First Time Hearing Boston - More Than A Feeling Reaction - DANG! WE'RE GOING TO NEED MORE BOSTON! 

Indeed!

Yes, outstanding album, Magic. ❤

Only other I could think of is Van Halen 1 both super talented

Every song on that album is a staple on classic rock radio... I can't think of any other album in which that is the case.

Guns n roses-appetite for destruction

The greatest male rock vocal of all time!

On one of the best classic rock albums in history. One of my favorites of all time.

Agreed. This song is PERFECT.

I can agree with than...but Paradise By the Dashboard Light is up there as well.

"Peace of Mind" was actually featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto 5.

Totally agree

That song is a masterpiece beyond and above anything I am used to hearing.

Sometimes referred to as "the album in search of a band".

​@jimmcevers9443 haha. Facts! 😄

the drums were re-recorded by Sib for the actual album.

Short "how to" find a great Boston song. 1. Pick any of the 6 studio albums. 2. Select a random track. 3. Press play.

Everything you said is correct. But, you left off, that he also built all the recording equipment himself. (By hand.) He was a MIT trained electrical engineer.

Amen to that! These kids today have absolutely no clue what they missed

I have an album, have 40 years of ago. I still listen 🎶.

@@leeyaferguson9019 Nothin like listening to vinyl ! 👍

Tom Scholz an MIT educated electrical engineer genius working for Polaroid Corp.(Yes the legendary instant camera’a and film company) in Waltham Mass was given an ultimatum by his bosses because he was spending to much time on his hobby music. So he resigned. He build a studio in his Watertown apartment (yes Same Watertown as the shootout with the Boston Marathon bombers). He soundproofed the room with material he bought so as not to be evicted. Built all the studio equipment from scraps he found. He created all the sounds himself with exception of Brad Delps vocals, Brad, from Peobody Mass, was introduced to Tom by Barry Goudreau. The drums were provided by Jim Masdea and then Sib Hashain for the final production. Sib’s was from Lynnfield Mass and his daughter married Dwyane “The Rock” Johnson. Tom Scholz created the sound of two guitars by overdubbing his own guitar tracks. He produced the harmonies by over dubbing Brads remarkably vocals. Tom first lied to a prospective music producer that the sound was created in a California Professional Music Studio because he thought know one would believe he made it in his basement. The debut Album is one of the greatest debut rock studio albums of all time in 1976. No one had ever heard anything like it. It presented a new problem. The record company insisted they tour. Which meant assembling a band the technically didn’t exist. But they pulled it off. The rest is rock history. RIP Brad Delp. PS Marianne was a real person. When Tom Scholz was 10 he had a crush on his cousin Marianne.

"No computers or auto tune" Computers and other forms of electronic recording aids in general most certainly existed in the '70s, and this album is full of them. Sound engineering, editing, mixing, overdubbing, multitracking, lip synching, etc, was very much a part of the music industry well before the '70s. While they may not have yet had auto tune, that didn't mean they couldn't and didn't enhance and "sweeten" the voices and instrumentals on records. They did it the old fashioned way, turn a knob, push a slider on the board, and viola. They could make anyone sound better. In fact, there was a bit of a scandal about that in the 1920s and again in the '50s, pertaining to "singers" or musicians who got credit on records who didn't or couldn't really sing or play, but they had the right "look" and charisma that could make a lot of money for the record company, so they got a lot of help in the recording studio through the magic of sound engineering.

Back to the 70s.. Oh, yeah...

Yeah, I was pretty sure it wasn't 3 members.

RIP INDEED to brad he left us in the same way my father did I'm forever grateful to my father for PLAYING THE HELL OUT THIS ALBUM around me as a kid AMAZING

It's MR Brad Delp lol

They had 5 members when they played live. In the studio it was Tom, Brad and they used 2 drummers. That is it.

kevinehle637 mine too!

It indeed was and then eventually fell second to Appetite for Destruction by Guns N Roses.

I mean, you could argue it's a 2 piece band: Tom Sholz on every instrument, and Brad Delp singing. ;-)

@@crabuki1273Fran Sheehan and the late Sib Hashian would like to be recognized as well.

@@Mr_Obdominabobble Not in making this album. Sholz needed bodies to play his music live. I'm not saying they weren't / aren't good players, just that when it came to making the albums, Sholz pretty much only allowed Delp to have input. And listen to it. It's fantastic music, just a really, REALLY slow manufacturing process. :)

I almost feel like we're being 'punked'.. that these fine folks have never heard THIS song/aren't familiar with it. I am not claiming that that they are pretending but how could this happen?!

​@@zephead64no good radio stations

Sholz was such a perfectionist I sometimes think it's a wonder we ever got to hear his music.

@@crabuki1273 I became a fan of the band in the late 70's from the influences of an uncle of mine who was 10 years older. We were all amazed the band even did a 3rd album (Third Stage) in the 80's. Most people really thought the band was done and then voila!

Always appreciate your awesome comments Jennifer! Thank you for hanging with us & giving us great info along the way!

I know what you mean. Blows my mind. I've known it since that debut album came out in 1976. FM kinda ruined this song by overplaying it over the years. I loved the album cover. The space ships were shaped like guitars and had cities inside the domes.

I was thinking the same thing

Because young people are fed garbage masked that's music.. you want quality you got to go back in time today's stuff is a bunch of junk computer assistant garbage

Agree. The radio was the way to hear music first.

Yeah, these "reaction" channels can be entertaining, and it can be fun to listen to oldies and hear someone else's take on them, but for not just this channel but any of them I don't buy the premise that this is the first time they've heard this stuff. I was kid in the '60s, teen in the '70s, 20 something in the '80s, etc, and my sons now in their mid-late 20s know music from back then in many cases as well or better than I do. They've heard it all of their lives, on the radio or CD while riding in the car as kids with me or their mom, in TV commercials, on movie soundtracks in the '90s and '00s, and they were the generation that grew up with Guitar Hero in the early '00s. Their mom was a Rush fan, and one of them started going to family-friendly Rush concerts with his mom as a pre and early teen. On the 2007 tour (he was 11 at the time) he got chosen to go backstage pre-concert with a small group of fans and meet Alex and Geddy. A few years ago they and I were watching a movie and a song was playing that I couldn't place, and one of them correctly told me it was Santana, like he was alive in the '60s instead of me. 😄 So yeah, in my experience, that generation is pretty hip to their parents' music.

Forgot to mention, when Boston sports teams are on national TV broadcasts, you will often hear the main chorus from "More Than a Feeling" playing as the game segues into a commercial break. That's probably where you've heard the chorus before.

​@@bostonwhofanSome info in here I didn't know, so thanks for this. Also, the song MTAF has been in several TV adverts/commercials down the years, so they may know the track from there. Amazing tune, amazing band and a tragic ending for Brad & all who were close to him. 🤘🎸

@richb313 Where does all of this Boston/Scholz urban legend BS come from? Tom did not write all of the songs on this record. Brad co-wrote Smokn' and Brad wrote Let Me Take You Home. Tom does not play a single drum track on this record and the record is so much better for this fact. Sib plays all drum tracks except Rock and Roll Band which was played by Jim Masdea. Barry plays electric rhythm guitar on both Foreplay and Long Time and he plays lead guitar on Long Time and lead and slide guitar on Let Me Take You Home. Fran is playing bass on Foreplay. Brad plays acoustic 12 string on Let Me Take You Home. Let Me Take You Home was recorded at The Record Plant LA by the band members as pictured on the back of the record. All of Brads vocals were recorded at Capital Studios Studio C by producer John Boylan. The record was mixed at Westlake Studios by producer John Boylan, engineer Warren Dewey and Tom on the studio's new and then top of the line API console.. Epic refused to sign "Boston" before they heard the songs played live. This required a band. Once the live performance test was passed, Epic signed Brad and Tom to a record deal. Some of there were some personnel changes but that band went on to record Let Me Take You Home before this record was finished and released. Not a single track from the demo that was submitted to Epic an and Boylan was used on the record. Tom redid all of the instrument tracks at his studio except for the instrument tracks for Let Me Take You Home. I would encourage you to read the liner notes from the original debut Boston record along with the liner notes from the 2006 Scholz remaster of the debut Boston record as well as the interview that Boylan did with MIx Magazine. I would also invite you to read the legal documents from the lawsuits between Tom and Barry. Tom has not always been clear, accurate, upfront, honest and fair when he tells his story. Tom has repeatedly obfuscated the truth to minimize the contributions of Barry, Brad, Fran, Sib and Boylan and to glorify himself.

@@neechee5150 OK I get it you live to argue.

@@richb313 Sort of an ad hominem response. Why not dispute the facts that I have presented? I offered documentation to back up the facts that I set forth and that is not an argument that is providing evidence to prove that you are wrong. If you have evidence to prove me wrong, I am glad to see it/read it. However, at no time has Tom ever specifically claimed to have played the drum tracks on either the demo that went to Epic or on the Boston debut record.

Wrong the biggest selling debut record is Guns and Roses Appetite for Destruction

I agree with you this song is well known

Love this song

Eww

"The only comparable group was Kansas." Foreigner was also making an impression with their debut album at about this same time.

@@MrDeathpilot I was never a big fan of Foreigner despite their popularity but my point was the progressive electronic sound, not the timing.