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Boston is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Leftoverture and Mother's Milk. Those roots explain a lot about how Boston arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Foreigner, Styx, Kansas, Journey and REO Speedwagon, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Stryper, Myslovitz, The Night Flight Orchestra, Billy Corgan and Journey, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around Boston, reaching back through Leftoverture and forward to Stryper. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Boston is an American rock band formed in 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts, by chief songwriter and composer Tom Scholz. The band's core members included multi-instrumentalist Scholz and lead vocalist Brad Delp, who remained the only constant members from 1975 to 1990, and from 1994 until Delp's suicide in 2007. Other musicians and members of the band varied largely across the group's lineup history.
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Boston connections
Boston grew out of Leftoverture and Mother's Milk, shares an orbit with Foreigner, Styx, Kansas and Journey, went on to shape Stryper, Myslovitz, The Night Flight Orchestra and Billy Corgan. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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