Rock Band Boston

The band toured in 2015.

Rock band boston.

Generating three american top 40 hits the group s eponymous first album became the biggest selling debut in rock history. Boston is the debut studio album by american rock band boston. Boston is also the city where i began my own music career music education and met my wife playing in a boston local nightclub. Boston burst onto the pop music scene in 1976 with the meticulously crafted single more than a feeling which combined elements of progressive rock and 1960s pop.

Boston s best known songs include more than a feeling peace of mind. The band resumed touring in 2008 with new vocalists michael sweet from the christian metal band stryper and tommy decarlo a boston fan who was recruited after posting some of his covers of boston songs on myspace. The last time boston played the td garden was in 2013 for the boston strong benefit concert where victims and heros where rightly honored in an emotionally mixed night of somber and celebration. The band was boston the genius leader was tom scholz and their first album titled simply boston went on to sell over 17 million copies becoming the biggest selling debut in the history of american music a record they held for a decade until it was broken by guns n.

Produced by tom scholz and john boylan the album was released on august 25 1976 in the united states by epic records scholz had studied classical piano in his childhood and became involved in the boston music scene in the late 1960s. Guitarist scholz who had earned a master s degree in mechanical engineering at the massachusetts. See black jacks del fuegos nervous eaters willie loco alexander etc. 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.

40 years ago an unknown band led by an introverted genius was transformed into a global rock n roll phenomenon. Boston is an american rock band from boston massachusetts which had its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s centered on multi instrumentalist founder and leader tom scholz who played the majority of instruments on the debut album and lead vocalist brad delp the band is a staple of classic rock. Amanda palmer dresden dolls. Centered on guitarist songwriter and producer tom scholz a former product designer at polaroid corporation and an mit engineering student the band s best known works include the popular singles m read more.