It was a year ago that Boston lead-singer Brad Delp died. Boston's debut album was one of the first LPs I ever bought, back in 1978. The album has many virtues and vices. One of its virtues, to me, is the slickness of the production. Considering the album was produced in Tom Scholz' basement, with him playing all the instruments (he put the band together after Epic bought the tapes, which were pressed onto the LP). I have always thought that side 1 was basically "Variations On A Theme", with Side 2 being actual different songs. Of these, I always liked "Hitch A Ride", a pretty typical 1970's stadium rock song, although I always thought the ending solo was good (including Scholz using different guitars and trading channels to make it sound like he was trading 8's with another instrumentalists).
To the memory of a great rock singer on one of the greatest rock LPs of the past 30 years, here's "Hitch A Ride":
