That Stupid Club

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

Picked up the remas­tered Boston’s debut album. Now, I want to assume this album needs no intro­duc­tion but that is unlikely (kids these days…) so for the unini­ti­ated, this is a short summary:

1. Tom Scholz was the founder, pro­ducer and engi­neer of Boston and he has a Mas­ters in Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing from MIT. He was work­ing at Polaroid before Boston made it.
2. Singer Brad Delp worked in a cof­fee maker man­u­fac­tur­ing plant.
3. Most of the album was recorded between the two of them; with Scholz play­ing and record­ing most of the instru­ments in his base­ment and Delp han­dled the lead, hamon­is­ing and back­ing vocals.
4. Tom Scholz liked over­dub­bing and he was going to use it,
   dammit. As an old Gui­tar World arti­cle put it, Boston mocked the Mor­mon
   Taber­na­cle Choir.
5. This is a 30th anniver­sary release (that’s right, it was first released in 1976).

The remas­ter­ing job is out­stand­ing, so if you already are a fan and won­der­ing if you should pick it up, the short answer is “yes”, and the long answer is ” a man, do the right thing”. If you are one of the unwashed plebes who have not heard of the album, then be aware that this album is the ulti­mate rock and roll fan­tasy and is much more than a feeling.