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Kick-Start Your Weekend with Boston’s: Don’t Look Back

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Do you remember your first record album?

Boston’s Don’t Look Back was mine. A Christmas gift from my Aunt Susan (thanks to the help of cousins Karen and Kim).

You want to listen to Don’t Look Back with headphones so you can crank it up loud.

How loud?

Imagine sitting on your bedroom floor with big ‘ole headphones cranked up so loud you have no idea that your friend is breathing over you, and he scares the crap out of you when you turn around, like my friend Matt would do—that loud.

The opening guitar lick is unmistakable with the often forgotten, and certainly underappreciated tambourine leading into the opening guitar solo.

Don’t Look Back is a classic rock song you hear in the car. You’ve heard it so many times, but it’s not always listened to at the volume it deserves, especially when they break it down at about minute 2:18.

The quarter notes on the bass drum for a measure, then half notes for another, sound like a heart beating for the first time.

Then the crescendo of bass drum quarter notes to sixteenths on the snare lead into the guitar line that lights up an explosive and iconic riff that helped define the late 70s and early 80s. And then we’re in guitar solo heaven with drummer Sib Hashian’s relaxed ride cymbal and velvety crashes keeping it all together.

Play it loud, preferably with headphones, and enjoy.

Originally posted on Your Survival Guy.

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E.J. Smith is the Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention. E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris. Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@youngresearch.com. Sign up here to receive all the best content from Richardcyoung.com each week.