Rick Beato's intricate breakdowns of songs, music, and techniques is pretty cool.
Boston's first album (1976) in my opinion is a Top 10 of all time. Still nothing sounds like it, never has since. Boston was its own genre. Summer of '77.
Second album (1978) was good as well. I remember the anticipation of this second Boston album, buying it immediately.
That was pretty much the end of Boston (aside from the single, Amanda), on their third album ten years later in 1986.
Boston's first album (1976) in my opinion is a Top 10 of all time. Still nothing sounds like it, never has since. Boston was its own genre. Summer of '77.
Good time for music, on the cusp of disco dying out and the punk rock scene exploding.
Boston was unique in a lot of ways and their songs were a combination of Power-Pop, hair-band metal and soaring harmonies and were so far ahead of their time, production-wise
Scholz was quite a perfectionist, one of the reasons it was so long between albums, or so I've heard.
Check out this demo from 1975:
Oh, just found this out : Scholz was a top student and a member of the varsity basketball team, he graduated from Ottawa Hills High School in 1965.
I grew up in Maumee,(OH), maybe 8 miles from there.
Cool find. Raw, but still excellent. 'Hitch A Ride' = 'San Francisco Day'? (Rick Beato does a 'What Makes This Song Great?' segment on it as well.)
Tom Scholtz' story of that first album is pretty amazing...
MIT alum Scholtz demonstrated his genius if only for creating this album (my son even owns his signature guitar "fuzz box.")
Studio suits didn't want one of their records produced down someone's basement, putting the kibosh on Scholtz's basement production. By the time they got the final product they assumed it had been studio produced and polished. NOT. (Scholtz controlled the entire production...from his basement STILL.)
Scholtz is what -- 6-6 or something like that? BB player body. Coulda been him on the courts you saw; small world when you find out stuff like living near famous/accomplished people around small towns like Maumee, Ohio.
As I recall you [Liberator] are in or near the so called epicenter out east.
I have elected to no longer exchange posts with Liberator. I ran across your post here and it has peaked my interest in the situation surrounding him. I ask you to please tell Liberator that I wish him the very best and that I wish for him to stay well. Thank you …
