“More Than a Feeling” by Boston

Long before professional recording gear became cheap enough for bedroom musicians to create quality recordings, major labels dominated the industry as they had access to the finest equipment available and the producers and studios that housed them. Typically, these labels would force musicians to work with studios and producers to help guarantee that their financial investments would find their way to the airwaves and generate record sales.
 
In the early 70’s, an MIT graduate student named Tom Scholz, who was working at the Polaroid Corporation as an engineer, started collecting and modifying various used recording equipment. Over the next four years, he created his own devices, wrote songs, and recorded demos in the basement of the apartment he was renting. After years of rejection, Epic records signed Scholz to a recording contract with the stipulation that he fly out to LA and work with an established record producer.

John Boylan was the producer, but little did Epic know that Scholz refused to fly out to LA, and Boylan looked the other way while Scholz recorded everything but the drums from Boston in the basement of his apartment.
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“More Than a Feeling” was the first single from that album, and is considered one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded, showcasing Scholz’s engineering prowess and powerful guitar sounds, and Brad Delp’s brilliant vocals. We lost Brad Delp under tragic circumstances eighteen years ago this month, but this song and its unlikely creation will never be forgotten.