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Jul 4, 2023 · A notorious workaholic and perfectionist, Boston guitarist, visionary and sonic architect Tom Scholz spent years honing and perfecting the songs that would later appear on the group’s debut album.
Boston is an American rock band formed in 1975 by Tom Scholz in Boston, Massachusetts, that experienced significant commercial success during the 1970s and 1980s. The band's core members include multi-instrumentalist, founder and leader Scholz, who played the majority of instruments on the band's 1976 self-titled debut album, and former lead ...
Dec 17, 2014 · Tom Scholz, the group’s leader, thought that was bullshit. Scholz was no ordinary rock musician. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was still employed as a product design engineer for the Polaroid Corporation when the Boston album was released. He had created the album in a basement studio that he had built himself ...
Apr 20, 2009 · Guitarist Tom Scholz proudly recalls the making of Boston and Don’t Look Back, two of rock’s all-time greatest albums. When Boston’s self-titled first album was released in the fall of 1976, few industry insiders thought that a guitar-heavy rock record could make much of a dent in the charts, much less become the best-selling debut of all time.
Mar 10, 2022 · Boston's Tom Scholz: “I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things... somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else". This interview with Boston guitarist Tom Scholz was originally printed in Guitar World as part of its October 2006 issue.
Mar 10, 2024 · To celebrate its 45th anniversary in 2021, the band’s founder, Tom Scholz, co-hosted Rock Classics Radio with Jenn on Apple Music Hits as he talks about two of the album’s most celebrated tracks. He’s asked about “Foreplay” being the first complete piece of music he wrote for Boston . “I wrote it in 1969,” he says. “I was a junior at MIT.
Dec 10, 2013 · Boston's Tom Scholz: The Return of Rockman. Adam Perlmutter. December 10, 2013. Tom Scholz attributes the 11-year wait for Boston's latest album, Life, Love & Hope, to his penchant for perfectionism and tinkering in the studio. "I'm surprised I got it done at all," he jokes.
