CD: BOSTON: "BOSTON" MASTERSOUND 24kt GOLD-PLATED SBM CD (EX/NM)

BOSTON: "BOSTON"

Boston's classic 1976 debut album featuring "More Than a Feeling", "Foreplay/Long Time" and "Peace of Mind"

Sony Mastersound Audiophile Edition [ EK 64402 ]

• 24kt gold-plated CD
• Fold-out insert with 9.5" x 14" mini-poster of band
• Original gold-stamped cardboard outer slipcase
• SONY 20-bit Super Bit Mapping (SBM) digital transfer process

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Track list:

All songs written by Tom Scholtz, except:

Track 5: Tom Scholtz, Brad Delp

Track 8: Brad Delp

Boston:

Tom Scholz – lead and rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, special guitar effects, bass, organ, clavinet, percussion, producer, engineer

Brad Delp – lead and harmony vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar, percussion

Barry Goudreau – lead and rhythm guitar

Fran Sheehan – bass

Sib Hashian – drums, percussion

Jim Masdea – drums (on "Rock & Roll Band")

Production:

John Boylan – producer

Tom Scholtz - producer

Amy Herot - reissue producer

Warren Dewey – engineer

Deni King, Bruce Hensel, Doug Ryder – assistant engineer

Steve Hodge – assistant in mixing

Wally Traugott – mastering

Toby Mountain, Bill Ryan – remastering

Tom "Curly" Ruff – digital transfer

Paul Ahern, Charles McKenzie – art direction

Kim Hart – design consulting

Jeff Albertson, Ron Pownall – photography

Paula Scher – cover designer

Roger Huyssen – cover illustration

Joel Zimmerman – reissue design

Remastered By – Mark Wilder

Remastered At – Sony Music Studios, New York City

Copyright © – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Manufactured By – Epic

Notes:

1. Originally released in a long box containing a poster of the band attached to inner front cover.

This version is in a regular jewel case with slipcase. Front insert unfolds to a poster of the band.

2. Track 4 length listed as 2:60

3. Track 8 length incorrectly listed as 4:13

Album info: (from Wikipedia.org)

Boston is the debut studio album by American rock band Boston, released on August 25, 1976, by Epic Records. It was produced by Tom Scholz and John Boylan. A multi-instrumentalist and engineer who had been involved in the Boston music scene since the late 1960s, Scholz started to write and record demos in his apartment basement with singer Brad Delp, but received numerous rejections from major record labels. The demo tape fell into the hands of CBS-owned Epic, who signed the band in 1975.

Defying Epic Records's insistence on recording the album professionally in Los Angeles, Scholz and Boylan tricked the label into thinking the band was recording on the West Coast, when in reality, the bulk was being tracked solely by Scholz at his Massachusetts home. The album's contents are a complete recreation of the band's demo tape, and contain songs written and composed many years prior. The album's style, often referred to as the "Boston sound", was developed through Scholz's love for classical music, melodic hooks and early guitar-heavy rock groups such as the Kinks and the Yardbirds. A number of analogue electronic effects were developed by Scholz in his home studio.

Besides Scholz, who played most of the instruments on nearly all of the tracks, and Delp, other musicians appear on the album such as drummers Jim Masdea and Sib Hashian, guitarist Barry Goudreau and bassist Fran Sheehan. All except Masdea became full-time band members.

The album was released by Epic in August 1976 and broke sales records, becoming the best-selling debut LP in the US at the time, and winning the RIAA Century Award as best selling debut album.[5] The album's singles, "More Than a Feeling", "Peace of Mind" and "Foreplay/Long Time", were major AM and FM hits, and nearly the entire album receives constant airplay on classic rock radio.

The album is often referred to as a staple in '70s rock and has been included on many lists of essential albums. It has sold at least 17 million copies in the United States alone and at least 20 million worldwide making it one of the best-selling debut albums of all time.