Mint Condition!!! Original 1986 CD Release RARE OOP
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BOSTON - Third Stage (CD)
ORIGINAL 1986 OUT OF PRINT RELEASE!!!
Used CD in EXCELLENT playing condition!!! No Skips, No Freeze ups!!! No Scratches, No Scuff Marks!!!
CD and all artwork included.
CD in Excellent Like New condition. Jewel Case has normal wear. After releasing Don't Look Back in 1978, Boston took eight years to
release its follow-up, Third Stage. I don't know how it took eight
years to make this record as it sounds like their first two, but that's a
good thing. The album is full of major power chords, big hooks and
roof raising vocals. The album kicks off with the power ballad
"Amanda". The song is a perfect a power ballad that was ever released
and Brad Delp gives a tremendous vocal performance. The band was
rewarded with their one and only number one song. "We're Ready" was
another top ten hit and is a driving rocker. "The Launch" is another
chance for Tom Scholz to show off his MIT degree as it is amalgamation
of guitars that produces a symphonic sound. "Cool The Engines" is a
great song and "Cant'cha Say You Believe In Me/I Still Love You" is an
epic song. Third Stage showed that Boston still could be a force on the
charts even after an eight year disappearance as the album hit number
one in late 1986.
Track
listing 1. Amanda 2. We're Ready 3. The Launch: Countdown / Ignition / Third Stage Separation 4. Cool the Engines 5. My Destination 6. New World, A 7. To Be a Man 8. I
Think I Like It 9. Can'tcha Say (You Believe In Me) /
Still In Love 10. Hollyann
Product Details
Audio CD (October 1986)
Original Release Date: October 1986
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Mca
Boston Biography
The arena rock group behind one of the fastest-selling debut albums
in history, Boston was essentially the vehicle of studio wizard Tom
Scholz, born March 10, 1947, in Toledo, OH. A rock fan throughout his
teen years, he began writing songs while earning a master's degree at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduation, he began
work for Polaroid, and set about constructing his own 12-track recording
studio in the basement of his home, where demos were recorded that
earned Scholz and vocalist Brad Delp a contract with Epic in 1975.
Although some recording and overdubs were later done in Los Angeles, the
1976 release of Boston consisted largely of tapes recorded in Scholz's
basement. (By then, the lineup had coalesced around Scholz, Delp,
guitarist Barry Goudreau, bassist Fran Sheehan, and drummer John "Sib"
Hashian.) Boston spawned three hit singles ("More Than a Feeling," "Long
Time," and "Peace of Mind"), and shot immediately to the top of the
charts, remaining the best-selling pop debut effort in history before it
was supplanted by Whitney Houston's first album in 1986.
Despite
the record's overwhelming success, Scholz spent over two years working
on the follow-up, 1978's number one hit Don't Look Back; a
perfectionist, he only then released the album because of intense label
pressure for product. Unsatisfied with the results, he swore to produce
the next album at his own pace; as a result, the chart-topping Third
Stage did not appear until 1986, at which time only Scholz and Delp
remained from the original lineup.
Scholz spent the next several
years in the courtroom: eventually, he won a seven-year battle against
Epic, which claimed Boston had reneged on its contract by taking so long
between releases. When the band resurfaced again in 1994 with Walk On,
Scholz was the lone remaining member; Delp and Goudreau had reunited in
1992 as RTZ, releasing the album Return to Zero. Unlike previous
returns, Walk On was a commercial failure. Radio and MTV ignored any
attempts at singles or videos, and the minimalist approach taken by the
popular alternative artists of the era made the crystalline production
and lengthy recording time seem anachronistic.
Taking another
eight years to work on the next record, he targeted the Internet crowd
first by releasing a single to /www.MP3.com in the summer of 2002. The
track became the site's number one download, and word of their new album
spread quickly. (Delp's return to the group also helped matters.)
Secondly, Scholz set his lyrical sights on political targets, going so
far as to title the record Corporate America as he emphasized his
disdain for the system he had been a vital part of at one time. After
releasing the record in the fall of that year, Boston embarked on a tour
that took them into 2004. In March of 2007, however, Delp passed away
in an incident later ruled suicide.
In addition to his fame as a
musician, Scholz also found success as an inventor and businessman. In
1981, he formed Scholz Research & Design, Inc., a company founded to
create high-tech music equipment. After first developing the Power
Soak, a volume-control device, SR&D introduced the Rockman, a small
and inexpensive guitar amplifier with headphones. The Rockman proved
phenomenally popular with other musicians, and the capital generated
from its sales helped fund Scholz's further musical ambitions.
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