Boston celebrates 40 years since the release of their self-titled, debut album in Omaha, Nebraska at Baxter Arena on July 20th, 2016.
I discovered Boston as a young man, barely out of high school in the early 1980’s. My first copy of the Boston album was on cassette in my 1972 Monte Carlo. My friends and I played it so much the tape stretched out. I then moved my choice of listening to vinyl and played it damn near every day. I had More Than a Feeling that I was capable of hitting every note that Brian Delp could. Of course, 40 years later and hundreds of packs of cigarettes later, I can no longer keep up. At that time all I wanted to was in a Rock and Roll Band.
Tom Scholz first started writing music in 1969 while he was attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he wrote an instrumental, titled “Foreplay”. While attending MIT, Scholz joined the band Freehold, where he met guitarist Barry Goudreau and drummer Jim Masdea, who would later become members of Boston along with vocalist Brad Delp was added to the collective in 1970. He earned his Master’s Degree from MIT and started working for Polaroid in which he used his paychecks to build a recording studio and make demo tapes.
The debut album, Boston, released on August 25, 1976, was an enormous success. The record ranks as one of the best-selling debut albums in U.S. history with over 17 million copies sold. Boston was the first band in history to make their New York City debut at Madison Square Garden and were also nominated for a Grammy for “Best New Artist” that year.
It has been a Long Time, since I have listened to Boston, but they are still Smokin’ 40 years later.
Give yourself a Piece of Mind and go see Boston at Omaha’s Baxter Arena on July 20th where fans can expect to hear all the classic songs they have grown to love, and will be treated to wild Hammond organ work, soaring harmony guitars, and exceptional vocal arrangements, as well as BOSTON’s unique visual stage presentation and plenty of extra-terrestrial sounds heard nowhere else on earth.
Come back to The Pit Magazine for a review and photo gallery of this show!
