Can't agree more.

The greatest debut album of all time.

The only other debut album like this is The first Van Halen song.

Fun fact, Dwayne the Rock Johnson’s father in law is the drummer. RIP Sib

@@salvatorediangelo453 original?

Yes!

Same here

I may have to agree with you here. It's poetic musical and vocal perfection

My favorite guitar solo...hence my KZfaq name.

@@howie5th that's cool. Seriously that solo is so mood setting and nostalgic and fluid. Brad's vocals.....the entire arrangement. Just perfection in a song. ❤️

this song makes me f**kin cry, it is one of the best things about life

Can I just correct you my friend it is not Hitchin a ride that song was recorded by vanity fair 1969 -70 this is hitch a ride Boston 1976 and what a great song it is

Me too

You miss being young. That is why you tear up.

@@ezeee595 100% correct God Bless You

@@ezeee595 Not so, my mother told me that I've been crying to music, happy and joyful tears to ANY music I would hear since I was an infant, particularly music with singing! What can I say? It has alway been deeply ingrained in my ❤️.

@@maryreilly5092 Maybe that is not the case with you. I tear up when I hear certain songs, because they remind me of my younger days.

Guitar SCREAM at 10:07.

@daniellloret3769 There is so much Boston/Scholz urban legend BS out there. All of Brads vocals were recorded by producer John Boylan at Capital Studios Studio C. The high end mic pres, eq's, compressors and plate reverbs that Boylan used on Brads voice are part of the reason why Brads voice sounds so good on this record. The entire song Let Me Take You Home was recorded in its entirety by the band as pictured on the back of the record. Toms does not play bass on every song. Fran plays bass on Foreplay and Let Me Take You Home. Toms long time friend Jim Masdea played drums on the demo tape that was submitted to Epic and producer John Boylan. However, Sib plays the drums on every song except one on the record. The record was mixed at Westlake studios on thier then new and top of the line API conosole and their 3M 24 track tape machines. The mixing was done by producer John Boylan, engineer Warren Dewey and Tom. According to Boylan it was quite the circus and tug of war mixing with Tom because he kept pushing the electrc guitars and cymbal so hard that Boylan and Dewey had to try to keep up and in the process the console was pushed into "manual compression"

​@@neechee5150 the only thing done outside of the studio was professionally mixing it. Tom Scholz played at least 90% of the guitars, bass and keys himself.

@@joshgrant-ti4xk said, "the only thing done outside of the studio was professionally mixing [the Boston debut record] it" If you are trying to say that the only thing that was done to the Boston debut record outside of Toms studio was that it was mixed at Westlake studios, you are WRONG. The entire song Let Me Take You Home which was written by Brad was in fact recorded at The Record Plant LA by the band as pictured on the back of the record, This is a documented, legal and corroborated fact that Tom has NEVER denied. It is also fact that ALL of Brads vocals sans the vocals on Let Met Take You Home were recorded by producer John Boylan at Capital Studios Studio C. Then if you want to get technical this record was mastered by Wally Traugott at Capital Studios Your 90% statistic is suspect at best. Why? Barry plays electric rhythm guitar on three songs: Foreplay, Long Time and Let Me Take You Home. Tom was forced to admit this as fact under oath in legal documents in the lawsuits between Tom and Barry. Barry also plays all of the lead guitar solos on Long Time as well as the huge power chords in Long Time. In addition, Barry also plays lead and slide guitars on Let Me Take You Home. Given that there are only 8 songs on the record and given that Barry plays all of the guitars on Let Me Take You Home and given how much Barry plays on Foreplay and Long Time it is mathematically impossible for your 90% claim to be true. Your 90% claim is 100% fiction.

@@neechee5150 we're just gonna agree to disagree

@@joshgrant-ti4xk I stated documented facts that Tom and producer John Boylan have STATED AS FACT AND TRUTH or that Tom was FORCED TO ADMIT AS TRUTH UNDER OATH in legal proceedings between he and Barry. I have stated FACTS as documented in the liner notes of EVERY copy of the debut record that has ever been sold. I stated facts that Tom listed in the liner notes of the POST LITIGATION 2006 Scholz (not Sony) remaster of the debut Boston record, and this was Toms pet project from the get go and other than Epic/Sony not letting Tom have the original master, Tom had COMPLETE CONTROL over this remaster. I can document as FACT every one of my claims. I issue you a challenge to document your claims and to refute what i have said. Opinions that are not supported by facts and corroborated evidenced and testimony are FICTION. Tom has purposely obfuscated and left out many key details of who did what on this record and Tom in his usual titanic ego self aggrandizing fashion has been less than honest and transparent and he as minimized the contributions of others to this record. This is not a matter of agreeing to disagree this is a matter about what is truth and fact. I can defend everyone of my claims. Can you?

Well then they need to do Lady of The Lake by Starcastle. Starcastle were a glorious band, and their first two albums were dominant progressive rock.

saw the same show june 77 fresno california did they lazer light show in minn.

@@jeffreygreer it had been so long but Yes I believe they did.

Excellence will do that to you you know Tim but why don’t you give Theocracy a listen especially their 22 min masterpiece “ Mirror of Souls “! You can close your eyes and be in the song in this movie!

yep me too😁

Love that dirty water...

BOSTON's Third Stage (their comeback, about a decade after this debut) came CLOSE to the success of this album and is their last excellent album. The sophomore release [Don't Look Back -even, given that: a lot of people seem to love it (or claim to, anyway) and rate it quite highly, the issue with that is THIS: It's inaccurate and untrue. As a listener: you, quickly recognize the fact that it is an attempt at retreading THIS album... but, with weaker, more "cobbled together" songs. Not as well-constructed and too "just there" and/or similar (to everything you already have, by them!). ...they were, still, exploiting the demos they recorded in the early '70s (for e.g. : 'Don't Be Afraid" was originally a song called "Love" ...from circa 1973-1974). Nothing wrong, inherently, with that, but: Don't Look Back, while "a fine recording" and more than "just listenable" ...IS a retread and is (in comparison) markedly weaker and less interesting than their debut. ...Having 8 years (due to: lawsuits, psychological and social bullshit (in Tom's head) and, also: tapes which aged-out and began sticking together (so: "technical difficulties"-to say the least!) to, uhmmm... "polish a project," does give you some more opportunity to: write new stuff, arrange stuff "on the books" better and/or: just cull or alter things you would have put out, if you had, just, done that years earlier (around the time first created it ....or so....). >>>Anyhow: I.M.O.: the overall quality of: Third Stage is their second best (behind the debut)( [and the tour was good, too]. ...Nut Scholz had kicked people out of the band (although: he had TOLD them he was 'taking a break' from Boston and could "...do solo projects, or whatever," while he was doing that...but, then, decided to get pissed-off at them when they DID do that the interim ('cause, obviously: control freak is, unnecessarily, a fucking douchebag.,-If you're not writing guitar or organ parts, I don't wanna hear sh*!t from you, Scholz!). ...anyhow....: Yes: Check-Out Third Stage ["Cool The Engines"; "We're Ready' (or, maybe: the 'album-flow-segue': "We're Ready"/"The Launch"/"Cool The Engines"] "Can't'cha Say (You Believe In Me)" and "Hollyann" are must-listens from 3rd Stage] (Tracks you would want to cove, from: "Don't Look back, IF you are going to bother with that album (It isn't a necessity): "Don't Be Afraid"; "Used To Bad News": "Feelin' Satisfied" ...🤷🤷 ...maybe "Party"(??)...)

Cool the Engines was always my favorite off Third Stage, Amanda is a close second though.

The solo at the end! Just nothing like it!

YES!!!!

It was music history, never to be repeated.

Ditto!

Just part of the greatest childhood ever.

@brianorzel1873 The tracks that were used for this record were recorded from the winter of 1975 to the spring of 1976. Tom wrote and rewrote these songs multiple times over the years prior to his demo being heard by Epic and producder John Boylan.

ELO love that I passed onto my sons!

I wanna go back too. This album brings back so many memories.

Foreigner too!

I came here to say that!!

You might as well toss in REO Speedwagon and Journey into this mix

And never will again.😢

Make no mistake about it - and I've experienced it personally. There are young people coming up in the world, technically savvy, calm, focused, family oriented, God-fearing, ambitious, and absolutely ass kicking. It gives me hope.

@brucecronin6396 Tom's BS and masters degree from MIT are in mechanical engineering. Brad had been singing on Toms demos and playing in bands with Tom for years before this was made. Brad sang on the demo that was submitted to Epic and to producer John Boylan and that is the demo that helped get Brad and Tom signed by Epic Tom does not play a single drum track on this record and the record is far better for that fact. Sib plays drums on all tracks except Rock and Roll Band and Jim Masdea, Toms long time friend, plays drums on that song. Tom's drumming on later Boston records leaves a great deal to be desired and that is putting it lightly. Tom's drumming has no groove, is sloppy and it is very very basic. Tom should have hired someone like Vinnie Coluita to play drums on those records instead of playing drums himself. There is no drum part that Tom could write that Vinnie could not play masterfully and there is no beat or groove maniputoin that Tom could conceive of that Vinney could not do and do it better than Tom wrote it.