I remember when "Boston" came out, I was in junior high school and everybody loved them. I once talked this girl I liked into leaving the school grounds during lunch and eating with me at my house instead. As we walked we talked about music, and she told me Boston was her favorite band. Of course, being the snobbish dweeb I was, I became nearly apoplectic that she could like them better than The Beatles, even though The Beatles had broken up before I was really old enough to be aware of them. Smooth dude, that. Anyway, I was proud that I could play the opening guitar figure from "More Than A Feeling" for my next door neighbor kid who spun that record to death, but I just never could cotton to bands like them and Foreigner. Chalk it up to precocious good taste. Then new wave started to happen (before it got co-opted by the labels), and I began to figure out why Boston sounded stupid even if impressive in their way. These days I have a more expansive attitude toward them, though I'll never own their records. Sad how even a band like Boston now makes 99% of current radio rock sound fake and without craft.