The EVOLUTION of Boston and why Brad Delp Deserved Better!-Professor of Rock

[@ProfessorofRock]

Poll: What is the Band or Song that GOT YOU INTO ROCK?

I have always hated the guys.

[@lorirose3846]

What song got me into rock? It wasn’t exactly rock, it was The Beatles. I hadn’t really been into music or listening to the radio as my parents were always in charge. My freshman year I walked into the snack shack I heard this music. I’d never heard before it was “ I Want a Hold your Hand”. I loved it, and wanted to hear more. I begged my parents for my own radio. I was a fan from then on.

[@donwarrington4916]

First rock song I ever recall hearing was Great Balls Of Fire ....

[@ueno1]

Beatles. Perfect songs.

[@56Truex]

The Beatles.....earliest recording I remember on my own without parental influence was Revolution. I loved Elvis but at the time I thought he was just an actor. Then Suspicious Minds came out and it was on after that.

[@jonlennon3348]

Brad Delp is one of the best rock singers ever.RIP Brad we miss you.

[@ProfessorofRock]

I agree 10000%

[@komitkazi]

@@ProfessorofRock separated at birth. Brad Delp. & Eric Bloom

[@michaelvanbuskirk8845]

Absolutely. So sad that depression was so bad with Brad. 😢

[@wandamseay8892]

Brad Delp was in my opinion the best

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

He died so young. R.I.P. Brad.

[@GoodbyeAmerica1]

Boston was an incredible band, the music is timeless. The fact they aren't in the Hall of Fame is an absolute insult.

[@Fiona2254]

The rolling stone mag people always hated Tom.

[@johnvannewhouse]

How is that possible?!?! I had no idea.....

[@ohsoedgy6888]

If Foreigner and Peter Frampton are in the Rock Hall now then Boston should then stand a good chance

[@keithwollenberg5237]

The Professor got it right: the RRHOF is not worthy of them. The exclusion of Boston utterly undermines their credibility.

[@IheartDogs55]

Does anyone respect the R&R HOF anymore? I don't.

[@Rob_Baker1962]

Back in the day, radio station WMMR 93.3 in Philadelphia had a feature they called the "Perfect album side," where they would play the entire side straight through. When Boston's first album came out, WMMR declared that the whole album was perfect so, for the "Perfect album side," they played the whole album - both sides - straight through. They weren't wrong.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for sharing!

[@beenaplumber8379]

I think a certain DJ needed to go out back and smoke something special...

[@jenniferdnoseworthy2348]

That’s awesome 😊

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

And they were right to do that

[@marcelhaik8035]

That is an awesome story! 🎉

[@garrett6064]

December 2014, my last post on FB was, "Even though you've got to where you're going, you just can't get out of the car when More Than A Feeling is on the radio."

[@kellygreene6752]

Yes, too true! Time stops when that song starts to play.

[@jenniferdnoseworthy2348]

And that’s the truth Garrett ❤

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

And why’d you leave after that?

[@Terk131]

Yup, More Than a Feeling and Stranglehold are the 2 songs that keep me in the car

[@Nrustica]

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 now wasting their life on youtube comment threads

[@brucespidle8711]

My new girlfriend, Mary Ann, took off with her parents at the end of sophomore college year. Walked back to my dorm room to finish packing up. Strangely enough, More Than a Feeling was playing on my stereo, as I had just seen my Mary Ann walk away. Well, this September we will celebrate our 45 wedding anniversary! This song, is of course, still one of our favorites.

[@normatible9795]

❤

[@demetriuscooksey7147]

Awesome, thanks for sharing.

[@jeffreyklebert4106]

Sounds like synchronicity!

[@play4u67]

Congratulations 🙂♥ on your on going lifelong love, Here's to wishing you both well and many more years together!!! It's always great to hear someone's "good" memory of their life ♥. Boston was the greatest band I'd ever heard (at the time), however, Boston remains my all-time favorite band!! My other favorite band is Bad Company, however, Boston is my true band at heart ♥!!

[@stevenkeith3279]

The best of the best Boston will live for eternity

[@theduel007]

Epic quote, "The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame isn't worthy of them." - The Professor of Rock.

[@ProfessorofRock]

For sure.

[@vamparclothingco77]

The R&R Hall Of Fame is a joke.

[@thomaspalazzi7795]

Hall of Shame

[@coreytallentcoreytallent6584]

@@ProfessorofRock I have said numerous times in other forums that Boston belongs in something like the Smithsonian Institute. Nothing like before or since this album. The RORHOF is an absolute abhorrent to rock music and I am 99.999999 % postive they are run by the Rolling Stone Magazine.

[@michaelbarnes4403]

almost got fired because of this album, I was a stock boy at T,G&Y, taking new music to the girl in the music department (Lori) about the 3rd trip she was playing Boston, Foreplay was playing, when the transition to Long Time came we started dancing... about that time the manager came around the corner, said if he caught us doing that again he would fire us both.. was hard to believe with him trying not laugh while he was scolding us haha... thanks for the great memory... :)

[@ProfessorofRock]

Wow! Thanks for sharing!

[@fredgroenke2586]

I’m afraid I might get fired trying to listen to Professor of Rock every day at 10:00am at work.

[@JBowman-ps2ri]

Foreplay @ Work, over the speakers & Live @ your Jive🤘 Keep On Rockin On 'Fore'Playa🎸😅😅

[@kathymartin7724]

I had the album at the time and played it often. One of our favorite songs.

[@scottalan5282]

So did you marry that girl or what? Lori sounds like a keeper. 😄

[@ianbarber311]

I got 58 demerits in '78 for going AWOL at military school to see them in Birmingham, AL. Took a month to march them off, worth every step!!!

[@jillwklausen]

Ha ha that's awesome.

[@DC8091]

Sholz is the ULTIMATE D.I.Y. musician! It is so bad ass to do what he did without sequencers let alone without Logic or Pro Tools, building his own pedals as he could make a better one than he could buy, & then standing up to everyone and making some of the best albums ever! Certainly needs to be included amongst the GOATS!!!🤘🤘

[@ProfessorofRock]

For sure. Thanks my friend!

[@Peter_S_]

He didn't make pedals that were "better than he could buy". He made his own compression/distortion/chorus/amp-sim design which was unique and did something unique so he had a unique tone. He commercially released it as the Rockman series and made good income from his electronic engineering skills during the day. After that it was no longer unique and it's the sound of the clean and dirty guitars on Def Leppard's album Hysteria for example. It's extreme enough to be pigeonholed but it's been used by many pro artists including Joe Satriani, countless cover bands that want an exaggerated 80s tone available, and zillions of kids in bedrooms. It's a great bit of kit.

[@DC8091]

@@ProfessorofRock even Trent or Al could NOT do what he did

[@DC8091]

@@Peter_S_ true, but the point is that there was nothing that made & did what he wanted that could be bought so he made what became an iconic by himself

[@rattyguitars]

And just a few years earlier across the pond, another great guitarist was making sounds out of his self built guitar without the use of any synthesizers. Of course I’m talking about Brian May!

[@lorewilhelm9182]

I got the 45 of 'Sugar Sugar' by The Archies on the back of a cereal box in the 60's! I remember playing Boston on an 8 track in my VW Bug driving to Venice High School in the 70's.

[@luissallard9761]

The cereal was filled with "Sugar Sugar" too?

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

That’s so cool!

[@craiggornik7081]

1985, underage, gravel pit, keg of beer, IH Scout, Pioneer tape deck with home speakers on the roof and Boston blasting... good memories.

[@brucespidle8711]

Drove Scouts while working for IH. Loved them!

[@internettroll7604]

I’ve told this story before in another of your videos. 4:42 One of my earliest and favorite memories of a Boston song was when I was about 7 years old in 1977. My brother had a GTO and had to watch me. He strapped me in the front seat and we went to go fishing. I remember flying down the highway as Foreplay came on the radio. My brother picked up more speed. I was having a ball. We were driving up a hill as Foreplay was ending and broke into It’s been such a long as we crested the hill and saw the bay in all its splendor. Wide open skies, the bay, it was an awesome view. At the time I did not know we were listening to Boston or what the songs were. I heard the song a few years later as I was really getting into music and that memory came back to me. I still get that memory and feeling of awe to this day.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for sharing!

[@ediemarie13]

I grew up in Boston, so I was always in love with their music - hometown pride aside. When I moved to California, I met my husband. Our first concert together was Boston in Aug. 1987 at the Forum. That was the night he proposed. He told me years later that he almost asked if he could do it from the stage! It still brings us wonderful memories when we hear any of their music, 37 years later ❤

[@thaismatsumoto]

We were at the show there at the Forum too. We took all our California friends. Wasn't our first show..that would be at the Springfield Civic Center in Springfield,Mass. Much smaller venue so a much better show.We are from western Massachusetts and moved in 1986 to Southern California. Lived in Thousand Oaks for a few years.Now back in western Massachusetts.

[@SpeedbirdHeavy]

That's so awesome ❤

[@ogam5]

@@thaismatsumoto : yep - didn't go; first show I ever saw was several weeks later while at Classical (junior year): Styx (The Main Event Tour) with Nantucket leading off there ("Heartbreaker" had broken on to FM stations - THINK it was 'CCC where I initially heard it) only a FEW months before that.....

[@desk1964]

I got to meet Brad Delp. He came into the office as we doing a music memorabilia trade with a coworker. Super nice guy. My little brother and his friends whom were aspiring musicians, walked up to the front door of his home in New Hampshire. They knocked on the door and asked Brad if they could his advice for their musical career path. Not only did he give advice he gave them all a complete tour of his home studio. That’s the kind of guy Brad Delp was.

[@rickfromthecape3135]

The RRHoF never fails to embarrass itself. Boston will always be one of my favorites. RIP Brad.

[@Ari-jj9op]

My girlfriend in 76's father bought a quad stereo system and set it up in their basement. I swear that first Boston lp cranked to the max that first night with it was freaking magic. It made your hair stand on end. I would count that lp as the most amazing 'first-spin' experience I've ever had. Kudos man, I grew up in mid-Michigan at the height of rock, the stories are endless.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for sharing!

[@marcelhaik8035]

Great story!

[@Pjrock2112]

Saw Boston live in 87,Brad Delp has no equal!

[@QueenOfTheNorth65]

Saw them in concert about 10 years ago (sadly, after Delp had passed) but they were still fantastic.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Right?

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for sharing!

[@seanswinton6242]

Same here. The mid-80's had some excellent concerts. Many being the first time seeing bands like Dire Straits, Boston, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, 😊and Bruce Springsteen.

[@Fiona2254]

I was fortunate to see them before Brad was gone, 3 times! Once with our children when they were young teens and preteens. It was alway a great show.

[@rballersUnited]

Love your comment, "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, does not deserve Boston"! So true! Great episode.

[@georgemathie8123]

Boston's debut has that special magic about it and it's a fun blast of rocking tunes and no matter how many times you listen to it it still sounds fresh today in 2024

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Every song is classic.

[@georgemathie8123]

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 that it is peace of mind is my favorite just love that guitar bridge in that song

[@nonamegivenatbirth]

Hearing Boston still gives me chills even after all these years! Foreplay/Long Time, More Than A Feeling, Don’t Look Back, so many classics… ❤️Brad Delp. RIP.

[@Doadab13]

Greatest first album of all time.

[@ProfessorofRock]

I agree.

[@Doadab13]

@@ProfessorofRock Boston was the complete opposite of raw. Everything was perfect 🤩

[@Fiona2254]

I just think the same. It’s just perfection.

[@komitkazi]

Hard to argue. Court of Crimson King and Toxicity and Surfing With the Alien just saying. But those are......not after not much thought. Boston's debut probably sold more than those three combined. And then some. Much more mainstream also. Yeah dotwodabs. Greatest first album of all time. .You got the right one, baby!

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Indeed. No other band started this strong

[@stevevanness4195]

My brother who was two years older than me, bought the first Boston album without hearing a single note on the advice of a friend. It was one of the most memorable listening experiences of my life when we came home, put it on in our living room and listened to the entire album in astonishment!

[@ProfessorofRock]

So rad!

[@beenaplumber8379]

I wish I'd had that experience - hearing it all together the first time. By the time I got a copy I'd heard it all on the radio, and loved every bit of it. So when I bought the album it was like, I know this song - and this one! It went like that for every song on the album because they all had airplay in my area. So that was kinda cool.

[@stevevanness4195]

@@beenaplumber8379 my brother played guitar and was a bit of an audiophile, I think we had heard it was mostly recorded at home

[@mikeobryan1]

@stevevanness4195 That’s a cool concept - I wonder how many stories there are of people buying albums without being familiar with them. In 1976, when I was 16 I bought Nils Lofgren’s ‘CryTough’ album entirely based on an ad in Circus magazine - I thought the cover looked so cool! I didn’t have a big collection at the time - I think Jeff Beck Blow by Blow, KISS Alive, and Night at The Opera (Bohemian Rhapsody was the 1st and only 45 I ever bought and then decided to just do albums). Don’t think I bought any music blindly since but got every Nils album after that (except for the $175 box set😟). I did buy albums in the discount bins of bands I knew but maybe no songs on that given album. Wonder how many people have bought an album based on a cover or word of mouth having never heard any music from it 🤔 (Sorry I guess that was a bit chatty!)

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

And it changed your lives!

[@IheartDogs55]

I always connected "A Man I'll Never Be" with "Peace of Mind." Both touch on the idea of affirmation, in a way. "Peace of Mind" reveals the uncertainty of decision making; "A Man I'll Never Be" examines the unfolding of life after those decisions have been made. That's just me. I think Scholz is uniquely gifted in presenting common human experiences in lyrical form. You can't be too far off the mark when so many people can identify with your music.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Those songs are definitely connected.

[@DonaldMerrit]

I live in New Hampshire about 1 hour away from Boston and I did some work in Toms house in Massachusetts, just after the first album was released. The basement Tom recorded the album in, is fantastic in that, it was just a plain old L-shaped basement with a water tank and furnace, fireplace, stairwell, hollow spaces and no acoustical treatment to speak of. I now have my own home studio and I do not worry so much about "The Room". So many musicians fret about the acoustics of their recording space. Doesn't take much to make most rooms work.

[@michaelraiger623]

I saw Boston in 1978 on their Don't Look Back tour at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Sammy Hagar had just broken away from Montrose to begin his solo career. My friends and I were the only ones who knew who Hagar was. We were going nuts in the front row (festival seating) and Hagar played Bad Motorscooter in n a slide guitar sitting on the stage right in front of us. Then the walls of sound when Boston came on stage. Late 70s. Best time for rock.

[@ProfessorofRock]

So cool! Thanks for sharing!

[@Fiona2254]

Tickets between 10 & 20 bucks, those were the days.

[@marktait2371]

yeh my brother says same of all the bands 70s early 80s stones was only one more than 10 foghat theatre and pfunk mothership were like 12 15 stones 20 he recalled like says thatll get you 2 beers now

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

That’s awesome!

[@marktait2371]

have to ask brother if he went to hagar boston

[@judymusselman567]

I love how you call out the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for so many bands that are so worthy. They will never listen but we know and they can't take it away from us . Im so happy you have come to speak out for so many old and young to recognize real and great music. Love you Adam and as I've said before please never stop being the voice of millions ❣️

[@maxxedout2020]

Third Stage came out my senior year in high school. There's a lot of good songs on it like We're Ready and Cool the Engines. I haven't listened to it in years but I'm getting ready to play some of them right now. This is what this channel is about.

[@ProfessorofRock]

I have to agree.

[@brucemaughan2324]

I saw Boston on their debut tour. It was epic. That was 335 concerts ago. I still remember it like it was yesterday. Have all their albums. But Boston- Boston is my favorite.

[@mariskacandice890]

The debut was genius! The demo made in the garage was so good that it was to be released as is. Resolution was too poor so it was painstakingly recreated. R.i.P.. Brad Delp. What a voice and you are painfully missed. 😭

[@dad4ever-c90]

Boston was one of my very first concerts in high school! Unforgettable experience! I can't imagine how many times I played their first two albums from start to finish. Every song was a HIT. I didn't realize how much time it took before the debut album was released. Waiting eight years for Third Stage felt like a lifetime. Their songs are truly timeless.

[@ProfessorofRock]

So cool!

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

When did you see them in concert?

[@ДМИТРИЙПристромов-к2д]

The fact is The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has never ever made a legend out of a person or band. We don't need them to prove the quality of music that's inside our hearts already.

[@waynevia6976]

Boston is one of my favorite groups in my opinion. So many great songs by Boston.

[@ProfessorofRock]

No question!

[@darlawrence9295]

Steve Perry, Freddie Mercury and Brad Delp are my top 3 greatest best rock era singers. EVH and Tom Scholz are my top 2 innovator guitarists. These 2 changed the sound of music.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

For me it's Rob Halford, Ian Gillan & Bruce Dickinson. Guitar wise is tough....EVH is my all time favorite. After him I pick Jimi Hendrix.

[@darlawrence9295]

@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 man I love JP and Rob Halford. He STILL sounds good live!!

[@raddad10]

Adam, this is one of your best in music history. Born in 1962 my High School years was smack dab in the middle of everything good AND bad of Rock. Boston was one of the most favorite. At 62 yrs of age I still have Boston’s first 2 albums, still being played on my Pioneer TT over the Cerwin Vegas speakers. Awwwww, life was great at 16 listening to your favorite albums at 89 dB.

[@charlesbrown6217]

I'm glad that A MAN I'LL NEVER BE was your pick. That song is mind-blowing and emotional. When I listen to it I can't stop thinking I'll never be the man "I" want to be.

[@ProfessorofRock]

I agree... Such a powerful song.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

It’s the type of song you can only listen to once in a while.

[@grampaGT]

‘More Than a Feeling’ takes me back to high school faster than any other song. You do a fantastic job. You feed a need for those who lived through those times, and hopefully for those younger that have caught the bug of ‘antique’ music. ;-) I agree with your Boston analysis but shocked at your, “…saved rock music” line. Cue fog effect: Atlanta. 1974. If you wanted to rock you tuned to WQXI-AM. There were only two FM stations but unless a person, ‘had the correct change,’ as Dad used to say, the cars still had mostly AM radios. Summer of 1974 a disturbance in the earth’s magnetic field created WKLS-FM 96 Rock. I didn’t discover it until Christmas. Thankfully at home we had the stone knives and bearskins of stereo systems with a AM/FM radio. I’m sure larger cities already had several FM stations but Deep South Atlanta still had few elementary schools with air conditioning. 09/1975. Our high schools were 8th - 12th. (Elem. 1st - 7th) Sometime early that quarter I saw my first ‘KISS Alive’ t-shirt. But in 1975 I also remember Aerosmith, Queen, Heart, Alice Cooper, The Who, Led Zepplin, Rush, Foghat, Styx and Nazareth all releasing albums. Maybe you have access to sales figures to quantify your assertion but I’ve always laughed at the concept that rock was dying just by looking at the number of rock concert t-shirts in early high school.

[@markdeloria20]

When I was about 12 (1986) and started smoking the devil's lettuce, Boston's debut album was on the playlist at least twice a day, great music. When they toured for Third Stage, tickets sold out in 30 minutes. Was lucky to have seen them in 1995 (when I was 21). Brad Delp (R.I.P) returned for vocals and was utterly amazing. Both in his voice and stage presence. One of my most favorite concerts I've ever been to. I hold them in high regard and consider them alongside Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd as one of the greatest bands ever. Tom Scholz truly is a genius, and you can't fault him for being a perfectionist when everything he creates is actual perfection.

[@williamtriplett1274]

1985 I was 12 years old, a buddy of mine had an older brother who was a big metal head but had a ton of cool records. One day my buddy said “ you ever heard of a band called Boston?” I hadn’t, so he puts on More Than a Feeling and my mind melted. I was hooked. I got the title album and “Don’t Look Back with mowing money I’d saved up. A year or so later, Third stage hit and I was pumped! Finally got to see em in 95 in Charlotte NC on the Walk On tour. Your list was spot on IMO. Good memories!

[@tracerocks]

My first semester at Berklee (1980) I went to Harvard Square just to see it. Walked into this huge record store Harvard Coop. Boston album displayed a gold record. I started talking with an employee about how cool it was for Boston to let the record store borrow their gold record. He told that gold record was awarded to the store for selling 500,000 copies of that album.😮😮😮😮 I never dreamt that such a thing was possible.

[@RussellKellum]

This is my favorite channel. By far. Thank you.

[@rocketmanVA703]

I met Brad and Barry when they were touring as RTZ in 1991... Brad spent 5 minutes taking with me after the show... the nicest guy in Rock and Roll...Boston is my favorite band, and after we lost Brad, I couldn't listen to them for a year. I saw them live 2x, and each time they were magnificent.

[@RobKimbro1966]

The thing I most remember about Third Stage was that it was nearly impossible to find in any record store. To put this in context I must explain; I had been brought back to the states as my wife was having a hard time with the birth if our first daughter. The Air Force C5 landed at Dover AFB and I drove from East Tennessee to Rapid City SD. I literally hit every mall record store over the 1800 miles between Knoxville TN and Rapid City looking to buy a copy of either the CD or cassette only to keep being told "sorry but it sold out almost as soon as we put it out on the shelves". After being on leave fir a full month and a half I flew back to Turkey empty handed. Finally got one after returning permanently 6 months later.

[@chrisbodi6470]

My biggest regret never seeing Boston perform even though I grew up near Boston and was a young teen when they hit it big! But, I DID meet Brad a few times when he played with his side project Beatlejuice which were outstanding! He ALWAYS made time after these shows to talk to fans & I’ll cherish those conversations! Brad was so talented and kind. Terribly missed….

[@debbralehrman5957]

On March 5, 1979 Boston played Phoenix,Az. My Fiance and I ask my brother and his date to go along. Well she cancel on him that day🤷🏼‍♀️. So I suggest her ask our neighbor next door.(he had met her at our New Years Eve party and danced with her once) He did ask and she went with us. They were married on August 4,1979. They were married for over 42 years before she passed away. So don't ever be hesitant about going to a concert with someone you sister suggest. I mean you don't have to merry her. But if she is a good one go for it. They had a very good life. 🌹🌹 Thanks Professor👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌹

[@CornpopOBD]

My Top Vocalist for a band 1. Steven Perry 2. Brad Delp 3. Steve Walsh 4. Bono 5. Freddy Mercury 6. Dennis DeYoung 7. Paul Rodgers 8. Jim Morrison 9. Geddy Lee 10. Brian Johnson

[@melanieshaw3210]

I embarrassingly had to Google Steve Walsh🙈

[@ogam5]

.....would DEFINITELY add RJD, Roger Daltrey, Ian Gillan, Geoff Tate & Halford, even 'Midnight' (SEE: "Burning Bridges" - Crimson Glory; ANOTHER of the MOST impassioned vocals EVER) to that list (NOT including R & B stalwarts like Eddie Kendricks, Bobby Womack & SEAL, Andrew Roachford - SO many more.....)

[@ChristianK42]

In 1986 my cassette collection started to transition to CD's, that was when I could finally afford a CD player. I bought my first two CD's on the same day at Record Town. I picked up: Boston - Third Stage and Huey Lewis - Fore! Great memories! Remember how the CD's used to be in plastic frames so they would display as tall as the records in the shelves? @ProfessorofRock Thanks for being such a great channel! I was born in February 1972 - Your reminiscing and memories often feel like you were spying on my early life! You take me back and make me feel young again in almost every episode!

[@kevins4254]

"More Than A Feeling" is on my short list of greatest rock songs ever. Everything about this song is great- lyrics, vocals, guitars, percussion, etc.

[@Whitleythe13th]

in the 80's, my Mama and Dad introduced me to many band's and solo artists of many genre's and Boston was gladly one...been hooked ever since... Brad Delp, Jimi Jamison, Peter Cetera, Steve Perry, Keith Whitley, Michael Jackson, Johnny Cash, Phil Collins and so many more had a distinctive sound...missing from today's "music"... thankful for this video sir...

[@stevemclean5787]

F the rock hall !! They have proven year after year that they don't have a clue which artists SHOULD NOT be included in a club whose very name should serve as an indicator of who should be inducted. It's so simple! Somehow the echelon who make the decisions are not capable of making the right ones consistently. Far too many artists have been inducted that have no business being there nor aspired to be while too many others have been snubbed that have earned the right to be included in even the nomination process. I'm sure I speak for many others when I say there is very little respect for this organization. It's become so commonplace for them to snub deserving artists that it leaves millions shaking their heads every year. F the rock hall !!

[@kencoleman5007]

Earlier this week, I saw an old video from WCVB's "Chronicle" program where Scholz toured the Watertown basement which housed his old studio back when he worked at Polaroid.

[@RonHansen-h1x]

It’s too bad we don’t have the originality and creativity that Boston exemplified in today’s music. The soul and raw energy that music had has been hollowed out to a husk of what it once was.

[@matthewgustafson7737]

Originality is forbidden in today's version of music. All the record companies want is whatever fits the formula of what will sell.

[@TheSlowoldman]

@@matthewgustafson7737 that's how we are auditorily abused with garbage like Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj.

[@BillGraper]

@@matthewgustafson7737 Yep. Same boring chords, no solos, no long intros, and everything quantized. Soulless.

[@ProfessorofRock]

SO true. SADLY!

[@ProfessorofRock]

@@matthewgustafson7737 Exactly.

[@SuperMartind28]

Boston has a special place in my heart for several reasons. I graduated in 76 and boy was college a blast with that album. And being and living in Toledo, everyone heard of Sholz homes and right now I literally live about 1000 yards from where Tom went to school and grew up. Very cool. Oh and Boston is a major part in my gym music rotation.

[@JB-bc9nm]

"Hitch a Ride" on Boston's first album should be mentioned! I miss good rock and roll.

[@scottwalton5888]

Rick Beato and I proclaim "Hitch a Ride" a perfect 10

[@elaineh7993]

I have a great love for Boston and Kansas. They both have had so many great songs! "Hold on" by Kansas my ultimate favorite! Great video professor!

[@tombarry1824]

I didn't know Boston wasn't in Rock and roll hall of fame. That is nuts

[@theodoreritola7641]

CC dint make the US Oy;lmpic womans basket ball team either its all NOT FAIR

[@glensmith491]

they did have a city named for them.😂

[@Rountree1985]

Boston and Thin lizzy are the two most perplexing bands not in the Hall of Fame

[@Lewey57]

I was a freshman in college in the Fall of 1976 when Boston first hit the airwaves...and they immediately became my favorite band of all time.

[@conniebauer4128]

After Brad's death, it took me YEARS before i could listen to a Boston song without crying.

[@thebunter]

That first sunny spring weekend (especially when you're in a northern state) was the day to get out the car and just go for a drive. Boston playing and basically not a care in the world during that drive just enjoying the sun and the music. That was the late 70's early 80's for me. I couldn't drive until '82 but usually that first weekend before then I'd be going with dad to get the stuff we needed for the outdoor work and I'd bring the album along. Fun times. Thanks for the memories Professor.

[@douglasmesina6922]

My absolute favorite song from Boston is "Smokin '". R.I.P. Brad Delp

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Foreplay/Longtime for me.

[@jasonhansen3379]

I must share this moment with you. First of all thank you so much for sharing this story. I love this band, this music. Just the kind of music that can make any bad day brighten up, with me anyway. My first record was Kiss love Gun. My second was Boston's first record. It was at that point I stopped listening to Kiss and it was all Boston😊😊. I played the record so much it hissed when the songs would play this all before I had it for a year. Could never get enough of Long Time especially. I was 9 at this time of my life and I got 'Don't Look Back'. Again I play it to death eventually replacing the records with cassette tapes. But it was 1981 and Boston fell off the face of the earth? Here's where I am grateful for this video you have shared. When Third Stage came out I was in a love forever highschool relationship that ended horribly. Needless to say I was a crushed 17 year old, I mean crushed. Third Stage for whatever reason was my therapy. Man when I worked at Wendy's, also during this time of my life, when we closed the restaurant we would listen to that tape. We listened to it for months, before we changed it up. But I really connected to the songs 'I think I like it' and the epic ballad 'Hollyann'. This saved the heart of a broken teenager, loss of a first love. What it was for me was a sign of hope and a reason to live on with joy as Brad's beautiful voice hit that high note and echoed those lyrics "we held the line, can you believe it" What it meant to me, I can persevere, move on, like saying, "you got this jase". And the song "I think I like it" well that was my call, I was free, independent, and I liked it. These songs helped shape positive outcomes out of tragic situations for me. They were a gift for a young teenager growing up in a small town with a lost love that lived in that same town. The songs gave me that since of belonging in a time where feeling alone seemed to be the only option I had. This video gave it back, a reminder, these songs apply today with all the crazy things going on. The inspirational lyrics from Tom Schultz and the beautiful voice of Brad Delp that delivers them with the feeling that was intended. Bless Brad Delp, he is truly missed, but he still lives on through those iconic performances, he still lives on through the music. So inspiring, man thank you again! Listening to Third Stage as I write this Hollyann is so epic, so inspiring!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Poll: Straight up... Who is your pick for the MOST UNDERRATED Band or ARTIST of the Rock era?

[@SPak-rt2gb]

UFO

[@catherine6653]

Howard Jones

[@BillGraper]

Billy Squier, simply because of the fact that he never had a top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100. "My Kinda Lover" and "Lonely Is The Night" didn't even hit the top 40!!! 😮

[@surlechapeau]

Fanny. They are so underrated, they're not even rated :( 1st all-female rock band to release albums on a major label, 4 on Reprise Records AND Tour extensively.

[@TB6791]

Foghat !!!

[@coffeemountain356]

Saw them on tour in ‘87! One of the highlights of my high school years! They blew the roof off the place!

[@ratskid77]

A Man I'll Never Be is my favorite Boston song.

[@thaismatsumoto]

Tied for me with Hitchin' A Ride.

[@rock4eva]

Hey Pfof loved this. I have loved Boston ever since the first time i heard More Than a Feeling. They are my go to music when feeling blue. I have said for years that Brad Delp was criminally underrated as a vocalist, his name should be spoken with the likes of Mercury and Perry. I agree if they could have just put out 2 more albums at their peak they may be more respected than they are. they should still be recognized as one of the greats.

[@timesurfingalien]

Boston is one of the greatest bands of all time

[@ProfessorofRock]

They are for sure!

[@cannonball666]

Ha. Not even close.

[@theodoreritola7641]

@@cannonball666 Where were u from 1976 threw all the 80s 90s

[@terryschuh6596]

The soundtrack of my youth that never gets old. My kids love Boston too. They were one of a kind,

[@Cureguy1]

Tom Schulz and Brian May are the two technical geniuses of rock and roll guitar. An astrophysicist and an MIT graduate. Amazing and incredibly innovative.

[@gregorymoore2877]

Imagine if they were to collaborate.

[@garycook4030]

@@gregorymoore2877exactly what I was thinking

[@lynne6638]

My POV… Add Jimmy Page to your list.

[@Cureguy1]

@@lynne6638 For guitar technique absolutely, but he didn't invent an actual object that changed music like May's "Red Special" guitar or Schulz's "Rockman" device/guitar amplifier system.

[@Cureguy1]

Forgot to put EVH up there for not only technique but for the invention of his "Frankenstrat" guitar.

[@mojomagick]

I saw Boston in Detroit on the Third Stage tour. Fabulous sound and I never saw so many people air guitaring at the same time....

[@areneesouder]

Just the fact that it was recorded in a basement told me exactly who this was. I remember this from back in the day and never forgot it. It's a fabulous album!

[@beenaplumber8379]

Two other bands did that - Primus and I think Collective Soul. They used their advance money to buy home recording equipment so they could do it their way, and they always had a nice studio afterward. Home recording gear had just become incredibly affordable at the time.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

It’s incredible!

[@LMacNeill]

My Mom's name is Marianne, and when I was a kid back in the '70s, when More Than A Feeling was on the radio regularly, she'd always crank that tune up whenever it came on. I finally got a copy of that album for Christmas of '78. Played it 'till it wore out, of course. One of the best all-time albums ever. EVER!

[@steveturner3999]

I saw them in January 1979 with my then girlfriend (later my wife, now my late wife) and I can attest that they sounded as good live as they do in the studio. Boston is in a league of their own. More Than a Feeling and Just Walk Away Renee (love The Left Banke) both have so much more meaning now for me since my wife passed away. I truly believe Tom Schulz and the late Brad Delp are two of the greatest to ever make music.

[@tofuti2001]

I'm one of many who totally agree with you on #3 A Man I'll Never Be - Still in my all-time top 5 favorite rock songs. I'm a writer and a poet and this is one of the best story songs that I've ever heard. Thanx for including it in your list!!!

[@JoeSmith-v7o]

@24:48 Let's just pause for a minute and appreciate that fro.

[@ProfessorofRock]

RIght?

[@ozzy1160]

My birthday present when I turned 12 years old, Boston was the first album I ever owned - how is that not the greatest start to a rock music collection!? Still will never forget the first time seeing the spaceship guitars and reading the back cover where they introduced you to the band and kept telling you to "listen to the record", which I did hundreds of times and still to this day. Definitely my top five all time favorite albums!

[@CowGirlKat8691]

Brad had one of the most iconic voices in rock history, Boston deserves to be in the HoF for sure! 🤠

[@greenbeagle13]

"More than a Feeling".... easily takes me back 48 years to a time I would love to return to... One of the greatest songs ever.

[@buddyrichable1]

'A man I'll never be' is a masterpiece, at least in my mind.

[@tmklunk]

I tried many times to dissect this great song but never came up with a conclusion

[@threeer02]

More than a feeling is and always will be my #1 song. I’ve never tired of hearing it.

[@steveanderson7536]

Tom was a great guitarist, but I find it funny that my favorite Boston guitar solo was played by Barry (in Long Time). It was outstanding, and one of the few times he was allowed to shine. I wish he was given more opportunities.

[@waltersimmons946]

Barry was also the lead guitarist 🎸 on LET ME TAKE YOU HOME TONIGHT and USED TO BAD NEWS . Barry played slide guitar 🎸 on DONT BE AFRAID. Barry was a bigger part of the Boston sound than Scholz could stand to admit.

[@steveanderson7536]

@@waltersimmons946 Agreed 100%. And he also played lead on Don't Look Back.

[@waltersimmons946]

@@steveanderson7536 On Don't look back, the lead parts were split between both Scholz and Barry. But you are correct.

[@Mark-fk3ei]

Barry has a band called Barry Goudreau and the Engine Room. They close with Long time. It's not Brad singing unfortunately but the guitars are spot on. You can catch it on youtube.

[@KelleyLeach]

Hey Professor of Rock! The first Boston Album was release just as I was in high school. Long Time has always been my favorite. As years rolled on, I got into the "new country" in the early 90's and missed out on a great band that I have recently discovered with the story of Boston. With the death of Brad Delp, I have really gotten engrossed in the story of it all and found the band he and Barry Goudreau had called RTZ. I have found on Ebay all the Cd's of RTZ and I am telling you, I think it may be better than Boston! I would like to see a segment on RTZ on Professor of Rock! Thanks and keep up the good work. I enjoy your video's!!

[@leepetrie1661]

A Man I’ll Never Be is one of the most underrated songs ever. Brings me back to 8th grade.

[@keithfields1178]

Sonic bliss! First heard in the back of a 65 convertible Mustang. We had our first taste of freedom from Basic Training, immediately to Texas for Tech School. We graduated and a fellow student had a 65 convertible and we all climbed in to hit the town. This was on as we tooled through time and town. Being a guitar player I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, and what else I missed in time. So to this day I wish Tom would have kept moving with his abilities, but each time I play the albums, they still hit my ear like brand new. Got to see them live in Baltimore, what a show. Sonically, and visually.

[@kmjr2400]

Great quote, THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME ,AREN'T WORTHY OF THEM! BRAVO PERFECT !!!

[@tomgrams2333]

Dr. thanks for the deep dig into my favorite band!

[@ScottClark-n9f]

Boston and Tom Scholz himself individually should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

[@NHHalKnowsHow]

I absolutely love the song Smokin'. That is on my playlist and I always wake up a little when it comes around on the rotation. Thank you for doing this tribute. Great job and great video. Thank you!

[@DaxMaboyder]

"I Think I Like It" "I Had a Good Time" So many great deep cuts

[@zendean5207]

This is a great concept series for your channel. Love it.

[@Code.Name.V]

Happy Birthday Colin Hay! 71 Today!

[@bobdavis4848]

I'll have a deluxe Vegemite sandwich in his honor, though I would have had one anyway! Happy Birthday Colin Hay!

[@TheSlowoldman]

Incredible vocalist, love his acoustic version of Overkill it's sublime.

[@williamsanders2439]

Got to see him with Ringo's latest version of his all- star band!

[@ProfessorofRock]

I second that. Great guy!

[@ProfessorofRock]

@@bobdavis4848 Ha ha!

[@Fregulus5]

Was going through Airborne school at Ft. Benning when "Walk On" was released. A very special album and time for me!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Very cool!

[@joustwave6541]

Tom Scholz, Brian Wilson, Axl Rose.... guys who were so terrified of putting out something substandard that they spent long stretches of their careers putting out nothing, which (last I checked) is even worse.

[@ProfessorofRock]

It's very true. It cost them dearly.

[@RobinBarton-fh1ts]

​@@ProfessorofRockBut, was priceless for us, sorry (mixed feelings) to say...

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Perfectionism is not always good…

[@megm38]

Omg! These songs take me back to my youth. Boston should definitely be in the Rock & Roll HOF! All of the bands in my high school and college years tried to play More Than a Feeling and Long Time. I saw Boston on the Third Stage tour, but for the life of me, I can't remember with who or where. That was a tumultuous time in my life. Lol. I still love them to this day. These are songs I roll down my windows and sing at full voice... because you just have to.

[@johnhamilton2588]

So glad you mentioned the bootleg release of Amanda. I remember hearing it on my way to work in the spring or summer of 1985, more than a year before its actual release. When it became a number one hit in '86, I told everyone I had heard it a year earlier and no believed me!

[@Gee_Jay]

BOSTON MUST Get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ! Period.

[@donwebster9292]

I am not even a Boston fan and can't believe that they are not in.

[@LeadSurge3000]

♦️ *The hall of lame/shame doesn't have any more legitimacy than anyone in this comment section. The most rock n roll thing any artist can do is to tell them they just don't want their bogus "award" & to phük off.* ♦️

[@edstuff1198]

Back around 1977-78 my girlfriend at the time (my first true love) went to jewelry school. They learned how to create and repair jewelry of all kinds. She was there about 1 1/2 years learning the skills. One of her classmates had a brother that worked in some capacity with Boston. He asked her if she could come up with a design that would be the flying guitar featured on the album covers that became a symbol of the band. He wanted it to be worn as a pendant on a chain, around the neck. My girlfriend came up with a design that replicated the guitar and used an opal to replicate the domed city on the guitar. The budget wasn't large so she used sterling silver. She casted the guitar body, added the opal and some small details and made one for each band member at the time. Her classmate gave them to his brother who gave them to the band. Apparently they liked them. I wonder if they still have them somewhere.

[@freddyt55555]

RIP Brad Delp. What an amazing voice he had!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Amen!

[@play4u67]

May Brad Delp always RIP. He is sadly missed each and everyday ♥. His voice was mesmerizing and you can hear his passion in every song he ever sang. I really do miss him and I wish his family well. ♥

[@mutantryeff]

Boston's 1st album was great

[@TheSlowoldman]

Understatement of the year.

[@ProfessorofRock]

PErfect record.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Amen!

[@icusmilingAZ]

Arguably the best debut album of all time

[@jamestapscott9400]

It is great.

[@anonanon938]

My favorite band from my youth. I have the albums. I still listen every week. Love Boston. Great episode! Thanks!