Boston Today

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My office is right next to an outdoor amphitheater. Tonight, the Doobie Brothers and Boston are playing. I had a brief outdoor meeting today at work, and while we were outside, Tom Scholz was plugged in and noodling around. His amps sounded awesome. Check out this cool video. https://youtu.be/NYXgfzVjrTw
 
Gitfiddler":2lp45vpz said:
My office is right next to an outdoor amphitheater. Tonight, the Doobie Brothers and Boston are playing. I had a brief outdoor meeting today at work, and while we were outside, Tom Scholz was plugged in and noodling around. His amps sounded awesome. Check out this cool video. https://youtu.be/NYXgfzVjrTw
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Boston is touring with a nice collection of Rockman Rockmodules. Great sounding stuff!
 
What an amazing guy. I still listen to the first album all the time :rock:
 
I have always loved Boston, yet it is one band I have yet to see live
 
I saw them last Summer with Kansas. They were very good. The singers and players in his band now are excellent at reproducing the album sounds. The singer sounds juts like Brad Delp too.

The only thing that was weird was that the sound seemed very compressed. It took a while to get used to it. But it was a great show.
 
"the great thing about being an engineer and a musician is you cut out all the communication." that alone made me laugh until he followed it up with "how do you tell an engineer you want to do that." as he made the umm... sound...
 
I might have to check them out on concert, how close is the new lead singer to the old?
 
Am I the only one who thinks his tone in that vid sounds like an entry-level Zoom pedal from the early 2000's? It sucks!
 
No, your not the only one. But, ya know, that's pretty much his tone and it worked in those old recordings pretty well. In some ways there is no such thing as bad tone, it's all apart of the tactile feel of a final mix. Just listen to the opening guitar tone in Reelin in the years by Steely Dan, it's horrible, but it works! I think people have just forgotten about the big picture and how the guitar fits in.
 
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Was rockman boutique before boutique became cool?
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Some of the production runs of Rockman gear were really small. The Pro Bass Preamp and PGE-2 (Studio series) are particularly rare. Scholz really went a different way with the Rockmodules and other gear. It was always intended to go straight into the board. Take a look at the Sustainor. It packs a lot of features for something that came out in 1986. It's a kind of amplifier simulator.
 
Awesome. I'd love the hyperspace pedal.

You'll probably think I'm silly but I've woken up from dreams of music in the past and the most satisfying one was a crazy death metal song with lazer sounds going on just like something that pedal could produce.
 
If you want to see the Rockman gear at work, Someone managed to record almost an hour and 40 minutes of Boston at "The Forum" in Inglewood, California on 7/29/2014 and put it on youtube:



Of course, it's much better to see it live. They're still touring ;)
 
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