Scholz’s breezy guitar rings out for less than 20 seconds before Brad Delp’s vocals step to the forefront and seize control of the song. Thirty years after the album’s release, Boston (and its 1978 successor Don’t Look Back) have been digitally remastered with Scholz at the helm, affording nostalgic boomers and curiosity seekers the opportunity to revisit the phenomenon of Boston.Īs a result of three decades of radio airplay, there are few song intros as recognizable as Boston‘s lead track, “More Than a Feeling”. Yet it was surprising, as Tom Scholz, in the guise of nearly-one-man-band, unleashed the debut album Boston on the mainstream, thereby cementing his legacy as one of music’s most awe-inspiring success stories. graduate (and guitarist/technical wizard) could record a handful of songs in his basement studio, and spawn the pop-rock sensation Boston. As diverse as the musical offerings of the mid-’70s were, it shouldn’t have been a surprise that an M.I.T. Lynyrd Skynryd led the southern rock movement (albeit only a year before meeting its tragic fate) and Elvis had not yet left the building. Similarly, KISS and Ted Nugent had proven to be formidable musical forces, while teen heartthrobs from Leif Garrett to the Bay City Rollers garnered headlines and enjoyed massive popularity. As America’s Bicentennial unfolded, punk had taken root on UK and US soil, glam was in its death throes, disco was in its infancy, Frampton came alive, and lumbering rock behemoths Led Zeppelin and the Who continued to bask in their respective glows as the planet’s biggest concert draws. The landscape resembled a deep sea feeding frenzy, with an array of genres and bands jockeying for the public’s attention and disposable income. For those who came of age in the 1970s, they might recall the convoluted nature of music in the latter part of the decade.
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