First Time Hearing Boston Foreplay / Longtime (Reaction!!)

[@poloreacts27]

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[@neilgoldsmith482]

Polo you probably heard "More than a feeling "

[@kjsfl386]

You’re awesome! Plus you bring back great music rarely known of or heard today! Thank you!

[@readhistory2023]

In my minds eye "Foreplay" sounds like the backround music for two space fighters chasing each through asteroids. Spining and weavig as onne chases the other past the huge rocks. The faster notes are them firing their weapons.

[@Tom-h1s]

You did hear his voice it's in the song More than a Feeling

[@GergC0521]

When I listen to Boston, so do all my neighbors.....

[@paulinestavaris3114]

100%!

[@markstansberry8064]

😆 🤣 😆 🤣 😆 My neighbors too!!!

[@4Thessia]

And they don’t mind!

[@KBS117]

You have to share boston.. no way to contain it!!!

[@Blue-6773]

Arguably the BEST debut album of all time, it had nothing but bangers, can't go wrong with any song off of it.

[@alsimons7925]

One of for sure. Another one is Appetite for Destruction 🔥🔥

[@keltonhutchison5951]

Van Halen first album is pure gold as well.

[@sidneyvandykeii3169]

Boston is the outlier in my top 5 Albums. 1. Mesmerized. System of a Down. 2. It's a tie. Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. Metallica.(I cheat) 3. Back in Black. AC/DC. 4. Dirt. Alice in Chains 5. Boston. Boston.

[@clintlandrum9498]

Pearl jam ... ten

[@TheDevnul]

🤬 that record company for screwing that band over! RIP Brad Delp. Amazing voice!

[@sillybilly1662]

This album was created by one guy in his studio and then because it was so popular he created a band.

[@thomasdelaney3322]

Tom Schultz who invented his own equipment and made them !

[@neechee5150]

@sillybilly1662 This is false. In addition to Tom himself, there are two drummers who play on this record and three others who play at least one guitar/bass track on this record. The band as pictured on the back of the record recorded three songs at The Record Plant LA one of which made it to the record. The band existed and recorded a song for this record before the record was finished and before any tour was even planned.

[@vapatsfan6174]

So all the roomies in my dorm had this album. We practiced starting the album at the same time. Finally we nailed it and 35 dorm rooms were blasting Longtime. It was amazing. What a great time to grow up with all the awesome music. Love seeing all the people on KZbin discovering how great our music was and appreciating it.

[@MetalphysicalMel]

You are right. This album came out in 1976. It's so incredible it blew our minds.

[@lilpoohbear653]

still does!!!

[@bluesman3232]

Yes, it did!

[@DebJensen-u9q]

God, we were so lucky to grow up in this era!

[@davidcohen4595]

Yes we were! Rock n Roll needs to return!

[@SIXX2772]

One of the BEST albums ever!

[@realbser1956]

For many years the self titled debut album from Boston was the highest selling debut album in history. Total worldwide sales exceeded 50,000,000. Each and every song is or was a hit on the radio at the time. An album made for cruising down the highway. The Boston sound changed rock music and was very influential on many bands that followed. This was a great request by your sub and I hope to see much more of Boston on your channel. 🔥

[@derekdonnell6503]

FACTS!!!!

[@yaimavol]

And they are still not in the RNR HOF along with Kansas and Toto, but this year they nominate Dolly Parton who tried to refuse the nomination. Things that make you go hmmmm....

[@seanpatton7406]

Hear what POLO says at min 6-7.....👏😆😂👍. POLO, yes that is something you need to consider, bothering others around you in traffic...... HOWEVER (as Bill Burr says 😂) POLO, you need to be more concerned about getting a SPEEDING TICKET 🚔

[@greglegakis4177]

Debut was 17 million, second only to GnR Hold the phone! My research tells me Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell album blows away both with 43 million, 3rd best all time behind Back in Black and Thriller.

[@jamessweet5341]

This album solidified FM radio stations across the country. I mean who wanted static AM after this incredible soundscape burst on the scene?

[@sheriburke8276]

As a grandma, I immediately jumped and and started dancing! The cats freaked out, they haven’t seen me dance before, and wondered if I was having a fit or something! Good times! Thanks for the memory. ❤️

[@boaz63]

A band so good, Massachusetts named a city after them… 😎👍

[@gainesp2003gainesp]

I don't know how anyone can walk this planet and have never heard a Boston song. But then again, there are a lot of songs out there.

[@rubentullenaar2934]

Tom Scholz, an MIT master degree graduate, made this and many other songs from the debut album in his basement when he was about 20 years old. It was a rough sketch, he used buckets and cans as drums and an old organ to make a demo tape. No record company wanted to give him a contract and record an album. After 7 years finally he managed to record it and release it in 1976. Eventually it became one of the best selling debut album, ever. Brad Delp is the singer, sadly died to soon after he took his own life in 2007, RIP Brad.

[@snakeinthegrass7443]

Did not know that. That's sad

[@bobr4987]

To add to your comment, Tom also created the "Rockman" amplifier that gives the spacey whooshing sounds. Tom has many videos on YT telling how it all got started and how he made the tape and shopped it around, didn't have a real band until they got a contract. The company took the tape and said "We just need to polish it up some" but Tom said "I Already did that" so they ended up not changing anything. History was made!

[@seanpatton7406]

@@bobr4987 I can't wait until POLO finds/reacts to Led Zeppelin 😳🤯. He's already got Pink Floyd "Comfortably Numb" under his belt.

[@seanpatton7406]

@Ruben T - 👏🙏 Thank You man for that comment. I'm pretty sure POLO reads most, if not all of the comments for each reaction he does. But, most people don't know the true story regarding how Boston came to be.

[@bradb3248]

On KZbin is Brad Delp’s last interview only two days before he died, what a cool nice guy, incredibly sad, when I listen to it I wonder if he had decided to take his life yet.

[@sggjose]

Doesn't matter how many times I hear this song, it always brings a smile to my face. The vocals are impressive... and autotune is still 20 years away. This is music.

[@kathleenmcclish4709]

Same!!

[@salmaccarrone2401]

Hell yea it is. Damn, what a decade for music

[@kimberlybain9143]

The soundtrack to my summer of 1976. The entire album is fantastic.

[@bonscotty67]

I was fortunate to sing backup vocals for Boston at the 87 Texas jam. Brad died the same day as my 99-year-old grandmother. I cried for both. I really appreciate how you back it up a little bit after a comment you make, in order to get back in context with the music. Thank you for that. And thank you for your videos. Love them all. It's always nice witnessing someone discovering Boston for the first time :-) Rock on brother!

[@markwilliams6394]

I was at that Texas Jam.

[@yaimavol]

So what was your impression of the band?

[@markwilliams6394]

They sounded good to me. Whether a band is good or not it's more about the atmosphere. I've seen good concerts and bad ones but I always have fun and that's what it's all about.

[@bonscotty67]

@@markwilliams6394 yeah that was just the start of the tour. The second show to kick it off if I remember. Late June-ish... You want to talk about ambience? It would have sucked to be in the crowd these days. Especially at my age lol. I think 93,000 people attended.. I remember using the Dallas fire department on stage right and left blasting the crowd with water cannons and fire hoses just to cool them down. But then that turned into a big cesspool of mud and shit cuz it was too crowded for anyone to take the time to go to a restroom.... But Brad was fresh and really seemed to enjoy the ambiance :-) Woodstock revisited lol

[@markwilliams6394]

@@bonscotty67 Luckily, I was in the seats but it was always hot at the Cotton Bowl. Like it better when the jam was in the Astrodome also. It's an easier drive from the Corpus Christi area than driving to Dallas for 8 hrs. 3 hrs is so much better. That must have a great experience for you to sing back up for Brad. He seemed like he was a class act and he will be missed.

[@michaellynch9550]

Boston is bad ass

[@patches6309]

Many a 6x9 rear car stereo speaker was completely blown out to this song back in the late 70's into the early 80's! Man this reminds me of cruising in a car with my buddies headed down to the shore to party our asses off! Better times for sure. Great reaction bro, keep em coming.

[@billpunch265]

One of rock's greatest masterpieces. Imagine 50k people in a stadium clapping together. Now you understand. Pure musical genius that will never be duplicated. The 70s and 80s were the greatest decades for Rock and Roll and they always will be

[@stephenroby8498]

This album came out in 1976, and it's one of the best out of the gate records. The Showtime series Ray Donovan uses these two songs with Jon Voight (prisoner) being transported by bus, while a tanker truck passes on a major hill. The truck driver has a heart attack causing the truck to shift into neutral. The bus driver unaware the truck is now coming down the hill before it's too late. Great scene.

[@philkrugel1452]

Just wait until you hear "More Than A Feeling"... it's easily one of the greatest songs ever produced!

[@RockDocNeal]

Hey Polo, this song is from Boston's first album in 1976, which is definitely one of the...if not THE...greatest debut albums in the history of rock. Tom Scholz, who has a masters degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, was the genius behind this album and the origin of the band Boston. He wrote almost all the songs (Brad Delp had one full songwriting credit and one as co-writer), he played all the instrumental parts (except drums) and he recorded and produced the album in his basement (with many of the guitar effects processors made custom by him). Brad Delp (RIP) did all the lead and harmony vocals on the album. He was definitely one of the greatest male rock vocalists and he was humble and genuinely nice. I grew up in the same hometown as Brad Delp, Danvers MA, and my oldest brother graduated high school with him. He unfortunately suffered from chronic depression and he committed suicide in 2007 with a note pinned to his shirt that said in French, "I am a lonely soul".

[@neechee5150]

@RockDocNeal said, "he [Tom] played all the instrumental parts (except drums) and he recorded and produced the album in his basement (with many of the guitar effects processors made custom by him). As documented in the legal documents involved in the lawsuit between Barry and Tom, Barry plays electric guitar on the following songs: Foreplay (electric rhythm guitar), Long Time (electric rhythm guitar, huge power chords, and all lead guitar solos) and Let Me Take You Home (electric rhythm guitar, slide guitar and lead guitar). We also learn that Fran plays bass on Foreplay and Let Me Take You Home. We also learn that that Brad plays acoustic guitar on Let Me Take You Home. This is also confirmed as fact in the liner notes of the 2006 Scholz remaster of the debut Boston record. As the Rockman which is not an effects processor but rather a guitar pre amp with on board effects and processing did not exist at the time this record was made nor were there any prototypes at the time this record was made, what are the specific guitar effects processors are you referring to? The heart of the guitar sound on this record is Marshal SLP tube amp that Tom modified, a graphic eq and a large variable resistor from a theater lighting system that Tom modified to serve as his power soak, so what exact effects processors are you claiming that Tom custom made and used for this record?

[@roadhog19]

When you said you were envisoning grand parents jumping up and cuttin a rug, I lol because your spot on. I am 66 and grew up with everything you embarking on. Great travels await you.

[@KarenSutherland-h8s]

Every party we went to had this album in their collection.

[@pastorofmuppets13]

This band probably sounds familiar because you have heard their song "More Than a Feeling" - it has been in so much advertising, films, and TV shows - hard to imagine anyone not hearing at least a few lines from it. They have an unmistakable and unforgettable sound.

[@Merzui-kg8ds]

I AM that grandma. Boston was one of the first bands I listened to with this whiz-bang invention called headphones. LOUD. Boston simply cannot be listened to at low decibel. I might have hearing loss directly from my late 70s cranking of Boston. Worth it.

[@decolonizeEverywhere]

Me too! Graduated in 79 and this song played on the car stereo so loud the windows shook

[@korndogz69]

One thing that's hard to grasp hearing Boston at this point is just how different Boston was at the time. No one sounded ANYTHING like them when they came out. This album came out when I was 4 years old. My mom brought it home on vinyl, and I wore out needles playing it over and over. I will never ever tire of this album. It's on my list of masterpiece albums where every single song is of high quality, and you don't feel a need to skip any songs.

[@scottdebruyn7038]

I was about 17 when it came out, so it had a profound effect on my musical tastes 'in the day! :)

[@kentharris3878]

Very true about the sound of Boston being so completely different. First, Sholz invented the guitar geer used and that distortion was EPIC. Second, the vocals were other-worldly and the harmonies heavenly. Quite a combo. Very few albums ever made like this one where every track was a bonified radio hit.

[@pugowner1347]

Welcome to Boston! I had never heard them either. 1976 I was16 years old and just got my birthday card from grandmother. She sent me $20 and I bought this album because of the cover art. So glad I did. Been loving it for 46 years.

[@rwilson7197]

Hard to believe 45 yrs has passed since this came out ...o Lordy...yes we still love this music and moving to it though I havent heard this in a few decades! Enjoyed your reaction & comments.

[@hondaphan4172]

I was sixteen years old when their awesome debut was released and it took the world by storm as their trademark sound was soooo much different than anything we had heard before. Ironically drummer Sib Hashien was the nephew of one of my high school teachers.

[@cassbumk3565]

Love Boston. Glad you liked it. You should also check out Kansas.

[@markgrace7181]

Once upon a time my favorite band! But they are still very high!!

[@virginiacrowder2357]

This was my older brothers music and I'm 8 years younger and I fell in love with Boston. I begged him to play it for me over and over. Still have his albums today and play them when I want to hear really good rock.

[@paulsorensen6643]

I wish is was 1976 . The 70s was the best decade of music.

[@jamiegriffin9866]

The entire album is a freaking Banger!;!

[@archibaldtuttle8481]

Must be played -- so loud -- that if the windows and doors are open -- the dust leaves your house.

[@tamraanne4066]

Jay Sekulow Band does a great cover of this. Lead singer of Kansas sings it and the “old” musicians are just fantastic.

[@robertwalker1803]

Musical foreplay….the best. And the follow up song of all time.Genius writing.

[@DaveSVT-rn4of]

They were amazing when I was young and still are to this day.

[@ScottMorris7385]

1976.. sitting by the pool, summer time.. listening to Boston on an 8 track.. lol. Great time to be alive

[@LetItBeSummer-1]

Definitely a song to play while you are flying down the highway blasting this out the windows. That’s exactly what comes to mind for me and I will definitely do that every time I put this song on. Fantastic!

[@SoOutrageous]

Over 45 years later, still relevant and fresh. All of their older stuff rocks.

[@grandmarshal7539]

Love your reactions!! The 70's and 80's will never be replaced

[@SnowEfaust]

You mean the 60s and 70s!

[@amberabel6587]

Boston has been on my playlist since it came out !!!!

[@scm0717]

That would be me jumping up and dancing, though I'm not a grandma. One of the best first albums ever for a band. The whole album is fantastic!

[@jennettswan]

Brad Delp's vocal range was amazing and lent so much to the style and feel of every song they sang. I was fortunate enough to see them live. Best concert I ever attended. They played nearly 3 hours. I can only imagine how exhausted they were after, because I was emotionally drained!

[@tonymusolino2369]

The ‘70’s were full of Peacefull times…party times…takin’ it slow…nice and mellow.😉 Cruisin’ in my ‘76 camaro RS 350. Pickin’ up chicks…those were the days…

[@PhotoDaveJax]

One of my very favorites everrrr. Thanks for keeping it relevant for the jits.

[@scottmiller4633]

They need in the rock and roll hall of fame!!

[@mickeyfontenot6883]

I grew up in high school from 1976 - 1980 and this was the SHIT!!

[@jeanniejeffries4125]

Boston is one of my favorite bands. Brad Delp (RIP) had one of the most amazing and beautiful voices in rock history.

[@SnowEfaust]

Yep!! Grandma dancing here. Hard to erase the teenage sounds from my soul. And off the subject, you should narrate books because I want to fall asleep with your voice reading to me.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

That debut Boston album was just phenomenal. I just can't overemphasize enough that you could literally just pick any song from it and it will be fire. And, a lot of us heard this album for the first time on 8-track cassette cartridge, which basically just continually loops. I mean I also had the record album but the eight track is portable, you can play it in somebody's car, you can take it over to somebody's house and play it, it can be played at parties, you can take it out to the lake and play it on a little 8 track player with speakers basically a boombox. And so the way that these songs are ordered on the album is also just really effective. These guys were so damn good. They were actually my first concert and it was not long after this album was released and by then I knew it inside out absolutely. And you're so right, this is meant to be listened to loud. There is so much ear candy here and the talent is through the roof, blast it until you're on the edge of hurting your ears, laugh. It's amazing. And that's what the concert was like. It was an indoor smaller arena by today's standards and it felt so intimate and it was so loud. And they had all these subwoofers just punching you in the gut with the low end of the kick drum and the bass guitar and the low pedal part of the organ that he played, and those stacked harmonies and the vocals just were towering and they bounced off and just rang around the arena, and all the people out there cheering and screaming together, it's just crazy. It sounded so good, it sounded so good live. I think I was in 9th grade and that was my first concert and if I remember right, it seemed like a lot of money to scrape together at the time as a kid, but the ticket price was $7.50. All general admission no reserved seating you get into a huge crush of people and you fight through the river to stay upright and you either race to get the best seats if you want to be up there or you race to the floor to be as close to the stage if you want to be down there. By the time you're there for an hour and the opening band will be coming out soon, at some point there's so much pot haze in the air you can hardly see, lol. And even for the people that didn't partake, you would get a contact high. Frisbees and beach balls flying around inside this place, laugh somehow people brought in small bongs, they brought it entire fifths of Jack Daniels and they would pass it around even to people nearby that they didn't know; it just felt so communal. For about 4 hours there everybody is on the same side. Time just stops. It's one of the most powerful experiences, especially to a teen like myself. And in the end I went to many many concerts, but this one was the first. Please do more off of this album. You could literally just do the whole album.

[@michaelasay8587]

Omg u wrote a book dude

[@stevedahlberg8680]

@@michaelasay8587 Sho nuff!

[@lilpoohbear653]

yep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wore out a couple 8 tracks, wax and a few cassettes...60 years old and still listening...

[@stevedahlberg8680]

@@lilpoohbear653 Right on!

[@dallasfan24]

Great description of 80s and 90s concerts. You brought back my younger days. Thanks. Plus, This album is one of my favorite s of all time. Hard to choose one, there were so many great bands and songs back then.

[@Das_Ginger]

One of the most epic intros of all time. If you look closely at the album cover, the spaceships are upside down guitars.

[@suzanneanderson6921]

Oops

[@skarlottt]

Cool

[@CharlesEmory-y4h]

Interesting. The concept art seems to be major cities as spacecraft fleeing an exploding Earth.

[@Oldjohn52]

those are Ovation guitars which were brand new in 1977 when the album came out. First guitar with a curved back made of composite

[@mmichaeldonavon]

My dear friend, Polo. I do feel I know you a bit. In 1976, when this song came out, I was one year from USAF Retirement (20 years). Even I, the professional, fairly high ranking military enlisted man, could GET DOWN with this song. :-) I loved it then - I love it now. Many thanks for playing it. I was having "Suds" and listening to this when I was 36 years old. Drank beer and had fun - and turned up the juke box. :-) Oh, I had to look up the term: "Stank face." Boston would have loved your compliment. :-) You're a good man, Polo. We like to be around you. Thanks my brother.

[@stephaniefain1863]

To me, Boston was just pure joy. I have a lot of favorites, but, Boston just sounds like these guys were loving life.

[@scm0717]

This song reminds me in the beginning of a Styx song. Remember, this is 1976. Imagine this music without the equipment of now.

[@jenniferkatz6426]

No auto tuners then lol

[@petermontagnon4440]

I had all of their albums. This was music when music was music!!!!

[@jamesgarrett6848]

Amen to that!

[@thorstambaugh1520]

Ever hear a song for the first time and automatically realize it is epic? That was Boston's first album!!

[@MelissaPalmer-zy5nh]

You just had an "eargasm". Brad Delp, one of the BEST voices in rock. Gone too soon. When this album came out, word spread. Sold out so fast.

[@danieldyer1312]

Tom graduated MIT as a engineer, his father was in a band when he was young. Tom was writing , composing, the whole first Album. In the basement. Dad says don't waste your time you're an engineer. After the Album was complete and how great it was. Tom started making sound equipment for guitarist and singers, all this Great stuff still used today. Dad said what are you working on this equipment, work on the next album...Dads...

[@anditcametopass5924]

One of my all time favorite albums start to finish.

[@dizastro5437]

Boston was immaculate on this debut. Every piece was perfectly placed, drums, bass, vocals and guitars.

[@philipdickey6460]

Check out their other songs on this album, More Than A Feeling, Smokin, Peace Of Mind, and Rock And Roll Band

[@tt55k]

Boston is PURE ROCK AND ROLL !

[@douglasgonzalez7561]

This was a MONSTER of an album! Upon its release you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing one of these songs from a passing car or from someone’s window. Every single track was amazing! I also feel that the sound on the guitars completely inspired the grunge bands that would dominate the 90’s some 20 years later.

[@dianecandoflamtaps3688]

I am and always will be a classic rock fan! Boston one of my favorites!

[@chrisbera7952]

Wow, you are really making me feel old! I was 11 or 12 when their first album came out. I have memories tied to their music going back almost 50 years!!!! I still listen to them weekly while working out. Their music is so good it doesn't get old. As for you, better late than never!

[@southernbella6535]

My teen years , Boston on the radio , windows down on a TN back road with my girlfriend and a 6 pack of beer heading out to a bonfire in a field with 10 others ...good memories . Music was so important to us and Boston was always on the play list . Great reaction , be well :)

[@donnamoss7480]

OH YEAH 🎉❤This The Best and More than a feeling and Peace of Mind ❤

[@christiwallace2638]

Great Band ..More Than a Feeling great song 🎵

[@alans1870]

And to think this was conceived and mostly recorded in a basement. Unreal.

[@Higsby100]

I had family that lived on Cape Cod, so I was lucky enough to visit once a year as a kid. Hearing them sing "Rock n roll band" was always great. Dancing on the streets of hyannis always made me want to grow up, get drunk, and dance around Hyannis

[@johncarpenter3751]

The reason this album is so amazing is because it has the ability to make you feel nostalgic about the 70s when you weren’t even around then. I was born in 82 and wasn’t a real human being until 92 and so there’s no way I should feel nostalgia when it comes to 70s music and really I don’t except when it comes to this band.

[@dorisleone8006]

THIS IS A SONG THAT WHEN YOU HEAR IT COME ON THE RADIO YOU WANT TO TURN UP THE VOLUME!! IMAGINE HEARING THIS LIVE! WHAT AN EXPERIENCE!!

[@kevinehle6637]

More Than A Feeling is their most famous and iconic song. This is one of those "MUST" songs for all music reactors. 🎶

[@nicholasthomas3635]

Car driving song indeed. A long twisty, tree line 2 lane highway on a warm summer day. Been there done that when it was new, we were in high school. Auto sound systems were just stepping up as well. CASSTTES & 8-tracks.

[@mmichaeldonavon]

Polo. It looks like I was back here about 9 months ago. My wife is asleep so I can Listen to my Boston without interference. :-) And I've had a "stank face" since the first note. When this song came out, my son was 14 years old - we both listened to it together. He's now a retired Major from the USAF, with 24 years service, and is a Grandfather. Still we love Boston! Thank you, my friend. Some music lives on forever - this is one piece that will.

[@yssanne24601]

I'll forever be grateful to Supernatural (the tv show) for introducing such awesome bands like Boston, Styx and so on to a younger generation. I grew up on classic rock, but being a 90s kid in Croatia meant that we usually knew only the biggest bands until the internet came.

[@MikeBricker-o2l]

They really were something else. Caught a live show as a junior in high school and it still stands as one of the most incredible concerts I've experienced.

[@crazydale1000]

Back in 1976 this album was on FM radio 24 hours a day

[@elissalipman6600]

A total FAVORITE of mine transformational

[@Wolverines77]

Boston is one of the few bands that set the benchmark for everybody else to aspire to become. You can never "unhear" Boston, it will be in your head forever...

[@perfessermarshton5209]

In addition to being a great musician, songwriter, and producer Tom Scholz was an electronic genius who created his own effect devices. This was a significant part of the Boston sound. Another name that should be mentioned is the vocalist, Brad Delp, one of the greatest rock singers. He unfortunately took his own life over 10 years ago.

[@spiderbass65]

Tom’s electronics company was less than 2 miles from where I grew up. Definitely a genius.

[@All-Fur-Coat_No-Trousers]

The story of how this album came to be is nearly as mindblowing as the album itself

[@marthayoung2308]

Straight up! Hahaha! We were dancing on the dancefloor to it back in the late 70's. AND, just like you described it, everybody was playing it loud and singing along! BEST OF TIMES.

[@tonym1279]

you MUST listen to this album in its entirety. It's considered one of the greatest rock albums ever made.

[@capetowntrikeman]

Same band...More Than A Feeling and Don't Look Back...stunning songs.

[@scotte17887]

The year is 1978. The month late August and the sun is just setting. That warm wind blowing. The car is a yellow Mazda RX 3 with your 3 best buddies. Driving down the road toward the freeway. Boston is in the cassette player turned up. Timing it right so that you take the on ramp by down shifting to 3 gear right at thats moment of the guitar of Longtime comes on. Hit the merge lane and shift into 4th picking up the speed. Great time to be alive and a teenager. Boston rock on.

[@stevedouglas1654]

Use to listen to this cruising in my Monte Carlo in high school in 86 cranked up loud ! 🔥👏👏👍

[@m.ericwatson968]

Tom Scholz guitar tone is sparkling, it's so bright and crisp and clear; Scholz played and recorded most of this album himself, no band except lead vocals and drums, in a recording studio he built in his basement, record company had no idea when they signed him and his "band", took him 3 years and the record label were pissed, until they heard the final masters

[@neechee5150]

Some documented facts for you. 1. All of Brads vocals were recorded by producer John Boylan at Capital Studios Studio C. 2. Barry and Brad had played with Tom in bands and played on Toms demos years before this album was ever made. Barry actually introduced Tom to Brad back in 1969/1970. Barry, Brad, Tom and Jim Masdea played the song on this record years before this record was made. The band was Mothers Milk. The name of the band was not changed until this record was in the process of being signed. 4. The song let me take you home tonight was written by Brad and it was recorded in its entirety at the Record Plant LA. Smokin was co-written by Brad as well. 5. Barry plays electric rhythm guitar on Foreplay, Long Time and Let me Take You Home. Barry also plays the lead solo on Long Time. 6. Fran plays bass on Foreplay. 7. Brad plays acoustic 12 string on Let Me Take You Home. 8. In the liner notes of the Scholz 2006 remaster of this record, Tom was forced to give credit for all the work that Brad and Jim Masdea did on the arrangement work to get these songs to what we hear on the record today. You grossly understate the role that producer John Boylan played in this record coming to be and sounding like it does. Boylan made Tom re-record ALL drum and acoustic instrument tracks because they were according to Boylan amateurish. Boylan hired LA Engineer Paul Grupp to go to Toms studio to teach him proper mic technique and how to record acoustic instruments. In the end NOT ONE track from the demo that was sent to Boylan made it on the final record. This is a documented and corroborated fact. Sources: Mix Magazine interview with John Boylan and liner notes from 2006 Scholz remaster of the debut Boston record

[@kentinatl]

a classic for the ages,play it in 2322 and it will still rock..long live Boston

[@lisazaccardimeunier8378]

"More than a feelin" is my favorite Boston song.

[@glenaleksis4589]

Remember, this is 1976, no computers or auto tune used. This is all analog on tape.

[@johnwesch5926]

Great band. Very underrated

[@lavendergal2508]

I played guitar when all of this music came out and they’re using an ovation guitar, which was a marvel when it first was introduced. If you look at the album cover, the spaceships are also ovation guitars. They’re very distinct instrument and that’s a fun little rabbit hole if you feel like looking it up.

[@mattappenzeller3556]

Thanks for keeping this great music alive! This entire album is phenomenal

[@stevebuckskinner5482]

We definitely had some great music!!!

[@samredras]

One of my all time favorites ! The production is tight!

[@sherime1466]

Love Boston! I play this song everyday in the shower!