There were pitch correction methods before autotune. One wss varispeed, which Scholz said he used for his guitar layers. Scholz had an Eventide, which was also used at the time for pitch correction. As with the entire album, there are obviously a lot of sound treatments going on here: layering being the most obvious. Delp was a lot less remarkable live.
When he sings about "Those old songs they used to play. I close my eyes and I slip away".......that's what we're doing to this song now. How cool is that! It's like a paradox for a lack of a better word. The man had a golden voice.
I agree this song was new when I first started dating my high school girlfriend and it turns out that it’s practically the story of that relationship as brad sang so many people have come and gone their faces fade as the years go by you I still recall as I wander on as clear as the sun in the summer sky
Recording a vocal track, then recording it again singing it the same, then playing both back on top of each other. Doubled track. I think the entirety of the vocals in this song are double tracked. It's so well done!
@@ryancrazy1 phasing is when two tones (in this case two separate vocal tracks) are close enough in pitch that they generate audible waves of frequency cancellation and amplification.
Who's here after watching the Professor Rock on this song. Wholly crap that voice is making my eyes water up. I still rock out to Boston like they came out yesterday everytime I go through my classic rock section
2:11.6 punched vocal to give Brad the air to hit and hold that high part. You can tell by 2 things: 1, vibrato comes to a complete dead stop and 2, the tone is just a bit different. But it's a clean punch that doesn't even really sound like one.
punching in, overdubbing.... I did boatloads of it all the time because I couldn't be bothered to try redoing the whole thing from the start. it wasn't an attempt to capture a live performance but to create something audibly cool and relatively error-free. Something that would last.
I looked out this morning and the sun was gone Turned on some music to start my day I lost myself in a familiar song I closed my eyes and I slipped away It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling) When I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling) And I begin dreaming (more than a feeling) Till I see Marianne walk away I see my Marianne walkin' away So many people have come and gone Their faces fade as the years go by Yet I still recall as I wander on As clear as the sun in the summer sky It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling) When I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling) And I begin dreaming (more than a feeling) Till I see Marianne walk away I see my Marianne walkin' away When I'm tired and thinking cold I hide in my music, forget the day And dream of a girl I used to know I closed my eyes and she slipped away She slipped away It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling) When I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling) And I begin dreaming (more than a feeling) Till I see Marianne walk away Songwriters: Donald T. Scholz
The late 70s had so many incredible rock albums, that even to this day, 40 + years later, are as fresh and incredible as they were when they first came out...
Just amazing. Can't believe I was about 10 years too young so I never was able to hear him live. My heart hurts for our loss of this guy. These vocals only you do are so special - more please!
@@jamescase6465 Coming from someone who's screen name is something a 12 year old would chooseI would say your comment is irrelevant. But everyone has an opinion.
You'd be surprised at how many incredibly talented people like Brad are just having normal lives, working on factories like he was. We're lucky that we got to see him in Boston.
HOW CAN YOU DOUBLE TRACK THAT ACCURATELY? It almost kind of defeats the purpose of double tracking it, it's so dead on, except it gets that cool modulation texture to it, so whatever...
He apparently had such perfect pitch that he had to consciously sing a few cents sharp or flat when he double tracked his vocals so that it would sound double-tracked, and not just louder. Absolutely insane.
both Tom and Brad were perfectionists and would do hundreds of takes if necessary to get it right ...they were aware of even the most perfect 2nd take would have the slightest amount of dissonance to produce doubled effect that became their trademark ...Tom and Brad WERE Boston others were hired for live shows
MurphyMonster I think Brad and Tom were true professionals! Those first 2 albums are still unbeatable. People talk about Beatles albums or Nirvana Nevermind or Michael Jackson Thriller (all great) but this was something else! So original! 8 killer songs and no filler! TOM SCHOLTZ. BRAD DELP (rip). BARRY GOUDREAU. FRAN SHEEHAN and SIB HASHIAN (rip). The best!
This copy doesn’t show it, but there are times in this song where Scholz guitar harmonized Brads vocal, and the main guitar lead tag that is played after the verses isn’t just 2 guitar harmony part, but a 3 part harmony with 2 guitars and the 3rd part is actually Brad adding some “ahhhhhs” on top. Outright brilliant!
Prettyy cool on how to hear Brad delp’s vocals on this song & brings me back to when I was 11! Now 56! Have this Lp on vinyl & sounds fantastic! Ahhh 70’s over again! 👍👍🎵🎵🎵🎧🎧🎧
I was 12 years old, he was my hero. Saw his second to last performance a week before he passed. I'll never forget when my mom broke the news to me. Love you Brad
He sings the five notes that come in at :28 and 1:36 also, but I can't find any tracks that isolate it. You can hear him do it if you listen close. At 3:29, he doing it again but adds three more notes
Brad's voice could be doubled here, but what I think it is is that it's just the one lead vox track but then they make it sound doubled...playing it on another channel just a split second, millisecond what have you after the first, for that doubling effect. However it was done, he was an amazingly gifted singer.
melissa gonzalez, if I never hear that word again, it will be too dang soon. With tens of thousands of words in the English language, why do so many people have to vomit out that same one word 500 times a day!?
All Movies That Come Out FM (1978) Foxes (1980) She's Having A Baby (1988) Krippendorf's Tribe (1998) Herbie Fully Loaded (2005) Aldo Uriel: Hypno Of The Goggles (2007) Lymelife (2008) Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009) Zookeeper (2011) Any Questions For Ben? (2012) The Heart (2011) Tag (2017)
The scary thing about 3.22 is that the harmony is muted. The notes he hits are F#5 and G5, but the harmony part, he sings A5 and B5, which isn't shown here. I'd really like to hear those harmony parts solo'd, because hitting a B5 is pretty much impossible for 99% of male singers.
By the way I have a wild imagination but 4:17 to the end sounds like what all of those spaceship guitars in a giant convoy going out to space to invade planets with no music to carry on a message of true rock and roll!
Man...no auto tuner. Pure pitch, what a voice.
Music is so fake now that it’s all singers use now and it doesn’t even sound good
That's right:)
There were pitch correction methods before autotune. One wss varispeed, which Scholz said he used for his guitar layers. Scholz had an Eventide, which was also used at the time for pitch correction. As with the entire album, there are obviously a lot of sound treatments going on here: layering being the most obvious. Delp was a lot less remarkable live.
3:17 Wow! Way to hit that high note!
3:22 Holy shit! That was unexpected.
3:25 Hold up. Is he gonna go up again?
3:27 OMFG!
yeah, this is pretty much the reaction I had when I first really sat down to listen to this.
You forgot 4:00, just perfect
4:00 sounds like I’m in danger
@@Lorsterthe34st LOL ha!
Exaclty…. Then holds the perfect pitch at 4:00… dayum.
When he sings about "Those old songs they used to play. I close my eyes and I slip away".......that's what we're doing to this song now.
How cool is that!
It's like a paradox for a lack of a better word.
The man had a golden voice.
I agree this song was new when I first started dating my high school girlfriend and it turns out that it’s practically the story of that relationship as brad sang so many people have come and gone their faces fade as the years go by you I still recall as I wander on as clear as the sun in the summer sky
3:17...forget it. One of the best examples as to why few have EVER been as good as this guy.
look up a tribute band called " more than a fleeing " on their cover of more than a feeling at 1:37 into the video , listen to those vocals
The higher part is falsetto, I think anybody can do that
I disagree Caio. Not everyone can hit a high even in falsetto
***** Wake up! THERE IS NO ONE LIKE BRAD DELP.
I honestly don't think that Delp did falsetto here. THAT's why it floors me.
The transition from full voice to falsetto the back to full voice a truly superhuman voice
His pitch is so dead on that there are moments where the doubled vocal track phases. It's got to be REALLY close to do that. Unreal.
Yeah, I hear that too. Near perfect doubled tracks.
explain?
Recording a vocal track, then recording it again singing it the same, then playing both back on top of each other. Doubled track. I think the entirety of the vocals in this song are double tracked. It's so well done!
ryancrazy1 3:59 that's phasing.
@@ryancrazy1 phasing is when two tones (in this case two separate vocal tracks) are close enough in pitch that they generate audible waves of frequency cancellation and amplification.
The high sounds he hits are amazing.
budman356
Amen. x
Not so much that he hits the notes. He BELTS them.
How DOES he do that?
@@colabama incredible
Brad Delp is the king. Amazing. So fantastic. What a HUGE loss.
Who's here after watching the Professor Rock on this song.
Wholly crap that voice is making my eyes water up. I still rock out to Boston like they came out yesterday everytime I go through my classic rock section
Brad Delp's voice make my ears have an eargasm. Angelic and amazing .
He was so good. I wish they hadn't over processed the song. A single track of his voice would have brought out the rare talent in his song
@@gbaker9295 double the Brad, double the fun.
Man with the golden voice
Singing that "aaa-aaa-aaa-aaah" on top of the guitar is fucking genius
Superhuman vocal abilities. I remember trying to sing along with him when this first came out and got left in the dust.
Brings back memories of happy times in 1977.
Saw Boston @Red Rocks front row. They were fantastic
2:11.6 punched vocal to give Brad the air to hit and hold that high part. You can tell by 2 things: 1, vibrato comes to a complete dead stop and 2, the tone is just a bit different. But it's a clean punch that doesn't even really sound like one.
:)
TruthSurge you look like Leoland Sklar.
good call
I'm leaning to agree
punching in, overdubbing.... I did boatloads of it all the time because I couldn't be bothered to try redoing the whole thing from the start. it wasn't an attempt to capture a live performance but to create something audibly cool and relatively error-free. Something that would last.
Seems the same at 2:06
Great vocals. Very sad that Brad Delp took his own life as he was a beautiful guy with a great voice. Rock on Brad...
💚 🌠
Would love to hear the entire Don't Look Back album like this.
I looked out this morning and the sun was gone
Turned on some music to start my day
I lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes and I slipped away
It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling)
When I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
And I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
Till I see Marianne walk away
I see my Marianne walkin' away
So many people have come and gone
Their faces fade as the years go by
Yet I still recall as I wander on
As clear as the sun in the summer sky
It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling)
When I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
And I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
Till I see Marianne walk away
I see my Marianne walkin' away
When I'm tired and thinking cold
I hide in my music, forget the day
And dream of a girl I used to know
I closed my eyes and she slipped away
She slipped away
It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling)
When I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
And I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
Till I see Marianne walk away
Songwriters: Donald T. Scholz
The late 70s had so many incredible rock albums, that even to this day, 40 + years later, are as fresh and incredible as they were when they first came out...
Man what an amazing voice! We miss you Brad.
He sounds awesome double tracked
Damn, what a voice.
Absolutely speechless!!!
Just amazing. Can't believe I was about 10 years too young so I never was able to hear him live. My heart hurts for our loss of this guy. These vocals only you do are so special - more please!
RIP Brad Delp, you were something special
3:16 just incredible. Best rock vocalist ever.
debatable
@@jamescase6465 Coming from someone who's screen name is something a 12 year old would chooseI would say your comment is irrelevant. But everyone has an opinion.
@@LudwigSC93 says the drummer
Greatest rock n roll singer that ever lived. RIP Brad.
Here's the most amazing part --- this was their DEBUT album! Where was this guy before Boston? I mean, what was he doing if not singing? And why?
Gmail User i think Brad worked for Mr Coffee.
He was working in a local factory making heating units for coffee makers.
You'd be surprised at how many incredibly talented people like Brad are just having normal lives, working on factories like he was. We're lucky that we got to see him in Boston.
Mr coffee
What was accomplished between Tom and Brad would make a great Disney movie.But nobody would believe it.
Weird - this has been my favorite song since I was just a little kid and I never noticed all the weird out of phase guitar track at the very end.
This is one of the best uploads on UA-cam.
Meeting him in the 90s. Super sweet man.. he does all vocals and harmonies!
Brad Delp must have been an alien to hit those notes in such a soaring fashion.
HOW CAN YOU DOUBLE TRACK THAT ACCURATELY? It almost kind of defeats the purpose of double tracking it, it's so dead on, except it gets that cool modulation texture to it, so whatever...
He apparently had such perfect pitch that he had to consciously sing a few cents sharp or flat when he double tracked his vocals so that it would sound double-tracked, and not just louder. Absolutely insane.
both Tom and Brad were perfectionists and would do hundreds of takes if necessary to get it right ...they were aware of even the most perfect 2nd take would have the slightest amount of dissonance to produce doubled effect that became their trademark ...Tom and Brad WERE Boston others were hired for live shows
MurphyMonster I think Brad and Tom were true professionals! Those first 2 albums are still unbeatable. People talk about Beatles albums or Nirvana Nevermind or Michael Jackson Thriller (all great) but this was something else! So original! 8 killer songs and no filler! TOM SCHOLTZ. BRAD DELP (rip). BARRY GOUDREAU. FRAN SHEEHAN and SIB HASHIAN (rip). The best!
This copy doesn’t show it, but there are times in this song where Scholz guitar harmonized Brads vocal, and the main guitar lead tag that is played after the verses isn’t just 2 guitar harmony part, but a 3 part harmony with 2 guitars and the 3rd part is actually Brad adding some “ahhhhhs” on top. Outright brilliant!
@@chippchipp1 He might have been the best rock vocalist ever.
3:16 it's what you came for. Amazing!
I'd love to hear Don't Look Back with vocals only. Background harmony vocals included. That would be amazing.
This makes you realize how truly gifted Brad Delp was as a singer. So powerful...right into your soul
Can you imagine the work that Brad put into their songs? Lead,,, AND backing.
Man with the Golden voice.
Prettyy cool on how to hear Brad delp’s vocals on this song & brings me back to when I was 11! Now 56! Have this Lp on vinyl & sounds fantastic! Ahhh 70’s over again! 👍👍🎵🎵🎵🎧🎧🎧
I was 12 years old, he was my hero. Saw his second to last performance a week before he passed. I'll never forget when my mom broke the news to me. Love you Brad
Brad Delph for the fucking win.
Just brilliant! That highest note.
The best voice ever!
RIP Brad Delph, I love that voice is freekin awesome and magical.
Brad you are missed! What a voice!!! Don't get singers like this anymore kids.
over 20 years before auto tune came out! Just plain talent!!! That kinda talent is no longer found!!!
I have a greater appreciation of this song now.
Thanks Brad .....you're voice lives forever!!!!!!
Wow those high notes blows me away everytime I listen😲💓🤘🏼🎶
i recorded it off of the game Rock Band 3 my lowering the sound of all the instruments
It’s very sad that this band isn’t hugely recognized by their talent. They should be more known than rush
Brad range is unrivaled
damn gave me chills!
Love the upside down guitar spaceships!! Best album cover ever.
legend has it he is still holding that note at the end
Goosebumps!!!!😳😳😳
Pure. Perfect.
Be amazed,enjoy,tip your cap and dream of the realities that never were.
Wow 😳! R U friggin kidding me?!
W O W! Just W O W!
as debut singles go, this is probably one of the best
This is why Brad Delp is king of all singers
Chills.
This is amazing
Between 3:25 and 3:26 you can hear that he's at it's limits because of the breath. His voice there sounds a bit broken (less that one second).
Golden voice.
que maravila de voz !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i sure miss him
19 people have thumbed this down. SMH
I never realized how good of a voice this guy had! Turning all the music off really shows!
This was my band back in the day
Freaking incredible
He sings the five notes that come in at :28 and 1:36 also, but I can't find any tracks that isolate it. You can hear him do it if you listen close.
At 3:29, he doing it again but adds three more notes
BlackDiamond1967 ua-cam.com/video/3xMc5jS8aTc/v-deo.html
Incredibile voice
Brad's voice could be doubled here, but what I think it is is that it's just the one lead vox track but then they make it sound doubled...playing it on another channel just a split second, millisecond what have you after the first, for that doubling effect. However it was done, he was an amazingly gifted singer.
3:17 WOW...
PERFECT🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
I'm singing this at a talent show thing at my school tonight wish me luck
How was it
We miss you Brad.
Brad Delp is an Eternal Angel in Heaven and I hope to see him singing up their. Thank's Brad for all your Love. Sincerely, Cliff Campbell.
And to think that at the 3:27 mark, there is a Major Third sung above this note on the harmonizing vox track :o
Awesome!!
melissa gonzalez, if I never hear that word again, it will be too dang soon. With tens of thousands of words in the English language, why do so many people have to vomit out that same one word 500 times a day!?
After watch this video, I try to hit those notes, and.......you know....... I must be a fucking idiot.
from 2:10 I see clearly now why Boston always reminded me of Queen
Boston is much better than queen. period.
All Movies That Come Out
FM (1978)
Foxes (1980)
She's Having A Baby (1988)
Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)
Aldo Uriel: Hypno Of The Goggles (2007)
Lymelife (2008)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009)
Zookeeper (2011)
Any Questions For Ben? (2012)
The Heart (2011)
Tag (2017)
If anyone can find someone as good as this on The X factor or American Idol....let me know please.
The scary thing about 3.22 is that the harmony is muted. The notes he hits are F#5 and G5, but the harmony part, he sings A5 and B5, which isn't shown here. I'd really like to hear those harmony parts solo'd, because hitting a B5 is pretty much impossible for 99% of male singers.
. . . nice chorusing. sounds like is was mixed on an old SSL desk. great work.
Never noticed the spacey guitar sounds at 4:30
True
CEO of Goose bumps
absolutely AMAZING. Too bad Brad left us waaaaaay to early...
0:21 This
3:17 Delp’s best moment.
Don't smoke or do drugs. Doing so will kill a beautiful voice like this. Delp rules.
Whose all clapping along keeping the beat while B.D. sings?
By the way I have a wild imagination but 4:17 to the end sounds like what all of those spaceship guitars in a giant convoy going out to space to invade planets with no music to carry on a message of true rock and roll!
Wich familiar old song Tom was refering?
Brad could rock it!
never realized this has falsetto
How does one seperate the voice tracks like this? I'd love you to do some Oasis songs.
lets meet & play some rock Paul