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Originally Posted by berettafan
Boston is ***** for sure! Can't tell one song from another.
Seger makes me physically ill.
Van HAGAR sucks so bad it's hard to fathom. Pop music pretending to be 'rock' is sad.
Happened to Metallica too. Old stuff was great; new stuff belongs in an elevator.
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Something most folks don't know about Boson: Tom Scholz wrote, performed, and recorded most of the first album by himself in his basement. Pretty amazing if you think about it but it was also the band's downfall. The first album was groundbreaking genius. (He graduated from MIT BTW).
Problem was, the next album was exactly the same. And the next.
Not enough influence from the other members.
I spoke to Tom and Fran on the phone while they were recording the second album (IIRC). A bassist I was jamming with at the time was a friend of Tom's and very good friends with Fran.
They told me of a bunch of nuts recording in the next studio, drinking and partying and breaking stuff all the time and making it real hard to get good tracks. They said the band's name was "The Cars".
Little anecdote there.
From WIKI
Early Years (pre-1976)
Boston began when Tom Scholz, an MIT engineering graduate who worked at Polaroid, began composing songs and recording demos where he played all of the instruments, except the drums. He was joined by Jim Masdea, who played drums, and singer Brad Delp who methodically overdubbed the vocals. This was all done in Scholz’s home studio.
The roots of the first album were created in these early demo sessions with songs such as "More than a Feeling," "Hitch a Ride," "Peace of Mind," "Foreplay/Long Time" and "Rock & Roll Band". Scholz soon became frustrated with the limitations of the technology at the time and his inability to capture the sound he wanted, so he began building and designing his own equipment.
The first tapes Scholz sent out were rejected by the record labels. A second set of tapes drew the attention of executives at Epic Records, a division of CBS. The label was dissatisfied with Masdea's performance though, so he was replaced, first by David Currier, then by Sib Hashian. The label also insisted that Scholz re-record the demo tapes in a professional studio with a full band, which led to the hiring of bassist Fran Sheehan and guitarist Barry Goudreau, the latter of whom had played in a band with Scholz and worked on earlier demos with him. With the exception of "Let Me Take You Home Tonight", which was recorded in California under the direction of producer John Boylan, Scholz re-recorded the other seven tracks in his home studio with only Delp & Hashian (with Goudreau making an appearance on "Foreplay/Long Time"). CBS also insisted upon the name change to Boston. Up to this point the group had been calling themselves Mother's Milk.
It should be noted that only Tom Scholz and Brad Delp were signed to the record contract with Epic.
This debut album turned the disco crazed music industry on its head and broke all the known rules for succeeding in the world of rock n' roll. Its seemingly sudden and relentless success belied six years of abject failure and quickly made it the model abducted, imitated and used by marketing executives to mass produce radio friendly "corporate rock."