BOSTON Don't look back REACTION - This is what they call guitar heaven! First time hearing
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- Опубліковано 10 кві 2024
- BOSTON Don't look back REACTION - This is what they call guitar heaven! First time hearing
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One of the great rock songs of all time. Such wonderful sound - You can't go wrong with Boston!
You are correct, the Guitar melody and Harmony are unreal in this song.
This is one of the greatest tunes of the 70's.
Listen to those guitars.
Listen to those voices.
Even the drummer did an outstanding job.
The bass player is absolutely amazing.❤
I have this Album with the cover signed by Brad Delp … Needless to say a prized possession.. 🎸🛸🎤
👍. RIP Brad & Sib. ❤️🎵🎶
The guitars in harmony. Incredible song.
Really enjoy your reactions, Harri. Loved the way you said, "diamonds in my ears" along with the guitar heaven references. So lucky to have grown up with this music. It never gets old!
When younger relatives graduate, I add this song to my congratulations.
Every song on the first album is fantastic, but this is actually my favorite Boston song. Also check out "Can'tcha Say (You Believe In Me)/Still In Love" from their third album.
Third Stage doesn't get the recognition it should! I like the hardest rocking song ever Cool The Engines. Peace!
This was on the 2nd album. I always thought it should have been on the 1st record. That would be the first album of a band and their greatest hits all rolled into one. R.I.P. Brad Delp gone too soon.
A Man I'll Never Be from this album is the best track on the album in my opinion.
That is my all time favorite song from them.
Ima - What a great submission. Boston's "Don't Look Back" is instantly identifiable as the unique Boston sound as well as one of their best songs (there are so many). Well done Ima and Harri!!!👏👏
I agree DaveBZen. Doesn't take a second to know who Boston is...the sounds gives it away. 👍👍👍
I can say the whole album is a masterpiece, just a diamond! Been on my personal playlist for a long time!
Do yourself a favor listen too "Four Play/ Longtime " Boston is just amazing!!!!
Forplay. Then Long Time. Get it??
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@hokiedoo ... Harri has already reacted to Boston's "Foreplay/Long Time" (which was also requested by Imadrummin! 🙂) Do a search for it. I tried pasting the link in the comments section, but it didn't take.
Awesome song! Thanks, Harri and Imadrummin!
You are welcome Marcus. 👍
They were the late 70's....RIP Brad
Just glad I got to see Brad sing live before the end. Indianapolis, 1988, iirc.
Thanks Imadrummin for a fantastic song choice 🎉 And Thank you Harri, great review
My pleasure Agnete!!!👍
Boston is BOSS all the way around 🙌🏻
This album caused an uptick in speeding tickets. Oh, to be young again and driving the 150 miles of back roads between the Airforce base and my ancestral home. A cassette of both Boston albums and another of Springsteen, Queen, Styx, Rush, and Kansas to keep the tachometer near the red line.
Remember when this follow up album came out and it was a huge hit as well like their debut was. 1979 - they were one of my favorite concerts that year.
Great song and reaction
All guitars, including bass were performed by Tom Scholz in his homemade basement studio. He was also the producer, engineer, and songwriter. All vocals by Brad Delp.
Most guitars, not all. From Tom's interview with Guitar Magazine, July, 1987:
"That was always the problem. I knew I could find the parts I wanted and I wasn't having much luck with anybody else finding them. The only exception to that was that Barry Goudreau came up with a couple of leads that were pretty good in some things. He did the leads to "Long Time" and "Used to Bad News." He also came up with the opening and closing solos in "Don't Look Back." He played a little slide on there too. He did some good stuff. That was a help. That was the nice thing about his involvement, especially when you're getting down to the end of the project and you only have so much gas left. "Don't Look Back" was the last song recorded for that album. But that is one thing you don't get from a tape deck. You get no ideas. I got ideas from Jim and Brad, who also came up with some real helpful things."
From a 2002 open letter from Tom to a now defunct Boston fan site, but the letter can still be found on two other Boston fan sites:
"Fran did play bass on "Let Me Take You Home," "Foreplay," and a couple of notes on "Don't Look Back."
Tom also said in a Boston Globe interview shortly after the first album came out:
"When Barry and I played those harmony parts or battling guitar leads, it felt like we were connected by a "Vulcan mind link." He adds, "I've never seen anyone so dedicated to honing his physical skill with guitar. Watching TV or hanging with some friends, Barry always had his SG in his hands, playing unplugged, silently conditioning his reflexes. He had lightning speed."
John Boylan was hired as the producer for the first album, he did agree to give Tom co-producing credits and gave him pretty much free hand in the production, only stepping in when needed. He loved the way Tom recorded electric guitars but said his recording of the acoustic guitar parts and drums sounded very amateurish, so Boylan flew recording engineers from LA to Tom's studio to teach him proper microphone placement techniques for the acoustic guitar and drums. And when they went to LA to do the final mixing he had to correct Tom when he kept turning up the guitars to the point of drowning out the voices.
This second album wasn't done in his basement, it was recorded at his studio, called Hideaway Studio in Maynard, Massachusetts and solely produced by Tom.
But Tom was a great songwriter and probably his most valuable skill was in knowing exactly what sound he wanted, and if the equipment wasn't capable of making it, he would modify it or create new equipment that could produce it. Many people attribute that to his degree in engineering, but his degree was in mechanical engineering, not audio or electronic engineering. When you think about it, that makes his ability to do what he did with the audio equipment even more impressive.
Barry Goudreau played the intro and outro solos (Tom has publicly praised Barry's playing on the song many times) and Fran Sheehan played some bass on the song. It's lame when the story keeps getting told wrong over and over minimizing the others' contributions.
@@Lionize728 Yes, that's definitely a pet peeve of mine, especially since I was acquainted with everyone in the group except Tom. We all lived in the same area just just north of Boston and played in a lot of the same clubs and bars. I played a solo act, but I also managed a popular local band that was Sib Hashian's favorite. I remember around 1972 or 73 I got them a 3 night weekend gig in Vermont near the Canadian border and Sibby made the 800 mile round trip to hang out with us all weekend. Of course we let him sit in on a lot of songs over the weekend!
All Boston songs are really good!! 🎉♥️
#Favorite #Boston
"Don't Look Back" would be one to eventually listen to.
A nanosecond into the song you know that it's Boston! This song embodies all that they were! Were Delp's vocals ever better!? Fantastic selection and reaction -- thank you, Imadrummin and Harri!
Absolutely PN and my pleasure. Delp was spectacular and yes, even better. 👍
March 29 at 11:45PM, I left on a road trip to go skiing in Colorado with 360 other disabled Veterans. I started my Jeep and adjusted the radio. This song came on immediately. This song I consider great when starting a road trip.
Brings back memories of listening to this album on 8 track.
I agree with your analysis. One of my favorites is “Used to Bad News.” RIP Brad Delp.
Nice one mate!
Boston♥️💖
Boston got an amazing sound.
Had this 2nd LP, not the record breaking first one, but this one initially sold 3Million copies for a Sophomore effort, Awesome!!!!👍🤘🙏
One of the Greatest Albums Ever!! IMO.
Growing up in Massachusetts and attending college in Boston, I was always proud of this homegrown band! This is a one of many great songs and a personal favorite. Thanks Harri and Imadrummin 🌺✌️
💖🌼❤️👍
A real Masterpiece. 🎶🎶👍
🔥
You take off during that break, and land back at the 4:58 mark haha. That’s just what Boston always did. Took you for a ride.
These guys do a bad ass version of the Star-Spangled Banner. You should check it out.
Scholz created the “outer space” sounds with his self created Rockman device. When players heard it, they immediately wanted one. So he sent out specs and had it built.
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You would have been in the studio with one guy; Tom Scholz. He played the instruments, he was the engineer and Producer. But there's a lot of conflicting info out there.
Boston. Nothing else to say. Except…all analog.
Such a great album. Your notice of the bass line is spot on. Every song on this and the debut album are a clinic on bass especially the next track "It's Easy" is unbelievable. Thanks Harri .
Guitar heaven is Stevie Ray Vaughn!
Q: How many guitars you gonna use Mr. Scholz?
A: All of them
It's a great song which I believe needed to be mixed better. The vocals are competing with the guitars at different points in the song. Sometimes the vocals are upfront and at other times, they fall back into the mix. I believe the record label were rushing them to release the album.
Um you can’t any better recording than this Tom is an MIT Graduate music engineering was his specialty he knew what he wanted in the sound and brads vocal are outstanding with his different vocal range it’s a piece of music history peace ✌️
I believe that’s what lead to the lawsuits. TS wasn’t going to put out another album he wasn’t happy with. He wasn’t happy with DLB
@@stevegamez2825 No, his degree was in mechanical engineering, not audio, recording or electronic engineering - or "music engineering" (if there is such a thing). All the Polaroid patents credited to him are related to mechanics of film transport systems.
But if you give it some thought, that actually makes his ability to modify existing equipment and invent new equipment until he gets the sound he wants even more impressive.
@@ptournascorrect
Funny you should mention that. John Boylen, the producer hired by Epic, who after meeting Tom agreed to let Tom co-produce the first album and gave him co-producer credit and pretty much a free hand in the production, said that when they went to LA to do the final mix in the studio was the only time they had a big argument, and it was because Tom kept pushing up the electric guitar volumes so high that they drowned out the vocals. On this second album, Tom was the sole producer.
Boston's career was ruined by lawsuits.
Tom Scholz = Boston = Genius en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Scholz