Boston Records are Worth Two Dollars
Boston’s first album arrives on Ebay (Here’s the Link) for the astounding price of 50.00. I am experienced at thrift store vinyl diving, and over the years I’ve picked up probably 15 of these albums. There’s no need to charge 50.00 for this album, because when stacked up to other “most found” records at the used record store bin, it comes in at a close second to The Flying Burrito Brothers.
This album was epic, and has to be one of the only albums I know of, off hand, which every single song on the album got (and still gets) commercial rock radio airplay. I wore the album completely through on cassette tape. I still don’t throw them away when I buy them at the thrift stores, I save them and give them away to friends slowly over time. It’s always nice to have a few extra records in your collection to give away to friends, there’s no better gift than a big piece of vinyl, just as much as it was really cool in the 1970s.
Vinyl is a gift that is a treasure for a lifetime. There is no plastic CD case to break, no CD plastic to scratch, no “importing” to your computer with a button. To import the music to your computer you have to interact with the vinyl, almost remaster the original again. Sometimes, if you’re halfway decent at recording, your remaster is much better and more dynamic than the CD master.
Anyway, don’t buy the first three Boston albums on Ebay, visit a thrift store, or ask a friend.
That was an epic album. I think I might still have the tape somewhere
Tom Scholz was a pioneer in tone and effects. He’s from right around the corner from me in Ottawa Hills in Toledo, OH.
Totally agree, Barfly. The album was as epic as Scholz. I think the demo was passed up by at least one label, and since he pretty much recorded the final album in the same home studio, I have to believe the demo was close to the final release. Thats an amazing testament to home recording, and good songwriting.