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.
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!!!
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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! 🤘😎
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.
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
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.
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.
Hey fellas. When this album dropped in 1976 it was a breath of fresh air compared to all the music that was around at that time. As you said, beautifully produced and recorded. Check out "Peace Of Mind" from this album. Peace.
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.
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.
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...
That was the thing about songs like this, is that you didn't really dance. A new album would come out and all the high school kids would go to the house of the person who first got the album, and you would sit around and listen to the whole album. That's why these old songs have the ability to be so dramatic, because they can take it way back, and slow it down, and go soft, even silent for a moment, and then when they bring the noise and the tempo back, the contrast to the slow or quiet parts has a bigger kick and emotional effect. But the speeding up and slowing down, all the changes are kind of tough to dance to. You would be grooving along, and all of a sudden it would slow down and everyone would be on the dance floor just looking at each other if you tried to dance to it. Plenty of good songs to dance to in the 70's, but a lot of these albums were just experienced in a different way. It was an event when the new Boston or Stevie Wonder album came out, and a bunch of guys would end up in someone's basement on beanbag chairs, looking at black light posters, smelling incense, and just listening.
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.
Great track, great album…only two albums made the grade, when you’re great, only one way to go I guess. Loved them in concert, sounded like the album…for $5.50 and Steely Dan in 1974!
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.
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?
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
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.
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 🥰
Was there a better Boston song??? Let the augments begin. Definitely a top choice for a desert island song if there ever was one. Yes we cranked this one up when it came on back in the day:)
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!
I really enjoy the channel, the content, the easy to watch format, and especially our two affable hosts who are totally down-to-earth & who exude such a comfortable vibe. My Brotha's!!👍I appreciate your combined musical knowledge & your frank commentary when listening to "new" things. It makes me feel like I'm in the room along with you and listening to songs & artists again for the first time. If it hasn't been suggested already, I'd like to offer a song/artist recommendation to you: since you both clearly dig Boston, please give a listen to the band ToTo. The lead vocalist also has that twangy late-seventies/eighties sound and I think you'd enjoy it best in their song called "Hold the Line". I'm not a die-hard ToTo fan, but I've always liked that track for the driving beat, catchy hook, awesome drumming & instrumental line-up...all backed throughout by solid rock&roll guitar. To the subscribers out there reading this comment & who ARE die-hard ToTo fans, I hope I used the right language to describe the band & their sound (please correct me if I didn't get that stuff quite right)---but I think you guys will love what you hear. Peace & thanks!
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! B̤o̤s̤ton-B̤o̤s̤ton [SACD R Remastered] 1976 Full Album HQ 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
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.
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!😄
Always enjoy your reactions grew up with this album in the 70s in New York invokes alot of memories,hey when you gentlemen get a chance could you circle back to YES Heart of the Sunrise......many thanks
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!
This was actually still kind of laid back for them, at least on that first album which is considered to be one of the greatest debut albums in rock. I hope you guys are going through the whole album but either way, later in this album are two songs that really rock so hard. Smokin', and, Rock And Roll Band. I saw them in the late 1970s for $9.50 or maybe it was $7.50 I can't remember. It was a crazy incredible show in a small to mid-sized indoor arena.
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 👏
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.
This whole album takes me back to my Junior HS years. Damn where has the time gone. As always, excellent reaction men. We really did have some good music. BTW we were lighting up and not dancing!
Just think....this was all created in a studio they created in the basement!! AMAZING!! Thank God I was a teen in the 70's!! BEST MUSIC decade...70's and 80's!!❤🎉😅
Greatest composition of music and instruments created by one artist in his basement studio, with no synthesizers I've ever heard. Pure guitar, amps, keyboard talent, and playback tape cut & paste editing from 1970s equipment
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 remember being in 7th Grade when this hit! And like you guys said, sonically we were ALL blown away! Greatness always seemed to come in pairs back then because then the first Foreigner album hit next! Songs like "Feels like the First time" & "Star Rider" once again everyone's mind was blown! Gosh, then less than a year later we got First VAN HALEN record and the CARS first record, incredible. I still remember hearing VH's "Jamies Crying" for the first time, mind blown again! And the CARS "Just what I needed"....such a great time in Music!
Winner guys. This was a must have in the record collection back in the day. I think ahead of their time would be accurate for Tom and da'boys. Cheers guys 🏴🍻
There is one, single voice. One vocalist ...NOT, just, on THIS song, but: this ENTIRE album. ALL vocals are sung by the indelibly GREAT (and horribly missed!! 😭😭😭😭): Mr. Brad Delp. Delp is, still., one of the more highly-underappreciated (and very unfairly so!) vocalists in the rock canon. Brad Delp doubles every vocal (and triples/quads. some, at least) and sings EVERY harmony as well as (of course) every note in the lead parts. All of the voices on Boston are: Brad Delp's voice. the guy was IMMACULATE! --ALso: too many fools have this going "thang" that: "Tom Scholz plays everything on this album.../recorded this, entire, album, totally 'by himself'..." which is a falsehood. Flat-out: untrue and inaccurate. He recorded a majority of it, himself, yes. HOWEVER: He needed assistance in the studio (just to operate tape machines and set-up mics. &, just, run lines and so forth!)-that ALONE! AND: in point-of-fact: he wasn't as good of a guitarist as he needed himself to be. He was the "second tier player" in the band, at this time, anyway-behind Mr. Barry Goudreau [pronounced: "good-row']. -A lot of fans (particularly: younger ones) will try to argue this point or will refuse to know, or accept, it. ! ...and by SAYING any of this: I am in NO WAY saying that, 'somehow': "Tom Scholz sucked"-either as a guitarist OR anything else! No! If someone THINKS that they read that: they are not reading correctly or are interpreting their own internment emotions and inserting them into what I said, instead! ...but: the fact-of-the-matter is that" Tom Scholz was an electrical & mechanical engineer. He was an organist and keyboard player and somewhat 'new"(-ish) to guitar. Barry Goudreau was the "old pro." and the higher-caliber player. Arguably: Scholz reached the same level of skill (as Goudreau has, here) some time in the later '80s (like when he was working on Third Stage). ...but: even on THAT album and tour, he preferred to have a "number one" other than him. [On Third Stage it was: Gary Pihl -who a lot of people (myslef included!) knew from his stint in Sammy Hagar's solo band-early-to-mid-'80s -This was, because: Scholz had fired Barry Goudreau in the interim.🤦🙄🙄] Goudreau plays all three of the solos on this and, I believe, he does the acoustic, chorus, parts, as well (but that may be Scholz, also-I forgot my research on that, now -Apologies!🤷). Scholz does "the big, rock chords," but: then-again: he did spend a long time to get things to sound the way he felt they should (even if his skill-level wasn't, quite, up-to the level that would have allowed him to "rip things out, one or two a day," or something...) ...Goudreau, actually, would have helped him do it faster (if Scholz had allowed Barry to!🤷🤦). Barry Goudreau, also, does the solo on: "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" (The one new song, that the band wrote, while they were sitting out in the studio, in Cali., faking like the band was making the album THERE -while Scholz was rewiring, learning how to record and, then, re-recording demo stuff in his basement, back in Massachusetts. -So: the ONE song on this album that wasn't a version of a prior demo. from previous work/older snogs, already worked-through and "polished" -somewhat- by the band, live and via demo. tapes.)-). Scholz's big contributions (to this song and, by my measure: this ALBUM) are: his great organ parts. He gets sonic erections out of keyboards and oragns, here ! No doubt, whatsoever!😛 🤘🤘 ...But: Yes: the entire album is gold. (or: "Diamond" or whatever😛😜) ...but I mean: quality- and content-wise: this is SUCH a top-tier album that: they, practically, had to move the top tier UP a notch when it came out (so it could sit in its appropriate place!).🤘⚡⚡-No JOKE! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
For more of that Hammond organ, listen to "Smokin'". For IMO the best guitar arrangement, listen to "Hitch a Ride". All on the same debut album from 1976, mostly recorded in a DYI basement studio in Watertown, Mass. Pure genius!
As soon as I heard the album and back then what you did was study the cover / back to death and when I spotted the guitar as a spaceship it made total sense even to that 12 years old. ITS AN INTERGALACTIC SOUND......
To put them into proper perspective and to show just how much the record industry itself has always been sellouts and biased, at the 1977 Grammy Awards, keep in mind that this was an awards show for 1976 releases, Boston had the highest selling debut album of all time 17 million which is now second place, Guns N Roses debut sold 18 million, anyway Boston LOST best new artist that year to......Starlight Vocal Band and I damn well know very few of you ever heard of them but they were more squeaky clean but their only hit was "Afternoon Delight" which is NOT so squeaky clean but they looked and sounded like the part, a sidenote CBS sued the Band for breech of contract which they lost and I'm pretty sure why Boston is not in the Hall of Fame.
I knew you guys would def appreciate the engineering/mixing/etc. on this one. This entire album is sonically superior to almost everything else at the time. F'ing Tom Scholtz! One man wrecking crew on this beast...almost. Gotta give it up for Brad Delp.
Boston like many rock bands of the early 70's were influenced by Yes, and you hear it in their songs producing several songs into one song with many transitions. Also, Boston are influenced by the funk music of the 60's mostly Sly & The Family Stones and the harmonies of the Super Folk Rock band, Crosby Stills Nash & Young and Three Dog Night, especially Three Dog Night. Now, those brothers can sang....you guy to react to those 1968 hit, "One," studio version.....or "Eli's Coming. " They were vocally a heavy influenced on Rock bands such as Boston and Kansas in the 70's.
There's a 4-minute "bonus feature" from the PBS "Soundbreaking" (which - if you haven't seen - you two would probably enjoy) series where Tom Scholz takes the crew into his dark, dusty studio to perform "Foreplay" on the B3 - and talk about the organ. Worth watching, IMO. A search on his name and B3 will bring it up on YT (I know some contributors don't like links put in their comments threads, so I didn't).
