Now we have glorilla and Gaga

​@@matthewcurtis4083in all fairness, gaga really can sing. Shame how she used her talent, but at least she has it.

Absolutely

​@pstew5309 agreed

There was no Boston. There was Tom Sholz and Brad Delp.

Both of him do!

I mean, it’s alright. There’s a lot of layers and vocal reverb but you can still tell he doesn’t have the greatest vocal control or tone. He’s singing in his throat. lol

⁠​⁠@@jimmorrison4ever529😂 it’s alright.. i mean he is human so it won’t be perfect but reverb and layering the vocals is how you make a song sound full and big on just about every song recorded since the 70’s. i’m assuming you know that since it half seems you know what your talking about.. for a rock singer, dude was good. perfect? no. but indeed good enough 🤘🏻

@@e.k.izzle32 Reverb and layering vocals is often used as a cover up for singers like him that sing in their throat to, "jamming," music (unless you were Freddie Mercury). Granted, he kind of sounded like a goat using vibrato. Not something often used with Aretha, Whitney, Celine, Mariah, etc. They can/could actually sing. This guy sounds like my drunk dad, "jammin' out," to some music in the garage. I mean come on, even with the 80's style of reverb vocals Journey's Steve Perry could sing. Michael Bolton could sing. You're revealing to me less about your point, and more about your lack of music talent. Do you sound like this guy when you sing? Is that why you like his sound? lol...

I think the harmony is the point here.

I think it was the best decade of music.

Boston's a great band, dude had a fantastic voice.😊

I wore that album out four times as a kid.

Brad Delp is an amazing vocalist but his voice is multi tracked in the song

@@MrJeffcoley1 Yeah, but it's still all him. Even the super stupid extra high note.

And an MIT Wonderboy! (Before it too fell from grace).

​@@user-dn6qm1uc9othat was Tom Scholtz

and strangely never reproduced in a live performance. Fun fact: there were pitch-altering technoligies before autotune. Autotune just made it much easier. Here's the same song live. Kind of embarrassing, really. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arRnpMeUp7Deeqc.html

Epic🎉

​@@MikeM-uy6qp I just listened to it on the link you gave. What's embarrassing about it? The guy held his cords in the high pitches also.

​@@argentum3919 Oh come on. This performance is full of flat and dodged notes. When he gets a high note it sounds rough. The long notes have no finesse. The struggle is audible throughout. If you can't hear any of this, you must really really love this band. I'll admit that given how bad some lead singers from that era sounded live, 'embarrassing' may be an overstatement. But the lavish 'no autotune' praise being heaped on studio vocals that are obviously doctored merits counter-hyperbole. Just generally, the whole 'no autotune' thing is very silly. Pitch correction goes back fifty years. Autotune just made it very easy and ubiquitous.

@@MikeM-uy6qp Well, I have to defer to your greater knowledge of music, but I agree that embarrassment was too harsh. His backing crew when singing did look a bit bored!

Yes, that voice was engineered. He could not sing that note live.

@@garybrown1902 varispeed.

@@garybrown1902 every professionally recorded song had a sound engineer in the 70s. Each voice and instrument was miked individually and recorded onto one track of a 24 track, 2 inch reel-to-reel tape. Then the recording engineer would mix all of those tracks, balancing the volume, adding reverberation, etc. whatever was needed for each track. They did this on a huge mixing board with channels that corresponded to each track on the tape. Nothing was digital. What was recorded onto that tape was real. Yes, the engineers mixed, and “blended,” all of the tracks so that the end result, which was then recorded onto 1 inch tape had a good, balanced result.

Boston was on Epic records a subsidiary of Columbia

Vaxx got him? Too young to go.

@jennyhagemann5159 I'm going on 60 and still listen to all my old music over today's MOSTLY GARBAGE. I have a Country and Old Rock/Pop and others going back to the BEST DAYS of MUSIC

Of course we knew this record. It was on the radio every 30 minutes. 😂

Hear hear!

It’s sonically incredible

Every single track.

First album I ever owned. About 10 years old. Wore that vinyl down to nothing over the years on my small turntable!

I think it’s great. But when it released I was not around yet. My dad said it blew everyone’s mind. It was so well done and sounded good.

perfect album and great as a workout 'tape'

Did you know that Tom Scholz actually made his own amplifier because no existing ones would produce the sound of guitar he had visioned in his head

It has paid off immensely

Wonderful, but that’s what the bands back then were, try doing that with Queen, listen to Freddie Mercury without music, he’s pure magical, perfection…and everything else lol

Do Dennis de Young! One of the most amazingly pitch perfect voices ever. Best of Times, Rocking the Paradise...

Been saying this for years to my brothers and dad haha. They just won't understand it but that's okay. He was a special talent.

Absolutely agreed

same here. I was also 10 in 1982 and loved this song. My dad played it and I just fell in love with it.. I am also in California too.. ha ha. Bay Area to be exact

Are you still alive?

The year u was born! remnants of this purculated through us early millennials down in OC so cal as well!

@@speedracer8996 I grew up on this music too but i was born in '80. Mountain View, California. I'm sure my dad was listening to Live 105 and I think my mom was more of a KFRC listener. Good times.

@@darklordojeda I was born in Fremont, CA. ha. small world.

Probably all the voices are his.

@@binxbolling Nope. Including him, there are at least 3 people singing.

@@Hawner Only 3 people made the recording. They had to hire the rest of the band to go on tour.

@@binxbolling Tom Scholz - electric guitar Brad Delp - lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar Fran Sheehan - bass guitar Sib Hashian - drums While Brad was the main singer, both Tom and Fran sang as well. You can even see them singing in the short.

Hmm you used to need talent? Surprised?

Brad was a master at dubbing. It's all his voice, and I dearly miss him.

Played the 8-track till it FAQed up the tape!

Was on another level to anything else at the time.

I did the same!!

And it was done by one guy in his basement

I'm not saying it's in this case, but there was the equivalent to auto tune that was used back then.

Yes like Freddie Mercury, what's in a generation talents😊

Back when people had talent and not just popularity😊

Brad delp waz the best singer of all time..

@@DOCSAFETUBE Absolutely 💯 no

the harmonies were all overdubs of Brad Delp. He is the ONLY one who sang on the album.

People mistaken it for an early 80s song.

70s were the best

It set the stage for the 80's "wall of sound" in rock abums like Def Leppard's "Hysteria"

That moment when Brad harmonizes with … Brad.

​@@Jaco3688Exactly

there is no "they" It's all Brad and only Brad done with overdubs

TALENT used to be a REQUIREMENT!

It actually wasn't a band at all. Great story. Too long to tell here

Yeah it was one guy who hired a singer. And did all the vocals himself. Go read the Boston story it’s a surprise

Big band? You mean a one man band...Tom Scholz

The music is just as powerful as the vocals.

I use Foreplay: Been a Long Time to test ever stereo I hook up.

@@BruceWest-gn1qm Excellent choice.

I'm 43 and you ain't lyin.

There is some modulation to the voice but your point is made. Delp was one of a kind!

An iconic creep

@@guaporeturns9472 No one asked

@@HAZARDOUS88 😂 You’re mad HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Killed himself because he got busted placing cameras in his fiancée’s little sisters bedroom. Why would you defend such behavior? Is there something you want to tell us? Seems like maybe you think that’s ok?

So true. I was in HS 77-80. Boston was next level with ZERO gimmicks, just high quality, clean, creative rock.

I played this album hundreds of times on 8 track in my car!

@@scooterliberty4217as did we all! Cheers!

The first Boston album is one of those rare albums where I listen every song on it, skipping none

@@pmbbmp haters gonna hate. #shrug

Most underrated singer? Are you serious? Who has underrated him as a singer?

​@@davecoop9579 anybody (#me) that tried to do this song at karaoke & got to that part & then realized, "I picked the wrong song...how tf did he hit that". He does it so effortlessly you don't even have a clue how hard it is until you actually try it at karaoke...where you need to do it all yourself...w/out him to harmonize with while just singing to the record.

he and Steve Perry

What did he sign 😅😅😅

@@Ian-mj4pt singer. stop being an asshole.

His voice was so over produced and manipulated by Tom Schultz that it led to being one factor in his depression and anxiety. Because, he could never quite reproduce the sound that Tom got from his "engineering" of Brad's voice.

@@wordragon stop lying

48???

@@tacodegroot6442 1976! I remember the first time I heard it!!!

Sometimes I think about just that... I hear a song and think "wait, I was 14 when that came out... *48 years ago*"

ok so any band that uses vocal effects is fake music

@@zetho.270it’s not impressive, it’s called being lazy

​@@zetho.270yes

@@Joe121572so THIS is fake? Cause he used quite a lot of analog vocal effects here. This isn’t his raw voice, it’s put through an analog modulator. It’s not autotune, cause its not automated, but it is manual tune😂

They really weren't a "band" when this song was recorded, check out the story of how Tom Scholz and this album came to be, it pretty incredible.

You mean … “the musician”. Singular. Since Tom Scholz wrote and played EVERYTHING (except drums).

Bro never grew out of the 80s. Seriously, there are good artists, they're just not very popular because no one as unpopular as them can afford vocal classes. If your problem is pitch correction, listen to Deftones and then tell me it's not important. This singer lived back in a time when skill was the best thing you could have, and that's why you think musicians are worse when really back then not everyone had a chance. If your problem is rap, RACIST If your problem is pop, it's always been bad. Boston ain't pop. Rock peaked a long time ago for good reason. Metal and pop were far too distinct compared to rock and all of it's 00--03-057 and "boots cats and" beats was just on a decline due to cliches. I'd even say that this type of singing is a cliche. Tl;Dr: ʟ opɪɴɪoɴ

Kamala is that you? Seriously, I hate being overly critical but that's the worst word salad I've seen in a while. What exactly was your point again?

​@PIZZAdayisback If you don't like rap you're a racist? FUUUCK you. There is still some good music to be found today but rap ain't it. Rap isn't even really "black" music cause it isn't music at all. You want black music you start off with Mississippi Delta Blues, that became the Chicago Blues by artists like Howlin Wolf and Muddy Watters. THAT is black music and it is real, vibrant music. It inspired the British Invasion music scene as well as the Detroit MoTown sound. Rap? Rap is something else entirely and while there is rap/music fusion, rap in its pure form isn't music.

same age

And then you heard The Beatles.

@@mike73ng Screw the beatles, pop bubble gum trash. Yardbirds much better.

@@thomasodetinape4180 their harmonies were pretty good though. In the beginning especially.

@@mike73ng Ah, They were up there with boys to men, I liked Macartney and wings, George Harrison with the Traveling Wilburrys, but they were way to flaky. Especially Lennon.

So, Adele? Korn? METALLICA?! Aren't real musicians? Remember, midi is pretty much just composing in digital form. If you really only like the 70s you can go ahead and listen to Black Sabbath, in 24p with an audio bitrate of 36kb IF YOU'RE RICH.

Me too brother!57 year old Jack from Iowa USA

@@PIZZAdayisbackyou're throwing korn in the mix with metallica and adele. interesting. limp bizkit, foo fighters, potato, pototo

@@bosco1603 just musicians and bands I like

We have real singers and real musicians now. Better, many of them, because the internet and access to home recording inspires them to learn. And I was a sound engineer in the 70s. Trust me, for every brilliant artist like this, there was a whole bucket full of rubbish.

same here

I feel bad for those guys. I remember seeing a Journey cover band in 1989 and the singer was doing Steve Perry vocals note for note. Blew me away.

Singing covers will get you noticed but not necessarily signed to a contract. There's some astounding talent out there that will never see national recognition.

Unfortunately it’s not enough to duplicate it,you have to be able to write the tunes. Same with guitarists or any instrument.There’s millions of great technical players but if you can’t write a hit No one will know your name. It’s a tough business

​@@johnnyhotrodmore than that, it's a case of what you're doing being what the current big thing is, or being able to pivot to it at the same time as a talent scout happens to hear your music. So much hard work needed, but also SO much sheer luck.

@@peterclarke7006 I never believed in chasing the flavor of the month.The industry is awful. You gotta play what’s in your soul and if you make it,awesome.If not you will still love playing what you love. Not many people get to make music their career.

Bro just look a little harder dude; there are actually good modern musicians (like jonmosslol, my favorite rapper)

@@PIZZAdayisback lmfao 🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 what a fkn joke if you think that’s talent

​@@PIZZAdayisbackthats an artist unless he plays an instrument or sings

From wikipedia: "The band has sold more than 75 million records worldwide, including 31 million units sold in the United States, of which 17 million were the band's debut album and seven million copies of the band's second studio album, Don't Look Back (1978), placing the group amongst the world's best-selling music artists" I am almost scared to ask what is a properly-rated band in your universe.

He made the album himself then got a record deal and had to find band members that could play and go out play live.

Delp killed himself because he god busted putting a hidden camera in his fiancée’s little sisters bedroom . He was a creep , definitely not in heaven

Right with you Bro! Definitely some emotions stirring when it comes on!

Can never understand that saying.

@@cathmar7394 what saying ?

I'm white and I agree

Who cares what race

Auto tune is an accommodation tool. As someone with asthma, I personally don't use it but respiratory and hearing problems are not easy to treat. It can also be artistic. Auto tune exists for a reason. There were very few talented artists back then too, it's just that people were more puritanical about what they would listen to. TL;DR: auto tune ain't what's making "untalented" artists popular, it's people liking different types of music now.

@@PIZZAdayisback Yes! It accommodates someone who can't sing.

Might be my favorite song period.

I kinda like "Hitch a Ride" more

Sorry I repeated your comment. Didn’t seem like anyone knew.