1976 Boston - Boston

L.P E.U - Epic Records - EPC 32038.

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Album Lyrics:


More Than A Feeling.
(T. Scholz)

I looked out this morning and the sun was gone
I turned on some music to start my day
And lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes and I slipped away

It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling)
When I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
And I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
'till I see Marianne walk away
I see my Marianne walkin' away

So many people have come and gone
Their faces fade as the years go by
Yet I still recall as I wander on
as clear as the sun in the summer sky

It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling)
When I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
And I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
'till I see Marianne walk away
I see my Marianne walkin' away

When I'm tired and thinking cold
I hide in my music, forget the day
And dream of a girl I used to know
I closed my eyes and she slipped away
She slipped away

It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling)
When I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
And I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
'till I see Marianne walk away.


Peace Of Mind.
(T. Scholz)

Now if you're feelin' kinda low 'bout the dues you've been payin'
Future's coming much too slow
And you wanna run but somehow you just keep on stayin'
Can't decide on which way to go
Yeah, yeah, yeah

I understand about indecision
But I don't care if I get behind
People livin' in competition
All I want is to have my peace of mind
Yeah!

Now you're climbin' to the top of the company ladder
Hope it doesn't take too long
Can'tcha see there'll come a day when it won't matter
Come a day when you'll be gone

I understand about indecision
But I don't care if I get behind
People livin' in competition
All I want is to have my peace of mind

Take a look ahead
Take a look ahead
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...

Now everybody's got advice they just keep on givin'
Doesn't mean too much to me
Lots of people out to make-believe they're livin'
Can't decide who they should be

I understand about indecision
But I don't care if I get behind
People livin' in competition
All I want is to have my peace of mind

Take a look ahead
Take a look ahead
Look ahead.


Foreplay/Long Time.
(T. Scholz)

It's been such a long time, I think I should be goin', yeah
And time doesn't wait for me, it keeps on rollin'
Sail on, on a distant highway, yeah
I've got to keep on chasin' a dream
I've gotta be on my way
Wish there was something I could say

Well I'm takin' my time, I'm just a movin' along
You'll forget about me after I've been gone
And I take what I find, I don't want no more
It's just outside of your front door
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
It's been such a long time
It's been such a long time

Well I get so lonely when I am without you
But in my mind, deep in my mind, I can't forget about you, woah
Good times, and faces that remind me, yeah
I'm tryin' to forget your name and leave it all behind me
You're comin' back to find me

Well I'm takin' my time, I'm just a movin' along
You'll forget about me after I've been gone
And I take what I find, I don't want no more
It's just outside of your front door
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
It's been such a long time
It's been such a long time

Yeah, It's been such a long time, I think I should be goin', yeah
And time doesn't wait for me, it keeps on rollin'
There's a long road, I've gotta stay in time with, yeah
I've got to keep on chasin' that dream, though I may never find it
I'm always just behind it

Well I'm takin' my time, I'm just movin' on
Just takin' my time (Yeah, just movin' on)
Takin' my time (Yeah, just takin' my time)
Takin' my time (Yeah)
Takin' my time (Oh, you know I want to get on home)
Takin' my time (Oh)
Takin' my time (Oh, just takin' my time)
Takin' my time (Oh, just a takin' my time)
Takin' my time
Takin' my time (Just outside of your front door).


Rock & Roll Band.
(T. Scholz)

Well, we were just another band out of Boston
On the road to try to make ends meet
Playin' all the bars, sleepin' in our cars
And we practiced right on out in the street
No, we didn't have much money
We barely made enough to survive
But when we got up on stage and got ready to play
People came alive

Rock and roll band
Everybody's waitin'
Gettin' crazy
Anticipating love and music
Play, play, play, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Dancin' in the streets of Hyannis
We were getting pretty good at the game
People stood in line and didn't seem to mind
You know everybody knew our name
Livin' on rock-n-roll music
Never worried 'bout the things we were missing
When we got up on the stage and got ready to play
Everybody'd listen

Rock and roll band
Everybody's waitin'
Gettin' crazy
Anticipating love and music
Play, play, play, yeah, yeah

Playin' for a week in Rhode Island
A man came to the stage one night
He smoked a big cigar
And drove a Cadillac car
And said, "Boys, I think this band's outta-sight, oh
Sign a record company contract
You know I've got great expectations
When I hear you on the car radio
You're goin' to be a sensation!"
Yeah, yeah

Rock and roll band
Everybody's waitin'
Gettin' crazy
Anticipating love and music
Play, play, play, yeah, yeah.


Smokin’.
(T. Scholz / B. Delp)

We're gonna play you a song, a little bit of rock-n-roll, yeah
You gotta let yourself go, the band's gonna take control, yeah
We're gettin' out today
We'll pick you up and take you away
Get down tonight

Smokin', Smokin'
We're cookin' tonight, just a keep on tokin'
Smokin', Smokin'
I feel alright, mamma I'm not jokin', yeah

Get your feet to the floor, everybody rock and roll
You've got nothing to lose, it's just the rhythm and blues, that's all, yeah
We're gonna feel ok
We'll pick you up and take you away
Get down tonight

Smokin', Smokin'
We're cookin' tonight, just keep on tokin'
Smokin', Smokin'
I feel alright, mamma I'm not jokin', yeah
Oh, yeah, yeah

Everyone's jumpin', dancin' to the boogie tonight
Clap your hands, move your feet
If you don't you know it won't seem right, yeah
We're gettin' out today
We'll pick you up and take you away, oh
Get down tonight

(Yeah, you know) We're gettin' out today
We'll pick you up and take you away
Get down tonight, well alright!


Hitch A Ride.
(T. Scholz)

Day is night in New York City
Smoke, like water, runs inside
Steel idle trees to pity
Every livin' thing that's died

Gonna hitch a ride
Head for the other side
Leave it all behind
Never change my mind
Gonna sail away
Sun lights another day
Freedom on my mind
Carry me away for the last time
Oh yeah

Life is like the coldest winter
People freeze the tears I cry
Words of hail their minds are into
I've got to crack this ice and fly

Gonna hitch a ride
Head for the other side
Leave it all behind
Never change my mind
Gonna sail away
Sun lights another day
Freedom on my mind
Carry me away for the last time

Gonna hitch a ride
Head for the other side
Leave it all behind
Never change my mind
Gonna sail away
Sun lights another day
Freedom on my mind
Carry me away for the last time.


Something About You.
(T. Scholz)

When I was younger I thought I could stand on my own
It wasn't easy, I stood like a man made of stone, yeah, yeah

But there was something about you (I didn't want you to know)
It brought a change over me (Then it started to show)
I've got this feelin' inside
Gotta have ya, have ya, ain't no good to hide

It isn't easy, to show what I'm feelin' inside, girl
It isn't easy, I know
When you believe in a man like me, yeah

When I get angry I say things I don't wanna say
I really mean it, I don't want to leave you this way, yeah, yeah

I couldn't help my reaction (I didn't want you to know)
I'd lose control over you (I don't want you to go)
Got this feeling inside
Gotta have ya, have ya, ain't no good to hide

It isn't easy, to show what I'm feeling inside, girl
It isn't easy, I know
When you believe in a man like me

But there was something about you
It brought a change over me
I got this feelin' inside, gotta have you, have you
Ain't no good to hide

It isn't easy, to show what I'm feeling inside, girl
It isn't easy, I know
To believe in a man like me, like me, can'tcha see
I gotta, gotta have you
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah

But there was something about
Yeah, there was something about you.


Let Me Take You Home Tonight.
(B. Delp)

Now I'm not like this, I'm really kind of shy
But I get this feeling whenever you walk by
I don't wanna down you, I wanna make you high
If you could see your way to me, come on and let me try

Let me take you home tonight, mamma now it's alright
Let me take you home tonight, I'll show you sweet delight

You must understand this, I've watched you for so long
that I feel I've known you, I know it can't be wrong
If we'd just get together, I want to make you see
I'm dreaming of your sweet love tonight, so mamma let it be

Let me take you home tonight, mamma now it's alright
Let me take you home tonight, I'll show you sweet delight

I don't wanna make excuses, I don't wanna lie
I just got to get loose, with you tonight

Let me take you home tonight, mamma now it's alright
Let me take you home tonight, I'll show you sweet delight

I don't wanna make excuses, I don't wanna lie
I just got to get loose, with you tonight, hey!

I don't wanna down you, I wanna make you high
And I get this feeling whenever you walk by
If we'd just get together, I wanna make you see
I'm dreamin' of your sweet love tonight, so mamma let it be

Let me take you home tonight, mamma now it's alright
Let me take you home tonight, I'll show you sweet delight
I wanna show you sweet delight, show ya sweet delight
Pretty mamma wanna show ya sweet delight

Let me take you home tonight (Yeah, you know I wanna take you home)
Let me take you home tonight (Oh, I don't wanna be alone)
Let me take you home tonight (Mamma, wanna take you home)
Let me take you home tonight (I want to take you home)
Let me take you home tonight (Mamma, wanna take you home)
Let me take you home tonight (Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Let me take you home tonight
Let me take you home tonight
Let me take you home tonight
Let me take you home tonight
Let me take you home tonight.


Promo:

Epic Records.

Liner notes: 

If you’re looking for something to tell you that the band in question is composed of nearly notable former members of various bands, or how many jam sessions the drummer sat in on with rock superstars who are now dead or disabled or retired, forget it. Unless the names Mother’s Milk, Middle Earth, or the Revolting Tones Revue ring any particular bells, where the people who make up this band called Boston came from a irrelevant to who and where they are now. 

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As to how the band came together, we’ll let lead singer Bradley Delp tell the story. “Fran knew Barry, and I knew Frank, and Fran had played with Sib, and Sib had played with Tom, and Barry knew Tom, and Tom knew me, but Fran didn’t know that I knew the he knew Barry too, so what happened was….” 

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If you still need more information, try this Boston is masterminded by a guitarist named Tom Scholz. An MIT graduate with a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. Tom was living a split existence at the time his concept for Boston began to fall together. By day, he was a highly-touted member of the Product Design wing of a major Massachusetts-based corporation, helping to develop all sorts of media machinery that he’s not supposed to talk about. By night he was a member of any one of a handful of constantly shifting bands on the North Shore club circuit in Boston. Considering the day gig, when he bought 12-inch recording equipment and began experimenting with basement tapes, mastering the machinery at his disposal posed no great problem. With these extraordinarily homemade demo tapes, the band was soon better know to record company executives in L.A. and New York than it was to taste-mongers in its own hometown. 

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If you insist on having it further spelled out for you, consider this. What distinguishes Boston’s music is although it’s by definition heavy rock & roll, it evidences a great concern for melodic and harmonic flow than practically any band you can think of working the same general territory. Also, consider the use of technology as an instrument, all the more remarkable because this is a first album. Of the tendency for technology to take over in the hands of lesser practitioners, Tom Scholz says, “It depends completely on the person using it. People have already fallen prey to that, in my opinion, with items that the just go out and buy to get a certain sound without really understanding where that sound comes from and how to apply it.” Those who question how the precise technology of the group’s record will translate to a live environment will discover that, with the aid of some special sound innovations developed for live performance by Scholz, the Boston concert will easily be a comparable experience to the Boston album. That’s a lot to look forward to, but you know where to start. 

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Produced by John Boylan and Tom Scholz 

A Great Eastern Gramophone Production

Recorded at Foxglove Studios, Watertown, Mass. (Winter, ’75)

Capitol Studios, Hollywood, Cal. (Spring, ’76)

The Record Plant, Los Angeles, Cal. (Spring, ’76)

Engineered by Tom Scholz and Warren Dewey

Assisted by Deni King, Bruce Hensel, & Doug Ryder

Mixed at Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, Cal.

Assisted by Steve Hodge

Mastered by Wally Traugott at Capitol Studios

Direction – Pure Management

Paul Ahern…Charles McKenzie 

BOSTON is:

TOM SCHOLZ – lead and rhythm guitars, acoustic guitar, special effects guitar, bass, organ, clavinet and percussion

BRAD DELP – lead and harmony vocals, acoustic 12-string guitar, rhythm guitar and percussion

BARRY GOUDREAU – lead and rhythm guitars

FRAN SHEEHAN – bass 

SIB HASHIAN – drums and percussion 

Cover Illustration: Roger Huyssen

Design: Paula Scher

Back Cover Photo: Jeff Albertson 

Special thanks to Ron, Steve, Lennie, Jim, and Sam.

Extra special thanks to Brian Rohan and Cindy.