I never have cared for Boston much and I really don't know why. I mean, I could sit through an album if somebody put it on at a party or something back when I was going to parties, but it's nothing I'd ever play on my own. All my other friends liked them, though. Maybe their music is a little too commercial for my taste, who knows.
Setlist:
0:00:00 - Rock And Roll Band
0:03:30 - Shattered Images
0:07:15 - Peace Of Mind
0:12:50 - Feelin' Satisfied
0:17:32 - Don't Look Back
0:23:40 - More Than A Feeling
0:34:53 - A Man I'll Never Be
0:42:11 - Smokin'
0:45:18 - Smokin'
0:50:53 - Solo
0:55:15 - This Time
1:00:42 - Foreplay/longtime
1:10:25 - Something About You
1:14:04 - Party
in the day, Boston was awesome,we werstoned. butbreally today, sounds like bubblegum rock
ReplyDeleteThe horns get to you eventually.
ReplyDeleteI saw Boston in concert, off their first album. Tom Scholz, the guitarist, was amazing. Foreplay/Long Time sounded like a tornado in the hall.
ReplyDeleteIt was east coast dance music. It's all okay but it's not like it's Black Sabbath.
ReplyDeleteOverplay fatigue from the 80s...
ReplyDeleteJust a solid little band, unpretentious at the beginning. I remember being a kid in Dallas and you could see a lot of bands like this in Deep Ellum, instead of all these pop or rap shit out there.
ReplyDeleteWe had the Warehouse in New Orleans, everybody played there,. It was always a great time
DeleteJD
grew up in Metarie
DeleteCool, I was US 90 west about 45 minutes away just south of Thibodeaux
DeleteJD
I had to see them live before I was a fan.. For some reason hearing their 1st album didn't do it for me but then I saw them in concert and I became one
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They saved ROCK from disco
ReplyDeleteBoston was a better version of the "high energy bubble-gum" rock genre... as likened to REO Speed Wagon, Queen, and so many more which I'm unable to name now, because I don't care for the "easy" rock genre too much, either...
ReplyDeleteBut could identify them when I hear them...
Sure, Boston has a few "catchy" songs... if music wasn't diverse, it couldn't appeal to the masses like it does...
Agreed, Boston did do their part to quell the, "disco sucks" era...
I saw Boston live at MSG back in 1977. They came on late, played their one album of pop tunes for 40 minutes and left.
ReplyDeleteThe most interesting part of the show was the no-name warmup band playing too long and getting literally booed off the stage. The lead singer of the warmup band taunted the crowd on their way offstage with "Well, WE had a good time, so FUCK YOU!"
His name was Sammy Hagar.
MG
I like the first album- I was always impressed that Tom Scholz wrote, recorded, & engineered it himself (except for vocals & drums) in the basement of his rented house while working his day job as an engineer at Polaroid- the band was formed after he got a record contract-
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My feeling about Boston pretty much mirrors yours. They got lots of airplay but not something I would spend $7 on for an album.
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My first concert, newly minted high school senior. Played their first album, no new stuff and I wondered why I shelled out $7 to see this. Still have the album. Which led to being a discerning concerteer. Next show I saw was Led Zeppelin. Night and Day, Night and Day.
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I saw Boston in 1979 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. I was sitting all the way back from the stage and they had it cranked up to 11, loudest band I ever saw.
DeleteI saw Boston in 78 or 79. They sucked as a stage band. This was back when a concert ticket could cost the outrageous price of $7.
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