Boston - Self Titled (w/ guest Mike Virok)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2018

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Bill and Brian are joined by guitarist and certified luthier Mike Virok () to discuss Boston's self titled debut album (1976, Epic). Mike talks about discovering this music while his dad played side one on the tape deck while driving to his bowling league. Then Bill, Brian, and Mike get into near one-man-band Tom Scholz production, Brad Delp's important contributions as vocalist, the band's status as "corporate rock," the Real World Boston, rocking out to these songs on Guitar Hero, an elaborate scheme that resulted in a new Taylor acoustic for Delp, and more as we make our way through the album track by track! And for all your hiring needs, check out this week's sponsor ZipRecruiter. Our listeners can try ZipRecruiter for free by visiting !

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. I'm Brian. Happy New Year, Brian. Happy New Year to you, friend.
0:05.7	Welcome to Season 4 of the Great Albums podcast. What are we talking about today?
0:10.1	We're talking about Boston's self-titled debut record.
0:35.6	Yeah. What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:43.9	We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we cap it all off with a track-by-track review. Sounds good, yeah. I mean,
0:49.0	what am I going to do? Oh, I love track-by-track. Like, yeah, of course I love track-by-track.
0:54.1	That's what we do. And we're not going to do it alone today, Brian. Not this week, no.
0:58.4	We have a guest joining us that you are very intimately involved with.
1:01.2	I was going to say, I was going to be like, who should introduce?
1:02.6	Because we're both friends with him.
1:03.1	I know. Who do we?
1:04.1	Oh, yeah, this is it, Bill?
1:05.7	But you play in a band with this gentleman.
1:08.6	Yeah, his name's Mike Virok. He's been on the show before on our 11 great songs from maybe not so great records.
1:17.5	What, a year and a half, two years ago, something like that.
1:20.1	It's been a while.
1:20.9	Yeah, it's been a while.
1:22.5	Yeah, and he came in.
1:24.7	He gave us a list and we were like, Boston.
1:27.2	What an out of left field, an obvious, but out of left field album.
1:32.0	And Mike, Mike plays in the paper jets.
1:35.2	He's a certified luthier, guitar technician, shop owner, but we'll let him tell you all
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