How Boston REVOLUTIONIZED The Music Industry

How Boston REVOLUTIONIZED The Music Industry
In 1976, Boston’s debut album shattered the music industry’s biggest lie: that hit records required million-dollar studios. MIT grad Tom Scholz built a $49 basement studio, defied record labels, and created one of the best-selling albums of all time. Discover how his technical genius dismantled the studio system, bankrupted major recording facilities, and changed music forever.
Why did labels reject his demos? How did his $30,000 investment cost the industry 200 million? And what’s the legacy of his groundbreaking innovations? Dive into the untold story of Boston’s revolution-and how one engineer proved that perfection beats profit.
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[@SquirrelTheater]

When you’re talking about Tom Scholz, why show pictures of Pete Townsend?! Idiotic.

[@michaelr.4878]

Cool, timely video..considering that the new version of his Rockman (pedal version) just hit the market. Tom Sholz. is genius. It jus sucks that he is approaching 80 years of age. All of our childhood heros are aging and/or passing..and is sucks. It is a very real reminder that motality is a real thing.

[@Witherfall]

This is only partially true you are discounting the monetary value of this man’s time and knowledge. It takes a lot of resources to make great recordings and a lot of those resources can’t easily be assigned a dollar value or picked up in a local music store.

[@stevehegyi9711]

thats pete townsend in that erroneous picture.....bad ai voice over....repeating the same shit over and over, sorry just tired of putting up with this mediocre shit... otherwise huge tom shultz fan.. love you man !

[@peroron2000]

These AI produced videos are not too bad but they seem to repeat too much in the script. You should runt the script through chat gpt once to tighten that up. It will make the video 10 times better.

[@forbuzz4870]

.. nice try AI...

[@danielbetancur1250]

Agreed. This is one of the "better" AI channels, but I agree with you, it repeats too much.

[@LeeLauder]

Genius!!! Showed the industry that they are full of it !!! LMFAO!!! Atta boy Tom!!! Legendary Dude!!! 😎

[@davidl9232]

The matching of hearing what's in your head compared to an average instruments output, can be such a bitch, many people give up on trying to do it. Especially if you have a bunch of self appointed negative nannies insusting, 'you're nothing'. ( Also,( ..without us( me)..') Not to mention developing you're own thing while staying true to yourself is also a significant challenge ( outside of u trying to create what you hear in your head). One tends to find( going with you're experiencing a normal enough social experience) hopefully at a rate one can handle. A whole lot what you think is orig or creative, is really typical as heck, and one will have small things to hold onto( you wrote a song, you wrote a book, you are playing guitar,... even your own self will possibly give up) based on your iwn view of yourself. Making money in this version of self employment IS DIFFICULT.

[@tomford8286]

Pete Townsend has nothing to do with this subject.

[@kellypeterson2625]

Wrong on so many levels. There's no tea in scholz to start off. And his recording of Boston's debuted by no means triggered the home recording revolution. That really didn't happen till the digital era which was decades later

[@oama2009]

And now you can do it on your phone.

[@robertmessinger6053]

It’s not bad content but the AI artifacts are creepy…

[@gioguitarneri]

Pete Townshend????

[@edmundkudey7153]

While Tom Scholz was and is a pioneer in sound engineering, and is an amazing musician, the timeline, vast amount of dates and narrative that Tom disrupted the music industry single-handedly as stated here is way way off. Midi was introduced in early 80's. Schultz developed the "Power Soak" as his first SRD product and not the attenuator that was shown.... boot line here, not an accurate video.

[@neechee5150]

@edmundkudey7153 Tom does not like to talk about this or admit this, but when he submitted his drum tracks for the debut Boston record, Boylan rejected them because they were too amateurish (Boylan's word not mine) to use on the record. Boylan then hired LA engineer Paul Grupp to go to Tom's studio to tutor Tom on how to record drums and acoustic instruments correctly as well as proper mic technique. Boylan then gave Tom the order-re-record all drum tracks and most of the other acoustic instrument tracks. Even then Boylan had to fix Tom's drum tracks before the record could be mixed at Westlake. Tom did not even use noise gates on the drums which caused the backbeat to get washed out and the snare had no snap or punch. Very amateurish thing to do. No pro producer would make that mistake and cut those corners. If you are trying to imply that Tom had anything to do with MIDI--he absolutely didn't. Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits and Roland get the credit for MIDI because they earned it. Then if the truth is told there were multiple tube amp gurus who were doing the reactive load attenuator thing before, at or around the same time Tom used a large variable resistor from a theater lighting system to serve as a power soak. Then there is the fact that Tom has never come clean on the fact that engineers from Polaroid helped him with his early devices specifically his doubler. Tom purchased the bucket brigade circuits and an EE from Polaroid helped Tom with the design basics. Les Paul was the true home studio pioneer and there is no educated debate on that point. Les Paul was also the true innovator in sound engineering. Les Paul was making records in his home studio and the big labels let him do it because he was a true innovator with few if any peers. Les Paul also made the labels big money and they did not care how or where he did his recording. Then there is the fact that the unions screwed up the music business in many ways but that is another topic altogether

[@jesseharradine9861]

this was almost cool, than dog shit such a long way to go - you fail AI you fail