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More Than a Feeling: Talking Les Pauls with Boston's Tom Scholz
Ted Drozdowski | 05.16.2008gibson.com (http://www.gibson.com/en%2Dus/Lifestyle/Features/morethanafeelingtalkingl/) Tom Scholz’s metamorphosis from rock and roll dreamer to living the rock and roll dream is legendary.Toiling long and hard in his basement on funky used recording gear he’d stitched and bolted together, Scholz, primarily with the help of his friend and singer Brad Delp, crafted the Boston album during nights and weekends off from his engineering job at the Polaroid Corporation.The lanky six-foot-six MIT grad had nearly gone broke after years of making tapes and having them rejected by record labels.“I had enough money for one last demo and sent it off to 24 companies, then figured I’d sit back and wait for the rejection letters,” Scholz says today. “Lo and behold, three major labels were interested. I couldn’t believe it. Nobody knew who we were, so I wouldn’t even say we were struggling. It was groveling.”Scholz signed with CBS Records, and when radio stations began playing “path=media/video/more_than_a_feeling_video.wmv|popup=More Than a Feeling|width=320|height=300” and Boston was released on August 8, 1976, the album--which its breathtaking sonic architecture and hopelessly romantic lyrics--became the feel-good cure for a nation suffering the hangover of Vietnam and Watergate. “Suddenly,” the Les Paul wielding frontman says, “we were ’70s superstars.”
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Boston To Wrap New Album After Summer Tour
By Gary Graff, Detroit (billboard.com (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003798064)) Boston leader Tom Scholz tells Billboard.com he hopes to finish recording the band's next studio album after its summer tour and have it out just after the first of the year. Scholz says the album -- Boston's first since 2002's Corporate America -- is a mix of really straightforward rock 'n' roll songs and some things that are pretty esoteric. When I first started, he continues, I was doing music that had pretty simple themes. Then as I got into 'Third Stage' and 'Walk On' I got a little more technical and a little more involved, more complicated. In this one I'm trying to do both. The new album will also include several songs from Corporate America that Scholz is remixing, rearranging and, in some cases, completely re-recording -- including the title track, You Gave Up on Love and Someone. 'Corporate America' was a really poor seller, Scholz acknowledges. Very few people have heard it. I'd like to give some of these songs another chance to be heard.
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Amateur singer gets more than a feeling from Boston
By Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY (http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2008-05-01-boston_N.htm) See how this rock 'n' roll fantasy sounds: One day you're trying to get Home Depot shoppers to apply for in-store credit. The next you're rehearsing with Boston and getting ready for a national summer tour. I never could have dreamed this, says Tommy DeCarlo, 43, Boston's new Brad Delp-channeling frontman, who is taking leave from his credit manager job at a Charlotte Home Depot to perform with the band. That first gig is going to be something. Bands ranging from AC/DC to Lynyrd Skynyrd have found new singers in the wake of tragedy (Delp committed suicide last year), inevitably choosing road-tested replacements. DeCarlo's rocking Cinderella tale includes the fact that he never has even been in a band. I did sing After the Lovin' at my grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary, says the affable DeCarlo, who is married and has two teenagers. I think they enjoyed it.
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Tom Scholz on Nights with Alice Cooper
Boston's Tom Scholz will appear on the Alice Cooper show Nights with Alice Cooper on Wednesday. April 16. Check your local stations to see if any of them broadcast the show and at what time they do. You can find more info on the show at the Nights with Alice Cooper website (http://www.nightswithalicecooper.com/).April 17 Update: The interview broadcast was part one of two, with part two airing at a later date, keep an eye out on the Nights with Alice Cooper site. You can hear part one of the interview on the Interviews (content/view/110/43/) page.April 19 Update: Part two of the Tom Scholz interview is scheduled to be broadcast on Wednesday. April 23.Both parts of the interview are available on the Interviews page (content/view/110/43/).
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Tom and Gary on Rockline
Boston's Tom Scholz and Gary Pihl will be on Rockline on Wednesday, May 14. For information on where you can find the show and at what time, you can go to the official Rockline site (http://www.rocklineradio.com/).May 15: You can listen to the interview in the Interviews/Radio Shows (content/view/110/43/) page. May 14: Tune into Rockline tonight at 8:30 PM PDT (11:30 PM EDT). If you don't have a local station that carries the show, you can tune into one of the following stations: San Francisco - 107.7 KSAN (http://www.1077thebone.com/) | Portland - 92.3 KGON (http://www.kgon.com/) | Nacogdoches - 107.7 KTBQ (http://www.q1077.com/) | Joplin - 97.9 KXDG (http://www.bigdog979.com/) | Portland - 102.9 WBLM (http://www.wblm.com/) | Augusta - 105.7 WEKL (http://www.eagle1057.com/) | W. Palm Beach - 98.7 WKGR (http://www.gater.com/) | Bangor - 100.3 WKIT (http://www.zoneradio.com/wkit/index.shtml) | Grand Rapids - 96.9 WLAV (http://www.wlav.com/) | Greenville - 101.1 WROQ (http://www.wroq.com/) | Dayton - 104.7 WTUE (http://www.wtue.com/) | Birmingham - 99.5 WZRR (http://www.wzrr.com/) | Colorado Springs - 103.9 KYZX (http://www.1039theeagle.com/) May 09 Update: Some more information posted on the Rockline site: ...ROCKLINE has learned that the venerable Mr. Scholz might be inclined to bring some demos from the new album the band is working on. That same scenario occurred several years ago when Tom brought in some unreleased songs that did indeed surface on the “Corporate America” album, which wasn’t released until almost two years after that show.
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