Saturday, February 18, 2023

Weekend Music: More Than a Feeling

While US Person was busy listening to CCR and Dobbie Brothers, he short-changed the excellence of Boston.  Recently viewing the film, "Men Who Stare at Goats" a humorous, new-age satire of the post-Vietnam Army starring three good actors, Clooney, Spacey and Bridges, Boston was mentioned as the band one of the lead characters in the "New Earth Army" used for inspiration while "remote viewing". Want to know more?--see the movie. 

Boston's anthem, "More than a Feeling" played during the credits inspiring him to drag out his air guitar and play along (the distorted chord-only chorus accompanied by hand claps kicks butt). Tom Scholtz (bass) wrote the song and engineered the album using some unusual techniques like fade-in, peaked mid-range frequencies, pick scrapes, and guitar harmonics. Brad Delp's powerful vocals are out of this world. The band's 1976 debut album, Boston, ranks as one of the best-selling debut albums in US history, selling 17 million copies.  So, US Person posts More than a Feeling here for your long weekend enjoyment:

If you want to dive into the complex musical structure of this amazing song that makes it so memorable view this video by musician Rick Beato who analyses the tune, one of the classics of rock. https://youtu.be/ynFNt4tgBJ0