Richard Wallie Boston is an American musician, composer and producer based in Los Angeles. He is known for his roles in Low Pop Suicide and for producing Rickie Lee Jones' album, Ghostyhead.
Boston played guitar for Belinda Carlisle's 1988 album, Heaven on Earth. He composed "You Know We're Gonna Hurt" for Joe Cocker's 1989 album, One Night of Sin. Boston was a member of Hand of Fate, working with John Keck to produce the 1990 album, Hand of Fate, and is credited for vocals. He composed eight of the songs on Lowen & Navarro's 1991 album, Walking on a Wire, and another for their 1993 album, Broken Moon. Boston played guitar for and produced Sky Cries Mary's 1991 EP, Exit at the Axis.
Low Pop Suicide
Boston subsequently worked extensively with Dave Allen as the frontman of Low Pop Suicide, making a series of releases on World Domination Recordings. He was the band's frontman, singing and playing lead guitar, on their 1993 debut album On the Cross of Commerce, but both Allen and Jeff Ward exited the band. As the only founder left, their second LP, The Death of Excellence, was a more personal vehicle. As a side project with Allen as the Crash Baptists, Boston recorded the soundtrack to the 1993 thriller The Harvest.
Career
Producer
Exploring a more acoustic sound, he released one solo record in 1996, Numb, a verbatim copy of Low Pop Suicide's last release, the Unzipped EP. In 1997 he partnered with Rickie Lee Jones in songwriting, playing, and production for her record Ghostyhead. Boston was a member of The Januaries, which released two albums in 2000, The Januaries and The Girl's Insane. In 2003 Boston was co-writer with Lili Haydn on the song "Come Here" on her Light Blue Sun. Boston worked as Composer writer on Alice Cooper's 2005 album, Dirty Diamonds He co-composed "Woman of Mass Distraction", "You Make Me Wanna", "Dirty Diamonds", "Zombie Dance", and "Stand." in 2006 Boston worked as producer with artists Rodleen Getsic and Norwood Fisher of Fishbone on Getsic's song, "The Reaper".
Songs written for films
In 1987, Boston wrote "It's Time To Move" a song for the film 1987. In 1987, Boston worked with Jeff "Skunk" Baxter on songs for the Americanromantic comedy filmRoxanne directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Steve Martinand Daryl Hannah. The songs were " " Written by Jeffrey Baxter and Rick Boston, " " Written by Jeffrey Baxter, Rick Boston, Janet Minto, and Pamela. In 1988, Boston was the songwriter for "She's Cruel" and "Killer Groove" forDeath Spa, an American horror film directed by Michael Fischa and starring William Bumiller, Brenda Bakke, and Merritt Butrick. In 1988, Boston wrote "Rebuilding the Big House" for the film. In 2008, Boston and John O'Brien composed a big band-style arrangement of the Iron Mantheme song for the film "Iron Man", directed by Jon Favreau, starring Robert Downey Jr..
