A Lawsuit BANNED this Group from Music for 8 Years…THEY STILL Hit #1 UPON Return!--Professor of Rock

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Just a word of advice. Don’t rush this guy. Today we’re telling the story of Boston's perfectionist rock savant Tom Scholz whose attention to detail is the secret ingredient to some of the rock era’s most iconic tracks. After spending six years working on demos in his basement studio, Tom Scholz and Boston released one of the best-selling records of the 70s. Its lead single More Than a Feeling blew everyone away. Two years later, Boston kicked out another blockbuster album. Only Scholz didn’t think the record was ready. So he vowed to take his time with the next record. It would be 8 years before it was released… which led to a contentious legal battle. But when this LP was released it went to #1 even though the musical landscape had completely changed. Now with six studio albums to their name, Boston averages about a decade between records. Get the story behind this musical mastermind and this legendary band and their evolution told through five essential tracks… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.

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It’s time for another episode of our series “Evolution.” On this show we tell the story of a band’s career through 5 defining tracks. These may not be a band’s most popular songs, and they may not even be my personal favorites. But each songs will to take you from the beginning to the end of a band’s journey and showcase the evolution of their sound and artistic direction. For today’s episode, we’re telling the story of the band who saved rock in 70s: It’s Boston! Let’s get into it.

The story of Boston begins with MIT master’s graduate and Polaroid engineer Tom Scholz, who would form the band in Boston, Massachusetts in 1976. However, before Boston came together, Tom spent roughly six years hidden in his homemade basement studio in Watertown. There he tweaked and refined demo after demo, which he then shopped around to record companies… only to be rejected again and again. During these pre-Boston years, Scholz also played in multiple bands and in the process met guitarist Barry Goudreau, drummer Jim Masdea, and vocalist Brad Delp. In 1973 Tom played in the band Mother's Milk with the trio, but they disbanded the following year.

In 1974 Scholz saw his dream of becoming a professional musician was slipping away. He had spent so much time and money and time to make it happen, but had nothing to show for it. Taking one last gamble, Scholz cleaned out his savings account to buy an obsolete 12-track tape recorder… which he installed in his basement studio. His last-ditch plan was to record six new demos, and then sell off his equipment if his music was rejected again. Scholz played all the instruments on the demos, except for the drums. And Delp added vocals.But this time there was interest in Scholz’s music, from multiple labels and a management team called Pure Management. Through Pure, Tom and Brad courted Epic Records.

All Comments (21)
  • Boston was an incredible band, the music is timeless. The fact they aren't in the Hall of Fame is an absolute insult.
  • @jonlennon3348
    Brad Delp is one of the best rock singers ever.RIP Brad we miss you.
  • My new girlfriend, Mary Ann, took off with her parents at the end of sophomore college year. Walked back to my dorm room to finish packing up. Strangely enough, More Than a Feeling was playing on my stereo, as I had just seen my Mary Ann walk away. Well, this September we will celebrate our 45 wedding anniversary! This song, is of course, still one of our favorites.
  • @Rob_Baker1962
    Back in the day, radio station WMMR 93.3 in Philadelphia had a feature they called the "Perfect album side," where they would play the entire side straight through. When Boston's first album came out, WMMR declared that the whole album was perfect so, for the "Perfect album side," they played the whole album - both sides - straight through. They weren't wrong.
  • @theduel007
    Epic quote, "The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame isn't worthy of them." - The Professor of Rock.
  • @garrett6064
    December 2014, my last post on FB was, "Even though you've got to where you're going, you just can't get out of the car when More Than A Feeling is on the radio."
  • @ianbarber311
    I got 58 demerits in '78 for going AWOL at military school to see them in Birmingham, AL. Took a month to march them off, worth every step!!!
  • @DC8091
    Sholz is the ULTIMATE D.I.Y. musician! It is so bad ass to do what he did without sequencers let alone without Logic or Pro Tools, building his own pedals as he could make a better one than he could buy, & then standing up to everyone and making some of the best albums ever! Certainly needs to be included amongst the GOATS!!!🤘🤘
  • almost got fired because of this album, I was a stock boy at T,G&Y, taking new music to the girl in the music department (Lori) about the 3rd trip she was playing Boston, Foreplay was playing, when the transition to Long Time came we started dancing... about that time the manager came around the corner, said if he caught us doing that again he would fire us both.. was hard to believe with him trying not laugh while he was scolding us haha... thanks for the great memory... :)
  • @Pjrock2112
    Saw Boston live in 87,Brad Delp has no equal!
  • @Gee_Jay
    BOSTON MUST Get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ! Period.
  • The RRHoF never fails to embarrass itself. Boston will always be one of my favorites. RIP Brad.
  • I got the 45 of 'Sugar Sugar' by The Archies on the back of a cereal box in the 60's! I remember playing Boston on an 8 track in my VW Bug driving to Venice High School in the 70's.
  • Love your comment, "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, does not deserve Boston"! So true! Great episode.
  • 1985, underage, gravel pit, keg of beer, IH Scout, Pioneer tape deck with home speakers on the roof and Boston blasting... good memories.
  • @ediemarie13
    I grew up in Boston, so I was always in love with their music - hometown pride aside. When I moved to California, I met my husband. Our first concert together was Boston in Aug. 1987 at the Forum. That was the night he proposed. He told me years later that he almost asked if he could do it from the stage! It still brings us wonderful memories when we hear any of their music, 37 years later ❤
  • @Doadab13
    Greatest first album of all time.
  • F the rock hall !! They have proven year after year that they don't have a clue which artists SHOULD NOT be included in a club whose very name should serve as an indicator of who should be inducted. It's so simple! Somehow the echelon who make the decisions are not capable of making the right ones consistently. Far too many artists have been inducted that have no business being there nor aspired to be while too many others have been snubbed that have earned the right to be included in even the nomination process. I'm sure I speak for many others when I say there is very little respect for this organization. It's become so commonplace for them to snub deserving artists that it leaves millions shaking their heads every year. F the rock hall !!
  • I’ve told this story before in another of your videos. 4:42 One of my earliest and favorite memories of a Boston song was when I was about 7 years old in 1977. My brother had a GTO and had to watch me. He strapped me in the front seat and we went to go fishing. I remember flying down the highway as Foreplay came on the radio. My brother picked up more speed. I was having a ball. We were driving up a hill as Foreplay was ending and broke into It’s been such a long as we crested the hill and saw the bay in all its splendor. Wide open skies, the bay, it was an awesome view. At the time I did not know we were listening to Boston or what the songs were. I heard the song a few years later as I was really getting into music and that memory came back to me. I still get that memory and feeling of awe to this day.