Submariner85 Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 Since I've been making some road trips between Portsmouth, VA and Kingsland, GA I've found a few music stations worth listening to. Rock, Classic Rock and so on.I used to hate Boston when I was a teenager because I really just didn't like the guy's voice but in the car with nothing better to do, when their songs would come on I started listening to the music they were playing and sort of tuning out the vocals.Those guys were really good. Nice and tight and some great melodies. Hmmm. Weird, I actually like them now. Ha.
Turdus Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 Few years back, I picked up their first two on CD.Still very listenable stuff that I think has aged well.
cmatthes Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 Something about the timing of this... My son came home from Crew practice on Friday night and asked if I happened to have any Boston CDs that he could upload to his iPod. Apparently, one of the other kids on the team was blasting that CD on the bus ride to the boathouse all week and he liked it. True, some of it is kind of dated (keys, mostly), but there's some great stuff in there, and like Chris said above, it has aged pretty well. I was trying to explain how different that sounded to me in the later mid-70s, but when my son's eyes kind of glazed over, I just told him to enjoy it!
Steve Haynie Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 Listen carefully and you will discover that some songs have harmony guitar parts from beginning to end. Boston would not be an easy "tribute act" to cover.
Ethan Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 a couple of years ago I wanted to start a boston tribute band, complete with 5 guitar players to replicate all the different guitar parts, and with everyone doing backing vocals to match the harmonies...i had a hard time finding people who could/would do it...
ZR Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 Two guys and a tape recorder. Pretty great. Seriously too. The timing of your post is uncanny. We were coming back from the Davis Cup last night and listened to the whole 1st album. All of us - kids too - were singing every song! Brad Delp - RIP
hardheartedbill Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 Sholtz had been playing guitar 10 years even when he recorded the first album, only Brian May can rival getting guitar parts on tape like Tom, that 1st record is pop rock perfection IMO.
SteveB Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 how can you not like Bradley Delp's singing? Great vocalist, RIP.
backinit Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 1st LP I ever purchased. The thick layered guitars helped the MIT grad sell alot of power brakes and rockmans.Boston had a show in Portland in support of their second LP. A psychic predicted that the volume would collapse the roof at the CCCC. Boston's greatest hits has in my auto CD rotation since mid Feb.
ScubaMarket Posted March 10, 2009 Posted March 10, 2009 Since I've been making some road trips between Portsmouth, VA and Kingsland, GA I've found a few music stations worth listening to. Rock, Classic Rock and so on.I used to hate Boston when I was a teenager because I really just didn't like the guy's voice but in the car with nothing better to do, when their songs would come on I started listening to the music they were playing and sort of tuning out the vocals.Those guys were really good. Nice and tight and some great melodies. Hmmm. Weird, I actually like them now. Ha.I agree the vocals were, well, um "beatles like". The miracles they made with the tape recorders left us all in awe as kids though. Dude. I cant believe your in Kingsland.. Stop in an give us a shout next time your up this way near Savannah. My shops at I-95 exit 90. Rock 105 in Jax has always kicked butt.
Thundernotes Posted March 10, 2009 Posted March 10, 2009 As luck would have it, there was a memorial jam for the Brad Delp Foundation tonight at a local club here in NH. I passed along the HFC's kind words to Barry Goudreau. Hard to believe those albums are 30 years old. He was playing this "modified" SG with one humbucker and a Kahler. My 5000th post!
silentman Posted March 10, 2009 Posted March 10, 2009 Neat-o. Did you also tell him the HFC prefers floyds?
Thundernotes Posted March 10, 2009 Posted March 10, 2009 Neat-o. Did you also tell him the HFC prefers floyds? Nah
Armitage Posted March 10, 2009 Posted March 10, 2009 Considering Tom played almost all the instruments on the Boston albums, I wonder what kind of money the rest of the guys made?
acb Posted March 10, 2009 Posted March 10, 2009 boston first album demos have been circulated on several bootleg (live+demo) forums after being found in a trash can somewhere. amazing stuff / high quality recorded in tom's basement studio. tom and brad recorded the demo tracks and shopped for a contract. on his website tom discussed his vile toward record companies who tried to control production and the monies they received. after polishing lyrics and instrumentals, the tracks were re-recorded AGAIN in his basement with other band members who joined and "swapped" into the studio. interesting reading.
Submariner85 Posted March 10, 2009 Author Posted March 10, 2009 Since I've been making some road trips between Portsmouth, VA and Kingsland, GA I've found a few music stations worth listening to. Rock, Classic Rock and so on.I used to hate Boston when I was a teenager because I really just didn't like the guy's voice but in the car with nothing better to do, when their songs would come on I started listening to the music they were playing and sort of tuning out the vocals.Those guys were really good. Nice and tight and some great melodies. Hmmm. Weird, I actually like them now. Ha.I agree the vocals were, well, um "beatles like". The miracles they made with the tape recorders left us all in awe as kids though. Dude. I cant believe your in Kingsland.. Stop in an give us a shout next time your up this way near Savannah. My shops at I-95 exit 90. Rock 105 in Jax has always kicked butt.I pass through there about twice a month. Once on my way home and then on the way back to Portsmouth.I'll stop in there one of these times....Scubamarket.com.Agreed Rock 105 kicks butt. Took the wife to Planetfest last year. It was a great time. Hard to beat 25 dollars a piece for an all day festival with Shinedown, Hinder, Puddle of Mudd, Red, Red Jump Suit Apparatus, Rehab and a bunch of others.
Armitage Posted March 11, 2009 Posted March 11, 2009 "For the older music, most of it was recorded by me with no one else present, except Brad for vocals. All of it (except one song) was recorded and mixed with me physically there in the driver's seat.The time has come to debunk some of the myths that have been allowed to taint people's perception of Boston. Particularly distressing has been the undeserved elevation to virtual sainthood of long-departed, so-called "original" band members by fans of the first 2 albums. Because of the deliberate effort to hide the precise performers' credits on albums 1 and 2, few people realize that Brad and I alone actually performed most of the tracks by the process of overdubbing.Once the drum track had been laid down by Jim Masdea or Sib Hashian, I played all the instruments, one at a time, on most of the recordings, including More Than a Feeling, Smokin', Party, A Man I'll Never Be, etc....11 cuts in all, and most of the instruments on 4 of the other 5. Brad similarly sang all the vocals painstakingly, one track at a time. This is exactly how the demo was recorded that got us the deal - so convincingly that for years even Brad thought he had sung to a tape of a band playing!"
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