It was the blockbuster record that put rock back on the front burner in the middle of disco…and it came out of nowhere… Tom Scholz and his upstart band Boston saved rock and roll with it’s power chords thought 70s classics like More Than a Feeling, Peace of Mind, Foreplay/Long Time and Rock & Roll Band to name a few of the powerful song that ignited radio. It sent shockwaves through the industry when it sold out virtually everywhere. Yet it’d been rejected by every major label in the industry. one even wrote a rude letter saying it offered nothing new. Tom Scholz the genius behind it had been tinkering in his basement for nearly 6 years perfecting it’s sound… He was rejected, laughed at and on the verge of financial ruin… It helped that had had one of the greatest singers ever in Brad Delp...Up next an original band member who was there during that stint tells rock and roll’s Cinderella story of the record that saved rock and roll.
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It’s time for another edition of our show breakthrough where we break down that singular sensation that helped kick open the door to an artists career and give the long term success. It was one of the greatest debut albums of all time by a monster rock band that by my account is the most under-appreciated bands of the rock and roll era who should’ve been in the rock and Roll hall of fame long ago. I know we talk about the big rock hall of fame snubs quite a bit on here…
Well this might be the mother of all snubs. because they really helped save rock and roll when it was floundering in the mid 70s buried beneath an industry built on disco, mellow pop and singer songwriter fare. Not saying anytime bad about those genres just saying that rock was on the back burner. Well this band and their 17 million selling debut album blew up radio. You know who I’m talking about… Boston and their expansive debut album with rock standards like More Than A Feeling, peace of Mind, long time, Hitch a Ride and Smokin to name but a few…
Released in August 1976, the debut Boston album sent was a rock and roll miracle. The band came out nowhere and shook the world off it’s axis injecting a primal energy into radio Tom Scholz the author of the Boston sound had been tinkering in his basement for nearly 6 years tweaking the record overdubbing and perfecting the sound he heard in his head. Many though he was going insane. That he had been in doors to long. but Scholz had a vision. and eye single to the sound he was trying to communicate to the world. His dream seemed to be slipping away as he was ridiculed, humiliated and dirt poor. Tom Scholz would later say “Everybody thought that it was impossible, because disco ruled the airwaves at the time,”But we stumbled onto a sound that worked, and soon everybody was imitating it.” The record of powerful riffs, multilayered vocals extravaganzas and harmonize guitar leads would over come the popularity of disco.