Just enjoying some Boston after work. This is the 1976 self-titled LP I have, with the cool blue flaming red guitar-saucer cities on the cover. The art is signed Roger Huysen. Anyone know him?
I've grown to love Boston's slick sound as I've got older, especially the famous singles More then a Feeling and Don't Look Back.
But when they first showed up in the mid-Seventies I thought they were way over-produced, high-pitched and smooth, like Bread with guitars.
But my taste for heavy rock was widening around '76/77 and the breezier sounds of Stillwater, Hall and Oates, Judie Tzuke and supergroups like Toto, Foreigner and Styx began to slowly enter the stack. I even had an Eagles album. Boston was one those too.
As with many bands I liked in the 70's I didn't persist with them into the 80's so Boston's Third Stage LP passed me by. I've never heard it. Have you? I do like the cover. It looks like one of the saucer cities from the first cover rising from [or descending onto] that Imperial Cruiseresque ship. What do you think?
Did and do you like Boston?
