And, uh, these strange little vibrating reads inside, it was all electrical mechanical. So when you played it, um, you were like banging on the keys, like you would on a real piano, hard. It wasn't an electronic keyboard. So 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. And one of the things I was working on was this song, foreplay course, I would do that really late at night after I finished my problem set.
So at like 12 one in the morning, I'd be banging on this thing. 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 apartment.
I wonder why those girls didn't like me. You know, none of them They never complained. They were the best. And when I was leaving there, finally I have to two years, they said, you know, we heard you playing that.
And I won't say the word piano every fricking night. And, um, they'd never said a thing now, let me do it. Thank God because I would have stopped. That was one of the first things that came out was the song foreplay. Uh, in the end, the version that's on the first album is the, is the shortest recorded version of it. And basically what I was keeping them awake at night, and then down in the apartment below me, uh, it has a much, much longer versions that we, that we did live. And eventually we would, we played the whole thing which went on for about six minutes.
It's still one of my favorite pieces of music to play. And thankfully, one of the things that I can remember without ever practicing. So if I there've been times when I haven't played at Oregon for a well over a year, it doesn't make any difference.
I can sit down and play that without a hitch. So thank God …". I didn't really expect that people were going to get very excited about that song.
You know, I went through this really agonizing process for like six years where I worked on material and built studios and, and designed equipment for making musical equipment, for making the sounds that I needed and so forth. And during that time, I mean, I was rejected by everyone all the time.
I had virtually no positive support whatsoever. There was a drummer that I like to jam with and that I would sometimes work with for ideas. Other than that, there was just nobody, I didn't get encouragement from anyone. So as I was recording the first, recording of More Than a Feeling, which was a demo cut at which by the way was exactly the same as the final version.
I didn't think anybody was going to like it. The reason I was doing it after, when I got to that point, which was about six years after I had sort of started on this, this quest, my goal was to get a song played on a local radio station for, you know, 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.
I wanted to play original music. Altogether, the band has released six studio albums over a career spanning over 45 years. Centered on multi-instrumentalist founder and leader Tom Scholz, who played the majority of instruments on the debut album, the band is a staple of classic rock.
Altogether, the band has released six studio albums over a career spanning over 40 years. Posted by szachtar On 1 December Leave a Comment. NFO Tracklist Homepage. Add Styles.
Add Moods. Add Themes. After inventing the Polaroid Land Camera, guitarist Tom Scholz turned his knack for gadgetry into a second career when his multi-layered basement recordings became Boston's mega-selling debut.
Among the top-selling records of all time, its first single, "More Than a Feeling," went Top Five in What at first sounded like a breath of fresh air on the stale mid-'70s airwaves soon turned stale due to incessant radio play; the song became lodged in the collective consciousness. As was the fashion of the day, "More Than a Feeling" begins as a gentle MOR song but bursts wide open when the sound of pounding drums meets the power chords of the main riff.
Not exactly a power ballad, the song does display an extreme shift in dynamics throughout. From its breezy opening and the aforementioned power chords to the crunchy yet sugary chorus and brief bridge which makes way for Scholz's epic, noodle-style soloing, the formula was often repeated in the late '70s by lesser bands.
Thus, "More Than a Feeling" is often pointed to as an example of everything that was wrong with the decade's music and is generally reviled by critics of '70s corporate rock. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International.
Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. Articles Features Interviews Lists. Streams Videos All Posts. My Profile. Advanced Search. Composed by Tom Scholz. Release Year incorrect year? Song Genres. All Genres. Song Styles. All Styles.
Song Moods. All Moods. Song Themes. All Themes. Original Soundtrack. FM [Original Soundtrack]. Various Artists. Rock Album, Vol. Best of 70s Supergroups. Ultimate Rock, Vol. Sounds of the Seventies: The Late '70s.
The Greatest Classic Rock Hits. Swingin' Singles [Sony]. Born to Be Wild, Vol. Frat Rock: The '70s. Under pressure from record company Epic, he had rushed to finish it, and felt it was incomplete. To an extent he was proved right. That album sold four million in its first year: a huge success by any normal standards, but still only half as many as the first album sold in that time.
As that convoluted title implies, this piece was essentially two songs in one — seamlessly combined by Scholz as part of the brilliant concept album Third Stage. But it was worth waiting for — an AOR masterpiece, perfectly crafted. Even a control freak like Tom Scholz could get loose sometimes.
0コメント