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MtNittany

MtNittany

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...an album was released.

 
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First album I ever bought as a 10yr old kid …

wasn’t too long ago when I learned that my favorite track on that album “Rock & Roll Band” was but a fairy tale written to fool their record label; as Boston was just one guy … never played in bars, never slept in their cars … nor did they practice right out out in the street (except maybe basketball)
 

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As a freshman, I brought this album with me to Penn State. First time I played it, the guys in the room next to told to stop playing that crap. A month later I couldn’t get them to stop playing the album. They played it so much I got sick of it and couldn’t listen to it until years later.
 
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Had a friend in college that asked me if I wanted to go to the Tomorrow Club in Youngstown to watch a new band. He said that they were going to be big very soon. I didn't go. It was Boston and he was right. Time frame - fall 1975 - spring 1976
 
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Big_O said:
As a freshman, I brought this album with me to Penn State. First time I played it, the guys in the room next to told to stop playing that crap. A month later I couldn’t get them to stop playing the album. They played it so much I got sick of it and couldn’t listen to it until years later.
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Bought both early Boston Albums at Arboria in State College used - still have the vinyl.
 
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Fac said:
Had a friend in college that asked me if I wanted to go to the Tomorrow Club in Youngstown to watch a new band. He said that they were going to be big very soon. I didn't go. It was Boston and he was right. Time frame - fall 1975 - spring 1976
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I used to go to the Tomorrow Club a fair amount as I was from Warren (born in Y-town). Even went labor day weekend after moving back into the dorm, traveling back home to get some more stuff (and bringing a friend from my dorm floor with me to hit the local bars).

The famed WMMS from Cleveland was pushing Boston and the Springsteen albums late in the summer. A couple of artists (of many) that they helped to break over the years such as Rush. I was an early adopter of Boston and why people on my dorm floor had never heard of them at move in time.
 
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Connorpozlee said:
Same day Born to Run was released.

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I read somewhere that Born to Run was one year earlier, Aug 25, 1975 rather than Aug 25, 1976. Whatever, Born to Run is a great album too.

Boston caught flak afterwards for not following up as good and for taking a long time between albums and for being "corporate," whatever that means, maybe they became that later but the first album was mostly a guy making an album in his basement, which is as anti-corporate as you can get.

But all that aside, just put on Boston's first album and listen. It's been 50 years and it still sounds absolutely great. That is what matters in the long run (and BTW, Boston's first album has aged a lot better than The Long Run by The Eagles if you ask me).
 
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op2 said:
I read somewhere that Born to Run was one year earlier, Aug 25, 1975 rather than Aug 25, 1976. Whatever, Born to Run is a great album too.

Boston caught flak afterwards for not following up as good and for taking a long time between albums and for being "corporate," whatever that means, maybe they became that later but the first album was mostly a guy making an album in his basement, which is as anti-corporate as you can get.

But all that aside, just put on Boston's first album and listen. It's been 50 years and it still sounds absolutely great. That is what matters in the long run (and BTW, Boston's first album has aged a lot better than The Long Run by The Eagles if you ask me).
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Oops, you are correct. 1975. What year is it now?
 
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