Flashback: The Boston album goes top five

It was 30 years ago yesterday (December 4th, 1976), that the self-titled debut album from Boston peaked at Number Three on the Billboard album chart, where it stayed for five weeks. Boston leader Tom Scholz was the main force behind the album, writing the songs and recording most of the instrumental parts at his home studio, and he told us it doesn't seem all that long ago to him: "The amazing thing to me is that I don't feel 30 years older, and, you know, nothing seems to have changed with me -- I still have the same equipment in the studio, the same guitars, the same everything. I do feel like, sometimes, like I'm sort of in a timewarp and I don't change, but the rest of the world is sort of changing around me."

Scholz remixed and remastered the Boston album earlier this year, as well as the 1978 follow-up, titled Don't Look Back, and he wants to do the same with the band's 1997 Greatest Hits album.
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