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Titled “More Than A Feeling”, it has been released this BOSTON performance captured at their first tour ever in 1976, taken from the FM WMMS radio station broadcast. This recording was allegedly taken from the WMMS radio station vaults by a disgruntled employee and sold to a rabid Boston fan. That is the ‘story’, whether it’s true or not I...
A long time contributor of this blog asked for BOSTON albums, best sounding CD reissues. Let’s go now with “Don’t Look Back”, the second, excellent album from the band.We have been busy comparing several releases of Boston’s “Don’t Look Back”, and finally we have the verdict. We have listened to CD-only releases, and the best of all is this Japanese...
A long time contributor of this blog asked for BOSTON albums, best sounding CD reissues. We promised a surprise, and here it is: Boston’s fourth album “Walk On”, in its fresh 2016 remaster only released in Japan, a Limited Edition pressed on high quality SHM-CD. “Walk On” was previously remastered in 2006, and it’s a fine job. But this new...
A long time contributor of this blog asked for BOSTON albums, best sounding CD reissues. We have a surprise with one of them, but better let’s start with Boston’s third album “Third Stage”, a superb piece of work but which suffered from a flat sonic transfer to CD back in the day.It’s has been a busy afternoon comparing 4 different...
A long time contributor of this blog asked for BOSTON albums, best sounding CD reissues. We have a surprise with one of them, but better let’s start with their first, self tiled classic “Boston“.It’s has been a busy afternoon comparing 4 different releases / remasters of “Boston”, and finally we have the verdict. First of all we must make clear...
Guitarist Barry Goudreau, former member of legendary band Boston, is alive and kickin’ with his band BARRY GOUDREAU’s ENGINE ROOM releasing a new album titled “Full Steam Ahead“.The heavy bluesy classic rock outfit includes his former RTZ bandmates Brian Maes on lead vocals & keyboards and Tim Archibald on bass, rounded out with Tony Depietro on drums, a tight combo...
the REAL one Now it’s time to feature here one of my favorite albums from the last twenty-five years; RTZ “Return To Zero“, brilliantly remastered by Rock Candy Records. This record, simply put, it’s a Melodic Rock Heaven. There is no question that Boston, the band, pretty much re-wrote the rule book when it came to defining the sound...
After the recent post about the excellent Orion The Hunter album featuring ex-Boston BARRY GOUDREAU, one of you asked for his self-titled solo album “Barry Goudreau” remastered by Rock Candy. There’s no getting away from the fact that the debut Boston album was one of the greatest, and of course most successful, recordings in the history of rock music. It...
Considered one of the greatest first half of the Eighties AOR albums, ORION THE HUNTER self-titled album received the Rock Candy Records superb 24-bit remastering from original source tapes, something this classic largely deserved. Boston debut album album is not only regarded as one of the greatest rock albums of all time but it is also one of the biggest...
Iconic American Classic Rock giants BOSTON returned with the first studio album in over a decade; “Life, Love & Hope“, released at the end of last year. On occasion of the recent Japan tour, Avalon / Marquee Records has put out a “Special Tour Version” including various bonus tracks, a Backstage Pass replica and pressed on a high quality SHM-CD...
* Iconic American Classic Rock giants BOSTON returned with the first studio album in over a decade; “Life, Love & Hope“, released at the end of last year. On occasion of the recent Japan tour, Avalon / Marquee Records has put out a “Special Tour Version” including various bonus tracks, a Backstage Pass replica and pressed on a high quality...
* the real one Iconic American Classic Rock giants BOSTON are back with the first studio album in over a decade; “Life, Love & Hope”, to be released in USA on Frontiers Records next December 3rd (Dec. 6 in Europe and Dec. 9 in the UK).We all know that Boston leader Tom Scholz is a perfectionist and therefore far from...
