Album Number One Hundred Sixteen “Boston” is the eponymous debut studio album by this American rock band. Produced by #tomscholz and #johnboylan , it was released on August 25, 1976, in the United States by #epicrecords . Scholz had studied classical piano in his childhood and became involved in the Boston music scene in the late 1960s. He subsequently started to concentrate on demos recorded in his apartment basement with singer #braddelp ; they had received numerous rejection letters from major record labels in the early 1970s. By 1975 the demo tape had fallen into the hands of CBS-owned Epic Records, who signed them. My copy is on Epic Records - JE 34188 Epic wanted the band to record in Los Angeles with a record producer, but Scholz was unwilling and wanted to record the album in his basement studio, so he hired Boylan to run interference with the label. In an elaborate ruse, Scholz tricked the label into thinking the band was recording on the West Coast, when in reality, the bulk was being tracked solely by Scholz at his Massachusetts home. #rockandroll #poprock #theseventies #bostonband https://www.instagram.com/p/CS18_2orSto/?utm_medium=tumblr