"It's nice to be appreciated ... not so nice to be appreciated for something other than who you are." Thank you, Nova, for including this 10 seconds. I think it taught me more about Tom Scholz than any video, concert, or piece of gear ever could.
Everything about that album was and still is innovative, especially the guitar work and Tom's organ solos on Smokin-- truly are Smokin! Dayam what a talent! Brad Delp's voice- un-be-freekin-believeable!! Sub's Drumming....every member of the band-- Top Shelf!
I love this Rick Beato breakdown of More Than a Feeling....I never knew that was Brad's voice and not a guitar at one point..he isolates everything in the video. And beyond Scholz's engineering genius, his songs are so brilliantly written and mixed. th-cam.com/video/ynFNt4tgBJ0/w-d-xo.html Was in more awe than before....than when I saw them as a teen on the DLB tour....after watching Rick's video
If he had only written "More Than A Feeling" it would have been enough. That is how good that song is. But that whole first album Boston put out was solid gold all the way thru. There isn't a bad song on it. Tom Scholz is a genius and Brad Delp's voice was superhuman. Gone too soon. Boston's records are timeless and darn near perfect. Love it more every time i listen to it.
Man, I agree with you 99%. The only thing I disagree with you is that the album wasn't nearly perfect...it IS perfect. I don't think anything could be done to make it better.
@@Madmun357i stand corrected. I listened to the album again recently and i think you are right. He couldn't have done anything else to make that album better. I feel confident in saying that Boston's debut album is in the top 5 debuts of all time, possibly number one. Bands were often great live but not that great on record. Boston is an obvious exception. All of their records are tremendous and timeless.
We probably would never see a total genius coupled with one of the best rock voices in history ever again! Over 40 years old and the music of Boston still sounds great and certainly not dated. Its timeless.
Tom is a treasure He is the reason why I play today. Back in 76 I heard Boston on 8 track with head phones and since then I have never heard anything like it. For me it was an out of body experience
Tom´s rockman is the most beautiful driven guitar sound ever made. That "cryin´guitar sound", you know...actually it´s an essential part of many records, songs, and players style. So much for his engineer work as for his musicianship, Tom is a very important guy in the rock history
I remember when it came out in the 80's and a friend got one. That thing was amazing and back then it was hard to get a beautiful, overdriven, compressed guitar tone from the equipment of the day. Maybe if you had a Marshall stack cranked to 11 you could get a great tone, but that wasn't an option for must of us. That Rockman allowed everyone to have a professional sounding guitar tone in a bedroom environment. Something we take for granted now with all the digital/software and amp-modeling available.
@@RKDriver yes man...I remember how difficult was in the old days....and those horrible sounds of the cheap solid state amps and pedals...as you say, today things are very very very different
Tom Scholtz was the ultimate musician because he wrote songs that you could sing along with and had technical guitar, bass, drum and vocals that didn’t make you bored. It’s the best of both worlds! Every one of his riffs, solos and fills are pure ear candy!!!
Bought a Rockman unit used for $35 in 2004, and got the rack adapter for it on ebay. Never had so much fun, thought of it as a toy, until I recorded some of my best songs with it on the 'clean' setting, which is a beautiful crystaline sound. Wonderful to be a part of it, thank you Tom!
Boston has always been my favorite from the very 1st note of More than a Feeling. Tom you're right about not sounding as good as other bands...you're 10x better!
I've listened to the Boston album nearly every day for the last several years. I never get tired of it. I listen to it so much, that I even hear it when I'm not listening to it. It's the background music of my life.
Tom Scholz is a rock legend! He made rock sound so melodic, lyrical, and full-bodied, and always kept things interesting with the sound effects and embellishments! I don't know if Tom ever reads the comments here, but i'll never forget something that happened to me back in the late 70's. My dad is from Greece, so we used to fly Olympic Airways there every summer from NYC. I was in high school, and as an electronics tinkerer and Ham Radio operator myself, I got a license to operate my Amateur Radio station in Greece for 2 months. While in Athens, my radio transceiver broke. I hunted down an electronics repair shop, since I needed a transformer for my radio gear. As I walk into this electronics store, I see 2 guys repairing circuit boards and blasting the first Boston album! We instantly bonded and talked rock music for a while. As it turns out, I had brought 3 new copies of the new Boston album 'Dont Look Back' to Greece with me (back at the hotel), to give as gifts to my various cousins there that were rock music fans. Long story short, I traded the new Boston album for a transformer and labor costs at the electronics shop, which would have amounted to about $220 dollars (in Drachmas, of course). When it was time to pick up my repaired Amateur Radio rig, I stayed and hung out for a few hours with those cool techs, and we drank wine and rocked out to the new Boston record! A bacchanalian Boston moment to be exact!
I walked to the record store as a kid, laid down my lawn cutting money and bought my first Boston album and cherished it. Tom, stop being so humble and enjoy that you were a rock star.
yes he is love his tone I have a delay pedal that that makes those spaced out sounds I've been figuring out some Boston songs lately so I'm going to mess around with my pedal today and have some fun now that I'm 90% recovered from a injury call wrist drop you can get it from sleeping wrong and damaging the nerve it's horrible to get if you play guitar it supposed to take 4 months to heal but I've done my own physical therapy and it's just about healed after 2 months so I got an early Christmas gift I didn't think I'd ever play again anyway have a good day
This man is a fucking G E N I U S. I mean - if you are aware of his background and the fact that he didn’t pick up an instrument until college and 6-7 years he released Boston......... Faaaack.
I love Boston forever, thanks to all the band for their genius talent and Mr. Tom Scholz thanks a lot for your talent and for create Boston the best band ever existed!!!
Tom Scholz has got to be one of the most intelligent and intellectual guitar players still around. I remember when Their self-entitled debut album Boston dropped. I had it on an 8-track cassette (in 1976), and I quite literally wore the damn thing out. I had to purchase another one, but this time on vinyl. I still have both of them to this day and believe it or not. I installed an ancient 8-track in my 74' Chevy Nova. I fixed the 8-track a few years ago. Can't belive the sound still sound pretty good! I'm 1,000.000 % Old School 70s. I even know the fades out and in on the 8-track. I always use my gold top Gibson as well for Boston and Zeppelin music. What a wonderful sound and and an even better time we lived in. When I die I wanna' be in Tom Scholz's Boston.
I have a preproduction prototype of his Rockman XPR. Too bad these aren’t being built and sold these days, they’re ingenious and about the only way I know to sound like Boston, aside from the full stacks and modules he uses here. Great stuff.
I remember hearing "More Than A Feeling" while lying in bed at 11:00PM on the New Music Show Sunday night WMMR Phila. I used to tape it and listen to the show later. I could not sleep after I hear this. I think I stalked the record store for days till it arrived.
Didn't realize he had already invented his 'special' electronics before the first album. No wonder it had so many fantastic, futuristic sounds on it! Genius! Thank you for posting!
My first time with a girl was to the genius of Tom, that voice of heaven from Brad, and that magnificent debut Boston album. I was 17 and she was 22 in 1995. We worked together. She came over on a night my parents were out of town. We were on the couch all night and talked but nothing really happened. She got up to use the restroom, I ran to my bedroom to get the CD and bring it down to my parents stereo. She came out right as that intro to MTAF faded in. We embraced, danced, and made history that night. Our lives took different paths over the last 27 years but we still keep in touch and we both will always share that night forever. Thank you Tom, your music will last forever with me.
Tom is a few yrs older than I but we both grew up in Toledo Ohio, I never met him but being a guitar player myself he was known as a little rich boy, but nobody denied he was a really great player and of course once Boston hit everyone claimed to have played with him but I doubt many did, I don't think he was real big in the Toledo music scene. I will say all Toledoens are proud of him and I was knocked out by the first Boston album.
Some things just change and transform a life and mold and shape people to what they will become. I was a young teen and heard Boston for the first time and was transformed at the first note! The tone and soaring guitars. ... never had there been anything before like it. I just HAD to get that album and a guitar! From that moment on those two things have been faithful friends in all my ups and downs. . BOSTON and my guitars. Thanks Tom Scholz... you will never know the times in my life when it seemed so hopeless... then out of somewhere that familiar song would play. Life is about love and hope. ... I've lost and gained both many times and God has been gracious to us all to allow us to have the same moments on earth with which your music has inspired some to find more. Thanks Boston and my greatest compliments to you Mr. Scholz!
My dad's an electrical engineer who never told me to stay away from music. I guess that's how it works in reverse. lol I bought Scholz's chorus and sustain effects racks. Best purchases I've ever made.
There are a few known geniuses in rock like Tom Morello, Dr. Brian May, Dr. Dexter Holland and others that have lofty degrees and have influenced generations of musicians to form unfathomable legacies, but I feel that Tom Scholz is the one musician that has personally given the most back to the music world.
@@neechee5150 not necessarily. He made a guitar as many have done before and since. Of the guitarists that are know to play LPs, many have played several styles of guitars through their careers and most have custom guitars made for them as they went or custom rigged their own. Plus, most of their hero’s that inspired them to play were not Les himself but rather his contemporaries. Les himself was a wonderful guitar player, and deserves to be mentioned with the greats, but though my main guitar is a LesPaul, it’s not my only guitar… and, if I didn’t have it, I would still play and create music. In fact, as far as crafting music goes, I don’t usually write on my LP either.
More than a feeling was my first 45 (Long time on the back side). I went through electronics engineering in the late 80s. DSPs (Digital Signal Processors) were just happening and were fixed point. Some floating point DSPs were starting to come to market. Processing speeds of 40MHz....and Tom was doing all of this in the 70s with analog! Brilliant!
Tom Scholz is brilliant. He is one of the best guitarists in rock history. Boston is one of the most underrated bands of all time. This band was groundbreaking. I wish I could get that sound out of my Les Paul.
Tom is a national treasure. He followed his dream and makes what he does like so easy but it isnt. More Than a Feeling is one of my favorite songs and Bosten is one of few bands I crank up the volume for. He made a difference just by being true to himself.
Tom , what brilliance touches some minds....glad i was driving, listening, & playing my own music through the years. You & Boston, one of the greatest sounds & band to come out of the 70s. Sure miss those old days &....still playin😀
One of the very best sounds i ever had as a guitarist was when i ran a ROCKMAN X100 through a marshall mono block power amp into two celestion loaded 4x12 cabs. that chorus is still my favorite chorusing effect.
Tom Scholz is such a guardian angel to everybody on the planet. Tom Scholz is my hero too. I just feel like I can tell Tom Scholz anything because he is so understanding about everything.
I love the pure joy with which he plays, and the humility with which he carries himself. I have to wonder if Edison was such a charming man as Tom. Thank you Tom - you define “unbounded”!
I truly love seeing this video, as a musician seeing what goes on behind the closed doors of a studio and watching what makes a song a complete is always rewarding. I've always been a fan of Boston and Tom Scholz. This was a treat for me!
Ten people, each possessing one of his skills, would have been incredibly accomplished individually, and yet all of those skills are encompassed by one person...THAT is amazing
The first concert I ever attended was Boston. Sammy Hagar was the opening act. It was 1977 and I was just 16 years old. I had already blown out at least 1 pair of Jensen Triaxials blasting out Boston's first 2 albums from my 8-track in my '65 Mustang...and I would blow out a few more pairs. I had to work a lot of hours at minimum wage to buy more speakers, but I never turned the volume down...never! Thank you Tom!!!
First Brad Delp, and Now Drummer Sib Hashian. RIP. Saw Them on Their Initial '76 Tour. Opened For Black Sabbath. Great Show! Then Saw Them About 2-3 Times More. Peace
A unique sound in the 70s. A unique sound today. An added bonus? (stop reading if you've never 'experimented' with hallucinogenics) Boston's debut album absolutely RULES on acid! lol
I was thinking of when the first Boston record was being recorded,the proximity of upstate NY. If Todd rundgren and Tom Shultz had gotten together at that time, imagine the music they would have made together. Both great engineers, very inovative.
Look at the rollers for 'string bending' after the nut on the headstock, at 5:01 which by the way from another angle look like it's been knocked off at least once...those are not commercial rollers. They look like Tom built them himself from ball ends of old strings then slapped on to where truss rod cover would go. Good gravy in the morning. It looks also like the plate this device is attached to also holds the neck together. He must really like that guitar. : )
I still have one of my all-time favorite guitar effects - an original Rockman with the rack mount. It sounds perfect for all those late 70s through the 80s rock guitar tones whenever I want to hear them.
I wasn't a huge Boston fan - was still in middle school but damn this video impresses the hell out of me and gives me so much huge respect for them. This is what music really is
One of few musical unicorns that is technically and artistically phenomenal. To be able to use both sides of the brain at that level is truly incredible. Thanks for being an inspiration Tom!
Wow...definitely has both the right side and left side of the brain working for him. I always thought they were just another band out of Boston on the road trying to make ends meet!
Tom is amazing. Great musician, guitar, keyboards, awesome producer, stellar song writer. Incredible engineer and inventor. But what impresses me is his desire to spend his wealth on charitable endeavours. He was once asked how rich he is and said he has given a lot of money away and that he couldn’t live with himself buying a private jet (and yes, he’s a pilot as well) because that money could do so much elsewhere. That is the true testament if a great human being. Thanks for the music Tom!
This is great, but it’s criminally short. I could watch a 2 hour documentary on Tom.
I agree with that....an absolutely fascinating genius!
I watched this interview last evening. Turn on closed captions for English subtitles.
th-cam.com/video/mrEzoa9-I8g/w-d-xo.html&start_radio=1&t=8
Only 2 hours?
I totally agree! I want to see a full length comprehensive interview!
Yeah, I could watch and listen to him and his band all day...every day.
I didn't live in the time of Tesla, but I am thankful to have lived in the time of Tom Scholz.🤘😊🇺🇸❤️
Scott Keenan You went on to work in a studio or Tom?
Me too my friend, me too
We are all lucky to be on this planet with this genius.
What a nice, normal, and brilliant guy
he is faraway from normal
"It's nice to be appreciated ... not so nice to be appreciated for something other than who you are." Thank you, Nova, for including this 10 seconds. I think it taught me more about Tom Scholz than any video, concert, or piece of gear ever could.
When Boston's first album came out all I wanted was to get my guitar to sound like that, it completely blew me away, still does.
Yeah that's a monster of an amazing album
The sustain is incredible!
Everything about that album was and still is innovative, especially the guitar work and Tom's organ solos on Smokin-- truly are Smokin! Dayam what a talent! Brad Delp's voice- un-be-freekin-believeable!! Sub's Drumming....every member of the band-- Top Shelf!
@@Vinnybrain I used a 1961 Fender Jaguar, a Fender tube amp and a LPB 1 distortion booster.. I am 63 now and it's much easier with the new amps!
I love this Rick Beato breakdown of More Than a Feeling....I never knew that was Brad's voice and not a guitar at one point..he isolates everything in the video. And beyond Scholz's engineering genius, his songs are so brilliantly written and mixed. th-cam.com/video/ynFNt4tgBJ0/w-d-xo.html
Was in more awe than before....than when I saw them as a teen on the DLB tour....after watching Rick's video
Easily the most talented yet underrated man in the world.
Ditto.
Yep.
I wouldn't say the most talented, but he is a genius in both music and technology. He is definitely underrated too?
twinsmm1 Talented musically, not talented at band personnel management.
@@Burps___ It's pretty obvious he meant talented "musically" over talented at anything else lol.
"It's nice to be appreciated ... not so nice to be appreciated for something other than who you are" But still you are more than a feeling Mr. Scholz
Good quote.
If he had only written "More Than A Feeling" it would have been enough. That is how good that song is. But that whole first album Boston put out was solid gold all the way thru. There isn't a bad song on it. Tom Scholz is a genius and Brad Delp's voice was superhuman. Gone too soon. Boston's records are timeless and darn near perfect. Love it more every time i listen to it.
Man, I agree with you 99%. The only thing I disagree with you is that the album wasn't nearly perfect...it IS perfect. I don't think anything could be done to make it better.
@@Madmun357i stand corrected. I listened to the album again recently and i think you are right. He couldn't have done anything else to make that album better. I feel confident in saying that Boston's debut album is in the top 5 debuts of all time, possibly number one. Bands were often great live but not that great on record. Boston is an obvious exception. All of their records are tremendous and timeless.
@@rdmkeytohwy, and even now FORTY THREE YEARS later it's still perfect. I think top 5 not just in debut albums, but any album.
rdmkeytohwy your right the whole first album was awesome
Brad Delp’s vocals are at least half the success of Boston. Without him, it wouldn’t have worked.
RIP
We probably would never see a total genius coupled with one of the best rock voices in history ever again! Over 40 years old and the music of Boston still sounds great and certainly not dated. Its timeless.
Tom is a treasure
He is the reason why I play today.
Back in 76 I heard Boston on 8 track with head phones and since then I have never heard anything like it.
For me it was an out of body experience
Yea I can definetly relate to that
Tom´s rockman is the most beautiful driven guitar sound ever made. That "cryin´guitar sound", you know...actually it´s an essential part of many records, songs, and players style. So much for his engineer work as for his musicianship, Tom is a very important guy in the rock history
I remember when it came out in the 80's and a friend got one. That thing was amazing and back then it was hard to get a beautiful, overdriven, compressed guitar tone from the equipment of the day. Maybe if you had a Marshall stack cranked to 11 you could get a great tone, but that wasn't an option for must of us. That Rockman allowed everyone to have a professional sounding guitar tone in a bedroom environment. Something we take for granted now with all the digital/software and amp-modeling available.
@@RKDriver yes man...I remember how difficult was in the old days....and those horrible sounds of the cheap solid state amps and pedals...as you say, today things are very very very different
Imagine rock music without Tom, I can't either!
Life without Boston's music would not be as sweet.
30 years later the story we wanted to hear finally comes out. Thanks for sharing Tom.
Tom Scholtz was the ultimate musician because he wrote songs that you could sing along with and had technical guitar, bass, drum and vocals that didn’t make you bored. It’s the best of both worlds! Every one of his riffs, solos and fills are pure ear candy!!!
...... thought his music wasn't as good as what was on the radio...... amazing how people can perceive themselves..... awesome guy.
Boston = rock 101
Bought a Rockman unit used for $35 in 2004, and got the rack adapter for it on ebay. Never had so much fun, thought of it as a toy, until I recorded some of my best songs with it on the 'clean' setting, which is a beautiful crystaline sound. Wonderful to be a part of it, thank you Tom!
Thats awesome. Im scouring ebay for one. great sound.
Arjun Kaul Don't get the rockman ace's,they suck!.Look for the soloist or the x100.much better sounding.
Boston has always been my favorite from the very 1st note of More than a Feeling. Tom you're right about not sounding as good as other bands...you're 10x better!
I've listened to the Boston album nearly every day for the last several years. I never get tired of it. I listen to it so much, that I even hear it when I'm not listening to it. It's the background music of my life.
Tom Scholz is a rock legend! He made rock sound so melodic, lyrical, and full-bodied, and always kept things interesting with the sound effects and embellishments! I don't know if Tom ever reads the comments here, but i'll never forget something that happened to me back in the late 70's. My dad is from Greece, so we used to fly Olympic Airways there every summer from NYC. I was in high school, and as an electronics tinkerer and Ham Radio operator myself, I got a license to operate my Amateur Radio station in Greece for 2 months. While in Athens, my radio transceiver broke. I hunted down an electronics repair shop, since I needed a transformer for my radio gear. As I walk into this electronics store, I see 2 guys repairing circuit boards and blasting the first Boston album! We instantly bonded and talked rock music for a while. As it turns out, I had brought 3 new copies of the new Boston album 'Dont Look Back' to Greece with me (back at the hotel), to give as gifts to my various cousins there that were rock music fans. Long story short, I traded the new Boston album for a transformer and labor costs at the electronics shop, which would have amounted to about $220 dollars (in Drachmas, of course). When it was time to pick up my repaired Amateur Radio rig, I stayed and hung out for a few hours with those cool techs, and we drank wine and rocked out to the new Boston record! A bacchanalian Boston moment to be exact!
*""THE MAN WHO COMPOSED AND WROTE AND PERFORMED AND PRODUCED *""PEACE OF MIND""!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
Could that song been his version of a resignation letter to Polaroid?
I was in 5th grade and my girlfriend gave me the Boston Album. It was way ahead of it's Time. Actually it Changed Time instantaneously.
I walked to the record store as a kid, laid down my lawn cutting money and bought my first Boston album and cherished it. Tom, stop being so humble and enjoy that you were a rock star.
This dude is the true definition of "musical genius".
yes he is love his tone I have a delay pedal that that makes those spaced out sounds I've been figuring out some Boston songs lately so I'm going to mess around with my pedal today and have some fun now that I'm 90% recovered from a injury call wrist drop you can get it from sleeping wrong and damaging the nerve it's horrible to get if you play guitar it supposed to take 4 months to heal but I've done my own physical therapy and it's just about healed after 2 months so I got an early Christmas gift I didn't think I'd ever play again anyway have a good day
Had a Rockmsn and then the rock module. Used it on my studio recordings. Awesome sound. Thanks Tom!
Polaroid started their long downward slide after Tom left the company. Coincidence?
Caz Gerald lol
Imagine Polaroid behind the Rockman.
Didn't he help invent the SX70 camera
He's a tinkerer, much like Les Paul and Leo Fender. And on par with them in my estimation.
P Frank way beyond.
@@pillepalle3614 and Bruce Haack crushes all of 'em :)
This man is a fucking G E N I U S. I mean - if you are aware of his background and the fact that he didn’t pick up an instrument until college and 6-7 years he released Boston.........
Faaaack.
I love Boston forever, thanks to all the band for their genius talent and Mr. Tom Scholz thanks a lot for your talent and for create Boston the best band ever existed!!!
Tom Scholz has got to be one of the most intelligent and intellectual guitar players still around. I remember when Their self-entitled debut album Boston dropped. I had it on an 8-track cassette (in 1976), and I quite literally wore the damn thing out. I had to purchase another one, but this time on vinyl. I still have both of them to this day and believe it or not. I installed an ancient 8-track in my 74' Chevy Nova. I fixed the 8-track a few years ago. Can't belive the sound still sound pretty good! I'm 1,000.000 % Old School 70s. I even know the fades out and in on the 8-track. I always use my gold top Gibson as well for Boston and Zeppelin music. What a wonderful sound and and an even better time we lived in. When I die I wanna' be in Tom Scholz's Boston.
I have a preproduction prototype of his Rockman XPR. Too bad these aren’t being built and sold these days, they’re ingenious and about the only way I know to sound like Boston, aside from the full stacks and modules he uses here. Great stuff.
Old footage of him and this... same smile when he plays !!!!
Love of notes and gear !
One word comes to mind : GENIUS
To say Tom Scholz is a genius would be an understatement.
When he hits those chords at 5:29. That's the magic that Tom contributed to music.
So cool getting to watch Tom jam in his own house. Inspiring! Cant beat that!
I remember hearing "More Than A Feeling" while lying in bed at 11:00PM on the New Music Show Sunday night WMMR Phila. I used to tape it and listen to the show later. I could not sleep after I hear this. I think I stalked the record store for days till it arrived.
Didn't realize he had already invented his 'special' electronics before the first album. No wonder it had so many fantastic, futuristic sounds on it! Genius! Thank you for posting!
Awesome stuff...always a fan...RIP, Bradley.
My first time with a girl was to the genius of Tom, that voice of heaven from Brad, and that magnificent debut Boston album. I was 17 and she was 22 in 1995. We worked together. She came over on a night my parents were out of town. We were on the couch all night and talked but nothing really happened. She got up to use the restroom, I ran to my bedroom to get the CD and bring it down to my parents stereo. She came out right as that intro to MTAF faded in. We embraced, danced, and made history that night.
Our lives took different paths over the last 27 years but we still keep in touch and we both will always share that night forever.
Thank you Tom, your music will last forever with me.
Tom is a few yrs older than I but we both grew up in Toledo Ohio, I never met him but being a guitar player myself he was known as a little rich boy, but nobody denied he was a really great player and of course once Boston hit everyone claimed to have played with him but I doubt many did, I don't think he was real big in the Toledo music scene. I will say all Toledoens are proud of him and I was knocked out by the first Boston album.
The greatest band from Boston is from TOLEDO!!!! YEAH!
Google it, Tom is from Toledo
bob tucker I know that. I've met him. He's a great guy. Anyways....sorry the joke got past you.
No prob Derek, I recently talked to somebody who was in a few of his classes at the University of Toledo and she said he was really smart.
Holy fuck, he teaches at UT....???!!!?? I graduated from there...how the fuck am I ignorant of this???
Some things just change and transform a life and mold and shape people to what they will become. I was a young teen and heard Boston for the first time and was transformed at the first note! The tone and soaring guitars. ... never had there been anything before like it. I just HAD to get that album and a guitar! From that moment on those two things have been faithful friends in all my ups and downs. . BOSTON and my guitars. Thanks Tom Scholz... you will never know the times in my life when it seemed so hopeless... then out of somewhere that familiar song would play.
Life is about love and hope. ... I've lost and gained both many times and God has been gracious to us all to allow us to have the same moments on earth with which your music has inspired some to find more.
Thanks Boston and my greatest compliments to you Mr. Scholz!
My dad's an electrical engineer who never told me to stay away from music. I guess that's how it works in reverse. lol I bought Scholz's chorus and sustain effects racks. Best purchases I've ever made.
There are a few known geniuses in rock like Tom Morello, Dr. Brian May, Dr. Dexter Holland and others that have lofty degrees and have influenced generations of musicians to form unfathomable legacies, but I feel that Tom Scholz is the one musician that has personally given the most back to the music world.
Les Paul eclipses all of the names that you mentioned and it is not even close. Les Paul is a giant among all of those names
@@neechee5150 not necessarily. He made a guitar as many have done before and since. Of the guitarists that are know to play LPs, many have played several styles of guitars through their careers and most have custom guitars made for them as they went or custom rigged their own. Plus, most of their hero’s that inspired them to play were not Les himself but rather his contemporaries. Les himself was a wonderful guitar player, and deserves to be mentioned with the greats, but though my main guitar is a LesPaul, it’s not my only guitar… and, if I didn’t have it, I would still play and create music. In fact, as far as crafting music goes, I don’t usually write on my LP either.
I want those toys. I want that space hyper thingy for the cosmic pick slides.
I owned one of those Rockman Headphone amps, loved that sound!
More than a feeling was my first 45 (Long time on the back side). I went through electronics engineering in the late 80s. DSPs (Digital Signal Processors) were just happening and were fixed point. Some floating point DSPs were starting to come to market. Processing speeds of 40MHz....and Tom was doing all of this in the 70s with analog! Brilliant!
😊 Tom seems like a sweet humble man🎉 and you know God loves us unconditionally❤🎉
Intro lead to Long Time is my all time fav ... from one engineer to another ... Thanks Tom!
What a tone master. I love Tom Scholz.
Love this man. Glad he and the boys created the body of work that is Boston. They all should have become much more wealthy from it than they did.
Creativity and skill and talent + Tom Scholz = A true artist.
He is passionate about how the music sounds and that's what makes him a genuine artist.
Tom Scholz is brilliant. He is one of the best guitarists in rock history. Boston is one of the most underrated bands of all time. This band was groundbreaking. I wish I could get that sound out of my Les Paul.
Here is some help with the tones th-cam.com/video/jpI-sCL8-3w/w-d-xo.html
Looking at Tom, playing guitar and organ seems so simple ! But it's not. And what a great composer !
I could watch hours of this. I must be some kind of geeky nerd.
in concert!....wow....go if you get the chance....unbelievable sound live!
The Einstein of Rock and Roll
Tom is a national treasure. He followed his dream and makes what he does like so easy but it isnt. More Than a Feeling is one of my favorite songs and Bosten is one of few bands I crank up the volume for. He made a difference just by being true to himself.
Tom , what brilliance touches some minds....glad i was driving, listening, & playing my own music through the years. You & Boston, one of the greatest sounds & band to come out of the 70s. Sure miss those old days &....still playin😀
Thank you Barry Goudreau 🎶 🎸
What I wouldn't give to hang out with him for a day and just watch and listen...
I never get tired of listening to Boston, still have3 of their albums on my current playlist ... really liking Walk On !!!!
One of the very best sounds i ever had as a guitarist was when i ran a ROCKMAN X100 through a marshall mono block power amp into two celestion loaded 4x12 cabs. that chorus is still my favorite chorusing effect.
Tom Scholz is such a guardian angel to everybody on the planet. Tom Scholz is my hero too. I just feel like I can tell Tom Scholz anything because he is so understanding about everything.
Changed the way music sounded forever.
The mastermind.
I’ll NEVER forget the first time I heard the first Boston album. Nothing like it. Pure mastery. 💕👍😎
I love the pure joy with which he plays, and the humility with which he carries himself. I have to wonder if Edison was such a charming man as Tom. Thank you Tom - you define “unbounded”!
My life changed after hearing this wonderful thing called 'Foreplay/Longtime' on '45 in my 3rd-grade classroom. Thank you, Tom!
I truly love seeing this video, as a musician seeing what goes on behind the closed doors of a studio and watching what makes a song a complete is always rewarding. I've always been a fan of Boston and Tom Scholz. This was a treat for me!
Brilliant. Thank you so much.
Ten people, each possessing one of his skills, would have been incredibly accomplished individually, and yet all of those skills are encompassed by one person...THAT is amazing
Amazing. I've always loved his sound.
it has now been 40+ years since the Boston album. imagine how many more albums he could have recorded in that time.
jamesha175 Five
@@timprescott4634 has boston really released 5 albums? the last one i remember had the song Amanda
jamesha175 Six total. Five after the first one...
Why is this private? This is awesome!
Great songwriter, great guitarist, great engineer
Watching this made me think of a guy inside a giant computer. Looking at all the electronics was mind blowing. A true genius.
Still amazing. My first record and a huge influence.
Met Tom after the show in Boston in 2016....a lovely guy!! And he signed a couple Cds for me :-)
The first concert I ever attended was Boston. Sammy Hagar was the opening act. It was 1977 and I was just 16 years old. I had already blown out at least 1 pair of Jensen Triaxials blasting out Boston's first 2 albums from my 8-track in my '65 Mustang...and I would blow out a few more pairs. I had to work a lot of hours at minimum wage to buy more speakers, but I never turned the volume down...never! Thank you Tom!!!
First Brad Delp, and Now Drummer Sib Hashian. RIP. Saw Them on Their Initial '76 Tour.
Opened For Black Sabbath. Great Show! Then Saw Them About 2-3 Times
More. Peace
Great inspiration.
Thanks for BOSTON!
A unique sound in the 70s. A unique sound today. An added bonus? (stop reading if you've never 'experimented' with hallucinogenics) Boston's debut album absolutely RULES on acid! lol
I was thinking of when the first Boston record was being recorded,the proximity of upstate NY. If Todd rundgren and Tom Shultz had gotten together at that time, imagine the music they would have made together. Both great engineers, very inovative.
Wow...a genius and a gentleman. Thank you, sir.
YES IT IS TOM....MORE THAN A FEELING ......
Look at the rollers for 'string bending' after the nut on the headstock, at 5:01 which by the way from another angle look like it's been knocked off at least once...those are not commercial rollers. They look like Tom built them himself from ball ends of old strings then slapped on to where truss rod cover would go. Good gravy in the morning. It looks also like the plate this device is attached to also holds the neck together. He must really like that guitar. : )
I still have one of my all-time favorite guitar effects - an original Rockman with the rack mount. It sounds perfect for all those late 70s through the 80s rock guitar tones whenever I want to hear them.
I wasn't a huge Boston fan - was still in middle school but damn this video impresses the hell out of me and gives me so much huge respect for them. This is what music really is
Boston's debut album was my very first vinyl LP. I was 13 years old when I got it back in 1976. I still have it to this day!
How amazing is Tom Scholz!!! He actually used to receive the warranty cards for his gear! Jeff Beck had 2 Rockmans , what a story, amazing.
Tom is a genius. Love his effects
This album came out during the latter part of my high school years.... Great band!
One of few musical unicorns that is technically and artistically phenomenal. To be able to use both sides of the brain at that level is truly incredible. Thanks for being an inspiration Tom!
Guitar genius, astronomical engineer! Thanks for sharing your talent 😳
Wow...definitely has both the right side and left side of the brain working for him. I always thought they were just another band out of Boston on the road trying to make ends meet!
He took the guitar to another universe, thanks Tom.
Tom is amazing. Great musician, guitar, keyboards, awesome producer, stellar song writer. Incredible engineer and inventor. But what impresses me is his desire to spend his wealth on charitable endeavours. He was once asked how rich he is and said he has given a lot of money away and that he couldn’t live with himself buying a private jet (and yes, he’s a pilot as well) because that money could do so much elsewhere. That is the true testament if a great human being. Thanks for the music Tom!
Brilliant guy...admired him since 18 years old. A LONG time ago.
"It's nice to be appreciated. Not so nice to be appreciated for something other than who you are."
Tom Scholz is never replaceable.