Monday, 2 October 2017

Boston (1976) Let Me Take You Home Tonight - LOST 70s GEMS

A funky acoustic opening with Tom Scholtz's wacky music experiments creating an unusual mix of guitars. An ascending arpeggio with a watery electric guitar, some distant blues slide and a acoustic guitar playing a quick turnaround.

The verses are very Beatles esque breezy acoustic strums and exuberant harmonies which carry into the electric power chord driven anthemic chorus.

An array of guitar sounds come through in bridge as the solos alternate from one instrument to another. First a very clean blues slide guitar, then a water filtered guitar before a couple, thicker harmonised hard rock guitars. Up their with Foreplay/Long Time and More Than a Feeling from this immaculate and overdubbed paradise of an album; not bad for a debut particularly when you consider it started as a one person band.

PS Brad Delp is ridiculously good particularly in his ending wails, at a time when there were many multi octave singers, he had a cool vocal style, another instrument Scholtz had at his disposal.


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