Being a teenager in the seventies we got to hear some of the best music for the first time. Boston, Aerosmith, Zeppelin, Peter Frampton, Cheap Trick, ZZ Top and many, many others. We also had some leftovers from the sixties as well.
Journey, Kansas, Billy Squire, Meatloaf, Def Leopard, Foreigner, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Asia, AC/DC, Bee Gees, Styx, Slade, Queen, Abba, Van Halen, Dave Mason, Survivor, Gordon Lightfoot, Elvis, Aerosmith, Heart, Doobie Brothers, Scorpions, Toto, Cheap Trick, Bad Company, The Who, Rush, Boston, Iron Maiden, Ronnie Millsap, Scorpions, Motley Crue, Jackson Brown, ZZ Top, REO Speedwagon, Quiet Riot, Europe. Then around 1995 it all disappeared over night and we've been in this black hole of nothingness ever since going on thirty years now.
I'm originally from Boston, went to college there in the seventies, and this band broke huge! You could drive, walk, run, be on a boat and go any place in that city and I guarantee you'd here songs from this album. Of course, I was very proud of this band for blowing up skyhigh! Just a great time to be alive.
@@Itelkner one hit after another just dominated the airwaves. They probably would have sold more albums with less radio airplay. I never needed to buy the album I heard it everyday.
@@Hartlor_Tayley I never had to buy it either. I'd just bike down to the local mall record store where they'd play the whole thing constantly. And this was like a year or so after it came out.
We had is so great in those days! “Dancing on the streets of Hyannis” We had The J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, The Cars, Dropkick Murphys, Extreme, Free and so many others and individuals. Out of this group my favorite is the J. Geils Band, then Boston. Peter Wolf from J. Geils is a great musician that did DJ talk on a local radio station and he has fantastic stories of that time. Yes, he really does speak like that old school jive time style.
Their first album is the ONLY debut album in history that could double as a Greatest Hits Volume 1. Every single got radio play. And it still holds up today as amazing music.
Im 61 and Boston immediately became my favorite band back in 76. I told all my friends they are ahead of their time back then. They just laughed but I still feel they were. Great music then and now. Saw them 4 times and great live also.
This album is one of the best albums of all time. There is not a single "throwaway" tune on it. Absolutely one of the greatest and I love that people are still listening to it for the first time to this day and hearing what some of us have always known.
What always set this song apart from the other tracks on this album for me is the drums. And to be honest, with so much going on with the guitar arrangement, I heard this song for years without really noticing the drumming much until I saw them perform this live. R.I.P. Sib Hashian.
Dude. When you put your face in your hands in disbelief. Just cracks me up. I love it. I love that you are feeling it. The appreciation shows. In a very fun way. Keep up the great work.
A great companion track to "Peace of Mind" is "Something About You" from the same album. Kind of like how "Foreplay/Long Time" and "More Than A Feeling" make good companion tracks.
And yet another great one... friggin' love Boston! I remember wanting to replay certain parts like you did, only it was really bad to keep picking up the needle and putting it back down again, but we did anyway. Looking forward to the next one.
Saw them twice on the same tour ! When they first came to my hometown they opened up for Black Sabbath and when they came back almost a year later, They headlined! 😃
I feel like people gave Boston too-heavy criticism back in the day because they "couldn't re-produce their music live." It was considered a studio creation, and therefore somehow "fake," and not pure rock. First of all, everyone I know who heard Boston live thought they were amazing. Second, if you can lay tracks by the same versatile musician/s, kicking ass on every different instrument or layer of an intelligent and rocking arrangement, and you end up with this? There is nothing more pure than that. Boston will always be a favorite of mine.
I didn't get to hear Boston in their heyday first tour. and not until 2017. By then Brad had passed away but the sound I was hearing live was incredible. I regret not hearing them sooner but they only performed in my area once that I know of. They have long been my favorite band to hear at work or at home.
One of the biggest issues live was that it was impossible to recreate Brad's voice in multi part harmony and to get an acoustic guitar, an electric rhythm guitar, twin leads, and keyboards with only 5 people on stage. They were kind of Beatle-esque in the studio.
@@kd8199 I saw them 6 times live. While it's impossible to create all the same layering of harmonies by the same singer in a live setting, Brad absolutely had a one of a kind voice that was still magnificent in concert.
Trop le fun de voir ta réaction! J'écoutais ça à mon adolescence. Ça met de bonne humeur du bon vieux Boston :-) Petite anecdote...À cette époque, les pochettes d'album étaient souvent à eux seules, des oeuvres d'arts et attirait notre attention. J'ai toujours pensé que sur les albums de Boston, c'était des soucoupes volantes hahaha j'ai réalisé dernièrement que ce sont des guitares
This is such an incredible album!! My favorite of theirs by far. I listened to this constantly from Jr. High through college, and was fortunate enough to get to see them live. Thank you for bringing back such great memories! Great reaction!
I'm from the Atlanta area, and Boston played all the time down here in the '70s too! They deserve the attention. And you're right... it really was a great time to be a teenager. You really do a Good Job SalvoG.
Dear SalvoG, Boston is the best and most sophisticated band with the most harmonious vocals ever.... Those who have never listened to Boston do not know what they are missing in their life.... Listening to their songs, my emotions touch me so much that every time I shed a tear.... And again, and again....Their songs are fairy tales that last forever.... Their music awakens all the senses, and when it's most difficult for me, I listen to Boston and become Phoenix......
Another one of my favorite bands! They were very popular when I was in High School! I think that I just aged myself! 😳😁😉🤪🤣 but you have listened to a lot of the songs that I love! ❤️♥️😊😎
The "lasers" are sequential pick drags. (probably overdubbed) Tom Scholz loves em. Uses them all the time. Not to be confused with the effects from his space pedal, which sound different.
The more vintage music you react to and dicover you have become an honorary "Baby Boomer"( if that is good for you?) ~ I was born in 1950 graduated High School in 1968, I am boomer for sure, and you SalvoG are an "Old Soul". Thank you for your RUclips reaction Channel. Yu are presenting the cream of the crop pf my generation's music, bringing it back to life as we Boomers are sliding into the sunset.! .... ! I've just discovered you in the last moth or so. ~ Thank You. I enjoy you Channel so much
Great choice! Boston was at the peak of their career my Senior year in high school (1977), you couldn't listen to the radio without hearing an awesome Boston song. Their debut album should be HOF, whenever you heard another Boston song, all that came to mind was "they did it again!"
Tom Scholz had a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering from MIT and knew how to construct harmonizing audio sound frequencies that overlap without cancelling each other. He was the one who constructed the circuitry to accomplish his goals...and the ordered sound you hear, is indeed of HOF character....Dana Amateur Extra Class Radio Station WN6OHG
I’ve lived my life by the lyrics of this song. Never forgot them. Helped me through a lot of rough times! And I came out still being me, and able to look at myself in the mirror here at the end and NOT be ashamed of how I’ve conducted my life. Thanks, Boston!
I graduated high school in 1980, 3 days after graduation, my best Friend and I did a 8 or 9 week road trip from Texarkana Arkansas to the West Coast. We about wore out the Boston debut album on a cassette tape. By the end of that trip, we knew every song and air guitar and drum solo motions by heart. They have always been my favorite Band of all time. Im glad to see younger people experience them for the first time. Some songs are timeless, but on the rare ocassion when an entire album is timeless, that is greatness in the music world.
I always thought the message conveyed by this song was the most important aspect (peace of mind). When it came out, I was a Purdue engineering student. Most of the guys in my frat (many also engineering students) would play this album almost non-stop.
Actually Tom Scholz recorded most of the album in his basement studio in Watertown, Massachusetts. The singer, Brad Delp, recorded the vocal tracks in LA and so did Sib Hashian, the drummer. Tom started writing the songs while he got in a band after answering an ad for a keyboard player. That band was called Freehold and included Barry Goudreau, Boston's guitarist, and Jim Masdea, who played drums and who both helped with the early Boston demos. This was around 1970. After about a year the band's name was changed to Mother's Milk and Tom asked Barry if he could also play guitar in the band and Barry agreed. Barry took Tom to a club in Revere, Massachusetts to hear Brad sing and they hired him for the band. Tom started sending demos out of the songs he had written and they kept getting rejected. About a year or so before the album came out, Tom decided to stop playing gigs and concentrate solely on the demos and getting a record contract. Brad, Barry and Jim continued to help him with the demos, but the bass player for Mother's Milk quit the band. Epic finally gave them a recording contract, but said they had to change the drummer and have a band ready to play. So I think it was Barry who suggested Sib Hasian for the drummer, though it might have been Brad because they both knew him. And Sib suggest Fran Sheehan for the bass. Epic wanted every thing recorded at a studio in LA, but Tom wanted to record it in his home studio. They finally allowed him to do most of at the Watertown basement studio, with the exceptions I alresdy mentioned. They sent a producer there, but the producer gave Tom pretty much complete control and co- producer credit. Tom also managed to sneak Jim Masdea's drum track from one song on the demo into the album (Rock and Roll Band). That's the short version of how it came about. After about a year
I am a drummer and would spend hours out in the back shed , drumming along to this album and many other album from the 60’s and 70’s and earlier learn my trade , I’m 62 now and still play and still love this band
With Tom's own invention, the Rock Man, he was able to create, with his guitar, a thunderous wall of sound that blended in beautiful melodies that he used to caress the brilliant vocals of Brad Delp. This song is so impeccably produced as is all the other songs on the album, but this song reaches into your soul and grabs you, and brings on a ride like you've never been on. The guitar solos are epic and a tribute to the pure genius of one Tom Scholz.
One of their best songs EVER !!!! I grew up with this music ! These are " driving down a country Rd, windows down, barefoot in the summer, feel good music, turned up loud, singing your ass off, air guitar FUN" !!!!! The harmony in the vocals, then Harmony of Guitars at the end ......so good ! ❤
Greatest debut album ever. Period. End of list. Also, this might be the best headphone album of all time. How the production switches ears…still makes the hair on my arms stand up and I’m 54 and grew up with this.
I can still remember cruising in my 442 convertible down ST. Pete beach listening to this music, back when women were women and babes flooded the streets when they were naturally beautiful without all the crap they wear now.
Backing vocals were so in sync because it's all done by Brad the lead singer. Multi-multi tracked. Which gives it that unique blend of perfect. Also underrated and unappreciated is the other guitar player in this album a guy named Barry Goudreau. Yes Tom Scholz did most of the heavy lifting with everything, but Barry was highly instrumental in the dual lead guitar stuff As far as Melody and arrangement.
Hey SalvoG, I'm really enjoying your deep dive into Boston's music. As a longtime resident of the great city of Boston, this band and its music has special meaning to me. Once you're done with this album, the second album ("Don't Look Back") is worth a listen. Not quite as extraordinary as the first album, and covers a lot of similar ground, but not a bad song on the album and some really good ones. I'd start with the title track (a song with special meaning to me, and a good banger). A slower but powerful song you could listen to next would be "A Man I'll Never Be."
For those who do not know: There is a video put out by WCVB 5 documentary on how BOSTON got it's start in TOM SHOLZ' basement. - ruclips.net/video/da7IyPKUOwg/видео.html The lyrics on the first album are TOM SHOLZ. The "spaceships" on the cover are GUITARS. TOM invented the pedals to get the sounds he wanted. This was a true home project from the start.
Saw them in the 90's at the Aladdin Center for Performing Arts in Vegas and from the opening note to the final note everything sounded awesome. They even had a large guitar prop of their logo drop from the ceiling and circle around at various parts of the concert. Lost my voice for a couple days from screaming so much and from singing/yelling out the lyrics.
MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE BAND ! LOVE❤ BOSTON ! TOM SCHOLZ A GENIUS !!😊😊😊😊😊 NO ONE COULD EVER SING LIKE BRAD DELP ON THIS ALBUM ! TOM WAS BLESSED FINDING BRAD!
I was surprised you didn’t mention the tambourine, the second instrument heard coming in at the start. I thought I’ve heard you say you like them before. They were very popular in the ‘60s and were heard less frequently in the ‘70s by this time.
Tom Scholtz was responsible for giving Boston it's unique sound. Not only is he a phenomenal musician, gifted in playing multiple instruments but he is also and engineer, specializing in sound technology. He invented and patented what is known as the 'Rockman' amplifier and Boston was the first band to use it in their music. Love that Boston sound. ❤
Are you ready for this - Tom Scholz lead guitarist wrote every song and performed every instrument on the album including Drums,bass and lead guitars,he even sang but hated how his voice sounded so went looking for a singer to go on tour with and found Brad Delp ! Picked up a Bassist & Drummer and the rest is history !
This album is in KAREN'S Hall Of Fame! Along with Hotel California, Dark Side of the Moon and Kansas Point of Know Return and several other perfect albums. Oh yes, Heart, Dreamboat Annie. Sheer perfection!
Top to bottom it is almost the perfect rock album. Got to remember he was a early tech bro leaving a high paying job at IBM to chase his dream that is what this song has to be about. Probably would have ended up wealthy either route he took.
Those "laser" effects are actually pretty simple. He's scraping the edge of his pick down the strings, and then there's a bunch of echo and other effects on it.
Being a teenager in the seventies we got to hear some of the best music for the first time.
Boston, Aerosmith, Zeppelin, Peter Frampton, Cheap Trick, ZZ Top and many, many others. We also had some leftovers from the sixties as well.
Sigh.... yep!
Don't forget RUSH!! and Pink Floyd!! We really did have the best music ever.
It was THE BEST time to be a teenager for music. Agree 100%.
Journey, Kansas, Billy Squire, Meatloaf, Def Leopard, Foreigner, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Asia, AC/DC, Bee Gees, Styx, Slade, Queen, Abba, Van Halen, Dave Mason, Survivor, Gordon Lightfoot, Elvis, Aerosmith, Heart, Doobie Brothers, Scorpions, Toto, Cheap Trick, Bad Company, The Who, Rush, Boston, Iron Maiden, Ronnie Millsap, Scorpions, Motley Crue, Jackson Brown, ZZ Top, REO Speedwagon, Quiet Riot, Europe. Then around 1995 it all disappeared over night and we've been in this black hole of nothingness ever since going on thirty years now.
So True!! Miss the teen years!
I'm originally from Boston, went to college there in the seventies, and this band broke huge! You could drive, walk, run, be on a boat and go any place in that city and I guarantee you'd here songs from this album. Of course, I was very proud of this band for blowing up skyhigh! Just a great time to be alive.
I remember
We got it constantly on the west coast, too. Couldn't get enough of it. Nobody could!
@@Itelkner one hit after another just dominated the airwaves. They probably would have sold more albums with less radio airplay. I never needed to buy the album I heard it everyday.
@@Hartlor_Tayley I never had to buy it either. I'd just bike down to the local mall record store where they'd play the whole thing constantly. And this was like a year or so after it came out.
We had is so great in those days! “Dancing on the streets of Hyannis” We had The J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, The Cars, Dropkick Murphys, Extreme, Free and so many others and individuals. Out of this group my favorite is the J. Geils Band, then Boston. Peter Wolf from J. Geils is a great musician that did DJ talk on a local radio station and he has fantastic stories of that time. Yes, he really does speak like that old school jive time style.
It was a flawless album. Every song was great.
Someone asked me if I had listened to Boston’s Greatest Hits, and I said yes….their first two albums.
Especially number one.
Facts
Preach
Their first album is the ONLY debut album in history that could double as a Greatest Hits Volume 1. Every single got radio play. And it still holds up today as amazing music.
Don't sell Third Stage short. It's not quite the first two. Also, Walk On made my 1994.
Im 61 and Boston immediately became my favorite band back in 76. I told all my friends they are ahead of their time back then. They just laughed but I still feel they were. Great music then and now. Saw them 4 times and great live also.
This album is one of the best albums of all time. There is not a single "throwaway" tune on it. Absolutely one of the greatest and I love that people are still listening to it for the first time to this day and hearing what some of us have always known.
What always set this song apart from the other tracks on this album for me is the drums. And to be honest, with so much going on with the guitar arrangement, I heard this song for years without really noticing the drumming much until I saw them perform this live. R.I.P. Sib Hashian.
Dude. When you put your face in your hands in disbelief. Just cracks me up. I love it. I love that you are feeling it. The appreciation shows. In a very fun way. Keep up the great work.
The vocals and melodies are just perfect.
A great companion track to "Peace of Mind" is "Something About You" from the same album. Kind of like how "Foreplay/Long Time" and "More Than A Feeling" make good companion tracks.
And yet another great one... friggin' love Boston! I remember wanting to replay certain parts like you did, only it was really bad to keep picking up the needle and putting it back down again, but we did anyway. Looking forward to the next one.
:-)
Ever heard such an amazing debut? Bangin all the way! Wore out the cassette in my car!
This is the best debut album of all time not a bad song on the whole album.
Van Halen?
You are correct!!!
Pauses. One small chuckle at how unbelievably frigging awesome it is...can't find the words...and just hits play again! WOO!
GREAT SONG. SO UNIQUE VOCALS, INSTRUMENTATION. LOVED IT WHEN IT CAME OUT. BILLY BOY
Saw them twice on the same tour ! When they first came to my hometown they opened up for Black Sabbath and when they came back almost a year later, They headlined! 😃
I feel like people gave Boston too-heavy criticism back in the day because they "couldn't re-produce their music live." It was considered a studio creation, and therefore somehow "fake," and not pure rock. First of all, everyone I know who heard Boston live thought they were amazing. Second, if you can lay tracks by the same versatile musician/s, kicking ass on every different instrument or layer of an intelligent and rocking arrangement, and you end up with this? There is nothing more pure than that. Boston will always be a favorite of mine.
I didn't get to hear Boston in their heyday first tour. and not until 2017. By then Brad had passed away but the sound I was hearing live was incredible. I regret not hearing them sooner but they only performed in my area once that I know of. They have long been my favorite band to hear at work or at home.
The music live was good. The vocals not so much.
I saw them in the 90's in Vegas and they sounded great
One of the biggest issues live was that it was impossible to recreate Brad's voice in multi part harmony and to get an acoustic guitar, an electric rhythm guitar, twin leads, and keyboards with only 5 people on stage. They were kind of Beatle-esque in the studio.
@@kd8199 I saw them 6 times live. While it's impossible to create all the same layering of harmonies by the same singer in a live setting, Brad absolutely had a one of a kind voice that was still magnificent in concert.
Trop le fun de voir ta réaction! J'écoutais ça à mon adolescence. Ça met de bonne humeur du bon vieux Boston :-) Petite anecdote...À cette époque, les pochettes d'album étaient souvent à eux seules, des oeuvres d'arts et attirait notre attention. J'ai toujours pensé que sur les albums de Boston, c'était des soucoupes volantes hahaha j'ai réalisé dernièrement que ce sont des guitares
This is such an incredible album!! My favorite of theirs by far. I listened to this constantly from Jr. High through college, and was fortunate enough to get to see them live. Thank you for bringing back such great memories! Great reaction!
I'm from the Atlanta area, and Boston played all the time down here in the '70s too! They deserve the attention. And you're right... it really was a great time to be a teenager. You really do a Good Job SalvoG.
We loved Boston in Charlotte, too!
Dear SalvoG, Boston is the best and most sophisticated band with the most harmonious vocals ever.... Those who have never listened to Boston do not know what they are missing in their life....
Listening to their songs, my emotions touch me so much that every time I shed a tear.... And again, and again....Their songs are fairy tales that last forever....
Their music awakens all the senses, and when it's most difficult for me, I listen to Boston and become Phoenix......
Rise again, Gordon!
I grew up in Middle Tennessee and was a Teenager in the 1980's. Boston was huge in the South. This was the Friday and Saturday night Cruising Music.
In high school 74-77. Absolute golden age for music.
Another one of my favorite bands! They were very popular when I was in High School! I think that I just aged myself! 😳😁😉🤪🤣 but you have listened to a lot of the songs that I love! ❤️♥️😊😎
The "lasers" are sequential pick drags. (probably overdubbed) Tom Scholz loves em. Uses them all the time. Not to be confused with the effects from his space pedal, which sound different.
The more vintage music you react to and dicover you have become an honorary "Baby Boomer"( if that is good for you?) ~ I was born in 1950 graduated High School in 1968, I am boomer for sure, and you SalvoG are an "Old Soul". Thank you for your RUclips reaction Channel. Yu are presenting the cream of the crop pf my generation's music, bringing it back to life as we Boomers are sliding into the sunset.! .... ! I've just discovered you in the last moth or so. ~ Thank You. I enjoy you Channel so much
Great choice! Boston was at the peak of their career my Senior year in high school (1977), you couldn't listen to the radio without hearing an awesome Boston song. Their debut album should be HOF, whenever you heard another Boston song, all that came to mind was "they did it again!"
We had the best music 🎶 growing up.....thanks for the memories.
That's one of the few perfect albums out there, not a bad song on the whole album, no fillers at all.
I can't wait until you're finished with this album, you look back and realize every single track is gold. I'm so glad you took this journey.
Tom Scholz had a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering from MIT and knew how to construct harmonizing audio sound frequencies that overlap without cancelling each other. He was the one who constructed the circuitry to accomplish his goals...and the ordered sound you hear, is indeed of HOF character....Dana Amateur Extra Class Radio Station WN6OHG
I’ve lived my life by the lyrics of this song. Never forgot them. Helped me through a lot of rough times! And I came out still being me, and able to look at myself in the mirror here at the end and NOT be ashamed of how I’ve conducted my life. Thanks, Boston!
I love your resting happy face.
I graduated high school in 1980, 3 days after graduation, my best Friend and I did a 8 or 9 week road trip from Texarkana Arkansas to the West Coast. We about wore out the Boston debut album on a cassette tape. By the end of that trip, we knew every song and air guitar and drum solo motions by heart. They have always been my favorite Band of all time. Im glad to see younger people experience them for the first time. Some songs are timeless, but on the rare ocassion when an entire album is timeless, that is greatness in the music world.
Always my go to song! Since the day I bought the album the day it got released
Love it ❤. Good day from Canada 🇨🇦
Been a fan of Boston’s since the release of this album in 1976 , I was 16 years old and this was one of the first albums I ever bought
I always thought the message conveyed by this song was the most important aspect (peace of mind). When it came out, I was a Purdue engineering student. Most of the guys in my frat (many also engineering students) would play this album almost non-stop.
I wish artists still made music like this.
You could identify the artist from their sound
Right?
One of the top most debut albums ever in rock music history - certainly a signature album from the 70's
I think the singer recorded this entire album in his basement. Unbelievable. One of the greatest debut albums of all time! Every song is awesome!
Tom Shultz actually wrote the whole album in his parents basement in Toledo.
Yes you are right!
Actually Tom Scholz recorded most of the album in his basement studio in Watertown, Massachusetts. The singer, Brad Delp, recorded the vocal tracks in LA and so did Sib Hashian, the drummer. Tom started writing the songs while he got in a band after answering an ad for a keyboard player. That band was called Freehold and included Barry Goudreau, Boston's guitarist, and Jim Masdea, who played drums and who both helped with the early Boston demos. This was around 1970.
After about a year the band's name was changed to Mother's Milk and Tom asked Barry if he could also play guitar in the band and Barry agreed. Barry took Tom to a club in Revere, Massachusetts to hear Brad sing and they hired him for the band.
Tom started sending demos out of the songs he had written and they kept getting rejected. About a year or so before the album came out, Tom decided to stop playing gigs and concentrate solely on the demos and getting a record contract. Brad, Barry and Jim continued to help him with the demos, but the bass player for Mother's Milk quit the band.
Epic finally gave them a recording contract, but said they had to change the drummer and have a band ready to play. So I think it was Barry who suggested Sib Hasian for the drummer, though it might have been Brad because they both knew him. And Sib suggest Fran Sheehan for the bass.
Epic wanted every thing recorded at a studio in LA, but Tom wanted to record it in his home studio. They finally allowed him to do most of at the Watertown basement studio, with the exceptions I alresdy mentioned. They sent a producer there, but the producer gave Tom pretty much complete control and co- producer credit. Tom also managed to sneak Jim Masdea's drum track from one song on the demo into the album (Rock and Roll Band).
That's the short version of how it came about.
After about a year
Peace of mind is an accomplishment! Worthy of heraldic music!
The take a look ahead is the wonderful possibilities once you have peace of mind!
Brad’s voice is amazing. He can sing any song and/or style.❤
My brother painted that album cover on a 10’x12 wall in his bedroom when we were teens.
I am a drummer and would spend hours out in the back shed , drumming along to this album and many other album from the 60’s and 70’s and earlier learn my trade , I’m 62 now and still play and still love this band
The older I get the more the lyrics of these song really speak to me. Amen.
I didn't know one person that DIDN'T have this album! WOO!
Back in the day when this first album was brand new, this was my #2 favorite (after More Than a Feeling).
🎶”Lots of people out to make a livin on livin… can’t decide who they should be…” 🎶. LOVE IT…!!
With Tom's own invention, the Rock Man, he was able to create, with his guitar, a thunderous wall of sound that blended in beautiful melodies that he used to caress the brilliant vocals of Brad Delp. This song is so impeccably produced as is all the other songs on the album, but this song reaches into your soul and grabs you, and brings on a ride like you've never been on. The guitar solos are epic and a tribute to the pure genius of one Tom Scholz.
One of their best songs EVER !!!! I grew up with this music ! These are " driving down a country Rd, windows down, barefoot in the summer, feel good music, turned up loud, singing your ass off, air guitar FUN" !!!!! The harmony in the vocals, then Harmony of Guitars at the end ......so good ! ❤
Greatest debut album ever. Period. End of list. Also, this might be the best headphone album of all time. How the production switches ears…still makes the hair on my arms stand up and I’m 54 and grew up with this.
My favorite tune by Boston...enjoy!
I can still remember cruising in my 442 convertible down ST. Pete beach listening to this music, back when women were women and babes flooded the streets when they were naturally beautiful without all the crap they wear now.
One of my favorite bands. They toured with Rush once. That had to be an epic show.
Backing vocals were so in sync because it's all done by Brad the lead singer. Multi-multi tracked. Which gives it that unique blend of perfect. Also underrated and unappreciated is the other guitar player in this album a guy named Barry Goudreau. Yes Tom Scholz did most of the heavy lifting with everything, but Barry was highly instrumental in the dual lead guitar stuff As far as Melody and arrangement.
A very different time back then.
Played this so much I literally burned it out! Love Boston. Their harmonies backed by their incredible musicianship is just the best.
Your reactions blow me away. We were so used to all this music I think we were privalaged
Its absolutely a HOF album. Myself and everyone i knew back then had at least two copies because we wore the first one out.
Guitars as lasers. Agreed. Lasers are still in use in current music, but sadly, only as barcode readers since music is just another commodity, now.
Get such joy from your reactions - thanks :-)
Beautifully crafted
Hey SalvoG, I'm really enjoying your deep dive into Boston's music. As a longtime resident of the great city of Boston, this band and its music has special meaning to me. Once you're done with this album, the second album ("Don't Look Back") is worth a listen. Not quite as extraordinary as the first album, and covers a lot of similar ground, but not a bad song on the album and some really good ones. I'd start with the title track (a song with special meaning to me, and a good banger). A slower but powerful song you could listen to next would be "A Man I'll Never Be."
Awesome song, awesome reaction!
A favorite song of mine. I'M 63. When Boston's first album came out...nothing sounded like it at that time. Nothing has since.
For those who do not know: There is a video put out by WCVB 5 documentary on how BOSTON got it's start in TOM SHOLZ' basement. - ruclips.net/video/da7IyPKUOwg/видео.html
The lyrics on the first album are TOM SHOLZ. The "spaceships" on the cover are GUITARS. TOM invented the pedals to get the sounds he wanted. This was a true home project from the start.
Tom was (is) an electronics wizard. 6-:
Great album and reaction. 💥💥💥👍😎
My first concert at the St. Paul civic center. 1st band - Thin Lizzy - 2nd - Bob Seger - 3rd - Bachman Turner Overdrive. I don't know how I got home.
Saw them in the 90's at the Aladdin Center for Performing Arts in Vegas and from the opening note to the final note everything sounded awesome. They even had a large guitar prop of their logo drop from the ceiling and circle around at various parts of the concert. Lost my voice for a couple days from screaming so much and from singing/yelling out the lyrics.
Phenomenal song
Perfectly placed sonic screams
MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE BAND ! LOVE❤ BOSTON ! TOM SCHOLZ A GENIUS !!😊😊😊😊😊 NO ONE COULD EVER SING LIKE BRAD DELP ON THIS ALBUM ! TOM WAS BLESSED FINDING BRAD!
I was surprised you didn’t mention the tambourine, the second instrument heard coming in at the start. I thought I’ve heard you say you like them before. They were very popular in the ‘60s and were heard less frequently in the ‘70s by this time.
The bass is just killing in this tune
Tom calls it his “laser pick slide”. 🎉
Tom Scholtz was responsible for giving Boston it's unique sound. Not only is he a phenomenal musician, gifted in playing multiple instruments but he is also and engineer, specializing in sound technology. He invented and patented what is known as the 'Rockman' amplifier and Boston was the first band to use it in their music. Love that Boston sound. ❤
In my (unpopular) opinion, Don't Look Back is an even better album. Loving you loving Boston any way you slice it
It’s very cool to watch a guy my sons age rocking out to just damn good rock music
Boston is way overdue to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. One of the best groups ever !
this album was played at every house party...ooh the house panties, whoops auto correct, house parties
Conquer This! Peace of Mind
Are you ready for this - Tom Scholz lead guitarist wrote every song and performed every instrument on the album including Drums,bass and lead guitars,he even sang but hated how his voice sounded so went looking for a singer to go on tour with and found Brad Delp ! Picked up a Bassist & Drummer and the rest is history !
I named one of my sons after the band!!
Greatest debut album of all time!
This album is way beyond HOF level.
Way way beyond.
Guitar tone is everything just like Queen you knew it was Brian May before you even heard vocals. Boston had a sound like no other band.
Sure hope you react to "More Than a Feeling" - its one of the premier hits on their debut album
This album is in KAREN'S Hall Of Fame! Along with Hotel California, Dark Side of the Moon and Kansas Point of Know Return and several other perfect albums. Oh yes, Heart, Dreamboat Annie. Sheer perfection!
Led Zeppelin IV. HOF
Get Your Wings
Hall of Fame song. Hall of Fame album. Hall of Fame band.
U know that ufo is an upside down guitar..I just found out and I'm friggin old!!!!!
This song has been the philosphy of my life for 40 years....
Boston has some the greatest riffs ever put on vinyl
I would play this album so loud, with my floor speakers, that the bass would make the needle skip. Fun reaction you did, too.
This Album and Rush Moving pictures albums are from song 1 to the last song hits.
First album I ever owned (7th grade) and I still listen to it and love every song (except Can I Take You Home Tonight)
Top to bottom it is almost the perfect rock album. Got to remember he was a early tech bro leaving a high paying job at IBM to chase his dream that is what this song has to be about. Probably would have ended up wealthy either route he took.
next you should do Don't look back, and third stage albums by boston
Those "laser" effects are actually pretty simple. He's scraping the edge of his pick down the strings, and then there's a bunch of echo and other effects on it.
Brad's vocal performance on this is impeccable. Sort of a redundancy, though, as Brad's vocals are nearly always impeccable . . .
On.. im sorry but these vocals and jani lanes from warrant are almost identical! Wow. I mean its really cool