Boston (band)

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Boston (the band) is well known for peddling mediocre arena rock and foisting songs like "More Than A Feeling" on the world throughout the 1970s and 1980s. However, this was mostly intentional.

The band was engineered (literally) by Tom Scholz, trained at MIT and erstwhile employee of the Polaroid Corporation in Cambridge, MA. A committed rock-n-roll fan, he used his training to investigate the perfect guitar sound, the perfect drum sound, the best song construction, and the best combination thereof as embodied in a rock song. On the Boston LPs, he used hired guns (vocalist Brad Delp in particular) to bring his knowledge to reality.

The sales figures proved Scholz's approach to be fruitful. Boston's self-titled LP (1976) and Don't Look Back (1978) produced multiple classic rock standards and sold extremely well.

Scholz and Boston's record label (Epic) had multiple legal disputes, as a result of his perfectionism and commitment to manufacturing the "perfect" Boston sound. The label didn't like all the money and time Scholz spent preparing a followup to Don't Look Back. That followup (Third Stage) was eventually released in 1986, but Boston was never the same after that.

Boston is a large plot point in one of the greatest Space Ghost Coast to Coast (http://snard.com/sg/guide/?ep=73) episodes of all time.

penguinmobile's former insurance agent played bass for Boston during the late 1980's. More or less notably, he was also the bass player for Aldo Nova.

External Links

• Boston the band - official site (http://www.boston.org/)
• Boston - AMG data (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4781FD248AD7F20D4932A48C4B569E71BD54AFF9917235075DFBD305A990864AF52F09D81D5AD71BD3EDBA478E85F10D0CAF154FCDC63713C8FE4A364323C49166858&sql=11:wifrxqw5ldde)