drum) pattern is woven into that riff. You can probably hear this best during the fade out at the end when it's just that going over and over. You can hear the kick really really well there.
It's more than a feeling listening to Boston! Amazing ❤
BTW, if anyone ever wants to hear Delp's isolated vocals for this song, you can find them here: czcams.com/video/wwFK2-N5HYY/video.html
Thanks!
Listen to Nirvana's Smells like Teem Spirit .... they admit they got their main riff idea from this song. As for Boston, ALL their 70's stuff is amazing. Foreplay/Longtime is their best song IMO.
I was 13 when I bought this album an it was magical this album was ahead of it’s time an a masterpiece. Needless to say it inspired my love of music an listening to them now makes me feel 13 again lol. Brad Delps vocals are like no other an I can easily say he had one of the best voices of all time. This era of music was mind blowing. Thanks for the memories that time period was really awesome 👏
This Boston Album is a timeless masterpiece. ❤❤
I was at a Boston concert in 1978. They sound that good live.
This album is so damned satisfying.
I was playing football at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas circa 76-78 and heard this album on a midnight album review from a station from KC. I had to drive to KC to buy it because it hadn't been widely distributed. But I had to have it. I dubbed it on cassette. Getting ready for practice I would play it in my locker. I remember one of the Brothers in arms passing by and saying who is that? Brilliant engineers with the passion for music Spent years in the making, but well worth it.
They are the absolute kings of straight ahead rock and roll!
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Yes!
Just two musicians in a basement! Yes, full album reaction!
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This album was recorded in the guitar players basement on 16 track tape. He was a genious! Nothing today sounds anything like this. Home tape blows away most recordings today. He knew what the f---k he was doing! Still the highest selling album after 1973 that most recordings cannot match! How the hell did he do that? This album is a historical monument even to this day! One of a kind!
Agreed! Way ahead of its time
Great band, great song, great reaction. Let us not overlook the fact that the spaceships on the album cover are guitars. When I was a kid, I stared at that dang album cover for far too long. 😏
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This album took off so fast it blew the band away! It went gold in 30 days! To date, this album has sold a billion copies world wide! The lead singer Brad Delp was overwhelmed but pushed on. The second album went gold in 3 days! The pressure of touring and the sudden fame was too much for Brad and he took his life to escape the pressure of sudden fame. There is no disaster like success if your not ready for it! He will be greatly missed.
Boston was huge in the 70's and 80's, nothing like them. One of my favorites.
I was in 10th Grade when this song was being played on the radio. 45 years later, I hear that opening guitar riff, and I am instantly transported back to high school. So glad to see the young people showing an appreciation for the music that was treasured buy me and my peers
8th for me!! Springtime, track season, about to go to high school....sigh.
Now Boston, next KANSAS?
"Carry on wayward son by Kansas is another classic rock song from the 70s. First studio, but the official video is the best. Such talented musicians all around. Apparently the song was used in The Supernatural, TV show.
Geez we had freaking amazing music in the 70s. I didn't appreciate it back then. But seeing your reactions makes me go Wow!
Time to reconstruct my hit list lol. Thank you!
Close your eyes and 🦻to the song and your will come ✨️ 😌 back!
The sound you asked about was made by three guitars 2 electric played thru devices that the genius Tom Sholz who wrote engineered mixed and recorded in his basement. He played all guitars on this very complicated song.
Song was released in '76. The guitarist is an MIT grad and actually invented the Rockman in the 70's which was a guitar effects box, about the size of a sandwich. The album was recorded in his basement i believe. When you said "ahead of it's time" you were actually SPOT-ON with that assessment.
Tom Scholz, lead guitar, is the person who started the band. He tells the story about how he built his own mixing equipment and sound room in a basement. He wrote all of the songs minus a singer and presented a demo to a record company, they agreed on terms and Tom had to find musicians for a band. He also invented electronics that changed/modified guitar music before it went into the amp. There’s an interview with Tom in which he explains the process he went through to go from building his own equipment to putting the band together. The interview is about 45 minutes and the time passes without realizing it was that long.
He's a genuis! Started from the bottom!
@@NAIATHEDRAGON Tom was a graduate of MIT. He was working as an engineer for Kodak while was putting this album together during his off time!
"Marianne" was the guitarists older cousin whom he had a "crush" on when he was 8 years old or so. Apparently, she was a very beautiful young lady..
You’re a sweetheart. Love your reactions!! ❤. Greetings from Tupelo Mississippi ❤
That's where Elvis is from!
Cheers from Lake Macquarie NSW Australia 😁
Thank you! Nothin brings in prosperity like Cinnamon 🤜🤛💫
@@eviekelpie1 Yes! I live in “Presley Heights”. Right across the road from Elvis Presley Lake and Campground”! His little house is about 2 miles from mine.
@@cinnamon962 Wow that's impressive! I should've guessed many places of interest are named after him
@@eviekelpie1 everything in Tupelo revolves around Elvis.
I love the 70s music because they play real instruments and real voices Such talent Also I feel as if after the 70s A lot of music was elelectronic music happened Music industry were really strict on talent
I appreciate the respect brother, the rock classics deserve it and you give it by not interrupting the music. Kudos 👍✌
Much love Peter!
Its the bass guitar, my dude. Hits that low G like a boss.
Great song!!!!
Boston is quite different from Zeppelin. Zeppelin is poetry and Boston is blue collar everyday man. And it's allllll gooood. :)
Boston, Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Aerosmith, Kansas ... just a few of the bands with tasty rock ballads.
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The instrument you're curious about is an overdriven Gibson Les Paul played with a bit of palm muting. Classic 70's rock sound.
I was at a Boston concert (Toronto 1977) and it was fantastic! Brad Delp's voice blew me away! Thank you for reacting to this amazing song.
Perfection.
Those were highly processed guitars generally, to answer your question. I don't normally comment as i've had a stroke and can't express myself very well but I wanted to say to you,..kudos for not interrupting the song. Refreshing! Good man, Good Man.
LOVE this song, it’s such a vibe!!!!
Bro that’s beyond impressive to first take hear a song that’s from a different era and nail the same tag to it in 2023 that the majority of people in the industry had during the same era it came out in..so much so that critics and the industry felt that it needed its own category..”Arena Rock”..makes sense a lot of Boston studio tracks sound like they could’ve been recorded live..the music especially from the debut album just had a kind of energy nobody had ever heard before..great channel/reaction brother👍🏼👏🏼
This is one of those songs you never want to end.
Every song on that album is a masterpiece! I swear to everything that's holy that I'm not kidding. Listen to the record!
We’ve lost another iconic, legendary artist. On 1/11/23 - Guitar Master Jeff Beck past away.
Jeff Beck was beyond a Master. A Guitar God that you have to hear to appreciate. Beck was the epitome of Making a Guitar Sing…no words needed. His career is a must read!
If you choose to honor, I’m supplying a link of Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart & their iconic song “People Get Ready”.
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Jeff Beck was a huge influence on Tom Scholz though they are very close in age. So many of the great originals are being lost.
Boston (Tom Scholz, really) had such amazing production values. Tom Scholz recorded demos, and then re-recorded all the musical parts except for the vocals (Brad Delp) in his basement on a home-made machine (he was an MIT grad and engineer at Polaroid). So he played everything except the vocals. The new tapes were fed to a 24-track mobile machine for mixing, and the rest is history.
You listen to this.. and you just have to pray for the souls of mumble rap fans 😏
Seriously tho. Music today 🗑
They recorded this in a members basement that he fixed up into a makeshift recording studio, no kidding…
Please do HITCH A RIDE and PIECE OF MIND by Boston !
It wasn’t their first song. It was like number 6 or 7. 1975 era that really went Worldwide
Bradley Delp was one of the greatest singers of all time!!! Sudden success was to much for him and he took his own life to escape it.
I believe Tom Scholz played the Les Paul with high reverb to get that heavy sound
good stuff bro you got my sub
Guitars, bass guitar, drums and keyboards.
As a heads up, im huge into the album art which is why my vinyl collection is as big as it is... theres a story in the artwork from all these artists albums and thats something the generations of today will never get or understand, they just look for the free downloads and move on... ps... this album cover if you look closely is perceived to be a spaceship buts its actually an upside down guitar...
created by one guy in his basement studio who played all the instruments except the drum. The singer is the late great Brad Delp (RIP)
Genuis!
No, it wasn't ahead, it was perfect for the 70's, the 70's was not doubt THE BEST years for music, period.
Brad Delp RIP!
If you like this, then you have to listen to some Supertramp. The Logical Song is the most accessible, but if you've got some courage, you're going to want anything off of the Crime of the Century album. Start with Hide in Your Shell
Kurt Cobain said he was very influenced by Boston. The chunky riffs.
Sorry, the smiling at about 3:30 crosses generations. Yes we all felt that way. Thank you for just listening and not interrupting the flow; listen first analyze later. Good stuff thank you.
big up to your reactions and song choice! But what's with the Christmas lights turn them on bro!
If I were you I'd have me suggest you listen to Boston's song "Hitch a Ride". What the hell did I write.
"HOW BOSTON FOOLED THEIR RECORD COMPANY WITH THEIR DEBUT
Classic rockers Boston were foundational in the transition between the emerging sounds of hard rock in the early 1970s and the slick, radio-friendly format that would take over the genre’s sound. Boston had killer ballads like ‘More Than a Feeling’ and ‘Amanda’, but also unrelenting prog-rock epics like ‘Foreplay/Long Time’ and hard-hitting self-aggrandising rock tracks like ‘Rock ‘N Roll Band’. All the while, the band’s gigantic power-chord heavy guitar sound was copied by nearly every band that followed in their wake, leading the charge of what most listeners considered the sound of rock music in the 1970s.
Like most rock bands, Boston wasn’t exactly a democracy. In fact, when they first formed, Boston was hardly even a band. MIT-educated mechanical engineer Tom Scholz was playing in groups as a side hustle while working a day job at the photography company Polaroid. Scholz was modifying his amplifiers and building his own effects pedals, bringing a scientific approach to arena-ready rock songs. Scholz had the vision to bring his signature sound to the masses, but what he didn’t have was a band to do it with.
After numerous demos were rejected, Scholz finally got Epic Records to sign his band Mother’s Milk. The record contract stipulated that the group record their debut album in Los Angeles, something that Scholz was unhappy with. Having recorded nearly all of the band’s demos in his basement by himself through overdubs (only the drums and Brad Delp’s vocals weren’t recorded by Scholz), Scholz decided he wanted to adopt the same technique to record the album proper.
In order to achieve this, Scholz paired up with Epic-approved producer John Boylan and concocted an elaborate ruse: Boylan would meet with Epic representatives to assure them that the album was going well and being recorded in Los Angeles. In reality, Scholz was recording the album largely on his own in his basement studio in Boston.
“We didn’t actually tell them that we were transferring the tapes. What they didn’t know wouldn’t hurt them. We told them we were working on the album with Boylan, that was all true - Tom still had stuff to do back home,” Delp later said about the band’s subterfuge. “We gave them a complete tape, and they thought, ‘Man, these guys work fast.'”
Scholz used most of the same equipment that was used to record the band’s demos. Drummer Sib Hashian recorded all of the album’s drum parts (except for the song ‘Rock ‘N Roll Band’, which was recorded with original drummer Jim Masdea) while Delp handled all the vocals. Bassist Fran Sheehan and guitarist Barry Goudreau were occasionally brought in, but almost all of the guitar and bass parts, along with all the keyboard parts, were recorded by Scholz. Boylan helped record acoustic guitars and vocals, but by and large, Scholz used his home studio and his own knowledge of recording to make Boston.
Apart from recording the vocals, the only time that Scholz went to Los Angeles was to mix the record. Epic Records remained none the wiser when it came to Scholz’s deception, and once they received the final mix of the album, they had no idea that most of the music was recorded in a basement. Scholz didn’t even quit his job at Polaroid once the album was complete. “I was at Polaroid when I first heard ‘More Than A Feeling’ on the radio,” Scholz claimed. “I was listening to somebody else’s radio. The first week the album came out, it did better than I expected.”
Boston would go on to sell more than 20 million copies around the world, including going 17-times platinum in the United States alone. Along with the debut albums from Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill, Linkin Park, and Guns ‘N Roses, Boston created one of the biggest-selling first albums in the history of popular music. Unlike those other albums, Boston is almost certainly the biggest-selling home recording of all time.:
Nirvana took the main riff from “More Than A Feeling” and turned it inside out in “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
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And “Louie, Louie” by the Kingsman riffs on “Havana Moon” by Chuck Berry
Additionally, “Pump it Up” by Elvis Costello riffs on “Subterranean Homesick Blues” by Bob Dylan which riffs on “To Much Monkey Business” by Chuck Berry.
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LOL It's a an electric guitar playing that part
There was a real backlash against this band...I think "Corporate Rock" was thrown at them....
to say this could be a early 2000 song is an insult to this band, the era(70's) and the genius of tom shultz founder and lead guitarist and M.I.T graduate who wrote and made this first album in his basement and played all the instruments except drums on his own...this album as all the others used NO COMPUTERS OR SYNTHISIZERS just good old fashioned music...unless you grew up in the 60's and 70's as did i listening to how great music was made you sir would understand that the 2000 comment is ridicules...
That part you are asking about is played on the rhythm guitar speaking for us rhythm guitar players
That riff is just an electric guitar my friend. That guitar is on overdrive or what's called a fuzz box. That was about 1976 or so and even then it wasn't ahead of its time. That guitar sound has been around for a very long time. Since the 1960s as a matter of fact.
However Tom used something a little different he invented to not only mimic that sound but do more. He added tones that original ovedrives could not achieve. It is the beginning basis of "The Boston sound". Until Tom came along there was no counterpart to this sound and sustain. Then came the Rockman . . . . . .
@@fullmoonprepping4024 Yes, I know that. I'm a guitar player as well but the fact is that most people can't hear those subtleties.
@@mrfester42 Damn skippy! However what Tom did was unique and not heard before. Only in slight similarities like the Yardbirds or the Kinks. And Jeff Beck (RIP) was a huge influence on Tom.
Do you write the songs that make the whole world sing or write the songs of love and special things or write the songs that make the young girls cry?
Hah! Great Barry Manilow call back!
Wait until you find out that the lead guitarist, and writer of all the songs, engineered, played all the instruments, and recorded this entire album on equipment HE MADE, and recorded it IN HIS BASEMENT! And in 1976, there was no digital recordings, this was all done on tape.