Hey RL, what’s up buddy!
I remember bringing the first Boston album home, and playing it on my stereo - pieced together junk from cast-offs I found in the trash piles and repaired.
The only decent thing I had were speakers, and the power amp was like 150W or so. So it could crank.
When “More Than A Feeling” started, I literally got a chill up my spine, it was incredibly moving to me.
Still, to this day, “when I hear that old song they used to play”, as it says.... I get chills from it.
One Hell of a debut album, for sure...
RE Beatles:
I like their stuff from the Rubber Soul, Help, Sgt Pepper time frame. To me, it was their most creative period, and you could hear their style changing. Abbey Road is magnificent as well - “Her Comes The Sun” is another one that gets me.
There isn’t too much out nowadays that does that to me.
Doing well, NFHale...:)
In the early eighties, I bought myself a pair of Bose 901s after I got out of the Navy, and played them so loud the neighbors called the cops on me. I deserved it...I don’t know what I was thinking, had all the windows open on a summer night, and those things were cooking!
I loved all the Beatles, but oddly, came to appreciate their early stuff later...I guess I came of musical age around the time of Revolver, and liked all that stuff.
Sigh. I don’t listen to much popular music, but I admit I have actually purchased a few songs recently that were created in this century!