Hitch a Ride is the best song on the “Boston” record. \u00c2\u00a0One of the best guitar solos ever imo.<\/p>\n
Hal Cohen<\/p>\n
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Thanks for calling out Boston. One of the first two albums I ever bought with my own allowance money was their debut, along with Al Stewart’s ‘Year of the Cat’. Top to bottom that Boston album is a gem. “More Than a Feeling” was not my favorite, despite its undeniability. “Rock and Roll Band” was a young, music-loving daydreamer’s paradise. If you were in, and a fan, this was their creation story, the rock and roll dream painted in technicolor sound that you could sing right along to (or try to anyway) and feel like it could be your own story. Scholz is underrated as a pure musical master, and I would go to bat for Brad Delp as one of the best singers of that, or any era. Sad he’s no longer with us.<\/p>\n
“Smokin” still passes the volume knob test and is a pure burner of a track. “Hitch a Ride” is just a gorgeous and moving melody. Still get chills when that guitar solo kicks in. And yes, “Foreplay\/ Long Time” is a classic. When the snare hits twice to segue into the main song it sparks a kind of euphoria that only great music can bring.<\/p>\n
Call it Classic, call it corporate, call it what you will, but mostly call it timeless. Just plain great music.<\/p>\n
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Bob-Wow. You brought back waves of feelings with this piece. When \u00e2\u20ac\u0153More Than A Feeling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d came out, we were amazed at the clean, new sound of it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlike nothing we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d heard before. It was an anthem of our High school Senior year, and we played that first Boston eight track in our cars incessantly as we cruised our little Kansas town. Life was good! \u00c2\u00a0Thanks for bringing back those memories.<\/p>\n
Bruce Dyson<\/p>\n
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Amen. \u00c2\u00a0I was music director of BCN when the demo (the original) was brought into the station by Paul Ahern, their manager. \u00c2\u00a0It was reel to reel and we put it on a cart which were used mostly for station I.Ds and spots.<\/p>\n
There were a couple of us in the studio and it took maybe 30 seconds to say \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcholy s..t\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. \u00c2\u00a0We played that song every hour the first few days,\u00c2\u00a0which we never ever did. \u00c2\u00a0The rule was no song could be played more than once every other shift.<\/p>\n
It is one of the best rock songs ever, if we are being honest.<\/p>\n
John Brodey<\/p>\n
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Trivia:<\/p>\n
When I was a teenage recording artist signed to Epic Records, my Jimmy Ienner production company produced single “Rock & Roll President” was released on the same day in 1976 as 2 other singles by new, unknown Epic artists: “More Than a Feeling” (Boston) and “Play That Funky Music White Boy” (Wild Cherry”) – so I was in good company!<\/p>\n
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Wallace Collins<\/p>\n
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I loved reading this about Boston. It was definitely a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153guilty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d pleasure back then. My favorite story was while living in LA (for the third time), I remember listening to Jones\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Jukebox one afternoon in the mid-2000\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and hearing mention how much he loved Boston when they came out but couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell anyone because he was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153punk\u00e2\u20ac\u009d rock and anti-corporate! But he was jealous of those guitar tones that he knew he could never get!<\/p>\n
Weirdly my two favorite Boston tunes were\/are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hitch A Ride\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let Me Take You Home Tonight!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Cheers<\/p>\n
David George<\/p>\n
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I still shamefacedly have that Boston album, it belonged to Steve Jones, Sex Pistols guitarist and Jonesys Jukebox host;\u00c2\u00a0 he absolutely loved it.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Like you said Boston were uncool so Steve’s adoration seemed strange.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 But, his post Pistols group, The Professionals, with drummer Paul Cook, put out some great tracks with his power guitar chords overdubbed maybe 10 times, paying symphonic homage to Boston and, probably, Phil Spector.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0The vocals were, sadly, not on a par but the sound…..wow!\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Just Another Dream and 1-2-3 are on YouTube – the proof is in the pudding.<\/p>\n
Its almost the end of October and its sunny and 14 degrees on this side of the ocean;\u00c2\u00a0 something’s definitely not right.<\/p>\n
Muchos<\/p>\n
Fachtna O Ceallaigh.<\/p>\n
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Everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY in my high school had this on 8-track in their Chevelle, their GTO, their Olds Cutlass 442. EVERYBODY. Many, many joints smoked on lunch hour in those cars (nearly every day) to Boston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first album. To call it ubiquitous, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come close to describing the unbelievable impact it had on anybody who was alive then. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d bet the farm that every single one of my classmates can sing every f…ing word of every song on that record. Me too. And THAT, my friend, will never happen again. Ever.<\/p>\n
Sad. We were lucky, Bob.
\nReally, really lucky.
\nCounting my blessings.<\/p>\n
Pete Kehoe
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Didn’t know about Scholz’s affinity for the James Gang.<\/p>\n
Now that you mention it…<\/p>\n
The endings of “More Than A Feeling” and “Tend My Garden” do kinda take similar\u00c2\u00a0musical paths.<\/p>\n
Marty Bender<\/p>\n
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“More Than A Feeling” is pure genius. \u00c2\u00a0I owned it within 12 hours of first hearing it on the radio in September of ’76. \u00c2\u00a0Skipped school to buy it.<\/p>\n
Chris Herrmann<\/p>\n
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The Boston debut was my first album I purchased, at the ripe age of 15.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I split the purchase with my younger brother, it still has the $2.98 price sticker from our local Kresge’s (Five & Dime store).<\/p>\n
I retained possession and it hangs above our pool table, along with several other landmark albums shared by my wife and I.<\/p>\n
I was never a huge Boston fan after that first, but the debut holds up quite well.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0There’s no shame in that!<\/p>\n
Al Jones<\/p>\n
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I was 14, going on 15 and getting serious about practicing guitar when this came out and it nearly wiped out everything that I had been listening to up to then. It’s hard to overstate just how electrifying and inspiring this was at a time when most mainstream rock wasn’t anywhere near as well-crafted. Make no mistake: this song, and in fact the entire album are perfect.<\/p>\n
And when Brad Delp sang “I dream of girl I used to know”, at 15 I had yet to have that as a personal experience. But now, of course, that line has me choked up pretty much every time.<\/p>\n
Philbillie<\/p>\n
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More Than A Feeling\u00c2\u00a0was the song that captured what my girlfriend\u00c2\u00a0at the time and I had when we first started out.\u00c2\u00a0 That Boston is\u00c2\u00a0 not in the Hall Of Fame when a whack of less significant acts are – I won’t name them – is criminal.\u00c2\u00a0 That Boston pretty much invented the ‘Power Hits’ radio format has never been chronicled.\u00c2\u00a0 That Boston was the hinge that opened the door to Van Halen etc has never been credited.\u00c2\u00a0 I was very fortunate to be assigned as the photographer at the Toronto daily I was working at – a year before I became ‘the critic with a camera’ – to capture the band at Maple Leaf Gardens.\u00c2\u00a0 Got some great shots of Delp and even went to the after party and hung with Tom and the opening act, one Rick Derringer.<\/p>\n
Bottom line, we were young and about as carefree a demographic that ever existed.\u00c2\u00a0 And “those old songs” were no more than five or ten years old.\u00c2\u00a0 The “sound of infinite space” as I used to describe Boston’s production was the perfect match for an America that was moving forward from Vietnam with unlimited potential.\u00c2\u00a0 Like Boston, it wouldn’t last long.\u00c2\u00a0 But if you were there…wow.<\/p>\n
Personally I think rock died with The Sex Pistols.\u00c2\u00a0 Shot the whole spectacle full of holes so to speak.<\/p>\n
But, geez, Boston.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Sounded great in the car with my arm around my girl.<\/p>\n
Thanks Bob<\/p>\n
Jonathan Gross<\/p>\n
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“Foreplay\/Long Time” is the deathless Boston track. It’s that hint of prog that draws you in and Delp’s vocal on the final verse after that organ break is pure FM joy. Too bad about him, by the way.<\/p>\n
I was thinking about this topic the other day while looking at the streaming numbers for “Midnights.” Will anyone be talking about or listening to that record 46 years from now? It’s so boring! Even my 18-year-old\u00c2\u00a0daughter\u00c2\u00a0who professes to love Taylor says, and I quote: “she just makes so much\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all the same.” Maybe I am just too old to get it and it is the “Satisfaction” of its day. But I don’t think so.<\/p>\n
Best<\/p>\n
David Vawter<\/p>\n
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This was great and as always you are spot on.<\/p>\n
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I remember when the album was released in September of 1976. Our local rock station in my \u00c2\u00a0hometown Columbus OH played just about every song on the record which is unheard of. I was starting college and yet I still love this album to this day.<\/p>\n
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That said, how many freshmen in college today will still listen and enjoy their present day music in 46 years\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.my answer is none!<\/p>\n
Steve Gerardi<\/p>\n
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I turned 17 \u00c2\u00a0August 29, 1976. Like every year, Mom took me to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153record store\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c usually Wallich\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s or Licorice Pizza \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to pick out my birthday gifts.<\/p>\n
Of course, the debut from Boston was on my list\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 along with the latest from Grand Funk, Al Stewart, REO Speedwagon, and Hall & Oates.<\/p>\n
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1976 was a transitional and\/or landmark year for many established Rock icons. Many released one of their best (Aerosmith, Thin Lizzy, Steve Miller)\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 many not one of their best (Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Eric Clapton).<\/p>\n
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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Boston\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is as important as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153RAMONES\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n
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I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve played (blasted) the song at least a few times in each of the last 46 years\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
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Thanks for a great read, Bob.<\/p>\n
Bruce R. Kilgour<\/p>\n
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Boston was a gateway into hard rock for me.\u00c2\u00a0 The guitar sounds are heavy yet smooth and melodic.\u00c2\u00a0 What many took for corporate,\u00c2\u00a0 I took for a style.\u00c2\u00a0 It was the soundtrack of my childhood.<\/p>\n
I remember riding with my dads 4H group on a rented coach bus in 76 from cedar rapids Iowa to Washington DC.<\/p>\n
We had two 8 track tapes for the whole ride, John Denver back home again and the 1st Boston album. The Boston tape got played until the bus could sing along. It ended up getting stretched and unplayable from the use during the return trip.<\/p>\n
I’m fine with John Denver but I still adore that 1st album.\u00c2\u00a0 Peace of Mind was the song that got me.<\/p>\n
David Fink<\/p>\n
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Ah Bob , what a spot-on analysis! Here I am driving in urban Johannesburg blasting ” All Right Now” and I’m sixteen again. Music is more than a feeling, it`s life.<\/p>\n
Benjy Mudie
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Hey man, great piece of writing. 14 year old me bought this album when it came out and wore it out, probably the second or third LP I’d bought with dough from my paper route and mowing. Today, my 16 year old is a big fan of “Peace of Mind” along with a pile of old and new tracks from all over.<\/p>\n
Tom Grueskin<\/p>\n
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Prompted by your email, I listened to Boston this morning driving down the Autobahn to work today. \u00c2\u00a0A few thoughts crossed my mind:<\/p>\n
1) Memories very similar to yours from 1976 came rushing back. \u00c2\u00a0The feeling of community that came from knowing that there were millions of kids in high schools across the country simultaneously discovering and enjoying the same soundtrack was, well, more than a feeling.<\/p>\n
2) Years ago in New York, I noticed there were hipster parents who’d dress their kids up in little Ramones t-shirts. \u00c2\u00a0Can you imagine our parents dressing us up in Benny Goodman or Percy Faith t-shirts? \u00c2\u00a0The music on the radio in 1976 was *ours* … with no meddlesome parental involvement. \u00c2\u00a0That was nice.<\/p>\n
3) Can you imagine a hit song (or whatever passes for one these days) with an organ as a lead instrument? \u00c2\u00a0An *organ*!<\/p>\n
Sincerely,
\nGunnar Miller
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Wow! \u00c2\u00a0Keen insights on the Fall of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc76, Bob. En point, as usual.<\/p>\n
I was a wanna-be teenager, 12 years old, living in the west San Fernando Valley, Canoga Park. I lived and breathed rock \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcn roll, particularly what was coming across the airwaves from KLOS and KMET (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Mighty Met!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d). \u00c2\u00a0I thought it was great that Paul Thomas Anderson put those billboards of KMET into \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Licorice Pizza\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, his retro movie from last year. Those billboards were everywhere in LA at that time and rock \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcn roll radio was the king of the airwaves. \u00c2\u00a0KMET had that clever gimmick of the call letters being upside down on the billboard ads and on their T-shirts\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d ever done that before??<\/p>\n
And speaking of Licorice Pizza, that was the closest record store for me, in Canoga Park, on Topanga Canyon Blvd. \u00c2\u00a0It was like Mecca for me and my friends.
\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funny to remember, because now they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re synonymous with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hopelessly obsolete\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, but 8 track tapes at that time were as prestigious as LPs and were actually more expensive than LPs. \u00c2\u00a0For those of us who didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have quality home stereo systems, 8 track tapes were the logical choice because you could do what my brother did which was to rig up a used car stereo 8 track player in our bedrooms and of course they were, in our part of the world, what we were playing as we sped around the Valley in his car.<\/p>\n
There was no way in hell our parents were going to buy us an actual quality stereo system like you describe, but nonetheless, my friends and I could all mimic the rapid-fire descriptions of Pioneer, Kenwood and Marantz systems from the ubiquitous radio ads for Cal Stereo\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6a boy could dream.<\/p>\n
The discussions on the playground would be about what songs we heard on the radio the night before and the concerts that had been announced that were coming to LA that we had zero chance of going to (triple bill of Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynard and Rick Derringer at Angels Stadium!!)<\/p>\n
You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re right: \u00c2\u00a0terrestrial radio is a mere shadow of it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gloried past: \u00c2\u00a0another jock in the same caliber as Mary Turner was Jim Ladd, on KMET.<\/p>\n
Other albums that were getting heavy play in my brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc69 Plymouth Fury\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 8 track tape player that Summer and Fall along with Boston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first album were Blue Oyster Cult\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Agents of Fortune, Led Zeppelin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Song Remains The Same, Wings At The Speed Of Sound and\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6um\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Kiss Destroyer \ud83d\ude42
\nThanks again, Bob!<\/p>\n
Darriel Arnott<\/p>\n
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From: Mike McLeish and many more<\/p>\n
Greetings from down under.<\/p>\n
I loved your piece on More Than A Feeling. The timing was personally fortuitous because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d just the other day watched Rick Beato deconstruct the song in one of his ‘What Makes This Song Great?’ episodes.<\/p>\n
You may well have seen it. Hell, you may well know Rick.<\/p>\n
But just in case…<\/p>\n
https:\/\/bit.ly\/3ziTTOR<\/p>\n
Mike<\/p>\n
Melbourne, Australia<\/p>\n
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Boston? \u00c2\u00a0Unique solitary game-changer. \u00c2\u00a0Gathered up everything every other hard rock pop band had done in a studio up to that point, and took it a step farther. \u00c2\u00a0Moved the goal posts. \u00c2\u00a0One and done. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Paul Lanning<\/p>\n
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Thank you for the reminder.<\/p>\n
Graduating class of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc76, Queens, NY.<\/p>\n
So, as you can see, we need all the help we can get.<\/p>\n
I think Scholz must have also liked Tommy James and the Shondells.<\/p>\n
And in return, Tommy liked Tom.<\/p>\n
And everyone envied The Who.<\/p>\n
Who wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t?<\/p>\n
Brad Delp *sigh*, if ever there was a voice so alive, it was his.<\/p>\n
In closing, I bought an Electro Harmonix Rock Man from the source the first year it came out.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not surprised to learn that \u00c2\u00a0I lost it years ago.<\/p>\n
Jon Weiss<\/p>\n
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Nice article on Boston.\u00c2\u00a0 I still remember, when I was a music dealer in the ’70s, cracking the shrink-wrap on that first album and playing it in the store.\u00c2\u00a0 People would walk in and immediately be going, “Who is THIS?!”\u00c2\u00a0 That was all it took, that thing sold like hotcakes.\u00c2\u00a0 We sold the album for $4.79 back in those days. $6.99 for the 8-track, but by this time, LPs were the thing — if you were serious about the music, you had a turntable.\u00c2\u00a0 If you were REALLY serious you had a Technics turntable.<\/p>\n
I saw Boston in concert twice.\u00c2\u00a0 The first time I went with friends, and the driver of the car was one of those guys who only went to concerts to chase girls, he wasn’t really into the music, so we wound up being late and having to sit far back from the stage.\u00c2\u00a0 I vowed then and there that I wouldn’t go to a concert again unless I was in control of the transportation, so I could make sure to be there on time, and I’ve stuck to that to this day.<\/p>\n
The second time was at Red Rocks in Colorado, which is the best concert venue in the western US, this was the tour in which they brought in a ringer to hit the high notes that Brad Delp could no longer reach.\u00c2\u00a0 Hearing “More than a Feeling” in that place was pretty magical, let me tell you.<\/p>\n
After that stellar debut album, the second album did almost as well but wasn’t quite as good, and from then on they went slowly into the toilet, with mostly dreck-filled albums dribbling out every eight years or so.\u00c2\u00a0 I never saw a group hit such heights so fast, only to keep releasing albums that took years and years to make but weren’t very good.<\/p>\n
Mike Blakesley<\/p>\n
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Hi Bob \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that Boston album was a wild ride for everyone involved.<\/p>\n
Tom Scholz was an engineer working at Polaroid up in Boston area when he recorded his demos. \u00c2\u00a0Lennie Petze, I recall, played a big part in signing the band. \u00c2\u00a0John Boylan, at the time an Epic staff producer, served as producer, but has written that he did not do much as Scholz turned his demos into the first Boston album.<\/p>\n
The wonderful Paula Scher wrote about the process of design of that starship guitar album cover in her book, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Make It Bigger.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a0I was in those meetings as the band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s product manager at Epic in New York.<\/p>\n
Boston was adamant about having a guitar on their cover. \u00c2\u00a0They even brought in their own sketch, which Paula and I both determined, pretty immediately, would have been completely inappropriate. \u00c2\u00a0That put us on the spot, we had to come up with an alternative fast. \u00c2\u00a0Paula bought some time with her wicked sense of humor suggesting a pot of beans or Boston Creme Pie on the cover. \u00c2\u00a0The idea that won the day \u00e2\u20ac\u201d addressed the band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s desire for a guitar (and came from a combination of inspiration and desperation) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d was the huge spaceship which is really a Les Paul guitar but because of the elongated perspective, is not obvious. \u00c2\u00a0Roger Huyssen brilliantly painted that cover.<\/p>\n
The record took off like a rocket at radio, thanks to the strength of the music and the dedication of the Epic promotion staff. \u00c2\u00a0Boston needed a lot of help to get them ready for live performances. \u00c2\u00a0Al DeMarino of Epic artist development played a large role there. \u00c2\u00a0All the guys were willing, but not experienced beyond the bar band scene. \u00c2\u00a0In the end, they were good students, Brad Delp had a great voice to compliment Scholz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vision, and the record was on its way.<\/p>\n
All-in-all, it was a great example of a label getting behind a great piece of music, each department doing its job. \u00c2\u00a0We had great leadership at Epic under Ron Alexenburg. \u00c2\u00a0At least up to then, Boston was the fastest selling first release by a new band in the history of the industry.<\/p>\n
It is an achievement of which we are all proud.<\/p>\n
Jim Charne<\/p>\n
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I was never a Boston fan… but I can’t help thinking that they altered the course of my life.<\/p>\n
I’m from NH. I was born in 1972. I was a kid in the 80’s when I truly was turned on to music. My town was small, about 19,000 people, and we had a s..tty local top 40 radio station.<\/p>\n
My beacon for music was WBCN out of Boston.\u00c2\u00a0 We could get the signal in my town. It wasn’t always strong, but by dial was always pegged to 104.1. We got a lot of “local” music on ‘BCN, including Boston.<\/p>\n
In 1986 I was a freshman in high school. There was a girl I was crazy over. She was a freshman too.\u00c2\u00a0 She went to a junior high in a nearby (smaller) town and I had never seen her before. I can\u00c2\u00a0still\u00c2\u00a0recall the day I first laid eyes on her. That was it. I was long gone.<\/p>\n
Throughout the entire school year, I tried to get to know her. I finally started to make headway and\u00c2\u00a0knew\u00c2\u00a0I had a chance. Then one weekend, I went to a party at “the cliffs,” a teenage hangout spot in the woods that overlooked the town.<\/p>\n
I met a girl, a\u00c2\u00a0junior,\u00c2\u00a0that was interested in me. When we met, Boston was playing on the boom box. She was a Boston freak. She wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop talking about them, let alone singing every word.<\/p>\n
Long story short, we connected and then started dating.<\/p>\n
I was completely caught up in the fact that I was a freshman, she was a junior, and she chose me. Like a fool, I abandoned the pursuit of the freshman girl I was nuts for.\u00c2\u00a0 I blew it!<\/p>\n
F..king Boston. Every time I got in her car Boston was playing. I tried to change the cassette, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d pop it back in. Boston all the damn time!<\/p>\n
I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take it anymore. I had to dump her.<\/p>\n
All the while the freshman I was interested in started dating a senior and did for the next three years. Destiny was put on hold for me.<\/p>\n
To this day I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t listen to Boston without thinking of the one I let get away.<\/p>\n
I threw it all away\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 for Boston!<\/p>\n
Judd Maracello<\/p>\n
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Warner Brothers passed on Boston. My late friend and WB promo guy Charlie McKenzie heard the cassette playing in an A&R man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cubicle and when he found out the label had passed on it, took the cassette to friends at Epic \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. Or so the story goes I was told back then\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6..<\/p>\n
Michael Fremer<\/p>\n
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Rolling Stones, led zeppelin, CSNY, Neil Young, the Pretenders, Rockpile, Clash, the Doors, Foghat, The Grateful Dead, George Harrison, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Television, Kraftwork, Elvis Costello, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Iggy Pop, Jackson Brown, Kiss, Talking Heads, Jethro Tull, Isley Brothers , Supertramp, Ted Nugent,<\/p>\n
The 70’s Baby, they call it Rock for a reason<\/p>\n
Alan Fenton<\/p>\n
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I was in college in the early 90\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when my roommate got a CD player in his car. First CD player either of us owned so we had to go to the local Walmart to get a CD to play while we drove around. It had to be something where we wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get annoyed with a bunch of filler, so we went with Boston. Such a great soundtrack for driving around, looking for trouble.<\/p>\n
Jeff Neely<\/p>\n
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After reading that I made it 602,878,three hundred and 28.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks for the warm and fuzzy email on a dark and rainy Vancouver day<\/p>\n
Rob Severyn<\/p>\n
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Brilliant\u00c2\u00a0post and good to know I’m not the only one looking in the rear-view mirror wondering about people I know I’ll most likely never see again but their faces, their unique voices and their laughter still resonates in my head, often as it hits the pillow some memory will whoosh into my thoughts and I’ll think, yes I’ll revisit them again tonight in my dreams. It’s a miracle we are on this planet, it’s a miracle ‘our’ sperm hit our Mother’s egg and it’s a miracle that we lived these last bunch of incredible decades with it’s collective artistry in songs, acts and even movies. The golden years, in that LA sun too.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Bless you for your words Bob.<\/p>\n
Eddie Gordon<\/p>\n
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Funny enough I was driving in Boston today and on came “More than a Feeling” from Boston and I had many of the same feelings you express here.<\/p>\n
Ronald C. Pruett, Jr.<\/p>\n
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