I was 15 when this came out and listend to the whole album with my best friend. We never heard anything like this and was completely blown away...... Boston's music has stood the test of time. They are AMAZING!!
Except the "Band" is just one guy(Tom Scholz) doing everything(Harmonies included) besides lead vocals in his basement studio in the early 70s. Unheard of back then.
Everything about this album is relaxing, inspirational, upbeat music! No other band could ever put out an all out bad ass collaboration of beautiful music ❤!
YOU CANNOT GO WRONG w anything on this first album, hell I’d even extend that sentiment to their second “Don’t Look Back” as well !!! Timeless music full of everything especially Brad’s beautiful voice ❤️❤️ there is also a stunner on the 3rd one called “To Be a Man” check it out T
2 great tenors, 2 guitars, and an album with every individual song hit the top ten on the charts. An unthinkable possibility in today's music landscape.
Best debut album is American history, and I was fortunate to see them 7 times, way back at Ohio State in 1976. Incredible talents, and killer rock and roll.
Boston was genius. Tom Scholtz mastered the transition from the angry minor 7th exploding in a triumphant major 8th several times in Foreplay alone. Every single syllable was supported. Your reaction was great! It was the SAME reaction we fogies had in 1976. RIP Brad Delp, the nicest guy in rock. He gave us so much more than a feeling.
The production quality of this album too was ahead of its time. I had the opportunity to go and listen through the masters during my time at Musicians Institute. I got to go through every track and literally dissect their recording methods. It was brilliant
Entire album is a Masterpiece, and is considered the GOAT intro album by any Rock band ever by a large majority of Rock music critics. I can't argue that either.
Yes! Their debut is one of the greatest Rock debuts ever. One of the best produced albums ever. You want a similar experience....go down that Boston rabbit hole.
Every. Single. Song. on this debut album blasted from our radios, college dorm rooms, and cars during the late '70's... and even when I went back to Penn State for weekends over the years... I still heard Boston, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac and the mighty Earth Wind & Fire pouring out of windows and cars. Gave me hope for newer generations!!
This track and "More Than a Feeling" were both on their debut album; the whole album (8 songs) is 🔥🔥🔥. Other songs on that album you need to check out: "Peace of Mind", "Smokin'", "Hitch a Ride", and "Rock and Roll Band".
I so much love and respect and agree with your reaction. I’ve loved Boston since my university days way back in the late ‘80s, and I’ve always thought this song sequence was like rock-opera in small.
The first time I saw Boston in concert they were the opening act & I'd never even heard of them. Truth be told, I can't remember who they were opening for but standing on a packed arena floor hearing Foreplay for the first time still stands out as one of the best moments I've ever experienced at a concert. You just knew you were hearing something extraordinary. All these years later this song still gets to me. It is a classic & deservedly so.
Bostons first album is still seen as one of the best debut albums of all time . Every song... I mean every song is insanely good , just push play and sit back for an experience . The bass player for boston is an eletronics genius . He designed and built all the amps and effects systems for the band. Then patented all items he made. It is all but impossable to get bostons sound from any other brand of effects to sound like they do ... The bass player also played all instruments, and recorded the album with one other person in his parents basement ... Even after the better part of 50 years this album is still in my collection and played on a regular basis
Tom Scholtz. A incredibly gifted writer / musician / visionary etc.. Every once in a while in life someone shows up years ahead of us. Tom Schultz you the man!
My favorite Boston song. I loved your reaction to it 🙂I grew up on this, the best music ever.70's and early 80's. I feel almost privileged to have been there for it.
Saw them in concert at the Sun Dome in Tampa, FL. in 1995. What a crowd! While waiting for the concert to start, we saw a man with greying hair in his' 50's walk in, wearing a Tux. His date was a stunning blonde in a light blue floor length evening gown with a tiara, diamond earrings/necklace and white elbow length gloves. 10 feet behind them, in walked a woman in her 30's wearing a black bustier, leather short shorts, fishnet stockings, thigh-high boots and black leather gloves. In her hand was a silver chained dog leash. This leash was attach to the collar of the man she was leading in. He was wearing black combat boots, black leather pants, a black leather vest (no shirt), spiked leather dog collar and a full head black leather mask with only breathing holes! I told my friends "This Concert just went to the next level"!! The concert was awesome!
One of the best rock songs of all time. Period. A sonic explosion of high energy harmony and raucous guitar play. And the crystal clear incomparable voice of lead singer Brad Delp. People still love it and can’t believe what they’re hearing 47 years later - just like I couldn’t when I first heard it as a sophomore in high school. And remember - this is a DEBUT ALBUM. Tom Scholz is a genius. And lBrad Delp a revelation. The whole album is good beyond hope.
Back when this album came out, nobody got caught cruisin' main with this in the 8 track...and my 15 inch organ speakers in the back deck of my 66 ford galaxy 500 could be heard comin' down the street...I sure do miss the 70's...Rock ON!!! Love your channel by the way guys!!!
Any song off of Boston's debut album or 8Track I had in my 8Track tape player in my 1972 Chevy Impala 4door That 8track tape stayed in at full volume until I wore it out Not a bad song all the way through Rock and Roll Band is one of my favorites, Jammin!
@@TheAdventuresofTNT This entire Album is🔥🔥🔥!!! I'm having a little fun 😆😏🧐🤔 with this question. Look at the Album Cover closely, turn it 180⁰ degrees.....What do you See 👀??? 🛸....🎸🤨 😏👍
@@concernedcitizen-1958 Stick It from their 1st album. I already requested Rock Me, House Of Broken Love and them live in 1988 doing Since I've Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin.
This song is PERFECTION !!! I was 13 yrs old and in in Jr. High School when this album came out, I used to listen to it on my older brother’s stereo when he was at work during the summer it came out, (August 1976). I wasn’t supposed to use my brothers stereo because a friend of mine broke the 8 track player on it a few months before, but I did any way,lol. A perfect album from beginning to end, not a bad song on the album. Pick just about any track on the album and I guarantee you’ll like it. More Than A Feeling, Peace Of Mind, Foreplay/Longtime, Rock & Roll Band, Smokin’, Hitch A Ride, Something About You, Let Me Take You Home Tonight. The album has gone 17x Platinum (That’s 17,000,000 copies sold) since it’s release in 1976, that’s impressive. It would be 2 years before the bands second album, Don’t Look Back, be released in 1978, in those days it was unheard of for a band, especially one who’s debut album was such a tremendous success, to take 2 years to release a follow up album, but Tom Sholtz didn’t want to release it until he was satisfied with its production, and even though it was released in 1978 Tom wanted to spend more time on the album before its release, he was a perfectionist when it came to his music. Spend some more time with Boston, I think you’ll be happy. Stay Cool 😎 and… \m/ Stay Metal \m/
Just came across your channel due to this (you said it) masterpiece of classic rock. Without much debate, one of the greatest debut albums of all time. Glad you appreciate this band, some terrific songs by these guys...my favorite band. Think I'll stick around, see what other rock tunes you bring...nice reaction!
Your genuine hype for this was great. And dude, in all these years, this song still hits as hard as it did back then. Seriously. Not many have done that for me. You def got beamed up to the mothership with it; just being blessed with hearing it for the first time.
Yeah I couldn’t get enough of these guys when I was a kid. I like how you described it as an experience. I was lucky to grow with this epic song as an “experience” and of some others from that era…Bohemian Rhapsody, Tom Sawyer, Stairway to Heaven etc. Perfect reaction!
You can't be more right saying the opening sounds like the album cover. Yep, there was a special look-n-feel to that mid/late 70s sci-fi art, so nostalgic...
Listen to the entire album and in your mind travel back in time to 1976 there are no personal computers, no cell towers or phones no internet no digital anything MTV is years away there’s 3 guys in a basement 1 of which is Tom Scholz, an MIT grad working for Polaroid, he records this in his basement engineers and produces it with Sib on drums and Brad on vocals Tom plays everything else on the album. You couldn’t go anywhere in 1976 that this masterpiece album wasn’t being blasted. It to this day is ahead of our time and in 76 it just blew everyone away
@haroldjones8023 It is a well known and well documented fact that ALL of Brads vocals sans the vocals on Let Me Take You Home were recorded by producer John Boylan at Capital Studios Studio C on their Quad Eight Console and two inch analog tape. In addition it is well documented as fact that the entire song Let Me Take You Home which was written by Brad was recorded by producer John Boylan at The Record Plant LA. It is also a well documented fact that Barry plays on three songs on this record. Tom was forced to admit this in Court. The vast majority of the electric guitar playing on Foreplay and Long Time including the solo is in fact Barry. It is also a well documented fact that Fran plays bass on two songs and Fran is playing bass on Foreplay. Brad plays 12 string acoustic on Let Me Take You Home. It is also a well documented fact that Boylan made Tom re-record all of the drum tracks and acoustic instrument tracks before the record could be mixed because Toms drum and acoustic instrument tracks were amateurish and not up to standard for a professional recording. Tom was tutored in mic technique and how to record drums and acoustic instruments by engineer Paul Grupp who was hired by Boylan to get Tom up to speed on how to record drums and acoustic instruments. It is also a well documented fact that this record was not mixed in Toms basement studio. His studio could not have even began to pull off mixing this record. This record was mixed at Westlake Studios in LA by Boylan, engineer Warren Dewey and Tom.
I was 15 years old when this came out. Heard More Than a Feeling and bought the 8-track tape the next day. That was fun watching you hear this for the first time. Thanks man.
I so love watching people hearing this for the first time :-)! It's like showing your toddler a locomotive for the first time, all wide eyes in amazement😃
Well done, Sir. Thak you...THANK YOU for not interrupting this song. The more reactions I hear, the more I appreciate you guys that don't feel the need to stop every few seconds and just feel the music.
Boston was the first band I saw in concert. It was the fall of 1978 and 3 college buddies and I set out on a 70 mile trip to see Boston in Minneapolis. Sammy Hagar warmed up for them (The Red Rocker). They opened with "Rock And Roll Band", one of my favorites. Great concert!
Pretty good from a dude who just wanted to explore inventing studio/sound technology and sell his stuff. He had to piece the band together basically, after the album was made (except the singer). Legendary stuff.
The part about piecing the band together is a legend. Barry Goudrea and Brad Delp had been playing early versions of most of the songs on the Boston album in a band with him for several years and worked on early demos with him. Fran Sheehan had also played some gigs with them, though he wasn't a regular member of the band. That band was called "Mother's Milk" and the bass player had quit before Epic accepted a demo. Tom was told to get rid of the drummer on the demo, Jim Masdea. The band Boston was basically Mother's MIlk with a new drummer and bass player.
That is a masterpiece.....Tom Scholz (plays everything except vocals and drums) and his inventiveness is fantastic. Brad Delp on vocals (RIP) is fire. I agree, this is much better than More Than A Feeling. Great reaction - you appreciate and communicate so well.
Not quite, according to Tom Scholz,, Barry Goudreau played the rhythm guitar on Foreplay and "the awesome lead" on Long Time. Barry also played on Let Me Take You Home Tonight. Fran Sheehan played bass on Foreplay and Let Me Take You Home Tonight. Brad Delp also played acoustic guitar on Let Me Take You Home Tonight.
Great review! Actually "Foreplay" was the instrumental at the beginning, the song was called "Long Time", This is the how the album starts! Makes you want to lose yourself in the rest of the album! 🤘😈
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Listening to this for the last 47 years and it NEVER GETS OLD
I was 15 when this came out and listend to the whole album with my best friend. We never heard anything like this and was completely blown away...... Boston's music has stood the test of time. They are AMAZING!!
Im not buying it Brant. You weren't born until 1985 :)
And its basically one guy. And a singer. Unreal.
"Beamed up to the Mother-Ship of Rock !!" Tight description.... props bruh 😂
IMO the best debut album by any band ever. Bostons music has stood the test of time
indeed every track is an absolute banger
Absolutely 💯
IMHO, for 1970's debut albums, it's either this album or Van Halen's debut album. both were "game changers". just 1 guy's opinion
Except the "Band" is just one guy(Tom Scholz) doing everything(Harmonies included) besides lead vocals in his basement studio in the early 70s.
Unheard of back then.
Everything about this album is relaxing, inspirational, upbeat music! No other band could ever put out an all out bad ass collaboration of beautiful music ❤!
A perfect song. From a perfect album.
One of the best bands ever.... ever.
YOU CANNOT GO WRONG w anything on this first album, hell I’d even extend that sentiment to their second “Don’t Look Back” as well !!! Timeless music full of everything especially Brad’s beautiful voice ❤️❤️ there is also a stunner on the 3rd one called “To Be a Man” check it out T
2 great tenors, 2 guitars, and an album with every individual song hit the top ten on the charts. An unthinkable possibility in today's music landscape.
Best debut album is American history, and I was fortunate to see them 7 times, way back at Ohio State in 1976. Incredible talents, and killer rock and roll.
The drummer, Sib Hashian was The Rock's late father in law
this album is the best of America! That it be great once again
You need to let Tasha here this. I bet she would like it.
Soaring vocals, soaring melodies, soaring guitars -- what's not to love with Boston?
Boston ruled. And still rules, much like van halen, iron maiden, their vocals are epic.
This is one of them " dad turn down the radio" songs.
Great band and great in concert
Boston was genius. Tom Scholtz mastered the transition from the angry minor 7th exploding in a triumphant major 8th several times in Foreplay alone. Every single syllable was supported. Your reaction was great! It was the SAME reaction we fogies had in 1976. RIP Brad Delp, the nicest guy in rock. He gave us so much more than a feeling.
When it first came out we had no idea! There was nothing like it. It influenced a whole new wave of rock n roll.
The production quality of this album too was ahead of its time. I had the opportunity to go and listen through the masters during my time at Musicians Institute. I got to go through every track and literally dissect their recording methods. It was brilliant
Any real rocker has this in their collection❤
Entire album is a Masterpiece, and is considered the GOAT intro album by any Rock band ever by a large majority of Rock music critics. I can't argue that either.
T, play this whole album without stopping. It keeps building with each song, until you're rocking so hard that your face melts. p.s. play it LOUD.
I don't care about sales numbers; this is easily the greatest debut album of all time. Every song was a hit on the radio!
We’ll actually this album sold MILLIONS
@ruthylopez But it's not the #1 selling debut album of all time. Still the best one though.
You can drop the needle anywhere on this album and be blessed.
Yes!
Their debut is one of the greatest Rock debuts ever.
One of the best produced albums ever.
You want a similar experience....go down that Boston rabbit hole.
Every single track on this entire album is pure gold.
Top 10 Rock song ever! Unmatched instrumentation and creativity.
Brilliant! No band compares… they were unique. Love the music, love your channel! Keep ‘em coming!!!!❤
Boston is such a badass band
Every. Single. Song. on this debut album blasted from our radios, college dorm rooms, and cars during the late '70's... and even when I went back to Penn State for weekends over the years... I still heard Boston, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac and the mighty Earth Wind & Fire pouring out of windows and cars. Gave me hope for newer generations!!
Oh yeah!! I know every word of every song on this album. Had the cassette of this album. Wore it out!
Boston was great and one of the best concerts I've ever been to way back in the day!
E great debut album of 1976. Friday and Saturday nights cruising withthis blasting as loud as we could! Man those were great times! Thanks man!👍👍🤟🤟
One of the greatest debut albums ever
This track and "More Than a Feeling" were both on their debut album; the whole album (8 songs) is 🔥🔥🔥. Other songs on that album you need to check out: "Peace of Mind", "Smokin'", "Hitch a Ride", and "Rock and Roll Band".
Hitch a Ride ❤
Boston
Rock And Roll Band
Smokin
This is one of the greatest rock songs ever written
MASTERPICE THE ALL ALBUM🎼🎩🎸🎶🎶🎶☮️✌️
I so much love and respect and agree with your reaction. I’ve loved Boston since my university days way back in the late ‘80s, and I’ve always thought this song sequence was like rock-opera in small.
The first time I saw Boston in concert they were the opening act & I'd never even heard of them. Truth be told, I can't remember who they were opening for but standing on a packed arena floor hearing Foreplay for the first time still stands out as one of the best moments I've ever experienced at a concert. You just knew you were hearing something extraordinary. All these years later this song still gets to me. It is a classic & deservedly so.
T i swear you're sitting in my old bedroom in 1983 😂😂😂 and Boston is never a bad move for a rock n roller... rip Brad Delp 🌷🌷🏵
Boston's debut is a masterpiece. You must listen to the the entire album !!!!!!
Bostons first album is still seen as one of the best debut albums of all time . Every song... I mean every song is insanely good , just push play and sit back for an experience . The bass player for boston is an eletronics genius . He designed and built all the amps and effects systems for the band. Then patented all items he made. It is all but impossable to get bostons sound from any other brand of effects to sound like they do ... The bass player also played all instruments, and recorded the album with one other person in his parents basement ... Even after the better part of 50 years this album is still in my collection and played on a regular basis
A softer Boston song that is my favorite is called,Let Me Take You Home Tonight!💋🎶👊
Tom Scholtz. A incredibly gifted writer / musician / visionary etc.. Every once in a while in life someone shows up years ahead of us. Tom Schultz you the man!
We used this song to test car stereo installs.
My favorite Boston song. I loved your reaction to it 🙂I grew up on this, the best music ever.70's and early 80's. I feel almost privileged to have been there for it.
I love this whole album. Gives me an aching in my heart to hear it now. Like a homesickness for a time gone by.
Saw them in concert at the Sun Dome in Tampa, FL. in 1995. What a crowd! While waiting for the concert to start, we saw a man with greying hair in his' 50's walk in, wearing a Tux. His date was a stunning blonde in a light blue floor length evening gown with a tiara, diamond earrings/necklace and white elbow length gloves. 10 feet behind them, in walked a woman in her 30's wearing a black bustier, leather short shorts, fishnet stockings, thigh-high boots and black leather gloves. In her hand was a silver chained dog leash. This leash was attach to the collar of the man she was leading in. He was wearing black combat boots, black leather pants, a black leather vest (no shirt), spiked leather dog collar and a full head black leather mask with only breathing holes! I told my friends "This Concert just went to the next level"!! The concert was awesome!
Back in the day when music was real!! No auto tune, no time corrections. Brother, you’re hearing it the made it was made. Enjoy 🤘🤘🤘🤘
I love Bostons I wish I was around back then to have gone to one of they're concerts 👍
One of the best rock songs of all time. Period. A sonic explosion of high energy harmony and raucous guitar play. And the crystal clear incomparable voice of lead singer Brad Delp. People still love it and can’t believe what they’re hearing 47 years later - just like I couldn’t when I first heard it as a sophomore in high school. And remember - this is a DEBUT ALBUM. Tom Scholz is a genius. And lBrad Delp a revelation. The whole album is good beyond hope.
Boston's debut album is one of my top 5 rock albums ever.
Every song on it is fantastic!
I get a kick watching you young pups loving the BEST of the 70's❤
Top notch production on this album. It doesn't get much better.
Nicely done young man. Well spoken and expressed. Keep it up
Boston was on fire in the 70's, greatest debut album of all time. This was their biggest hit and it was a masterpiece.
Back when this album came out, nobody got caught cruisin' main with this in the 8 track...and my 15 inch organ speakers in the back deck of my 66 ford galaxy 500 could be heard comin' down the street...I sure do miss the 70's...Rock ON!!! Love your channel by the way guys!!!
So fckn good
HITCH A RIDE BABY!
Greatest bands of all time! I was 15 the first time I’ve heard them I’m 67 now and it always sounds like the first time
"certain types of music are an experience" BINGO! and yet so few are confident enough to go beyond their favourite genres
Any song off of Boston's debut album or 8Track I had in my 8Track tape player in my 1972 Chevy Impala 4door
That 8track tape stayed in at full volume until I wore it out
Not a bad song all the way through
Rock and Roll Band is one of my favorites, Jammin!
Glad you liked it T. This whole album rocks!. 2nd and 3rd albums good also. Thanks for the reaction.
This was an F’n masterpiece! Loved the experience it gave.
@@TheAdventuresofTNT This entire Album is🔥🔥🔥!!! I'm having a little fun 😆😏🧐🤔 with this question. Look at the Album Cover closely, turn it 180⁰ degrees.....What do you See 👀??? 🛸....🎸🤨 😏👍
@@TheAdventuresofTNT
Are the links ok that I sent you for Great White (May) and Zebra (June)?
@@mikenastasi8927Which Great White song did you request? ✌️ ☮️
@@concernedcitizen-1958
Stick It from their 1st album. I already requested Rock Me, House Of Broken Love and them live in 1988 doing Since I've Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin.
This song is PERFECTION !!! I was 13 yrs old and in in Jr. High School when this album came out, I used to listen to it on my older brother’s stereo when he was at work during the summer it came out, (August 1976). I wasn’t supposed to use my brothers stereo because a friend of mine broke the 8 track player on it a few months before, but I did any way,lol. A perfect album from beginning to end, not a bad song on the album. Pick just about any track on the album and I guarantee you’ll like it.
More Than A Feeling, Peace Of Mind, Foreplay/Longtime, Rock & Roll Band, Smokin’, Hitch A Ride, Something About You, Let Me Take You Home Tonight.
The album has gone 17x Platinum (That’s 17,000,000 copies sold) since it’s release in 1976, that’s impressive.
It would be 2 years before the bands second album, Don’t Look Back, be released in 1978, in those days it was unheard of for a band, especially one who’s debut album was such a tremendous success, to take 2 years to release a follow up album, but Tom Sholtz didn’t want to release it until he was satisfied with its production, and even though it was released in 1978 Tom wanted to spend more time on the album before its release, he was a perfectionist when it came to his music.
Spend some more time with Boston, I think you’ll be happy.
Stay Cool 😎 and…
\m/ Stay Metal \m/
Just came across your channel due to this (you said it) masterpiece of classic rock. Without much debate, one of the greatest debut albums of all time. Glad you appreciate this band, some terrific songs by these guys...my favorite band. Think I'll stick around, see what other rock tunes you bring...nice reaction!
Your genuine hype for this was great. And dude, in all these years, this song still hits as hard as it did back then. Seriously. Not many have done that for me.
You def got beamed up to the mothership with it; just being blessed with hearing it for the first time.
Can't tell you how many times I've listened to this album. So masterfully played and recorded. Glad that you enjoyed it! Peace.
Man listen to Feelin Satisfied!! OMG❤❤❤
Excellent choice!!! Killer band!! Enjoy this rabbit hole!!🎵🎼🎶🥁🎤🎸🎙🎹🔥🤘🤘🤘💜
God these Boston reactions just grab my soul. Your smile, your reaction, it's how I felt. How many of us felt about this underrated band. Thank you
I feel this way still today as I’m blasting this album with the windows down cruising around town.
Yeah I couldn’t get enough of these guys when I was a kid. I like how you described it as an experience. I was lucky to grow with this epic song as an “experience” and of some others from that era…Bohemian Rhapsody, Tom Sawyer, Stairway to Heaven etc. Perfect reaction!
You can't be more right saying the opening sounds like the album cover. Yep, there was a special look-n-feel to that mid/late 70s sci-fi art, so nostalgic...
A masterpiece ❤
Smokin is the tune you're looking for.
This song is awesome,Boston put out some amazing music!!!
Great breakdown at the end😊!!! Points about the experience and wanting more!!!
Listen to the entire album and in your mind travel back in time to 1976 there are no personal computers, no cell towers or phones no internet no digital anything MTV is years away there’s 3 guys in a basement 1 of which is Tom Scholz, an MIT grad working for Polaroid, he records this in his basement engineers and produces it with Sib on drums and Brad on vocals Tom plays everything else on the album.
You couldn’t go anywhere in 1976 that this masterpiece album wasn’t being blasted. It to this day is ahead of our time and in 76 it just blew everyone away
@haroldjones8023 It is a well known and well documented fact that ALL of Brads vocals sans the vocals on Let Me Take You Home were recorded by producer John Boylan at Capital Studios Studio C on their Quad Eight Console and two inch analog tape. In addition it is well documented as fact that the entire song Let Me Take You Home which was written by Brad was recorded by producer John Boylan at The Record Plant LA. It is also a well documented fact that Barry plays on three songs on this record. Tom was forced to admit this in Court. The vast majority of the electric guitar playing on Foreplay and Long Time including the solo is in fact Barry. It is also a well documented fact that Fran plays bass on two songs and Fran is playing bass on Foreplay. Brad plays 12 string acoustic on Let Me Take You Home.
It is also a well documented fact that Boylan made Tom re-record all of the drum tracks and acoustic instrument tracks before the record could be mixed because Toms drum and acoustic instrument tracks were amateurish and not up to standard for a professional recording. Tom was tutored in mic technique and how to record drums and acoustic instruments by engineer Paul Grupp who was hired by Boylan to get Tom up to speed on how to record drums and acoustic instruments.
It is also a well documented fact that this record was not mixed in Toms basement studio. His studio could not have even began to pull off mixing this record. This record was mixed at Westlake Studios in LA by Boylan, engineer Warren Dewey and Tom.
Foreplay, my favorite Boston song, I usually do the mad conductor to this song, lots of fun.
I was 15 years old when this came out. Heard More Than a Feeling and bought the 8-track tape the next day. That was fun watching you hear this for the first time. Thanks man.
We all had this album! Total banger! No bad songs!🤘🔥
"Man I'll Never Be! - Boston
Try "Hitch a Ride" from this same album. It has the best and most melodic guitar solos of all their songs.
I seen the 1977, Don't Look back concert when I was 14. My first concert. Still my favorite!
Just do the WHOLE album! Every track is a banger, every single one. You’ll like them all.😊
First Boston album is one of the best debut albums of all time.
Feel good smiling music. It's all you can do when you listen to this stuff. Smile ear to ear. Feeling good
I remember when this first came out I would play it every day with head phones on and get lost in the music.
I so love watching people hearing this for the first time :-)! It's like showing your toddler a locomotive for the first time, all wide eyes in amazement😃
Best track on this incredible album, IMO!
Well done, Sir. Thak you...THANK YOU for not interrupting this song. The more reactions I hear, the more I appreciate you guys that don't feel the need to stop every few seconds and just feel the music.
An alien gets dropped to earth and asks, "what is classic Rock and Roll?" Me, "THIS!"
Greatest debut album of all time
Just dig this song, love listening to it , love playing drums to it. Just a classic.
That whole album is a masterpiece! Real music ya'll.
Boston was the first band I saw in concert. It was the fall of 1978 and 3 college buddies and I set out on a 70 mile trip to see Boston in Minneapolis. Sammy Hagar warmed up for them (The Red Rocker). They opened with "Rock And Roll Band", one of my favorites. Great concert!
Side note: Tom Scholtz wrote this song back in 1969 but finalized it for production in 1975-6 for their debut album, and it shows.
I'll take Boston every time ❤😊 thanks and great channel 👍
Pretty good from a dude who just wanted to explore inventing studio/sound technology and sell his stuff. He had to piece the band together basically, after the album was made (except the singer). Legendary stuff.
The part about piecing the band together is a legend. Barry Goudrea and Brad Delp had been playing early versions of most of the songs on the Boston album in a band with him for several years and worked on early demos with him. Fran Sheehan had also played some gigs with them, though he wasn't a regular member of the band. That band was called "Mother's Milk" and the bass player had quit before Epic accepted a demo. Tom was told to get rid of the drummer on the demo, Jim Masdea. The band Boston was basically Mother's MIlk with a new drummer and bass player.
@@ptournas Yeah. No.
@@mcseforsale I guess you don't know much about the band's history. That's OK. Enjoy the music.
What a tune.....an absolute classic👍
That is a masterpiece.....Tom Scholz (plays everything except vocals and drums) and his inventiveness is fantastic. Brad Delp on vocals (RIP) is fire. I agree, this is much better than More Than A Feeling. Great reaction - you appreciate and communicate so well.
Not quite, according to Tom Scholz,, Barry Goudreau played the rhythm guitar on Foreplay and "the awesome lead" on Long Time. Barry also played on Let Me Take You Home Tonight. Fran Sheehan played bass on Foreplay and Let Me Take You Home Tonight. Brad Delp also played acoustic guitar on Let Me Take You Home Tonight.
Don't agree that this is much better then "More Than A Feeling". It's just a very different song. MTAF is just as good.
Great review! Actually "Foreplay" was the instrumental at the beginning, the song was called "Long Time", This is the how the album starts! Makes you want to lose yourself in the rest of the album! 🤘😈
Every song on this album is good!❤🔥