Gotta add that the leads on Long Time were played by Barry Goudreau. I'd change the video's name to "Boston's Greatest Techniques" but since over 90% of the techs are Tom I think I'll just leave it as is. Thanks to everyone who informed me.
Thanks for the hat tip to Barry, who's been credited with writing the leads to FP/LT. Tom is Def a studio master and innovator. But Barry is no slouch on the Axe. (Ref Orion the Hunter & RTZ) It's hard to know without actually witnessing it, how much Barry potentially influenced Tom during all the pre-Boston years of Mother's Milk. When Barry plays Boston, eyes closed, it's hard to tell both parts & playing apart. Great Video !!! 👍
For sure! Hitch a Ride may be my all time favorite tune. Puts me right back to the late 70s. The ending of that song is epic and brings chills up my spine.
The solo always makes my eyes sweat and if you listen closely to the end of it, you can hear an audience yell out "Woooooooooo!!!!!". Pardon me while I play the song, now.
Awesome! Tom Scholz is a true musical Renaissance man: inventor, producer, engineer, writer, guitarist/bassist/keyboardist. Boston's debut album is one of, if not the, greatest rock albums. (It's also the only one I know of where literally every single track ended up in regular rotation on rock radio, not just the official singles.)
Love the video! Tom is one of my favorites. Keep in mind that all the solos in Long Time were actually done by Barry Goudreau along with the solo in Let Me Take You Home Tonight and Used To Bad News. Barry also did the intro solo for Don't Look Back. He contributed some great stuff.
The long sustained notes...sometimes the sign that Barry is playing. I've read that Barry taught Tom how to play guitar, you don't stumble across that too often. Maybe Tom keeps that hidden because of the bad blood that developed... It seems Tom played organ only, started jamming and forming a band with Barry, and Barry showed him lots of guitar. And Tom was playing great very quickly, super intelligent guy, of course. Other projects with Barry, like Orion The Hunter sound much like Scholz, so maybe it's largely Barry's style, possibly tone as well. The half-wah tone may have come from Schenker or Ronson, with Ronson being the originator, I'm pretty certain.
Good to know. I always thought the first album was Tom geeking out in his basement. Great to learn that he allowed others to play main parts on this classic album, thanks.
@@Lance37acorrect. That song was reportedly cut at Capitol Studios, while Tom furiously and meticulously recut the demos in his basement studio - albeit between floods, freak snow storms and power outages!
Another great video, sir! I grew up hearing my mom blasting Boston, Foreigner, and Journey every Saturday while she cleaned. Always loved how precise and tight their music is. Then I learned how picky they were in the studio, so it made sense. 🙂
Despite never having to seek these band's music out, it was always 'just there', it became a musical influence in the rock guitar DNA. One day you ask yourself "Why do I know the lyrics to these REO Speedwagon ,Journey, & Bon-Jovi songs??? & sing along to the solos" Oh, thanks Big-Sister, Mom, etc.
Excellent deep dig. Boston like Kansas were bands that weren't covered well back in the 70's or hardly at all. The muscle of their music was way out ahead. Tom's 😊tone was sought out by Def Leppard or even EVH. Huge influence. Your video is 11 minutes of encyclopedia for future pickers to take guitar in the next era. Us old guys appreciate your discipline and skill. Well done.
I’m a 15 year old when Boston came out. I was blown away. Mesmerized. One of the things that was most fascinating was that Tom was a MIT graduate and built these devices to fit his needs. That’s just incredibly insane. Watching you unravel the sound is beyond amazing. Thank you!!!
It's probably already been said, but at 2:53 that intro solo for Long Time is all Barry Goodreau. You should properly give him credit! He's a master and taught Tom a lot of tricks.
Yes Scholz is one of the 70s best Rock guitar players very neat style and his devices were genius . . I have some pedals . . I´m a bit surprised because you are pretty young and have an appreciation for this music . . you can´t go wrong. . keep on rocking. Very nice video.
Not big part, but monster lead on Long Time, slide on Let Me Take You Home, and intro/outro on Don’t Look Back. That’s pretty much it. The rest is all Scholz, including bass guitar.
Boston really is GOATED, in my book. The instrumentals are ridiculously tight and, lack of a better word, perfect, in every way. Execution and writing wise. Also, if you ever get the chance, check out the isolated vocal tracks. Mind, and ear blowing performances. And that's all natty, no pro tools, no bullshit. Just brilliance. Nice work, Mike.
Tom's the guy that inspired me to pick up a guitar. I'd never heard that pick scraping before. He's a monster player and deserves a spot up there with Clapton, Page and Jimi.
One of my other favorite music channels is Rick Beato. He does this series "what makes this song great?" and he breaks down iconic songs to their cores. He's done two Boston songs and really digs into not only the guitars, but the bass played by Tom and the keyboards. If you haven't seen them, I HIGHLY recommend them. But the one thing Tom does is pushes the mid frequencies way up. The graphic eq is the opposite of scooped, it's the Anti-Metallica curve. That pushes it so far forward into the mix and makes it jump out at you. Very aggressive tone. Heavily distorted and his playing is so tight. My local rock station is WFBQ Q-95 in Indy. Same as yours, nothing but Boston, Aerosmith, Forigner, Journey, Eagles, etc. It was so ingrained into how my music taste developed.
I remember hearing Tom's album "Boston" over the radio. NOBODY sounded like it! It was a tone, an audio sound, an alien sound. Listen to music prior to that album and then music post... Tom dialed in tone that became standards in rock. If you haven't read about this mad genius in the basement of his house... ya don't know rock (😊)
The extra details in his pick scrapes you pointed out are SO cool! Even being the HUGE T.S. fan I am, I TOTALLY missed them! Thank you for sharing - killer video!!
Boston was the sound that shaped my childhood. Don't Look Back was probably the first album I bought when I was beginning to learn about Rock and Roll. I have everything they have released and some days I listen to all of it nonstop. Also, KQRS 92.5 FM is not only one of the best stations ever, there morning show was for decades the best in the world.
Tom Scholz in an absolute GENIUS... he can play several instruments and he is a MONSTER on both guitar and keyboards!!! I do like especially Third Stage ..it sound majestic ! I'd love to see new young bands in the vein of Journey ..Toto...Boston...Foreigner...Van Halen...the great REAL timeless American Rock!
Tom Scholz is one of the best rock and roll guitarists ever. I had tremendous respect for him and marveled at all his guitar techniques, I'm a guitar player also, your video has made him 10000% even more awesome in my eyes.
It's not too hard to build a Hyperspace pedal. But you have to buy a Maestro Echoplex and they're expensive. He built a device that you can move 2 parameters with a gutted wah to control the echo repeat mounted into "pivot" that you can move the pedal side to side to control the delay time. There an assembly that attaches to the delay time slider which can be moved side to side with the "pivot" You also need a on off button. You'll need to find spare parts because you could wear out the heads by constantly moving them while using it.
Barry Goodreau said in an interview once that the key to the Rockman sound before the Rockman was a wah pedal locked in a permanent position, but it was paralleled with the guitar's dry signal rather than exclusively in series. The rest was just basic tools like a compressor/expander and a good old Marshall. He continued to use this on his first solo album and Orion The Hunter, he never used a Rockman, even though it may have sounded like it.
Love Boston, listened to them a lot in the late 70s and through the 80s, when I was in my 20s -- really miss those years. Anyway, it always amazes me how artists can put music together, and I listen a lot to music anymore just to try and pick out the different musical components. Thanks for the memories.
🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻 Yess!! I've been looking forward to this. I have always loved the sound of Boston. That harmonizing is just quintessential Boston to me. I love that solo on More Than a Feeling, makes me feel pretty happy when I hear it. I think that one has to go on my Happiness Playlist. Definitely a unique sound for sure :-) That Les Paul just looks and sounds killer. I can't wait til the day I get to own one 😊
A large part of that Boston sound was in the way their vocals and guitar work were so inter-twined. We often could not tell exactly where Brad's vocals ended and the guitar mind-fuckery began. Pure genius...
This is weird, I hadn't heard Boston in a while so I turned it on on the way to work this morning. I get to work and you post this video. You must've known I needed this. Love Tom and Boston.
I thank God daily for allowing me to be alive in the 70s and 80s and hearing Boston, among many others. I listen to Boston every day. Tom is a true genius, and his Rockman created more studio music sounds (e.g. Def Leppard) than most realize.
He pick scrapes down the unwound strings too, like Ronson did (last Spiders From Mars concert) several examples. Lifeson does it too, check out live LA Villa solos from the 1970s. Also, the "flutter" is called a mordent, it's used often in classical music. Gave Boston a classical sound right out of the box. Just trying to help out, great video BTW.
OMG, one of my guitar heros. What a guitar player, what a producer, and what an engineer and inventor. Tom Scholz invented guitar modelling. And also an inredible organ player - sometimes playing both an organ and a guitar at the same time.
Just a note. The unit that gets the closest to Tom's sound is the Distortion Generator. I had one for years and loved it. Another good trick for his sound is replace your caps with .01. Throw it in the distortion channel and turn the tone all the way off. Also sounds good for Money for Nothing and Killer Queen. Believe it or not, those three sounds are very similar. I have chased Tom's tone since the 70's. Tom is a great song and solo writer. I get tired of hearing solos that just wank all the time. A lot of 70's bands play the same solo as on the record. For instance the Eagles.
Excellent job Tom is a genius many times over. Incredible songwriter, guitarist and recordibg engineer. He'has been one of my music idols for many years along with Brad Delp. They made an incredible team... RIP Brad
I love your Greatest Techniques series! So fun, informative, and they make me realize the subtle guitar specialties that makes these artists unique! Tom Sholtz and Boston rule!
Thank you for this. My long since passed father always told me about how Great Tom was and now as a guitar player myself you have inspired me to learn the entirety of their debut album.
When all of the kids my age were listening to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and MC Hammer, I was discovering this band called Boston. I think I heard the intro guitar lead to "Long Time" on a commercial for a classic rock radio station and I was like, "What amazing thing did I just hear?" Once I found out more about the band, Tom Scholz quickly joined my short list of musician heroes. One of my engineering professors had been at M.I.T. at the same time as Scholz, and I would often bug him with questions about having Scholz as a student.
Agree on Hitch a Ride solo, one of the most memorable utterly classic unforgettable grooves and Barry Goudreau's work on Foreplay/Longtime still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up after almost 50 years. Boston debut, I've always thought absolutely one of the greatest debut rock albums ever, not a weak song
Once Bitten Twice Shy was written by Ian Hunter and was first performed by Mott The Hoople when Ian was in that band before going solo and performing his own version of the song. Great White covered the song many, many years later.
Great vid! Happy that you mentioned Something About You - one of my favs too! Boston's been my favorite band since 1976 and I think one of the many reasons why is that you can blast the music and the guitars don't go right through you (i.e. are painfull) like some bands. Thanks!
Thanks for this!! I heard an interview where Kurt Cobain said he WAS influenced by More Than A Feeling when he wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit. Probably why he referenced it at the Reading concert.
Thanks - nice work. Big Boston fan. I often wonder how Tom became so proficient at guitar since he only picked one up in college. I’ve never heard him explain it in any of his interviews. He went from beginner to doing demos and performing in a matter of years. Some of his bass lines are killer as well. He claims that he played all the parts except drums and vocals on the first album based on interviews and articles.
That was a great episode. I'm a huge Boston fan. I think some of those things seeped into my playing through osmosis without my conscious work on it. It was the artist technique videos that introduced me to your channel in the first place. Glad to see you return to it, especially with an old favorite of mine. Cheers.
Great video. The rack mount effects are THE best means to get that sound. A guy who engineered his own sound. And was amazing at writing melodies with that rippin' guitar sound.
This was a lot of fun to watch. Great job on the solo harmonies. You really showcased how Tom pushes those notes to a whole new level. And another thing, been listening to Boston since the debut album and never picked up on the addition of adding a "quick 5th" into a solo. As soon as you played it I had one of those, "Oh man! THAT's what I was missing" moments. Isn't it fantastic how music can surprise even after close to 50 years?
Some, not a lot…in the video it was just lead on Long Time. The rest of what he showed is all Scholz. That said, Barry was an outstanding player and I would have liked to see more of him on other Boston albums. Was not to be. I never really liked any of his other bands or solo work.
If you listen to Grand Funk’s early albums you will hear Mark Farner perfecting the “chucka-chucka” percussion on his guitar! Like “Into the Sun” for example
Amazing video as always, do you think you could do more of these, I love these!? (Maybe Devin Townsend, The guitar players from Mastodon, or even Eric Johnson?)
Wow, thank you for this! It's truly one of the best guitar videos I've seen in years of watching. I've loved Boston since they came out when I was a kid, and I got chills when you layered all the parts at 4:19.
Great vid. Lots of '80s hits recorded with Rockman- particularly ZZTop and Def Leppard. I've owned a couple, great for recording studios scatch tracks. Also, you can sometimes get a decent Boston guitar tone by turning on both pickups, turning down the tone on the neck pickup, and running it through a compressor into a Marshall.
Gotta add that the leads on Long Time were played by Barry Goudreau. I'd change the video's name to "Boston's Greatest Techniques" but since over 90% of the techs are Tom I think I'll just leave it as is. Thanks to everyone who informed me.
That's literally what I said in the pinned comment that you commented on. hehe. @@tonyolivieri3345
@@TheArtofGuitar LOL! Lazy me didn't read it..............apologies!
Thanks for the hat tip to Barry, who's been credited with writing the leads to FP/LT. Tom is Def a studio master and innovator. But Barry is no slouch on the Axe. (Ref Orion the Hunter & RTZ) It's hard to know without actually witnessing it, how much Barry potentially influenced Tom during all the pre-Boston years of Mother's Milk. When Barry plays Boston, eyes closed, it's hard to tell both parts & playing apart. Great Video !!! 👍
@@TheArtofGuitarSorry I didn't see that. No offense . I must have had to many drinks.
Oh, you mean 'That other guy'?... The Don Felder to Joe Walsh?
The Solo on Hitch a Ride is in my top 3 best guitar solos of all time 🎸🔥❤
Agree!
The solo on A Man I'll Never Be is in my top 1
For sure! Hitch a Ride may be my all time favorite tune. Puts me right back to the late 70s. The ending of that song is epic and brings chills up my spine.
The solo always makes my eyes sweat and if you listen closely to the end of it, you can hear an audience yell out "Woooooooooo!!!!!". Pardon me while I play the song, now.
@@williammartinez1751 Yeah, I’ve heard that. I think it’s Brad. My favorite singer.
Awesome! Tom Scholz is a true musical Renaissance man: inventor, producer, engineer, writer, guitarist/bassist/keyboardist. Boston's debut album is one of, if not the, greatest rock albums. (It's also the only one I know of where literally every single track ended up in regular rotation on rock radio, not just the official singles.)
He was Boston.
This the exact, perfect right on the spot way of explaining Tom Scholtz to whoever doesn't know him!!!! Love it !!!
He played most of the drums too
Spot on!
Third Stage is at the same level of the 1st album
Wow. Concise. No fluff. Thank you for your work and time in researching these and presenting them. Absolutely fantastic!
Wonderful video. Love the tabs and the foundations of the lead riff.
1:52 Self-Harmonizing
2:31 Rhythmic Vibrato
3:17 Guitar Layers
5:26 Hyperspace effects
6:34 percussive mute strums
7:22 Melodic Line Solos
8:32 Single-Finger Barres
9:37 Scholz Scrapes
10:46 One-Man Dueling Duo
11:28 End of Solo Climb
12:16 Pre Bend Variations
13:41 Motifs
15:29 The Scholz Flutter
16:27 Dirty Arpeggios
17:22 Slip of the 5th
18:11 Bass Walk Rhythms
19:18 stretch 6th
Tanks!
@@TheArtofGuitaryour welcome
Thank you, metalkid8106!
@TheArtofGuitar you need more helpers like this
That was a great video - how about doing one on Michael Schenker's techniques?
This!!!!!!
Got my vote.
Love the video! Tom is one of my favorites. Keep in mind that all the solos in Long Time were actually done by Barry Goudreau along with the solo in Let Me Take You Home Tonight and Used To Bad News. Barry also did the intro solo for Don't Look Back. He contributed some great stuff.
The long sustained notes...sometimes the sign that Barry is playing.
I've read that Barry taught Tom how to play guitar, you don't stumble across that too often. Maybe Tom keeps that hidden because of the bad blood that developed...
It seems Tom played organ only, started jamming and forming a band with Barry, and Barry showed him lots of guitar. And Tom was playing great very quickly, super intelligent guy, of course.
Other projects with Barry, like Orion The Hunter sound much like Scholz, so maybe it's largely Barry's style, possibly tone as well. The half-wah tone may have come from Schenker or Ronson, with Ronson being the originator, I'm pretty certain.
Good to know. I always thought the first album was Tom geeking out in his basement. Great to learn that he allowed others to play main parts on this classic album, thanks.
@@TheArtofGuitar I believe the whole band only played on 1 song on the debut album, and that's Let Me take you home tonight
@@Lance37acorrect. That song was reportedly cut at Capitol Studios, while Tom furiously and meticulously recut the demos in his basement studio - albeit between floods, freak snow storms and power outages!
@@georgeprice4212 which is kind of weird because the band could play. I guess he wanted to control everything.
Tom Scholz is a genius. I've been down the youtube rabbit hole looking for all his videos.
Me too 😂
Love Scholz, though it was Barry Goudreau who did all the lead parts on Long Time.
Another great video, sir! I grew up hearing my mom blasting Boston, Foreigner, and Journey every Saturday while she cleaned. Always loved how precise and tight their music is. Then I learned how picky they were in the studio, so it made sense. 🙂
Despite never having to seek these band's music out, it was always 'just there', it became a musical influence in the rock guitar DNA. One day you ask yourself "Why do I know the lyrics to these REO Speedwagon ,Journey, & Bon-Jovi songs??? & sing along to the solos" Oh, thanks Big-Sister, Mom, etc.
What a great mom. I still do that 😂
Excellent deep dig. Boston like Kansas were bands that weren't covered well back in the 70's or hardly at all. The muscle of their music was way out ahead. Tom's 😊tone was sought out by Def Leppard or even EVH. Huge influence. Your video is 11 minutes of encyclopedia for future pickers to take guitar in the next era. Us old guys appreciate your discipline and skill. Well done.
I’m a 15 year old when Boston came out. I was blown away. Mesmerized. One of the things that was most fascinating was that Tom was a MIT graduate and built these devices to fit his needs. That’s just incredibly insane. Watching you unravel the sound is beyond amazing. Thank you!!!
It's probably already been said, but at 2:53 that intro solo for Long Time is all Barry Goodreau. You should properly give him credit! He's a master and taught Tom a lot of tricks.
Yes Scholz is one of the 70s best Rock guitar players very neat style and his devices were genius . . I have some pedals . . I´m a bit surprised because you are pretty young and have an appreciation for this music . . you can´t go wrong. . keep on rocking. Very nice video.
I got hooked on Boston and the huge guitar sounds years ago and I’m still digging them today. Thanks for showcasing them!
Barry Goudreau is a big part of the playing and sound of the first two albums also.
Not big part, but monster lead on Long Time, slide on Let Me Take You Home, and intro/outro on Don’t Look Back. That’s pretty much it. The rest is all Scholz, including bass guitar.
Boston really is GOATED, in my book. The instrumentals are ridiculously tight and, lack of a better word, perfect, in every way. Execution and writing wise. Also, if you ever get the chance, check out the isolated vocal tracks. Mind, and ear blowing performances. And that's all natty, no pro tools, no bullshit. Just brilliance. Nice work, Mike.
Tom's the guy that inspired me to pick up a guitar. I'd never heard that pick scraping before. He's a monster player and deserves a spot up there with Clapton, Page and Jimi.
One of my other favorite music channels is Rick Beato. He does this series "what makes this song great?" and he breaks down iconic songs to their cores. He's done two Boston songs and really digs into not only the guitars, but the bass played by Tom and the keyboards. If you haven't seen them, I HIGHLY recommend them. But the one thing Tom does is pushes the mid frequencies way up. The graphic eq is the opposite of scooped, it's the Anti-Metallica curve. That pushes it so far forward into the mix and makes it jump out at you. Very aggressive tone. Heavily distorted and his playing is so tight. My local rock station is WFBQ Q-95 in Indy. Same as yours, nothing but Boston, Aerosmith, Forigner, Journey, Eagles, etc. It was so ingrained into how my music taste developed.
The Beato Boston Breakdown is one of Beatos best, that speaks volumes.
Man that Les Paul is my favorite …what an eye candy and amazing sound and quality
I fall in love all over again whenever I play it. Still can't believe it's in my life.
@TheArtofGuitar can you leave a link for it, so I can windowshop online for that piece of beauty lol
Link to what? I’m not selling this thing. ;)
@@abtechgen2943 just Google it bro there are dozens of shops online
@@TheArtofGuitarI think he meant what model Les Paul is it specifically..
I remember hearing Tom's album "Boston" over the radio. NOBODY sounded like it! It was a tone, an audio sound, an alien sound.
Listen to music prior to that album and then music post... Tom dialed in tone that became standards in rock.
If you haven't read about this mad genius in the basement of his house... ya don't know rock (😊)
Great Video. Tom Scholz's may be one of the most overlooked Guitarists and Musicians ever. Even invented his own pedals. Guy is a genius
The extra details in his pick scrapes you pointed out are SO cool! Even being the HUGE T.S. fan I am, I TOTALLY missed them! Thank you for sharing - killer video!!
Boston was the sound that shaped my childhood. Don't Look Back was probably the first album I bought when I was beginning to learn about Rock and Roll. I have everything they have released and some days I listen to all of it nonstop. Also, KQRS 92.5 FM is not only one of the best stations ever, there morning show was for decades the best in the world.
Morning show for me through some tough times.
I always liked playing boston songs when i was a kid and now 38 yrs later i still do😅 smokin is my favorite song by boston.
Tom made his guitar sing " rah rah oompah pah" over and over on "more than a feeling"... over and over and over...
Tom Scholz in an absolute GENIUS... he can play several instruments and he is a MONSTER on both guitar and keyboards!!! I do like especially Third Stage ..it sound majestic ! I'd love to see new young bands in the vein of Journey ..Toto...Boston...Foreigner...Van Halen...the great REAL timeless American Rock!
Tom Scholz is one of the best rock and roll guitarists ever. I had tremendous respect for him and marveled at all his guitar techniques, I'm a guitar player also, your video has made him 10000% even more awesome in my eyes.
Great explanation of Tom´s guitar playing
It's not too hard to build a Hyperspace pedal. But you have to buy a Maestro Echoplex and they're expensive. He built a device that you can move 2 parameters with a gutted wah to control the echo repeat mounted into "pivot" that you can move the pedal side to side to control the delay time. There an assembly that attaches to the delay time slider which can be moved side to side with the "pivot" You also need a on off button. You'll need to find spare parts because you could wear out the heads by constantly moving them while using it.
Barry Goodreau said in an interview once that the key to the Rockman sound before the Rockman was a wah pedal locked in a permanent position, but it was paralleled with the guitar's dry signal rather than exclusively in series. The rest was just basic tools like a compressor/expander and a good old Marshall. He continued to use this on his first solo album and Orion The Hunter, he never used a Rockman, even though it may have sounded like it.
Fantastic, dude... you're a hell of a guitar teacher !
Love Boston, listened to them a lot in the late 70s and through the 80s, when I was in my 20s -- really miss those years. Anyway, it always amazes me how artists can put music together, and I listen a lot to music anymore just to try and pick out the different musical components. Thanks for the memories.
Good choice of guitarist for this video. Love the layers in a Boston track.
Geez, no wonder they're so hard to replicate for the average cover band. Now I appreciate them even more! ❤️🤘🏼
Thank you as a guitar for almost 50 years I just love Boston music and thoroughly enjoyed your spot on leads of Tom Scholz..
🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻 Yess!! I've been looking forward to this. I have always loved the sound of Boston. That harmonizing is just quintessential Boston to me. I love that solo on More Than a Feeling, makes me feel pretty happy when I hear it. I think that one has to go on my Happiness Playlist. Definitely a unique sound for sure :-)
That Les Paul just looks and sounds killer. I can't wait til the day I get to own one 😊
A large part of that Boston sound was in the way their vocals and guitar work were so inter-twined. We often could not tell exactly where Brad's vocals ended and the guitar mind-fuckery began. Pure genius...
Mike, you definitely need to do more of these kinds of videos. They're AWESOME!
This is weird, I hadn't heard Boston in a while so I turned it on on the way to work this morning. I get to work and you post this video. You must've known I needed this. Love Tom and Boston.
I thank God daily for allowing me to be alive in the 70s and 80s and hearing Boston, among many others. I listen to Boston every day. Tom is a true genius, and his Rockman created more studio music sounds (e.g. Def Leppard) than most realize.
I love that band and was my favorite back in the day and today!! Great video!
Solos don't have to be blazing fast. Tom and David Gilmour both are masters of making simple solos sound incredible.
Wait, KQRS? I didn't realize that you were a fellow Minnesotan. Rock on!
I thought the same thing - was listening to KQ today!
He pick scrapes down the unwound strings too, like Ronson did (last Spiders From Mars concert) several examples. Lifeson does it too, check out live LA Villa solos from the 1970s.
Also, the "flutter" is called a mordent, it's used often in classical music. Gave Boston a classical sound right out of the box.
Just trying to help out, great video BTW.
Great expose on Tom Scholz's techniques!
OMG, one of my guitar heros. What a guitar player, what a producer, and what an engineer and inventor. Tom Scholz invented guitar modelling. And also an inredible organ player - sometimes playing both an organ and a guitar at the same time.
Just a note. The unit that gets the closest to Tom's sound is the Distortion Generator. I had one for years and loved it. Another good trick for his sound is replace your caps with .01. Throw it in the distortion channel and turn the tone all the way off. Also sounds good for Money for Nothing and Killer Queen. Believe it or not, those three sounds are very similar. I have chased Tom's tone since the 70's. Tom is a great song and solo writer. I get tired of hearing solos that just wank all the time. A lot of 70's bands play the same solo as on the record. For instance the Eagles.
Excellent job
Tom is a genius many times over. Incredible songwriter, guitarist and recordibg engineer.
He'has been one of my music idols for many years along with Brad Delp.
They made an incredible team... RIP Brad
Thank you ..i love your playing and insight on Tom Sholtz
Scholz
I love your Greatest Techniques series! So fun, informative, and they make me realize the subtle guitar specialties that makes these artists unique! Tom Sholtz and Boston rule!
Scholz
Tom is one of my favorite guitarists and heroes. Thank you for this video.
Thank you for this.
My long since passed father always told me about how Great Tom was and now as a guitar player myself you have inspired me to learn the entirety of their debut album.
Dude that LP is absolutely beautiful.
Great breakdown! I heard Scholz does that flutter on his solos while descending because he’s a fan of classical music.
Wooh! Glad to see Scholz getting some recognition
Very nice job! You captured a lot in this video.
When all of the kids my age were listening to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and MC Hammer, I was discovering this band called Boston. I think I heard the intro guitar lead to "Long Time" on a commercial for a classic rock radio station and I was like, "What amazing thing did I just hear?" Once I found out more about the band, Tom Scholz quickly joined my short list of musician heroes. One of my engineering professors had been at M.I.T. at the same time as Scholz, and I would often bug him with questions about having Scholz as a student.
Some of the best leads in all of guitar, sweet video!
Agree on Hitch a Ride solo, one of the most memorable utterly classic unforgettable grooves and Barry Goudreau's work on Foreplay/Longtime still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up after almost 50 years. Boston debut, I've always thought absolutely one of the greatest debut rock albums ever, not a weak song
The Piece of Mind intro lead is my favourite.
What a great video. Thanks so much.
Boston is my all time favorite band after 40 years I still listen to Boston weekly 🙌🏼🎸
Once Bitten Twice Shy was written by Ian Hunter and was first performed by Mott The Hoople when Ian was in that band before going solo and performing his own version of the song. Great White covered the song many, many years later.
Boston fan here!! And I must say that you are both a great artist and teacher yourself..tyvm
Definitely some of the all time greatest guitar solos of any band ever.! Ever!🤘🏽🔥🤘🏽
Great vid! Happy that you mentioned Something About You - one of my favs too! Boston's been my favorite band since 1976 and I think one of the many reasons why is that you can blast the music and the guitars don't go right through you (i.e. are painfull) like some bands. Thanks!
Thanks for this!!
I heard an interview where Kurt Cobain said he WAS influenced by More Than A Feeling when he wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit. Probably why he referenced it at the Reading concert.
Thanks - nice work. Big Boston fan. I often wonder how Tom became so proficient at guitar since he only picked one up in college. I’ve never heard him explain it in any of his interviews. He went from beginner to doing demos and performing in a matter of years. Some of his bass lines are killer as well. He claims that he played all the parts except drums and vocals on the first album based on interviews and articles.
That guitar riff in the chorus of “Don’t look back” sounds 🔥🔥🔥🔥
That was a great episode. I'm a huge Boston fan. I think some of those things seeped into my playing through osmosis without my conscious work on it. It was the artist technique videos that introduced me to your channel in the first place. Glad to see you return to it, especially with an old favorite of mine. Cheers.
I saw them live in 1978 in Huntington Wv. Great show. And yes the concert sounded just like the album but live.
Excellent seminar - thank you. Rock on!
Great video. The rack mount effects are THE best means to get that sound. A guy who engineered his own sound. And was amazing at writing melodies with that rippin' guitar sound.
This was a lot of fun to watch. Great job on the solo harmonies. You really showcased how Tom pushes those notes to a whole new level. And another thing, been listening to Boston since the debut album and never picked up on the addition of adding a "quick 5th" into a solo. As soon as you played it I had one of those, "Oh man! THAT's what I was missing" moments.
Isn't it fantastic how music can surprise even after close to 50 years?
Well done. Clear and concise. I really liked this.
Barry Goudreau played on some those solos as well.
Some, not a lot…in the video it was just lead on Long Time. The rest of what he showed is all Scholz.
That said, Barry was an outstanding player and I would have liked to see more of him on other Boston albums. Was not to be. I never really liked any of his other bands or solo work.
@tommccann9269 He was on Don't Look Back a little bit more but yes you're right it's mostly Tom
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Barry played lead on 'Hitch A Ride' and 'Let Me Take You Home Tonight' too.
Every video you do is done extremely well! Thanks for putting in the time.
Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing.
Good stuff man. Sound is spot on. Subscribed.
Thank you for the lesson ,and video!!
If you listen to Grand Funk’s early albums you will hear Mark Farner perfecting the “chucka-chucka” percussion on his guitar! Like “Into the Sun” for example
Amazing video as always, do you think you could do more of these, I love these!? (Maybe Devin Townsend, The guitar players from Mastodon, or even Eric Johnson?)
Excellent video, Mike !
Wow, thank you for this! It's truly one of the best guitar videos I've seen in years of watching. I've loved Boston since they came out when I was a kid, and I got chills when you layered all the parts at 4:19.
I've always loved that Boston sound...Tom and Barry Goudreau are both very underrated guitarist
Love your videos man. You have a great enthusiasm!!
Thanks Mike 🔥🎸🔥
Good stuff! Thanks!
Great job!!!!
Oh Yeah... Tom is So Underrated.. I've Always Absolutely Loved His Work and Studio Production 😎👊💯💯
Nice! I grew up with Boston. Tom always had a super unique tone, so huge, wall of sound stuff.
loved this! thank you!
Many great tricks to add to the bag. Thanks -Cheers
Such an underrated guitarist and engineer. Great video!
A compendium of guitar solo techniques. Good stuff.
Ill always remember Boston as my first album, my dad still had his old cassettes and luckily for me he was willing to share
RIP Brad, one of the greatest voices ever.
Excellent work man - Scholtz is a god.
Scholz
Awesome stuff! Your production quality is fantastic
Great vid. Lots of '80s hits recorded with Rockman- particularly ZZTop and Def Leppard. I've owned a couple, great for recording studios scatch tracks. Also, you can sometimes get a decent Boston guitar tone by turning on both pickups, turning down the tone on the neck pickup, and running it through a compressor into a Marshall.