![]() It was done entirely just like the original but the record company didn’t know it. ![]() When you hear More Than A Feeling, that’s a couple of weeks of me relaying the guitar tracks down just the way I did on the demos. I went back to work and I played all of the parts myself. “The only difference is that Sib Hashian played the drum tracks on those versions. “ thought it was being re-recorded by a real producer in a studio somewhere,” Scholz told Jeb Wright of. He simply returned to his basement and the group’s assigned producer John Boylan, agreed to acquiesce. The only difference between Scholz and most other engineers is that Scholz is a musician and his product is the band, Boston. Scholz duly did re-record the songs but not in a major studio. When Boston (effectively just Scholz and Delp) did sign to Epic, the label demanded that they re-record all the elaborate demos that had secured them the contract in the first place. When you hear More Than A Feeling, that’s a couple of weeks of me relaying the guitar tracks down just the way I did on the demos Tom Scholz I couldn’t believe it! Nobody knew who we were, so I wouldn’t even say we were struggling. “Lo and behold, three major labels were interested. ![]() “I had enough money for one last demo and sent it off to 24 companies, then figured I’d sit back and wait for the rejection letters,” Tom told ’s Ted Drozdowski in 2008. After years of sending out demo tapes to record companies with zero success, it was the inclusion of More Than A Feeling on one final cassette mail-out that helped score the guys a deal with Epic. More Than A Feeling was the lead single from Boston’s eponymous debut album, which has sold over 17 million copies and remains the second biggest-selling debut album in US music history. While Tom played every instrument on his original demos, the late Brad Delp – a vocalist with extraordinary range and vocal ability – provided the soaring high notes and multi-layered harmonies. Nobody knew who we were, so I wouldn’t even say we were struggling. ![]()
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