Boston Live 1976 Full Concert Philadelphia Spectrum. 

I was there if you're talking about the Foghat/Boston concert in Memphis...great show and loud as hell!!!

No Survivor, please.

@@joepipe1010 Jimi Jameson had one of the best live voices ever

Hey Chris! Yes he does. Check him out at 4:22 into this video. AMAZING. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mrJ0xnXv_IQ.html

@@mgiovannucci That'd be Scholz if that's a studio track...

@@sheatiller2465 yes, Tom did all the bass on those first two albums

SLAMMING

These live bass lines are incredible. I think in this live you can listen better the sound of the different instruments. Cleveland is good too. Boston in a great performance, in that era nobody played with so rock n roll energy .. Maybe Foghat but Boston are superior. Vhalen are another story 😊

Only comment I’ve read that has the show right. They opened for Foghat but most of us there were there to see them. As you can hear, great show. Not a better decade for R & R.

@@hoakiejoe630 poor Foghat!🤣🤣

I saw this same show. I believe Foghat was on their Night Shift tour. Man I was right up front. Boston’s chain saw guitar tone was awesome. Foghat was really good too.

I was also there👍

Does anyone remember the catwalk jumper?

I came down from Bucks County. Foghat was the main event. Yes, this was the warm up!! James Gang sans Joe Walsh was also there. Loudest concert I ever attended.

John I was there that night also. Do you recall when Boston ended, lots of people left? I was saying to my self "where the hell are they going?"? Fog Hat came on stage and no one sat down for at least the first 3 songs. Wasn't it coming up on Christmas? James Gang did a version of Silent Night that just blew the crowd away.

They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.

@@dianeprigge595 No they weren't

The "RnR HoF" has never had any credibility to lose.

mitalacar Yeah! Especially at the end of peace of mind and something about you. They stopped singing those parts in 1977

Сергей Акулинин Amen to that!

Something About You #1. Hitch A Ride #2...Cantcha Say#3...It's Easy #4...I Think I Like It #5

A Man I'll Never Be is not on this. If it was it's an early version. A Man I'll Never Be is from 1978.

@@yesshows100 It was prototype only . . . . it's paired down and simplistic they did it at the giants stadium gig and I'm sure through the first tour though not everytime.

Don't look back isn't here 😞

Even more so in 1978, that was probably their best sounding year

RIP Brad Delp

I forgot your name on facebook. I need an Mp3 of this show. I have other shows, but do NOT have this one on my itunes. It's awesome. I think i friended you on FB.

Love REO's Get What You Play For album, but never knew Boston was opening for them. What a tremendous show that had to be, but honestly, with Boston sounding like this, they would have blown away anybody!

Saw the REO SPEED WAGON/BOSTON concert to in Miami and REO Speedwagon didn't really get to the top of the game until High Infinity album and my opinion they actually became bigger than Boston seen both multiple times and I really enjoyed REO way more. I also saw them with Heart, Sammy Hagar, and the Doobie Brothers.

The beauty of live performance!

They didn't have the technology that most live band's use today...I mean the drums had to be tuned and all they used were mics(SR 57s&58s mostly),placement was everything...Tom had his own homemade gadgets but besides a wahh pedal it was pretty dry....the band had to be tight and the soundman had to be on his game...these guys were the real deal

Also of course when recording the actual track they're perfecting it and giving it there all and for them to put that same energy once on tour back to back gets tiring

No problem Mr K! I have a few more that I will upload soon, including one from the first tour (4-3-77, Philadelphia)

Oh wow, awesome! I look forward to that one, as well. Most appreciated. I dug around the internet a bit and found that Boston played at the Philadelphia Spectrum twice in 1976 (10/9/76 and 12/18/76). Any idea which of the two dates the video here is from?

Mr. K This show is 12 18 76. I don't know who recorded it (possibly KBFH) but I have only heard of 3 shows in 1976. This one, the Cleveland show, and the Boston music hall 10 16 76. I unfortunately cannot get that one. I can't find it anywhere

Thanks for clarifying this date for me and I wish you luck in ever finding the 10/16 show. If ever I come across that one, you'll be the first to know. Thanks again!

No problem. By the way...there are 2 websites I wanna show you www.pastemagazine.com www.guitars101.com Paste magazine has this show, both Long Beach shows, Giants stadium and every single Worcester Centrum show. Guitars101 has all the other concerts, but BE CAREFUL. There is a lot of malware on guitars101, Paste is good though.

Yeah. This was also king biscuit flower hour

@@machineryman7197 its such a nice surprise when you hear a band and theyre actually excellent live.

@@beckity Yeah. After hearing giants stadium the first time, i thought these guys sucked live. But this concert blew me away

@@machineryman7197 Interesting. That was also the first live recording of Boston I heard. To me, the only issue with Giant's Stadium is that Brad had the high range taken off the top a bit, but I always thought the harmonies there sounded even tighter.

@@sheatiller2465 Oh yeah. The vocals are all there, they're just buried in the mix. I wasnt really paying attention the first time i listened so i just assumed they sounded bad.

Yeah they were. The band was never the same after the original lineup split up.

747jpdrummer DON'T FORGET BARRY !!!!!!!!

BARRY GOUDREAU SOLO ALBUM WAS A GREAT ALBUM WHO NEEDS TOM ? NOT BARRY GREAT JOB BARRY GOUDREAU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

William Colwart jr How bout Fran and Sib tho...

BARRY TOO

Same to you. Rock on!!!

yeah they are

Yeah, the critic said that Boston was weak in live shows. I listened some bootlegs and it's no true ! Boston kick your ass in studio and live.

@@joepipe1010 they had mixed results with More Than a Feeling. Most were rough, which is understandable, but once in a while it was transcendental! The live in California Jam is by far the best version. The other songs they nailed with consistency.

@@MT-sk1ln You talking about their 1987 tour or 1979?

@@machineryman7197 79

@@MT-sk1ln I would love to hear the California Jam concert, cant find it anywhere unfortunately

Yeah man!! LOL. Pretty sure this was also recorded for King Biscuit Flower Hour.

Yeah man. He was the best. I'd have to say the vocalists from styx were on that list too

powerwindow2 I wish music was this good nowadays

jeff shieler Yeah. Best one out of the four 1976 concerts in existence

Barbara Arsnow He was one hell of a drummer. Always kept perfect tempo with the band.

You're probably totally right about Sib's gloves. I have a Boston program book from the 1979 Don't Look Back tour which so happens to have been signed by Sib back then. In the book there are various concert pictures showing Sib wearing black drummer gloves in nearly every picture I saw of him. Not only R.I.P. to an amazing drummer that Sib was, but R.I.P. to the Spectrum Arena, as well. I saw my first concert ever there (and a few other events/concerts) and was bummed to see that demolished. Anyway, I agree with your posting.

Do you remember the date? I remember a Dec. '76 show at the Spectrum with Dave Mason headlining and Boston and Be-Bop Deluxe as openers. I wanted to go but didn't make it. But other postings here sound like Boston headlined with Hagar opening. Maybe my memory isn't what it was.

@@stayathome2 sorry for the late response. This concert was 12-18-76

Must've been a great night! Wish I was there.

Actually Foghat was the main headliner. James Gang sans Joe Walsh opened the night. Very loud though. I was there, third row, upper level about 1/3 back off to the right of the stage. Stereo sound circled the Spectrum? More like reverb.

Check my most recent upload in Japan 1979. Sounds even better than this

Rip legend

mrdomofan56 fuck yeah!! Giants stadium does an injustice of showing what they really sounded like. I recently posted a concert of them in 78, that one is killer.

MachineryMan71 Holy shit, I just realized you were the guy uploading most of these Boston shows. Dude you’re a legend 🙏 keep it up.

mrdomofan56 lol thanks. And thanks for keeping the music alive. I have a show from Gothenburg Sweden 1979, budokan 4 18 79, osaka 4 13 79, and boston music hall 10 16 76 that i still need to upload. Unfortunately the quality is bad on some tracks but ill post anyway.

mrdomofan56 And i also have all of the centrum shows (13 complete shows i think) but those are for later lol

No problem man. But yeah, you should upload those sometime soon because I am now subscribed with notifications ON! Good stuff.

With 6 string electrics instead of 12 string acoustics

Early on in their first tour. Were they the opener?

@@machineryman7197 Yes! I don't remember any other band opening for them. I do remember someone passing around poppers though lol

Apparently Foghat and James Gang were there

@@machineryman7197 I think it was Montrose, and not James Gang. Thanks!

@@paulk.hoffman2286 That sounds right. They also toured with Bob Seger at one point during the first tour

It was James Gang. I would remembered Montrose.

@@garysondrini4911 Could have been. Yet by this time James Gang wasn’t relevant anymore…Joe Walsh had left. Then again, aside from Boston, I wasn’t positive exactly who else had played that night. I was, and am, a huge Montrose fan and have thought for 4 decades I never saw them live. Too many concerts…too many years. Thanks for sharing.

I loved this show... It was on sunday nights in the bay area.

MICHELLE OLSEN In Philadelphia?

MICHELLE OLSEN Would have loved to have seen them back then

Please let me know who you are. I'm a lot older now.

Shellies Ol man was> Who dat?

MICHELLE OLSEN what?

It's not the spectrum acoustics but the philly music fans.

Yeah, they did that throughout the whole second tour

@@machineryman7197 It’s been a while since we chatted. I sure appreciate your uploads and accompanying knowledge that you share! Lately, when I have the time, I’ll binge watch/listen to these Boston concerts. In High School 1976-77, I wore out my 8-Track listening to the first album in my 1967 Ford Mustang with a 289 engine and a hopped up sound system. Their music is the best! I read recently someone ask “do you think that maybe the production on the first album was so tight (apart from some off rhythm hand claps) that it lacked a human authenticity”. Would like to read your thoughts on this question.

@@SportsKnowItAll11 Thanks a lot! Personally I like a clean and tight production just as much as a raw and punchy one. I don't think it lacks human authenticity at all. I think music starts to lack authenticity when the post-processing changes the sound. In the case of the first record, the sound wasn't changed, rather it was enhanced.

Chuck Lee Funny enough. They actually replaced shattered images with party in 1978, but then started doing both songs later in the year.

I snatched it off of paste magazine. Paste got the audio from wolfgangs vault, but they lost the rights to it recently. Im glad i got it while i did.

They had this concert, the agora concert, BOTH long beach shows, and ALL NINE 1987 centrum shows.

@@machineryman7197 Please post these! (If you haven’t )

Nothing really. Cleveland 76, Long Beach 77 and Giants Stadium are widely circulated but sound bad. Theres a Japanese bootleg that sounds killer though

@@machineryman7197 Thanks...saw them at Winterland 76...they were really something...we bouncing off the headliner on the way home.

@@timmy707707 Thats cool. As I understand it, many concerts of theirs were filmed, but many recordings were lost to time.

They were more focused on the music than the show. They wouldve been better if they had a drum solo or something.

@@machineryman7197 A drum solo couldn't have saved that one. More than likely conflict and burnout like most bands. That first album was huge I'm sure they felt the pressure. They did have some shining moments live and this is one of them. Thanks for sharing this one. 🤘

Yes, unfortunately theres no way for me to get it. The whole concert at the Selland arena was professionally shot. Reelin in the years productions has it, but they dont sell to fans

@@machineryman7197 thanks for the reply.the 1976 lineup is my favorite

@@calebproductions5970 Yeah, currently messing around with some audio from 1979; sounds better than anything else I've heard but can still use some improvement.

R. Sams. Mustve been a hell of a night.

It was.......I'll never forget. Today's music cannot even come close.....

R. Sams Yeah thats for sure. Though there will always be hope as long as music like this lives on.

Thanks so much for posting!!!!

R. Sams by the way....how did it sound at the concert compared to this recording?

Id assume they were pretty good. The spectrum was rectangular so id imagine there were echos but i cant tell since this is a soundboard recording

@@machineryman7197 I'm glad you understood I was waiting for one of them smart ass responses the video sounds good doesn't it? So I must mean the arena was good dumbass... Lol I was expecting that you can't tell anything from a recording there's many out there from my hometown Buffalo Memorial Auditorium but you can't judge by those recordings so thank you for your response glad you understood

​@@Davidjon1946 Lol you're welcome. But yeah, if you've seen the movie "ROCKY" (which I assume you have), the fight against Apollo Creed took place at the Philly Spectrum. That'll give you a good idea of what the place looked like back in the day.

@@Davidjon1946 By the way, did you get to see Boston at the Buffalo Auditorium? Was that show recorded by anyone? I'm always interested in hearing more Boston :)

@@machineryman7197 Although the Spectrum was referenced in the movie, the fight from the first Rocky movie was actually filmed at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. The scene where he visits an empty arena alone looks like the Los Angeles Sports Arena. I was there a few times while at school in the early 80's. I was at this Boston show in Philly, by the way. They came back almost a year later, with Sammy Hagar opening both times.

He said he would a while back. Nothing yet unfortunately. I hope im not the cause for that lol

No clue actually...

Guy on the right looks like the late Ed Sciaky, a Philadelphia radio legend. That is, if that pic was actually taken in Philadelphia.

The one on the far right is a bass player. When he plays he rocks his head like a headbanger.

The Spectrum had rather poor acoustics. Lots of echo. It was a hockey/ basketball arena after all. But the sound for this concert was good. And very loud. Foghat followed them. Also loud. When I bought my ticket (which was early on,) it was to see Foghat (Boston wasn't even on the ticket yet) but we were so glad we did because when Boston hit during the summer the tickets would have been impossible to get.