This quest, my goal, was to get a song played on a local radio station for just a couple of times so that I could go out and play a guitar in a band locally and have people have some idea what they were going to hear and listen. So as I was recording the first recording of ‘More Than a Feeling,’ I didn’t think anybody was going to like it. I had virtually no positive support whatsoever. And during that time, I mean, I was rejected by every. I went through this really agonizing process for like six years where I worked on material and built studios, for making the sounds that I needed. I didn’t really expect that people were going to get very excited about that song. Scholz is asked how it took 40 years for him to realize how impactful “More Than a Feeling” was. “I think maybe about three or four years ago, you know. Watch a 1979 live performance of “Foreplay/Long Time” I can sit down and play that without a hitch.” So if I there’ve been times when I haven’t played… for a well over a year, it doesn’t make any difference. And thankfully, one of the things that I can remember without ever practicing. It’s still one of my favorite pieces of music to play. And eventually we would, we played the whole thing which went on for about six minutes. And basically what I was keeping them awake at night, a much, much longer version that we did live. The version that’s on the first album is the shortest recorded version of it.
And when I was leaving there, finally after two years, they said, “you know, we heard you playing that every fricking night.” They’d never said a thing. You know, none of them ….They never complained. “And I didn’t realize that it was a wood floor and it was connected directly to the ceiling below me of the three girls that lived in the. So at like 12, one in the morning, I’d be banging on this thing.” I would do that really late at night after I finished my problem set. And one of the things I was working on was this song. Mine was on the fourth floor of the apartment building I lived in and when I would get done with my problem sets and I had a little bit of time left, I would go crazy jamming on my electric piano. So when you played it, you were like banging on the keys, like you would on a real piano, hard. And for those of you who don’t know what a Wurlitzer electric piano is, it was one of the first and it actually had real piano keys. I wrote it on a Wurlitzer electric piano. He’s asked about “Foreplay” being the first complete piece of music he wrote for Boston. “I wrote it in 1969,” he says. You can listen to the entire interview, including how music from The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and more, inspired him, here, beginning Sept. To celebrate its 45th anniversary, the band’s founder, Tom Scholz, co-hosts Rock Classics Radio with Jenn on Apple Music Hits as he talks about two of the album’s most celebrated tracks. It still ranks as one of the best-selling debut albums in music history with 17 million copies sold in the U.S. If you’re of a certain age, there was a time when Boston’s 1976 debut album was the only record on your turntable. Brian Wilson Remembers: An In-Depth Interview with the Beach Boys’ Resident Genius.Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison Sing Wilburys’ Favorite: 2019.Jeff Beck, Johnny Depp Share 4th Track From Studio Album, ’18’.Dylan, Elton Among the Stars Wishing Brian Wilson a Happy 80th Birthday.Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings Set Several 2022 Reunion Dates.The Kinks’ ‘Celluloid Heroes’: Everybody’s a Star….Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Add Dates to 2022 Tour For New LP.When The Rolling Stones’ 2019 Tour Began, at Last.New Book Tells the Early Story of Arista Records, Home of Kinks, Dead, Aretha.
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